southwest flight set to depart at 6:00 this morning. some of these folks have been here more than four days with young children sleeping on the ground. so there s a very deep, deep sense of frustration here. they are hoping that things will soon change and you ll get more than those ten flights that are now leaving puerto rico. we can tell you that american airlines says it s got three flights a day there, but st. martin, not operating in st. martin. st. thomas, suspended there and st. croix as well so still a lot of work to do getting help in and people out. thank you. nice to see you. 47 mninutes after the hour. who can help the island? insurance is the first line of defense but only 50% of puerto rican homes have wind insurance. fewer than 1% have flood insurance. that leaves federal aid to make up the difference. fema funds go directly to disaster relief.
andrew. hey, greta. this flight set to take off out of l.a.x. around 1:30 this afternoon. 45 minute late and while in the air it appears a threat phoned in to authorities in los angeles. specifically targeting this plane. norad had to scramble two f-16 fighters to follow this plane while in the air to watch it monitor it, make sure everything went okay. it land at sky harbor airport. everybody off, got on buses, took to another terminal. they had to remove all bags from the plane, bring bomb sniffing dogs and the bomb squad to go through the bags, make sure this wasn t a legitimate threat. we don t know much about the threat. all the fbi is telling us, it was phoned in to authorities in los angeles. they in turn alerted police here in phoenix. as for the 142 passengers who are on board that plane, they
andrew. hey, greta. this flight set to take off out of l.a.x. around 1:30 this afternoon. 45 minute late and while in the air it appears a threat phoned in to authorities in los angeles. specifically targeting this plane. norad had to scramble two f-16 fighters to follow this plane while in the air to watch it monitor it, make sure everything went okay. it land at sky harbor airport. everybody off, got on buses, took to another terminal. they had to remove all bags from the plane, bring bomb sniffing dogs and the bomb squad to go through the bags, make sure this wasn t a legitimate threat. we don t know much about the threat. all the fbi is telling us, it was phoned in to authorities in los angeles. they in turn alerted police here in phoenix. as for the 142 passengers who are on board that plane, they
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