Came the tweet. Hillary clinton says she wants the public to see her emails or at least the ones her team approves of releasing. But the grip of scandal and secrecy has some democrats demanding that someone else step up and run for president. Good afternoon. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with the National Lead today. One of the busiest airports in this country shut down after a terrifying situation in the middle of a snowstorm. A delta flight trying to land at new Yorks Laguardia airport nearly skidded right off the runway into flushing bay on the east river. The plane broke through a fence. The images just bringing to mind a reality of fear that many of us have as passengers especially when the pilots trying to land in turbulent or dangerous conditions like this. Check out this close call. The plane stopped just short of a crash landing into the freezing water on the other side of this runway. The 132 people on board that flight many of them were forced to climb off th
were just clear, they had opened up the runway again for us to clear. i don t think those were the exact words. roxanne can probably tell you better. what did they say? they announced we were in a holding pattern, then within three to five minutes, announced that we were landing. sam, you were sitting in the emergency exit row. after the plane came to a stop you opened the emergency door. what happened? they instructed us to open the emergency door. i pulled on the lever and moved it in and another passenger helped me clear the way on the seat. i was the first one out the window got to the wing and then slid off the wing and there were people on the ground to greet us or to help us rather as we got off the plane. then single file one by one, people came off the plane. did they grab their stuff first or did they just go? they instructed us not to take anything with us. is that on the slide, so the slide did inflate? no. it was on the wing.
told me he was immediately flashing on the plane that went into the river a few years ago and he thought we were going in the water. i did, too. this is kind of an uncomfortable question to ask, but did you think that this was it? yes. i did. i did. i m still in shock. it s really starting to hit me as i watch the footage that you re showing on tv. it was a frightening experience. well we are so glad that you re both okay. sam stern and roxanne joffe, thanks for being with us. good luck calming down recovering and everything you need to do. thank you. planes land in snow and ice all the time. there are supposed to be tools to prevent something like this from happening. was there something different about the way this flight landed? could the pilot have done anything to prevent the plane from skidding off the runway? that s next.
reporter: the weather conditions we see the snow it s coming down it s sticking to the roads. there are snow removal crews trying to clear the parking lot behind me. they aren t making much progress even with heavy equipment which means it s really slippery even to stand out here right now as well. you can imagine they are working extra hard to keep that one single runway safe for the planes that are trying to take off. will ripley with a scary day for passengers at laguardia. thank you so much. joining us now live from new york are two of those passengers. sam stern and his wife roxanne joffe from florida. thank you both for being here. we are so glad you re okay. how are you feeling? are you physically hurt in any way? no. other than a little whiplash and post shock, i m feeling okay. particularly fine. sam, you say that everything was fine until the plane came in for the landing at laguardia. what happened then? we felt the plane touch down