Now from abc7, live breaking news. And that breaking news is from michigan. A lithium battery erupts into flames in the middle of a crosscountry flight. Lets get right to Katie Marzullo with the breaking details. Katie . Reporter the faa tells us it was the lithium battery in a passengers laptop that caught fire. The laptop was in a backpack in the cabin of the plane. So were talking about jetblue flight 915, coming to San Francisco from new yorks jfk and had to make an Emergency Landing at the airport in grand rapids, michigan. This is video of the plane after it landed there. We understand that at some point passengers smelled smoke and the fire was discovered. And the flight was diverted. A woman on the plane told the abc affiliate in michigan this. I was stunned. I knew something was going to happen, because, you know, lithium batteries catching on fire when youre up at 38,000 feet, you cant help but think that weve gotta do something. So, i was prepared for it. Reporter the fire w
Now from abc7, live breaking news. And that breaking news is from michigan. A lithium battery erupts into flames in the middle of a crosscountry flight. Lets get right to Katie Marzullo with the breaking details. Katie . Reporter the faa tells us it was the lithium battery in a passengers laptop that caught fire. The laptop was in a backpack in the cabin of the plane. So were talking about jetblue flight 915, coming to San Francisco from new yorks jfk and had to make an Emergency Landing at the airport in grand rapids, michigan. This is video of the plane after it landed there. We understand that at some point passengers smelled smoke and the fire was discovered. And the flight was diverted. A woman on the plane told the abc affiliate in michigan this. I was stunned. I knew something was going to happen, because, you know, lithium batteries catching on fire when youre up at 38,000 feet, you cant help but think that weve gotta do something. So, i was prepared for it. Reporter the fire w
Abc affiliate in michigan this. I was stunned. I knew something was going to happen, because, you know, lithium batteries catching on fire when youre up at 38,000 feet, you cant help but think that weve gotta do something. So, i was prepared for it. Reporter the fire was put out before the plane landed, which was around 8 00 in michigan. No one was hurt and there was no damage to the plane. Jetblue released a statement tonight. It reads, jetblue flight 915 from new yorks jfk to San Francisco, diverted to grand rapids, michigan, following reports of smoke emitting from a carryon bag, holding an electronic device. The flight landed safely and the aircraft is being inspected by maintenance crews before customers continue on to San Francisco. We know theyre on their way to San Francisco now, finally. You heard from cat honnibol in our story. Her daughter is also on the plane and she told us via email, that passengers were patient at first, but they were in michigan for almost three hours.
Negotiating with him. Trying to get him to come down. This is tape here. This is not a live picture. The chp describes the man as distraught. Hes about 25 feet above the roadway. The coast guard, as well as San Francisco police boats have also moved in to the area. This is about halfway between the city and treasure island. Want to give you a live look of the toll plaza i mentioned. You can see the backup getting in to San Francisco right now. And its not just here. This traffic backup goes all the way into the maze. All the way into the lower east shore. Westbound 80 lanes. Past albany. This goes into 580 in richmond. 808 starting to back up a little bit. If you think about detours, you have the san mateo bridge. We have bart. You have the richmond san rafel bridge and across the golden gate bridge. Chp officer of the highway patrol. Well talk about the traffic impact in a minute. First id like to start with the negotiations to get this man to safety. Reporter yes, good afternoon. We
I pushed you out. Now, for may 30th, 2017, this is entertainment tonight. Comedian Kathy Griffin is in hot water after her gory post holding a bloodied severed head of donald trump shocked america. Of course we have chosen to edit the image rather than show it. Heres the thing kathy pushes boundaries with her cutting edge comedy. This time she clearly went too far. I sincerely apologize. The image is too disturbing. I understand how it offends people. I beg for your forgiveness. I went too far. I made a mistake. I was wrong. Cnn is parting ways with griffin as a result of the controversy saying, the network has terminated our agreement with Kathy Griffin to appear on our new years program. She cohosted it with Anderson Cooper for the last ten years. A source tells e. T. Anderson thought the photo was quote, disgusting and completely inappropriate. You said somethings you shouldnt have said. This year, you promised youre not going to do that, right. Its deadly blow to kathys career at a