country. many of them with hundreds of souls on board today after dire warnings and working days on end, it started to unravel in the airspace here over new york. no errors, mind you. everybody got home safely. but these pictures of chaos on a friday at new york s laguardia, which on its best day is a monument to the neglect and a teaming laboratory of just how much humans can stand, today s 87 cancellations, 1,100 delays in the new york area ma migight been a game changer. for the hard hearted who had trouble generating sympathy for people going without a paycheck for over a month, today may have put them over the edge and to end this week, let s hear from another federal employee, a public servant living through this tough time. how are you taking this in news right now that it seems like the shutdown might be coming to an end finally i ll believe it when there is money in my checking account
ensuring outside threats aren t able to make their way inside to a secure area. inside to tan airport. or presumably you expect everyone in the secure space has been screened, physically, or, you know has gone through, lengthy background investigation. if you break it down into employees and passengers. every passenger aboard a commercial air skraflt will undergo some type of screening for devices, weapons and that physical screening. employees as well. psychological, mechanic would be less so than a pilot. some one able to pie lot an aircraft with souls on board. none theless it would be involved in a thorough background investigation. if you are a, seattle tacoma police officer there at the airport. you know it is not necessarily, front of mind that you are worried that shomone thome one d is going to go rogue. if that happens, very little you can do. this case does pose an interesting challenge. talking to someone there on the ground. locally in washington state.
safe and dependable as they come. it s a twin prop that dates back to the 1960s but in all those decades, no one has built a better way to get mail on to the carrier. so when it suffered a total engine failure, it was a shock. that s when lieutenant stephen cox went to work, he brought the plane down and set down on the ocean surface, despite seas of about 10 to 12 feet. there were 11 souls on board and eight survived. combs, the pilot, was not one of them. stephen combs was 28, a native of pitsfield mass. he served on the aircraft ronald reagan and the co-pilot said stephen combs, quote, flu
decades, no one has built a better way to get mail on to the carrier. so when it suffered a total engine failure, it was a shock. that s when lieutenant stephen combs went to work, he brought the plane down and set down on the ocean surface, despite seas of about 10 to 12 feet. there were 11 souls on board and eight survived. combs, the pilot, was not one of them. stephen combs was 28, a native of pitsfield mass. he served on the aircraft ronald reagan and the co-pilot said stephen combs, quote, flu the hell out of that plane. there are eight sailors alive today who are living proof of that. that is our broadcast on a
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