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That flight spoke to cnn after finally setting foot in the terminal. it was terrible. basically what happened, when you were running out of food and water, the pilot came on to say he was going to be arguing with the folks at the airport. to at least let the police come on board. i guess he lost that flight, nobody came on. and we moved up to a gate, spent another couple of hours at the gate, thinking we were going to come off and never did. apparently what happened the customs folks went home at 1:00 a.m. everybody had to sit out there in the snow, all night. we ve since gotten a statement from customs and border protection. officials tell cnn, quote, at no point were customs officials sent home overnight from jfk. said the airport was ample staffed even in the wee hours. it s the airlines responsibility to keep customs ....
The two players are charged with assault and resisting arrest, but police say they could face additional charges. today the rain keeps falling on the rio grande bringing floodwaters along the border. mike seidel is in laredo, what does it look like there, mike? reporter: the river continues to come down now, chris, over 3 1/2 feet lower than it was last night when it crested and over 42 1/2 when it crested. 42.5 feet, the highest they ve seen in 45 year. we marked the crease to this water on the ramp that seems to go in the river. now laden with debris. nothing large like they saw in 98. behind us they re getting the bridge ready for mostly pedestrian traffic, but i just talked to the customs folks over there. they don t think it will reopen until some time tomorrow. that is only one of four bridge crossings that is still closed. ....
This must be done now. 30 minutes is adequate for someoneáfpñi> okay.]údd> let me ask you, in this case with faisal shahzad, he bought his ticket over the phone on the way to the airport and then paid cash once he got to the airport. with a 24 hour disclosure, even if the immigration officials, the customs folks, had had the passenger manifest, faisal shahzad would not have been on it. well, you re saying there is some cases where someone buys a ticket in cash maybe an hour before or two hours before. customs would have time to check for that one person. but to go through the whole manifest in 30ig7!z: minutes is irresponsible and certainly is not enough time, as good as the ....
the shuttle never came. it never happened. they never got back to us on that. four hours later you finally got off the plane. everybody s pointing fingers at each other, to the port authority, to the customs folks, to the airlines, the airport, who do you think, max, is at fault here? you know, i respectfully think it was the it was the cathay pacific. i really do. i think it was the airline that basically did not check ahead of time. you know, in terms of keeping us there, we started this trip, i don t know if you know, december 26th. right. it was scheduled for 9:55. then it was canceled. it was postponed until 1:00, and then we were on the flight, we were in the plane at that time for four hours. but the airport, you re saying, should have known there wasn t a gate for you? yeah, that s right. i would assume they would have called ahead and found out, and it was very rushed, too. we were in airplane, get over here, we need you here now. and on top of it all ....