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54 minutes after the hour. time for the moos news in the morning. it is a short trip from obscure flight attendant to american mostly cloudy hero. just a quick ride down a slide. steven slater s meltdown on a jetblue flight has made him a celebrity. if you took a straw poll, slater s someone many people can identify with. here s jeanne moos. reporter: fasten your seatbelts, steven slater. faster than a cross-country flight, he went from flight attendant to steven slater is an american hero. reporter: with his own bald. i got irate won t you get irater well my friends we have a hero now ....
Jetblue, had been on a flight. he was hit by some luggage and was engaged in an argument with a passenger. didn t want to sit down, that passenger didn t, and he was then cursed out. well, mr. slater responded by getting on the public address system, repeated that curse to the entire plane, and then he set off the slide, that basically allowed him to jump out of the plane. he grabbed some beers, grabbed his luggage, and then slid down that emergency slide. of course you re not supposed to do that. not supposed to ignite that slide. but he, nonetheless, walk away and drove home and shortly afterwards the police showed up at his door. but i think what he did there really is a fantasy, maybe i don t know hundreds of thousands, maybe millions of people would just love to say take this job and shove it. he did it his way. there was a long about that, wasn t there? yes, there was. yesterday at this time when we you on, we hadn t heard from ....
Sally. when reporters asked his attorneys why slater took the slide, the answer because it was right there. even his ex-wife came to his defense. he definitely has the joan of arc of the flight world right now. you sound like you like him a lot for an ex-wife. oh, he s fantastic. he s wonderful. reporter: but even wonderful people snap. like in the nocoderm commercial. stop it! stop it! stop it! stop it! the last time i tried to quit smoking only two carry-on items! reporter: passengers seeking a moment of zen from the indignities of flying might appreciate this pillow flight aboard a lufthansa flight. it s been a long time since flying felt light as a feather. and that s steven slater ....
A recount. i m sorry, these things just are not cooperating. state of minnesota having problems with the magic wall this morning. state of minnesota, former senator mark dayton, the democrat, goes up tom emery, the republican. if this thing wants to cooperate it doesn t. linda mcmahon, the former ceo of world wrestling entertainment i m going to pull a steven slater in about three, two, one! she is going to go up against the former lieutenant governor blumenthal in the election in november and linda mcmahon going to be joining us in our next hour to talk about her win and what it means to the republican establishment because certainly she didn t have them behind her. really blumenthal s kind of an anti-establishment candidate as well. this is a state that has not voted in a republican senator since prescott bush left in 1963. so it will be obviously a clal ....