As much as a thousand gallons of fuel now have leaked on to the runway that they have contained but they must clean up before operations get back to normal. everything is stopped here at la guardia. everything. this is the priority line here. there s about 40 or 50 people in this line. but the regular line for american airlines where we are right now, it is literally in the hundreds of people trying to figure out how they re going to get home, people on the phone. the pilot i spoke to said that he was on the runway for about an hour because he came in, landed landed the incident happened. he went back out onto the runway to take off again. they waited and waited. they brought all planes back sitting on the tarmac back to the terminals here. now he s on his way to jfk to get another flight out to get back on schedule. this is going to create a massive headache across the aviation system. but the good news, though from
wolf blitzer, let me start with you. this is something that a lot of critics have said is a subject changer because we had real bad jobs news on friday and that just it riveted people throughout the weekend. is this an effort to change the narrative? it may be, in part, because the white house clearly believes this is a winning political issue for the president. he is going to make the point that for 98% of the american people, there will be no increase in their taxes. individuals making $200,000 or less a year. families making $250,000 or less, they will see no increase whatsoever. if nothing is done, everyone s taxes go up starting january 1st 2013, that s the so-called fiscal cliff. for 2% making more than that, they will go back to the tax rates that occurred during the clinton administration before the bush tax rates went into effect, 2001 and 2003. they will go back up to 39.6% from 35 or 36% right now. so, he will say these people can afford it. they will pay a lit