runway. this is new orleans. a united airline airbus skidded on the grass while making this emergency landing and just as a precaution, all 100 passengers left the plane, popped out on the emergency slides, the faa says the pilots took off from new orleans, smelled smoke in the cockpit and turned the plain around. no one was hurt there. now this when a herd is there, isolatable, shoot them, and the crops are safe. that was a tough talk from go daddy s ceo to me this past friday. got a lot of you talking and you tweeting me. was his killing of an elephant justified? he seems to think so. but obviously an elephant expert begs to differ. that s coming up.
jon: new video now from cicely where a plane has gone off the runway. witnesses say the plane from the airline wind jet swerved as it was landing in bad weather. as you can see the crew deployed the emergency slides on which all of the 143 passengers escaped. the italian emergency crews say almost two dozen people on that plane were hurt but none seriously. another round in the texas textbook wars and it could effect kids all across the country. experts say texas is so big and buys so many books its guidelines end up influencing what publishers produce. today the state board of ed asking publishers to limit information about islam in history books. crist guterres with the news from austin. jon the resolution passed by a vote of 7 to 6. supporters say it will protect anti-christian bias that exist in some of today s textbooks. take this book, for example.
jetblue made a hard landing blue four tires tires catching fire passengers he can evacuated by emergency slides. five taken to a hospital. none of the injuries appear to be life-threatening. the airbus was arriving from long beach with 87 passengers. jetblue believes the plane had brake trouble. now back to on the record. greta: vice president biden is sticking to his guns and saying again the stimulus bill is working. today in new hampshire the vice president announced 200,000 homes have been weatherized thanks to the stimulus. the white house says the projects gave jobs to construct workers and made homes more energy efficient. is steve more convinced? he s a senior economic writer for wall street journal editorial page. weatherizing is a good idea it makes homes energy efficient. that s another issue.
landing until the crew ordered them to the emergency slides as the planes wheels burst into flames. can you imagine a passenger on that jet tells us exactly what it was like. also incredible video as heavy rain set into motion devastating and deadly landslides burying dozen of homes and cars. the rush to get folks who may be buried alive. we have that story just ahead. m, did you borrow my green shirt?
people are homeless, 8 million people in need of emergency care. in the bottom box, a massive cleanup in germany after a massive storm rips through the region bringing heavy rains and a tornado. jon: five people are hurt when a jetblue plane takes a hard landing in sacramento. passengers felt a jarring thud when the airbus a83 touched down in sacramento. many of the passengers thought that was it until the crew started shouting for everyone to hit the inflatable slides and get off the plane. 87 passengers on board along with five crew members. all of them went down the emergency slides. they found the tires on fire when they hit the ground. in a statement jetblue said five passengers were taken to local hospitals for minor injuries. joining us on the phone is one of the passengers from that flight, shannon rupey whose birthday happened to coincide with this rocky landing.