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and that s fine. we ll comply with any of the documents that they have requested that are appropriate to turn over. while numerous chris christie aids have asked for more time, the committee is asking for money. joining me now from trenton, new jersey, michael isikoff. let s speak first good morning, alex. good afternoon. the 20 state subpoenas. four port authority officials are meeting the deadline. two are invoking the fifth. the rest are asking for more time or submitting documents on the rolling basis. what does this tell you about the breakdown of how this saga
there were very few planes on the ground. but with each hour, we have been increasing over here. now, we have also been talking about that gate issue at laguardia. over here, not nearly as severe but nonetheless, there are some delays for planes getting into gates. we have with us the general manager of laguardia airport, thomas boscoe. you can tell us, what is this issue, so our viewers can understand why would it be tough for a plane to come into a gate, particularly after a storm like this? well, our port authority crews have been working all day, all night, since sunday morning to ensure the safety of the airfield and of the traveling public. snow operations continue, even though we have two runways open, the airfield is fully operational, but we continue to move snow, to melt it on the aeronautical area or to truck it off the area and dump it.
the airport. what is the situation here? how soon will things return to norm? good morning. first of all, our port authority crews have been working nonstop since sunday morning to make it safe for air travel, and we have both runways here at laguardia open and operational. we ve had a trickle of arrivals coming in, and we expect between with 100 and 110 arrivals and e departures by noon today. reporter: i know you had some overnight guests, people sleeping upstairs using cots provided by the port authority. do you expect to have more overnight guests tonight, and when do you think all the cancellations are going to be compensated for and service back to normal? we had about 450 people that were stranded in the terminal for the past two nights, and we expect probably a similar number, about 100, 150 tonight. it s no sleep to sleep in a fun to sleep in an airport, but here at laguardia we try to