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Weekly roundup of world briefs   By Ben Sales (JTA) — A dead pig’s body was found outside the door of a rabbi in the heavily Orthodox township of Lakewood, New Jersey. The body was found on Shabbat, according to The Lakewood Scoop, and the local police department is treating the incident as a bias crime. Pigs are seen as the quintessentially unkosher animal and have long been used as an anti-Semitic symbol. “We will not tolerate such acts in our town,” Lakewood Police Chief Greg Meyer ...

Florida congresswoman debbie wasserman scholes who represents the 23rd district, this airport, inside the 23rd district. congresswoman, thanks, thanks so much for your time, this evening. at this point, what more do we know about the circumstances surrounding what happened at that airport four hours ago? what more do you know perhaps about this suspect? >> craig, thanks for having me and for doing such a good job covering this and keeping people informed. the most important thing that people sho...

An inspection of the airfield, the taxiway, the runway, the lights, when you have an emergency response like this, theres a possibility that equipment or some part of the airfield might be damaged or equipment on the airfield might be damaged. we have to do a complete inspection of the airfield before we can release anything. im going to let mike speak now to the actual response to the incident. then ill talk about when the airport may reopen. >> thanks, greg. mike jachles, with broward fire she...

Greg meyer is standing by to come over and join us. gregs with the airport as well. he can explain a little bit about dynamic air. why dont you come on this side of me. thank you. dynamic air which has been operating here at the airport for about 6 to 8 months. scheduled service but it operates different than most airlines because -- >> its a charter flight service. they dont work like a normal flight like a delta airlines or someone else here. they have flight schedules, but they have different...

Our response here. we had an effective response, a quick response. and i think that thats reflected by the results that we see. >> is the remaining fuel on the plane going to stay there? do you guys take it off? what happens with that? >> thats a question that will be determined once the investigators get here with the fire investigators and b-cad. whether theyll offload the fuel or not. thats something that taheyll decide on at that time. >> whats happened to the passengers evacuated. >> greg m...

The aircraft in case it restarts. just like any other type of fire. they have to be on site until its deemed clear. as long as thats happening and there are fire trucks out there, i dont assume well open that north runway until everything is clear. again, there will have to be another inspection of the north runway and the lighting. everything is 100%. we dont operate until its 100%. >> youve been listening to greg meyer, broward county department of avs. before him we were listening to someone ...

deployed with passengers used to get them off that flight safely. but then also, the equipment and the amount of fire, the amount of disperse ant used to get that fire under control. on the left is the image of the passengers getting safely off that flight and closer to the terminal there at fort lauderdale hollywood international. jay blackman is in d.c. and joins us now. explain what you think could have caused this and how this as we are saying was reported because of another flight...

Situation? is it the same mechanism, do you know? >> the issue comes to this. if the behavior has a common original starting point and is similar, you can get these errors particularly where theres inattention. if you have a different holster configuration, then you get a directed attention towards the process, and you minimize the chance of an error. however, it is much better as greg meyer was talking about, to use an entirely different limb which then makes you less susceptible to the slip an...

>> meyer sees that as a recipe for disaster and working to get police departments to change the holster configuration, separating the taser from the handgun. randy kay, cnn, new york. >> and not everyone buys into the theory. joining us is phil stenson, a professor of criminal justice, and bill lewinski who testified at the bart trial and retained as a consultant with the attorney in this case and tulsa county sheriffs office and lou gehrig os with us. and you explain this as junk science. expla...

Stronger response that takes them in a different direction. greg meyer testified for the defense at the trial of officer mehserle. >> hes mentally trying to draw his taser, which is in a cross-draw position over in front of his belt but his hand is on his side arm. so he raises himself up and then fires the one shot. and then immediately reacts you know oh, my god. >> reporter: officer mehserle was convicted of involuntary manslaughter. the jury finding hed acted recklessly but not intentionally...