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Season. >> thank you so much. >> how would you describe what is happening right now. nancy pelosi says she won't assign managers until the u.s. senate makes clear how the trial will play out and then you have the u.s. senate claiming that the house is holding things up. mitch mcconnell even questioning pelosi's leverage. make sense of all of this, how do you sum it up? >> i belief the american people over this period of time that democrats emphasize that what we were doing was our constitutional duty and it was in adherence to our constitution, and what the speaker is doing is adhering to the ...

>> don't hit me. [ bleep ]. >> gotta get out of here. in a bad spot. >> reporter: sergeant brandon cutting, a 13-year veteran of the sonoma county sheriff's department, he worked graveyard on night one of the fires. >> did you think you were going to die? >> no. we were trying to get to as many people as we could. we were pushing into a complete fear zone. >> reporter: fear, understandable. streets became rivers of fire. >> i'm driving further into this fire, and i need an out. i need an exit. i'm in a bad spot. i need to turn around. i realize that i'm too far in. i'm afraid to stop. as long ...

Did not feel the wheels take traction. we started to skid. we skid to the left side of the runway and we continued to skid. we literally were a couple feet away from heading into the water. >> reporter: air traffic controllers told the delta flight before landing braking conditions were good. >> la guardia tower, braking action good by an airbus. >> reporter: 127 passengers aboard the plane were evacwatsuated using emergency exits on the wings. the emergency chutes did not deploy. 24 people were injured, three taken to the hospital. one of the passengers new york giants larry who shot this vid...

Investigate the cause of the skid. >> obviously the pilot and the co-pilot's good efforts were reflected in the fact that there were only minor injuries. >> reporter: at approximately 11:00 a.m. local time amid freezing fog and falling snow the delta flight landed on laguardia's runway 13. upon touching down the md-88 lost control skidding just over halfway down the 7,000 foot runway then a sharp and violent turn to the left. the plane's nose slamming the embankment so hard it ripped off. its left wing damaged, leaking fuel. >> she is leaking fuel on the left side of the aircraft heavily. >> y...

They're like hurry up. i see gas coming out of the wing. >> there's leaking fuel on the side. >> you said leaking fuel? >> affirm. his wing is ruptured. >> leaking a gallon a minute. the leak was stopped. >> reporter: at least two dozen passengers were injured and three were taken to hospitals. this video was shot by new york giants tight end larry da knell, a passenger on the plane. he wasn't hurt. the md88 briefly circled due to the snowy conditions before it was cleared for landing. airport officials say the runway was plowed just minutes before and two planes recorded good braking action s...