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south carolina. the president just a little while ago says it was always his plan to take it out. >> we made it clear to china what we were going to do. they understand our position. we will not back off. we did the right thing. >> has it always been your view to shoot down a chinese spy balloon or only because it became public? >> oh, no it was always my position. once it came to the united states from canada i told them i wanted to shoot it down as soon as appropriate. they concluded, they concluded we should not shoot it down over land. they are not a serious threat and we should ...

Very quickly, that it looks okay but then a few minutes later, it's frozen. is that right? >> yes it is. they're using a chemical on the runways now called urea because you can't use salt or gravel for obvious reasons. this is something that's unpredictable because it does a great job of anti-icing and deicing the runway. a really good job. however, it looks black. it looks like a black -- black ice, if you will. so once it gets to a certain level, once it does freeze, it happens extremely quickly. right when it gets to that freezing point of that runway, it happens very, very quickly. so that...

It off to the shoulder. >> chief mark malone good luck to you and the men and women helping, good luck to everyone over there. this is just one part of the country right now suffering from this severe weather, snow and ice and sleet. it's an awful, awful situation. we're standing by for a news conference from the port authority of new york and new jersey dealing with the other breaking news weather related. a delta flight skidding as it touched down at la guardia airport. fortunately stopping before it goes over a berm into the water. we're going to find out what happened. take a look at this ...

During the last three weeks. there were two drills here at la guardia for exactly this circumstance. last thing i'll report is that we expect to open up the other runway 422 at approximately 2:00 p.m. some flights have been diverted to newark and to other airports. as ron mentioned at the beginning of the conference the ntsb is on the way to la guardia. we will be cooperating with them closely as with delta. we're not going to speculate or comment on the causes of today's accident. with that, i'll turn it over to delta airlines. >> thank you, pat. this morning, upon landing, delta flight 1086 ...

Quote today,call liberty mutual insurance at see car insurance in a whole new light. liberty mutual insurance. welcome back. if you're just joining us we want to get you up to date on the breaking news out of new york city. this is the aircraft. the delta aircraft that skidded upon landing. a flight from atlanta. look how close it got to the water. it stopped just atop this berm this little hill at the end of this runway. it could have been a whole lot worse. you see how close it got to the water that surrounds basically la guardia airport. 131 people on that -- on board this plane and fortu...