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Being here, thank you, and mayor brooks. about 7:13 a.m. this morning, the school resource officer, officer william buzz, our school resource full time in the schools, put out a call over the police radio stating that there was critical incident occurring and he needed assistance. at that time the murrysville police department responded to the scene. i can tell you that upon my arrival that we saw many victims in the grass area on the exterior of the building. upon entering the building we came into the scene in one hallway where we saw one of the security guards had been apparently stabbed. a...

>> reporter: good morning, chris. runway 4 where that happened is open. laguardia, still a lot of delays ahead. it was a shocking and scary landing for the passengers of flight 345 coming here from nashville last night after they had that landing. this coming just weeks after that asiana flight 214 crash landing in san francisco. >> reporter: you can see sparks flying as southwest airlines flight 345 out of nashville lands hard on its nose. >> the nose wheel specifically collapsed. the aircraft skidded down the runway on its nose and then veered off and came to rest in a grass area. >> reporte...

Wasn't supposed to land that way. >> kind of like a -- noise. it wasn't too loud. yeah, that's scary. >> and then what happened? >> he crashed. >> shepard: they say sparks flew as the plane touched down. that's when airport officials say the nose wheel collapsed. >> the aircraft skidded down the run way on its nose and veered off and came to grass in a grass area between the runway and taxiway. >> shepard: southwest flight 345 came into new york from nashville. passengers say the airline delayed the departure blaming an issue with one of the tires. but they claim the pilot didn't give them any...

Grass area. >> rescue crews rushed to lay down foam to prevent a massive fire. >> we're spraying down the aircraft right now. i believe that's why they want the doors oh closed. >> you can see the horrified passengers exiting using the chutes. as many as ten people suffered minor injuries. they were given no warning of a possible problem before the crash landing. >> i didn't really know what happened until i exited the plane. i was shaken up. >> the first thing that goes through my mind, are people going to be freaked out? but all in all, i mean, hey, we walked away. >> officials hoping to hav...

Bill: right about 10:30 here in new york. 3:30 in london. one of our top stories back here at home, six passengers, three crewmembers recovering a day after a hard landing of a southwest airlines jet at laguardia airport in new york. 150 people on board. here is the airport's general managetory explain what happened. >> the nose wheel specifically collapsed. the aircraft skidded down the runway on its nose and then veered off and came to rest in a grass area between the runway and taxi way foxtrot about halfway down the runway. bill: dr. vernon grose, former ntsb member under reagan administra...