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Hydrants. this area is so far away from where the hydrants are on the airport property, it is very difficult to get water and the necessary chemicals to that area in order to take care of that fuel leak and make sure the plane is fine. the third team is there to deal with the passengers. all passengers deplaned. light injuries, nothing very serious. but certainly a serious situation here. show you the american terminal where we are now. it has expanded to 20 or 30 people in line here. everything is shut down. everything diverted for now until at least 7:00 p.m. tonight. this is the priority li...

Not have known, this is the second major winter event we've had in less than a month. in many ways, we were just recovering from the first. even though the emergency responders were all on teleconference yesterday, we could not even prepare properly to salt the roads or whatever because of the rain that we had. and then of course last night after it froze up, we had unprecedented amount of snowfall in such a short period of time. even though kentucky transportation was plowing everything, within two hours, it would be up to two to 4 inches. >> lieutenant colonel, i want to ask about the people...

It has been snowing very, very heavily today. they are accustomed to that here at la guardia and certainly this year where they've had several big snowstorms. they've been clearing the runway all day. about a third of the flights had been canceled until this. now everything is at a stop at la guardia. even planes headed into the airport have been diverted. fortunately, that delta flight from atlanta landed here, skidded off sort of midway through the runway. initial reports here that there are minor injuries. everybody is off that plane. a wing may be broken and there may be jet fuel that has ...

Hopefully it's going to be a lot better when you get there, sir. >> yeah, yeah. we hope so too. even if we get down towards nashville, there's issues going over towards georgia. we were going to take 75 down into florida. i'm from pennsylvania and erie, so we're used to snow. and the car is doing well. it was just the accident that piled everything back. >> i tell you what, listen in, if you've got the power and a charger in your car, i'm going to talk to lieutenant colonel with the kentucky national guard. sir, i don't know if you could hear that interview with patrick and his wife. they're s...

To play with. >> keen observation that you saw with those quick pictures that the thrust reversers seemed not to be deployed. you can see people deplaning on the right-hand side. what you can't see is anybody deplaning out of the front of the aircraft. you can see that the front of the aircraft is obstructed by that fence. this is why your flight attendants tell you where all of the exits are. anybody sitting in the windows to the front of the wing presumably would have either had to get off the other side if that was even possible or come back and join everyone from the back of the aircraft g...