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Runway no overrun area. it's a dicey airport on a good day. this was by no means a good day. this was very marginal conditions. you had a runway that the term is contaminated meaning it was icy. the question of what the braking capability on the runway is very important. they were landing downwind meaning they had a tail wind which would mean the aircraft was going faster relative to the ground and it was also some component of that wind was a cross-wind which would have caused instability potentially as they were trying to line up on the center line of the runway may have caused a wing to dip...

Of the patterns and practices of those police officers. >> we know the patterns and practices in detail what was going on in ferguson elsewhere as well. thanks very much for joining us. daryl parks, thanks as well. new details on the airliner accident in new york. a plane with more than 130 people on board sliding off a runway nearly plunging into frigid water. north korea ishailing the knife attack. we are learning about the assault and what may lie behind it.

Thousands of flight cancellations across the country. according to website flight tracker, 5,000 cancellations, 5,000 delays and a lot of them as a direct result of the fact that this airport in the busy new york city air space is shut down forcing flights to be rerouted leaving a lot of people across the united states and internationally grounded right now. wolf? >> so what's the mood over there? i take it the passengers trying to reroute themselves, there must be a lot of frustration. on the other hand they want to be safe. >> reporter: yeah. it's certainly terrifying for the people who were...

>> i spoke with one passenger who described the feeling of the plane sliding. two planes actually lafrndnded shortly before this. the pilots didn't have problems. what was going on? >> a couple things to think about. weather, of course is extremely dynamic. it can change by the minute. we were at that point in time the wind was shifting around. the rain was turning to freezing rain eventually into snow. so what happens between just a couple of minutes can be very different. each aircraft can be different. each crew might have a different technique and approach or experience level dealing with ...

Just a few feet before those frigid waters of flushing bay. maybe the fence, maybe that little berm maybe that little hill whatever they want to call it that helped stop that plane. is that what they're suggesting, the authorities? >> reporter: in fact it's the same berm that stopped a flight in 1994 from also actually going into the water. that's what people here are really thankful for right now, because had the plane slid a bit further, had that berm not been there, that plane could have very well ended up in the water and then we would be talking about a much different and more dangerous s...