March 23, 2026
BREAKING: 2 Dead, Dozens Injured, LaGuardia Shut Down after Plane-Truck Collision
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RSS Feed New York City’s LaGuardia Airport has been shut down until further notice. Just before midnight last night an Air Canada flight arriving from Montreal collided with an emergency vehicle on the tarmac. Officials say both the pilot and the co-pilot of the plane were killed in the crash and two Port Authority police officers along with 41 passengers suffered injuries. ”
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00:00:09
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Monday, March twenty third, and one of the busiest airports in the nation is closed right now and we don't know when it's going to reopen after an incident in which a plane collided with a firetruck on the runway and at least two people are dead. With that, Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. They tell us LaGuardia is going to open at two o'clock today at the earliest, but we don't know for sure. And folks, this is going to call some chaos. This is a breaking new situation episode. We're recording a little earlier, Robes because this is kind of incredible to see the pictures. But at least two people are dead after a late night incident.
00:00:52
Speaker 2: Yes, and we just watched the latest press conference from the port authority there at LaGuardia to get the latest information. But this scene is surreal to see. Basically, the front end of this Air Canada plane completely smashed in. There was an explosion, it looks like in this collision between the plane and the fire truck. And yes, the two people confirmed dead we heard now are the two pilots who were piloting that plane. It had just landed, It had taken off from Montreal, landing at LaGuardia just before midnight.
00:01:27
Speaker 3: And now yes, two people are dead.
00:01:30
Speaker 1: Trying to figure out here exactly what happened. The investigation, of course is underway. But rogues we u and again you all are going to see the pictures. But it's kind of incredible and kind of confusing to figure out how the plane ended up in the position that it was in. Also a pilot copilot killed. But the two who are in the emergency vehicle on the ground, we're told I do not have life threatening injuries, even though they went to the hospital. What's the number again, how many actually did go to the hog for twenty.
00:01:55
Speaker 3: Three people went to the hospital.
00:01:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, forty one passengers and crew from the plane went to the hospital. And then those two port authority officers who were functioning against in a fire truck, they were and they are still in the hospital. But yes, they said non life threatening injuries, stable condition. They were both able to speak to investigators, which is pretty remarkable when you see what happened to that plane.
00:02:18
Speaker 1: So, folks, if you will see the pictures at some point, but right now, just to describe it for you. Imagine a plane sitting on a runway. Now, I essentially just put a bunch of weight on the back of it and then have the front of the plane tilt up. What's the kids game used to do the seesaw. Yes, it's kind of.
00:02:35
Speaker 3: How it looks exactly what.
00:02:36
Speaker 4: It looks like.
00:02:37
Speaker 1: Weight went on the back of it and the front of it lifted up. You cannot understand, but it looks like the front of the plane is destroyed. Now we're told Robes this was after the plane had landed, so it should have naturally been slowing down. I haven't seen. I don't know if you heard from them how fast they believe this plane was going on.
00:02:55
Speaker 2: No, In fact, they weren't able to give some of those details. Obviously, as you might imagine. The NTSP is on the scene investigating, and that began almost immediately after the incident happened.
00:03:05
Speaker 3: So we'll get more details later. But it had to be.
00:03:08
Speaker 2: It seems like that plane had to be going at a high rate of speed to have the impact it had, it would seem but I'm still amazed. I am amazed, thank God that those two officers in that emergency vehicle are alive.
00:03:21
Speaker 1: No, to your point you're saying early before we start, or maybe you said it right here, it seems like they would have gotten the worst of it. Yes, it seems that way. In the pictures we've seen it ropes. I can't even make out a fire truck down to in the pictures. It's kind of incredible to see. But this is a lot of people who were injured on this plane. Now, what this incident in the first place. What was the fire truck doing there? Look, it was about eleven thirty at night, so it's late last night, so frankly shouldn't have been a whole lot of air traffic necessarily. But there was an issue with another plane, okay, a separate incident. Pilots were reporting a foul odor in the cabin of their plane. A couple of flight attendants started getting sick, so they asked for a fire crew someone to come out and check it out. They declared an emergency. Again, totally separate incident. They were declaring an emergency. That truck was on the way to them and on the way out rope somehow someway and folks who are going to let you hear the audio Incredibly, the truck asked for permission robes like they were supposed to to cross a runway. It sounded like.
00:04:23
Speaker 2: Yes, because imagine yes, even though it was late at night and you know, you might be thinking not that many planes, but yes, you have to obviously check with air traffic control, not just if you are a plane in the sky, but also if you are a vehicle there on the tarmac. So you hear the conversation back and forth between the port authority officers who were operating that fire vehicle and air traffic controllers getting permission to cross the runway. Unfortunately, now we know just as that Air Canada flight was landing on runway four that was the runway in question, and it's just surrealed to see or actually to hear how it all took place.
00:05:02
Speaker 1: And so as you all, we're going to play this for you. It's about a minute of audio. But as you're listening to this, pay attention. You hear the air traffic controller he's making a reference to four. Four is actually the number of the runway that they're talking about, and he's initially talking to a back and forth with the guy who's driving the truck, and then at the end he switches and starts talking to other planes telling them to go around. So that's the contact, and with that it's pretty easy to understand or kind of get an idea of what's happening here. So here it is the air traffic control from the incident last night.
00:05:35
Speaker 2: Truck one company with Vardy Tower requesting to cross four at Delta.
00:05:39
Speaker 4: Truck one company cross for at Delta. Truck one and company crossing four at Delva Frontier forty one nine to stop there, please stop stop that truck on stop stop stop, stop, truck one stop lap truck one, beljoy go around Romly heading two thousand, got six four six.
00:06:05
Speaker 1: Division and you hear at the end, I see you collided. I see you collided. You hear him say that. But Robes, he gave, I mean assume this this is an active runway. If you're out there in the vehicle, this is not a situation where you just look to your left and look to your right and just go out into traffic. You need permission to do everything. It sounds like you got it.
00:06:25
Speaker 3: It did sound like he got it.
00:06:26
Speaker 2: And then quickly he said, you know, stop stop, but it was too late at that point obviously, so yes, this is going to be probably at the center of the investigation. And look, we have talked a lot about and heard many reports about a shortage of air traffic controllers, air traffic controllers being overworked, and certainly we know they are among those who are getting paid during this government shutdown. But look, this is a job where lives are hanging in the balance, and we've talked about how important it is to have a full staff, a arrested staff.
00:06:59
Speaker 3: We don't know the situation with what happened, but.
00:07:02
Speaker 2: This is obviously remarkably and incredibly rare, thankfully, but to hear someone get the go ahead, we don't know what was going on or how that order was given.
00:07:14
Speaker 1: Eho. And they have to hold the radar and you can see the planes moving around and all that stuff will be looked at Rose, but it's it is when they take a look at this. Yes, an accident happened, but doesn't mean a mistake was made. I don't know, do we need to improve something. All that will be looked into. But robes. A big part of that conversation of tsa excuse me, of air traffic controllers had to do with sometimes in the late night hours. There was a short shortage of stack.
00:07:42
Speaker 3: One person where it should have been three had too much.
00:07:45
Speaker 1: If you would have had a couple more eyeballs out there, would this have made a difference. I don't know, but he seemed to recognize, did he not rode pretty quickly? Oops, you need to stop. The guy he just told to go. He pretty immediately said.
00:07:59
Speaker 3: Stop, my goodness, But think about it.
00:08:01
Speaker 2: If the plane we don't know if it had just landed, if it was landing, if it was breaking. But that split second was the difference between life and death.
00:08:09
Speaker 1: Again, two dead at this point. Remind me, Robes and you were listening there to the Did they say they have serious injuries? Did they say life threatening to some of the others?
00:08:19
Speaker 3: So they said serious. Here's what we heard exactly.
00:08:21
Speaker 2: So on that plane there were seventy two passengers and four crew members, and then in the vehicle that crossed the runway, there were two officers of that group. Forty one passengers and some of the crew in the plane were sent to the hospital, and thirty and two of the officers who were in that vehicle also went to the hospital. Thirty two have been released. Of all of those numbers. That means that nine people remain hospitalized. We know two of them are those officers who we heard specifically were in stable condition.
00:08:53
Speaker 3: The other seven these were folks who were on the plane. They said.
00:08:56
Speaker 2: Among that group, some have very serious injuries, was how it was described.
00:09:01
Speaker 3: So they could be life threatening.
00:09:03
Speaker 2: And certainly we will be keeping our eye on that number because that's a big concern as folks. Just when you see the video, when you see the images of that plane, you can understand why there were so many injuries.
00:09:16
Speaker 1: First and foremost, my life injury human beings, that's the most important part. But there is another part of this story. We were already expecting, excuse me, we were already seeing chaos at the nation's airports. We were expecting the potential for it to get even worse today because yes, ICE agents are supposed to start showing up, supposed to help, but ropes. A lot of people will tell you that is going to add to the chaos at the airports. And now you have one of the biggest airport's, most important airports in the country shut down. What to expect today for air travel? What to expect if you have anything to do with LaGuardia today. Stay here. Oh yeah, and by the way, we have weather in the northeast. Welcome back here, everybody. We just talked about it. We were just about to come back on and tell you about what LaGuardia might look like today, what air tribal will look like. And look up and see a map with all kinds of colors on it.
00:10:20
Speaker 2: Oh yes, when you have massive weather, when you see yellow, orange and red on the radar, you know that means some serious storms are now passing through the Northeast now in very dramatic fashion. It looks like so that certainly will add to the airport woes and all of the delays. I cannot even imagine the mess that is going on now. LaGuardia Airport full ground stop, completely shut down until at least two pm Eastern time, and they made that very clear. That is the earliest LaGuardia Airport could open today, which means it could be closed for god knows how long.
00:10:56
Speaker 1: Roads. I cannot believe this is happening.
00:11:00
Speaker 2: Yes, And you know what was really eye opening when I woke up this morning and started looking at so many airport stories, even just adjacent stories. It wasn't even about the actual incident that happened at LaGuardia. Do you know that several major airports. I'm sure you do because you have been reading up as well. Atlanta New York airports, they've stopped giving wait times.
00:11:22
Speaker 3: They just it's too much with the staffing shortage.
00:11:24
Speaker 2: Just so now where they were giving us, you know, a two hour line in as much as it was difficult to see how long the lines were, at least you had an idea of what you were facing. Now they've just kind of thrown their hands up and said they're so bad, we can't even tell you.
00:11:39
Speaker 3: It's just they just they.
00:11:40
Speaker 2: Put na like not applicable because they can't estimate.
00:11:45
Speaker 1: No, there's a lot of details. There's a lot to get into with this story about those shutdown what's happening in Congress, the pay of the TSA agents, the call out rates. But that fact robes I think sums in airports aren't even telling you anymore how long the TSA wait time is. They just Atlanta has it up on their website. It says, arrive four hours ahead of time. We don't have an exact but just get here four hours ahead of time. That's the mess. That's the chaos, self inflicted. We are doing the excuse me, you can say, Congress, but this is unnecessary and so now robes Unfortunately, now, when an incident happens, this piles on. This is going to mess up people's weeks.
00:12:34
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get my head around what today is going to be like. I feel for anyone who's traveling, anyone who's working at an airport for free essentially, and even look, just from a New York local standpoint, all of the roads and exits around LaGuardia are shut down. This is all because of the investigation that's going on right now. So the traffic in this area is going to be at a complete standstill. Because when you shut down roadways leading to a major airport at one of the biggest cities in the world, Yeah, this is going to be a heck of a travel day. And again, and you even hate to say this, because two people lost their lives. Some people may be fighting for their lives in the hospital right now, and obviously that's the most important part of the story and certainly the biggest tragedy. But I'm wondering if this catastrophic event could possibly be the straw that breaks the camel's back, that sends lawmakers to realize when we have a day like we're about to have today at the nation's airports, that finally, finally, they'll feel pressure to do something. If in any way this accident is a result of staffing shortages or issues, I can only imagine that this will be the moment that things have to change.
00:13:55
Speaker 1: We are recording this again, the breaking news, and it's still a lot of people haven't woken up, including a lot of lawmakers. How soon before they start blaming each other for these deaths, how soon before they start saying, see the shutdown, you're putting people in danger. Now they're going to try to use this to blame each other and put more pressure on each other. The fact of the matter is there's not a single passenger today anybody traveling anywhere, who doesn't understand. No matter how frustrated you are about what this incident is going to cause for your travel today, you get it. There are two families hurting because they lost somebody, and there are other families hurting because they got people in the hospital. First and foremost, What we are saying, Robes is that this situation now is made or or has made the travel situation worse because of what Congress has done. Correct, we would not we are on the edge, babe. Whether if there's another what was the was it Denver power outage?
00:14:50
Speaker 2: Oh?
00:14:51
Speaker 1: Yes, Like these little things do happen.
00:14:53
Speaker 3: And weather happens.
00:14:54
Speaker 1: It had good point, and it's happening today. So what you have today, ice agents coming too the airport, You have a deadly collision, and you have a weather in the northeast. A couple one thing doesn't have to happen. We don't have to have a shortage of TSA officers right.
00:15:10
Speaker 3: Now, exactly.
00:15:11
Speaker 2: We don't have to have that exactly, And we don't have to have ice agents in our nation's airports and look as divisive and like I mean, obviously obviously the president knows they're divisive. Obviously we know what's happened when ice is sent into major cities.
00:15:26
Speaker 3: It causes clashes. People are upset, People have a visceral emotional.
00:15:31
Speaker 2: Reaction now at this point when they see an ice ation. So add that to all the stress of the airport. I'm just I'm hoping, I'm hoping that this might create movement, This might create the pressure if they hadn't already felt it, which is remarkable to me. But perhaps this could be the moment where actually something changes.
00:15:54
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, your boys got it soft and you look like you were being sincere, and then I was about to say something to you, is gonna piss you off? What that It took two people dying maybe to move them. That's not problem, and that's the thing. And just the heads up here, Robes. You know, we keep an eye on flight aware a lot lately, but right now Laguardier Airport fifty percent flights canceled. That will get words, but two hundred and seventy three cancelations. That's the most of any airport being tracked in the world right now. But half of the flights that we're supposed to be going out of LaGuardia have been canceled. In the sun ain't even up robes, Oh.
00:16:32
Speaker 2: My goodness, And yes, the day has just begun. We don't know when LaGuardia is going to reopen. Of course, we will stay on top of this developing story that affects frankly the entire country at this point. But without everyone, we always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Robock alongside TJ. Holmes. We'll have morning run up for you here in just a bit, so we hope you have a wonderful day until then,
Speaker 1: Hey, folks, it is Monday, March twenty third, and one of the busiest airports in the nation is closed right now and we don't know when it's going to reopen after an incident in which a plane collided with a firetruck on the runway and at least two people are dead. With that, Welcome to this episode of Amy and TJ. Robes. They tell us LaGuardia is going to open at two o'clock today at the earliest, but we don't know for sure. And folks, this is going to call some chaos. This is a breaking new situation episode. We're recording a little earlier, Robes because this is kind of incredible to see the pictures. But at least two people are dead after a late night incident.
00:00:52
Speaker 2: Yes, and we just watched the latest press conference from the port authority there at LaGuardia to get the latest information. But this scene is surreal to see. Basically, the front end of this Air Canada plane completely smashed in. There was an explosion, it looks like in this collision between the plane and the fire truck. And yes, the two people confirmed dead we heard now are the two pilots who were piloting that plane. It had just landed, It had taken off from Montreal, landing at LaGuardia just before midnight.
00:01:27
Speaker 3: And now yes, two people are dead.
00:01:30
Speaker 1: Trying to figure out here exactly what happened. The investigation, of course is underway. But rogues we u and again you all are going to see the pictures. But it's kind of incredible and kind of confusing to figure out how the plane ended up in the position that it was in. Also a pilot copilot killed. But the two who are in the emergency vehicle on the ground, we're told I do not have life threatening injuries, even though they went to the hospital. What's the number again, how many actually did go to the hog for twenty.
00:01:55
Speaker 3: Three people went to the hospital.
00:01:57
Speaker 2: Yeah, forty one passengers and crew from the plane went to the hospital. And then those two port authority officers who were functioning against in a fire truck, they were and they are still in the hospital. But yes, they said non life threatening injuries, stable condition. They were both able to speak to investigators, which is pretty remarkable when you see what happened to that plane.
00:02:18
Speaker 1: So, folks, if you will see the pictures at some point, but right now, just to describe it for you. Imagine a plane sitting on a runway. Now, I essentially just put a bunch of weight on the back of it and then have the front of the plane tilt up. What's the kids game used to do the seesaw. Yes, it's kind of.
00:02:35
Speaker 3: How it looks exactly what.
00:02:36
Speaker 4: It looks like.
00:02:37
Speaker 1: Weight went on the back of it and the front of it lifted up. You cannot understand, but it looks like the front of the plane is destroyed. Now we're told Robes this was after the plane had landed, so it should have naturally been slowing down. I haven't seen. I don't know if you heard from them how fast they believe this plane was going on.
00:02:55
Speaker 2: No, In fact, they weren't able to give some of those details. Obviously, as you might imagine. The NTSP is on the scene investigating, and that began almost immediately after the incident happened.
00:03:05
Speaker 3: So we'll get more details later. But it had to be.
00:03:08
Speaker 2: It seems like that plane had to be going at a high rate of speed to have the impact it had, it would seem but I'm still amazed. I am amazed, thank God that those two officers in that emergency vehicle are alive.
00:03:21
Speaker 1: No, to your point you're saying early before we start, or maybe you said it right here, it seems like they would have gotten the worst of it. Yes, it seems that way. In the pictures we've seen it ropes. I can't even make out a fire truck down to in the pictures. It's kind of incredible to see. But this is a lot of people who were injured on this plane. Now, what this incident in the first place. What was the fire truck doing there? Look, it was about eleven thirty at night, so it's late last night, so frankly shouldn't have been a whole lot of air traffic necessarily. But there was an issue with another plane, okay, a separate incident. Pilots were reporting a foul odor in the cabin of their plane. A couple of flight attendants started getting sick, so they asked for a fire crew someone to come out and check it out. They declared an emergency. Again, totally separate incident. They were declaring an emergency. That truck was on the way to them and on the way out rope somehow someway and folks who are going to let you hear the audio Incredibly, the truck asked for permission robes like they were supposed to to cross a runway. It sounded like.
00:04:23
Speaker 2: Yes, because imagine yes, even though it was late at night and you know, you might be thinking not that many planes, but yes, you have to obviously check with air traffic control, not just if you are a plane in the sky, but also if you are a vehicle there on the tarmac. So you hear the conversation back and forth between the port authority officers who were operating that fire vehicle and air traffic controllers getting permission to cross the runway. Unfortunately, now we know just as that Air Canada flight was landing on runway four that was the runway in question, and it's just surrealed to see or actually to hear how it all took place.
00:05:02
Speaker 1: And so as you all, we're going to play this for you. It's about a minute of audio. But as you're listening to this, pay attention. You hear the air traffic controller he's making a reference to four. Four is actually the number of the runway that they're talking about, and he's initially talking to a back and forth with the guy who's driving the truck, and then at the end he switches and starts talking to other planes telling them to go around. So that's the contact, and with that it's pretty easy to understand or kind of get an idea of what's happening here. So here it is the air traffic control from the incident last night.
00:05:35
Speaker 2: Truck one company with Vardy Tower requesting to cross four at Delta.
00:05:39
Speaker 4: Truck one company cross for at Delta. Truck one and company crossing four at Delva Frontier forty one nine to stop there, please stop stop that truck on stop stop stop, stop, truck one stop lap truck one, beljoy go around Romly heading two thousand, got six four six.
00:06:05
Speaker 1: Division and you hear at the end, I see you collided. I see you collided. You hear him say that. But Robes, he gave, I mean assume this this is an active runway. If you're out there in the vehicle, this is not a situation where you just look to your left and look to your right and just go out into traffic. You need permission to do everything. It sounds like you got it.
00:06:25
Speaker 3: It did sound like he got it.
00:06:26
Speaker 2: And then quickly he said, you know, stop stop, but it was too late at that point obviously, so yes, this is going to be probably at the center of the investigation. And look, we have talked a lot about and heard many reports about a shortage of air traffic controllers, air traffic controllers being overworked, and certainly we know they are among those who are getting paid during this government shutdown. But look, this is a job where lives are hanging in the balance, and we've talked about how important it is to have a full staff, a arrested staff.
00:06:59
Speaker 3: We don't know the situation with what happened, but.
00:07:02
Speaker 2: This is obviously remarkably and incredibly rare, thankfully, but to hear someone get the go ahead, we don't know what was going on or how that order was given.
00:07:14
Speaker 1: Eho. And they have to hold the radar and you can see the planes moving around and all that stuff will be looked at Rose, but it's it is when they take a look at this. Yes, an accident happened, but doesn't mean a mistake was made. I don't know, do we need to improve something. All that will be looked into. But robes. A big part of that conversation of tsa excuse me, of air traffic controllers had to do with sometimes in the late night hours. There was a short shortage of stack.
00:07:42
Speaker 3: One person where it should have been three had too much.
00:07:45
Speaker 1: If you would have had a couple more eyeballs out there, would this have made a difference. I don't know, but he seemed to recognize, did he not rode pretty quickly? Oops, you need to stop. The guy he just told to go. He pretty immediately said.
00:07:59
Speaker 3: Stop, my goodness, But think about it.
00:08:01
Speaker 2: If the plane we don't know if it had just landed, if it was landing, if it was breaking. But that split second was the difference between life and death.
00:08:09
Speaker 1: Again, two dead at this point. Remind me, Robes and you were listening there to the Did they say they have serious injuries? Did they say life threatening to some of the others?
00:08:19
Speaker 3: So they said serious. Here's what we heard exactly.
00:08:21
Speaker 2: So on that plane there were seventy two passengers and four crew members, and then in the vehicle that crossed the runway, there were two officers of that group. Forty one passengers and some of the crew in the plane were sent to the hospital, and thirty and two of the officers who were in that vehicle also went to the hospital. Thirty two have been released. Of all of those numbers. That means that nine people remain hospitalized. We know two of them are those officers who we heard specifically were in stable condition.
00:08:53
Speaker 3: The other seven these were folks who were on the plane. They said.
00:08:56
Speaker 2: Among that group, some have very serious injuries, was how it was described.
00:09:01
Speaker 3: So they could be life threatening.
00:09:03
Speaker 2: And certainly we will be keeping our eye on that number because that's a big concern as folks. Just when you see the video, when you see the images of that plane, you can understand why there were so many injuries.
00:09:16
Speaker 1: First and foremost, my life injury human beings, that's the most important part. But there is another part of this story. We were already expecting, excuse me, we were already seeing chaos at the nation's airports. We were expecting the potential for it to get even worse today because yes, ICE agents are supposed to start showing up, supposed to help, but ropes. A lot of people will tell you that is going to add to the chaos at the airports. And now you have one of the biggest airport's, most important airports in the country shut down. What to expect today for air travel? What to expect if you have anything to do with LaGuardia today. Stay here. Oh yeah, and by the way, we have weather in the northeast. Welcome back here, everybody. We just talked about it. We were just about to come back on and tell you about what LaGuardia might look like today, what air tribal will look like. And look up and see a map with all kinds of colors on it.
00:10:20
Speaker 2: Oh yes, when you have massive weather, when you see yellow, orange and red on the radar, you know that means some serious storms are now passing through the Northeast now in very dramatic fashion. It looks like so that certainly will add to the airport woes and all of the delays. I cannot even imagine the mess that is going on now. LaGuardia Airport full ground stop, completely shut down until at least two pm Eastern time, and they made that very clear. That is the earliest LaGuardia Airport could open today, which means it could be closed for god knows how long.
00:10:56
Speaker 1: Roads. I cannot believe this is happening.
00:11:00
Speaker 2: Yes, And you know what was really eye opening when I woke up this morning and started looking at so many airport stories, even just adjacent stories. It wasn't even about the actual incident that happened at LaGuardia. Do you know that several major airports. I'm sure you do because you have been reading up as well. Atlanta New York airports, they've stopped giving wait times.
00:11:22
Speaker 3: They just it's too much with the staffing shortage.
00:11:24
Speaker 2: Just so now where they were giving us, you know, a two hour line in as much as it was difficult to see how long the lines were, at least you had an idea of what you were facing. Now they've just kind of thrown their hands up and said they're so bad, we can't even tell you.
00:11:39
Speaker 3: It's just they just they.
00:11:40
Speaker 2: Put na like not applicable because they can't estimate.
00:11:45
Speaker 1: No, there's a lot of details. There's a lot to get into with this story about those shutdown what's happening in Congress, the pay of the TSA agents, the call out rates. But that fact robes I think sums in airports aren't even telling you anymore how long the TSA wait time is. They just Atlanta has it up on their website. It says, arrive four hours ahead of time. We don't have an exact but just get here four hours ahead of time. That's the mess. That's the chaos, self inflicted. We are doing the excuse me, you can say, Congress, but this is unnecessary and so now robes Unfortunately, now, when an incident happens, this piles on. This is going to mess up people's weeks.
00:12:34
Speaker 2: I'm trying to get my head around what today is going to be like. I feel for anyone who's traveling, anyone who's working at an airport for free essentially, and even look, just from a New York local standpoint, all of the roads and exits around LaGuardia are shut down. This is all because of the investigation that's going on right now. So the traffic in this area is going to be at a complete standstill. Because when you shut down roadways leading to a major airport at one of the biggest cities in the world, Yeah, this is going to be a heck of a travel day. And again, and you even hate to say this, because two people lost their lives. Some people may be fighting for their lives in the hospital right now, and obviously that's the most important part of the story and certainly the biggest tragedy. But I'm wondering if this catastrophic event could possibly be the straw that breaks the camel's back, that sends lawmakers to realize when we have a day like we're about to have today at the nation's airports, that finally, finally, they'll feel pressure to do something. If in any way this accident is a result of staffing shortages or issues, I can only imagine that this will be the moment that things have to change.
00:13:55
Speaker 1: We are recording this again, the breaking news, and it's still a lot of people haven't woken up, including a lot of lawmakers. How soon before they start blaming each other for these deaths, how soon before they start saying, see the shutdown, you're putting people in danger. Now they're going to try to use this to blame each other and put more pressure on each other. The fact of the matter is there's not a single passenger today anybody traveling anywhere, who doesn't understand. No matter how frustrated you are about what this incident is going to cause for your travel today, you get it. There are two families hurting because they lost somebody, and there are other families hurting because they got people in the hospital. First and foremost, What we are saying, Robes is that this situation now is made or or has made the travel situation worse because of what Congress has done. Correct, we would not we are on the edge, babe. Whether if there's another what was the was it Denver power outage?
00:14:50
Speaker 2: Oh?
00:14:51
Speaker 1: Yes, Like these little things do happen.
00:14:53
Speaker 3: And weather happens.
00:14:54
Speaker 1: It had good point, and it's happening today. So what you have today, ice agents coming too the airport, You have a deadly collision, and you have a weather in the northeast. A couple one thing doesn't have to happen. We don't have to have a shortage of TSA officers right.
00:15:10
Speaker 3: Now, exactly.
00:15:11
Speaker 2: We don't have to have that exactly, And we don't have to have ice agents in our nation's airports and look as divisive and like I mean, obviously obviously the president knows they're divisive. Obviously we know what's happened when ice is sent into major cities.
00:15:26
Speaker 3: It causes clashes. People are upset, People have a visceral emotional.
00:15:31
Speaker 2: Reaction now at this point when they see an ice ation. So add that to all the stress of the airport. I'm just I'm hoping, I'm hoping that this might create movement, This might create the pressure if they hadn't already felt it, which is remarkable to me. But perhaps this could be the moment where actually something changes.
00:15:54
Speaker 1: I'm sorry, your boys got it soft and you look like you were being sincere, and then I was about to say something to you, is gonna piss you off? What that It took two people dying maybe to move them. That's not problem, and that's the thing. And just the heads up here, Robes. You know, we keep an eye on flight aware a lot lately, but right now Laguardier Airport fifty percent flights canceled. That will get words, but two hundred and seventy three cancelations. That's the most of any airport being tracked in the world right now. But half of the flights that we're supposed to be going out of LaGuardia have been canceled. In the sun ain't even up robes, Oh.
00:16:32
Speaker 2: My goodness, And yes, the day has just begun. We don't know when LaGuardia is going to reopen. Of course, we will stay on top of this developing story that affects frankly the entire country at this point. But without everyone, we always appreciate you listening to us. I'm Amy Robock alongside TJ. Holmes. We'll have morning run up for you here in just a bit, so we hope you have a wonderful day until then,