Live from NPR News in Washington, I'm Corva Coleman.
There has been a deadly crash at one of New York's major airports, LaGuardia.
A regional jet operated by Air Canada hit a fire truck upon landing late last night.
The nose of the jet has been ripped off and the pilot and the co-pilot have been killed.
The fire truck was apparently going to investigate an odor in a different jet at the airport when the crash happened.
Catherine Garcia is the executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey.
She says the National Transportation Safety Board is leading the investigation.
It is anticipated that the airport will be closed at least until 2 p.m. This afternoon to facilitate the investigation
by NTSB, which has already begun to be on site.
She also says 41 people were taken to the hospital.
Most of them have been released, but of those who are still hospitalized, some people are seriously injured.
The partial shutdown of the Department of Homeland Security is beginning its fifth week.
Americans are feeling the strain at airports.
Transportation Security Administration workers are going without pay.
Starting today, President Trump says he'll deploy federal immigration agents to airports to help TSA checkpoints.
NPR's Luke Garrett says Trump has put his border czar, Tom Homan, in charge.
Homan said, you know, he was still working with TSA and ICE to finalize a deployment plan.
Homan called the operation a, quote, work in progress.
But he did give some parameters on the tasks ICE will and won't be doing.
Homan said he expects ICE agents to guard exits and entry points at the nation's busiest airports.