ANNOUNCER: This is CNN breaking news.</s>JAKE TAPPER, CNN ANCHOR: We will return to our lead story in just a moment. But first, we have some other late breaking news just minutes ago. An American Airlines plane caught on fire and had to abort its takeoff at Chicago's O'Hare airport. The FAA tweeted that the runway there is now shut down. Emergency vehicles are surrounding the airplane. Let' get right to Ryan Young. Ryan, what else do we know right now?</s>RYAN YOUNG, CNN CORRESPONDENT (via telephone): Well, Jake, this is breaking news. And we are following this right now. An FAA statement does confirm that American Air Flight 383 that was from ORD to Miami blew a tire on takeoff. They aborted that flight and we were told that they had to deploy the chute for the passengers to get off. We do have an image of some of the smoke that was in the area. We heard several calls of people trying to figure what happened on the airlines. And then we found out that people were able to get off the plane safely. But that is flight 383 from ORD to Miami. Of course, O'Hare is the second busiest airport in the country. When we first found out about this, we were trying to confirm the report to make sure everyone was OK. We have learned that most of the passengers were able to deplane and right now trying to figure out exactly what happened on that runway. As you said, it's been shut down, so not sure if there was any objects that that plane may have hit as it was trying to take off and blew the tire -- Jake.</s>TAPPER: All right. Ryan Young in Chicago for us -- thank you so much. We will bring you more information about that plane crash or aborted plane takeoff as we get it. Meanwhile, a former Justice Department official says FBI Director Comey should have kept quiet, that Director Comey's disclosure of new evidence potentially pertinent into the investigation to the Hillary Clinton's private e-mail server was, quote, "inappropriate". I'll ask him to explain, next.
Plane Catches on Fire, Shuts Down O'Hare Runway