it's a boy. >> so what you're seeing right now are live pictures of the plane there still on the runway or near the runway area where it skidded off, slid off, if you will. some people said spun off of the actual run way. and just to mention, this mother of the 4-year-old talked about five members of her family in the hospital. her son, 4 years old with a broken leg. amazing story of how she simply walked off the plane through a massive hole, she was able to take her son out safely and she also talked about the fact that they had come here hoping to have a usa vacation, her 4-year-old very excited about seeing the usa. and this is at this point how it's ended. >> hopefully it won't end here. i got chills here listening to her be so calm. walking what i'm assuming is out

the hole that it left when the tail fell off. what a story, sara. thank you so much for bringing that to us. the rest of you will be seeing a lot of sara this afternoon. right now we want to thank you for watching. i'm candy crowley in washington. if you missed any part of today's show, you can buy it on itunes. stay with cnn for continuing coverage of the flight 214 crash. newsroom with frederica whitfield starts right now. thanks so much. hello, everyone. a look at our top stories. investigators are on the scene in san francisco trying to figure out why a plane crash landed less than 24 hours ago. they already have a couple of big clues. flight recorders from the wreckage. and at least five people are dead and police say many more deaths are expected after an

unmanned train explodes and levels part of a canadian town near the u.s. border. we'll have a live report straight ahead. the george zimmerman murder trial is set to resume tomorrow in sanford, florida. coming up, judge alex ferrer exams the direction he thinks the trial is going. let's start right now in san francisco. investigators are trying to piece together what happened just before noon yesterday west coast time when a plane crashed on the runway. the flight recorders have been recovered. the ntsb tweeted out these photos of the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recovereder. investigators hope that will give the critical clue or two to explain what happened before the plane hit. here's what we know right now. two 16-year-old girls were killed in that crash.

they are chinese nationals. officials say their bodies were found on the runway. all 305 other people on that flight survived, but some remain in critical condition. the faa said this afternoon that some flights destined for san francisco could be delayed up to nine hours. miguel marquez joins us live right now from the airport. so give us the latest on the press conference that is likely to happen and what are passengers doing at the airport right now. >> reporter: there are haveare g lines at the airport. we're starting to get back to normal. the press conference will now be later this afternoon. we expect them to give us an update on the black boxes and the information they are getting from them but exactly where the

investigation is going. 11:34 a.m., passengers report pilot increased begin power seconds before crashing. >> it seemed like we were a little high and we could see the tar plaque down below us. so we were coming down kind of sharp and right when it started to coast, all of a sudden it was like he sped up, like he knew he was short. >> reporter: the plane tail struck the seawall. the engine on the left wing disappeared. the plane whipping sideways across the runway. witnesses report an explosion and large fireball. the fuselage finally came to a stop. the right begengine smoking. >> everybody's head went unto the ceiling and just drifts for

a little bit probably a good 300 yards and tips over. fire starts. everybody's pushing the doors out. >> reporter: from the violence landing, passengers started to emerge. on this video shot by a witness in the terminal, you can see the plane's emergency chutes deployed. in this video from passenger a samsung executive, it shows some people holding on to their bags as they staggered from the plane. his tweet is shocking as the incident itself. i just crash landed at sfo. tail ripped off. everyone seems fine. i'm okay. surreal. witnesses shocked that anyone could survive. >> just pancaked immediately. and then just kept sliding and sliding and sliding. it finally stopped and you could see how the fuselage kept buckling. surprised it didn't come apart all together. and it was unreal. >> reporter: helicopter pictures show the trail of destruction.

impact on the stone embankment, one set of plan beilanding gear plane stabilizers, the tip of the tail, debris littering the runway. officials say there was no sign of trouble before the plane crashed. . the weather ideal, a clear day. all traffic using visual flight rules to land. pilots say landing at san francisco international can be tricky. this shows the final approach. the runway starting at the water's edge. two things they're looking at are the engines. asiana airlines saying both were in fine working order, but passengers did say they felt them add power to them just before that impact. also that left engine seems to have disappeared. and the instrument landing system here at sfo was out of

operation for that run way. it had been out of operation for some time. the question is did the pilot know it, was he looking at something else, did any of that play into this terrible accident. >> all pertinent questions. thanks so much miguel. well, thanks to social media, it didn't take long for pictures as you saw of the crash to appear online. they give us a look at exactly prapd as the plane skidded to the stop. david describes moments just after he escaped when it appeared that everyone had survived in his view. >> we just crash landed my flight from seoul to sfo. the plane hit the run way really hard on the landing and we skidded to the side. i thought we were going to flip over. every seems to be okay.

a little shaken up. i think i'm okay. as much as i fly, you don't think about this kind of stuff happening. anyway, everyone seems to be okay but shaken up. wow. >> he wasn't the only one who walked away thinking everyone survived. as we mentioned, the flight data recorders from asiana flight 214 have now arrived in washington. they will be examined by the ntsb. in the meantime, the go team is on the ground at the airport in san francisco. they have been there since early this morning. south korean investigators and officials from asiana airlines and boeing are also expected at the airport. the ntsb chief says aside from terrorism as a cause, everything is on the table. rene marsh is joining us. what is the procedure now that

the flight data voice recorders and the go team is on the ground? >> they have had the flight recorders i would say for roughly about four hours now. so right now they're downloading the data from the flight recorders. and those are actually located in the back of the plane, the back area around the tail. so we have some video of the flight recorders, the ones shipped over from san francisco right there in the lab. so once again, you can see a little bit of soot on them. but the process of trying to figure out exactly went what went on moments before the crash landing, they can provide a lot of information. we're talking about the data recording that holds information like altitude, speed, position, cockpit voice recorder is capable of picking up back

ground and warning signals that may have gone off. >> how long does it take to sift through those recorders to get some kind of information in which to piece together some sort of idea of what happened? >> perhaps the ntsb say at the least by this afternoon we should get a preliminary readout of the information nor that they were able to pull off of the flight recorders. so we're not sure exactly what time that information would be available. i was told that likely that information would be shared with us here, the media who wants to know a little bit more. but again, it seems like it is a

relatively quick process. >> and of course as part of the investigation, investigators want to know more about the four pilots assigned to the flight especially the one who may have been inle control. have you gotten any information as to what kind of questions they would be asking them or what they may have lermed about them thus far? >> human performance is another critical part of the investigation. as you said, the four pilots who were on board, they will ask them a number of questions. we had chairman of the ntsb on our air, she said in the upcan comi upcoming days they will ask the pilots lots of questions but first they want to make sure their well well-being is good. this is what they will want to know, about their training. were there any issues possibility with fatigue. we're talking about a more than ten hour international flight here. they want to make sure everyone

got a good night's rest the night before. blood and alcohol tests will be done on the pilots and flight crew. and not only will they be looking at the people who were on board, but also the mechanics. was the plane working. how was the equipment. all of that very critical in trying to get that full picture of what caused this plane to come down in that crash landing. >> rene, thank you so much. all right. now overseas. venezuela says its door is open to edward snowe. but the country has not heard from him as yet. they offered asylum on friday, but the foreign affairs minister said it hasn't had any communication with snowden. bolivia also has offered snowden asylum and nicaragua's president says it's willing to offer it, as well, if circumstances permit. could be another long intense night in egypt where people are already gathering in

several parts of cairo. supporters of the deposed president are demanding his reinstatement and some have vowed for die for their cause. opponents of the muslim brotherhood are also planning to protest. egypt's military is stepping up security ahead of the demonstrations. all right. andy murray took today's men's wimbledon championship. he beat former champion novak djokovic in straight sets. murray is now the first british player to win wimbledon since 1936. now for a check of the weather, let's talk about san francisco. the place of that crash yesterday where it was clear skies. everyone says optimal conditions for a landing. now what are the conditions as the investigators try to piece everything together there? >> we do have mostly sunny skies. pretty much the same kind of day that we did see yesterday with

visibility greater than ten miles. temperature typically like san francisco in the low 60s. they get a little bit of the sea breeze cooling things off. over the next several days, the temperatures expected to remain mostly in the low 70s. by tuesday, we're looking at slightly cooler temperatures and only about a 10% likelihood of rainfall. so they can what they need to do with the investigation. and high pressure still dominating the eastern seaboard, but we have the rain train that raises up into the ohio river valley. but it looks like that is tapering off at least just a little bit. our flash flood watches and warnings have lessoned. we're seeing much more coverage over the last several days. but look right here right across the appalachians, that's where we think the potential for flash flooding still remains. there is a flood watch in effect for those regions. and the pan ham of florida, some areas since last tuesday

particularly in the beach, they reported almost 22 inches of rain since last tuesday. right now in new york, it is a scissorsly 91 degrees. boston, 89. but the temperatures in the 90s the last few days are under heat advisories. but you'll start to see a little bit of a cooldown. in new york city, from the 90s to temperatures mostly in the 80s. atlanta goes from relatively cool for this time of year to temperatures shooting up into the mid to upper 80s in the next >> sounds nice. appreciate it. investigators have already recovered flight recorders on the fran-bound airliner. i'll ask the former inspector general at the d.o.t. what those recorders might reveal about the potential cause. and more on edward snowden stuck in russia. he has new options if asylum, which ones will he take up, that's straight ahead.

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a day after the crash, still lots of unanswered questions. right now the fire chief is talking. let's listen in. >> i'm not sure the makeup of the passengers who are hurt. >> do you have any idea of how soon the plane caught fire after the crash landing? people on board said the fire didn't start until most of the passengers were off. >> i don't know. in fact we were so busy yesterday i didn't see any of the video. there is a lot of video, so i'd rather not comment because i don't know for sure. i know we received the call and we got there within three minutes. and at that point, there were flames coming off the plane and that's when we initiated our

piercing nozzles to apply foam and water to the plane. we did have firefighters that went on to the plane. [ inaudible question ] not sure because the investigation will determine that -- >> you're listening to the fire chief there answering a variety of questions. she talked about how she has visited a number of the victims in the hospital, as well, and the comforts that the hospital is trying to extend to a number of the victims from that flight 214. so we're just over 24 hours since that plane crash landed. making its way from south korea, seoul, to san francisco. remarkably two died, 16-year-olds, but the majority

of the 300 or so on board were able to walk off the plane. but now the investigation is turning to the why did it happen and how did it happen about to help piece through the investigative process, former inspector general of the u.s. department of transportation joining us from charleston, south carolina. good to see you, mary. we they that tknow the flight d voice recorders have been recovered. they have been septembnt to washington, d.c.. we understand this could be as early as this afternoon when they have information. information like what? >> just a vast amount of data. 777 has one of most advanced recorders that there is. it records everything from engine setting, altitudes, flap settings, any kind of

instrumentation on that feed or most has a feed into the frigli data recorder. they can computer read it and it prints out and they can analyze it very quickly. and the second is the voice recorder and it records every sound in the cockpit. for example if they were doing an altitude call out or any kind of information like that. they will also not know right away if crew resource management was being applied meaning if the pilot not flying was challenging the pilot flying saying we're low, are we too fast, should we do a go around. and i'll bet by tonight or tomorrow and the ntsb is good about briefings because they have to by law, i bet they will have some pretty good preliminary information, they might even have the clues to the whole thing already. >> wow. that's remarkable. and what a change over so many years. sometimes it would days, weeks,

months or years before there a pinpoint on the cause and you think as early as this evening we could have a little bit more information. what's different these days? is it simply the technology, the retrieval process, is it the protection of the boxes compared to many years ago? >> well, they have always been fairly well protected. everybody remembers the four planes on 9/11, only the one in shanksville is the only data recorder survived. but they can withstand so much. and here the tail where the boxes are located, that didn't burn. but what's really good is how many things they record. in the olden days, maybe the altitude, whether the engines were running, certain pressure instrument gauge readouts. but now with the recording of 250 and up items of data, they have tremendous amount of

information and so that's why they spend millions of dollars finding them even when on the p bottom of the ocean. they can read it very quickly. >> mary, thank you so much for joining us from south carolina. appreciate your time. after a wave of rejection, edward snowden gets some offers of asylum. the nsa leaker somewhere within the moscow airport still. would he we'll go live to wvenezuela. the ones getting involved and staying engaged. they're not afraid to question the path they're on. because the one question they never want to ask is "how did i end up here?" i started schwab for those people. people who want to take ownership of their investments,

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the man behind the leaks, the nsa leaks, edward snowden, has a big choice to make. since friday, he has received offers, but venezuela said just yesterday that it hasn't actually heard from snowden. matthew chance joins us live from caracas. so snowden hasn't responded to any of these offers? >> reporter: i think eye more than that the foreign minister hasn't been in direct contact yet or the ambassador has not yet been in contact with snowden. he's still believed to be hold up in moscow airport. they will talk to him perhaps on honest. so i'm not reading in more into

it than that. but certain the offer is there. the president saying they'reman on they can live away from the imperial north american persecution. so rhetorical offer given by the long standing critics of u.s. policy. >> matthew chance, thank you. also straight ahead, the against steps into the spotlight in the george zimmerman trial. we'll have a preview of tomorrow's testimony. and in egypt, the military takes control of the government, but violence still rules the streets. a live update from cairo next. we are all reflections of the people who came before us. the good they did inspires us, prepares us and guides us.

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a disaster like flight 214 really puts to the test first responders, doctors, passengers and crew. all showed remarkable resilience after that crash landing. cnn exams a difficult day at sfo. >> reporter: harrowing accounts after a crash landing at san francisco international airport. >> the moment there was a bang and we knew something has gone wrong. >> i thought maybe we would go back up and start flying again. but we went back down again.

so it felt like slow motion. >> the engine was like you sped up. >> instead of a routine landing, an impact that resulted in smoke, flames and alarming hole in the fuselage. the boeing 777 reached the end of a 10 hour flight from seoul sat with 291 passengers and 16 crew members on board. all have been accounted for. >> it is very lucky we have so many survivor, but still many are critically injured. >> reporter: nine bay area hospitals treated 182 passengers and crew. by saturday evening, many were headed home. but still others remained being treated for burns, bruises and

fractures. >> some of them are? in shock, some are tearful, overall i think it's amazing how well most of the patients are coping.overall i think it's amaw well most of the patients are coping. a look at other stories we're following. 650,000 defense workers are getting a day off work next week whether they like it or not. furloughs begin tomorrow with military employees taking one day off unpaid each week through september 21. that means a 20% pay cut in their paychecks. the furloughs are a result much the $85 billion in federal spending cuts that kicked in march 1st. an art collector and his chef wife are getting a divorce. the former tycoon says he is seeking the breakup. it comes after photos were published of him with his hands

around her throat at a london restaurant last month. andy murray took today's men's wimbledon championship. he beat novak djokovic in straight sets. murray is the first british player to win women bell did not since 1936. now to the deadly train crash in a canadian town near the u.s. border. at least five people are now dead and at least 40 missing. after an unmanned train rolled seven miles down a hill exploded and leveled part of a small town in quebec. more deaths are expected. jason carroll is covering the story from new york. so quebec authorities just held a press conference. what more is be learned about the crash and the missing? >> the situation is looking more and more grim. emergency officials say they are expecting more deaths it be reported as they continue their investigation and sweep of the town. the devastation unfolding early

saturday morning, that's when a train which was pulling more than 70 tankers of crude oil slipped down here, derailed and crashed into the town in quebec. at least 30 buildings were engulfed in flames. authorities evacuated more 2,000 people. two trains are still burning. one emergency responder talked about the gruesome discovery made. >> they have found five bodies inside of the rooms that you can see behind me. right now we're not even on the scene and we only have a portion of the screene that we can go inside. >> my home is destroyed, and i have no family and friends here and it was my birthday. so i lost everything. so it's hard. no have nobody here. >> some of the town are calling

it the deadly run away train after montreal, maine and atlantic railway confirmed the train was locked down by the engineer. the engineer then left for a crew change and then according to the company, the train skidded into town unmanned. the company released a statement saying we extend heartfelt condolences to the recent departments who have lost their homes and businesses and particularly those who have suffered injuries and lost loved ones. they will cooperate with the government agencies to determine the cause. they estimate 40 people are reported missing. there is some concern that some of the missing may be those in a bar located not far from the explosion. many of those people may not be accounted for. >> tragic. all right. thank you so much, jason carroll. overseas, egypt's military is bracing for what may be another chaotic night in cairo.

while authorities debate who should fill the role of prime minister, the muslim brotherhood remains furious over their fall from power. karl, is there any sign that these protests are dying down somewhat is the latest? >> reporter: i'll bring you up-to-date. a couple of scenarios developing across cairo now that night has fallen. i'll step out of the way and show you the scene right now in tahrir square. these are opponents of the deposed president morsi. and they are gathering in the tens of thousands and still arriving right now. from time to time we see an overflight by military helicopters. we've seen apache helicopters flying over. we've seen small fighter jets flying over, pumping out smoke. that's an effort by the military

to show that they're very much on this crowd's side and that's a fact not lost on these people. they very much believe it was thanks to the military that they were able to push morsi out of power during the week. they certainly reject the term military coup. the crowd down here very much believe that the military simply stepped into politics to back the will of the people. now, across the other side of town right now, supporters of the deposed president are also meeting. we haven't got eyes on the ground there so i can't tell you how big they are, but we understand there are also tens of thousands across there, as well. and what they are calling for is that mr. morsi be released from arrest and be reinstated to power. but certainly no sign that the armed forces will back down on that one. but what is playing out tonight is a show of numbers.

opponents of mr. morsi here in tahrir square think it's important to put boots on the ground. they're calling for consolidation of power because we have an interim president, but wrangling still going over on what who the new prime minister will be. and supporters also commanding th their president get put back into power. >> thank you very much, karl penhaul. more on the san francisco plane crash straight ahead. how hospitals respond to the range of injuries caused by such a devastating crash. to school, you deserve more than just flexibility and convenience.

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the plane actually picked up, its tail came up into the air. the nose was oriented go eed do towards the ground and it was not all the way down.

and then i could see the tail was in the air. i could see that the tail just completely came off. >> doctors spend their lives train to go respond to a tragedy like we witnessed yesterday. at san francisco general hospital, they were ready when the victims started to flood in. elizabeth cohen looks at the kind of injuries they had to treat. >> area hospitals are seeing a wide range of injuries, everything from the minor to the really severe. let's take a look at them about so they have been seeing cuts and bruises, broken bone, spinal fractures, burns and internal bleeding. in situations like this, there are certain kinds of injuries that doctors worry the most about. for example, head injuries. trauma to the brain can cause bleeding inside the skull. the brain doesn't have any room. that's immediately life threatening. another kindf injury and another one that you can't really see is internal bleeding

in the abdomen. that also can be immediately life threatening if doctors or paramedics see that someone is in great abdominal pain, that may be a sign that they need surgery and they need it very quickly. we don't know much about the burn victims. we do know some passengers were seen coming out of the water, so perhaps they felt the heat or perhaps smelled chemicals and they went to the water to douse themselves. >> thanks so much, elizabeth. on to the george zimmerman trial. it's being analyzed from just about every angle including the judge's performance. she is getting both praise and criticism for the way she's running her courtroom. i'll ask judge alec for his thoughts on the trial straight ahead. out there owning it. the ones getting involved and staying engaged. they're not afraid to question the path they're on.

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in sanford, florida. and that's when the defense will continue its side of the case. it started friday by calling zimmerman's mother to the that trayvon martin's mother,sa drin na fulton said about her son and her version of the recording as one of the prosecution's final witnesses. i'm joined now by judge alex ferrer, host of "judge alex" and former circuit court judge in florida. the defense began with a big witness. how does the defense keep that momentum up this week? >> i think one of the things we are going to see, another medical examiner not quite as scattered as the one that the prosecution called. vincent de mayo that the state relied upon for some of his opinions and well-known firearms expert as well as forensic

pathologist, will testifies for the defense and will help the defense with the firearm distance and trajectory and testify about why it is you don't have injuries on trayvon's knuckles that are consistent with having pounded, as the defense claims, george zimmerman. i think what we're going to hear from him, once you are killed, once your heart stop, the blood is no longer pumping. when you get a bruise, you will hit something and hours later, all of a sudden the bruise will surface because of the blood that's continually pumped to the area. when the heart is not pumping, that does not continue to happen. you will hear some testimony that answers some questions in favor of the defense that are still lingering out there. >> hmm. what's your interpretation of how the state presented it's case? do you believe the state presented and has painted a rock solid picture that george zimmerman should be found guilty of second degree murder or do you think there have been some real holes? >> oh, no. i think there are a lot of holes

in second degree murder. they have a shot at manslaughter. 2nd degree hearder requires hatred and spite and ill will that resulted in the death. we don't see that link. we see utterings in the car so removed they don't have a legal case of second degree murder. let's face it, a jury can do whatever it wants and we saw that in the casey anthony case what we thought it wouldn't do and they could and see whether it survives on appeal. in florida, an unnecessary killing is manslaughter. if the jury finds george zimmerman was not acting in self-defense or exceeded the limit of the defense -- the actions he could have taken, in other words, he didn't need to kill trayvon or at least it wasn't reasonable for him to believe that he needed to kill trayvon, then they will reject

his self-defense and in doing that they will probably find him guilty of manslaughter which will be almost as bad as second degree murder for george zimmerman. >> as we evaluate interpretation, not necessarily forensic evidence, when you talk about the mothers who testified, the prosecution may have felt like it had a feather in it's cap when sybrina fulton took to the stand and said it was her son, trayvon martin calling for help only to be outstrat guides by the defense who called as one of it's first witnesses, the family, the mother and the uncle to say, no, that's george who's on the tape. do you believe that was strategy that perhaps in the end could be quite brilliant because it ov overshadows the defense's first witness, what was pretty profound witness testimony from the prosecution's last witness on friday?

>> yes. it was good strategy for the defense. it was interrupted by george zimmerman's mother and the uncle. i believe each side probably believes it's their son. i believe with o'mara on that. i believe each mother wants to believe it's not their son responsible for this death regardless who it is on that tape and i doubt either one has heard that kind of screaming from their kids. >> thank you, judge alex. it will be another potential riveting week of testimony in the george zimmerman trial. thank you for your time. another investigation and high profile and getting a lot of people's attention, that one involving the new england patriots football team. now, the team are giving fans a chance to turn in their aaron hernandez jerseys. people lined up.

they exchanged more than a thousand jerseys and doing it again today. hernandez was cut from the team after he was charged with murder last month. investigators in the case are now talking with a man who was also arrested, his name, carlos ortiz. national correspondent, susan candiotti bring us up to date on this investigation. >> reporter: as potentially incriminating evidence mounts against former new england patriot aaron hernandez, more questions arise about a man who may be playing a key role in the investigation. not much is known about carlos ortiz. what we know is intriguing. the district attorney identifies ortiz and ernest wallace as the two men in a car with accused murderer aaron hernandez the night odin lloyd was gunned down execution style. >> there was a conversation that occurred in a car, he gets into an argument with the victim. >> reporter: how might

investigators know about what went on in the car? a law enforcement source tells cnn ortiz is cooperating with authorities but won't go further. >> you need an eyewitness really or an ear witness who can outline what the conversations consisted of and why the murder was committed. if ortiz is a cooperating witness, that's a big big break for prosecutors. >> reporter: ortiz for now faces only an illegal weapons charge for allegedly telling police he was carrying a gun the day lloyd was murdered. ortiz pleaded not guilty to the gun charge. his attorney declined comment to cnn. wallace will be charged with accessory to murder after the fact. according to a softwarearch war ortiz told police the day after lloyd's murder, he and hernandez drove to this two bedroom apartment, police call it a flophouse. documents show the football player leased it almost 20 miles from his luxury home. no explanation why. neighbors says she barely saw

the famous renter. >> no suspicious activity, no girls, nothing other than typical guy stuff, a little bit loud. a little bit of cigarette smoke, a little bit of maybe pot but nothing that you wouldn't expect from a bunch of guys. >> reporter: according to search records obtained by cnn, police seized a white colored hooded sweatshirt and says it matches the one hernandez was wearing in surveillance video the night of the murder. hernandez has pleaded not guilty. >> i think a lot of people will be very surprised such a remarkably successful athlete was possibly leading a secret second life involving his friends. >> reporter: hernandez's troubles don't end there. in nearby boston, police are examining an suv registered to the former tight end, discovered last week. sources say that suv might be involved in an unsolved dry by double murder last summer.

lloyd's murder investigation is now moving to the grand jury stage. cnn has learned a grand jury is already calling some witness, some scheduled to appear within the next two weeks. fred. >> thanks so much, susan candiotti. appreciate that. one of the witnesses who will testify before the grand jury says hernandez shot him in a separate incident earlier this year. alexander bradley is suing hernandez over the allegations and he has been called to testify on july 17th. the "newsroom" continues at the top of the hour. we'll hear more dramatic stories and accounts coming to us from san francisco. passengers who were on board that boeing 777 are still talking about their ordeal. and they can't get away from those memories. right after this.

hello, i'm fredericka whitfield. a look at our top stories. investigators are on the scene in san francisco trying to figure out why a plane crashed less than 24 hours ago. they have a few big clues. the flight recorders. next. stunning moments after the crash. how they crawled out of the plane to safety think