it was moving to see officer cunningham on tv really humble. chief we've heard about two significant well - more than significant in terms of police officers going into areas where there's a lot of smoke and gas and so on and is it standard equipment for all police officers to have readily assessable some type of mask for their protection and they have masks like for painting. again ferry that she's lieutenant she found it surprisingly that as they entered the plane they found the over in short sleeve shirt. he just happened too he didn't get it but he got it that day and went on the plane it's a great story. the fire department trains for that. some of our tactical officers have the equipment to work in the suits for what we might find in a mass causality event but we're trained to that. it's just on this particular occasion nobody had a chance to get it so the lieutenant and officers went on and said it was their job which again, just like matt said earlier it's refreshing they think it's all in a day's work >> yeah. i of the reminded actuall

then i looked down and i see officer cunningham at the back of the plane pulling passengers out and he was by himself. he was with some firefighters but he was by himself. and we're always trained that you never go in anywhere by yourself. you jump a fence, you jump with your partner. you climb a ladder, you climb. he went into the airplane and he was by himself. i need to follow and make sure that he's safe. so i ran and i met him in there and he told me there's people trapped inside the airplane. >> i think i speak for a lot of people in the community that are so thankful, especially people on the plane. ben, i thought we developed a little bond here. we talked for some long and you were so grateful, from the hospital. you in a way for a first responder because you told me you were helping people out tf plane because you were able to. >> i was sitting on the seat 30 k which is by the door, back of the plane, first row. and you know, no one was calling for evacuation, so i just, you know i realized -- i thought i had broken ribs, i opened up the door of the plane, the first thing i sa

san francisco police officer jim cunningham was one of the first on scene. >> i saw the tail was gone on the plane and there was bodies on the ground near the back of the plane -- >> reporter: there were bodies on the ground? >> injured people. >> reporter: cunningham climbed through a hole in the tail section. >> you couldn't recognize it as a plane inside, a regular plane. everything was torn apart like a tornado went through there. >> reporter: it was destroyed? >> destroyed inside the rubble. >> reporter: in the middle of the rubble you have people who are trapped? >> yes, they here in their seats because they have back injuries. >> reporter: passenger eugene rah was in seat 3-k in the front of the plane. >> as soon as the plane stopped there was a moment of silence. no one said anything. no one screamed. no one cried for just a few seconds before people cried again. and i looked around, everyone was seated. i don't see any serious injury in the front part of the aircraft. >> reporter: when did you know that it was much worse than that? >> when i got out of the plane. people were

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very briefly i came this evening to shake the hand of jim cunningham. he's an "x" particular police. he beat the fire department out there and i read the valuable critic by ms. kingsley how he showed up with no guarantor whatsoever. this is the second time we've had this happen a police doing emphasis job were. when i saw he, he didn't have what 007 had under water a breathing tube. but briefly looking at all of this is that i lived in the terryville district for four and a half years and when the commander gave his talk i was looking for the number of shipwrecks that showed up on the ocean beach and was probably a shipwreck every other month that showed up on the beach with life preservers that came from the sea of japan. so this kids got a lot of history from across the piefk. very briefly i'd like to say that i think if you look at this district and in terms of one minor city it's beggar than a lot of the cities on the peninsula in terms of people so i have a to say that the police department handling this district is a job in itself but it probably

. >> also on board, san francisco police officer jim cunningham who with entered without any protech have gear. >> i didn't think about it. i just knew those -- protective gear. >> i didn't think about it. >> reporter: keep in mind, of the 317 people on box 123 were able to walk away from this wreckage. 225 emergency first responders reacted to the call. some same on their days off. allen, they came from not only the airport but also san francisco and san mateo county. >> ann, we also heard officer cunningham went back into the plane when it was on fire? >> reporter: yes. remember, he is the officer who did not have any protective fear on him. he said he heard there were 50 people still missing. he said his heart dropped so he went back inside. he was coughing. it was very thick in smoke. he said at one point he almost started crying because he thought maybe these people had been killed because of a mistake they made. he said they did get everybody out. that was a mistake. >> ann, thank you. >>> ntsb investigators are working to zero in on the cause of the disaster. a major focus is

officer cunningham says he is not a hero. his boss disagrees. >> he is a hero! >> reporter: cunningham also gathered up two iphone on the plane to help contact worried family members of passengers aboard the flight. live at san francisco international airport, david stevenson. >>> of the nearly 200 people taken to bay area hospitals after the crash, 27 remain hospitalized tonight. san francisco general received 62 patients. 17 are still there. 6 remain in critical condition including one child. 55 other injured patients were sent to stanford. 10 are still there and one is in critical condition. the children have been release. >>> we spoke to the coroner today. he expects it will be two to three weeks before he can confirm how the victims died. the 16 year olds are identified as wang linjia. one of them may have survived the initial crash and was killed when hit by an emergency vehicle rushing to the scene. fire officials say the commander and fire chief were made aware of the possibility immediately. >> as you can imagine, it is a dynamic environment dealing wit

officer cunningham says officer cunningham says one some people were unaccounted for he panicked.ople missing my heart just dropped. i thought that i had made a mistake. i look to the rumble and by dan was hurting in the middle and the all-star crime is a focus group up and people were killed. later on we found out that it was just miscommunication. cunningham was just one of many that were out helping and had gone on beyond the call of duty that day. not worry about themselves and help everyone as well as they could. there were two distinct comments. >> reporter: there are two distinct commons. >> pam: specifically 17 flight victims are still less emphasis of general hospital suffering from various injuries. >> reporter: jerez and this is the general hospital bed in there remain here and being treated for their injuries. being treated for various injuries consisting of spinal and domino issues and internal bleeding and brain injuries. >> most of them are getting better and two of them are in serious condition the remaining patients of lifted drawn from ottawa good from fare some

watch yourself. >> cunningham. >> he ran down cunningham. >> heard gunshots. >> were they in a car?here. >> you got hit in the back. >> merna finds a victim on the curb with minor gunshot wounds. it looks like the man was an innocent bystander. >> that guy that got hit's not the guy. >> him and the victim were standing with their backs turned to that fence. the guys peek around the corner. one of them yells out, hey, richard pryor, and they let a couple rounds go. >> who the hell's richard pryor? >> because he looks like richard pryor. >> i don't know who that is. >> are you nervous about tonight? you're speed dating? >> yeah, it's funny. i can do like the stuff at work and run around and chase bad guys, then put me in a situation like that and i'm totally freaked out. >> oh, yeah, because you're not in control. >> i'll get all flustered. won't be pretty. >> only to be a fly on the wall. >> what if they're really good looking and they don't think i'm -- >> so? that's the thing with speed dating, you're not really stuck. >> next. >> waiting out 30 seconds and you got another date. ye

the weather channel's kim cunningham has more for us. >> reporter: a deluge of rain caused major flooding and widespread power outages in north carolina this weekend. as much as 8 to 10 inches of rain fell in western parts of the state in 12 hours. officials declared a state of emergency and closed 50 to 60 roads in catawba county. at least six will stay closed for three months. the heavy rain was also blamed for the death of a 10-year-old girl and disappearance of a 48-year-old man who were swept away while swimming in a creek 100 miles north of charlotte. >> we're just trying to bring closure and help those folks be able to find their loved once. >> reporter: heavy rain and record winds of up to 89 miles an hour hit new mexico and southern parts of utah n the years i've lived here i've never seen that amount of water. >> just a week after that deadly heat wave, we now have temperatures much cooler than average. a ridge out west and a deep dip in the jetstream in the east. this is allowing cold air from the north to spill out of canada and into the u.s. >> reporter: stanley, idaho, had a

that jim cunningham went in the airplane, the fuselage, without any protective gear at all. these are selfless, heroic acts and it was quite impressive. i was also impressed or found remarkable that usually these folks train where they know coming into it that there's some problem. usually the pilots will say, hey, our landing gear isn't down, we noticed some lights on, on -- in the cockpit and they give a warning to first responders who were located at these major airports. so the firefighters and the rescue know something is going to happen. there was no warning here. in fact, the first warning or indication there was anything wrong was seven seconds before impact. we were talking about that this morning. think how quick that is. i mean, literally that long. and the plane is hitting and you have this disaster unfolding in front of you. so i found that remarkable. i also found remarkable that some of the first responders were handing knives up into the fuselage so that passengers could cut away their seat belts. i think that shows that everything was working the way it shou

officer cunningham joins us. good evening, sir. >> food evening. >> can you tell me, sir. the plane went down or you heard the crash. tell me where exactly were you and what did you do? >> i had just got inside one of the private terminals where the private jets are, and all of a sudden i heard one of the officers out in the airfield call in a code 33, which means clear the air. he said a 777 just went down, and i just couldn't believe it. for a few seconds that something like that happened and i ran outside and saw the smoke and dirt flying through the air. >> what did you do next? did you rush up to the plane? is that what you did, sir? >> i stepped out of the terminal, turned around, saw an ambulance picking up a patient off awe private jet co private . i told him to stop, a plane just went down, we need you right now, and i ran my patrol car, told him follow me. opened up one of the gates going out to the airfield and had him follow me, rushed toward the jet. >> was the plane on fire when you approached it? or not yet? >> you couldn't see flames, but you could see smok

berkin cunningham and the top brass all pretty much felt the same way. winston is a loose canon and churchill wanted to invade normandy and sardinia potter java and north africa and france too all at the same time. roosevelt and marshall wanted only to go to the shores of france and that is another place where churchill got kind of a bum rap in the states. he didn't oppose the second front out of belligerents or stubbornness. he opposed a premature second front on the shores of france and he was right and then everyone realized he was right. if marshall had had his way they would have gone to france in the summer of 1942 and that would have been the end of the american involvement in the european war. they would have been thrown off. so these diary entries of brooke and montgomery, cunningham, harry hopkins, they all give a window onto churchill and the main characters and it was my job and bill manchester again not to cherry-pick. people have said this is a very mixed review of churchill. well he was a very mick's demand. >> one thing that does come acr

officer jim cunningham. my control car and i pulled inside century aircraft terminal, not too far from the crash site. i stepped inside for a second to see what was going on, just to do a welfare check inside the building when i heard officer jeff brown very calmly, i think at the time, say that call for a code 3, 777 down. and i stopped for a second and i was in shock and then i asked where and he said out in the airfield and then i ran outside the building. i saw a tunnel of smoke and dust flying throughout the air. as i turned around, there's an ambulance ucsf having picked up a patient. the windows were rolled up and they stopped their ambulance and i said, stop, we need your help. there's a crash. and then i jumped in my patrol car and said, follow me. and i opened up the security gate next to the signature aircraft and then we're driving towards the safe road where the -- off the runway and i was calling for the dispatch to clear the runway, shut the runway down. don't let anybody go on the runway. i w

their jobs but something i found pretty compelling in the middle of that chaos, police officer jim cunningham found a cell phone he said it had a picture of a mother and daughter. he says he picked it up and kept it for safekeeping. that is the story first responders were sharing. >> communications on the to you qler was alert free, alert free, plane crash. plane crash. >> all you can see is dark smoke going up to the sky. >> it's loud out there. it's quiet. everything was doing what they were trained to do. save lives. >> they knew the drill. something nothing prepared 268 men and women for the challenge they faced. >> saw older people on the ground and they started to yell at us to get on. >> officer cunningham tosd his up to help cut passengers from seat belts and then ran into the smoking plane with no special breathing apparatus. >> they look at someone they're not really screaming but moaning in pain. i couldn't walk from it. >>ment are only now processing what happened. >> motiona summing into play since the accident. it's not who wasn't present that day. >> now, one calls an emotional

. >> reporter: san francisco police officer jim cunningham was inside the terminal and not far from theash site. he jumped into action and gave the pilots a utility knife to cut passengers out of their seat belts. he then went into the burning plane without any protective gear. >> overhead luggage compartments blocked an exit getting out of there. and i started grabbing pieces of luggage whatever i could do to get myself inside there. >> reporter: once inside, the first responders rescued trapped passengers some unable or too scared to get out. officer cunningham found an i- phone on the ground and pecked it up. >> i guess it clicked on as mother and daughter's picture on the cover you click it on and looked at it and said someone will want this. >> reporter: he found two iphones and returned them both to the airlines thinking there may be a chance they hold the last memories of a loved one. the incident commander for the san francisco police department says his officers were exhausted after working all day saturday but elizabeth, not one single person called in sick on sunday. >> wow a

i opened mine up, i tossed it to him, we released passengers. >> reporter: cunningham didn't let the fact that he didn't have an oxygen mask or jacket keep him from rushing inside the plane. >> i ran inside there and i saw a few passengers. their seats were trapped in there. i got to help these people. >> there were nuch people on board that we were able to tackle multiple passengers at the same time. we able to get them off quickly. >> reporter: smoke began to fill the cabin. >> when you get the real thing you fall back on what you're trained on. and that's what takes over. >> reporter: but there was no training for what they faced today as he stood in front of reporters to tell his story. >> first off i'd like to apologize to you all. i'm very uncomfortable up here. >>> no hesitation from true heroes. now first responders prepare for this type of emergency and they do it often, as do the flight personnel. coming up we're going to take you inside their flight preparations and show you what they do to keep you safe. >>> other major headlines, the opening of the bay bridge has been po

people who helped me obviously the commission and mayor ed lee and the budget director and jason cunningham who was our resource and ben rosen field and, of course, my own staff and carolyn welch and the rest of her staff. i'm going to go over this and stop at any point morgan anybody wants to speak we're to talk about the recivilization. the major changes in last year 4 new positions and one was a civiliantion position it was an analyst that was a sworn police officer that retired. 50 percent of the work ordered came back to the police department for about $4 million and the housing authority was picking up the $7 million we put into public housing. that's a critical piece because we've been able to since 2004 made inroads and crime is down. of those officers the only residential beat officers anywhere in san francisco provided activity back and forth and this overtime allows me to move those officers around even though their 32 of them that gives me color to 50. our revenue budget is going over our work orders sometime the supervisors have questions and the airport is 49 million and mta w

. >> cunningham touched on a global expansion of retail me not.ave plans to grow in south africa and east asia. he would not speak about china wherr groupon famously failed a year or two ago. when i brought up the reservations, cotter cunningham smiled and said retail me not has a lot more in store. we will be watching that, but a solid debut on the market for retail me not. cheryl: that has to given after some confidence. thank you so much for that. this week was a huge week in business as earnings season got into full swing and of course the twinkie made it come back. we have it all covered here on "countdown." >> hostess and twinkie are traditional, iconic and historical brands. >> i want you to do a taste test and take a bite of the new one. >> it is good. >> had not eaten one of these since i was four. >> as long as the fed keeps the money flowing, these banks will do fine for the future. >> the trouble going forward is we don't have credit expansion overall. this is how you expand jobs. >> i am going with carl all the way. you have heard abo

i'd like to thank mayor ed lee, the police commission and the budget analysts jason cunningham and from harvey rose and my staff and acting chef investigator. there are no program changes to the occ budget but the proposed budget is for the two replacement vehicles that are fourteen years old. the budget analyst proposes the cc reduce one vehicle and also that the occ reduce it's vacant deputy director chief investigator position by 23 percent. this would result in a $65,000 savings to the city but would frustrate the occs mission. the mission is four foiled to investigate and make finding on the policeman's conduct in a fair and timely unbiased manner. to make policy released on police policies and practices and to implement it's community outreach strategy plan to reach underserved community that maybe you think familiar with the occ and police serviced. the occ must replace both it's vehicles by 2015 under the city's clean air ordinance. those vehicles are more than 12-year-old and the deadline is july 1st of 2015. the occ has had those vehicles since 19939. they must replace the pos

officer cunningham noticed there were folks at the back of the plane and rushed to the back of the plane entered again what'd through seats they could here the kralg and popping. i was there about an hour after the event and the smell of gas was over powering and lieutenant also entered the plane as well as officer lee and assisting a flight attendant who was attending to a lady and the action of those officers and those of the fire department absolutely saved lives and as tragic as it was it would have been worse if not for the fire department and police department. obviously our prayers got out to the folks in the hospital. today, we met with the ceo at the mayor's office and they are saying that they're going to do whatever they can to get the aircraft back up. the officers are deployed they have their first hearing. this is very therapeutic to talk about this. and when they asked the firefighter about the language problems or assistance in evacuating the plane she said everybody knehe

brave officers i'm looking forward to honoring them >> i think it's important to know that office cunningham noticed cell phones on the seats and he had the presence of mind to scoop i am the cell phones knowing they would be getting phone calls. i don't know anybody who would have thought of that >> the guy with the short sleeve shirt. >> tomorrow we'll be with the kids from fillmore and if anybody's interested or director hicks or anybody at all on friday on the 1 o'clock 33 new police cadets will graduate from this academy in partnership with the p l this makes them eligible to at that particular time in the other programs for future police officers and i have to acknowledge the instructors who facilitate this program and that concludes my report. >> before we move on i have to say the san francisco police department has a history of being one that has a lot of firs. when you're a police officer in the men and women in blue who you are in your personal life it's is one that accepts people when i hear of the lgbt folks we have the first open gay officer sgt. frank and this was decades ago.

i went to officer cunningham airplane clear any more passengers. you think we got them all out. i think.so hold on. he goes running back in. i go great. so he's running back in and i'm looking for him and i can't see him and then he comes back out. they are all out. they are all out. nobody there. the just amazing. >> we ghav we were to do. everybody what does what they were trained to do save lives. >> they did exactly that. some of the first responders describing the initial moments after the plane crashed at sfo. we show you an animation of what a perfect landing would look like at sfo. here's the standard approach. animation shows what experts call 3 degree glide path. now compare that to flight 214. here is when it business 82 seconds ou out. everything guess until then. but then the pilot disconnects all the computers and takes over manually. veteran pilot steve gain said he sunt have disconnect the everything because that idol the engine. pilot then gets well below the glide slope where he is supposed to be as you can see versus the standard approach. the plane is so slow

officer cunningham didn't just rescue people. he says he also grabbed a few iphones that passengers had left behind because he knew their families would be trying to contact them. man those first responders in san francisco, kudos. dozens are dead in egypt as fox reports tonight as soldiers fight with demonstrators and it's allies of the country's former president get their way, this could be only the beginning. plus, buildings destroyed and lots of people missing after a major explosion in the heart of a major city. and an internal report on how usama bin laden stayed hidden for all those years. there are stunning accusations. and the arch terrorist'' apparent love of cowboy clothing. that's coming up from the journalists of fox news on this monday fox report. ello. mother. mother! traveling is easy with the venture card because you can fly any airline anytime. two words. double miles! this guy can act. wanna play dodge rock? oh, you guys! and with double miles you can actuay use, you never miss the fun. beard growing contest an

. >>> jim cunningham de la policía de san francisco dijo que muchas personas tenían heridas, no podíandemasiado miedo, si bien numerosas personas pudieron evacuar la nave por su cuenta, otros quedaron atrados, una experiencia que caló hondo. >>> sí, definitivamente nos da un poco de miedo ,pero vamos con dios. >>> como parte de la investigación se esperan los resultados de la autopsia de una niñas de niñas porque es posible que haya sido atropellada por uno de los camiones que legan a la escena. >>> gracias; beatriz, inmediatamente después que el avión de assianna airlines se estrellara, este video muestra una nub e de humo que sale de la aeronave, son imágenes de jennifer solís, donde u dpuede ver cómo salen los equipos de emergencia. >>> 217 pasajeros están aún en el hospital general de san francisco, 6 están en condición crítica, las lesiones van desde problemas de la columna verterbal, hemorragias internas, fracturas. >>> mientras tanto en el centro médico de la universidad de stanford hay 9 personas en condición grave y 1 persona en condición crítica, en total fueron 181 pasajeros

meteorologist kim cunningham of the weather channel is with us now. >> the good word is maybe towards the end of the week we'll see some relief, but until then it's going to be way above average. phoenix, this is going down as the warmest june on record. today temperatures are a little cooler than yesterday. same thing for tomorrow. we now have moisture increasing in the area. that's going to help keep temperatures down. here in vegas 114. notice seattle at 91. that heat continues even into tuesday. it's getting closer to average as we get towards the end of the week, but that's about it. for the east another problem, flooding and we're expecting more of this in the east, as well. after south carolina, some areas already picking up 5 inches of rain from one thunderstorm today. possibility of more flooding along the east coast. >> two and a half years after the arab spring southwest -- swept egypt's ruler hosni mubarak from power his successor is under siege tonight. violent protests have left at least four people dead and nearly 200 injured as a nationwide movement to oust him gains t

heroes like san francisco policeman james cunningham, who ran into the plane after it crashed. >> it got to the point where it is a black thick cloud coming at you swirling around. it looked like death was coming to get you. >> you'll hear much more on his story and the other extraordinary actions of those who saved lives that day. the heroes of flight 214, it airs tonight at 7:00 right after this newscast. >>> one of the biggest community colleges in the country can't seem to get out of its own way. things are so bad over at san francisco city college, the school is on the brink of closing. so what actually went wrong and why can't anyone seem to fix it? we sent ryan takeo to find out. ryan. >> reporter: liz, the state's chancellor of community colleges was clear in an interview with us today. he says, city college needs to make changes and fast. . the chancellor says the time for the board has run out. harris and the state board voted for state intervention this week. >> elected board of governors has set on the sidelines and the special trustee has total power to run the instituti

also joining us, kevin cunningham. he's the man who started the jo online protest to get george zimmerman arrested. msnbc legal analyst lisa bloom and criminal defense attorney john burris, who has been involved in numerous cases with the department of justice, including the officer involved in the shooting death of oscar grant and that trial and rodney king's civil case. thank you all for joining us. john, let me start off with where we are now. there's so much talk about the justice department. in fact, we're going to talk with hakeem jeffries and gregory meeks, members of congress who are calling for action. you heard in that sound clip there, the question is whether or not george zimmerman targeted trayvon martin because of his race. that is something, as lisa bloom pointed out, that even the prosecution didn't have a great follow up with while we were watching many days of this trial. >> i will tell you having been involved in and sent a number of cases to the justice department, i know it's a real challenge. the