. >> new information by the national transportation safety board raises questions about the experience. >> yes. he was only halfway through training and the training pilot had less experience. investigators reveal the plane's main landing gear hit sfo first. >> the national transportation safety board confirmed two flights seated in the jump seat in the back of the plane were ejected on impact but survived. >> well, ntsb chair just wrapped up a news conference a short i'm time ago. >> national transportation safety board says that the crew has been cooperative and forth right in interviews. interview was the three captains are completed and the interview with first officer is being wrapped thup afternoon. whatever went wrong is not due to a lack of experience. nntsb chair says the pilot flying was experienced on other large craft but still learning on the boeing 777. the instructor pilot seated know. him was in command the inspector pilot stated he was a pilot in command. sitting in the right seat. this was the first time he and the flying pilot that he was instructing had flown togeth

jennifer planning to turn her video into the national transportation safety board. the national transportation safety board sen couraging others to do the same thing in case the untrained eye might see what theirs might in burlingame abc 7 news. >> officials say if it's not for the heroic actions, cool under fire actions for flight attendants more people would have died in this crash. these pictures show asiana cabin manager carrying passengers off the plane, look at her. she was recognized for her efforts to lead dozens to safety she. was so busy that she only learned she broke her tail bone after being taken to the hospital for examination. incredible. well, a former safety chair of the airline pilot says says investigators will be taking a look at who is fly whigt crashed and the pilot's training. mark matthews spoke with the captain this afternoon. for an experienced pilot it's thoord understand how this could have happened. >> i think this accident shows thaws there may be lacking in training. >> captain dick deets flew commercial airliners 30 years and says ani

jennifer planning to turn her video into the national transportation safety board. the national transportation safety board sen couraging others to do the same thing in case the untrained eye might see what theirs might in burlingame abc 7 news. >> officials say if it's not for the heroic actions, cool under fire actions for flight attendants more people would have died in this crash. these pictures show asiana cabin manager carrying passengers off the plane, look at her. she was recognized for her efforts to lead dozens to safety she. was so busy that she only learned she broke her tail bone after being taken to the hospital for examination. incredible. well, a former safety chair of the airline pilot says says investigators will be taking a look at who is fly whigt crashed and the pilot's training. mark matthews spoke with the captain this afternoon. for an experienced pilot it's thoord understand how this could have happened. >> i think this accident shows thaws there may be lacking in training. >> captain dick deets flew commercial airliners 30 years and says ani

investigators with the national transportation safety board are on the scene. you saw them walking on the live picture on the runway. they took a first look at the wreckage this morning and they are returning to the scene right now. >> both of the so-called black boxes that record flight information data and the pilots' voices are on their way to washington, d.c. for analysis. >> this morning the two passengers killed in the crash are being identified at 16-year-old girls from china. they were part of a group of middle school students and teachers taking part in a summer camp in los angeles. they had also planned to visit stanford university first. >> this morning at least 49 of the people injured in the crash are in bay area hospitals in critical condition. two of the runways at sfo are still closed this morning and will likely remain so for the next several days. passengers can expect long delays, as well as flight cancellations again today. we are learning a lot more this morning about the search for answers in the fatal airliner crash. as we mentioned, the

. >> investigators with the national transportation safety board are on the scene. they have conducted a preliminary inspection of the plane wreckage shortly after arriving at sfo around 11:30 last night. >> in fact the ntsb chairwoman flew into the bay ear last night. she tells us they have recovered both of the so-called black box that is include flight information data and pilots' voices and both are being flown to d.c., as you mentioned, for analysis. >> and asiana airlines is confirm the two passengers killed in the crash are 16-year-old girls from china and we've learned they were part of a 35-member group of middle school students and teachers taking part in a summer camp in los angeles. the night originated in shanghai with a stop in seoul, south korea. >> at least 49 were in bay area hospitals in critical condition. as of late last night. the hospitals have not updated the condition of their patients this morning but as soon as they do we will bring that to you. >> two of the runways at sfo remain closed at this hour. arriving flights are being delayed near

. >>> gl but first, the national transportation safety board is just wrapping up press conference on that plane crash out in san francisco. we will bring you an update ♪ [ male announcer ] do you love prime rib?

the ntsb -- this from boeing? there it is. boeing extends its concern for the safety on the asiana airlines flight 214. we're preparing to provide technical assistance to the national transportation safety board as it investigates the accident. so, again, that is coming from boeing and we just got that information in as well. so, bear with us here. we're getting a lot of information coming in from multiple sources throughout the world, again, we have the worldwide resources of cnn on top of this story including our richard quest there in london. we also have a reporter in seoul, south korea, where this flight originated. we have aviation expert jim tillmon who is joining us as well, a reporter in washington who is reporting on the ntsb and the faa portion of this. the official portion and what they're doing. a reporter at san francisco international airport who's actually inside the terminal now. eunice byrd is on the phone now. her father was -- is on the phone. her father was on that asiana plane and took these photographs. eunice, first off, how is your father? these pictures are unbelievable. how is your father doing? >> hi, don. my father's doing fine, thank god. he's doing all right. we

we expect to hear from the national transportation safety board. was traveling too slowly and low before it hit the sea wall in front of the runway. we are learning more

this is from the national transportation safety board inside the aircraft. look at that.ke of that? >> two things. this scene couldn't have happened 15 years ago because newer aircraft and the 777 is one of the newest and had a perfect record almost until this. the g-7 force was strengthened. they can withstand greater g-forces. if seats collapse on top of each other there are more casualties and injuries. the fact most of the seats held is a very, very good sign. and the fact the interior wasn't burned means that so many people were able to live. but cabin survivability has been a big push in the united states by the ntsb and faa. they want to get people to survive a crash. this one was survivable. >> all right. these are new pictures into cnn from the national transportation safety board. do we have another? there we go. the outside of the aircraft. >> the outside of the aircraft because so much burning took place after persons got off, it looks so very familiar to another case i worked on which was the case of air france making the runway overshoot in toronto. just as

according to the national transportation safety board the survival rate in the plane crashes is actually very high, 95 percent. those who brace for impact and those at back of the plane doing better. the impact itself is not the only danger for passengers. >> if you can't instantly determine the source and severity of the smoke you must consider it to be a threat to the airplane. >> the fell aviation administration advises people to sit as close as possible to the exits and not to sleep during take offs and landing. >> new details on teresa heinz kerry wife of secretary of state john kerry. she may have had a seizure before being hospitalized. a source close to the fell says that she had symptoms consist went a seizure. show now is undergoing a medical evaluation after a boston hospital the she is in critical but stable condition and secretary john kerry is with her. teresa heinz is heir to the heinz ketchup fortune. she is 74. >> now, what else is going on outside as the brees have scared away the cloud cover but for the coast and it has not scared up any rain. you can see we are quiet

what are we learning from the ntsb, the national transportation safety board, adam? reporter: john, they're confirming what a lot of eyewitnesses said t was coming in low and slow. they gave out basically a timeline that really describes the last seven seconds. everything seemed fine when it was on short final and cleared to land here in san francisco. but seven seconds out the crew first realized they were coming in too slow. over the course of the next seven seconds it evolves to the point where the, the handles shaking the way they fly the plane of course. they tried to abort the landing but it was too late. as a part of that the crew has given a couple of details so far but the ntsb plans on meeting with crew today, speaking with them as well as as the pilots. but earlier today, on fox news channel they were talking about, that talking about the plans for this investigation to go forward by talking with the crew. take a listen. >> so we do want to interview all four of those pilots. we want to understand who was the pilot flying. who was the pilot in command at th

the head of the national transportation safety board said the plane was well below target speed. >> about three seconds prior to impact the flight data recorder recorded its lowest speed of 103 knots. at this time the engines were at about 50% power. >> she said the plane was coming in too slow as it approaches the runway. it picked up speed in the last three seconds. the pilots were trying to adjust speed to make another attempt at a landing. investigators are speaking with the pilots on board. spokespersons said a trainee was at the controls and a veteran pilot was giving instructions. they say the veteran only qualified to be an instructor three weeks ago. south korean media say he was overseeing a copilot for the first time. emergency crews in canada are searching for more than 40 people believed to be missing after a run away train exploded. at least 13 people were killed in the next a town in quebec. the unmanned train was 72 cars long and carrying crude oil and rolled away from the station in the early hour of saturday. derailed and exploded in the town flattening dozens of buildin

station and the national transportation safety board. the station misidentified the crew of the 777 that crashed at a san francisco airport last. last three passengers were killed and dozens were hurt when the plane approached the runway to low and slow and struck the sea wall. friday ktvu broadcast insulting a phony names of the pilot saying they were confirmed by the national transportation safety board. they have apologized and admitted in intern it acted improperly. they say the prank badly damage the reputation of the airline and its pilots >> texas gov. perry is expected to sign a controversial abortion bill into law some time in the next few days. the texas state senate passed the bill late friday... the house approved a on wednesday. the bill includes a number of restrictions that critics say will effectively shut down most clinics that perform abortions in texas. among the provisions of the bill is a regulation that outlaws abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy unless the health of the woman is in immediate danger >> we put the l

the ntsb will arrive around midnight and tom vacar has covered air safety forreer and has detail on what the federal team will be looking for at that crash site. >> reporter: the national transportation safety board independent government agency not beholden to the airlines, pilots, airports or even the faa, has the task of determining the most likely cause or causes of why asiana 214 crashed today. solving the puzzle begins with six main request questions. was it the plane? was it pilots? was it the controllers? was it the weather? was it the airport? or was it some combination of the above? in this case, much of the information is readily available, something often lacking when a plan disappears into the ocean or is vaporized in a crash or explosion. in this case, there are survivors, and witnesses. there is the flight data recorder showing how the aircraft system were actually operating. there is the cockpit voice recorder revealing what the pilots were saying. there are the air-traffic controller recordings. most of the airplane is still enough intact to be examined and there may very well be video of the crash from airport cameras. all of this will be meticulously gathered by the ntsb invest

the national transportation safety board is now investigating that. d cockpit voice recorders already being reviewed at the ntsb lab in washington. for its part asiana has already ruled out any problems with the aircraft. and company officials insist the pilot was a veteran with more than 10,000 hours of flight experience. much of it on 747s. but he was just being trained on the 777. only 43 hours at the helm of this particular aircraft. in fact, it was his first time landing a 777 in san francisco. >> it would be a mistake for any of us to say that, well, somebody who has only 40 hours in this new type of airplane but he's been flying big heavy turbo jets for a long time, that means he really isn't up to snuff. because they would never have turned him loose unless he had finished all the training courses and all the check lines. >> reporter: why it happened and who or what is to blame is now the focus of the safety investigation. and even if human error was a factor, the fact that 99% of the passengers survived will surely count in the pilot's and the

this is taken from the national transportation safety board. it shows the oxygen masks down, the seats a mess and you can imagine the chaos of trying to get out of that cabin. we'll be right back. peninsula is still closed. people at the hallmark house apartments called to report the fire. emergency personnel closed woodside road this morning and said it might not reopen until midnight. crews arrived to find heavy flames and smoeke. crews also rushed 16 residents and two firefighters to the hospital. more than 100 firefighters responded. the injuries are not considered life threatening. >> occupants were saying they heard lots of alarms ringing and they were starting to do their evacuations and get out of the building. >> 97 people live in the apartment building. there's an evacuation center set up at the nearby fair oaks community center. the cause of that fire is still under investigation tonight. >>> well, we could find out as soon as tomorrow whether the new eastern span of the bay bridge will open as planned on labor day weekend. cal trans

chinese teenagers and sent more than 180 people to the hospital from the head of the national transportation safety board, deborah hersman. >> ifill: and hari sreenivasan updates another transportation disaster; the oil tanker train that exploded in canada killing at least 13 with dozens still missing and a town incinerated. >> woodruff: we return to egypt, where the death toll topped 50 when the military opened fire on backers of the deposed president. >> ifill: ray suarez explores the options to combat suspected chinese cyber-espionage that targets u.s. industries and trade secrets. >> chinese cyber hacking has been going on for a long time. what's new is that were finally fed up and want to do something about it. >> woodruff: and jeffrey brown talks with author colum mccann about weaving together three real-life atlantic crossings over three centuries in his latest work of fiction. >> what was it like to construct that, as a novelist, did you know how all these connections were going to happen? >> honestly? >> honestly. >> i had no clue whatsoever, it drove me nuts. ( laugh ) >> ifill: that's all ahea

the plane. federal safety officials say, the pilot initially told a flight attendant. not to evacuate passengers from the asiana airlines flight that crash landed at s-f-o. the national transportation safety boardd, people did not begin evacuating the aircraft until 90 seconds later, when a fire erupted. occurred as the pilot checked with the tower at the airport. kron 4's charles clifford reports. as the n-t-s-b continues the crash.survivors were able to return to the scene just four days after terrifying accident. this is video with our helicopter partnership with a-b-c 7 news. in it you can see charter buses arriving at the scene and the survivors out on the tarmac observing the wreckage. it is unclear what they were doing although they were accompanied by n-t-s-b agents. while the pilots and crew are under investigation, some of the flight attendants came out publicly to speak at a news conference yesterday. six of the twelve who were on board agreed to speak, but several were overwhelemed by tears. six other attendants remain in the hospital. some of the attendants helped passengers get off passengers could get off the plane. among those injured in the crash we're three flight attendants w

the team from the national transportation safety board is on its way to the scene now and scheduled to arrive this afternoon. >>> now to the crash of ashe anna flight 214 in san francisco. new video of the ill-fated boeing 777 gives us an up close and personal view of that damage. nbc's danielle leigh is live outside san francisco international airport. danielle, good morning. >> reporter: richard, good morning. and wreckage from the plane is still sitting on the runway behind me this morning. is a stark reminder of the chaos from saturday. investigators are going to be going through that debris today piece by piece. meanwhile, the plane's black box recording is already offering clues about what went wrong. amidst the charred remains of asiana flight 214, investigators have obtained what may be one of their greatest clues. they say the black box voice recording from inside the cockpit captures crews calling for increased speed just seven seconds before the crash. 1.5 seconds before impact, the crew unsuccessfully tries to abort the landing. >> the approach speed was 137 knots. i will t

the delay will continue the as long as the national transportation safety board safety board investigatenvestigates. how long will that be? only the ntsb knows. from sfo 7 news. >> as you heard at the top of the newscast. ceo of asian airlines arrived today in the bay area to meet with survivors. he flew into sfo asian flight 214 the same flight number of course of the plane that crashed on saturday. more details now on the intensity of the media crush and his attempt to avoid it from 7 news reporter. >> it was a mob scene at san francisco international airport as 61-year-old ceo of asian airlines walked out of customs accompanied by san francisco police officers. >> get to the side. >>reporter: when it became clear that the airline chief did not intend to stop and talk with reporters, he was mobbed by a group of reporters and photographers. korean journalist told us there was a similar scene when tl he left korea. >> i was training to interview him but he went out of view. >>reporter: head of asian airlines to rae treat back into customs and left the airport to another exit. at the crow

we just heard from the national transportation safety board. there were a number of passengers onboard, obviously. some of them were talking about -- are talking now about what they saw and what they felt. this is an eyewitness to the crash. let's listen. >> i saw it coming and i was just watching planes come in and this one i saw that it looked normal at first. it was taking the same angle that they always come in like this. the wheels were down and then -- about three or five seconds out i started calling to my fiance and said this doesn't look right. this doesn't look right. the wheels were too low too soon. this is the run wway. i was watching the wheels. it hit like that and the whole thing collapsed immediately. it never really had a chance. it was like a really blunt, blunt trauma to the whole plane. it just pancaked immediately. it collapsed and slid and then started to slide and pivot. it was counterclock wise. then the wings caught on the tarmac there. then they flew off and just about -- the whole inside of the cabin went orange. all

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investigators with the national transportation safety board are now on the scene. they conducted a preliminary inspection of the plane wreckage shortly after arriving at sfo about 11:30 last night. >> they say they have recovered both of the so-called black boxes that record flight information data and the pilots' voices. both are being flown to washington d.c. right now for analysis. >> the two killed are 16-year-old girls from china. they were part of a 35 member group of middle school teachers and students taking part in a summer camp in los angeles. the flight original lated in shanghai with a stop in seole, south korea. >> two of the runways remain closed. passengers are being told to expect long delays and flight cancellations again today. and we are learning more this morning about the search for answers in this fatal airliner crash. as we mentioned, the ntsb is on the scene. their south korean counterparts are on the way. matt keller joins us live from sfo with the latest from a briefing, matt, that was held just a short time ago? >> yeah. actually it was a

you are watching the news at noon and the chair of the national transportation safety board who has revealed new information on the flight of 214 at sfo. and deborah revealed steps they are taking as they try to determine what brought down the triple seven. they will interview the flight crew. including all four pilots who were on board. investigators are also reviewing the pilots activities in the # two hours before the flight and checking for anything that might effect performance such as fatigue. illness or medication. and seems from washington will review both the flight data record are and the cockpit voice recorder. >> the chair said there were no distress calls and no steep descent curves. >> we have more and more from sfo general and ntsb investigation. we begin live near san francisco airport where the first emergency crews to arrive on the scene describe what they found inside and outside the burning plane. >> good afternoon, brian. >> good afternoon. they went through this and it is amazing. they said it is a surreal experience. a lot of adrenaline was rushing. and quiet experienc

safety. >> thanks to both of you. we'll analyze the flight data recorder information from the national transportation safety board a little bit later on in the show. jim tillman will be back with us as well as mary schiavo. thank you for both of wrush very informative. flight 214 was flying too slow. pilots trying to aboard the landing. we have more details on the investigation. plus, a panicked daughter watched the crash from her balco balcony. her father on board. up next, the daughter's emotional story. >> the cockpit voice recorder of asiana flight 214, the plane that crashed and claimed the lives of two teenagers, appears to show that the pilots tried to abort the landing just one and a half seconds before the plane crash-landed at san francisco international airport. this just one of many new details coming from the national transportation safety board. dan simons joins us now from international airport. you arrived at that airport just after the plane crashed, and you have been there reporting to us for almost 24 hours straight now. walk us through the investigation, the details that we are learning. >> i was liste

hours and then we will get to work when we arrive. >> debra hersman the chair of the national transportation safety board briefing us a little while ago. i'm joined now on the phone by a passenger who was on the flight. elliot stone is joining us. elliot, just walk us through what was going on. you're coming in for a landing after a long flight from seoul, south korea. what happened? >> yeah, yeah. terrific the whole time. ten seconds away from being home. and it seemed a little high. we could see the tarmac below us. we were coming down kind of sharp. and then right when it appeared to coast for the landing, all of a sudden the engine was off, like you sped up, like the pilot knew he was short. and then the back end just hit and flies up in the air and everybody's head goes up to the ceiling. and then it just kind of drifts for a little bit, for a good 300 yards and then tips over. fire starts. everybody's, you know, pushing the doors out. and then once we were on the ground everybody was all huddled on one side. my family and i went to the other side. and 20 minutes later this lady just appears from 50

chairperson of the national transportation safety board. >> the question was whether or not we had thelowest speed that the crew achieved. i will tell you that the speed was significantly below 137 knots. xxxx we're not talking about a few knots. we still have to corroborate some information. as i mentioned, this was a preliminary mention of the recorders. the 137 knots came from the crew conversation about their approach speed. we have to take another look at the raw data and corroborate it with radar and air traffic information to make sure we have a very precise speed. but again, we are not talking about a few knots here or there. we're talking about a significant amount of speed below 137.

investigators with the national transportation safety board are on the scene.icture on the runway. they took a first look at the wreckage this morning and they

tried to get a seat on the plane. >> airport says delays will continue as long as the national transportation safety board investigates. how long will that be? only ntsb knows. >> our reporting on the crash continues now on twitter at abc 7 news bay area. we have coverage at 11:00 and updates any time on abc 7 news.com. >> three women held captive nearly a decade are speaking for the first tirjs they're letting everyone know they're doing great. >> i want everyone to know how happy i am to be home with family and friends and it's been unbelievable. >> i was say thank you. >> looking forward to my brand new life. >> the three were abducted at ages 14, 16 and 20. they posted video yesterday. the girls want to thank people forgiving to a donation fund set up in their honor and honoring the need for privacy. man accused of abducting them and holding them in his basement pleaded not guilty to 329 charges. there is word accused nsa leaker edward snowden could be on the move soon. venezuela received the request, now, he has to decide whether, and when he'll fly there. he spent two weeks hiding in a moscow airpor

. >> new information by the national transportation safety board raises questions about the experiencee was only halfway through training and the training pilot had less experience. investigators reveal the plane's main landing gear hit sfo first. >> the national transportation safety board confirmed two flights seated in the jump seat in the back of the plane were ejected on impact but survived. >> well, ntsb chair just wrapped up a news conference a short i'm time ago

he was not seriously hurt. >> the national transportation safety board is interviewing the flight crew tonight. three captains and a first officer. investigators are also releasing more information from the flight data recorder all critical components of figuring out why flight 214 crashed. heather? >> the ntsb has early clues as to what went wrong for voice cockpit recorder today should get more missing pieces of the puzzle whit gets to ask the crew what they're doing and what they were thinking. ntsb hopes to learn details from the three captains and one first officer responsible for flying this plane. the crew of four aloud them to rotate. other two got rest on the 11 hour flight. one pilot was training with a tech captain at his side. >> it was a captain working on his initial operating experience he was working on getting ratings on the triple 7. >> investigators will be digging into a mountain of data from the recorder but preliminary information shows the auto pilot was disengaged about a minute and 22 seconds before impact. at three seconds to impact it dropped to a low of 103

having recovered the all-important voice data and flight recorders, the national transportation safety boards already gathering clues. >> a call to initiate a go-around occurred 1.5 seconds before impact. >> reporter: the south korean airline, asiana, has a good safety record. just as investigators were arriving on the scene, though, the airline ceo was already proclaiming the crash was not caused by a mechanical problem. "from what i know," he said, "the 777 aircraft and the engines did not have any problems." and he defended the flight crew as veterans, one with 9,000 flight hours, the other three, a combined 10,000 hours. in reality, this crash could have been caused by many factors, machine and human. there are several systems to help pilots. one, an electronic system beams information to the plane, to tell the pilot if he's on the right landing path. in san francisco, that system has been shut off since june because of construction. an alternative? a series of lights along the runway. all white, the plane is too high. all red, too low. white and red means it's the right path. an airport

we have new information from the national transportation and safety board. d us through that information point by point as the spokeswoman gives us new information. we also have new pictures in from the national transportation safety board that shows that plane up close both outside and inside the cabin of that plane. we also have exclusive video to show you of that plane coming in for a crash-landing, so stick with us. we're going to get you through all of this this hour here on cnn. the passenger jet that crashed and burned on landing in san francisco was going way too slow flying way too low. that's what federal officials say at the stage of this investigation. at this stage right now. you're going to hear that for yourself in a moment, but, first, i want you to watch this video. it's exclusive to cnn. it's of the asiana airline triple 7. it's the moment when something went terribly wrong. >> oh, my god. it's an accident. oh, my god. >> oh, no. oh, my god. oh, my god. >> the plane that broke into pieces and started burning with more than 300 people on boar

we are expecting in about 30 minutes the chief investigator for the national transportation safety boardteam flying in from washington wa deposition d dc. according to some sur vooirs and witnesses, the tail section hit first. the plane burst into flames. passengers had to scramble to get through the escape chute. the more severe injured were taken out by fire res crew crews. they are saying it is a miracle so many people survived without injury. >> to have 123 roughly walk away from this given the -- the condition of the plane is -- is incredible to me sgli did survey it from looking in the rear of the plane. you know, there was a lot of collapsed seats, a lot of the plane was on fire so quite a bit of dpaj. quite a bit of damage to that plane. again, it's a miracle really that we had so many survivors. >> the bodies of the two dead were found on the tarmac when crews did arrive. the san francisco public health grief counselors were also on the scene to help support some of the survivors as well as family and friends. anl. >> linda, we've been looking at leigh pictures of the plane. i i

and i believe you are looking at members of the national transportation safety board. we call it the ntsb, walking across that runway where that plane crashed so spectacularly. two people dead in that. all in all, 307 people on board. we are awaiting a news conference by the national transportation safety board. so far as we know, they have begun some preliminary looks at the data recorder, for instance, those black boxes, as we call them, have already been shipped to washington. they are already downloading some of the data so they can know a little bit at this point. but what we also know is that the ntsb doesn't dribble out information it gets bit by bit. it tends to collect it and look at all of it before it gives you their kind of big-picture story. we do know some things that are happening, that happened as those, what must have been terrified passengers, came down on that plane. they said that there was absolutely no announcement that, in fact, something was about to take place, and they felt that they were coming in too low. we have had our richard quest report

chair of the national transportation safety board from san francisco. thank you so very much for joining us. >> thank you. >> garrett: we're now going to cairo from the latest from our own clarissa ward. she's been covering developments across egypt. chaotic ones at that. clarissa, the most basic question is who's in charge? have a distance it appears to be the military. what can we say about the military's attempts to fill key government posts? >> major, the military is almost certainly still in charge, though they are really trying to make it look like they are not. they hate the coup word. they want to have the appearance that the interim president is now running the country so that they can really step back, reduce their footprint, and try to resume a more neutral role in egyptian politics. >> garrett: do egyptians fear a full-scale civil war? >> i think at this stage egyptians aren't fearing a full scale civil war but they don't rule out the possibility and they are bracing themselves for more political instability. for more protests, possibly more

francisco international airport this morning, while you were sleeping, a team from the national transportation safety board arrived at sfo overnight to begin a forming investigation into yesterday's deadly crash of asiana air flight 214. this is the first picture from the team from the ntsb. you can see the burned out wreckage in the brackground. right now, asiana air flight officials are headed to sfo to mead with investigators today. we have learned that the black boxes from the flight have been found in the wreckage and now in transit under guard to washington, d.c. for analysis. b bob joins us where he just spoke with deborah hersman, tell us what she has to say this morning, bob. >> good morning, the chairman of the ntsb tells us the cockpit voice and data recorders were not damaged, they're in good enough condition that they should provide helpful information as to what caused the crash of asiana flight 214. those black boxes were sent back to washington, d.c. on a red-eye last night for analysis that should be taking place later today or tomorrow, within the next 24 hours, we're told. the ntsb inves

tried to get a seat on the plane. >> airport says delays will continue as long as the national transportation safety boardestigates. how long will that be? only ntsb knows. >> our reporting on the crash continues now on twitter at abc 7 news bay area. we have coverage at 11:00 and updates any time on abc 7 news.com. >> three women held captive nearly a decade are speaking for the first tirjs they're letting everyone know they're doing great. >> i want everyone to know how happy i am to be home with family and friends and it's been unbelievable. >> i was say thank you. >> looking forward to my brand new life. >> the three were abducted at ages 14, 16 and 20. they posted video yesterday. the girls want to thank people forgiving to a donation fund set up in their honor and honoring the need for privacy. man accused of abducting them and holding them in his basement pleaded not guilty to 329 charges. there is word accused nsa leaker edward snowden could be on the move soon. venezuela received the request, now, he has to decide whether, and when he'll fly there. he spent two weeks hiding in a moscow airport. t

. >> >> the national transportation safety board said, people did not begin evacuating the later, when a fire erupted. officials say, the delay checked with the tower at the airport. >> crash. the national transportation safety board is investigating the cause of >> as the n-t-s-b continues the investigation in the crash.survivors were able to return to the scene just four days after terrifying accident. this is video with our helicopter partnership with a-b-c 7 news. in it you can see charter buses arriving at the scene and the survivors out on the tarmac observing the wreckage. it is unclear what they were doing although they were accompanied by n-t-s-b agents. >> s.f. all have not told us when that will get the wrong way open. we did talk to debra the chair of theif you own a pickup truck o person of stated that the pilot stated her that he had regained his vision. >> they did get a final landing clearing. there may have been a little bit of a lakeside but it was in the range of what is comfortable. >> let me clarify what she is sane. they were ready to land the plane and there were

san francisco. >> so again, folk, top of the hour, we are expecting to hear from the national transportation safety board. a news conference from the ntsb. at the same time, we are also expecting to hear a little more from the airport there in san francisco. we heard from them at the top of the hour and according to them, they would come back and give us more information. 3:00 their time which would be 6:00 here. meanwhile, we continue to get these dramatic pictures in. some of them from the runway. some of them from a hotel near the airport. this one from brian piper. just some amazing pictures. based on eyewitness accounts, the may not crash handed. at some point shortly there after, folks were able to get off the plane via the chutes, the chutes deployed on both sides of the plane. this is according to eyewitnesses. minutes after people made it down those shoots, they were running from the plane, according to these eyewitnesses. this was a fire that erupted. you can see what's left of that asiana boeing 777 somewhere on the left side. to the left of runway 28 in san francisco. again, top of the hour.

there is lots of news, including a press conferences and the national transportation safety board has recovered the black boxes from the boeing 777 as they continue to investigate. they began in the wee hours of the night. they hope to interview the crew today, too, to get more answers. emergency officials releasing audio from a fire department dispatcher. >> you are approaching the north field checkpoint. i have what appears to be a moderate column of smoke coming from a downed plane. make this a red alert please... >> jamie: take a look at this animation of the crash, too. as the plane approaches, it slams into the runway. the tail literally napping off. the plane then veers off the runway, where it catches fire. adam housley is live at the san francisco international airport, where he has been monitoring all the developments. adam, we expect this news conference. what sort of update do you think we will get? >> reporter: well, first of all, we are expected to hear an updated number of victims. we are told more than 180 people were transported after that crash yesterday. to put that

moment now at the top of the hour and one at the bottom of the hour 5:30 eastern from the national transportation safety board in washington, d.c. my colleague, richard quest, who covers the airline industry and has been covering aviation successes and failures and disasters for many years now. richard, as you look at this and the pictures and you hear what's going on here, what's your assessment? >> well, i want to refer you to something that is now on twitter. where somebody has posted pictures in which they have modeled the descent profile for this particular flight, both yesterday and today. now, planes normally descend at an average of three degrees. that's known as the glide slope that will take them and a continuing glide slope of three degrees that will take them all the way down to the runway. we don't know, of course, whether they were using auto land here. i guess we don't know. we don't know also what other form of landing aids they were using in terms of that. but the general rule is three degrees generally will take you all the way down to the runway once you're on the glide slope. now, here's t

latest on the investigation into the crash including an interview with the head of the national transportation safety board. >> and what kind of help can passengers of the doomed flight hope to get now that they've been involved in this? an attorney will be here to weigh in on that. >>> some harrowing moments for passengers on board a asiana flight 214 today. >> there were no slides. i can see a breeze but a piece of the wing goes down further. and so i -- i just told people we're okay. calm down. start getting out. you know, leave your items behind. help each other. very quickly, a lot of people started going out through that door. >> so what kind of recourse might people who survived the crash today of flight 214 expect? headlined is an attorney in los angeles joins us now. thoichbls we listened to some survivors of this awful incident. of course some of them are going to wonder maybe i can make money off of this, i'm sure attorneys are asking themselves the same question. do passengers involved in a crash like this have any kind of a claim? >> absolutely. it's certainly not their fault. >> so who would

korea's national carrier, korean air. >> woodruff: for more on the accident and questions about the speed of the plane's landing, we turn to the chair of the national transportation safety board, deborah hersman. she's joining us from san francisco. welcome to the newshour. we heard you say today or confirm that the plane was coming in at a much slower speed than it should have been. what are the possible explanations for that? >> well, you know, we are looking at everything. certainly we want to look and see if there are easy explanations for this. but many times what we find is it's a little bit more complex than that. there's not usually a single cause of an accident but multiple contributing factors. so we're going to be looking at the crew, their experience, their familiarity with the aircraft. how they were monitoring aircraft speed. this is not the first time that we've seen a crash upon landing. and not the first time we've seen an airplane get slow and end up in a bad situation. so, we want to understand the humans. we also want to understand the aircraft, the performance of the aircraft. how the automation worked, what type of flying they were doing. were they all h

latest on the investigation into the crash including an interview with the head of the national transportation safety board. >> and what kind of help can passengers of the doomed flight hope to get now that they've been involved in this? an attorney will be here to weigh in on that.@í0x;ñt >>> some harrowing moments for passengers on board a asiana flight 214 today. >> there were no slides. i can see a breeze but a piece of the wing goes down further. and so i -- i just told people we're okay. calm down. start getting out. you know, leave your items behind. help each other. very quickly, a lot of people started going out through that door. >> so what kind of recourse might people who survived the crash today of flight 214 expect? headlined is an attorney in los angeles joins us now. thoichbls we listened to some survivors of this awful incident. of course some of them are going to wonder maybe i can make money off of this, i'm sure attorneys are asking themselves the same question. do passengers involved in a crash like this have any kind of a claim? >> absolutely. it's certainly not their fault. >> so w

. >> the national transportation safety board wrapped up its final briefing about an hour ago. we have detailed animation showing how it happened. voice rofrders reveal the pilot did not talk about the declining speed until just nine seconds before impact. >> one of the three warned the plane was highing -- flying too high, then too low that. happened just 34 seconds before the crash. >> a light reported seeing could have been a reflection from the sun. today, clarifying nobody else reported seeing it investigators described severity of the damage. the floor of the plane disintegrated before the rear set of doors. that explains how treated and released of the four flight attendants were ejected from the fuselage. tonight we'll take a look at what pilots do to control the pilot and a local surgeon that helped treat some of the injured. >> international journey decided america's cup teams from itally and new zealand won their appeal. that means there will be a real race in the america's cup. >> there were question about the safety of the boats after the death of andrew simpston in