the response is pretty tremendous and i'm sure van applegate saw this with his own two eyes and he's photographers from wtkr, one of the first people, van, i understand, on the scene there. tell me what was the first thing you saw when you rolled up? >> reporter: yeah, broke. photojournalist and i were the first on the scene here, and i've got to tell you that the smoke was so choking, thick, black, oily smoke, the kind of which unless you've been around a jet fuel fire is really indescribable. children crying, people screaming, mass confusion which is totally understandable in a situation like this. one thing that is so unique to this area is these people are no strangers to jets flying above their roof. the fact that they had no warning, you would look up at a jet if you live in that area, you are used to jets flying over and, unfortunately, today it's really the worst fear for people that live here in oceana. >> van, are you still on the screen? >> i am. i am north of this crash, looking at what's left of the complex and just the outer shell of the building we're looking at. i don