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Newsroom. thank you for joining us. im errol barnett. >> im zain asher. the headlines at this hour -- australian president says his country will take part in coalition air strikes against isis targets in syria and he says australia will take in 12,000 additional refugees who are fleeing from isis. >> todays commitment by the australian government to take refugees on a permanent basis will be one of the largest commitments made to date anywhere in the world. more than a dozen people suffered mi...

Hallie? >> reporter: good morning, jose. new this morning we learned the ntsb will send three investigators here to las vegas where the runway is back hope to try to figure out what went wrong, but passengers involved in this say they know what went right. a fast and orderly evacuation that helped save lives. on the tarmac, a terrifying scene. >> we have an aircraft on fire with people coming out of it. >> reporter: thick smoke swallowing a british airways plane on fire on the runway. as all 157...

Going down the inflatable slide. and there are still several ambulances out on the departure curb, several paramedics here. i dont know if thats just precautionary or there are more victims who are going to be let out, anderson. >> two was the number we had been told at the top of the last hour, both described with minor injuries. im not sure if thats the two that you saw actually being taken out. renee, one of them according to dan had some smoke inhalation or exposure to smoke. that is one of ...

To that point, anderson, not only are pilots able to shut down the vents, we know that the pilots also have access to fire extinguishers. we also know that flight attendants are trained to get these people off of the plane within just seconds. oftentimes when you do see those injuries, its because those individuals are coming down the slide, so a lot of times thats where the injuries stem from. but as far as the safety record with this 777, a very safe aircraft. we know with this particular airc...

In recent years, there have been only five that have been damaged beyond repair. that includes the still missing mh370, the crash landing of oceana flight 216 was the first fatal 777 crash after 18 years of service. this is whats left of british airways flight 2276. federal investigators must now figure out what caused this catastrophic failure. investigators will be reviewing the planes black boxes second by second to see how the planes edges and other parts were operating. ive been inside that...

Radar and missile defense systems available. bill: right before we came to her statement. she said there is no reason to trust iran. now this speech continues as we await the vote in congress which will company day now on this iran deal. back to the headlines in washington in a moment. martha: there was a scary scene at the airport in las vegas. a packed boeing 777 preparing for takeoff when the left engine suddenly caught fire. the passengers forced to escape using the emergency evacuation slid...

I talked to les abend earlier and said the pilots do have the capabilities to shut down any vents that would allow smoke into the cabin. that is something that they would have to take the time to do so we dont know how much smoke actually got into the cabin. this aircraft, though, the 777, renee, what do we know about its

>> reporter: emergency slides deployed seconds later. some suffered minor injuries coming down the slide. everyone onboard made it out alive despite the chaos. this photo shows some passengers even stopped to grab their luggage before making the escape. >> you wasting time with your bags to you it may seem to delay three or four seconds. if 50 60 people do that, now were talking a serious amount of time. >> reporter: a local hospital treated 27 people. the british airways captain at the controls...

>> the captain said emergency, evacuate. >> emergency slides deployed in seconds. everyone on board was evacuated from the amp. this shows some even stopped to grab their luggage before making the escape. >> you are wasting your time with bags, its only a delay of three seconds, but all people do that, were talking about a serious -- >> most hurt as they exited the plane, chris henke, the capital el it is controls is being hailed as a hero for his quick action. >> for that much smoke i saw, that...

First up this hour the united states where passengers leaving las vegas got woken only to describe as a heart-stopping experience. look at the footage. british airways flight 2276, carrying 159 passengers and 13 crew members was about to take off from london when this happened. people on the ground watched in horror as the left engine burst in to flames. pilots aborted the takeoff. >> the good news, just a few minutes, everyone on board the 777 had evacuated the plane and firefighters put out th...