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International terminal. this is where the informations going to come from. this is where the officials are going to be holding their briefings, but as i said, you have a lot of passengers here who are waiting to find out the fate of their flights, when theyll be able to get out of the airport, and at this point its not clear when traffic will resume. everything has come to a complete halt, as you can imagine, don. >> thank you, dan. a lot of people talking to me. thank you. you said the news con...

Short time here, but you heard what dan said. theyre going to update people as often as they can, at least once every hour on the situation there in san francisco. lets listen to that eyewitness now -- >> actually looked like it was coming in very nicely. it was pitched up nose up maybe about three degrees. and as it was coming in, it came in. it touched down on the runway a little earlier than ive seen most planes coming in and touching down. but the moment it touched down, the nose was still p...

Little. and thats what happened apparently, at least it seems that way. especially you look at the debris, you can see that there was a stick made by the aircraft just prior to the time they even got to the threshold of the runway, nevertheless the runway itself. >> jim tillmon, stand by. thank you very much. we want to get live, live pictures on the ground, cnns dan simon at san francisco international airport. dan, we listened to that press conference just a short time ago. you were there. wha...

Evidence, to make sure that anybody who requires medical attention has already gotten it. thats where they are at this point as far as the scene is concerned. the next thing is in terms of the immediate briefings, he wanted to let everybody know that going forward for the next 24 hours or so there will be news conferences every single hour. he wanted to make that very clear. so, they want to keep the public informed because obviously there is an incredible amount of interest in terms of what is ...

Crash. the official couldnt provide us any information in terms of how it happened or how many people were on board. he did say that there is a process that theyre following and that right now is to secure the scene, to secure the scene so they can gather evidence in terms of how it happened. he couldnt talk about any potential fatalities or survivors, so hopefully all that information will start trickling in, again, at 6:00 eastern time, don? >> and, again, the people are going to want to know ...

You know, the public information officer may not be the best equipped person at the moment to relay everything thats going on, he may have to confer with some other folks. so hopefully, again, at the tom of the hour well start getting some of those details. inside i can tell you just in terms of the people i talked to, some of them relayed, you know, seeing that fireball, seeing all of this smoke, and they, of course, are wondering whats happening as well. but they want to know when theyre going...

Their luggage, people waiting to be picked up. i can tell you inside there are a lot of people just waiting to see the status of their flights. i can also tell you that the friends and the family of the victims on board, they have reportedly been taken to a private area on the second floor of the international terminal where theyre awaiting more information about their loved ones. at this point, don, we simply dont have a lot of information in terms of how it happened, the number of vuictims or ...

Any information on the patients status. again, news conference at 5:30 eastern time, where we will get more information on that. to cnns dan simon first, who is in san francisco with the very latest. dan, what are you hearing there from san francisco, in san francisco? >> well, hey, don, im actually in the international terminal at the airport. we just had the very first briefing from officials here at the airport. they really couldnt provide a whole lot of information. they basically confirmed ...