lurk near vital data cables in the atlantic. and now russia is inserting itself in talks on syria while stepping up military support for the regime. is putin trying to become the dominant force in the middle east? trump s spin. donald trump claims victory in the latest republican presidential debate as all the candidates scrambled for a boost in the polls. but jeb bush now finds himself facing poor reviews for his performance. is his campaign now facing an existential crisis? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. this is cnn breaking news. we re following two major breaking stories including the fire on a boeing 767 that was taxiing at the fort lauder international airport. some 100 passengers fleeing the flames evacuating down the plane s emergency slides. at least 15 people are injured including one with serious
back to our breaking news out of ft. lauderdale, florida. ft. lauderdale hollywood international airport is closed at this moment after this flight, this plane, dynamic airline, dynamic airways, flight 405, caught fire at 12:45. you can see in this video, you can see people sliding down the emergency slides. you can see the smoke billowing out. this is a video that was sent in just moments ago. showing how this all played out. in real time. just terrifying when you see all of that smoke. when you look at this video, because i think this is probably one the best things we have seen showing how this happened. let me bring back in miles o brien as well as peter gols,
you can see what the first responders are looking at as they evaluate any hot spots that might be left inside of this aircraft. but as we understand it, everyone has gotten off safely. that s a closer shot towards the front of the plane. we can see how the emergency slides were used and deployed to safely evacuate everyone off at least from that one location. we don t see it, as you notice, from the back of the aircraft. there was not a safety slide deployed from there to get the passengers off. but here as we have the camera shot being moved around, we are not in control of this camera shot but we can see now passengers and also airport staff that are on site on location that have coordinated right where they took those passengers back in. we can also see ambulances there among the first responders. we don t know of any injuries that are associated with what
venezuela, urlier this summer. dynamics international is a niche airline based out of north carolina. we re finding from our kerry sanders now reporting that the runways at the airport are now closed. all passengers have been evacuated using emergency slides. we see one on the other side of the plane two have been deployed. we can see in the back of the aircraft that the slide was not deployed. that s due to the fire. the fire is completely out. we have first responders on the scene. they ll now have to figure out the exact cause of what started this. but another plane reported they had seen fuel leaking from this aircraft before takeoff before the fire began. we ll continue to follow that story and bring you new information as soon as we get it. but we move to our north and breaking news coming in new hampshire. the sentencing of a prep school graduate owen labry is under
plane caught fire on the tarmac. this was a dynamics international airline that was taking off roughly around 12:30 in part to caracas, venezuela. reports it was leaking fuel, then an engine caught fire. this was an image captured by another passenger from a flight that was behind this aircraft on the runway. now we do know there were seven people that were injured, three different emergency slides were deployed from this aircraft. only one wasn t utilized to evacuate people that were on board. as you see here, though, firefighters quickly dousing out the boeing 767 with what looks like a flame retardant. this fuel leak as it was taxiing off for this 12:30 on-time departure for caracas. in an aerial shot, you ll see the damage from the fire on the plane s left engine and right by the left wing.