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runway and snapped off. >> this is the runway, it came in like this. and i was just watching the wheeling and it just hit like this and whole thing collapsed immediately. >> good evening, i'm julie haener. >> i'm frank somerville. the chair of the national transportation safety board is expected to arrive foyt to head up the investigation on the deadly crash at sfo. the asiana passenger jet came had in to land at sfo, it was 11:2 this morning. witnesses say the plane hit tail-first just yards short of runway 28l. the plane eventually came to a rest on the grass and dirt on the side of the runway and caught fire. passengers could be seen jumping down the emergency slides. >> most of the 307 people on board made it off okay. there were 291 passengers, and 16 crew members. two people are confirmed dead. they were both chinese passport holders according to south korean officials. a total of 182 people were taken to air hospitals and 49 of them were seriously hurt and at this hour everyone has been accounted for. we have team coverage with crews covering all aspects of this story. >> we begin with ktvu's jade hernandez live at sfo, where authorities have held a number of news briefings today. jade. >> reporter: the airport at this time of the day does not usually look like this, but two of sfo's four runways are closed, meaning delays, but this is not how the day began. clear skies at san francisco international airport this morning did not mean all was well for flight 214 approaching sfo's runway 28. just before 11:30 this morning, dispatchers radioed for help, it's not yet known exactly what happened during the hard landing, but tail of the plane came off. >> the plane originated from shanghai and our crew applied foam and water to the fuselage. >> reporter: this picture taken by a cabdriver who heard several loud booms before the crash shows thick billowing smoke. >> we see people who said they are live and walking around. >> people are walking outside of the airport. >> yes. >> it's where the 28. >> chopper 2 shows the barely there top of plane and debris wreckage everywhere. >> when we arrived on scene, the ute chutes were deployed to and we observed multiple numbers of people come down the chutes and walking to their safety. >> there are people right adjacent to the numbers. we can see two or three people that are moving who survived. >> reporter: some passengers were even found near the water. firefighters confirmed two hours after the crash, two people did not survive. authorities found the bodies outside of the plane and still there were others that they couldn't find. >> not everyone has yet to be accounted for. >> reporter: initially the number of passengers unaccounted for was as high as 60. a number that later disappeared due to checkpoint confusion. all people are now accounted for and sfo continues to face it's op operation obstacles tonight. >> we have a total of four runway as spot and we re-opened two of the four runways. >> reporter: meaning that are still limit adrifles and limited arrivals and departures. live snide of sfo. you can see it's really busy and in just a few hours at midnight the national transportation safety board or ntsb chair will arrive at midnight . ntsb and fbi will investigate how to this cross happened. a preference is tentatively scheduled for tomorrow morning and we still don't know when or where that conference will be held. reporting live from san francisco, jade hernandez, ktvu channel 2 news. we have seen all the daylight pictures of wreckage and now we want to show you a night view, live pictures from chopper 2. you can see that the area where the wreckage of the plane sits is lit up and it is secured and it's off-limits to everyone, until ntsb investigators arrive around midnight tonight to begin their investigation sometime tomorrow. a very ominous sign of what happened today and when you look at, it's truly meekerrable, but that all, but two people on board this plane survived. >> one of the many incredible images of the disaster was taken by a man on the flight asiana flight 214 and escaped with her wife. the man's daughter posted this. you can see the fire and smoke pouring from the boeing triple- 7. the woman tweeted her dad is safe and checked out at sfo for injuries. many witnesses posted videos on youtube of the crash just moments after it happened. this video was taken from across the bay and as you can see the crash produced a lot of thick, dark smoke. the man who posted the video said he shot it about five minutes after the plane skidded across the runway. and this person was inside the airport and could see the crash from the terminal. there are southwest planes in the foreground and then the crippled asiana jet on fire in the background. from the video it appears that the black smoke is coming from the front of the plane, closer to the cockpit. >> david eun an executive with samsung who is based here in the bay area was on that flight from seoul. he tweeted this photo and posted a message along with that read, "i just crash-landed at sfo. tail ripped off, most everyone seems fine. i am okay. surreal." and this photo is a photo taken at impact. it's a little difficult to see, but you can make out the plane and the smoke trailing behind. another photo also taken from close range shows san francisco fire crews stationed at the airport dousing the plain with foam. many of the photos sent to our newsroom were taken moments after the crash. and some of from passengers who evacuated the plane and were waiting for help on the tarmac. and then this is this photo of a passenger ben levy, his wife tweeting his photo from the hospital, being treated for broken ribs of she says her husband sitting in an exit row and helped about 50 people evacuate from the plane. >> ktvu's joan sasaki is live at sf generality where first- responders brought more than 50 of the injured. >> reporter: julie, we have been here since early this afternoon and watched dozens of people brought in. that patient ben levy stopped to share his harrowing story. >> those are the people in the hospital with their families. >> reporter: benjamin levy is a venture capitalist who lives in san francisco. he says it seemed like the pilot underestimated the start of the runway. >> the guy started to push the throttle back up again and there was water splashing onto the engine. i think we were almost landing on the water. >> reporter: he says it appeared to have happened in slow motion. >> i thought maybe we'll take off again and we didn't and went down pretty hard and bounced. >> reporter: levy was one of 53 patients obrought to sf general. the first ten were in critical condition. one more critical patient has arrived and six still in coming up next one of whom is a child. >> the internal injuries would be head injuries and bleeding of we also saw spinal injuries and other bone injuries, contusions. >> reporter: some of the victims also suffered serious burps. benjamin levy thought he was more seriously injured than he was. >> they took me to the hospital and took x-rays and i have nothing broken luckily. >> reporter: a lucky man indeed. the 53 crash victims range in age from 6 to6 years old and lastly, just a couple of minutes ago i talk told san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi. 182 people injured in the crash were taken to variousloc hospitals and suffered a range of injuries including burns, fractures and intternal injuries. >> san francisco general, stanford, california pacific and st. francis all received patients. >> ktvu has a taken of reports on the ground covering the story. >> and our weekend anchors ken wayne and heather holmes live at sfo with the mood at the airport hours after this deadly crash. >> reporter: frank and julie, it looks like a normal day at san francisco international airport if you go in the international terminal behind us you will see passengers hauling their bags around and checking the flight status. if you didn't notice the tv news trucks out front, you would think it's a normal day. >> if you sit down and spend time that the impacted a becames clear. i was walking around the terminal and ran into a woman waiting for fay flight to new zealand and said thank god it wasn't worse. all the people still waiting in line were here this morning. >> reporter: as were a lot of people outside of the airport. it was a beautiful sunny day outside. people along the trail by the bay enjoying this nice weather. a lot of people in their apartments or hotels that face the airport could see the airport. in other words, a lot of witnesses here. >> in fact, you are going to hear from one witness, his name is dan glickman and he is staying a nearby hotel that ken mentioned and i want you to listen as he struggles with his emotions describing what he saw this morning. >> the wheels were too low, too soon. so this is the runway and it came in like this. and i was just watching the wheels and it just hit like this and whole thing just collapsed immediately, just pancaked. it the wing flew off. the whole inside of the cabin went orange. it continued to slide. it was just orange for a couple of seconds and then all of the smoke came out of it. i thought it was instant death for everybody when i saw the whole inside go orange like that; it happened very, very fast. its unreal, you know? it's hard for me to believe it now. >> as you can plainly see a very difficult thing to witness, but nothing compared to the ordeal of those on flight 214. >> 307 people, including the crew and others suffering burns and bruises and others with more serious injuries, ktvu's amber lee has talked to some of the shaken passengers who tell her about their terrifying crash crash-landing. >> heather we found one family on that plane and survived with minor injuries. these are veddpal wade singh describing a scary ordeal that came with no warning from the pilot. >> he had a very hard landing and i think there was a loud noise and we sensed something was wrong. masks dropped down and the whole plane was shaking. >> reporter: they tell me they used the emergency chute to get off the plane. >> i was scared. my son was with me and i just hold his hand and he is scared. >> reporter: singh and his father were both treated at the hospital. >> i have severe neck pains and i was in the hospital for a couple of hours. >> reporter: we found this sunnyvale man to came to pick up a old college friend and his family on the asiana flight and showed text messages that his friend sent him as soon as he evacuated the flight. >> he said i have crashed, but i'm okay. >> i think it's that we have so many survived. it could have been so much worse. >> reporter: the singh family tells me that they live in seoul, south korea and are here to visit family in the bay area. a sigh of relief that so many survived. amber lee, ktvu channel 2 news. asiana airlines list a breakdown of the passengers on board today's flight, 141 of them are chinese citizens and 77 from korea. 61 are american and one japanese citizen on boards. >> was a very cootik scene inside the international terminal as families tried to get in touch with loved one in the minutes and hours immediately after the crash. ktvu's patti lee was right in the middle of it, along with all of those passengers. >> reporter: it's still a zoo here at international terminal and just look at this line. this is the result of the chaos here this afternoon. we have been talking to passengers. they have subdued and they have been here all afternoon, all evening, trying to find alternative ways to get to where they were going. with every airline here affected, their options were are and still are limited. >> i am just like going around last time before i take off. at 8:00 tonight park was still looking for his friend, a passenger on asiana airlines flight 214. >> he got out of the plane safe and then made a call to his parents saying he is okay. but since then, we haven't really heard back from him. >> reporter: chaos reigned after the crash and passengers not rush to the hospital were taken to this room in the international terminal and here they could be treated for minor injuries before they were interviewed by tsa and airline officials and met my family and friends. >> it's okay, we're just in shock, scared, yes. >> passengers on the ill-fated flight were treated first and then had to be taken back through customs a step that was skipped because of the emergency. >> we saw the burning airplane and the fire cars came in and put water ore it. it was crazy because we were wow, that is real. >> reporter: witnesses described the scene as terrifying and surreal. >> my parents are maybe it's just practicing are asiana airlines immediately shut down operations at sfo after the crash of the airport closed for several hours. >> the airline told us that flight is still leaving a:00ing a6:00, but the airport wasn't open. >> but then two runways re- opened this afternoon. >> i wanted to make sure that they cancel the flight i can take my mother home. >> reporter: ten minutes ago, i checked in with san francisco police who told me there are still asiana airlines passengers here and that a translator came in 20 minutes ago, but the focus is on passengers and getting them to their destinations. reporting live at sfo, patti lee, ktvu channel 2 news. and more live coverage on this breaking news story is straight ahead. we'll hear from some of those stranded passengers after the deadly crash at sfo. >> and the one question on everyone's mind, why was that jet so low and slow good morning! wow. want to start the day with something heart healthy and delicious? you're a talking bee... honey nut cheerios has whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol. and it tastes good? sure does! right... ♪ wow. delicious, right? yeah. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... ♪ well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. . these were some of the first pictures we showed you live this afternoon of the smoke rising from the crippled boeing 777 shortly after it crash-land at sfo. news chopper 2 was overhead as crews were extincting the fire that dutted plane. roads to the airport were blocked immediately after the crash and all flights were canceled until 4:00 this afternoon. ktvu's katy outevidence is utehs is live from the airport. >> a family traveling to news adela approved me new zealand said they watch our coverage and the april said come down to the airport you had get on a flight. so today has been a lot of people, passengers and airline ryps just trying to sort through the confusion. >> we were supposed to play golf together this afternoon. >> gabriel lee is among the hundreds who drove to san francisco international airport to pick up a loved one only it learn that the flight his friend was on crash-landed. >> he was in panic and he was guided by the attendant to escape. >> reporter: the moments following, chaotic for passengers and witnesses. >> i was trying to go to long beach. >> laurie simmons watched rescue of the froms from the international terminal. >> i turned around and theres a big puff of smoke and within a minute or so, fire engines started going down the tarmac and then there was like a big, giant smoke, black, black, black smoke. >> reporter: the family of crash victims looked for any news, trying to reconnect with the missing passengers. >> all they told us to do was wait and contact her, but she didn't have a phone or nothing. >> reporter: as the busy airport came to a stall. >> the airport has begun a partial resumption of operations. >> i am more concerned about the news that people died and so many were hurt. that is heart-breaking. >> reporter: some may fly out of sfo out soon and others spending the night. >> it's out of everyone's control and even the airlines don't know what will happen next. >> reporter: families headed to new zealand tell me their original flight was set to live at 10:00 and they texted me a few minutes ago to tell me their new departure time is midnight and they are set to board at 11:15, so there is some movement at sfo. flights are taking off, but many of them delayed. live at san francisco international airport, katie utehs, ktvu news. 11 flights including three international flights and domestic flights landed at oakland. >> 14 hours and we couldn't land and we flew around and couldn't get down. something was happened and we landed here. >> airport officials say 17 flights diverted to san josi and others were separate to sacramento flights and los angeles even as far away as salt lake city. >> the asiana airlines plane was coming in low and slow for its scheduled landing when disaster struck. it was 11:27em a.m. when the boeing triple-7 loaded with 291 passengers and 16 crew members crash-landed and caught fire on the runway. it was an hour later at 12:25 when crews on the ground had had the fire extinguished and passengerred had been to taken into a safe zone at terminal. here is what it sound like as the air-traffic control tower deployed emergency crews to the scene. >> 2414, i214, emergency vehicles are responding. asian 214, heavy, emergency vehicles are responding. we have everyone on their way. >> flight 214 originated in shanghai, china with a stop in seoul, south korea. >> the question on everyone's mind is why was the heavy jet so low and slow controlling in? ktvu's debora villalon live near sfo with some insight from a pilot and an air-traffic controller. debora. >> well, we're south of the airport, along the bay, and you can look out and see the wreckage. south koreas wreckage sources in the tower tell me had a that the pilot realized he was landing short and trying to pull up and make another attempt, but simply too late. >> you cannot land on that part of the runway. you have to land here. >> reporter: retired united airline captain bruce mylan landed countless times here. the big fans and engines provide thrust, but take time to spool up when pilots hit the throttle. >> you might have 3, 4 seconds delay and if you have that delay, then the april is going to settle in, especially if you were slow to start with. >> reporter: gusting erratic winds can make sfo landings tricky, but winds were tame at the time. air-traffic controllers amindful if jets land together, wake turbulence from the one in front can cause instability for the one that follows. bill pong retired from sfo tower two months ago and listening to the air traffic transmissions with the asiana pilot he says the conversation is routine until suddenly it isn't. >> it seemed like we can watch this guy and we're done. you just don't see that. he is trying to move airplanes out. that sour big thing is to move airplanes so it's still going to be gut wrenching to have something like that happen to you on your watching, while you are working. in a matter of seconds they are dead. you know? that stuff is so toxic. >> retired captain mylan is surprised at the few deaths, but finds this photo troubling the fleeing passenger in green he says has her carry on bag with her. >> how many people couldn't get out because she is sitting there getting this bag out? maybe the two that died in there. >> reporter: today's crash is similar to one five years ago at heathrow airport in london. that 777 lost power on landing due to a frozen fuel line. now sources here at sfo tell me that when today's asiana jet was so low it actually could have stalled, it was moving at 90 knots, 100 miles per hour and that is when it was 3 miles out, normal speed for that landing would have been 140 knots. reporting live at sfo, debora villalon, ktvu which channel 2 news. >> the weather is often a factor, but at the time of the crash witnesses say there wasn't a shroud in sight. meteorologist mark tamayo with the weather conditions. >> typically at sfo we're talking about dense fog and strong gusty wind, but today the complete opposite. this was the satellite at 11:30 this morning. the cloud deck is takely out to the west of the sfo. so the clearing skies here, and here is the approach of that flight. so moving in from the south, crossing the san mateo bridge and, in fact, we'll take a closer look at the runway structure here. you can pick out two way left where the crash occurred. the most recent observations before that crash at 10:56 this morning and in the sky just a few clouds, clouds at 1600'. winds only around 7 miles per hour. no gusts and the visibility just about 10 miles per hour. so you can see with this weather report at 10:56 this morning and all morning long, at least we have some relatively calm conditions this morning. >> up next, hear more on our breaking news, that deadly plane crash at sfo. federal investigators getting ready to go through that wreckage. we'll examine what they are looking for when they arrive on scene and getting new video on the mots just of a that crash and you can see just how devastating it was. >> and more images from news chopper 2 as this story unfolded this afternoon. from above you can see how severe this fire and crash was with one engine missing and you kids should count yourselves lucky. we didn't have u-verse back in my day. you couldn't just... guys... there you are. you know you couldn't just pause a show in one room, then... where was i... you couldn't pause a show in one room then start playing it in another. and...i'm talking to myself... [ male announcer ] call to get u-verse tv for just $19 a month for 2 years with qualifying bundles. rethink possible. . here are several photos now of the plane that crashed today. these were taken last monday as it was preparing to depart sfo. the person took the photos from the bayfront park in millbrae as he waited to pick up his daughter at airport. >> here is a stimulation of asiania's crash-landing, showing the plane coming up short and the tail rips away from the fuselage and the plane continues to slide down the runway, 2,000' before it finally came to a stop. >> this is new video that we're getting of the moments just after the crash. a viewer just sent us this video from the camera on the roof of the south san francisco marriott. you can see black smoke billowing from the roof of the plane. 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, an 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 investigation team, who will study and evaluate it coming up with a probable cause or causes in about a year. i'm tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >> and more details now on the path of the plane crash. the point of impact to the last piece of debris is about 2,000 feet. feet. it appears that the plane hit the seawall as it was approaching the runway. the latest estimate is that it was traveling too slow, only about 100 miles per hour, when it crashes. >> more on your breaking news from sfo is coming up. the latest on the investigation and the injured passengers. ktvu's ken wayne and heather holmes are at the airport with good morning! wow. want to start the day with something heart healthy and delicious? you're a talking bee... honey nut cheerios has whole grain oats that can help lower cholesterol. and it tastes good? sure does! right... ♪ wow. delicious, right? yeah. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... ♪ well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. more now with our breaking news news chopper 2 is still overhead and you can see is the wreckage of asiana airlines flight 214 still on the runway this evening. a very somber sight following today's deadly crash-landing and we want to bring you the latest on what is happening at sfo. >> ktvu's heather holmes and ken wayne are at the airport with the latest develops including an update on the injured passengers. heather, ken. >> frank, julie, if you look at the pictures of the aircraft that is out there right now, it's hard to believe that almost everyone got out of that plane alive. so the praise is coming in for the first-responders and crew that got everybody out safely. congresswoman nancy pelosi tweeted "prayers with with those affected by asian flight crash and their families, thanks to brave first- responders for their swift response efforts." we want to show you some video of investigators at the crash scene shortsly shortly after that crash. as you mentioned, the head of the ntsb is on his way from washington, d.c., and is expected to be here in about an hour and 20 minutes. >> of course federal officials will be here for some time as they conduct a very thorough and meticulous investigation trying to figure out exactly what happened on board flight 214. in the meantime, though, condolences continue to pour in over the loss of life here at sfo. governor jerry brown also issuing a statement, ken. he took offering his deepest concern and sympathy to the passengers on board and also points out the courage and swift response tost first- responders. whose actions he says surely prevented an even greater tragedy. ktvu's john sasaki is live at san francisco general and john i know you have a moving image that points out just how quickly first-responders reacted, but you also spoke with some other passengers who pulled off some pretty heroic efforts themselves. >> reporter: that is absolutely right, heather we have been here all afternoon and it's been a heckic day at san francisco general hospital. for most of the afternoon we walked acrash victims came many one ambulance after another and one young lady i can, maybe 10- 12 years old, arriving in a front seat and a paramedic carried her to a waiting wheelchair very tenderly and she seemed to be in good spirits. we can see she had some abrasions or bruising on knees. all told 53 victims were brought to sf general, ten of them in critical condition and one more critical patient did arrive and one in critical is a child. those folks have broken burns or internal injuries or even burns. a patient told the media what he did after the plane came to a stop. >> we managed to open the door and somebody helped me push it out. there were no slides when i looked outside i could see debris, but someone that looks lie a step or piece of the wing and going down further. so i just told me, we're okay, come down, start getting identity, leave out and leave your items behind and help each other. >> levy added that he thought he suffered broken ribs, but in the end, the extras proved negative. by tonight, those with the most serious injuries were tended by socioworkers to help deal with the trauma and also top here the south korean consulate general. >> of the 16 remaining in the hospital tonight, three are in critical condition and earlier, doctors talked about those injuries at a briefing. >> blunt-force injuries, we have seen a lot of injuries that seem like they would be consistent with the side arms hitting patients. doctors say their injuries included internal bleeding, broken bones and in some cases broken backs from the force of the impact glitch facebook ceo sheryl impact. >> facebook sheryl sandberg was originally going to take the asiana delight and posted this message. we are seeing dozens of photos. incident and it's aftermath from social media. here are a look at the few of the many pictures. let's see if we have them here that were posted on twitter. there is one. some came from people who escaped from the plane right of a it had crash-land. some were from across the bay, showing the thick smoke, rising up from that boeing 777. >> well, uncredible pictures and coming up in . we are get a clearer impact of how crew members and first- responders worked furiously to get passengers out of that burning plane as quickly as possible. ktvu's jade hernandez is at the airport with new information on those efforts jade. >> reporter: we are live at sfo tonight and we wanted to bring you to the heart of the international terminal, so that we could show you just how many people are still in line, and trying to find a way home. there are so many things that we're learning at this hour and within the past couple of hours. 225 first-responders, that is how many people helped to get passengers off or way from flight 214. we're only now learning within the past few hours about the heroic efforts that saved lives and i spoke with san francisco police chief greg suhr who some of the passengers on flight 214 couldn't get off their seats and with the firefighters and the crew members were cutting seat belts to get everyone off the plane. police chief greg suhr says if it wasn't for the first- responders and the firefighters and the police officers and crew members there would be more casualties today. we're live at sfo at the international terminal and interpreters helped with the communication. some paramedics we're told even rode with some of the passengers who had to get to nine bay area hospitals. they rode with them on buses. i want you to know that some of the these passengers i have been told may not even get home until tuesday of next week. hotels are booked and they are doing the best that they can. the aircraft terminal will remain open until 2:00 a.m. a lot of these airport concessions will be opened for these passengers and we'll continue our team coverage with ktvu. report living, jade hernandez, ktvu channel 2 news. jade, thank you. asiana airlines says it plans to conduct a full investigation into today's crash. in a statement the airlines said, "it is currently investigating the special cause specific cause of the incident, et cetera." and our breaking news coverage will continue two of the four runways are still closed at sfo. what travelers need to know about airport operations. >> and the cooldown maybe on its way out. ktvu meteorologist mark tamayo joins us next with what so... 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[ laughter ] [ male announcer ] connect all your wi-fi-enabled devices with u-verse high speed internet. rethink possible. being advise advised to check with their carriers. it's been a long, frustrating day for many passengers who got stuck waiting for their flights. kerrigan, estess, rankin, mcleod & thompson's catie utehs with what happened during today's shutdown. >> reporter: people are still trickling into the airport and people at this point most likely know what happened here this morning. there are hundreds waiting for flights and people i spoke with who witnessed the crash were visiblery shaken, but say they still have to get home. some people who were scheduled to deport are camping overnight waiting to hear when their flight will happen. passengers and airlines have been incredibly gracious, despite all the initial confusion following the crash. i soak with a family heading to new zealand and their flight was supposed to be at 10:00 tonight the they called the april before heading to the airport and their airline said come on down, your flight will happen. so they, not wanting to have to pay to change their flight came down here and their flight was only burped for about two hours of the we're hearing stories of other people who are bumped for four hours, maybe days as well as jade was mentioning earlier, but the airline is doing the best they can to reroute traffic with only two of the four runways open. again, a lot of people just processing some very traumatic events that they witnessed today, live in san francisco international airport, katie utehs, ktvu channel 2 news fish and game a coverage continues on line at ktvu.com, where you can find the raw footage of chopper 2 above the scene of the crash site as well as more pictures and a lot information. you can also listen to the recording that we played earlier from the control tower at ktvu.com. >> our coverage begins early tomorrow morning because of what happened, mornings on two will start of an hour earlier at 6:00 a.m., claudine wong and mike mibach have the latest on the investigation going op. mornings on two beginning an hour earlier tomorrow morning at 6:00 a.m. and a quick update on your sunday forecast, right now low clouds and fog on the coast, already pushing back into the bay. as a result, tomorrow morning, partly to mostly cloudy and temperatures start out sunday morning, most areas in the 50s. santa rosa, 52 freezing, san josi, 54 and our forecast model showing you all the cloud cover tomorrow at 6:00. clearing back to near the shoreline by afternoon showers, but still some patchy fog for the coast and even around san francisco. temperatures tomorrow will be warmer than today. warmest locations on track to reach the upper 80s to right around 90 degrees. san mateo, 75 degrees. a look ahead, the five-day forecast, warming continues monday into tuesday and a little bit of a dropoff with the numbers wednesday into thursday. looks a like a quiet forecast over the next . good evening everybody and welcome to this abbreviate the saturday night sportswrap. you can watch a lot of baseball and never see what happened in the giants-dodgers gamut at&t park. bruce bochy submitted his line- up and the dodgers had one verse. busty posey hits this drive to right. posy thinks he is at 2nd, but dodger's manager don mattingly points out on his card, sandoval supposed to be batting third and not posey is off the board. bumgarner had two rbi's on day and still in the 2nd, blanco singles up the middle. giants win 4-2. baum garner goes 7 innings and was rewarded with his first all-star selection. bruce bochy is the national league manager and named buster posey and marco scutaro as reserved. the a's had pitcher bartolo cologne making the trip to new york. former kansas city athletics were honored at kauffman stadium today. josh donaldson lead of leads off with a home run, no. 15 for a guy who continues to perform in near anonymity. dyson with the based loaded chopper and beats the throw, 4- 3 and they are half a game ahead of texas after the rangers lost tonight. the warriors maneuverings yesterday assumed two key players off the bench this past season would not be around for next year. guard jarret jackson agreed to a four-year deal with the cleveland chief financial officers and this is the 6th team for the 8-year veteran who was a key member of the rotation and carl landry agreed to a four-year deal with the sacramento kings, playing with the kings in the past. he on the out of the timing year of his on tract with the warriors. women's royalty at wimbledon billie jean king was in attendance to see the women's final between lisicki of germany and bartoli of france. bartoli has her first grand slam win. that is it for this saturday night sportswrap. we'll see you again at 5:00. >> thank you, joe. with today's major story out of sfo, we want to thank you for making ktvu your source for news. we'll see you the next time news breaks. >> as we leave 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>> good evening, i'm julie haener. >> i'm frank somerville. the chair of the national transportation safety board is expected to arrive foyt to head up the investigation on the deadly crash at sfo. the asiana passenger jet came had in to land at sfo, it was 11:2 this morning. witnesses say the plane hit tail-first just yards short of runway 28l. the plane eventually came to a rest on the grass and dirt on the side of the runway and caught fire. passengers could be seen jumping down the emergency slides. >> most of the 307 people on board made it off okay. there were 291 passengers, and 16 crew members. two people are confirmed dead. they were both chinese passport holders according to south korean officials. a total of 182 people were taken to air hospitals and 49 of them were seriously hurt and at this hour everyone has been accounted for. we have team coverage with crews covering all aspects of this story. >> we begin with ktvu's jade hernandez live at sfo, where authorities have held a number of news briefings today. jade. >> reporter: the airport at this time of the day does not usually look like this, but two of sfo's four runways are closed, meaning delays, but this is not how the day began. clear skies at san francisco international airport this morning did not mean all was well for flight 214 approaching sfo's runway 28. just before 11:30 this morning, dispatchers radioed for help, it's not yet known exactly what happened during the hard landing, but tail of the plane came off. >> the plane originated from shanghai and our crew applied foam and water to the fuselage. >> reporter: this picture taken by a cabdriver who heard several loud booms before the crash shows thick billowing smoke. >> we see people who said they are live and walking around. >> people are walking outside of the airport. >> yes. >> it's where the 28. >> chopper 2 shows the barely there top of plane and debris wreckage everywhere. >> when we arrived on scene, the ute chutes were deployed to and we observed multiple numbers of people come down the chutes and walking to their safety. >> there are people right adjacent to the numbers. we can see two or three people that are moving who survived. >> reporter: some passengers were even found near the water. firefighters confirmed two hours after the crash, two people did not survive. authorities found the bodies outside of the plane and still there were others that they couldn't find. >> not everyone has yet to be accounted for. >> reporter: initially the number of passengers unaccounted for was as high as 60. a number that later disappeared due to checkpoint confusion. all people are now accounted for and sfo continues to face it's op operation obstacles tonight. >> we have a total of four runway as spot and we re-opened two of the four runways. >> reporter: meaning that are still limit adrifles and limited arrivals and departures. live snide of sfo. you can see it's really busy and in just a few hours at midnight the national transportation safety board or ntsb chair will arrive at midnight . ntsb and fbi will investigate how to this cross happened. a preference is tentatively scheduled for tomorrow morning and we still don't know when or where that conference will be held. reporting live from san francisco, jade hernandez, ktvu channel 2 news. we have seen all the daylight pictures of wreckage and now we want to show you a night view, live pictures from chopper 2. you can see that the area where the wreckage of the plane sits is lit up and it is secured and it's off-limits to everyone, until ntsb investigators arrive around midnight tonight to begin their investigation sometime tomorrow. a very ominous sign of what happened today and when you look at, it's truly meekerrable, but that all, but two people on board this plane survived. >> one of the many incredible images of the disaster was taken by a man on the flight asiana flight 214 and escaped with her wife. the man's daughter posted this. you can see the fire and smoke pouring from the boeing triple- 7. the woman tweeted her dad is safe and checked out at sfo for injuries. many witnesses posted videos on youtube of the crash just moments after it happened. this video was taken from across the bay and as you can see the crash produced a lot of thick, dark smoke. the man who posted the video said he shot it about five minutes after the plane skidded across the runway. and this person was inside the airport and could see the crash from the terminal. there are southwest planes in the foreground and then the crippled asiana jet on fire in the background. from the video it appears that the black smoke is coming from the front of the plane, closer to the cockpit. >> david eun an executive with samsung who is based here in the bay area was on that flight from seoul. he tweeted this photo and posted a message along with that read, "i just crash-landed at sfo. tail ripped off, most everyone seems fine. i am okay. surreal." and this photo is a photo taken at impact. it's a little difficult to see, but you can make out the plane and the smoke trailing behind. another photo also taken from close range shows san francisco fire crews stationed at the airport dousing the plain with foam. many of the photos sent to our newsroom were taken moments after the crash. and some of from passengers who evacuated the plane and were waiting for help on the tarmac. and then this is this photo of a passenger ben levy, his wife tweeting his photo from the hospital, being treated for broken ribs of she says her husband sitting in an exit row and helped about 50 people evacuate from the plane. >> ktvu's joan sasaki is live at sf generality where first- responders brought more than 50 of the injured. >> reporter: julie, we have been here since early this afternoon and watched dozens of people brought in. that patient ben levy stopped to share his harrowing story. >> those are the people in the hospital with their families. >> reporter: benjamin levy is a venture capitalist who lives in san francisco. he says it seemed like the pilot underestimated the start of the runway. >> the guy started to push the throttle back up again and there was water splashing onto the engine. i think we were almost landing on the water. >> reporter: he says it appeared to have happened in slow motion. >> i thought maybe we'll take off again and we didn't and went down pretty hard and bounced. >> reporter: levy was one of 53 patients obrought to sf general. the first ten were in critical condition. one more critical patient has arrived and six still in coming up next one of whom is a child. >> the internal injuries would be head injuries and bleeding of we also saw spinal injuries and other bone injuries, contusions. >> reporter: some of the victims also suffered serious burps. benjamin levy thought he was more seriously injured than he was. >> they took me to the hospital and took x-rays and i have nothing broken luckily. >> reporter: a lucky man indeed. the 53 crash victims range in age from 6 to6 years old and lastly, just a couple of minutes ago i talk told san francisco sheriff ross mirkarimi. 182 people injured in the crash were taken to variousloc hospitals and suffered a range of injuries including burns, fractures and intternal injuries. >> san francisco general, stanford, california pacific and st. francis all received patients. >> ktvu has a taken of reports on the ground covering the story. >> and our weekend anchors ken wayne and heather holmes live at sfo with the mood at the airport hours after this deadly crash. >> reporter: frank and julie, it looks like a normal day at san francisco international airport if you go in the international terminal behind us you will see passengers hauling their bags around and checking the flight status. if you didn't notice the tv news trucks out front, you would think it's a normal day. >> if you sit down and spend time that the impacted a becames clear. i was walking around the terminal and ran into a woman waiting for fay flight to new zealand and said thank god it wasn't worse. all the people still waiting in line were here this morning. >> reporter: as were a lot of people outside of the airport. it was a beautiful sunny day outside. people along the trail by the bay enjoying this nice weather. a lot of people in their apartments or hotels that face the airport could see the airport. in other words, a lot of witnesses here. >> in fact, you are going to hear from one witness, his name is dan glickman and he is staying a nearby hotel that ken mentioned and i want you to listen as he struggles with his emotions describing what he saw this morning. >> the wheels were too low, too soon. so this is the runway and it came in like this. and i was just watching the wheels and it just hit like this and whole thing just collapsed immediately, just pancaked. it the wing flew off. the whole inside of the cabin went orange. it continued to slide. it was just orange for a couple of seconds and then all of the smoke came out of it. i thought it was instant death for everybody when i saw the whole inside go orange like that; it happened very, very fast. its unreal, you know? it's hard for me to believe it now. >> as you can plainly see a very difficult thing to witness, but nothing compared to the ordeal of those on flight 214. >> 307 people, including the crew and others suffering burns and bruises and others with more serious injuries, ktvu's amber lee has talked to some of the shaken passengers who tell her about their terrifying crash crash-landing. >> heather we found one family on that plane and survived with minor injuries. these are veddpal wade singh describing a scary ordeal that came with no warning from the pilot. >> he had a very hard landing and i think there was a loud noise and we sensed something was wrong. masks dropped down and the whole plane was shaking. >> reporter: they tell me they used the emergency chute to get off the plane. >> i was scared. my son was with me and i just hold his hand and he is scared. >> reporter: singh and his father were both treated at the hospital. >> i have severe neck pains and i was in the hospital for a couple of hours. >> reporter: we found this sunnyvale man to came to pick up a old college friend and his family on the asiana flight and showed text messages that his friend sent him as soon as he evacuated the flight. >> he said i have crashed, but i'm okay. >> i think it's that we have so many survived. it could have been so much worse. >> reporter: the singh family tells me that they live in seoul, south korea and are here to visit family in the bay area. a sigh of relief that so many survived. amber lee, ktvu channel 2 news. asiana airlines list a breakdown of the passengers on board today's flight, 141 of them are chinese citizens and 77 from korea. 61 are american and one japanese citizen on boards. >> was a very cootik scene inside the international terminal as families tried to get in touch with loved one in the minutes and hours immediately after the crash. ktvu's patti lee was right in the middle of it, along with all of those passengers. >> reporter: it's still a zoo here at international terminal and just look at this line. this is the result of the chaos here this afternoon. we have been talking to passengers. they have subdued and they have been here all afternoon, all evening, trying to find alternative ways to get to where they were going. with every airline here affected, their options were are and still are limited. >> i am just like going around last time before i take off. at 8:00 tonight park was still looking for his friend, a passenger on asiana airlines flight 214. >> he got out of the plane safe and then made a call to his parents saying he is okay. but since then, we haven't really heard back from him. >> reporter: chaos reigned after the crash and passengers not rush to the hospital were taken to this room in the international terminal and here they could be treated for minor injuries before they were interviewed by tsa and airline officials and met my family and friends. >> it's okay, we're just in shock, scared, yes. >> passengers on the ill-fated flight were treated first and then had to be taken back through customs a step that was skipped because of the emergency. >> we saw the burning airplane and the fire cars came in and put water ore it. it was crazy because we were wow, that is real. >> reporter: witnesses described the scene as terrifying and surreal. >> my parents are maybe it's just practicing are asiana airlines immediately shut down operations at sfo after the crash of the airport closed for several hours. >> the airline told us that flight is still leaving a:00ing a6:00, but the airport wasn't open. >> but then two runways re- opened this afternoon. >> i wanted to make sure that they cancel the flight i can take my mother home. >> reporter: ten minutes ago, i checked in with san francisco police who told me there are still asiana airlines passengers here and that a translator came in 20 minutes ago, but the focus is on passengers and getting them to their destinations. reporting live at sfo, patti lee, ktvu channel 2 news. and more live coverage on this breaking news story is straight ahead. we'll hear from some of those stranded passengers after the deadly crash at sfo. >> and the one question on everyone's mind, why was that jet so low and slow coming in? ♪ [ male announcer ] when the a.c. goes out in a heat wave, it's nuccio heating and air conditioning that comes to the rescue. at&t helped nuccio put a complete mobile solution to work. mobile routing to send the closest technician and mobile payments to invoice on the spot. where do you want to take your business? call us. we can show you how at&t solutions can help you do what you do... even better. ♪ . these were some of the first pictures we showed you live this afternoon of the smoke rising from the crippled boeing 777 shortly after it crash-land at sfo. news chopper 2 was overhead as crews were extincting the fire that dutted plane. roads to the airport were blocked immediately after the crash and all flights were canceled until 4:00 this afternoon. ktvu's katy outevidence is utehs is live from the airport. >> a family traveling to news adela approved me new zealand said they watch our coverage and the april said come down to the airport you had get on a flight. so today has been a lot of people, passengers and airline ryps just trying to sort through the confusion. >> we were supposed to play golf together this afternoon. >> gabriel lee is among the hundreds who drove to san francisco international airport to pick up a loved one only it learn that the flight his friend was on crash-landed. >> he was in panic and he was guided by the attendant to escape. >> repoer: the moments following, chaotic for passengers and witnesses. >> i was trying to go to long beach. >> laurie simmons watched rescue of the froms from the international terminal. >> i turned around and theres a big puff of smoke and within a minute or so, fire engines started going down the tarmac and then there was like a big, giant smoke, black, black, black smoke. >> reporter: the family of crash victims looked for any news, trying to reconnect with the missing passengers. >> all they told us to do was wait and contact her, but she didn't have a phone or nothing. >> reporter: as the busy airport came to a stall. >> the airport has begun a partial resumption of operations. >> i am more concerned about the news that people died and so many were hurt. that is heart-breaking. >> reporter: some may fly out of sfo out soon and others spending the night. >> it's out of everyone's control and even the airlines don't know what will happen next. >> reporter: families headed to new zealand tell me their original flight was set to live at 10:00 and they texted me a few minutes ago to tell me their new departure time is midnight and they are set to board at 11:15, so there is some movement at sfo. flights are taking off, but many of them delayed. live at san francisco international airport, katie utehs, ktvu news. 11 flights including three international flights and domestic flights landed at oakland. >> 14 hours and we couldn't land and we flew around and couldn't get down. something was happened and we landed here. >> airport officials say 17 flights diverted to san josi and others were separate to sacramento flights and los angeles even as far away as salt lake city. >> the asiana airlines plane was coming in low and slow for its scheduled landing when disaster struck. it was 11:27em a.m. when the boeing triple-7 loaded with 291 passengers and 16 crew members crash-landed and caught fire on the runway. it was an hour later at 12:25 when crews on the ground had had the fire extinguished and passengerred had been to taken into a safe zone at terminal. here is what it sound like as the air-traffic control tower deployed emergency crews to the scene. >> 2414, i214, emergency vehicles are responding. asian 214, heavy, emergency vehicles are responding. we have everyone on their way. >> flight 214 originated in shanghai, china with a stop in seoul, south korea. >> the question on everyone's mind is why was the heavy jet so low and slow controlling in? ktvu's debora villalon live near sfo with some insight from a pilot and an air-traffic controller. debora. >> well, we're south of the airport, along the bay, and you can look out and see the wreckage. south koreas wreckage sources in the tower tell me had a that the pilot realized he was landing short and trying to pull up and make another attempt, but simply too late. >> you cannot land on that part of the runway. you have to land here. >> reporter: retired united airline captain bruce mylan landed countless times here. the big fans and engines provide thrust, but take time to spool up when pilots hit the throttle. >> you might have 3, 4 seconds delay and if you have that delay, then the april is going to settle in, especially if you were slow to start with. >> reporter: gusting erratic winds can make sfo landings tricky, but winds were tame at the time. air-traffic controllers amindful if jets land together, wake turbulence from the one in front can cause instability for the one that follows. bill pong retired from sfo tower two months ago and listening to the air traffic transmissions with the asiana pilot he says the conversation is routine until suddenly it isn't. >> it seemed like we can watch this guy and we're done. you just don't see that. he is trying to move airplanes out. that sour big thing is to move airplanes so it's still going to be gut wrenching to have something like that happen to you on your watching, while you are working. in a matter of seconds they are dead. you know? that stuff is so toxic. >> retired captain mylan is surprised at the few deaths, but finds this photo troubling the fleeing passenger in green he says has her carry on bag with her. >> how many people couldn't get out because she is sitting there getting this bag out? maybe the two that died in there. >> reporter: today's crash is similar to one five years ago at heathrow airport in london. that 777 lost power on landing due to a frozen fuel line. now sources here at sfo tell me that when today's asiana jet was so low it actually could have stalled, it was moving at 90 knots, 100 miles per hour and that is when it was 3 miles out, normal speed for that landing would have been 140 knots. reporting live at sfo, debora villalon, ktvu which channel 2 news. >> the weather is often a factor, but at the time of the crash witnesses say there wasn't a shroud in sight. meteorologist mark tamayo with the weather conditions. >> typically at sfo we're talking about dense fog and strong gusty wind, but today the complete opposite. this was the satellite at 11:30 this morning. the cloud deck is takely out to the west of the sfo. so the clearing skies here, and here is the approach of that flight. so moving in from the south, crossing the san mateo bridge and, in fact, we'll take a closer look at the runway structure here. you can pick out two way left where the crash occurred. the most recent observations before that crash at 10:56 this morning and in the sky just a few clouds, clouds at 1600'. winds only around 7 miles per hour. no gusts and the visibility just about 10 miles per hour. so you can see with this weather report at 10:56 this morning and all morning long, at least we have some relatively calm conditions this morning. >> up next, hear more on our breaking news, that deadly plane crash at sfo. federal investigators getting ready to go through that wreckage. we'll examine what they are looking for when they arrive on scene and getting new video on the mots just of a that crash and you can see just how devastating it was. >> and more images from news chopper 2 as this story unfolded this afternoon. from above you can see how severe this fire d crash was with one engine missing and holes burned in the fuselage and the tail torn off. . here are several photos now of the plane that crashed today. these were taken last monday as it was preparing to depart sfo. the person took the photos from the bayfront park in millbrae as he waited to pick up his daughter at airport. >> here is a stimulation of asiania's crash-landing, showing the plane coming up short and the tail rips away from the fuselage and the plane continues to slide down the runway, 2,000' before it finally came to a stop. >> this is new video that we're getting of the moments just after the crash. a viewer just sent us this video from the camera on the roof of the south san francisco marriott. you can see black smoke billowing from the roof of the plane. 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, an 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 investigation team, who will study and evaluate it coming up with a probable cause or causes in about a year. i'm tom vacar, ktvu channel 2 news. >> and more details now on the path of the plane crash. the point of impact to the last piece of debris is about 2,000 feet. feet. it appears that the plane hit the seawall as it was approaching the runway. the latest estimate is that it was traveling too slow, only about 100 miles per hour, when it crashes. >> more on your breaking news from sfo is coming up. the latest on the investigation and the injured passengers. ktvu's ken wayne and heather holmes are at the airport with more on situation there right now. farmers presents: 15 seconds of smart. so you're worried about house fires? stop smoking. manage your wires. watch out for space heaters. clean the chimney. get one of these. cool the romance. and of course, talk to farmers. hi. ♪ we are farmers bum - pa 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with with those affected by asian flight crash and their families, thanks to brave first- responders for their swift response efforts." we want to show you some video of investigators at the crash scene shortsly shortly after that crash. as you mentioned, the head of the ntsb is on his way from washington, d.c., and is expected to be here in about an hour and 20 minutes. >> of course federal officials will be here for some time as they conduct a very thorough and meticulous investigation trying to figure out exactly what happened on board flight 214. in the meantime, though, condolences continue to pour in over the loss of life here at sfo. governor jerry brown also issuing a statement, ken. he took offering his deepest concern and sympathy to the passengers on board and also points out the courage and swift response tost first- responders. whose actions he says surely prevented an even greater tragedy. ktvu's john sasaki is live at san francisco general and john i know you have a moving image that points out just how quickly first-responders reacted, but you also spoke with some other passengers who pulled off some pretty heroic efforts themselves. >> reporter: that is absolutely right, heather we have been here all afternoon and it's been a heckic day at san francisco general hospital. for most of the afternoon we walked acrash victims came many one ambulance after another and one young lady i can, maybe 10- 12 years old, arriving in a front seat and a paramedic carried her to a waiting wheelchair very tenderly and she seemed to be in good spirits. we can see she had some abrasions or bruising on knees. all told 53 victims were brought to sf general, ten of them in critical condition and one more critical patient did arrive and one in critical is a child. those folks have broken burns or internal injuries or even burns. a patient told the media what he did after the plane came to a stop. >> we managed to open the door and somebody helped me push it out. there were no slides when i looked outside i could see debris, but someone that looks lie a step or piece of the wing and going down further. so i just told me, we're okay, come down, start getting identity, leave out and leave your items behind and help each other. >> levy added that he thought he suffered broken ribs, but in the end, the extras proved negative. by tonight, those with the most serious injuries were tended by socioworkers to help deal with the trauma and also top here the south korean consulate general. >> of the 16 remaining in the hospital tonight, three are in critical condition and earlier, doctors talked about those injuries at a briefing. >> blunt-force injuries, we have seen a lot of injuries that seem like they would be consistent with the side arms hitting patients. doctors say their injuries included internal bleeding, broken bones and in some cases broken backs from the force of the impact glitch facebook ceo sheryl impact. >> facebook sheryl sandberg was originally going to take the asiana delight and posted this message. we are seeing dozens of photos. incident and it's aftermath from social media. here are a look at the few of the many pictures. let's see if we have them here that were posted on twitter. there is one. some came from people who escaped from the plane right of a it had crash-land. some were from across the bay, showing the thick smoke, rising up from that boeing 777. >> well, uncredible pictures and coming up incredible pictures and coming up next, another live update is just minutes away. that can help lower cholesterol. and it tastes good? sure does! right... ♪ wow. delicious, right? yeah. it's the honey, it makes it taste so... ♪ well, would you look at the time... what's the rush? be happy. be healthy. away . we are get a clearer impact of how crew members and first- responders worked furiously to get passengers out of that burning plane as quickly as possible. ktvu's jade hernandez is at the airport with new information on those efforts jade. >> reporter: we are live at sfo tonight and we wanted to bring you to the heart of the international terminal, so that we could show you just how many people are still in line, and trying to find a way home. there are so many things that we're learning at this hour and within the past couple of hours. 225 first-responders, that is how many people helped to get passengers off or way from flight 214. we're only now learning within the past few hours about the heroic efforts that saved lives and i spoke with san francisco police chief greg suhr who some of the passengers on flight 214 couldn't get off their seats and with the firefighters and the crew members were cutting seat belts to get everyone off the plane. police chief greg suhr says if it wasn't for the first- responders and the firefighters and the police officers and crew members there would be more casualties today. we're live at sfo at the international terminal and interpreters helped with the communication. some paramedics we're told even rode with some of the passengers who had to get to nine bay area hospitals. they rode with them on buses. i want you to know that some of the these passengers i have been told may not even get home until tuesday of next week. hotels are booked and they are doing the best that they can. the aircraft terminal will remain open until 2:00 a.m. a lot of these airport concessions will be opened for these passengers and we'll continue our team coverage with ktvu. report living, jade hernandez, ktvu channel 2 news. jade, thank you. asiana airlines says it plans to conduct a full investigation into today's crash. in a statement the airlines said, "it is currently investigating the special cause

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says has been negotiating in back channels. and this is after a failed negotiation for custody of a jordanian prisoner. this after a group who says they have not reveled in taking hostages and celebrating it. so what is the latest on the ultimatum ultimatum? >> well, this is tweeted out, and this is the latest audio recording which purports to with be the surviving hostage voice of kenji who says that by 9:30 a.m. tomorrow mosul time that if they are not at the turkish border with the jordanian hostage, they will not release the hostage. >> for jordan, this is a hard prisoner to give up, because she is a prisoner, and attempted to give part of the terrorist attack and the vest did not go off. >> yes shgs, and this was devastating in iman,r and the capital of jor dap and this is an operation ordered by the then leader of iraq al zarquawi and the only reason she did not kill anybody is because the suicide vest didn't go off and the jordanian view is twofold, it is a prisoner exchange and she is a prisoner and the pielot is a prisoner of isis, and because the vest did not go off, she does not have blood on her hand, and they look at it differently. >> and though 57 people did die in that attack. >> yes, and devastating at the time and major attack, and if this exchange goes off, it is a propaganda victory for isis to get her released. >> thank you, jim sciutto. joining us is the former navy s.e.a.l. jim o'shea and also, frances townsend who is former homeland security adviser for president bush and currently serves on homeland security boards. so this would be a huge propaganda victory, and not only able to get this convicted terrorist out of jordan out of custody, but a huge propaganda victory to see isis e negotiating with the nation state. state. >> exactly the point, and they are going one step further to not only establishing the islamic state as caliphate but to be recognized by a arab station and japan in the mix. so it has strategic effects in the third world with this prisoner swap. >> and does this have any effects on isis's part and jordan's part? >> yes, i will be frank. this very woman was part of the ransom demand of one of the major case and one of the big kidnapping rings, including the carol kidnap and this ring we have been tracking and dismantled after hard effort. they had this woman, this very same woman sawji who was offered up but not released and ten years later, they are are getting the wish, and drawing a linkage of isis and the or gyp of the roots which is al qaeda. >> and fran for the u.s. which is obviously, critical of making deals in the past, hard to have a leg to stand on given the prisoner exchange with bowe bergdahl. >> right, anderson, the u.s. is going to be making the argument that what they did was to engage with the taliban to get one of their own back, but you are jordan you are peeling the same way about the jordanian pielot. the real problem of this is the moral hazard because once you begin to engage in the swaps, the u.s. with the taliban or jordan with isis what it does is to encourage the groups to grab other citizens and not just japanese and jordanians in the case of isis but this is the what these guys learn is ha they can get media at the tension, and get listened to and paid attention, and it is a propaganda victory, and the engagement it and the notion of a successful swap em boeldboldens them. >> and does the change of a deadline make sense to you? >> well it is part of the game. they are ratcheting up the stakes here. mistown miss townshend is 100% correct, and she is a ha hair woeeroine to the cause, and she will be recruiting more women to the propaganda cause, and this is successful and it will be successful in the future, and this is the slippery slope as we are losing the position to stand by successions, because we can no longer do that when we are not holding to same standard and how can we ask the international community to do the same? >> and fran when it is prisoners, and as compare odd the european countries who pay? >> well the seeding of whether it is money or people is the problem. and this woman that the dan is talking about, if she is released to isis, she is going to kill people. her husband was a martyr and she is a widow and her brother was a direct lieutenant of zarquawi, and people may are recall this 2005 bombing, and you mentioned the 57 killed anderson and this is a wedding that her cohorts went into and detonated themselves and killing people in a hotel of iman and i work d worked the cases in the white house, and she is a really, really bad person and she will kill and absolutely she will kill. >> and i remember being on the air and covering this bombing at the india hotel in iman, and will is a right-- there is a right for every country to do whatever they determine, but is there behind the scenes directives going on to say, hey, it is a chink in to a armor if they make a concession? >> yes anderson, one would hope that they are making the argument not to do it, but again, you pointed out with the fact that the u.s. engaged with the bergdahl swap with the taliban make ss it difficult. and the other piece is that these sort of prisoner exchanges in the region are not that unusual, and israel will go through the large massive e negotiations, and when the prisoner exchanges with hamas for example, and so within this region, it is not unusual, but it is the notion of doing wit with a brutal group, and by the way, with no proof of life, we are going through this negotiation, and we don't know if the hostages are not already dead. >> and thatis is interesting, dan that it is so public, and there has not been a proof of life. >> again, they are violating the rule of negotiation without a proof of life. to do a hostage mission, you have to have a proof of life to do anything in the step ss, so again, they are holding the world hostage by doing this release of the japanese terrorist who may with be the only one alive, and she may be release and we may not get the jordanian back in the first place, but it is blowing the whole behind the scenes negotiation of this world that was not so wide open but we have kind of played the cards, and now we are going to be seeing more of this in the future, and i have been predicting it since the bergdahl release, and it is coming to fruition sadly. >> and how does it work? they say bring her to the turkish border by a time tomorrow mosulle time and would then the idea being that she is handed over and some undetermined other time, the other two hostages are handed over or would it have to be and you would think simultaneous. >> well yes. if rational rule of law is ap applied here, they don't, and that remains to be seen, and the mexican standoff as they let the girl go and let the jordanian pilot go and the cold war swap, and france's powers and the swap we let go back in the day, and there is no guarantees in the group, and regardless as fran brought up the points, it is a propaganda coupe, and another victory for eyeisis. >> thank you, dan for your expertise, and fran townsend as well. >> and now, coming up she said she stood her ground against her abusive hudz husband and now she is going to talk about the e deal she made to secure her freedom. the details are ahead. tums smoothies starts dissolving the instant it touches your tongue ...and neutralizes stomach acid at the source. ♪ tum, tum tum tum...♪ smoothies! only from tums. thanks. ♪ ♪ [ male announcer ] fedex® has solutions to enable global commerce that can help your company grow steadily and quickly. great job. 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[ applause ] >> with time already served, marissa alexander was able to walk away but now begins her house arrest. marissa alexander joins us now. first of all, how does it feel to be how does it feel to be out of prison finally? >> relief. absolute relief. i'm excited, i'm happy, i'm grateful. those are just many of the emotions that i feel. that is how i feel to be out finally. >> you haven't given an interview since 2012. at this point, what do you want people to know about what happened to you? >> i think that it's just one of those things that it's unfortunate, but i can see that -- i'm out now. i'm looking forward to the future. i don't really look back to what has happened. it wasn't easy, but i'm much stronger. i am in a better place than i was. i'm just looking forward to moving forward. >> i want to ask you a little about your case. i mean, you tried repeatedly and failed to use stand your ground as a defense. at this point, do you still believe you were standing your ground? you still believe that? >> knowing what i know now, i don't really feel any different about it. i guess really at the end of the day it doesn't matter. you know what i mean? i think that now that i'm out, i can't go back out to change what has been decided or what is decide d decided, i am grateful that i am out now, and i can put it to bed. >> i know you were offered a three-year plea deal before your original trial. you wanted to take your case to trial. do you regret that decision at all? that's a tough decision to make. >> not -- it is. i mean, going to trial is not easy. i don't regret it. you know, it wasn't -- it wasn't a decision that came lightly. but i believed in my innocence. that's the reason i took it to trial. not only that, the three years, you know, didn't want to take charges for the children. and didn't feel -- i just didn't want to do that. so that is the reason why the original plea i did not -- i did not accept it. >> when you heard, first of all, the sentence of 20 years, what goes through your mind in that case? you had just had a baby. >> you know, you can't even digest something like that. i can't tell you that i did -- and when i did it was extremely difficult. i don't believe i ever really accepted that sentence. i believe i was going to fight. but it's not something you can ever really digest. >> so what made you decide that second time at the time of the retrial to take the plea deal? essentially it was the same one they offered you before. three years in prison. what was the thought process on saying, you know, i'm going to take this plea deal this time? >> well, for me, it ultimately boiled down to i needed to guarantee my children that i would be home. and i mean, that is the primary reason why i made that decision. >> you know, obviously some of your supporters, people believe in you, believe that race, that sexism played a role in your incarceration. do you believe that? >> i could go into it, but it wouldn't do me any good right now. i can tell you that my primary focus, the energy and effort is moving forward and not spending a lot of time on the negative aspect of it. it can get really draining. i really look forward to the future about it. i just kind of don't spend time in that area. >> as mentioned, you gave birth to a baby girl before there ordeal started for you. she's now 4 1/2. >> yes. >> to be with her, what is that like? >> when i left rihanna, she was six months old. when i was able to connect with her again, she was 2 years old. that is the time when i was able to finally see her, sit her in my lap. outside a glimpse of pictures of her, i didn't -- i didn't get to see her. to -- you can imagine just unbelievable joy to be able to see her. and then when i came home on bond to be able to connect and bond with her. and i mean, we're in love. so i'm grateful to be able to have, you know, the relationship that we have. she knows that i'm her mom and that i'm not going anywhere. >> what's next for you? what do you hope to do? >> well, i mean, to be honest with you, i've been looking forward to just being able to close this book -- not even a chapter, i want the book closed. and i just want a whole new book. >> marissa, it's a pleasure to talk to you. i'm happy to talk to you out and -- and i wish you nothing but good things for you and your family. thank you very much. >> i thank you very much for covering my story and taking the time to speak with me. thank you very much. >> she's amazingly optimistic. having heard that, i want to get legal perspective on the choice that confronted alexander. the question is, what would you do at home, as well as the fight over stand your ground that continues. senior legal analyst jeffrey toobin joins us. why would angela corey say we're go for 60 years over the 20 years? >> because corey's incompetent. because she is vicious, and because she is a disgrace to the prosecutors around the country. this is one of the gross estest incompetence of power i have e ever seen and this sis a blot on all criminal prosecution in this country. >> her lawyers got a ruling from the trial judge that they could introduce evidence of all the abuse that -- that gray had imposed on other women. so that's the trial setting that it was going to happen. that got angela corey's office to negotiate down to essentially time served in this kind of house arrest. people should know, it's not house arrest like people -- and the stand your ground amendment was amended for cases like this. >> and fortunately, this case has prompted outrage in florida and around the country, and that change in the law is one, is one effect of this. it is too late for her tole help her. >> it has to be such a -- i mean a gut-wrenching decision to decide to take a plea serve another 65 days in jail and then you get out and you have a record and under house arrest for two years or maintain your innocence innocence, and risk 60 years in jail. >> it is a heartbreaking dilemma, and one thing tipped this case. angela corey was not even negotiating i could tell in good faith, but her lawyers, including faith gay of quinn e emanuel and working pro bono on this case, and they got a rule from the trial judge that they could introduce evidence of all of the abuse that gray had imposed on other women, and so that is the trial's setting that it was go g toing to happen, and that got angela's cory's office to negotiate down to house arrest. people should know, it's not house arrest like people remember junior soprano from -- "the sopranos." she can go to school. she's studying to be a paralegal. she can go to church. she can have medical appointments. she's not confined to her house, but she's not free either. >> to supporters who say, look, race played a role or sexism played a role, that if it was a guy who fired a warning shot against another guy or a white person who fired a white person against an african-american, what do you say? >> i don't know. but it's suggestive of that interpretation. >> sad. we wish her the best with her new life. i find it fascinating that having gotten a glimpse of the legal system like this she wants to help others going through the legal system by becoming a paralegal. >> i think she knows a lot of law already. no doubt about it. >> jeff toobin, thank you so much. ahead, coastal new england had barely begun digging out -- tonight new england is being told to brace for a new winter storm less than 48 hours away even as it's still digging out from record snowfall. and this a dramatic birth story a ahead, twins born in the midst of the storm. you only know in a fire to get out, to escape and now ok you are outside and you are safe but what do you do now and that's where the red cross came in... . we ran out of the house just wearing our pajamas. at that point just to even have a toothbrush that i could call my own was so important... . ...you know it just makes you feel like a person again. every 8 minutes the american red cross responds to a home fire or other emergency. you can help. please donate now. tonight new england is being told to brace for a new winter storm less than 48 hours away even as it's still digging out from record snowfall. this of the scene across much of coastal new england today. the national weather service says the same kind of storm system that dumped all that snow, drop as much eight more inches of snow on some of the worst hit areas. take a look at a time-lapse video of a deck in berlin, massachusetts, buried yesterday. first you see it, then basically you don't. the storm derailed countless plans for people, travelers. some things can't be stopped including twins who were determined to be born. an amazing story. randy kaye has it. >> this is gabriel lee and aliyah serai. my angels. >> reporter: twins born sunday night. while it may not sound newsworthy, their mom went into labor as parts of the northeast were getting pounded by a blizzard. paticia lives in worcester, massachusetts, where the storm dumped nearly three feet of snow. how bad was the weather at that point? >> goodness, the snow was going everywhere. up your nose in your hair and under my dress and everywhere. >> reporter: she was not due for another five week but the contractions were so strong by monday night, she was having trouble breathing, and she had a big problem. >> our car was under snow, and so there was no driving, no nothing, and no cabs. >> reporter: her boyfriend called an ambulance. a travel ban was in effect except for emergency vehicles. >> one of the paramedics guys slipped on the ice outside my house. i didn't think -- i didn't know if we were going to -- make it to the hospital in time. >> reporter: she was right. her water broke just minutes after she got into the ambulance. >> i felt another big urge to push, and my son was right there breech. and i felt another big push and there he was right there on the stretch stretcher. >> reporter: she had the umbilical cord cut in the ambulance. baby gabriel was perfect, born at 9:24 p.m. monday. paticia hoped to get to the hospital before his sister pushed out, too. two minutes later she was in the o.r. at umass memorial medical center. >> she came out, like everything was so perfect. >> reporter: baby aaliyah was born 11 minutes after gabriel, and both of them weighing 4 pounds and 11 ounces. both of them born 40 minutes of her going into labor. >> hi, angel! hi, aaliyah . >> reporter: how does it feel to have him in your arms? >> it feels so wonderful. just want to squeeze them. oh, my goodness. >> reporter: for now, gabriel and aaliyah are being kept in special incubators to help keep them warm as they grow. >> my baby. >> reporter: when they grow up, they're sure to have quite a story to tell. >> that's for sure. randi joins us from umass memorial medical center. beautiful little babies there. how is everybody doing? >> reporter: everybody's doing really well, anderson. paticia, the mother, went home today. the two little ones are here bep hind me. they're probably going to be here another week. she's anxious to get them home because she has three more children including, believe it or not, a 1-year-old. she's anxious for them to meet. one final note, they weren't the only babies born at the hospital during the blizzard machine night. we're told six other babies were born in the same time period from 4:00 p.m. to midnight, including another set of twins. >> incredible. randi, thank you very much. great report. just ahead, former new england patriot aaron hernandez is back on trial for murder starting tomorrow. just how strong is the case against him next. bell's chunky soup. it's new chunky beer-n-cheese with beef and bacon soup. i love it. and mama loves you. ♪ ♪ e financial noise financial noise financial noise financial noise now with the xfinity tv go app, you can watch live tv anytime. it's never been easier with so many networks all in one place. get live tv whenever you want. the xfinity tv go app. now with live tv on the go. enjoy over wifi or on verizon wireless 4g lte. plus enjoy special savings when you purchase any new verizon wireless smartphone or tablet from comcast. visit comcast.com/wireless to learn more. crime and punishment report, barring another blizzard, former nfl player aaron hernandez goes on trial for murder tomorrow in boston. just days before his former teammates head to the super bowl. the new england patriots dropped their star tight end after he was charged in the 2013 shooting death of another athlete. two top team officials are on the state's list of potential witnesses. now just three years ago, hernandez seemed unstoppable. his star was rising. tonight, it is a very different story. susan candiotti has the latest. >> reporter: the last time the new england patriots played in the super bowl in 2012, aaron hernandez was on the field. this time, he's sidelined. on trial for murder, pleading not guilty. if his former bosses, team owner bob kraft and coach bill belichick take the stand, they are expected to testify about their conversations with the super star. the timing's critical. just days after the bullet-riddled body of odin lloyd was found, hernandez returns to the patriots' gillette stadium. the media watching. a law enforcement source says kraft and belichick talked face to face with hernandez. hernandez flat the-out denies he had anything to do with lloyd's murder. and the source says he tells the coach the same thing -- he wasn't there. former teammate, patriots' wide receiver, matt slater trying to make sense of it. >> as well as the families involved in the situation. a lot of people were affected by the situation. they're all in my prayers. >> reporter: at first, it seems there's a mountain of circumstantial evidence against the star tight end who's pleaded not guilty. 18 months later, the case isn't the same. >> the universe of damning evidence has shrunk. >> reporter: shrunk thanks to a defense team scoring some victories. arguably the biggest, a text message from lloyd to his sister about who he was with sent minutes before he was killed. lloyd writes, "nfl, just so you know." a judge ruling it's inadmissible, not enough proof lloyd thought he was going to die. >> if the jury believes that aaron hernandez was with odon lloyd right before odin lloyd was killed, it's not a leap to conclude aaron hernandez was involved in the murder of odin lloyd. >> reporter: yet prosecutors say they have surveillance videos of the victim getting into a car with hernandez and co-defendants earnest wallace and carlos ortiz who have also pleaded not guilty to murder. video of that same car driving into an industrial park, and later, hernandez back home less than a mile away holding what prosecutors say is the alleged murder weapon. but it was never found. >> there is no murder weapon. or -- a witness that's credible would testify that aaron hernandez did it. there is no such witness. >> reporter: the judge also blocking any mention hernandez is indicted for two more murders in boston. prosecution witness alexander bradley can't say he's suing hernandez for allegedly shooting him in the face a few months before lloyd's murder. will the state overcome any weaknesses? >> there still is a good amount of circumstantial evidence against aaron hernandez. it just isn't the slam-dunk case that it seemed to be. >> susan candiotti joins us now. it's fascinating to see how the ever has been disallowed, shifted. the fiancee, hernandez' fiancee, is there any chance that she could testify against him? she easton state's witness list, right? >> reporter: that's right. it is certainly possible. but the question is, will she stand by her man? we know that she met with prosecutors recently. and that immunity was discussed. now this is important because prosecutors suspect that she threw away the murder weapon. but will she flip on her fiance? it's a secret until she takes the stand. defense attorneys for hernandez, you can imagine, anderson, they want to know that answer right now. >> yeah. susan, thank you very much for the report. appreciate it. ahead, a new warning in the growing measles outbreak that began at disneyland. welcome back to showdown! i'm jerry rice here discussing the big race between the tortoise and the hare. my guest is stephanie branton. jerry, i'm going bunny. shocker. not really. you see, the hare's "thoracic limbs" allow for greater extension and elongated strides. look for the hare to leverage this advantage. ok. 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>> what he means is that right now it is containable. they can track all the cases, track where they've been, who they've had contact with. but at a certain point, with the disease that's as contagious as measles, it is really, really hard to do that, and i want to give you an example of how contagious it is, anderson. if i had measles, i walked into a room and walked out, and you walked into the room two hours later, you could get measles if you had not been vaccinated. people are contagious even when they're not sick yet. if someone has measles and hasn't yet developed the signs, they're still contagious. they could be running around spreading it. >> if you have measles, just because you've been in the room, somebody coming into the room two hours later can get it. you don't have to sneeze or anything? >> right. those droplets can hang in the air for hours. we talked about how tough to say spread ebola, you node to have close contact, measles is the opposite. >> how many cases are there throughout the u.s. now is. >> about 67 cases that we know of in the united states. more than 50 of them are in california. but as you see, there's also, you know, fewer numbers in other states in the west and in nebraska. mexico has one case, as well. >> incredible. elizabeth, thanks for tracking for us. we want to get the latest on stories we're following. we have a "360" bulletin. anderson two israeli soldiers are dead after fighting in the border of syria and israel. hezbollah fired anti-tank missells at israeli military vehicles killing the two soldier s and injuring seven others. the idf returned artillery fire. a spanish peacekeeper was also killed, although it is not known whether that was from israeli or hezbollah fire. the libyan branch of isis has claimed responsibility for the attack on a luxury hotel in tripoli that killed ten people, including an american contractor. an official says two attackers were also killed. fire officials in maryland say an electrical failure that ignited a dry christmas tree caused the deadly fire at an annapolis mansion earlier this month. four children and their grandparents died in the fire. and dash cam video shows an incredible scene outside of pittsburgh. a shoplifting suspect in the back of a police car crawled through the front seat and somehow managed to drive the car with her hands cuffed behind her back. police say she drove 100 miles per hour for nearly ten miles and then ditched the car. police caught up with her. now she faces a lot more charges. incredible stuff. trying to figure out how she was able to drive that far that fast with her hands cuffed behind her back. anderson? >> if we can, i want to look at the video again. i don't get -- i mean, i guess she was driving with -- the steering with her knees somehow or shoulder? >> that's what i was thinking, too. if you watch the video, she apparently honks while she's -- you can hear it. she's honking at people. they're in her way. she even stopped at some point and asked somebody to drive for her. >> incredible. >> really bold. crazy. >> thank you very much. we'll be right back. 20th century city life. raiser of blood pressure. disrupter of supply chains. stealer of bedtime stories. polluter. frustrater. time thief. 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you were just a little girl, ten years old. >> we knew from the smell. it smelled like burning flesh and burning hair. and the smoke was rising high above the structure. and we actually knew that most of our families probably ended up here. the other people were in the barracks. first night we arrived, shade it, look there, see the smoke and the flames. our families must be burning right now. i said that's not possible. burning people? that is crazy. >> reporter: eva, this was the barrack that you lived in, something like this? >> yes. it was my home almost nine months. i entered the place and went to the latrine which of at the end of the barrack. there is the latrine floor, the scattered corpses of three children. right then and there i made a silent pledge thatly do anything and everything to not end up on the filthy latrine floor. >> reporter: eva, tell us what was going on in this building. >> we used to be brought here three times a week. they would tie both of my arms to restrict the blood flow and give me minimum of five injections into my right arm. the contents of those injections we didn't know then, nor do i know today. but after one of those injections, i became very ill. next morning, doctor mengele came in and turned to the doctors and said, laughing sarcastically, he said, "too bad. she's so young. she has only two weeks to live." later in the afternoon, a woman yelling at the top of her voice, "we are free, we are free, we are free." and from a distance, i could see lots of people, they were all will smiling. they gave us chocolate cookies and hugs. and this was my first day of freedom. my name is eva moses kor, i am a survivor of auschwitz. >> and wolf blitzer joins me now. it's just incredible. and still so incredible to hear the stories of people like eva. she's one of the few survivors you spoke with who actually says that she forgives the nazis. i find that -- the courage to do that extraordinary. >> me, too. when she told me that, it was amazing to me because i know a lot of survivors. and i know they'll never forgive. they'll certainly never forget. she says that if she weren't able to forgive, the nazis would have won. they would have won that part of her. so as a result, she has decided she is able to forgive. she's an amazing woman, i must say. the only reason she survived is when they took her off that cattle car with her sister, miriam, they were identical twins. the nazis needed identical twins for dr. mangele's so-called experiments. and they were shouting twins, twins. they were taken to one side. they survived. they were tortured with the experiments. they survived. but their parents, their grandparents, other brothers and sisters, all went to another side. they were immediately sent to gas chambers and the crematorium. she never saw her family ever again. >> i mean, to be experimented on at 10-years-old and to have come face to face with this monster, dr. mengele. for you, your paternal grandparents were both killed at auschwitz. this was your first time going there. how -- what was it like for you? >> it was amazing. i thought of going many times over the years. i never made it there for whatever reason. and i went there, you know, as you know, we were doing the pieces for cnn on our family history, our roots. i decided to go there then. i got involved not only in that piece, learning about my family's history, getting more details, more information, but i also got involved in helping cnn work on this documentary that's about to air. i'm really proud of cnn, that cnn, our excellent team, they put together this amazing one-hour documentary. it tells these stories of the survivors. their stories before the war, what life was like for them, during the war, the hell they went through, and then the lives they created after the war. such an inspiration to hear these stories. and i'm so proud that we all put it together. it's really, really powerful. >> i urge people to watch it. wolf blitzer, thank you very much. >> thank you. it is an amazing documentary. that does it for us. the following is a cnn special report. these gates marked the site of one of history's greatest horrors. >> we are in the biggest cemetery of the world here. >> during the holocaust, more than one million jews were murdered here at auschwitz. >> my aunts, uncles, everybody's dead now. >> part of hitler's plan to wipe out the jewish people. >> we saw my mother. she went straight to the gas chamber. >> liberated 70 years ago, only

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