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Gergen and david bruny. you just heard jon going through these crucial races. do you think don blankenship will be celebrating tonight? >> i dont know. we will count the votes as they come in. but certainly a possibility. and to underscore what jon king just said. if don blankenship who mitch mcconnell. keeping the senate in play. because you have these five states, indiana and west virginia are two of them where donald trump won by double digits. and democrats are running for re-election. and t...

Ris racest. some people are korean persons an some are african persons. its not any slander there. >> im basically trumpier than trump. >> okay, unfortunately for blanken ship, trump tuz ndoes n agree. he tweeted don blankenship cant win the general election in your state. no way. continued to say remember alabama. go to jon king first at the magic wall to break this race down. this is a crucial race. when we talk about the primary. what are you looking at? >> im looking >> i am looking at the a...

York the cohen matter and then you compare their argument last week in the eastern district of virginia and the manafort case, they were arguing a phenomenally broad mandate to allow themselves to proceed with the manafort prosecution. now judge ellis did not seem inclined to accept that. when you look at how broad muellers team is arguing, to then see them hand off the cohen piece suggests to me that a they dont think cohen had anything to do at the time they handed it off with the russian inve...

He will element certainly have to because of that pressure. >> you live in interesting times. >> up next, our reporters usually empty their notebooks, this week, think playbook. >> jon, im here with some of my new friends in downtown houston. i spent three years as an atlanta falcons player even though the patriots have the best quarterback on the planet,ly tell you why my falcons have this thing. finally, this is the 51st season for the atlanta falcons, and this is super bowl li, this is the ye...

Take over, you do not know what is going on. >> was it loud? >> yeah, the moment it -- it was pretty loud. >> right now, its not only in san francisco, some worried families in seoul are waiting to hear the names of the passengers on the flight. its one of two major airlines based in south korea. just a bit ago, we were told that the two people killed in crash were chinese passport holders. anything new from the government officials there? >> reporter: we know that the plane originated in shangh...

From the recovery the response, to the investigation phase? >> reporter: well, we can tell you, jon, that south korean authorities are saying that the two people that died in the crash were chinese passport holders. and that they were found on the run way according to the fire cheer here in san francisco. now the question is, whether they were ejected from the aircraft, whether it made impact on the ground or if they succombed to their injuries as they exited the plane. we cannot tell you. nine ...

Question. it appears that the flight crew did an outstanding job getting those people off the plane. we can tell you that nearly 200 people, 191 passengers self evacuated, in other words, they were able to get on a bus, and then come to the terminal and half of them went to the hospital, those that thought their injuries were severe. those folks have now been allowed to leave the airport, presumablily they did speak to, whether it was an airline official or investigator on the ground to get thei...

And still buckled, the whole chair was crushed on the chairs behind. >> a man with an extraordinary story. and he said he is very lucky. he was sitting next to the exit doors and helping other passengers as they were sliding out of those chutes and he said, like we heard from dan simon, the fire did not start until most of the passengers were off the plane, they say they very fortunate, a lot of the passengers look quite dazed. the most serious patients came to this hospital. 15 were admitted ou...

Make it to the terminal. that would suggest to you that nearly 200 of the passengers seem to be in good condition. 77 korean nationals and 141 chinese nationals and 61 united states citizens. so that is where we are, jon and as i said, the nt symptom b crew expected to land tomorrow. >> some of the information they will want is from the first responders that got there. the fire chief has been briefed a few times, when we see the foam and the smoke coming from it, what was the take of the first r...

On time and operating, everything has returned to normal. remark able that you had this incident occurring 12 hours ago. the ntsb has a crew in route to san francisco, expected to land at midnight local time. of course, they will start investigating the scene at day break. trying to piece together what in fact happened. jon, a as we have been reporting and as you just mentioned the tail, according to the witnesses, seemed to make impact first. with the -- with the front of the aircraft pitched u...