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Suspended, that the egyptian military has to set a timetable for elections and a new constitution, and then we should evaluate whether to continue the aid or not. >> as news of mohamed elbaradeis appointment as interim prime minister reaches egyptians, thousands of supporters have deposed mohamed morsi are protesting in cairo. our senior international correspondent ben wedeman is live in cairo. ben, what more do you know about that situation and the swearing in? >> reporter: well we know its goi...

Its ambulances, any kind of first responder apparatus in place for such a landing, right? >> reporter: oh, i mean, until we know the nature on this, i mean, if this was an emergency landing that was declared, a dlird emergency landing, absolutely. an airport like sfo is amongst the finest in the world, if not the finest in the world in dealing with these long runways jutting out into the bay and into the ocean, extremely experienced. what were waiting for details are of course is the nature of w...

Lack of cloud cover, youre not going to have anything of this nature. lets move on and i want to show you a google earth to give you an idea of the flight approach and the angle of the approach. this asiana flight will come along the coast from the northwest. were going to spin around a little bit and finally come to an end an this dual area here. the night comes from the northwest and slides in and around and banks of course to the left, swinging over the water and approaches from this directio...

We can see the route it took on radar, the exact routing it took from incheon across the pacific to san francisco. looking at the planned route and mechanism of the route it took and well be waiting to hear what of course may have been a declared emergency or otherwise we just dont know at this point. >> we just dont know, happening just a short time ago, these are live pictures right now if youre just joining us, boeing 777, now we know to be of asiana airlines flight 214 from seoul, south kore...

Feeds pictures taken by people passengers after they evacuated from the aircraft. from this 777 lr, this plane was delivered in 2006. what seems to have happened judging by what anthony has said of course is that there has been a catastrophic landing but not a declared emergency. so far theres no evidence were seeing that. something obviously has happened upon landing which has caused the main gear to collapse and in doing so we still see the left wing. the right wing is where the fire has been ...

Moment when the main landing gear touched the runway, which caused the right side of the aircraft wing to obviously impact the ground, the plane to break up and this is what will be investigated. one of the important things here looking at the pictures, the plane will have landed with sufficient fuel on board, even though its going to a 6,000 trip from india and seoul, it will have had sufficient fuel on board which is what youre looking at in the fire for the plane to go to an alternative desti...

And now you see the debris field here. we understand there have been some emergency slides that have been deployed. we dont know how many people were on the flight and were able to evacuate. you were able to see the dousing of the flames and the smoke and the first spooneders now trying to go through, look at, assess what potentially may have happened. now weve got on the line with us jim tillman an aviation expert and retired pilot and of course mr. tillman we dont know a whole lot of informati...

May have been on board but this asiana airlines flight boeing 777 confirmation of it crashing there at san francisco airport, of course were trying to work our sources to find out exactly what may have happened here. these images right now coming from our affiliate ktvu. are these live images right now? okay, these are indeed live images right now. you see the plumes of smoke there. most likely they have ambulances on the way to that strip, that landing strip where that plane was making that eme...