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Ago the number of missing was at 16 as is frequently the case in situations like this where there is a tragedy people begin to run frantically understandably so. looks as if a number of people ran into the terminal. again, just one person unaccounted for in san francisco. two dead. scores of others hurt as the investigation begins. i want to bring in noelle walker, a reporter across the bay, i understand, noelle. is that where you are? >> we are. we are just across. i can give you a vantage poin...

Again, all of this still unfolding in san francisco. and that is that plane, sitting on the tarmac at san francisco international airport, the top of the plane, the fuselage, is burned. the wings pretty much had intact. most of it intact. you can see some of the pieces of the wing there have fallen apart, and i would imagine some came completely off when this plane crashed. the wing on the right side of the plane is still there. the one on this side as you can see from this passenger photograph,...

Right side of the plane. the one on the left side is not there. where is it? people have been asking me on social media and asking others. we dont know. the officials can tell us that. i would imagine its somewhere close to the airport, and that its at least partially intact. according to national transportation safety board former vice chairman, robert francis, whos here with us as well, he said part of the information, much of it, if not most of it, will come from the flight data recorders, th...

Concern right now more or as much as the fact that people were on this plane and are certainly very scared. >> all right. dana bash, stand by. were going to need you throughout the evening here on cnn. again, breaking news here on cnn. a large commercial airliner crashed and burned just a short time ago at the san francisco international airport. youre looking at pictures from the scene now. you can see the top of the fuselage burned out here. you can also see on a wider shot that there is no ru...

Time after the impact. we are all hoping everyone made it off before the flames consumed it. i covered another crash not unlike this in toronto several years ago, maybe 2004, 2005 where it was an air france airbus. similar thing, ran off the runway, broke up, everybody got off before the plane was consumed by fire. we are certainly hoping and praying. you look at the video, the tail section is gone. there should be one engine on each of the wings. you dont see them, at least not where they are s...

This because ive been -- before i ask you about precise things on the screen, i want to know if youre watching these images unfold. are you? >> yes, i am. >> what we identified earlier as the tail of that plane, is that accurate? are we pretty confident thats the tail of the plane? >> absolutely. one of things if you look at the rocks, the rock pile, you can see debris. and then shortly after that, you can see the horizontal stabilizers from the airplane. so that is the tail section of the airpl...

This one is live picture. this is a live picture. you can see the tail section of this plane is gone. you can see the top of the fuselage is burned. the wings are mostly intact. parts of them, though, have fallen off. parts of the plane fell off when this crash landing happened there. there you can see it spread across the runway there. what appears to be landing gear on the runway. youre looking at those pictures. the stairs were deployed. the slides were deployed for people to get off of this ...

>> both the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder are in the tail section of the aircraft. >> and so if this is -- does that contribute, another possible problem, a bigger problem, because the tail section of that aircraft broke off? >> i think that would be a very remote chance. those recorders are really tough. they are geared to go through accidents. they are geared to withstand fire. so, i think that id be very surprised in this case if they were not good data from the recorder...

Is gone, and as you look at this picture right now, you can see there is no tail section, there is no rudder on this plane. we did see the emergency slides deploy as well. and were getting all sorts of new information here as well. im being told just at the top of the hour in just a few minutes theres going to be a press conference in san francisco. theres going to be another press conference at the bottom of the hour at 5:30 eastern time from washington and the faa. we can also tell you this, a...

There you see the debris field, obviously n.t.s.b. investigators if they are not already on the ground they do have an office there, they will be there picking up and going through the debris to try to figure out what happened. there you see the back end and it is absolutely missing the back end of the plane including the tail and three sections of the tail section including the rudder, the elevator are in a different part of the runway. lets go to rick folbaum standing by live with details abou...