beach. at a news conference just now, city and navy officials say std they know of no fatalities, even though the fire after the crashed burned at least 40 apartments. also, the city's mayor tells cnn at least nine people including the two pilots were injured, and none of the injuries are considering ligfe-threatening. a virginia beach hospital reported it treated seven people, and except for one of the pilots all have been released. a navy spokesman revealed new details of the crash. >> shorting after noon we had a training flight, a two-seat hornet take off from naval air station yoeoceania. shortly after take-off that aircraft suffered a catastrophic mechanical malfunction. the specifics of which i don't want to speculate on. however, it resulted in the forced ejection of that air crew. both of those air crew ejected safely. the front seater was a student pilot. the back seater was an experienced instructor. it resulted in their forced ejection and the lost of the aircraft, which impacted over my right shoulder here. >> the fire chief in virginia beach says a primary search of the five damaged buildings turned up no reports of fatalities. a secondary search is now under way. one of the first people to reach the crash scene took these pictures of the plane's shattered tail but also saw the fire ball immediately after the crash. >> i was playing tennis when i felt a huge plume of black smoke of coming off. i dropped my racquet, ran over to my bag and grabbed my phone and ran. as we came on the scene, large fire balls were coming up, there's ambulances coming in from everywhere. i hopped the fence to go around to the side of the building where there weren't very many people. through the smoke you can see the end of the plane just sitting in a court yard. so i started taking photos and buildings were starting to collapse. i did not see anyone running out. i was told that there's a bunch of senior citizens that live in those buildings, which it worries me a lot. it was just unbelievable. law enforcement was really quick to get on the scene, but the amount of jet fuel that you could smell on the ground, it didn't seem right. these planes are flying over the virginia beach area all the time. it seems these past few months they've been getting more and more daring with their maneuvers. i play tennis. it's only about a mile away. they're starting to fly lower over us. it seems like they're going at faster speeds. it seems like they're pushing these planes a bit too far around the residential area. >> but again, we should remind our viewers no fatalities reported. all the injuries seem to be not life-threatening. now, pat cavanagh says one of the crewmen that ejected from the jet came down in his backyard. >> i was in the apartment and i heard three big, loud booms. so i got up from the couch and went to my back door, and when i looked out, i saw a pilot on the ground, parachute hanging from the building. he had facial lacerations, so i ran outside to see what i could do to help him. i'm retired rescue. i didn't know the plane had hit the building until i saw the smoke. then we had to get a bunch of neighbors together to get him out of the area, pick them up and take them to safety. >> was he able to speak at all or was he saying anything? >> he apologized very much for hitting our complex, and i told him, don't worry about it. everything is going to be fine. let's just get you out of here to safety. >> were you able to move him without any issue? was he hurt otherwise? >> no, i checked him over. i did a body survey on him. he was in shock still strapped to his seat. so a bunch of neighbors, we just picked him up and drug him through the other side of the parking lot away from the fire until rescue could get on the scene. >> virginia congressman scott rigil represents the district where the jet went down. he's a member of the house armed services committee and has been in touch with civilian and military officials today. what can you add to the body of knowledge here? candad cana >> candy, it's been a challenging day but a remarkable day, given that the primary search has indicated there's no fatalities, our prayers -- it looks like they may have been answered here. we will know, i think, with more certainty as time goes on, but the hampton roads community, virginia beach today is the focal point here. it's a remarkable community. the number one district in the country in terms of men and women in uniform active duty and retired and reach out and when something like this happens the outpouring the community is remarkable. pastors and local businesses called me. our focus is making sure the families are okay who have been displaced. >> absolutely. a lot of people need a place to sleep tonight. i agree with you. we look at those pictures. i know you've seen them up close and personal. you look at the pictures, and you just can't imagine how no one was kimmed in this. it's quite the miracle. >> you're a member of the house arm aed services committee. there are reports out there that the f-18 has been troublesome in year, there have been other crashes. can you shed any light on that? do you know of that? ? >> the f-18 has a remarkable record in termts of safety and in terms of combat effectiveness. we believe and i believe the evidence in records and data indicates that it's an extremely reliable plane. a real backbone of our arsenal, certainly on our aircraft carriers. so we'll look at the evidence, but it's got a tremendous track record. we're very proud to have them at oceania. i'm confident we'll move forward with the aircraft. this very difficult incident today is not going to deter that. >> congressman rigell, we know that the base closing commission had wanted to close this particular base. it suggested it because of, you know, the buildup of so many things around it. obviously, worried about the danger of something like this, the safety record has been great, and this is the first incident we know there. is that a continuing conversation in that area, or are the people there happy to have the base and the base happy to be there? >> oh, absolutely. the partnership between the navy and virginia beach is extremely strong. so much work has been done in that area over the last several years, including support from the governor, governor mcdonnell. the mayor has led the effort there. our focus there today is not so much about encoachment because we have a remarkable track record there, but really on helping the families that have been displaced. so many are without a home tonight, so the red cross, my office, local city and state officials are really reaching out to the families. >> virginia congressman scott rigell, the crash occurring in his district. thank you so much for your time tonight. we want to bring in pentagon correspondent barbara starr. just last hour a navy captain said at a news conference this was a catastrophic mechanical malfunction. witnesses say they say flaming coming out from the right wing. what could athat mean? >> i think his words are very critical here candy. the plane crash less than two miles from the runway perhaps just a few seconds after take-off at a relatively low altitude. the crew didn't even have time to really get the flight under way before it ran into this malfunction. there were reports now of flaming coming out from the plane and fuel coming out, and by all accounts this was not a controlled fuel dump. this was related to whatever catastrophic malfunction the plane suffered. so you're seeing both fuel and flame just seconds after take-off as it goes into the building. this indicates a very extreme catastrophic malfunction. they're going to want to get to that flight recorder as fast as possible. they're going to want to secure every piece of debris they can find and do the forensics to see what clues they can get about what happened and what the crew can tell them. one student pilot although qualified to be in the cockpit and one instructor pilot. >> we know that both of them sustained injuries but not life-threatening but one is released. we learned there was not a purposeful fuel dump, and so reports that eyewitnesses say, hey, we fall fuel coming out of that plane is something that might point to this catastrophic malfunction. we also know that the pilots didn't have time to do much but eject. is that pretty much sum up what we know? >> yeah. it was interesting. i thought they used the words forced ejection. there was no choice here. the ejection set seats were activated. that rocket propelled charge under the seat lifting them out. the cockpit cover blowing them away. normally when you have an injection, you eject at a certain altitude so juror parachute lefts you float down to earth at least relatively saflly. here if they did, in fact, eject at a relatively low attitude, it's interesting to see how they survive. that could have been a catastrophe. a lot of luck, a lot of skill, a lot of really good wishes apparently all coming together in this situation. >> pretty amazing. barbara starr at the pentagon, thank you as always. now to politics and the fallout from a job reports indicating the u.s. economy still isn't recovering quickly enough. the nation's unemployment rate is at its lowest people in three years, 8.2% p. they created 120,000 in march and that's half as many in february. president obama is quick to point out it is still an increase. >> our economy has now created more than 4 million private sector jobs over the past two years. more than 600,000 in the past three months alone. but it's clear to every american that there will still be ups and downs along the way, and that we've got a lot more work to do. >> a statement from mitt romney calls the job report weak and very troubling and proof the obama economy is not working. romney goes on to say after three years in office, the president has -- the president's excuses have run out. still ahead, we will speak with virginia's governor as we continue monitoring developments at the scene of today's navy jet crash in virginia beach. the deadly count jodown to what's supposed to be a peace deal. when bp made a commitment to the gulf, we knew it would take time, but we were determined to see it through. today, while our work continues, i want to update you on the progress: bp has set aside 20 billion dollars to fund economic and environmental recovery. we're paying for all spill- related clean-up costs. and we've established a 500 million dollar fund so independent scientists can study the gulf's wildlife and environment for ten years. thousands of environmental samples from across the gulf have been analyzed by independent labs under the direction of the us coast guard. i'm glad to report all beaches and waters are open for everyone to enjoy. and the economy is showing progress with many areas on the gulf coast having their best tourism seasons in years. i was born here, i'm still here and so is bp. we're committed to the gulf for everyone who loves it, and everyone who calls it home. make that new stouffer's steam meal so tasty. actually, the milk from my farm makes it so creamy, right dad. ah, but my carrots have that crunch. it's my milk in the rich sauce coating the chicken and the pasta. boys! don't you think stouffer's steam perfect bag should get some credit? 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[ female announcer ] new from stouffer's. farmers' harvest steam meals for one in the steam perfect bag seal in all the goodness. they taste so good, we'll bet the farm on it. nestle. good food, good life. carrots! creamy! reports from syria say government troops battled rebel forces in cities across the country in what's a deadly countdown to tuesday's sej you'lled troop pull-back from the government. in the last 24 hours almost 3,000 syrians fled to turkey. one woman that crossed the border tells cnn there's a massacre in the syrian city of taftanaz. that is backed bip the chilling video posted on youtube on thursday showing dozens of corpses laid out in a mass grave. joins us is the host of cnn's va read. >> khaira. thanks for joining us. we're coming up with a tuesday deadline to pull back troops as the u.n. has requested. can we trust him to do that? >> reporter: we can't trust him to do it. he's trying to inflict as much damage as possibly before that date, because clearly at that point he will at least try to make the pretense of drawing back or they will be some pull-back, and what is clearly happening is they're trying to inflict as much damage as they can. now, past tuesday if there were to be another uprising, another opposition forces were to mount some kind of challenge, i have no doubt they would beat it back. a u.n. cease-fire is not going to stop them from what appears to be a dedicated and brutal campaign to destroy the opposition. >> i talked to a couple of people in and around this particular situation today who said, listen, you know, in the end the u.n. can put in some monitors to make sure that a cease-fire holds. but eventually they have to go home, and they believe that president al assad will start over again. >> i think he'll wait them out. it's a big country, and you can't have observers everywhere. when you have cease-fires and freezes, you're freezing in place a highly unequal balance of power. on the one hand you have the government and intelligence forces. their informal informants and paid informants. there's a network of repression that syria has. that all stays in place. on the other hand, you have a ragtag opposition movement. so a cease-fire at this point is not going to do much more than kind of preserve the status quo, which is essentially in the government's -- to the government's advantage. >> let me ask you and turn you to another place in the middle east, and that is egypt. there was a meeting this week between u.s. officials and officials from the muslim brotherhood. what does that tell you about at that relationship going forward? >> it tells us that the muslim brotherhood is serious about governing. they're trying to reach out to the united states and to provide some assurances about the kind of government they will have, na there will be elements of continuity. they have made clear on several occasions that, for example, they intend to abide by the treaty with israel, the treaty that established relations and ends hostilities between egypt and israel, which is seen in some ways as the cornerstone of stability in the middle east. the fact that the brotherhood, which has long campaigned against that treaty for decades, would come up and privately assure and publicly made statements to the same effect, it would adhere to that treaty, that tells you they understand there is a difference between being an opposition party and dictatorship and being what is likely to be the single largest party in a new democratic egypt. >> does the u.s. have any realistic way they could go other than to accept this? there has been some hesitation, as you know, and to say, okay, we accept on the face of this that you all could certainly move forward and rule the country. we know the muslim brotherhood has put forward a presidential candidate. they said at first they wouldn't but now they have. how would that relationship likely shape up, and is that what we're seeing the beginnings and anticipation of a major role for the muslim brotherhood? >> yeah. you asked exactly the right question at the start, candy, which is can the u.s. do anything but accept this? the answer is really no. this is the outcome of a democratic process that we have applauded, the world has applauded. so far the muslim brotherhood has not done anything that suggests they would sub vert that democratic process. they may have policies we disagree with, but that's different from trying to dismantle democracy itself. it doesn't mean we're going to like every law they pass and every policy they uphold. we have it to engage with them, because that's our only leverage. it's to try to moderate thbehavr by forcing them to govern and making them possible. if we cut them off in some way, we would lose all our influence. remember, they would be able to find other sources of funding. we are now live inniing in a dit world than 20, 30 years ago. the muslim brotherhood can find money from saudi arabia, from qatar, from e you, from turkey. it's in our interest to have a relationship with us and they view us as a serious ally but at least a serious enter lock for. somebody with with a dialogue where we express our concerns and they express theirs. >> you can fareed every sunday morning at 10:00 a.m. eastern. next, appear update on this afternoon's breaking news. a navy jet crashes into a virginia beach apartment complex. also, kansas officials say the hoerld of a lottery ticket is looking forward to retirement. guys. come here, come here. 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