Transcripts For KGO This Week With George Stephanopoulos 201

KGO This Week With George Stephanopoulos July 7, 2013

Are returning to the scene right now. Both of the socalled black boxes that record flight information data and the pilots voices are on their way to washington, d. C. For analysis. This morning the two passengers killed in the crash are being identified at 16yearold girls from china. They were part of a group of middle School Students and teachers taking part in a summer camp in los angeles. They had also planned to visit Stanford University first. This morning at least 49 of the people injured in the crash are in bay area hospitals in critical condition. Two of the runways at sfo are still closed this morning and will likely remain so for the next several days. Passengers can expect long delays, as well as Flight Cancellations again today. We are learning a lot more this morning about the search for answers in the fatal airliner crash. As we mentioned, the National Transportation safety board is on the scene and their south Korean Counterparts are on the way. We are joined live from sfo. Matt, you had a oneonone interview with the head of the agency this morning . Yes, i did. And i was told that the National Transportation safety board, the faa and airport officials are meeting behind closed doors right now. They are expected to update the press on the latest here at sfo. Now heres a look inside the terminal in just the past hour. Many of the people who were supposed to fly out yesterday after the crash were rebooked on flights today. This morning i also did the oneonone interview with the chairman of the National Transportation safety board, Deborah Hersman. She told me they covered the flight cockpit recorders and voice recorder and they are on their way to washington d. C. They are important in determining the cause of the crash. People will be looking at the human side of things, look at operating aircraft, rules, regulars, looking at human performance, they will be auditioning the to be pit voice recorder to see about the crew interaction. Heres some pictures taken by the National Transportation safety board overnight of investigators doing their first sight investigation of the asiana plane. Heres a picture of Deborah Hersman and bill english getting a closer look at the wreckage. Witnesses say the asiana plane from south korea slammed into runway 28, breaking off its tail and catching fire before coming to a stop. The chairman told me the Investigation Team is usually on the scene for about a week for an accident like this one. She told me that they are expected to update the press at a briefing at 2 00 this afternoon. Reporting live at sfo, matt keller, abc7 news. We will be there. Thank you, matt. The chinese consulate in San Francisco is opening at 10 00 this morning to help survivors of the sfo crash get new passports or whatever paperwork they may need and to help them with any other problems, as well. They have set up two phone numbers for families to call. Boeing of the numbers are there on your screen and we also have them posted at abc7news. Com. New video just in showing a fine forming right now at the Asiana Airline counter at sfo. People are waiting to catch the next flight to seoul, south korea. They say yesterdays flight is pressure in their minds but it wont keep them from flying. You are going to have concerns after what happened, but i would hope everything goes well. What can you do . I mean mike king, you heard from him, is visiting the u. S. From seoul. He said he still feels safe flying. We also have new information on the two young passengers who died here as part of the school group. Abc7 news Cornell Bernard is live in the newsroom with a heartbreaking picture and details. Cornell. Were learning the two passengers killed were chinese nationals. They were coming to california to spend the summer. Boeing were 16 years old. They were ye meng yuan, who just celebrated her 16th birthday ten years ago and the second victim is wang lin jia. They were part of a Group Visiting the china. The sad picture is coming to us from china news of the parents being comforted in a school. They rushed to the school upon getting a call she had been killed in the asiana plane crash. Meanwhile many survivors were ses courted through the sfo terminal by police. One woman appeared to have a small bruise on her face and another man was seen wearing a sling. He had a broken collarbone. Passengers said it all seemed like the crash happened in slow motion. They say the noise of the crash was deafening as they hit the runway and the tail section broke off. Many passengers said the flight attendants acted quickly deploying the evacuation shoot, but no one panicked and people got out of the burning jet as fast as they could. There was a jolt and, you know, it dropped down and the whole plane was shaking. Were people screaming . Oh, yeah. What was the evacuation like . We used the shoots to get out. Amazing. They close the runway and the moment there was a loud bang and we knew something was wrong. Did you see fire or anything like that . Fire started at people were evacuating. Many passengers seen walk through the terminal wrapped in blankets provided by the salvation army. The two killed were part of a middle school group of students who planned to spend the summer in california. They were on their way to a summer camp in l. A. In fact at the West Valley Christian School in the san fernando valley. That school saying on their website they are shocked and sad end by the news and they are praying for all those on board the plane. The group was also scheduled to visit Stanford University, as well as other colleges in the bay area. Live in the newsroom, coel bernard, abc7 news. Thank you, cornell. Of the nearly 200 injured passengers from flight 214, 53 were taken to the San Francisco General Hospital. We spoke to a man sitting in the middle of the plane when it crashed. He was flying home to San Francisco after a business crip to korea. He said passengers had no idea the plane was about to crash and had no warning or time to react. You are tied up to your chair and again we are skipping on the runway and i thought we were going back up. I thought maybe we go back up and start flying again and try another landing. We went back down again, as i said, it felt like slow motion. The chair was crushed. He said he helped passengers get off the plane through a hole near the wing. The 39yearold father of two was released from San Francisco general after being treated for bruised cartilage in his chest. More flight delays can be expected today while the National Transportation safety board continues to investigate the crash of asiana flight 214. Right now arriving flights to sfo are being delayed an average of nine hours after their Traffic Management plan was put into effect. Ninehour delays. So there were long lines and there will still be long lines and long waits for many passengers who were delayed and had flights cancelled yesterday. Soon after the crash many got word quickly from ticket agents that getting out of the bay area would be difficult. However, a limited number of flights, mostly international, were able to go out later in the day after two runways reopened. Hundreds of people witnessed the horrifying sight of that plane going down. Crowds gathered along the milbrae waterfront after the crash a few happened to be there when they heard the actual impact. These are photos taken moments after impact showing evacuation shoots hanging from the plane. Passengers sliding down to the grassy area next to the runway. Others standing alongside the plane that had just carried them from south korea. I saw some carrying their baggage with them and they were going casually out of the plane. Just running out of the for the shoot. They were looking nowhere and running around. It wasnt until most, if not all of the passengers, were off the jet that it burst into blames, spewing all the smoke you see there into the sky. Firefighters smothered the flames with fountains of foam fire retardant. Some of the enduring images of the accident were taken by people near the airport when the plane crashed. This is a horrifying scene captured on camera by rebecca richardson. She took the photos as the heavy black smoke started coming from the plane. She shared the picturessuous. This shows just how lucky most the passengers were to escape the burning plane. Look at the emergency shoot on the left and you see it was shredded and deflated. Officials have not said why the shoot ended up like that. Local officials are describing the crash as a chaotic, very difficult scene to manage because of the amount of debris and fire that erupted following the crash. Fire chief joann hayeswhite said there was a lot of smoke and many passengers had to self evacuate the plane. They said they saw some passengers coming out of the water. People coming from the water, its my guess it was a burning plane so if they were burned or hot they may have gone over to the waters edge themselves after they self evacuated and put freshwater in their face or get into the water. Its a shallow area. An incredible amount of firefighters, more than 220 were called in to help in yesterdays crash. We were talking about the delays at sfo this morning. In addition to the crash investigation, we have a good bit of fog out there, low clouds. That can be helping. Lets get a check of the Weather Forecast with meteorologist lisa argen. Hi, carolyn, good morning to you. We are looking at the gray skies here. Thats the new bay bridge. Temperatures are mainly in the 50s. The sunshine is in the east bay. We have a west wind, fairfield, 20 miles an hour. Despite that were still look at a modest warmup inland. Heres a look at the visible picture. You see the fog mainly in the north bay. Its beginning to pull away from the south bay. We have partly sunny skies in san jose. The plan for the rest of the day calls for the clouds to stay at the coast. Upper 50s, low 60s there. Also mid70s oakland. So thats a warmup. Inland about five degrees warmer than yesterday. That will continue into the next couple days. Ill have a look at the extended outlook a bit later. Kristin, carolyn. Lisa, thank you. And our coverage of the crash at sfo, due that that this week with George Stephanopoulos will air today at 4 00. And what we are learning about the planes pilots and the crash history of Asiana Airlines. And how passengers left stranded by the flight delays and cancellations at sfo after the crash quickly copied with the tragedy. First we leave you with another live picture of the wreckage of flight 214 as federal investigators begin the painstaking job of trying to figure out what happen welcome back, everyone. Its 8 14 on this sunday morning. This is a a live look showing you San Francisco international airport, scene of the deadly plane crash yesterday. Federal investigators are on the scene this morning. We have seen them Walking Around conducting their inspection. They have already flown those black boxes to washington, d. C. To capture clues about what made Asiana Airlines go down. Right now San Francisco fire chief joann hayeswhite is joining us from our newsroom. Your firefighters worked hard yesterday, chief. Can you talk about their roles today . Absolutely. Lots of heros yesterday from not only our members in the San Francisco Fire Department but our partners in the San Francisco police department. We needed a lot of resource. We called in partners from san mateo county. When i got on the scene about 20 minutes after our first units responded it was chaotic. We were dealing with fire emergency and medical emergencies and literally hundreds and hundreds of passengers and patients. It was a wellcoordinated effort. Training totally pays off. It was unbelievable in terms of when you look at the devastation of that plane that 123 people walked off that plane, went through customs eventually and got to their final destination. Chief, you talked about how the training pays off. I know you do the drills every year. Yesterday you had a little bit of information about some of the survivors and those who have been taken to the hospital. Do you know anything more this morning . You know, after i left the airport i did go by sf general and again there are so many people to thank in terms of how professional they are in their training. Sf general took 53 patients, im told, out of the 182 transported. There were six in the icu that i visited last night. But they took the extra effort. There were three siblings that were lesser injured and they put them all in the same room to provide comfort to them. I believe the ceo opened up the cafeteria because it was a tragic day yesterday. Two young girls lives were lost. Nevertheless, it could have been so much worse. There are some people that are fighting for their lives right now that i saw last night as sf general. Eleven area hospitals took the 182 people who were transported. Is the work over for your Fire Department this morning . Or is there still more to do out at sfo . Our work is pretty much done. What we do is save lives and do the best we can during the emergency. At about 3 00 p. M. Yesterday we turned over the scene to the fbi, who then at 5 00 turned it over to ntsb for their investigation. Chief, a little bit has been made of the Navigation System at sfo. Tell me if this is out of your purview, but the system that helps pilots make save decents. It was turned off at the time. Do you think in light of what happened there will be an overall review both from the standpoint of the operation of the airport and what you guys do . I definitely think there will be a comprehensive investigation into the events that happened yesterday. Certainly im not an aeronautics expert. But without warning, and typically oftentimes we will get an alert, too, that means a plane is in distress, perhaps landing gear issues where we can align ourselves on the runway. Yesterday we didnt have that benefit. The plane had landed, shoots deployed and fire had begun before we responded. We got there within three minutes and as you were reporting the foam and water while passengers were coming down the shoot. We also sent our members into the plane to assist those who were unable to get down the shoots on their own. The crew, i might mention, also of the airlines, they are all heroes as well. Their training, and they are experts and they were some of the last people off, as they should be. But did a great job. Chief, thank you very much for joining us this morning. Best to you and the crew. Thanks for your quick response. That accident happened just as the plane approach the beginning of the runway. We have some new animation from abc news of the crash, created using reports from witnesses and the debris trail on the ground. Witnesses say it appears the plane hit the seawall just before the runway, knocking off the tail section. Then the plane appeared to slide and spin, kicking up debris until it stopped on the side. Runway. For folks who end up flying today, the fog and low clouds can certainly be a factor to add to further delays, lisa. Thats right. They will be shrinking in the days ahead and that means a warmup on the way. Starting today in the inland east bay, the live doppler hd showing the sweep on top of mount st. Helena. We are looking at the cloud cover in the north bay for the next couple hours. Heres a look at mt. Tam. You will notice that, yeah, the 2000foot marine layer not going anywhere soon. 61 in oakland. In san jose we have some sunshine. We are looking at the clouds in Mountain View. Hears a look at san jose. You see partly sunny conditions. The fog has muffed in here around downtown. 59 by the delta. We are looking at the sunshine doing its thing and working back to the coast throughout the day today. This was vollmer peak. It was a pretty shot but the fog is just blowing around so the low clouds and fog for most of you this morning. A little warmer for you in the inland east bay and around the bay. But the coast, you are going to stay cool and more cooling comes for the inland friends by the middle of the week. So our warmup, its only temporary. Heres a look at our visible picture and that sea breeze allowing for the temperatures to stay cool at our coast and the fog will be burning back to the shoreline. But heres the warmup. Heres livermore the next couple of days. Today we are forecasting a high in the upper 80s. Then you will see the numbers climb just to the low 90s and dropping wednesday, thursday. Climbing by next weekend. So really a nicelooking fast with moderate temperatures, where they should be for this time of year. 77 fremont, 83 in san jose and 80 napa. 72 in richmond with 67 in San Francisco. If you are headed to the game today, its going to be a cool one with breezy winds, 4 15 we are looking at 60s at t park, dropping into the upper 50s by the evening. And that warmup continues, modest warmup through tuesday. Then we will see the numbers come back down a little bit as the sea breeze kicks up through the end of work week and next weekend looking nice as well. We will let you know how warm it will be in your community and you can keep track of bay area weather on twitter at live doppler hd. Thank you. Our coverage of the sfo plane crash continues ahead. Coming up we will here about a consultant about the clues that will help investigators figure out what happened. First heres another live picture of flight 214. The abc7 sunday morning news welcome back at 8 24 as we continue our coverage of the as you yawn Airline Crash at sfo. You see them investigating on the scene. There is the wreckage now in the day light. Black boxes were recovered overnight and on their w

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