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KOFY ABC7 News At 900PM On KOFY July 9, 2013

First time rescue crew share their story of heroism. Amazing tale, too. Good evening. Ntsb wrapped up the first meeting with the cockpit crew. Interview will continue tomorrow. And we are learning that the pilot and copilot did not communicate problems until seconds before the crash. Board is looking at the pilot experience as part of the investigation. Ntsb also revealed that as the plane approached sfo it was traveling 40 miles an hour slower than the target approach speed. The pilot of asian flight 214 was make the Maiden Voyage landing that type of plane at that airport. David with what happened in the critical 7 seconds when it all unravelled. New image of those fleeing passengers determined to get out alive after asian air liens flight 214 crashed as it came in for landing. You can see the emergency chute in flight. Passengers sliding down them. Racing to get away from the plane. Family capturing the images stunned. At what they were seeing. They are running out. Cloud of dark smoke growing some of the passengers can be seen running for their lives to the end of the runway. Everybody is just rung. Reporter all unfolding after the crucial 7 seconds that decided the fate of this flight. Pilot in charge of landing in training. First time land ago boeing 7 77 in San Francisco. From one of the black box we learned that just 7 seconds before impact a call from the cockpit. Pilot suddenly looking to increase speed. Jet hovering far too low over the water. Then 4 seconds before impact, the jet approaching the sea wall at the end of the runway and from that black box the sound of what is called the stick shaker. Urgent warning mechanism in the cockpit that shakes the control in the pilot hand as seen in the video by simulator solutio solution. That shaking telling the pilot the jet was suddenly moving too slowly to pull off a safe landing. And then just a second and a half before impact call from the cockpit forego around to sishling the airport again. It was far too late. Jet crashes. Tail hitting first shearing off the back of the plane. Tonight the ntsb investigating crucial 7 seconds and pilot in training. Airline saying he was spernsd on other aircraft but just 43 hours training time on the 7 77. Is 43 hours enough to be landing at San Francisco airport. There are always going to be a first time for someone to land at a different airport. Reporter ntsb telling us the copilot just as important. Who was there to guide him. Tonight with those new images a clearer view of the different shades of horror that passengers face on that plane depending on where they were sitting. Right on the runway. Reporter survivor ben surveying the wreckage with us from the bay. He was sitting in seat 30 k. Very cholesterol to the emergency exit. Very seat next to the door. Yes. Reporter challenge for him the chute manage el. Helped fellow passengers climb down out of that door using the debris as stairs. 40 c traveling with 4yearold son who broke his leg. In the middle of the cabin minutes after escaping you could see the flames through the window. You gene in seat 3 k. Bumped up to Business Class before the flight. Those row still intac intact. One of the first off the plane. Stroke of luck because the front of the plane was the first to catch fire. Tonight the fire firefighters fires respond climbing up the shoot and into the burning plane where they found trapped passengers in the back. First get in you you could see smoke. Coming right out the door there. See the fear in their faces. I think it was more shock that i saw. I didnt see if fear but shock. New image of the 2 girls lost. 16yearold school girls from china. Fire chief telling me the investigation under way in the very real possibility that one of them might have been hit by one of the rescue truck during the chaos. Community back home remembers the young girls who formed that hart over their head with their arms. That death ntsborting. Now only saying preliminary results in inconclusive. The coroner says the 16yearold body was found to the left of the plane. It was 30 feet away from where the plane slid to a stop exploratorium fire chief says nothing is being ruled out. There has been information and evidence to suggest that one of our fire apparatus may have come into contact with one of the 2 victims that were pronounced deceased at the scene. Assure you we are working closely with the ntsb as they conduct the investigation on all aspects particularly on this aspect. Autopsy of course will determine exactly what killed the girl. The crash or some other impact. Those results could take weeks. Moments right after the crash of flight 214 were yearie. Listen to the First Responders describe what they saw. So at i guess 11 27 the alert was struck and the communication from the tower was alert 3. Alert 3. Plane crash plane crash. Chute were deployed. Passengers were still coming down off of the chutes. We are grabbing people to pull out. We saw the two chute come down from the front of the plane. And people were staying on top of it. Still coming out. Start yelling at us to get tl they need knives. Officers released some passengers. Only way up was the chute. And thats what we d. Wept right up the chute. Firefighters crew reported back that he had found 4 passengers in the back of the plane. I believe one lady who had a dash in the leg. Small person stuck between the seats. Went further further down. When we saw one elderly gentlemen in the seat. We could not move. Then just the one gentle was left up further. He was growning. We were running out of time. Smoke started to get thicker and thicker. So we had no choice. We just stood him up and amazingly he started shuffling his feet. By the time we remanufactured the final victim the conditions were that the fire was banking down on us. We had heavy black smoke. So i feel in very lucky and blessed that we were able to get those people in and out that time. Then officer lee and i turned around looked at the wing of the plane. It was gush with fall right next to us. Officer cunningham we saw in there still couldnt believe i saw him without protected equipment. Inside the plane there were fair crew inside there and enough people. There was totally overwhelmed. As i enter the plane hes tearing apart the plane to make the exit way bigger. So hes happeneding me seats. Panel and throwing them outside. I went to officer cunningham airplane clear any more passengers. You think we got them all out. I think. So hold on. He goes running back in. I go great. So hes running back in and im looking for him and i cant see him and then he comes back out. They are all out. They are all out. Nobody there. The just amazing. We ghav we were to do. Everybody what does what they were trained to do save lives. They did exactly that. Some of the First Responders describing the initial moments after the plane crashed at sfo. We show you an animation of what a perfect landing would look like at sfo. Heres the standard approach. Animation shows what experts call 3 degree glide path. Now compare that to flight 214. Here is when it business 82 seconds ou out. Everything guess until then. But then the pilot disconnects all the computers and takes over manually. Veteran pilot steve gain said he sunt have disconnect the everything because that idol the engine. Pilot then gets well below the glide slope where he is supposed to be as you can see versus the standard approach. The plane is so slow it is bloat target landing speed as well. Want to show you more video at the top of the broadcast showing a moment the emergency chute deploy and passengers escaping before emergency crew even were able to arrive. It is video captured by teenager from san jose. Many david has that story. I medley went outside. I saw the big cloud of dirt. I started recording medley. Reporter 18yearold jennifer was on the third floor of the Vagabond Hotel in burlingame when she heard a big clap similar to thunder her instinct took over. Captured the moment when the emergency chute deploy from the exit doovrments and you can see passengers sliding down to the ground. The people started getting off almost medley. And i just remember hearing sirens coming in right away. So they didnt get there right away but i know that they started head tling right await a minute it was just really fast. Reporter jennifer also got dramatic video as the cabin caught fire. Black cloud of smoke water ominous. Passengers were still running away from the aircraft while fire crew sprayed the fuselage. Jennifer video may provide information to investigators whether one of the 16yearold girls had been hit by a rig. I have actually been looking in that. I did record the other ambulances and fire truck that went around the runway and there was a lot of debris ther there. Im actually trying to look for any sort of bump in the car but difficult record a lot of that. So im hoping theres something in there that will show whether that happened or not. Reporter she says witnessing the operation was surreal and no idea what was about to unfold as the camera rolled. Jennifer is planning to turn her video into the ntsb. They are encourage others to do the same thing in indicates untrained eye may not see what their expert eyes might. To contact the ntsb l go to our web site. Click on see it on tv. In burl game, david, abc 7 news. Now Officials Say if it was not forth heroic action of the flight attend antsd more people would have died following the crash. This Flight Attendant was the last person to leave the burning plane. You will hear her story coming up. Its something. Also ahead. Major delay on the new span of the bay bridge and new price tag, too. We show you what is driving this set back. Spencer here with the weather. Im here in the accuweather forecast system. More warmth our way and then significant koochlingt accuweather 7 day forecast in just a moment. Thanks spencer. Missing plane is found in [ man ] its big. Quickly reconnects families. Same with aladdin. The biggest in bail. No one has lower prices, is faster or more professional. Aladdin bail bonds. Bigger because were better. 4 months since caltrans discovered the bolt on the new eastern span of the bay bridge. Had broken. Comes announcement. Opening of new span here now officially been pushed back at least three months. Not labor day any mor more. As laura explains, its beginning to look a lot like christmas. Just in time for the holiday. Maybe. Thats the new time line for the opening of the new eastern span of the bay bridge. Comes after the toll Bridge Program Oversight Committee in sacramento determined it will take at least until december tenth to retrofit the 32 broken bolt discovered in march inside the new span east peer. We are sorry. We are very sorry for this delay. But we have a retronature we need to get built. If theres any good news Oversight Committee findings its that the remaining 2200 bolts various locates on the bridge seem to be testing and holding up fine. If any of them need replacing or retrofitting that can happen after the bridge opens to traffic. Other bolt can be replaced after bridge opens or they can be, the tension can be reduced or do some dehumid finding on them and they will be fine. Committee report details quote hydrogen em brittle as the culprit in the bolt that broke and cost caltrans and 2 mainly contractor on the project the responsible party for the failure. Once this is done and able to transfer the traffic we really need to take a hard look at the process. Why did these things go wrong. We have a lot of infrastructure built in the state and cant make the same nasty twice. Caltrans need 4 day weekend to complete the switch over from the old pwrem to the new one. That means the opening may not happen until early next year. At the bay bridge Laura Anthony abc 7 news. From cars to train. Bart rolled again during the morning rush hour today for the First Time Since striking workers return to the job on friday which is part of the Holiday Weekend obviously. Bart Officials Union leaders plan to meet separately with mediators until thursday. 2 sides expect to return to the bargaining table friday but thats only if state appointed mediator aproof more facetoface meetings on new contract. Bart mye work until august 4 under the terms of contract that expires last month. Second farm worker has died in the Central Valley possibly from heat. Officials today said that 37yearold juan collapsed at lemon orchard last friday. Temperatures there above 100 degrees. Last tuesday another farm worker died. He was 30 years old and working in a water melon kneeled near fresno. Certainly a cautionary tale tale we have to be careful out doors in extreme heat its dangerous. Spencer is here. Cooled down. Moderate here. Central valley still pretty warm so folk in that area should exercise cease caution if they are going to be spending a lot of time outside. Things are really lovely here. Look at live doppler 7 hd. Painly clear sky right now. But there is agents bit of low clouds. Al the coast. Fog if you will. Some of it beginning to push locally out of the bay. Lets look at live view from the high definite ftion roof cam areal the embarcadero pape paperly clear skies from this point of view. Temperature readings right now 58 degrees in San Francisco. 60 oakland. 65 mount view. 66 san jose. 55 half moon basement live view from mount tam brightness in the sky to get pretty good view looking that the bay and you can probably make out a little bit of this low cloud of fog pushing through the golden gate out over the bay. Temperature readings in other location right now 60 at santa rosa. 70 fairfield. 74 livermore. 67 in los gatos. One more live view bit brighter at the Golden Gate Bridge and can see evidence of a little bit of moisture in the air there. Some fog beginning to push continuing that is to push through the golden gate. Forecast feature coastal fog continue to push inland overnight. Warmer inland tomorrow than today. But cooling trend begins on wednesday and that will 10 through thursday into friday. The forecast animation starting 11 00 oclock tonight shows continuing push of fog across the bay. Locally inland. More wide spread than we had earlier expected. So end up tomorrow morning during the over tonight hours into the wee hours of the morning with some areas of fog inland. Low pressure in our rather narrow range generally mid upper 50s now give you a view of the satellite image showing High Pressure continuing to dm naturally our weather picture that will bring us another season day tomorrow with warmer conditions inland than we had today but theres a cool air mass to our north west that is working its way south ward so by wednesday we feel the cool down beginning and continue for at least a couple days. For high tomorrow sunny sky in the south bay. High mainly in the mid 80s, 86 at san jose. 85 at cooper tune 0. Part of the south a little warmer 89 at morgan hill 90 at gilroy. Pepsi la look for high up to about 80 at redwood city. 76 san mateo o. Low 60s open the coast. Pacifica and a Half Moon Bay do you want San Francisco temperature climb up to 67 tomorrow. 63 in the sun set district. North bay we see 82. High in santa rosa, napa 83 at calistoga. East bay temperatures will tries about 75 at oakland. 80 at union city. Ia at fremont. Inland east bay a bit warmer. High mainly in the low mid 90s. Interat walnut creek and fairfield. 95 at antioch. Heres accuweather 7 day forecast. Cooling down on wednesday. Further cooling on thursday friday will look much leak thursday. Maybe a degree or 2 milder. Start to warm back up to around 90 inland on saturday sunday and next monday will be another warm day with mid 90s inland. Very, very pleasant week. Not extreme at 8. Thank you spencer. Still to come on 7 news at 9 00. Public tension nearly half Million People will see the private numbers posted on line. That story. Plus more than jaws dry cleaner. The business that cleaner. The business that restores memories. And some california prison ertion are undertaking a massive hunger strike. According to the Los Angeles Times 30,000 inmates or twothirds of the state 33 prisons today refuse neals what would be the largest prison protest if state history. Not only that more than 2000 prisoners failed to go to work or tend classes for the First Time Ever. Inmates have a number of demands. Primary one being the end of lengthy periods in solitary confinementth. They call that the form of torture. Officials say tonight that a hiker has discovered a small plane vanished over yosemite last december during a winter storm. Pilot Nicole Wilson found dead. He was flying from Santa Barbara to mammouth lake at the time we reported. Plane found cras near the park high sierra camp on the bottom right of the map there. Park Officials Say the plane will eventually be removed. Some of it will likely be hand taken apart and carried down the mountain by horses or mules. Other parts would be hauled out by helicopter. But that will take some time. San jose police say they will record the race of every person they stop and question on the street in an effort to document any evidence of racial profiling. According to the San Jose Mercury news police by yearend will be following a new policy that requires them to record detailed information about socalled curb sitting detention whether or not an arrest is made. Salary of Public Employee have been available on line for years but now information on their pension benefits will be posted as well f. More than 1 million and a half members here says it will launch a searc searchable database this month including the names of rae tyree and specific benefit information like the monthly pension amount. Survivor benefits will not appear on the site for the time being keep in mine. Now they acknowledge some rae tyree are uncomfortable that wouldnt want that information out ther there. Coming up. A lieutenant more on this monday night. As we continue airline Flight Attendant describes dra mat being evacuation following saturday plane crash at sfo. What she did was remarkable. Some people left stranded entered

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