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Crash. the official couldn't provide us any information in terms of how it happened or how many people were on board. he did say that there is a process that they're following and that right now is to secure the scene, to secure the scene so they can gather evidence in terms of how it happened. he couldn't talk about any potential fatalities or survivors, so hopefully all that information will start trickling in, again, at 6:00 eastern time, don? >> and, again, the people are going to want to know where was this passenger, where did they find the passenger who was transported, if it was a coas...

You know, the public information officer may not be the best equipped person at the moment to relay everything that's going on, he may have to confer with some other folks. so hopefully, again, at the tom of the hour we'll start getting some of those details. inside i can tell you just in terms of the people i talked to, some of them relayed, you know, seeing that fireball, seeing all of this smoke, and they, of course, are wondering what's happening as well. but they want to know when they're going to be able to get out of here. uf basically have two stories unfolding at once. you have the cr...

Their luggage, people waiting to be picked up. i can tell you inside there are a lot of people just waiting to see the status of their flights. i can also tell you that the friends and the family of the victims on board, they have reportedly been taken to a private area on the second floor of the international terminal where they're awaiting more information about their loved ones. at this point, don, we simply don't have a lot of information in terms of how it happened, the number of vuictims or casualtie, hopefully we'll get more information at the top of the hour, but we're standing by here...

Any information on the patient's status. again, news conference at 5:30 eastern time, where we will get more information on that. to cnn's dan simon first, who is in san francisco with the very latest. dan, what are you hearing there from san francisco, in san francisco? >> well, hey, don, i'm actually in the international terminal at the airport. we just had the very first briefing from officials here at the airport. they really couldn't provide a whole lot of information. they basically confirmed what we already know at this point. they tell us that they're going to be having press conferenc...