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Explosion, it would be debris spread over a large area. the airplane was probably up at 38,000 feet or so. it would spread out a lot. if it just went down in a straight dive which is very perplexing, you would probably not have it. that may be the oil slick. >> the plane 777 as a model is known for being able to fly on one engine up to three hours. both engines fail, it doesn't normally go into a nose dive. experts are thinking something indeed catastrophic did happen in the air, otherwise it would have been a gentle glide down is what the experts i've been talking to are saying. questions bei...

10,000 hours overall. the last day and a half in crash happened they will tell you the san francisco runway is not the easiest one to land on. it is considered to be a more difficult runway to land on because you come in over water and come over that jet at this where the plane hit on saturday morning. then you would theoretically land on the runway. that runway is still shut down as the ntsb investigation continues. we spoke with ntsb investigators they told us it would be a little longer than normal because of the extent of the accident debris field which is several hundred yards. the video ...

To be. when the ntsb video comes up, you see debris spread around over 200 yards where the bay end and the runway begins. that debris field spreads to the fuselage. the time line was a couple minutes out everything seemed fine. at seven seconds out is when things began to get difficult. of course there was no warning whatsoever for anybody on that plane outside of the cockpit. take a listen. >> a call from one of the crew members to increase speed was made approximately seven seconds prior to impact. the sound of the stick shaker occurs approximately four seconds prior to impact. a call to ini...

With what just happened -- >> that was an eyewitness there anthony caserani reporting to cnn and fredricka whitfield just a short time ago what he witnessed. these are live pictures you're looking at from san francisco international airport. look at that. you see debris spread across the runway there. and, again, i want to tell you that we are reporting this. we have a team of people reporting this from around the world. i want to welcome our viewers here in the united states and around the world watching cnn including in south korea as well. we're following some breaking news here for you on ...

Tornado and declaring a state of emergency. the latest word is more than 80,000 people are without power. several high schools were damaged forcing the cancelation of graduation ceremonies today. the damage from the system stretches into illinois. the town of gillespie, about an hour's drive northeast from st. louis is now starting the summer with a major cleanup at its high school. jennifer delgado is live to show us what happened there. what is it like. >> reporter: i am in gillespie, illinois b an hour and a half away from st. louis. they suffered their own storm damage last night as severe...