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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...

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...

Yeah, i could see you were talking, but i wasn't hearing anything. >> okay. you weren't able to -- >> i can't lip-read. >> okay. okay. sorry, you couldn't hear it. what i was saying is that the ntsb, the press conference has been pushed back to 6:00, and possibly later. i would imagine that they are gathering as much information to speak with authority as much authority as they can when they come out to address the public. >> but i think they're going to be limiting themselves to pretty much what they're preparing to do. i don't think you're going to find them talking very much about the accid...

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...

Impression of a real fire inside. but apparently everybody was out, because you look at this picture, you don't see anything like a passenger anywhere. and i don't believe they're still on board. >> at the bottom of the hour when we get this ntsb press conference, what can we expect from that? >> not a whole lot, because the ntsb is extremely careful about what kinds of information they release early on. they will give you some great general information and that sort of thing, but they don't answer questions that are specific to exactly what happened, exactly what the cause was and all those t...