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Very surprised about that. within a short period of time, they had over 200 responders at that scene, ambulances, fire, police. and it was something to watch in the sense of admiring in terms of how both the passengers and crew got off that plane, but then how quickly the first responders got there, took care of the plane, the fire, potential explosion, began to deal with the seriously injured and others. it was textbook as best i can tell from what i've seen so far. >> all right, brand-new nbc news contributor bill bratton. welcome to the peacock. >> maiden performance with you. >> thank you ...

Spring into action? >> well, this is all done beforehand. the protocols are in place as to who is going to be the lead agency, initially it is going to be certainly focused on rescue. then it is going to move into search and recovery. and then there is going to look into the aspects of as they did in this one, very quickly, potential terrorism, fbi, potential crime, local police, is it in fact, what it appears to be an accident in which case fire department, ntsb take over. these are all agreed to before the facts, so it is almost a seemless transition from fire to police to fbi to federal age...

Important because from the outside, you see this catastrophic fire, you see all this billowing smoke, yet we have all these survivors. well, they're going to want to know how the folks got out in such a timely manner before the fire erupted in the aircraft. all of that is taking place right now, simultaneous cvr and fdr data being previewed and pumped back to the team, so that that will give them some idea if there is in fact a mechanical problem, they can start focusing on that as well. >> cvr, fdr, cockpit voice recorder, flight data recorder, not black boxes. the black boxes are orange. you...

Some people that wanted to hunker down, then realized this is what they're facing and needed to get out. good news is they have great resources pulling people out of these places. they have coast guard helicopters and high water amphibious vehicles, swift water rescue team from indiana here to help, plus local fire and eoc officials. a lot of resources being deployed. looks like they're going to need all of them today. here's an anecdote i got from officials not too long ago. they had a situation either overnight last night or early this morning where an ambulance came to one of the areas to g...

Could jump up because there is a report 176 people remain missing. list say many of thoseduplicate left clinging to hope. >> i want to know where my husband is. you know, i just need to know. >> john's 32 years in the navy. if someone can survive it, it's him. >> we just have to positithink he's somewhere and he's safe and they can't reach him. >> more than one square mile completely covered by mud and the area today is unrecognizable from before the weekend slide. the national guard is expected to arrive later today to help search crews. but as one local fire official said, the situation is v...