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On the ground? >> i haven't heard the loud explosion. i heard a thud or bomb. but no explosion. we have heard that the pilot reportedly did not make any distress call before bringing the plane down in a lop- sided angle according to eyewitnesss. what the problem was, we don't know and that will take weeks or months to figure out. heather, we are getting an account and in terms of nationality on board. 61 americans were on board of the plane, the rest of the passengers are from china and others of asian descent. there were 61 americans and we don't know if they are among the injured. we are get...

We're trying to stay back right now. but we are surrounded by police. we've heard multiple gunshots. i'm standing behind the car right now. it's not a good position to be in. the officers are putting on bulletproof vests. >> many people listening to the police scanner heard the firefight in realtime. >> they have explosives, some type of grenades. they're in between the houses down here. >> shots fired. shots fired. loud explosion, loud explosion. shots fired! shots fired, shots fired! >> you said they paid cash at the shell gas station and then

Hoping the kids will have a good time. >> did he pack his wedding dress? >> first from fox this tuesday night. getting a look at the moment the hot air balloon exploded in the sky and plummeted a thousand feet to the ground, 19 tourists killed. they were soaring over the ancient egyptian city at sunrise when the balloon caught fire blew up and came crashing down. of course, we have not independently verified this video's authenticity. well, a photographer who was in another balloon at the time says it's the real thing. he took this picture of the balloon before it crashed. it's the one on the ...

Calmness of the morning. >> tell us what happened, what you saw, and when the first indication was that something was horribly wrong. well, to put it in context, it was an early morning balloon flight so 5:45 the balloons go up. we float across by the nile, and just as we're approaching our landing point across a sugar kane valley, i hear a loud explosion. i turn around and see a lot of smoke. in fact there's a video that has now just been released that is very representative of what i saw. a vertical line of smoke. i said to the person next to me, i hope that wasn't the balloon. we wouldn't h...

Plane flying over and we heard a loud explosion. we thought terrorist attack. we came straight out on to the main road and there was huge piles of smoke over the back there. >> you can see parts of the crane dangling from a residential tower soon to be among the tallest buildings in all of europe. police say two people are dead, including the pilot and a person on the ground. about a dozen others injured. now we are learning more about the pilot. his career said to have included years of experience and years of work on some of hollywood's biggest blockbusters. amy kellogg with more in our news...