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Parents, chill out. the eggs are for the kids. ♪ ♪ our top story at the bottom of the hour. navy fighter jet crashed in an apartment complex today in virginia beach, virginia. both pilots ejected safely, a handful of people were injured, but so far, there are no fatalities reported. correspondent doug mckelway has been monitoring the story and has the latest in the d.c. bureau. good evening. >> reporter: authorities are confident there are no fatalities but we need to keep in mind some of the apartment buildings struck by the falling f-18 super hornet are too dangerous to enter at this h...

apartment complexes, or they had no choice? >> i guarantee you they had no time and no choice. every pilot makes their own decision about their moral considerations, what are you going to do in this situation, the wing man mentality is to look out for the people in the airplane and the people on the ground. i promise you that had they had choices and time, and they were able to -- >> i want to bring in chad myers, chad's got a question for you. >> tell me a little bit, you talked about what was going through the pilot's mind. describe a pilot who knows his plane is not going to fly a...

now he makes shocking remarks about asian-owned businesses. wolf blitzer is off. i'm joe johns. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >> breaking news, a horrifying scene in a crowded apartment complex in virginia beach as a navy jet crashes into buildings there, shooting flames and thick, black smoke into the sky. the crew members ejected and were taken to the hospital. now an urgent effort to account for all of the people on the ground. our brian todd has the very latest details. brian, what do we know? >> joe, the very latest from fire and rescue of...

would have been a better place to hit or a worst place to hit. there's so many apartment complexes around here. >> can you describe more that area of where the plane crashed? >> yeah. it's -- we are maybe a half a mile from virginia beach ocean front. big resort area. lots of homes, lots of apartment complexes. and it's -- it's just a place that, you know, anywhere but here kind of thing. again, if it was a half a mile to the west, it could have been in a creek or a marshy area. and he would have had to have probably crossed at least one marshy area to get to this point. >> how did y...

Supremacy at this point. i suspect these operations that we've been running for the last few hours have been able to take out much of the air defense and electronic jamming capabilities of the libyans, probably not all. so we've got coalition airman risking their lives right now putting their lives on the line. more than likely, there will not be a significant number of shootdowns. if there is a shootdown, even if the pilots eject, they put themselves at risk, then as prisoners of president gadhafi, colonel gadhafi. so yes, there's a tremendous risk on an individual basis for those pilots in t...