three to four hunt in the box seat area. three to four hundred in the book seat area and counts for two miles along the we have the capability of holding 60 to 75,000 people here. people who knew they had family here anyone [ inaudible ] we ve gotten some calls from people around the world. this is an international event. we want to provide the best possible contact information so we can give them information about people that they are looking for. emergency operations center is establishing a phone number. i m hoping that somebody whispers it in my ear shortly and we ll ask you to please pass that number out in all your reports so they have a central point now they can call in manned by professionals that are equipped to gather the information and disseminate
three to four hunt in the box seat area. three to four hundred in the book seat area and counts for two miles along the we have the capability of holding 60 to 75,000 people here. people who knew they had family here anyone [ inaudible ] we ve gotten some calls from people around the world. this is an international event. we want to provide the best possible contact information so we can give them information about people that they are looking for. emergency operations center is establishing a phone number. i m hoping that somebody whispers it in my ear shortly and we ll ask you to please pass that number out in all your reports so they have a central point now they can call in manned by professionals that are equipped to gather the
greta: fox news alert. horror in nevada. associated press reporting three are dead after a plane came crashing down into the grandstands at a crowded air show in reno hours ago. emergency officials fear more deaths are likely. more than 50 injured, some very critical. we are standing by for a press conference. we are joined by mike draper with r & r partners acting spokesman for the air show. good evening mike. mike, what happened? we had a plane crash into the box seat area in front of our grandstand at about 4:15 this afternoon. it was a mass casualty incident. emergency personnel from all over the area responded and
and boost has the taste tht s preferred. your favorite patient is here! [ dad ] i choose being strong and active. i choose new and improved boost. greta: fox news alert. horror in nevada. associated press reporting three are dead after a plane came crashing down into the grandstands at a crowded air show in reno hours ago. emergency officials fear more deaths are likely. more than 50 injured, some very critical. we are standing by for a press conference. we are joined by mike draper with r & r partners acting spokesman for the air show. good evening mike. mike, what happened? we had a plane crash into the box seat area in front of our grandstand at about 4:15 this afternoon. it was a mass casualty incident. emergency personnel from all over the area responded and
stands. mike draper, a spokesman for the air races told the associated press that the pilot, jimmy lee ward, he was piloting a p-51 mustang that crashed into the box seat area at the front of the grandstand. this happening about 4:30 p.m. local time on the west coast. he said he did not have any information of the number of people injured at the time but now we know it looks like 75 people have been injured. 25 critically. just some background on othe national championship air races, it does draw thousands of people every year this time of the year in september to watch various military and civilian planes race. now, it wasn t immediately known. it s not immediately known at this point if there are any deaths associated with this crash. but it is being called a mass casualty situation. a local television station there, krnv aired videotape of the scene that showed at least four people being carried away on stretchers to ambulances. that was early on though. there could be many more peo