gas line. they don t know that for sure. 53 homes he said have been is a vees veerl damaged. 120 have been fire damaged. one confirmed fatality at this stage. seven people have been injured. they won t know until a little later, they ll have to wait until friday afternoon for a full search to see if there are casualties. let s listen to what the mayor said a little earlier. terrible terrible tragedy has fallen on our city this afternoon. our main concern making sure our citizens are safe. we re trying to do that right now, outreach. we have red croshere. we re interviewing as many people as we can from the affected area. all right, listening there to san bruno mayor jim ruane. i want to go to dan simon now who is there at the scene, and dan, you ve been following this. it s extraordinary when you look at these aerial shots of what s happening on the ground that there s been only one confirmed death. yeah, i mean, look this happened just after 6:00 local time, so in all
thank you very much. i d like to introduce to you our city manager, connie jackson. thank you for being here today. jenna: we ll continue to monitor that news conference in san bruno, obviously a disastrous fire and still burning. we ll continue to watch this and bring you the headlines. it s one of our biggest stories of the day but not our only story. jon: it s an awful situation there but on the other coast, the east coast in washington, d.c., president obama is preparing to give his first formal news conference in months. what is theo whaoe is the president hope to go achieve? we expect to hear a great deal about the economy and his proposal for a new $50,000,000,000.2 stimulus. let s listen now to president obama. we ll have full reaction and a number of great guests afterwards to respond. good morning. before i take your questions, i just want to talk a little bit about our continuing efforts to dig ourselves out of this recession and to grow our economy. as i said
good morning, it s friday, the 10th of september. i m john kessler. i m sydnie kohara. good morning, everyone. it is 5:00. let s quickly take you to the scene. this is where it all began in san bruno. the crater is filled with water. the natural gas line exploded into flames yesterday evening. our newsroom confirms three people are dead. 53 homes are destroyed. 120 others are damaged. take a look at this map. the fire inside this area of the peninsula, the general perimeter starting at sneath lane and looping around claremont drive and glenview drive. we begin our team coverage with anne makovec in the san bruno neighborhood where it all began. anne, good morning. reporter: good morning. i m off of sneath lane and 280, one of several intersections blocked off this morning by local police officers and the california highway patrol. as you can see here behind me, they have flare patterns, directing all traffic away from the area. in fact, every entrance into this neighborho
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september 10th, 2010. captions paid for by nbc-universal television and good morning. welcome to today. it s 7:00 a.m. pacific time on a friday. i m matt lauer. and i m meredith vieira. it looked like hell on earth in the city of san bruno last night. firefighters are pouring water on the smoldering wreckage after a huge explosion on thursday night sent flames ripping through a residential neighborhood. it appears that a ruptured gas main is to blame for this disaster. at least 20 people were injured. some of those had critical injuries. and the death toll is expected to rise. one fire captain says by the time his firefighters arrived, dozens of homes had already been consumed by the flames, even though the fire station is only a few blocks away. i want to get straight to migu miguel almaguer who is on the scene. reporter: at least 75 people were rushed to the hospital overnight, some with critical conditions. we now know at least three people have died. that nu