crash. the official couldn t provide us any information in terms of how it happened or how many people were on board. he did say that there is a process that they re following and that right now is to secure the scene, to secure the scene so they can gather evidence in terms of how it happened. he couldn t talk about any potential fatalities or survivors, so hopefully all that information will start trickling in, again, at 6:00 eastern time, don? and, again, the people are going to want to know where was this passenger, where did they find the passenger who was transported, if it was a coast guard, does that mean that passenger was in the water? it s all very interesting, and, dan, we re waiting a press conference there. supposed to happen at any moment now. are you able to see beyond the terminal, to see any of the emergency people personnel that we re looking at now? well, let me just make clear, the news conference just happened and so that s what i just reported to you. oka
you know, the public information officer may not be the best equipped person at the moment to relay everything that s going on, he may have to confer with some other folks. so hopefully, again, at the tom of the hour we ll start getting some of those details. inside i can tell you just in terms of the people i talked to, some of them relayed, you know, seeing that fireball, seeing all of this smoke, and they, of course, are wondering what s happening as well. but they want to know when they re going to be able to get out of here. uf basically have two stories unfolding at once. you have the crash and then you have all of these passengers, thousands of passengers who are essentially stranded right now at the airport because all traffic going in and out of the airport has come to a complete halt. there s been no word in terms of when san francisco international airport will reopen. dan simon on the ground at san francisco international airport. dan, stand by. we ll need you as well. i
their luggage, people waiting to be picked up. i can tell you inside there are a lot of people just waiting to see the status of their flights. i can also tell you that the friends and the family of the victims on board, they have reportedly been taken to a private area on the second floor of the international terminal where they re awaiting more information about their loved ones. at this point, don, we simply don t have a lot of information in terms of how it happened, the number of vuictims or casualtie, hopefully we ll get more information at the top of the hour, but we re standing by here at the airport awaiting those details. send it back to you. dan, not a lot of information about the injuries and whatnot, just that you should call the carrier if you are waiting for someone on another plane, but, again, they re not really talking about the extent of injuries and such. reporter: that s exactly right. at this point they re being very guarded with the information. if, in fact,
any information on the patient s status. again, news conference at 5:30 eastern time, where we will get more information on that. to cnn s dan simon first, who is in san francisco with the very latest. dan, what are you hearing there from san francisco, in san francisco? well, hey, don, i m actually in the international terminal at the airport. we just had the very first briefing from officials here at the airport. they really couldn t provide a whole lot of information. they basically confirmed what we already know at this point. they tell us that they re going to be having press conferences every hour, so we should expect to have another one at about 6:00 eastern time. in the meantime, as you can imagine, it s jam-packed here in the terminal as all traffic, airline traffic, coming in and out of the airport has come to a complete stop. passengers, of course, have a lot of questions. they want to know when they can sort of get on their way and, of course, everyone is wondering what e