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 officials in virginia beach, we know that at least six people have been injured. that includes the two crew members, four others on the ground injured and taken to local hospitals and at least one of them is a policeman treated for smoke inhalation. these injuries not believed to be life-threatening. i ll show you some of the pictures and the horrific-looking pictures and we ll talk location. you see so
beach. at a news conference just now, city and navy officials say std they know of no fatalities, even though the fire after the crashed burned at least 40 apartments. also, the city s mayor tells cnn at least nine people including the two pilots were injured, and none of the injuries are considering ligfe-threatening. a virginia beach hospital reported it treated seven people, and except for one of the pilots all have been released. a navy spokesman revealed new details of the crash. shorting after noon we had a training flight, a two-seat hornet take off from naval air station yoeoceania. shortly after take-off that aircraft suffered a catastrophic mechanical malfunction. the specifics of which i don t want to speculate on. however, it resulted in the forced ejection of that air crew. both of those air crew ejected safely. the front seater was a student pilot. the back seater was an experienced instructor. it resulted in their forced ejection and the lost of the aircraft,
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 you know that this was unusual or different? you say that you have got low-flying airplaplanes in this all the time. how did you know this was something that was unusual and dangerous? well, i ll tell you, again, the way it was coming in, it almost came in like it was trying to land with the nose facing up and there was nowhere for it to touch down. there was no flat ground in the direction he was hea