In ontario. The name of that company, total transportation service, incorporated. The company is confirming that the truck was carrying clothes and shoes. They say the driver of that big rig is doing okay. Again, Police Working very fast trying to reopen this stretch of 3rd street. As you can see, two large tow trucks two trucks in fact trying to remove both vehicles from the area. Live in San Francisco, im da lin, kpix 5. Thank you. Andria borba at th scene of the other accident involving a bus and dump truck. Reporter a short time ago, San Francisco Police Department released a statement on their Facebook Page saying that they believe at this point that the dump truck slammed on its brakes on geary. The muni bus tried to swerve to miss it but didnt. Kind of like errr and everybody goes front. Reporter the passenger on the 38 muni bus said there was a screech of tires and then the crash. Next thing you know, we get this big jolt, boom and i look, im like oh, my god, the front windows
Aviation authorities around the world, including here in the u. S. Are telling airlines not to fly over this area. Lufthansa, delta and others are avoiding it. We have Team Coverage tonight. Mark matthews has reaction from the bay areas ukrainian community. We begin with steven stock. One of the concerns, this route has been deemed safe but recently its been unsafe. Thats exactly right, raj. We pieced together flight paths over europe dating back over this area over the last several weeks. Though Many Airlines appear to have avoided ukraine altogether, several airlines, including malaysia air, continued to fly over the country regularly despite the conflict there on the ground. Despite the fact that at least one cargo plane had already been shot out of the same sky in the same region, less than a week ago. The pictures show the aftermath of what u. S. Officials now believe was a missile strike on the boeing 777 flying at 33,000 feet. Data from the internet site, flight aware shows the
And as weve been reporting during this eventful night on this of all days we also have the start of a ground war in the gaza strip with israeli troops invading tonight under a sky lit up by flares and incoming fire. So we begin this second half hour of the special edition of our newscast tonight with the downing of this 777. Nbcs tom costello who covers aviation for us has been covering this all day long. Tom, good evening once again. The malaysian Prime Minister said late today there was no distress call from this airline and it was flying in an ore declared safe by global Civil Aviation authorities. It left amsterdam at 1 30 p. M. Local time bound for kuala lumpur. They lost contact with the plane. Very quickly the Ukrainian Government reported that russianbacked separatists had shot down the plane using a surfacetoair missile. U. S. Intelligence and military sources confirm to nbc news that infrared satellites detected the missile laumpl and explosion. Malaysian flight 17 was a boei
Flames as it crashed in Eastern Ukraine this morning. All of the nearly 300 people on board killed this man watching it all. Saying i knew it was an airplane right away. Fell over there. White streak raining from the sky. Debris from the boeing triple 7. Falling into fiery masses spread across 10 miles. U. S. Officials say it is clear the plane traveling at 33,000 feet from amsterdam to kuala lumpur shot down by a sophisticated missile. Not an accident. Blown out of the sky. Reporter Officials Say still unsure who launched the missile and from where. Russia and pro russian rebel who have been in a growing battle with ukraine deny any involvement. Ukraine officials claim they have evidence. What they say are 2 intercepted phone call including this one. Separatist at the scene reportedly tells Russian Military intelligence we have just shot down a plane. Tonight the wreckage still smoldering. Very grim scene that we are seeing here. Reporter u. S. Urging rebel not to move anything includ
From president obama down are down are hesitant to blame russia directly for the loss of the airliner, but at the same time, they are making connections between the crash and the fighting in ukraine. There is no question that the russians are going to come out big losers in this. Again, well wait for the facts. We know that there have been a lot of heavy equipment, military equipment that has gone into ukraine, Russian Military equipment. Reporter fighting near the crash area is making the investigation difficult for officials. International leaders, including russian president Vladimir Putin say a fees fire between pro russian separatists and ukraine is important. The leader of the pro russian separatists for firing the missile that brought down mh17, saying his forces dont possess the capability of hitting a airliner flying at such high altitude. Even while the International Community tries to assign blame, new fears emerge for civilian travelers. This is the crime against humanity.