how many extra staff you have coming? i don t know that. okay. all right. that is rachel kagan from san francisco general hospital giving the update there again saying, throughout the day, this is the total number of patients, 52 that arrived at her hospital. some released, she s not sure how many. there were a wave of ten people that came in first. those are the people who were injured most here. and they were brought in. ten of them. all were in critical condition. and now five are in critical condition. the other five have been upgraded. a second wave, she said, of 17 people earlier and another wave of seven and now since her last news briefing, there have been more. 18 people, a wave of 18 people, making it a total of 52 people taken to the hospital. let s go back to kyung lah standing by near her. she did talk about the injuries, most prevalent of them were burns, fractures, internal
cabin floor, possibly to the seats. if you re sitting in the rear of that plane, what does it mean? well, the brunt of the impact appeared to be in the rear part of the aircraft. if any part of the cabin would have problems with structural integrity, problems possibly with the doors opening, it would be the rear part of the aircraft. again, until we get some word from the investigators or the passengers, themselves, it s unclear how bad the problem was in that part of the 777. hold on for a moment because i think this news conference is about to oh, this is a separate news conference over at the san francisco hospital. al, while we await the major news conference, let s listen in. okay. one more time. all right. are you good? go. he s waiting i m waiting for him. okay. good afternoon. rachel kagan with san francisco