where the spectator sit or they re going to move the racecourse out which won t make it enjoyable for spectators. or, two, they may just stop the program altogether. greg fith, invaluable insight to you have here about us tonight, greg. thank you so much for your team. again, we ve been told that there were multiple faa inspectors on site at the time when this plane crash occurred at the reno air races. we re told the ntsb, their investigators will be arriving in the morning to piece this together. we re awaiting a press conference from the site of this crash tonight. joining us now is mckenzie warren from krnb, our nbc affiliate in reno who was an eyewitness to this incident. we spoke with northern nevada medical center in sparks, nevada, saying they have seen nine patients. they ve got five in serious condition. renoun health centers is two people who came to that center
witnesses say there have been fatalities. but officials are not confirming any deaths. joining me now is mackenzie warren, a reporter for krnv. mackenzie, what do we know about the accident as of now? you know, lawrence, information s really sketchy right now. a pilot, jimmy leeward, he s 80 years old, an experienced movie stunt pilot, was flying in the race, the race everyone was waiting for. it turned very ugly very serious. crashed into a grandstand. the ap is saying 75 people hurt. from being here on the ground, i can tell you that s a conservative number. there are dozens of people hurting. bloodied. the triage here is unbelievable. ten ambulances. three helicopters by air. pulling people out. no idea what might have caused that. witnesses say they heard the engine rev then he just went down. i put in a call to the nevada national guard and they did say
is going to migrate somewhere. as i look at that, it looks like that support is more likely to migrate to perry. more likely to go in what is perceived as the more conservative choice. so when we really do get down to two man, does that indicate what we re seeing here now, that perry s lead will widen in a two-man race? i mean, that s certainly a possible scenario, but a couple of things you said there i think we should examine. first of all, i would not suggest that bachmann will be leaving the race any time soon. she s able to raise money. she certainly can stick in there. this could be a very long primary season going through multiple states. if she has the money to keep going, she might do it because perry could slip up. her supporters are very conservative. his supporters are conservative. they might flock to her. is that scenario likely? i don t actually know. we ll find out. i think that s very possible. you re already seeing the sort of divide among the candidates with former
that got put into place immediately when that plane went down. and i can tell you the faa has just arrived. this is the only pileon racing event in the entire world. it s incredibly dangerous. the planes are going faster than nascar. this is an element of danger, but they do have an emergency plan set in place and they say they use it. obviously that s a question that all of us reporters on the scene are going to be asking. could more have been done to prevent this given there have been accidents in the past? mackenzie, specifically in these kinds of races, wouldn t they have taken trouble to design the race course so that any kind of accident couldn t get near the audience? that s something we ve asked them about, and it is pretty far to give you a sense of what i m looking at, i m here at the grandstand and where the planes actually race, the loop that they race, is quite far out there. that s what s leading up to
because of their true real conservative beliefs that they think have been violated in bachmann s case, for example, by the perry mandate on taking a vaccine. in romney s case by all sorts of things including the health care mandate in massachusetts. if you re perry and romney, you have to be praying for those two to drop out. i don t know about dropping out or any sort of prayer involved there. balk pan in particular has taken every opportunity she can to reinsert herself in the conversation. today what she did with perry care, everybody was talking about that. her attacks on perry and romney come off as very sharp, authent authentic. she knows what she s doing. she has people working for her and decent political instincts. perry seems to be weathering these attacks. his standings have not dropped in the polls. this is continuing to be a very close race. jonathan is exactly right about the independents who are going