problem is not letting this get to their children. little annie, who is eight years old, you know, they ve got to keep all the news away from her and it s very difficult. she s scared sees she s going to lose her daddy. reporter: the jury could come out any moment or they could make us wait. shepard: hard to explain potty mouth daddy to the little ones. it s bleeping golden. keep em honest. we re looking forward to a verdict. continuing coverage of the plane crash in alaska. former senator ted stevens among the dead and we re working to confirm reports sean o keefe survived the tragedy. reuters reported that. the alaska national guard expected to hold a news conference in moments. we ll slide in a commercial break to bring it to you live right after this.
we ll continue to follow this story and bring you any updates as we get them. they are coming in fairly frequently. we ll interrupt whatever we re talking about to bring you the latest. one of the other people we know to have been on that plane, we do not know whether he died or survived, is former nasa administrator sean o keefe. we will continue to bring you information as we get it. i want to go back to bob francis, the former vice chair of the national transportation safety board who was talking to us, he s been guiding us a little bit through how this crash is going to be investigated. but, bob, you knew senator ted stevens. you had a view of him? well, i knew him, certainly not knew him well. but i had a fairly lengthy conversation with him when i was up for confirmation at the ntsb. and he was very interested and hugely supportive of the safety board and its work. there s an office ntsb office
both instrumental in the bringing of their respective states of west virginia and alaska into the modern age and they get criticized for being pork barrel politicians and some shots are deserved. but these are people who helped their states become modernized and that means improvements in the lives of real americans in those states. we know above all, the people of alaska are grieving for senator stevens today as well as his family. shepard: no doubt about it. good news we can bring you, fox news does not have confirmed and apparently neither do the other news agencies but reuters is confident enough to quote a source unidentified to us as saying sean o keefe and his son survived this plane crash. we know from the alaska national guard, at least four people survived the crash. at least four survived and they re on their way to a
at least one person, they might be going to that trauma center but we don t know that because the spokesperson didn t know. four survivors is news indeed and very good news. we don t yet know who it is that survived so far. james rosen on capitol hill, we have nothing from sean o keefe s family, correct? that s right except confirm confirmation he was on the plane and he was a friend and punishing buddy of fishing buddy of senator stevens. he made a major mark as head of nasa but had an extraordinary career, chancellor of louisiana state university. shepard: i m getting breaking news, sean o keefe survived the plane crash in southwestern alaska. this is a source briefed on the
captions by vitac www.vitac.com we are following the breaking news of a plane crash in the alaska wild erness that has claimed the life of ted stevens. and sean o keefe is confirmed to be among the survivors. casey wian is working the story for us in anchorage with the latest. what are you picking up, casey? reporter: well, wolf, we landed an hour ago in anchorage, alaska, which is a ways away from crash site. but i got off of the phone with a man who is a commercial pilot and he is one of two commercial pilots who initially spotted the crash last night, and alerted authorities that there was a crash, and that there were going to be victims. he told me about the scene of the crash. what he said is that the plane simply ran into the mountain. the plane was carrying nine passengers, and we have since learned that five of those passengers were killed,