See . So our plane landed. We were coming from denver to las vegas. Right after we pulled off the active runway, the plane came to an abrupt stop. Looked out the righthand side and all we saw was big, black flames and a plane on fire really. Had you had you heard anything . No, we did not hear anything. Most of my attention was drawn by a lot of the passengers gasping at the sight, obviously. So that was the first indicator that something was happening outside the plane. And just to be clear, you were on this plane, right . Or did you see another plane on the runway . No, i was i was on the another plane that was on the runway and then we saw the plane on fire. Okay. About how far away was it, and how long did it how big was the fire . I mean it was roughly probably 200 to 300 yards away. We could clearly see very large flames as the picture shows coming out of the left engine. Obviously black smoke was engulfing the area. And then it was then when we saw the doors fly open and the inflatable slides come out. And when the inflatable slides came out, were there any Emergency Responders already on the scene or was the fire still active and people just started to get out . No, that was very surprising. Obviously we knew something was wrong, and we werent sure if the plane was empty or not. It was then when the slides inflated where we knew people were onboard. So after the people started exiting the plane coming down the slide and they were running very fast away from the plane and the Emergency Responders, i have to give them credit, they came very quickly into the scene and were spraying fire pretty much before the vehicles were stopped im sorry, spraying water before the vehicles were stopped. When Something Like this is happening, what happened to your aircraft . Did it continue to go by or did it stop . No, we were completely stopped. I imagine thats for obvious reasons, to let the emergency vehicles get to the plane in trouble. So all the planes around us were completely at a standstill. How long did the fire seem to go on for . From the time we landed until the time the Emergency Responders put it out was probably id say 5 to 10 minutes. And all during that time people were getting off the plane. Was it relatively orderly . It was a mass exodus, if you will. There was a lot of people running away from the plane. It seemed like there were it was a big spurt of people and then the and then the responders came. Bradley, i appreciate you telling us what you saw. Thank you so much. Thank you very much. As you might imagine, we are learning more about this by the minute. Weve got cnns dan simon on the phone from Mccarran International airport in las vegas. Also with us cnn aviation correspondent renee marsh. Renee, what is the latest youre hearing . Well, anderson, ive been on the phone with the ntsb and we know at this point they are gathering information. They have not determined whether they will be launching to this site as yet, but you have to think that whether its the ntsb or the faa, investigators will be on the scene to determine exactly what caused this. I can tell you that, you know, seeing smoke or a small fire in an engine, weve seen that before, but it is extremely rare to see something of this magnitude happening there. So of course investigators are going to want to know exactly what caused this. A couple of things theyll be looking into, the possibility that perhaps the enginin gested something or was it a mechanical failure of the engine. We know that these were ge engines on this aircraft, very good engines. We looked back and havent seen anything, any red flags as far as any prior major problems with these specific type of engines. But again, that scene that youre looking at there, something that you do not see very often, anderson. Thats for sure. Dan, whats it like there on the ground right now . I understand you just saw two people being loaded into ambulances. Reporter right. First of all, anderson, i can tell you that the airport is operating. There are people going through security, checking in for their flights and most of the runways from what i understand, three of the four runways are open. But i can tell you that just in the few minutes that weve been here, we have seen two people being loaded onto ambulances. They appear to be shaken up more than anything else. But according to the friend of one of the victims, this particular woman we saw suffered some smoke inhalation and she looked like she was in distress, to be perfectly honest. She looked like she was very shaken up in terms of how this all unfolded. We saw a second person, this appeared to be a young man. According to his mother, he had some kind of friction burn while going down the inflatable slide. And there are still several ambulances out on the departure curb, several paramedics here. I dont know if thats just precautionary or there are more victims who are going to be let out, anderson. Two was the number we had been told at the top of the last hour, both described with minor injuries. Im not sure if thats the two that you saw actually being taken out. Renee, one of them according to dan had some smoke inhalation or exposure to smoke. That is one of the questions that remains, how much smoke actually got into the aircraft itself, into the main cabin. I talked to les abend earlier and said the pilots do have the capabilities to shut down any vents that would allow smoke into the cabin. That is something that they would have to take the time to do so we dont know how much smoke actually got into the cabin. This aircraft, though, the 777, renee, what do we know about its Safety Record . We do know that it is a very safe plane. To that point, anderson, not only are pilots able to shut down the vents, we know that the pilots also have access to fire extinguishers. We also know that flight attendants are trained to get these people off of the plane within just seconds. Oftentimes when you do see those injuries, its because those individuals are coming down the slide, so a lot of times thats where the injuries stem from. But as far as the Safety Record with this 777, a very safe aircraft. We know with this particular aircraft, it was built in 1998. Again, those engines, ge engines. When you look at all of these things on paper, you dont see any major issues sticking out and thats why, of course, this will most likely pique the interest of investigators, because theyre going to want to know what caused these images that were looking at on our screen here where you have this black, billowing smoke and this relatively hefty fire break out just seconds before this plane is set to take off. It really is a mystery at this hour. But again, no indication that this aircraft had any major issues nor the engines. Anderson. Renee marsh, i appreciate the upda update. Dan simon as well. Joining us now is les abend, a working 777 captain, also cnn safety analyst and former faa investigator david soucie who is joining us as well. David, just in terms of the investigation, who does it now, ntsb, faa . What is the procedure here . Typically the faa people that are on site are those that will respond first, but it wont be a delegated accident. The ntsb will investigate it because there was potential and because there was injuries and it was an intended flight so that goes into the ntsb 800 series regulations. So it is an ntsb investigation. And, les, you and i spoke as i mentioned in the last hour. When you see this much smoke coming from an aircraft, how much can you prevent that smoke from getting in the cabin . Well, the initial if indeed it was an engine fire, and everything is preliminary at this part of the investigation so we dont even know for sure. Yes, the f. Aa said it was an engine fire but its hard to determine just by those pictures. When we go through the checklist procedure for an engine fire situation, we pull what we call a fire handle. That not only sends out fire retardant material, it also shuts off the bleed air system which goes into the cabin and supplies pressurization and air conditioning and heat for the cabin situation. In addition to shutting down electrical, in addition its shutting down all the electrical thats coming from that or hydraulics coming from that particular engine. You know, les, the two eyewitnesses ive spoken to about this said that the evacuations seemed to take place very, very quickly. They saw the chutes come down and people coming out. Do you have a sense of how quickly a plane like this can actually be evacuated . Well, an airplane like this, i mean the faa you have to perform tests when you initially certify the airplane with a particular airline, david can attest to this. And the answer is you can actually get off of this airplane in probably 90 seconds. Wow. And there are requirements, you know, when each airline accepts this particular each particular airplane into their fleet that they have to be able to perform it at that particular time with engines with exits blocked and so on and so forth. So i mean i commend the flight attendants, the entire cockpit crew for doing what they were supposed to do. This is a training event that we do every time in recurrent training. You know, probably once in a career if that at all will you ever have to perform an evacuation as a pilot or even as a flight attendant. And i commend them. It seems to me that it went off just about flawlessly. Yes, weve got some injuries, but i think these injuries are attributable to the slide escape routes. David soucie, when you look at these images, and again we dont know the source of the fire, whether it is the engine, as the faa tweeted out earlier, or whether i think it might have been you or les who suggested it could even be smoke coming off tires when a takeoff is aborted like that, theres a lot of friction on those tires. How long does it usually take to kind of figure this stuff out . Well, this will be a pretty quick investigation, but you wont hear a lot of it because the preliminary investigation will say this is what happened. But after that is when you find out why it happened. If there was something went wrong with the system. If there was a rupture, if there was some kind of Maintenance Issue that caused it to happen. But this is, as les did point out earlier, you know, when you have an engine failure and youre trying to stop that airplane, youve already pretty much committed to take off, theres a lot of energy and inertia going forward. So now youre relying exclusively on those brakes to stop the aircraft so its still unclear to me as to whether the engine fire caused this or whether it was an engine out that subsequently caused a fire from the brakes as les was point out earlier. David, les, thanks for your expertise. I appreciate it. Just ahead, the kentucky clerk who refused to issue samesex marriage licenses freed from jail today. 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Reporter yeah, were told shell return to her office sometime this week. This is an 80,000 a year job so she has to get back to work. We do know the ball is back in her court. The judge put her in jail because she was refusing to issue marriage licenses to samesex couples despite his orders to do just that, so he remanded her to the custody of the u. S. Marshals. He then ordered her deputy clerks to issue the licenses. Because samesex couples were then able to go to the Clerks Office and pick up those licenses, the judge has decided that kim davis can be released from jail but has ordered her not to interfere with the process thats being carried through by her deputy clerks. So we asked her attorney, will kim davis try and interfere with that process . He couldnt guarantee that she wouldnt, he just over and over again reiterated that she would continue to follow her conscience. So can we rule out the possibility that kim davis would interfere and that she would ultimately be returned to jail . I dont think anyone is able to rule that out at this point, anderson. Her legal team, theyre trying to get the governor of kentucky to intervene on her behalf. In what way . Reporter yeah, theyre sort of throwing everything at the wall. They have five motions in front of the sixth Circuit Court of appeals. If they dont get the resolution from the courts, theyre going to try to pursue other avenues, which is to take a look at the laws in the state of kentucky. The statute here assigns the authority to give out marriage licenses to the clerk, so what her attorneys are asking for is the governor to intervene with an executive order or to call a special session of the General Assembly in which they would change the statute and change the way that these marriage licenses are issued. Basically stripping kim davis name and the authority of her office from those documents. But the governor has said he has no plans to do either of those things. The legislature will reconvene in january, and if legislators want to take it up then, they can. That means, again, its a waiting game to see if kim davis will just allow the appeals process to move forward or whether she will try to actually intervene when deputy clerks move to give out those licenses to samesex couples, if they continue to do that, anderson. Well see. Thank you very much. Joining me is david brody, chief Political Correspondent for the christian broadcast program. You were at the rally earlier for kim davis. I know you consider what happened today to be a watershed moment for the evangelical movement. In what way . Well, in a couple different ways. First of all, anderson, all of the evangelicals and quite frankly all of the americans watching today on Live Television, there were plenty of evangelicals, millions watching, basically seeing this woman jailed for her biblical faith. Lets face it, as much as the critics say it wasnt about it was about the fact she wouldnt obey the law, the reality is in the evangelical world she was jailed because of her views that the marriage is between a man and a woman. So when she came out and had that victory celebration, if you will, that was a watershed moment for evangelicals because it could indeed be a wakeup call for them all around the country, the ones that dont vote in this country. Anderson, there are about 90 million evangelicals in this country. Only 30 million vote. 60 million evangelicals, thats a huge number, do not vote. The question is the dorito packing crowd on the couch, those evangelicals that dont engage, will they engage now, now that kim davis is a poster child for religious liberty. I saw a lot of signs saying that the Supreme Court is the new isis for against christians. If kim davis had been muslim or if there had been a muslim clerk who was denying a marriage license to well, say to kim davis for her second or third marriage because shes been married now four times, do you think the same people would have come out to support her or is it the idea that christianity itself is somehow being attacked . Well, its two things. I dont think theres any question that christians believe that christianity is under attack in america. Theres no question about it. Having said that, if you talk to bobby jindal, Mike Huckabee, ted cruz and the list goes on, observant jews faith is under attack or a muslims faith is under attack, they would do, quote, the same thing. Now, as it relates to the kim davis situation, i dont know if they necessarily have gone down that road but i can tell you they have also been very outspoken, many of these president ial candidates, about someones intrinsic faith, whether it be jew, muslim or christian. Mike huckabee and cruz both visited davis in jail before she was released. They were both at the rally today. Cruz wasnt on stage, huckabee was and stuck close next to her. Even huckabee said that he would volunteer to go to jail for davis. How much do you think their presence at this rally and their support for kim davis will actually play out in the president ial race . Do you think this is a big boost for Mike Huckabee . I think its a huge boost. Look, the visual, anderson, of Mike Huckabee on stage raising hands in solidarity with kim davis in front of hundreds and hundreds of people here in kentucky and quite frankly all over the country as they watch it unfold on Live Television is a huge boost for Mike Huckabee. I dont think theres any question about it. Now heres the thing and heres the reality of the situation. Whether there were zero cameras or 100 cameras here, Mike Huckabee believes the same thing. He does believe in not only the concept of religious liberty but what kim davi