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airport one minute after the crash. we have live team coverage. cheryl hurd joins us. we ve been checking in with you for the last 30 minutes, what is the latest now at the 6:00 hour? reporter: well, we are hearing, at first we heard 60 people were unaccounted for and everyone held their breath. but now we are hearing that only one person is unaccounted for. that s the latest that we heard 15 minutes ago from our latest news briefing that we had just moments ago. we are seeing people standing by waiting. we are abilitying for someone to speak to us. earlier today we saw about half a dozen people being taken from that reflection room to another undisclosed location. we also heard from someone from the red cross. she is telling us that people are afraid. they re frightened. they re even cold. a number of people lost their shoes in all of the chaos. so they re working the get shoes, blankets and clothes for the people on the airplane. from that news briefing that we ha ....
can tonight. most likely wait until daybreak to continue their investigation. officials have been briefing us all day long, trying to tell us what happened here early this morning. it was the kind of briefing that officials haven t had to deliver for more than seven decades. there s been a tragic accident for sfo and all of san francisco. reporter: this morning, asiana airlines flight 214 from seoul, korea, with 291 passengers and 16 crew members, slammed into the runway at sfo. tearing away the plane s tale. the plane then burst into flames as fire crews arrived on scene. my hat goes off to the people who went into the cabin of the plane to do what they could. reporter: two people are confirmed dead. miraculously 123 people walked away from the plane. include thing teenage passenger. the top just totally collapsed on a lot of people. so a lot of people were injured. reporter: the mare chan of the ntsb was expected to land at sfo around midnight to take ch ....
stories of survival, today, sunday july 7, 2013. from nbc news, this is today with lester holt and erica hill live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. welcome to today. i m erica hill. i m lester holt. this is the image that s had a lot of us transfixed, the wreckage of asiana 214 as it lie us off the rubway. you look at that and you have to be amazed so many people were able to survive, to get out of that plane, which as we know was ungulfed in fire. two people are dead. it could have been so much worse. this by the way is the first fatal crash involving a major airliner in this country since 2001. we want to update you on some of the latest information we have this morning. just hours ago the president of asiana airlines confirming that the two passengers who were killed were in fact chinese citizens. their seats we re told are at the very back of the plane. he also said two veteran pilots were at the controls during the landing and that the airline does ....
two people are dead, scores injured. there were 307 people on board. that includes 291 passengers and 16 crew members. everyone is now accounted for. sources tell nbc news the plane apparently hit the lip of the seawall that apparently separates the sea from san francisco bay. it land landed and skidded before coming to rest. the entire tail of the jumbo jet was broken off and the top of the fuselage completely burned away. flight 214 was operate by asia na airlines. it stopped in seoul before stopping in san francisco. officials are going to hold a news conference later this morning, but right now let s go to jong yang. a very early morning to you. we thank you for the early morning wakeup. what can you tell us about the investigation that happened? well, alex, that investigation has begun. investigators of the nags tiona transportation safety board arrived here yesterday to figure out what exactly happened. the black box, the data recorders that perform all the data ....
san francisco plane crash goes down in history as the first fatal commercial plane crash in this country since 2001. here s what we know so far. two chinese students were killed in the crash yesterday. they were on their way to a summer camp here in the united states. the president of asiana airlines says their seats were in the back of that plane, right now national transportation safety administrate investigators were analyzing the so-called black boxes, the data reporter, the cockpit voice recorder as well. we re expecting to get more information at a press conference at about 4:30 eastern time. and new this afternoon, investigators are also expected to look at navigation system at the airport, which was apparently turned off yesterday because of maintenance on the runway. the system helps pilots land. nbc s john yang is on the ground for us at san francisco international airport this afternoon. what is the latest there, sir? reporter: well, craig, the ntsb investi ....