atlanta police have not revealed a motive but investigators say crawford reported brantley for unwanted kissing and touching days before her disappearance. after ten years of living on the streets of los angeles, a yale graduate is getting a second shot at success. cnn s dan simon first wrote about shawn pleasant in september. a yale alum saw the story and decided they had to do something. reporter: california s homeless crisis has touched people from all different backgrounds. i have a bad back. i m not supposed to be lifting and rolling things. reporter: but shawn pleasant s case is truly unique. it s not someone else s problem. it s a problem we all could face. reporter: the 52-year-old harass a high school valedictorian, degree from yale and worked on wall street and ownership of his own business before it fell apart and found himself homeless in chinatown. that is when you lose things.
international terminal. this is where the information s going to come from. this is where the officials are going to be holding their briefings, but as i said, you have a lot of passengers here who are waiting to find out the fate of their flights, when they ll be able to get out of the airport, and at this point it s not clear when traffic will resume. everything has come to a complete halt, as you can imagine, don. thank you, dan. a lot of people talking to me. thank you. you said the news conference just happened now. report to us exactly everything you can recall in that news conference in san francisco, i don t care if you said it, you can say it again. news conference just happened in san francisco, dan simon, what did you hear at that conference? right, this is from doug yakel who is the public information officer for the airport. basically it was to address reporters to let folks know that he is there, that we should direct inquiries to him and at this point they have a pro
short time here, but you heard what dan said. they re going to update people as often as they can, at least once every hour on the situation there in san francisco. let s listen to that eyewitness now actually looked like it was coming in very nicely. it was pitched up nose up maybe about three degrees. and as it was coming in, it came in. it touched down on the runway a little earlier than i ve seen most planes coming in and touching down. but the moment it touched down, the nose was still pitched up. the nose wheel never hit the ground yet. and where you typically see smoke from the wheels coming down on that initial touchdown, there was a larger plume of white smoke. you heard a pop. and then you immediately saw a large, brief fireball that came out from underneath the aircraft. at that moment you could see that the aircraft was, again,
little. and that s what happened apparently, at least it seems that way. especially you look at the debris, you can see that there was a stick made by the aircraft just prior to the time they even got to the threshold of the runway, nevertheless the runway itself. jim tillmon, stand by. thank you very much. we want to get live, live pictures on the ground, cnn s dan simon at san francisco international airport. dan, we listened to that press conference just a short time ago. you were there. what information are you getting in? reporter: you know, basically they just wanted to confirm the information that we already know, that there was this crash and that they wanted to tell us the process going forward, and that is, a, they want to secure the scene and, b, to let the media know that there are going to be briefings every hour on the hour, so you can expect the next press briefing to be at 6:00 eastern time. meanwhile, don, i m outside of the international terminal, and it looks
evidence, to make sure that anybody who requires medical attention has already gotten it. that s where they are at this point as far as the scene is concerned. the next thing is in terms of the immediate briefings, he wanted to let everybody know that going forward for the next 24 hours or so there will be news conferences every single hour. he wanted to make that very clear. so, they want to keep the public informed because obviously there is an incredible amount of interest in terms of what is happening here. so, the next news conference i would imagine will occur at an hour from now at about 6:00 eastern time. where hopefully more information will begin to trickle in, don? okay. dan, great reporting. thank you, dan. stand by. our dan simon is there at the san francisco international airport. a witness, his name is anthony casterani saw the plane as it approached san francisco s international airport. he talked to cnn moments ago. listen closely okay. we ll hear from him in just