we know that there were 291 passengers on board that flight which left seoul's airport yesterday seoul time at 4:53 p.m. in the afternoon and 16 staff, so 307 people altogether on board. asiana is second largest airline, second to korean air. it has flights to san francisco every day, the flight time's a little over ten hours. but as you can imagine it's early in the morning here just past 6:00 a.m., so it will be some time before we'll get reaction from passengers, but many, many people on board that 777, i'll just tell you a little more about asiana's fleet. it commissioned in 2006, the airline, itself, is running since 1988. it's known here really for its good service. it's had five incidents we've been hearing from richard quest since 1992, but it is difficult to make any assessment when we know so little about why this particular incident happened or to make any judgments on asiana's safety record, per se. that is the situation in seoul right now as people wake up to this news of that flight which originated from seoul's international airport yesterday afternoon, don. >> all right

i want to go to diana magnay who is in seoul for reaction there. dian diana, what do you have for us? >> don, very little right now. it's 5:20 in the morning and we've been trying asiana airlines and we've been trying the various ministries. for now there's nothing. we'll be monitoring the situation obviously and this plane came from seoul on its way to san francisco, so you can expect that there will be considerable reaction in the hours to come, but for now given the time, it is very limited what i can tell you really about this airline. which is -- which is basically korea's second biggest airline to korean air. and as we were hearing from richard a little earlier, you know, not necessarily one that has a bad record for safety. it's one that's considered especially good for service. but for now i can't really give you more than that. >> okay. diana, stand by. it's very early on, and we can understand the information will be coming out as well. and after all, the accident did happen here in the united states and not in south korea. diana, stand b

time in seoul. was set to land in san francisco around 11:15 or so. something happened. something happened very quickly, best we can gather according to eyewitness accounts and according to reports on the ground and reports from officials. 11:27 that plan crash landed. it did not land on runway 28. it landed best we can gather to the left of it. the tail at some point became detached from the plane. there have been eyewitness accounts that the tail itself dragged

diana magnay is in seoul now. 5:30 in the morning there. any information that you're getting? >> yeah, 5:50. we know that this plane took off at 4:53 yesterday afternoon, don. it's a little over ten hours that it takes to reach san francisco from seoul's airport which is asiana airlines international hub. and we know that asiana which is basically korea's second largest airline next to korean air, is well known for its good customer service as well as this airport which has consistently won awards for being one of the best airports that you can fly from. it's obviously incredibly early in the morning here, and we're waiting to hear any kind of reaction from anyone who was on board that plane. apparently the capacity for 777 aircraft which this is between 260 and 310 passengers. i'll just tell you a little bit more about asiana's fleet has 79 aircraft, and this 777 is a young plane, delivered in 2006. as i said, its international hub is in seoul, south korea, and 21 countries internationally, 71 cities. and asiana has responded to our calls and they're basically just waking up

seoul to sfo, 10, 12 hours. had no idea anything was going wrong until the last instant, when the pilot came in too lope. benjamin levy, spoke to us from sf jen rageneral treated for in ribs and his account of what happened at 11:27 a.m. this morning. >> it was a bit surreal. a lot of people screaming. not believing what was happening to them. i wasn't believing. the door was too close. and the door, which we don't have slide. the slide was gone. a piece of wing was gone. a lot of debris on the ground. started to usher people. trying to calm down as well. people were pushing each other out. and, so, you know -- the hostess was trying to help as well. there was a lot of commotion going on, obviously. so thankful that many people got out of the plane quickly. you know, not being too injured. i don't know the number. i understand there are some deaths now. >> benjamin levy lives in the bay area, traveling from seoul. like so many on the flight. the passage way between seoul and sfo, tourists, nationals, koreans, u.

time in seoul. was set to land in san francisco around 11:15 or so. something happened. something happened very quickly, best we can gather according to eyewitness accounts and according to reports on the ground and reports from officials. 11:27 that plan crash landed. it did not land on runway 28. it landed best we can gather to the left of it. the tail at some point became detached from the plane. there have been eyewitness accounts that the tail itself dragged and clipped the seawall. sources are nelling nbc news that -- telling nbc news that the pilot of the plane did not make any sort of distress call shortly before approaching the runway. at this point according to officials from a news conference, about 30-45 minutes ago there were some 307 people aboard. 291 of them passengers. 16 crew members. two of them died. 130 have been taken to area hospitals. and some 60 people upwards of approximately 60 people still unaccounted for. melissa reedberger has been following the story closely and i unde

we know, again, it was coming in from seoul. according to a witness, around 11:20, around 11:20 local time, again, that would be around 2:20 eastern time, but again, this is coming from a witness around 11:20. the plane was just about to land. there was some sort of a problem with the landing gear. coming in from seoul, south korea. the plane was a boeing 777. we know that some black smoke is being seen at the airport. we also know planes flying into san francisco, planes flying into that airport are in a holding pattern. none of those planes are being allowed to land. at this point, we are being told that obviously no planes are being allowed to take off from san francisco international airport as well. we do not have a great deal of information right now. we do have some video, some tape that just came in. you can see the black smoke that i was telling you about. you can see the black smoke there on the runway. off in a distance to the right side, off to the distance -- air traffic control is reporting that the pilot's and fol

asiana has its headquarters in seoul. it operates 14 domestic and 19 international routes throughout asia, europe and gateway cities. by the end of the year, asiana plans to increase its trans pacific routes from 44 to 49 operations per week. the airline also plans to increase the size of its fleet from 80 to 85. of course, we have no idea at this point what kind of impact this crash might have on those plans. >> now the asiana airlines plane that crashed was a boeing 777ful the twin aircraft is one of the most popular long distance planes. if you're in the aviation field, you know this. you know all about this plane. it is used for flights 12 hours or more. in the bay area, where we are a hub. this is a very common airplane for sfo from one continent to another typically. it is these long flights over water. the 777s can carry up to 300 passengers. and actually, on this we had 307. two 91 passengers, 16 is the crew. almost to capacity. 300 is the capacity. 291 in terms of the passengers here plus the crew. and also, chan

this was coming in from seoul, south korea flight 214. this plane is often used for flights up to 12 hours or more. if you are traveling from one continent to another. as you said, san francisco airport is a very, very popular airport. it's the tenth busiest airport in the u.s. 25th busiest airport in the world handling over a million passengers each week. in a day the airport averages over thousand flights. that is in a day. >> rick: we are getting information about who was on the plane. just a breakdown because this plane, asiana originating in seoul, south korea. it's based in south korea. the flight had a we're told, 291 passengers. plus 16 crew members. it was 291 passengers and also 16 crew members. the flight carrying at least 141 chinese passengers, 77 passengers from south korea, and 61 passengers who are u.s. citizens, that is according to the reuters news service. they are giving us a little information according to a south korean official who was on the plane and which countries they come from. want to talk a little bit more a

if you're dialing internationally in seoul. asiana said that has been obviously very, very busy this morning as south koreans wake up to this news. a little bit more information for you, wolf, about asiana. it's the second biggest carrier here. as we've been hearing from richard, there have been accidents in the past, but not necessarily more than any other aircraft. and it's considered, i'm sorry, carrier. and it's considered really well known for customer service. if you look at the customer reviews which i've been doing just now. you know, that's something that this airline is well known for. but, yes, shocking news, but at least not as bad as what we thought it was a few hours or a few minutes ago, wolf. >> yeah. much better news, obviously our heart goes out to the families of those killed. two confirmed fatalities in this crash. one person still unaccounted for. 181 people taken to local hospitals. 123 apparently okay. they're in the terminal right now. apparently they're still in the terminal and they're being questioned

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asiana has its headquarters in seoul. it operates 14 domestic and 90 international routes throughout asia, europe and a number of gateway cities in north america and that would be us at sfo. this is a growing airline. by the end of the year, they expect to increase the trans pacific passenger routes. >> a lot of people since it was the holiday weekend weren't near the tvs. with social media today, most people found out about this through their phones, communicated via e-mail, via social media. and there were some people who were supposed to be on this flight that are getting a lot of attention because they weren't. >> let's bring in scott budman who joins us from the newsroom and continues this coverage. this is fashi this is fascinating to see these accounts. for journalists and people of facebook as well. >> you're right. showing us the photos that many circulated via instagram and twitter. a certain facebook post that you alluded to getting a lot of attention because it comes from facebook executive sheryl sandberg. ta

it was headed here from seoul, south korea. bound from seoul. it departed seoul yesterday at 4:35 p.m. it was scheduled to arrive at terminal one in san francisco, scheduled to arrive at 11:15 local time. just after 2:00 here on the east coast. as that plane approached runway 28, something happened. at this point, obviously, we don't know what that something is. but we do know according to sources at least that the pilot did not make a distress call. there was no distress call from the pilot. passengers were able to jump down those emergency inflatable slides to safety. we saw in fact -- we saw some pictures earlier of some passengers doing just that. and right now, as i'm sort of recapping what happened, you just saw -- this is the picture i was just telling you about here, the passengers who managed to -- a number of them managed to deplane. we've heard from a number of witnesses over the course of the afternoon. some -- one of the witnesses said that she saw at least 20. we heard from another witness said that he saw a couple of dozen folks g

from seoul. he said he still feels safe flying. we also have new information on the two young passengers who died here as part of the school group. abc7 news cornell bernard is live in the newsroom with a heartbreaking picture and details. cornell. >> we're learning the two passengers killed were chinese nationals. they were coming to california to spend the summer. boeing were 16 years old. they were ye meng yuan, who just celebrated her 16th birthday ten years ago and the second victim is wang lin jia. they were part of a group visiting the china. the sad picture is coming to us from china news of the parents being comforted in a school. they rushed to the school upon getting a call she had been killed in the asiana plane crash. meanwhile many survivors were ses courted through the sfo terminal by police. one woman appeared to have a small bruise on her face and another man was seen wearing a sling. he had a broken collarbone. passengers said it all seemed like the crash happened in slow motion. they say the noise of the crash wa

this aircraft, boeing 777, from seoul, south korea had a crash landing at s f o. there are two confirmed fatalities. and over 290 people on board, that is including flight numbers. with an infant cross center. including--flight-members of the flight crew >> yes. and right now, we have a witness, ashley? >> yes. >> ashley, can you tell us what you saw. >> we just kind of saw in it fly over and we also noticed that there was only one landing year. the year >> only one of the landing gear... was a down? >> that is correct. >> yes. because my husband worked for nasa for 20, 25 years, we have always observed aircraft flying over our house. veamong many people. >> now, let us go to the ntsb news conference. >> we had a boeing 777 flight 214 that originated from seoul, south korea and destination, san francisco they were on runway, 28. fifth day crashed upon landing. we have any number of investigators that are here with the investigator in charge, phil english. we have a number of experts that are going to also be on operation. with human performance, survival level, th

that is flight 214 from seoul, south korea. the asiana airliner was on its way to san francisco international airport when it crash landed on runway 28-l. we have the live pictures and will be covering this throughout the evening on cnn. very shortly we are expecting a news conference to take place with the mayor and other city officials as well as airline officials as soon as they step in front of the microphone, up to the podium we'll care u it live on cnn. the worldwide resources of cnn on top of the story for us. in london this evening cnn's richard quest. in washington, cnn's rene marsh. in seoul, south korea diana magne. here in new york with me is dr. todd curtis an aviation expert. also robert francis, an ntsb investigator and the former vice chair of the ntsb. mr. curtis, to you first. i spoke to mr. francis about the people fanned out on the air field looking for he said parts of the airplane and other things as well. standard operating procedure. >> that is. there is no telling what piece may be critical for the inve

much hotter than seoul across much of china. 36 degrees in beijing. 37 in fuzhou. the heat will likely continue for the next couple of days. finally, in europe we have a strong low pressure system drifting into the british isles in the western continent. we are seeing thunderstorms and a risk of hail. the wet weather will effect germany on wednesday and poland on thursday. ahead of the system warm air comes in so temperatures looking like mid summer. 29 degrees for you in vienna. 26 in berlin. very hot across the iberian peninsula. 36 in madrid. much hotter conditions expected as we go into the weekend. here is your extended forecast. >>> and that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. thanks for joining us.

flight was coming from seoul, south korea. i don't have any information on the nature of the incident. >> there were some reports that the plane may have rolled? >> i'm sorry, i can't confirm that. i'm sorry, i'm afraid i don't know that. >> can you talk a little bit, i know you don't have numbers on survivors but are there survivors? >> i don't have a count on the status. i do know that people were removed from the aircraft and transported. exact status, i don't have numbers. >> air traffic now and where are things being diverted? >> i don't know where flights are being diverted but they have diverted. we are currently not operating arrivals or departures and we are working to address that. i'm sorry, i don't know that information. we're still working on an exact count. >> for those people waiting to see the loved ones, where this should they go right now? >> asiana airlines are working out a process, if we get an 800 number we will give that to you. >> people are coming to pick somebody up, what are you telling them to do? >

the flight originated in shanghai with a stop in seoul, south korea. at least 49 people injured in the crash are in bay area hospitals in critical condition. >> this morning the consulate in san francisco said among the survivors are 26 chinese middle school students on a summer camp trip. >> two of the runways at sfo remain closed this morning. passengers are being warned to expect long delays as a result and some flight cancellations again today. the head of the national transportation safety board and their team of investigators are now in the bay area. they arrived late last night and have begin coming the plane's wreckage. matt keller is live at sfo where they have also recovered the black boxes, matt? >> yes. we were able to do a one-on-one interview with the national transportation safety board chairman this morning. she revealed to me what her team of investigators is going to be doing today at sfo. those investigators arrived overnight at the scene. witnesses and emergency workers say the asiana flight from south korea slammed into the runway

asiana airline flight 214 from seoul south korea crashed upon landing today. the boeing 777 had at least 300 on board, 2 are dead and as many as 23 to 103 injured. it appeared to be an uneventful touch down suddenly the tail section broke apart and fire burned in the mid section. our coverage begins in san francisco. >> it took just seconds from the time asiana flight 214 crash landed and what is left shows how fortunate most of the passengers were to get out unharmed. it hit a sea wall as it tried to land and hit a trail of debris as it tried to land. >> the initial impact looked like the plane had just split in half. >> this eyewitness news said he was in disbelief as the flight approached. >> this is the runway it came in like this and it just hit like that and the whole thing just collapsed immediately. it never really had a chance. >> passengers got out using emergency slides. robert's wife and daughter were on board, both slightly injured but they are okay. >> they started evacuated everyone. >> one by one family members got the news they were hopeful to

plane, ready to go to seoul. we could see that the wreckage was a tragedy and that that is why we are delayed. >> reporter: we spoke with another passenger and everybody saw what was going on. she described it and even though they spent the night here they were not even guaranteed to get on a flight. that is because the people that have a flight today with 8 ticket will have for property. the people impacted by yesterday, are able to reschedule and possibly fly standby. >> thank-you, the biggest problem is not just that the two largest runways of the4 are shutdown. and these are actually shorter. this is more difficult for a large aircraft. >> let us go back to s f o and mike pelton is in terminal no. 3. mike, good morning. >> we understand that the delays are at least 9 hours for arriving flights. and www.flysfo.com is down becuase of the sheer volume. >> welcome back. 8:37 bario >> area. airport is are holding out >> we were supposed to fly out to alaska but however, we received a text message that it was going

a separate investigative team coming in from seoul, south korea. all of them will wt to talk to united pilots sitting just at the end of the runway waiting for that asiana plane to go by. they literal will had a front row seat to all of this. back to you guys. >> all right, miguel marquez live at the san francisco airport. thank you. >>> flight 214 was one of boeing's 777 jets and said "boeing extends its deepest condolences to the families and friends of those who perished in the asiana flight 214 as well the recovery of those injureed and boeing will join the u.s. national transportation safety board at their request to provide technical assistance. >> the go team is at the scene of the crash. official twitter account send out this photograph. you can see the investigators are outside examining this plane but i want to show you this other photograph. this one is striking. this is looking inside this plane into the main cabin. you see just right to the left of the side of the plane. right near the ray, there's a little box. that's a screen on the

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there is the issue of that it is based in seoul, south korea. but because we have international treaty -- the ntsb will have jurisdiction and will be able to enforce, the faa would, mete out any punishments or fines they would have to pay or they would no longer have the right to fly in and out of america. >> i guess my question is how much involvement will their version of the faa in, in korea have in this? >> fantastic question. asi asiana, airlines will cooperate with ntsb. government official will take the lead and handle this exclusively. in fact i will fell you, and gals, are so good that even international incidents. i know there was one in saudi arabia, i believe there was one in brazil. they call in american authorities though it is an international flilght. they will call in ntsb essentially re-enactor that will piece this together. because the expertise. some of the finest in the world. they, they certainly are going to defer off to the united states in this case. off awe steve, talking about the investigation. we heard from the ntsb

this is an asiana airlines flight headed from seoul, south korea. it left seoul 4:30 yesterday. it was set to than in san francisco around 11:15 local time. obviously 2:15 here on the east coast as it was approaching runway 28, something went terribly wrong. that plane crash handed. it is resting to the left of runway 28. passenger were seen jumping down the emergency slides. at this point we have no official word on the number of injuries. kntv the affiliate there saying there were 291 people on board. at one point we heard from air traffic control that the pilots did get off the plane. we've heard from an eyewitness. we heard from an eyewitness on the air a short time ago that it appeared as if, it appeared as if the tail of that plane was very low as it approached. hit the runway, fell off, flipped the number of times down the runway. tom costello telling us, at this point the government does not think this is the result of anything sinister. they're not using the words terrorism at this point. a source close to the investigation says the pilot made no distress calls prior to

asiana flight 214 came down landing in sfo coming from seoul, south korea. most of the time this is one of the two arrivals used for departures for some of the bigger planes. >> we will listen to the conversation from the air-traffic control tower to figure out what happened. here's a sample of what they will listen to. >> heavy emergency vehicles are responding. everyone is on their way. >> now some of that audio is hard to make out b you can hear the tower telling the pilot who radioed in that emergency vehicles were on the way. this conversation happened in a moment immediately after the crash. >> we talked to abc7 news aviation consultant john nance. he said the angle at which the plane came down was a critical clue. >> we know it was too low and too slow and the combination of that with the no, sir-up angle, which is what i was told at first, was there a major problem in trying to make the runway. and the missing element here is power. they pushed the power up at 500 feet or 600 feet and the engines about not come up or was it a situation that for some

asiana flight 214 coming in from seoul, south korea. it crash-landed just before 11:30 this afternoon as you can see the wreckage is still just off of the runway. >> and let's now go to san francisco general where they've received three waves of patients and they're now holding a news conference. >> are you again? i'm waiting for him. okay. flush good afternoon. rachel kagan with san francisco general hospital and trauma center. ism giving you the 5:00 update on the patients from the asiana airlines accident here at san francisco general. our grand total so far today is now 34 patients. of those patients, 11 are children. and 23 are adults. we have five in critical condition from the original ten you may recall that at the 2:00 update we had ten critically injured patients. five of those remain critically injured. five -- the other five have been upgraded to serious. for the rest of the group, getting up to a grand total of 34. we do not have conditions breakdowns yet. they are being assessed and we do know their injuries vary. they not

was up the emergency chute that had deployed from asiana flight 214, which was completing a trip from seoul with 317 people on board that killed two teenage passengers and injured a dozen more. now, at 11:27, the boeing 777 bounce and skidded on the ground. one knew right away from the dispatcher's voice, alert 3, plane crash, plane crash, that this was real. they got to the plane within three minute, first seeing smoke. they sprayed foam on it. many of the passengers already out. when they got to the rear of the plane, they immediately saw passengers, some trapped and a very much deteriorating situation. >> firefighters from san francisco along with members of the san francisco international airport were doing something that many might think that is beyond expectation that they would enter a plane involved with fire. and in the wings of the plane is jet fuel. >> reporter: now, they released the names of at least 16 police officers and they mentioned por n more than 100 officers. they discussed reports that one of the 16-year-old teens that was killed found outside the plane may have been h

florence looi, al jazeera, soul. -- seoul.

south korean airline says that two hundred ninety one people were on board flight two one four from seoul more people were earlier seen escaping down the emergency slides while crews emergency crews amelle remaining at the scene now authorities have ruled out the involvement of terrorism and i'm just hearing now that more than sixty are reported to have been injured it's runway two eight there just on the shores of the bay of san francisco international airport at san francisco san francisco the latest new is news is that the boeing triple seven as crash landed with two so far confirmed dead and sixty now hospitalized they get more r.t.r. website dot com where you can read eyewitness accounts through their twitter feeds and also see pictures from the scene and of course we'll bring you the latest on this throughout the hour here on the screen on r.t. . bolivia has joined two other latin american countries and extending a helping hand to the man who exposed world wide surveillance by the u.s. government it would slow down as finally started receiving asylum offers after being stranded in t

keep in mind the time zone craziness but departed seoul. it was scheduled to land in san francisco around 11:15. at 11:27 something went terribly wrong in that cockpit. something went terribly wrong with that plane. we don't know obviously precisely what went wrong at this point but we do know based on accounts from folks on the plane, a number of reports throughout the course of the day that whatever happened, it happened fast. the pilot did not dial or did not make that emergency call to air traffic control. that's according to a number of sources into nbc news, but, again, another news conference tomorrow morning, joint news conference, san francisco officials and the national transportation safety board, our coverage will continue here on msnbc. hey! yummm! totally got it all! don't forget your favorites, girls. hey girls! the good ol'days when we could eat as we wanted. yes, but we are not 18 anymore. sometimes if i eat as i used to my digestive system gets out of whack. it's not easy keeping it working as it should. it's easy if you e

people wanted to evacuate and seoul was lost again and people i've given up on the war. public support was less less tht was first a iraq say iraq in 2006 and his way of thinking he allow for possible to happen. he got back to the 38th and in fact he got north of the 38th parallel and gave his appraisal and waited for the civilian response to that. it was the collective decision of harry truman and the joint chiefs from omar bradley to lightning joe collins not to go beyond that. later that fleet general said we should have but remember ridgway then with the demotion or the relief of macarthur in april of 1951 became a theater commander in tokyo that we have that war for two more years in a stalemate and anybody at that time, dwight eisenhower included could have said let's break the stalemate and let's go across the 38th but they didn't. ridgway later as he reflected back on this his career he said it's not fair to me to say at one point in time i should have crossed the 38th parallel and gone all the way to china when i had just saved it. i saved it for you guys. you w

reporters in seoul saying that the two dead held chinese passports. the plane crashed just as it was touching down at the airport, it spun around and burst into flames. >> the moment that it touched, it was bang, and we knew that something has gone wrong, something terrible. it's difficult, your instincts take over, you do not know what is going on. >> was it loud? >> yeah, the moment it -- it was pretty loud. >> right now, it's not only in san francisco, some worried families in seoul are waiting to hear the names of the passengers on the flight. it's one of two major airlines based in south korea. just a bit ago, we were told that the two people killed in crash were chinese passport holders. anything new from the government officials there? >> reporter: we know that the plane originated in shanghai which is why you had so many chinese nationals on board. as you say, we have heard from an official from the ministry of transport infrastructure and land that those two deaths did hold chinese passports. the other nationalities on board, 77 south korean

this flight did originate from shanghai and then continued on to seoul. korea where they picked up more passengers. the destination of course was here at san francisco international. this is all we know allen and we should be getting more briefings as the evening continues. >> well, and linda two runways are open and there's more activity this behind you. people are starting to come and go again. >> reporter: yes, pretty chaotic inside the terminal right now. there are thousands of people trying to rebook their flights but yeah, there are four runways at this airport. they reopened two of them a couple of hours ago. and so now the airport is open for limited flights. so the advice is if you have a flight here tonight, you may want to check with your airlines before coming out. >> good advice and we will check back with you later. linda yee. >>> thanks. >>> so 307 people were on board flight 214 when it crash-landed at sfo. 291 of those were passengers. 16 of those are crew members and most are chinese actually because as you heard linda say, this flight o

but this could be a big piece of the puzzle. >> let's get more in seoul with reaction to the event. >> hi, ross. take a look at how asian airlines shares closed today. down by close to 6% after losing as much as 10% at a point in the day's trading. of course, in reaction to that crash landing of its jetliner. markets seem to have this consensus for now that this case will pose at least a short-term risk for the airline and the stock price which was, by the way, already struggling this year because of other factors like the strengthening of the korean one and pickup in oil prices. a couple of local brokerages lowered their target prices this morning on the country's number two carrier as well, citing the damage caused by asian airlines and notified the board's operator will be -- that said, will be more than 137 billion korean one. but, of course, there are some on the defensives like morgan stanley that said it's tprematue at this point and investors need to take a slower approach. the damage to the reputation is real key, of course. asiana on its part tried to dodge finger pointing t

seoul has seen rainfall and people in seoul and the provinces can expect up to 30 millimeters per hour. people from the philippines who tried without success to find a job in japan are getting help back home. the japanese government is getting job huhhing assistance for those who want to be caretakers. they held a job fair in manila and representatives talked about what they do. 80 job seekers attended. they had a series of interviews, mainly in japanese. >> my plan is this work under the japanese company because i want to enhance my studies because i don't want to waste it. >> japan accepts candidates from the philippines and indonesia as part of a partnership agreement. applicants have to take an exam in japanese. since 2009, only 100 of 670 filipino applicants have passed the test. those who fail are not allowed to try again and have to return home. traders in tokyo are back to work after a long holiday weekend and they are seeing a lot of momentum abroad. we start at the start of a busy day. a hectic time for people to work in the markets. >> we have strong reports from banks in th

that could go down by 5 degrees into your saturday and up to 28 degrees in seoul. right in north america, a pool of moisture is surging in from the south with quite heavy rain and hisk of hail and thunderstorms and isolated tornados. back behind me is dry. on your independence day thursday looking quite dry in the northeast coast. nice conditions to enjoy fireworks tonight. across the west, we may see patches of thundershowers across the west, but mostly dry on the coast. speaking of the heavy rain across the east, the ground is already saturated. however still 100 millimeters or more is possible. flooding and particularly flash flood is going to be a major risk across the southeast coast. temperatures will be high and boston amazingly is 37 degrees for you. more than 10 degrees higher than sammy, but across the west is 32 in sacramento, 10 degrees more than what we saw on thursday. here's the extended forecast. . >>> that's all for this edition of news line. thank you very much for joining us. maybe you have some energy- saving appliances, like an energy star-rate

that could go down by 5 degrees into your saturday and up to 28 degrees in seoul. right in north america, a pool of moisture is surging in from the south with quite heavy rain and hisk of hail and thunderstorms and isolated tornados. back behind me is dry. on your independence day thursday looking quite dry in the northeast coast. nice conditions to enjoy fireworks tonight. across the west, we may see patches of thundershowers across the west, but mostly dry on the coast. speaking of the heavy rain across the east, the ground is already saturated. however still 100 millimeters or more is possible. flooding and particularly flash flood is going to be a major risk across the southeast coast. temperatures will be high and boston amazingly is 37 degrees for you. more than 10 degrees higher than sammy, but across the west is 32 in sacramento, 10 degrees more than what we saw on thursday. here's the extended forecast. . >>> that's all for this edition of news line. thank you very much for joining us. captioning sponsored by macneil/lehrer productions >> brown: egypt swor

he met with the victim families at the airport in seoul. the south korean news agency says one father told him he was dissatisfied with the handling of the disaster and a spokesman said he will visit the hospitalized victims here while visiting san francisco. the chinese consulate says that the bodies of the young girls will remain at the medical center in san mateo and be released to a local funeral home when the parents sign the documents. >> the c.e.o. asian airlines met with the families of the two teen victims before they left to come to the bay area and offered his apositive joys. asiana airlines president bowed in respect to the family members in seoul. the father of one girl told him he was dissatisfied with the airline handling of the disaster. he apologized and gave the grieving father a hug. >> one victim was an accomplished pianist. we found new video from china of ye mengyuan if her final piano concert. the concert was from a chinese new year performance just a few months ago. chinese reports described ye mengyuan as a gifted s

. >> david eun an executive with samsung who is based here in the bay area was on that flight from seoul. he tweeted this photo and posted a message along with that read, "i just crash-landed at sfo. tail ripped off, most everyone seems fine. i am okay. surreal." and this photo is a photo taken at impact. it's a little difficult to see, but you can make out the plane and the smoke trailing behind. another photo also taken from close range shows san francisco fire crews stationed at the airport dousing the plain with foam. many of the photos sent to our newsroom were taken moments after the crash. and some of from passengers who evacuated the plane and were waiting for help on the tarmac. and then this is this photo of a passenger ben levy, his wife tweeting his photo from the hospital, being treated for broken ribs of she says her husband sitting in an exit row and helped about 50 people evacuate from the plane. >> ktvu's joan sasaki is live at sf generality where first- responders brought more than 50 of the injured. >> reporter: julie, we have been here since early this afternoon and w

., one of the victim's father's had a heated exchange with one of the ceos at a lay over in seoul. he told them he was dissatisfied with the handling of the disaster. the group who made the trip includes the parents of the deceased, the vice-president of the middle school and other people from their home city and parents of those who survived the crash. asiana airlines representative is escorting the families and local media bombarded the airline rep shortly aftermen last night. after 11:00 last night, he is there to coordinate events for the families and meanwhile, they are ushered privately from the tarmac and then escorted to nearby hotels. the 16-year-old victims were traveling from eastern china to attend a chinese summer camp. they were excellent students and great friends and their bodies were found a mile apart and one of them ejected from the plane, the other was found close to the debris and may have been struck by a vehicle. the parents are scheduled to see the coroner some time today to positively identify the bodies and the other surviving victims are likely to be reun

seoul with 32. and shanghai, especially in eastern and central china, high pressure has been dominating here and the temperatures have been reflecting that. some areas could be feeling like it gets into the 40s. now let's look over towards the americas, what's going on here. right now it's a frontal area pushing through the western great lakes towards the east. that is already bringing some thunderstorms. the same front even brought a tornado report into the dakotas. really sparking off the wet weather here. farther to the south we have another low pressure area that brought the severe weather across the central plains earlier in the week. it is bringing thunderstorms out here, not too uncommon to see tornadoes or thunderstorms there into the florida peninsula. speaking of tornadoes, a water spout off the coast of tampa. it is not too uncommon to see these here as well. especially water spouts, the one that stayed off the coastline within the tropical systems, used to work out into jacksonville flor

they're expected to land any minute seoul, south korea and proceed on to sfo. chinese media reporting they will go directly to the hospital to see the teens still being treated. >>> we are getting an update on the number of victims still hospitalized. san francisco general received 53 patients after the crash. 36 have been released. 17 remain in the hospital, six in critical condition. at stanford, all seven children taken to lucile packard children's hospital have been released. they were some of the 55 people rushed to the two stanford hospitals on saturday. ten adults remain in the hospital in stanford this morning. st. francis says it has one remaining patient but he or she is not in critical condition. st. mary's has four patients remaining, none in critical condition. >>> a scott's valley man thankful to be back at work. he was one of the survivors from asiana flight 214, his name, elliot stone, owner of the elite martial arts academy. he was greeted by the welcome home sign from the students who wrote we are so glad you are back with us. no one happier t

if we get any more information coming out of seoul. i want to go now to yin kong on the line with me. her brother-in-law was a passenger on asiana flight 214. so how is he doing? >> he's doing okay. he has a little injury in his forehead, and he's a bit injured. his leg. and his arm feels hurt. he's in the hospital. >> okay. you said he has an injury to his forehead, he has an injury to his leg and his arm hurts, right, and he's still in the hospital? >> yes. >> did he tell you what he thinks happened? did he recount the moment of the accident for you? >> he said he heard boom. he heard this sound. and then some people say, oh, it's going to explode. and go, go, go. and then, and then he get up and a lot of people are leaving. so he jumps down -- he jumps down outside and then he called me right away and i was -- i was on the freeway almost get to the airport. >> was he traveling, was he traveling by himself? >> yes. >> he was. and you -- did you head to the airport to go meet him? >> no, i didn't -- i didn't see him. i was in the airp

they've broken ground for a new headquarters in a suburb of the capital seoul. commanders plan to have the building finished in two years. then they'll move troops and equipment there from an old base in central seoul. they say 850 soldiers will work in the new location. a senior officer said they'll be ready for any provocation from north korea and any other contingency on the peninsula. >> our action today show our continued commitment to ensure a credible deterrence against aggression and to maintain stability and prosperity for the korean people. >> u.s. and south korean forces share command in the event of war. the americans are due to give the south koreans sole command in december 2015. but the south koreans asked them to postpone that plan earlier this month because of tension on the korean peninsula. >>> south korea's military unit of conscripted celebrity soldiers will be abolished amid scandals and public criticism. the singers and actors are known as entertainment soldiers. they serve as publicity and entertainment for the armed forces. defense minis

. >> this is ian williams in seoul. here in south korea, the commemorations were more solemn. signs to remember the dead and thanks for the 21 countries that gave them support. the country's president warning that peace remains uncertain. at least 36,000 americans died in just three years of combat. for american veterans, this was a chance to honor their fallen comrades from what's often called the forgotten war to look for friends among the names of the dead. >> i think that we've probably with this korean war prevented world war iii. >> reporter: we joined one group of veterans revisiting the dmz and their old battlefields. >> thank you very much. i appreciate that. >> reporter: formally greeted by the south korean soldiers who now defend this frontline. >> that would have been a trench. >> reporter: dan peterson spent much of his war in the trenches confronting the waves of chinese troops that had come to the aid of the north. this classic movie "pork chop hill" depicts the first phase of the battle that peter has experienced firsthand. >> that's where the chinese were with

and 30 degrees in seoul, heating up once again. much hotter in seoul, across much of china. 36 in beijing. 37 in fujio. the heat will likely continue for the next couple of days. finally, in europe, we have a strong low pressure system drifting into the british isles in the western continent. we are seeing some short-term heavy rain thunderstorms and also a risk of hail. the wet weather will affect germany on wednesday and poland on thursday. ahead of theel system, warm air comes in, so temperatures looking like midsummer. 29 degrees for you in vienna, 26 in berlin. and very hot across the peninsula. much hotter conditions expected as we go into the weekend. here's your extended forecast. >>> that's all for this edition of "newsline." i'm catherine kobayashi in tokyo. do stay with us. and right now we've pulled off to the side of the road to take a little break. you see, we're heading north up 395, which cuts us right through the eastern sierra, which is one of the prettiest, most spectacular areas in our entire state. now, we're h

pyongyang informed seoul of the decision on thursday. north korean officials said they prefer to focus on restarting the jointly run kaesong industrial complex. officials from south korea's unification ministry suggested on wednesday that the nations should concentrate on getting kaesong back up and running. but they accepted a separate proposal to talk about family reunions, saying it is a humanitarian issue. the south suggested the talks on family reunions occur in the truce village of panmunjom in the borderline demilitarized zone. south korean officials say they will study their counterpart's intentions at the next round of talks on kaesong scheduled for monday. >>> top diplomats from japan and south korea have reaffirmed that their countries will work closely with the united states when dealing with north korea. japan's vice foreign minister met with south korea's first vis foreign minister. the two officials held a one hour meeting on thursday. relations between japan and south korea have been strained over historical and territori

today, some of the flight attendants left for seoul, and talked briefly to reporters. >> translator: asiana airlines and all the flight attendants and related personnel are working as hard as possible to recover from this accident. >> reporter: meanwhile, three pilots in the cockpit told investigators they struggled to line up properly for a visual landing. then realized too late their auto-throttle had not maintained minimum speed. investigators have not found any evidence of the auto throttle malfunctions. tom casey, retired 777 captain, says auto-throttle isn't designed to kick in when a plane is already set up for a landing. >> if the airplane thinks it's landing, it will not come in. it just says, well, captain is landing the airplane. >> kwef to go to there is automation there to support the pilots but the pilots also have to fly the airplane. they have to monitor and fly. >> reporter: back on runway 28 left today, a haunting image as asiana flight 214 again arrived from seoul passing the burned out remains of saturday's flight 214. one more interesting fact. we heard just now