in los angeles. the night originated in shanghai with a stop in seoul, south korea. >> at least 49 were in bay area hospitals in critical condition. as of late last night. the hospitals have not updated the condition of their patients this morning but as soon as they do we will bring that to you. >> two of the runways at sfo remain closed at this hour. arriving flights are being delayed nearly 4 1/2 hours on average. passengers are being warned to expect long delays and some flight cancellations again today. so much of the attention this morning is on that federal ntsb team of investigators are who are just now beginning their inspection of the wreckage and the search for clues. how did this tragedy happen? abc7 news reporter matt examplar spoke with the head of the agency this morning and joins us live from sfo with what you have learned. good morning, matt keller. >> good morning. yeah, the light is just starting to shine here at sfo so people are going to be able to go out to the wreckage of the plane and get a clearer look at what exactly happened here. we are here at the inter

survivors, a group of chinese tourists from shanghai, who pulled up right here in their bus. >> translator: the chair moving. the people out of the seat. reporter:ran ling says the oxygen masks dropped from the ceiling and everything went dark. there were screams and passengers waited for instructions. hi decided not to wait,. >> translator: he stand up to tell everybody, leave your -- >> his wife injured her ankle. 141 chinese nationals were onboard, including his tour group of 23 from shanghai. >> what kind of injuries did your tourists have? >> two people seriously in back. in the hospital, cannot move. >> tour guide says the 40-year-old man and 50-year-old woman will undergo back surgery, and the rest of the group suffered minor cuts and bruises. >> young and his wife will stay in san francisco with the injured tourists and one other, while the rest continue on. >> today we bo to the -- >> this was a once in a lifetime trip for them and they should try to make the best of it. reporter: it's a two-week tour starting on schedule today. the tour will not skip a beat. they'll good to l.a.,

lated in shanghai with a stop in seole, south korea. >> two of the runways remain closed. passengers are being told to expect long delays and flight cancellations again today. and we are learning more this morning about the search for answers in this fatal airliner crash. as we mentioned, the ntsb is on the scene. their south korean counterparts are on the way. matt keller joins us live from sfo with the latest from a briefing, matt, that was held just a short time ago? >> yeah. actually it was a one-on-one interview with the ntsb chairman. she was here at sfo. they have gun their investigation. now she did confirm to me that the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder have been recovered here at the crash site. they are both on a red eye flight right now on their way to washington, d.c., with a federal escort. here are some pictures taken by the ntsb overnight of them doing their first site inspection of the plane. they are getting a closer look at the wreckage. the chairman just told me investigations like this usually take about a week. at least on the scene. today the

long. this asiana airlines flight 214 originated from shanghai and then flew to seoul, korea, then tried to make a landing but turn out to be hard and fatal landing at san francisco international airport about 11:30 this morning. completely shut down the airport because, as you can see, part of the airplane fell apart and then burn. >> the airport referred to it as a hard landing; for all intents and purposes it was a crash landing. when the plane burned but not before many, many people were able to get off the plane. so that's very encouraging news. and still remarkable, eric, of you're still here. eric thomas. when you look at the impact. that the fuselage really held up remarkably well. >> 777. is a very durable airplane. it's a favorite of passengers. a favorite of pilots. it's one of boeing's statute of the art aircraft and is very strong for the eight it carries. they work hard to minimize the weight. you can see the technology is coming together. the fire retardant, the fire resistance, the fact that the fuel doesn't burst into flames the wayed use -- the way it useo and all

accounted for. >> the flight originated in shanghai. f.b.i. says there is no indication that terrorism is involved. >> cheryl: crash is causing long delays and flight cancellations being diverted. >> amy hollyfield is live at the terminal where she is getting updates from airport staff. what do you have? >> reporter: dan, our media partner "san jose mercury news" the two were killed were 16-year-old girls from china or korea. local officials are calling it a chaotic, difficulty scene. there were 220 firefighters on the scene. one passenger describes it as ten seconds of horror. the tail was separated by hundred feet from the plane. seats were collapsed. luggage and laptops were flying around the cabin. there were copious amounts of smoke. fighters did help others off the plane. some jumped. some used the slide to get off the plane. they saw some people coming out of the water. i asked the fire chief more about that after the briefing. >> people coming from the water, it's my guess, it's a burning plane, if they were burned at all they went over the water after they self-evacuated to ge

shanghai crashed into the see, killing the two pilots on board. that was blamed on mechanical problems. and in 1993 a asiana domestic flight from seoul crashed during a botched landing attempt in bad weather killing 66 people and injuring 44. pilot began the plane's decent while it was still passing over a mountaintop. >> the asiana flight 214 came down after a ten and a half hour flight that began in shanghai, china ma and made a stop in seoul. this is one of four runways at sfo. now most of the time it's one of the two runways used for arrivals and departures for some of the bigger planes like that 777 that crashed. its it's 8:26. we should let you know that you will be able to see "this week" with george stephanopoulos at 4:00 p.m. today, as we continue here with our coverage of the flight 214 disaster in just a moment. >> we are one of the first to talk to the ntsb top investigator this morning about the he have dense they will be looking for at the crash seen. we will have a live report. >> the crash is forcing hundreds of other passengers to make other planes. how long s

shanghai where they boarded a flight for california. they are accompanied by two teachers from the school and the government officials. they plan to visiting juried students and, of court, receive their darks' remains. a last information about the girls is coming if china and social media through thousands of posting painting a tragic picture of two brilliant young lives cut short. >> chinese new accounts say that 16-year-old ye mengyuan on the left and wang linjia are best of friends at their middle school. last night, their heartbroken classmates held a vigil using candles to form a large heart and they released sky lanterns with the girls' name writtens on them. the chinese version of twitter had him madges of the two teens, wang linjia class president, top student and ye mengyuan aerobics champion and latin dancer and accomplished piano player. they are smiling and on the left wearing red glasses. in a twist, the final post by ye mengyuan was a bad luck number series of 4's because it sound like the word "death otherwise otherwise and wrote sister is depressed. one post capture

, including his tour group of 23 from shanghai. >> what kind of injuries do your 23 tourists have? >> two people serious in back, still in the hospital, cannot move. >> the tour guide says the 40-year-old man and 50-year-old woman were undergo back surgery near san francisco. the rest of the group suffered minor cuts and bruises. >> yang and his wife will stay in san francisco with the injured tourists and one other while the rest continue on. >> today we go to the -- >> despite the tragedy the group felt this was a once the a lifetime trip and they should try to make the best of it. >> that group lost a lot of their belongings, in fact all of the passengers lost a lot of their belongings to today the tour group will stay on schedule. today from monterey, l.a., las vegas, bryce canyon, and zion national park. they will not miss a beat. reporting live in san francisco, abc7 news. >> meantime, relatives of victims of the flight are on their way to san francisco. many boarded a plane at south korea earlier today, fighting through a crush of reporters. this man's mother and sister bot

girls are from. now earlier today the group left shanghai international airport for the long sad trip to the u.s. i'm told special arrangements are being made to take them directly from the plane to the crown plaza hotel in burlingame. that's where they will meat with the classmates of the girls who died. those classmates were transferred from san jose to burlingame today but earlier they met with the chinese counsel general at the marriott hotel in san jose. he told them how brave he thought they were and how much respect he had for them but there was little he could do to comfort them from the trauma of saturday plane crash. aside from the 2 classmates they los lost, 2 others are san francisco general hospital and one of them is still in critical condition. she underwent surgery today. the counsel general took flurries to them and met with total of 5 chinese victims there. now while the parents are here, the parents of those daughter, the girls who died, will have the really sad task of having to identify their daughters at the san m te'o county coroner office. we are also told

that, shanghai, with new details from the investigation including the focus on whether it was pilot error with a trainee pilot. more details ahead. >> of the 182 victims taken to a dozen bay area hospitals only a handful remain in critical condition. san francisco general reports six patients remain in critical condition including a child, sanford has two patients in critical condition. last night all minors have been released. abc7 news reporter reports on a survivor at sf general. >> crash survivor was supposed to be in san francisco on vacation. custody, she arrived at the hospital to visit her 8-year-old son who also is hurt, both jumped from the plane and not down the emergency chute. >> my son is so brave. he said, mom, we must go out and three ran out of the plane and jumped off first. i come out. >> the chief surgery at san francisco general says the passengers most seriously hurt were sitting in the free of the plane which slammed into the ground first. they had injuries to abdomen and spine including some cases of paralysis. >> we saw some patients that had severe road ras

. their families left san francisco around noon on a flight to shanghai with their daughters' ashes. the families retained a new york law firm to represent them. dozens of people were seriously injured in the crash of flight 214 which had 307 people aboard when it hit a sea wall in front of the runway, lost its tail and caught fire. the ntsb continues to investigate the crash. >> 60 years ago today the united nations and north korea signed an armistice, spending the korean war. today ground was broken for a future korean war memorial at the pre seedow -- >> what the armedded forces did, primarily the americans, made a democracy that is so thriving. if we could have their subway system here in san francisco, it would be great. >> the korean war was an undeclared fight that lasted from 1950 to 1953. 33,000 american soldiers died and 100,000 were wounded. it's often called the forgotten war. at the national mall in front of the korean war veterans memorial, president obama honored those who fought and especially those who were captured. >> surely no one endured more than our u p.o.w.s

. now earlier today the group left shanghai international airport for the long sad trip to the u.s. i'm told special arrangements are being made to take them directly from the plane to the crown plaza hotel in burlingame. that's where they will meat with the classmates of the girls who died. those classmates were transferred from san jose to burlingame today but earlier they met with the chinese counsel general at the marriott hotel in san jose. he told them how brave he thought they were and how much respect he had for them but there was little he could do to comfort them from the trauma of saturday plane crash. aside from the 2 classmates theyey l t lost, 2 others are san francisco general hospital and one of them is still in critical condition. she underwent surgery today. the counsel general took flurries to them and met with total of 5 chinese victims there. now while the parents are here, the parents of those daughter, the girls who died, will have the really sad task of having to identify their daughters at the san m te'o county coroner office. we are also told the students

originated in shanghai, and continued on to seoul, on it way to san francisco. a boeing 777 aircraft. and manifest has number of individuals on board the aircraft. 291 passengers and 16 crew, for a total of 307 onboard the aircraft, and as i mentioned we have some updated information on the status of those passengers and crew, and for that i'm going to turn it over to assistant deputy chief dale kearn. >> of the 307 souls on board we had 181 total that were transported to local hospitals. of the 181, 49 were serious, and were in the initial victims transported from the scene. an additional 132 were transported later on into the incident after being tree -- triaged. we have also accounted for 123 people here in the terminals of the airport that were uninjured and have remained in place, and at this time we have two confirm doa passengers on the aircraft. >> so those numbers add up to 306. we're still working to confirm the last one. as dale mentioned we have 123 vivids -- individuals at the airport being processed. i'm going to turn itout over to fbi special agent in charge, dave john

folks are from south korea or even from shanghai. >> all the major hospitals and all the traumatic centers certainly here in the bay area spring into action in a situation like this, and they responded with all hands on deck in order to treat those who were wounded. >> hotel rooms near san francisco international provided people with a clear view of the crash. >> lisa amin gulezian is live in burlingame with that part of the story. reporter: i'm off airport boulevard to my left is san francisco international airport and to me right the embassy suites and a lot of the rooms face the bay and the airport. anthony castro's room is on the eighth floor. he is an aviation enthusiast and likes to watch the pleaps come go. this morning he was on his balcony and saw the flight approach and then crash. he noticed it looked strange. the nose was too high and then it came down. >> the tail definitely partially intact as it came up to the top of the spin, but you could then see parts of the dispail the tail -- vertical fin fly off like it was slingshot. >> anthony took a lot of photos right afte

flight shanghai with the ashes of their daughters. they have retained a new york law firm to represent them. dozens of people were seriously injured in the flight. there were 307 people aboard when the plane hit a seawall and caught fire. >> president obama urged americans to take time to listen to the historic stories of veterans. president made his remarks on the national mall at the korean veterans memorial on the 60th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that suspended the korean war. in san francisco, officials broke gound at a memorial. memorial will be built in the presidio. several korean veterans attended and former congressman told the crowd the power to prevent a war with north korea resides in the nation's capitol. >> if president obama should go to pyongyang he might well be able to stop such a war and begin the process toward a meaningful peace. >> it was quite a different scene in capital city where it was vic they consider it a great win over the u.s. >>> at least65 people have been killed in clashes in egypt. highest death toll in incident in the count

july accident. they left around noon in a flight shanghai with the ashes of their daughters. they have retained a new york law firm to represent them. dozens of people were seriously injured in the flight. there were 307 people aboard when the plane hit a seawall and caught fire. >> president obama urged americans to take time to listen to the historic stories of veterans. president made his remarks on the national mall at the korean veterans memorial on the 60th anniversary of the signing of the armistice that suspended the korean war. in san francisco, officials broke gound at a memorial. memorial will be built in the presidio. several korean veterans attended and former congressman told the crowd the power to prevent a war with north korea resides in the nation's capitol. >> if president obama should go to pyongyang he might well be able to stop such a war and begin the process toward a meaningful peace. >> it was quite a different scene in capital city where it was victory day. they consider it a great win over the u.s. >>> at least65 people have been killed in clashes in egyp

parents are now on their way to the u.s.. they took a bus from their hometown to shanghai boarding a flight for california accompanied by two teachers from the school and four government officials. they plan to visit with injured students then receive their daughter's remains. you can express your support for victims of the asiana flight 214 by sharing this badge on our facebook page. as well as on google plus. >> let's move on to another aspect of the story. that is the airline passengers who are still feeling affects of flight schedules that have been delayed or cancelled because of the crash. that story coming up at 6:30 plus those cramped seats everybody complains about? they may be more than just uncomfortable. they can be unsafe. michael finney will explain why some are concerned about that. >> and still to come on abc 7 news at 6:00 a major delay on the new span of the bay bridge and a new price tag as well. what is driving this set back. >> and where investigators found the body of a person missing in a devastating apartment fire on the peninsula. >> it will be warm again tom

food. this woman was thrilled she got to order from this shanghai restaurant. >> i used to live by there so when i saw that they would bring it here for lunch, i thought that was amazing. palo alto based e-club came up with the idea. so far they have 40 restaurants participating. >> so we have a team of people who scour the city, who know was -- what is already good and who find the undiscovered things that people need to know about. >> the service has to be ordered online. the kitchen owner dennis linn said it happened to the downtown lunch business the same way food trucks have successfully done. >> the financial district asked me to deliver and i have no way to do that, so this is a good way to do it right now. >> they recently experimented with food trucks in san francisco. but the cost was out of line to comply with the city's new regulations. we wanted to bring new products to consumers. so far there's only one of these bus necessary the city but if it catches on, more could be coming. abc7 news. >> we have the a.i.d.s. walk today so everyone is looking to you for the forecas

. their families left san francisco around noon yesterday on a flight to shanghai, carrying the ashes of their daughters. >>> the families have retained a new york law firm to represent them. dozens of people were seriously injured in that crash of asianna flight 214. there were 307 people aboard when the lane hit a seawall in front of the runway at sfo, lost its tail and caught fire. >>> kaiser permanente is the biggest healthcare provider in california. now some of the oakland-based company's biggest customers are complaining about the increase in premiums. abc 7 nannette miranda has the story. >> reporter: kaiser permanente may be starting to lose their reputation of a high quality care at low prices. or affordable prices. the rates are rising. at the nation's third largest healthcare buyer, family coverage at kaiser in 2007 was the most affordable insurance option for workers. three years later it cost more than the plans offered by others and blue cross. next year they will be the most expensive plan, surpassing even blue shield. >> i am surprised by that. >> david is very happy

on a flight to shanghai, carrying the ashes of their daughters. >>> the families, by the way, have retained a new york law firm to represent them. dozens of people were seriously injured in that crash of asiana flight 214. there were 307 people aboard when the lane hit a seawall in front of the runway at sfo, lost its tail and caught fire. >>> kaiser permanente is the biggest healthcare provider in california. now some of the oakland-based company's biggest customers are complaining about the increase in premiums. nannette miranda has the story. >> reporter: kaiser permanente may be starting to lose their reputation of a high quality care at low prices. the rates are rising. at the nation's third largest healthcare buyer, family coverage at kaiser in 2007 was the most affordable insurance option for workers. three years later it cost more than the plans offered by others and blue cross. next year they will be the most expensive plan, surpassing even blue shield. >> i am surprise bed that. >> david is very happy with kaiser, but rising prices might make even good consumers think twi

shanghai dumpling king. >> i used to live by there so when i saw that they would bring it here for lunch, i thought that was amazing. palo alto based e-club came up with the idea. so far they have 40 restaurants participating. >> so we have a team of people who scour the city, who know what is already good and who find the undiscovered things that people need to know about. >> the service has to be ordered online. awning trays are made ahead of time at the restaurant and kept in warming items until handed out. the kitchen owner dennis linn said it happened to the downtown lunch business the same way food trucks have successfully done. >> the financial district asked me to deliver and i have no way to do that, so this is a good way to do it right now. >> the supervisor who spearheaded the rules for the food trucks said this appears to fall in line with their regulations. we wanted to bring new products to consumers. so far there's only one of these buses in the city but if it catches on, more could be coming. abc7 news. >> 45 minutes until the start of the a.i.d.s. walk in golden ga