Though he just released his 'Tunnel Vision' vid, Timberlake's back again, with 'Take Back The Night.'
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SANFORD, Fla. (AP) ? In a story July 12 and in some versions of a story July 11 about George Zimmerman's murder trial, The Associated Press erroneously reported the maximum prison sentence that George Zimmerman could face if convicted of manslaughter. It is 30 years in prison, not life in prison.
A corrected version of the story is below:
Zimmerman jury adjourns deliberations for the day
Jury in Zimmerman murder trial adjourns on 1st day of deliberations; will resume Saturday
By MIKE SCHNEIDER and KYLE HIGHTOWER
Associated Press
SANFORD, Fla. (AP) ? With police and civic leaders urging calm, a jury began deliberating George Zimmerman's fate Friday after hearing dueling portraits of the neighborhood watch captain: a cop wannabe who took the law into his own hands or a well-meaning volunteer who shot Trayvon Martin because he feared for his life.
As the jury got the murder case, police in this Orlando suburb went on national television to plead for peace in Sanford and across the country, no matter what the verdict.
"There is no party in this case who wants to see any violence," Seminole County Sheriff Don Eslinger said. "We have an expectation upon this announcement that our community will continue to act peacefully."
During closing arguments, Zimmerman's lawyers put a concrete slab and two life-size cardboard cutouts in front of the jury box in one last attempt to convince the panel Zimmerman shot the unarmed black 17-year-old in self-defense while his head was being slammed against the pavement.
Attorney Mark O'Mara used the slab to make the point that it could serve as a weapon. He showed the cutouts of Zimmerman and Martin to demonstrate that the teenager was considerably taller. And he displayed a computer-animated depiction of the fight based on Zimmerman's account.
He said prosecutors hadn't met their burden of proving Zimmerman's guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Instead, he said, the case was built on "could've beens" and "maybes."
"If it hasn't been proven, it's just not there," O'Mara said. "You can't fill in the gaps. You can't connect the dots. You're not allowed to."
In a rebuttal, prosecutor John Guy accused Zimmerman of telling "so many lies." He said Martin's last emotion was fear as Zimmerman followed him through the gated townhouse community on the rainy night of Feb. 26, 2012.
"Isn't that every child's worst nightmare, to be followed on the way home in the dark by a stranger?" Guy said. "Isn't that every child's worst fear?"
One juror, a young woman, appeared to wipe away a tear as Guy said nothing would ever bring back Martin.
The sequestered jury of six women ? all but one of them white ? will have to sort through a lot of conflicting testimony from police, neighbors, friends and family members.
Jurors deliberated for three and a half hours when they decided to stop Friday evening. About two hours into their discussions, they asked for a list of the evidence. They will resume deliberations Saturday morning.
Witnesses gave differing accounts of who was on top during the struggle, and Martin's parents and Zimmerman's parents both claimed that the voice heard screaming for help in the background of a 911 call was their son's.
Zimmerman, 29, is charged with second-degree murder, but the jury will also be allowed to consider manslaughter. He faces a maximum prison sentence of life on the second-degree murder charge and 30 years if convicted of manslaughter.
The judge's decision to allow the jury to consider manslaughter was a potentially heavy blow to the defense: It could give jurors who aren't convinced the shooting amounted to murder a way to hold Zimmerman responsible for the killing.
To win a manslaughter conviction, prosecutors must show only that Zimmerman killed without lawful justification.
O'Mara dismissed the prosecution's contention that Zimmerman was a "crazy guy" patrolling his townhouse complex and "looking for people to harass" when he saw Martin. O'Mara also disputed prosecutors' claim that Zimmerman snapped when he saw Martin because there had been a rash of break-ins in the neighborhood, mostly by young black men.
The defense attorney said Zimmerman at no point showed ill will, hatred or spite during his confrontation with Martin ? which is what prosecutors must prove for second-degree murder.
"That presumption isn't based on any fact whatsoever," O'Mara said.
In contrast, prosecutors argued Zimmerman showed ill will when he whispered profanities to a police dispatcher over his cellphone while following Martin through the neighborhood. They said Zimmerman "profiled" the teenager as a criminal.
Guy said Zimmerman violated the cornerstone of neighborhood watch volunteer programs, which is to observe and report, not follow a suspect.
Zimmerman's account of how he grabbed his gun from his holster at his waist as Martin straddled him is physically impossible, Guy said.
"The defendant didn't shoot Trayvon Martin because he had to; he shot him because he wanted to," Guy said. "That's the bottom line."
But to invoke self-defense, Zimmerman only had to believe he was facing great bodily harm, his attorney said. He asked jurors not to let their sympathies for Martin's parents interfere with their decision.
"It is a tragedy, truly," O'Mara said. "But you can't allow sympathy."
With the verdict drawing near, police and city leaders in Sanford and other parts of Florida said they have taken precautions for the possibility of mass protests or even civil unrest if Zimmerman, whose father is white and whose mother is Hispanic, is acquitted.
Zimmerman's brother, Robert, said in a statement he hoped the public would remain calm.
"Though we maintain George committed no crime whatsoever, we acknowledge that the people who called for George's arrest and subsequent trial have now witnessed both events come to pass," he said. "We hope now that as Americans we will all respect the rule of law, which begins with respecting the verdict.
There were big protests in Sanford and other cities across the country last year when authorities waited 44 days before arresting Zimmerman.
About a dozen protesters, most of them from outside central Florida, gathered outside the courthouse as the jury deliberated. Martin supporters outnumbered those for Zimmerman.
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Source: http://news.yahoo.com/correction-neighborhood-watch-story-162735608.html
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New phones are continually coming out. Which should you buy? Here's a summary of The Associated Press' recent phone reviews, including a new Android phone from Sony.
Sony is out with a new phone that catches up with offerings from its main rivals, while adding a water-resistance shell for underwater use. With the Xperia Z, Sony joins the big leagues. Here are the technical details on the new Sony device along with Samsung?s Galaxy S4, HTC?s One and Apple?s iPhone 5.
Tech specs for Sony Xperia Z:
? Manufacturer: Sony Corp.
? Display: 5 inches (diagonal) with a resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels (443 pixels per inch)
? Keyboard: Touch screen only
? Memory capacity: 16 gigabytes, expandable with microSD card of up to 32 gigabytes.
? Size: height: 5.47 inches; width: 2.79 inches; depth: 0.31 inch (139 by 71 by 7.9 millimeters)
? Weight: 5.15 ounces (146 grams)
? Cameras: 13-megapixel camera on back, 2-megapixel on front
? Video recording: high-definition (1080p ? comparable to the resolution of a 40-inch flat panel TV)
? Battery life: 2,330 milliampere-hours. Talk time of 12 hours, according to manufacturer. Battery cannot be replaced by user with a spare. Software adds power-saving features to Android.
? Processor: 1.5 gigahertz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 Pro
? U.S. wireless carrier: T-Mobile
? Operating system: Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
? Other features: Water resistance certified for up to 3 feet deep for up to 30 minutes. Near-field communications; a chip lets the phone act as a credit card at some payment terminals and share data wirelessly when tapped against some other phones.
? Availability: Arrives in U.S. in July.
Tech specs for Samsung Galaxy S4:
? Manufacturer: Samsung Electronics Co.
? Display: 5 inches (diagonal) with a resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels (441 pixels per inch)
? Keyboard: Touch screen only
? Memory capacity: 16 or 32 gigabytes, expandable with microSD card of up to 64 gigabytes.
? Size: height: 5.38 inches; width: 2.74 inches; depth: 0.31 inch (136.6 by 69.8 by 7.9 millimeters)
? Weight: 4.59 ounces (130 grams)
? Cameras: 13-megapixel camera on back, 2-megapixel on front
?Video recording: high-definition (1080p ? comparable to the resolution of a 40-inch flat panel TV)
? Battery life: 2,600 milliampere-hours. Talk time is 17 hours, as provided by phone carriers. According to T-Mobile, up to 69 hours of audio playback and 11 hours of video playback. Up to 8 hours of Internet use on 3G and 4G, 10 hours on Wi-Fi. Battery can be replaced by user with a spare.
? Processor: 1.9 gigahertz quad-core
? U.S. wireless carriers: Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile, among others.
? Operating system: Android 4.2.2 (Jelly Bean)
? Other features: Near-field communications; a chip lets the phone act as a credit card at some payment terminals and share data wirelessly when tapped against some other phones. One variant called Active offers water resistance, but the feature is not standard.
? Availability: Launched in the U.S. in April.
Tech specs for HTC One:
? Manufacturer: HTC Corp.
? Display: 4.7 inches (diagonal) with a resolution of 1920 by 1080 pixels (468 pixels per inch)
? Keyboard: Touch screen only
? Memory capacity: 32 or 64 gigabytes. Not expandable with memory card.
? Size: height: 5.41 inches; width: 2.69 inches; depth: 0.37 inch (137.4 by 68.2 by 9.3 millimeters)
? Weight: 5.04 ounces (143 grams)
? Cameras: 4-megapixel camera on back, 2.1-megapixel on front. Back camera sports larger sensor pixels promising better low-light shots.
? Video recording: high-definition (1080p ? comparable to the resolution of a 40-inch flat panel TV)
? Battery life: 2,300 milliampere-hours. Talk time of 27 hours on GSM, 19 hours on CDMA, according to manufacturer. Battery cannot be replaced by user.
? Processor: 1.7 gigahertz quad-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 600
? U.S. wireless carriers: AT&T, Sprint Nextel and T-Mobile.
? Operating system: Android 4.1 (Jelly Bean)
? Other features: Near-field communications; a chip lets the phone act as a credit card at some payment terminals and share data wirelessly when tapped against some other phones.
? Availability: Launched in the U.S. in April.
Tech specs for iPhone 5:
? Manufacturer: Apple Inc.
? Display: 4-inch (diagonal) with a resolution of 1136 by 640 pixels (326 pixels per inch).
? Keyboard: Touch screen only
? Memory capacity: 16, 32 or 64 gigabytes. Not expandable with memory card.
? Size: height: 4.87 inches; width: 2.31 inches; depth: 0.30 inch (124 by 59 by 7.6 millimeters)
? Weight: 3.95 ounces (112 grams)
? Cameras: 8-megapixel camera on back, 1.2-megapixel on front.
? Video recording: high-definition (1080p ? comparable to the resolution of a 40-inch flat panel TV) up to 30 frames per second with audio
? Battery life: Apple does not list battery capacity, but reports pin it at 1,440 milliampere-hours. According to Apple, talk time is up to 8 hours on 3G. Internet works for up to 8 hours on 3G and LTE and up to 10 hours on Wi-Fi. Up to 10 hours of video playback. Battery can be replaced by service personnel only.
? Processor: Apple A6 chip. Apple does not list its speed.
? U.S. wireless carriers: Verizon, AT&T, Sprint, T-Mobile and others.
? Operating system: Apple?s iOS 6. New operating system expected this fall.
? Availability: Launched in the U.S. in September 2012. New model likely this fall.
ANDROID DEVICES:
XPERIA Z, SONY CORP.
The Xperia Z mostly catches up with offerings from Samsung and HTC, but one feature stands out: Its water-resistant shell means you can submerge the phone at least 3 feet deep for up to 30 minutes. Making water resistance a standard feature is something more phone makers should adopt as phones become companions to our active lives. Sony also enhances Google's Android system, without overly cluttering the phone. Enhancements include battery-saving features. The Xperia also brings a lot of features from Sony's stand-alone Cyber-shot cameras, while letting you highlight only the ones you actually need. Sony's new phone offering is impressive for a company better known for TVs, cameras and game machines.
? Anick Jesdanun, AP Technology Writer
GALAXY S4, SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO.
The S4 is an excellent device from a hardware standpoint. Its 5-inch screen is larger than its predecessor, yet it's a tad lighter and smaller. The display is sharp, at 441 pixels per inch. Samsung packed the Android device with a slew of custom features, including new camera tools and the ability to perform tasks by waving a finger over a sensor. Many of the features, however, make the phone more complicated to use. In some cases, custom features work only some of the time. In other cases, you're confronted with too many ways to do similar things. The S4 might be for you if you don't mind spending time customizing it. Otherwise, you must bypass all the gimmicks to get to what otherwise is a good phone.
? Anick Jesdanun, AP Technology Writer
HTC ONE, HTC CORP.
The One is a phone that can match Apple's standards of feel and finish. Plastic and metal are joined together so well that you can't tell by feel where one ends and the other starts. The 4.7-inch screen is also quite a sight, its 468 pixels per inch among the best. Two front-facing speakers give you real stereo sound when turned sideways to watch a movie. HTC's camera has a lower resolution than most. Promises of better low-light shots from its larger sensors only partly delivered. Like other Android phone makers, HTC adds confusion by customizing the interface. There are four different ?home? screens from which to launch apps, for instance. The One is worth checking out as an alternative to the Galaxy S4 from Samsung, which also adds complication with its custom features.
? Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer
GOOGLE PLAY PHONES
Google has worked with both Samsung and HTC to come out with a ?Google Play? edition of the Galaxy S4 and HTC One phones. Instead of using customized software from Samsung and HTC, the Google phones run a pure version of Android, as developed by Google. Essentially, the Google versions of these phones are replicas of the originals, with most of the bells and whistles removed. That's a good thing, as many of those ?improvements? added to Android by Samsung and HTC actually make the phones more complex to use. The bad news: The Google edition of the S4 sells for $649, while Google's HTC One goes for $599, compared with the $100 to $200 that you can typically get the original models for with a two-year agreement. And the phones don't work on Verizon and Sprint's CDMA networks.
? Anick Jesdanun, AP Technology Writer
BLACKBERRY DEVICES:
BLACKBERRY Q10, BLACKBERRY LTD.
The Q10 is a successful marriage of the modern touch-screen smartphone and the iconic BlackBerry keyboard. The interface takes time to get used to, and it doesn't have the simple immediacy of the iPhone. But once you learn it, you can positively zip between tasks. The downside to the new BlackBerry 10 operating system is its relative dearth of third-party software. In addition, the keyboard eats up space that could be devoted to a bigger screen, leaving the Q10 with a square, 3.1-inch screen. Nonetheless, the Q10 is likely to be attractive to the BlackBerry faithful, and it deserves serious consideration from Android and iPhone users as well.
? Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer
BLACKBERRY Z10, BLACKBERRY LTD.
The Z10 is the first phone to run RIM's new BlackBerry 10 operating system and comes across as a very good stab at regaining at least some of the cachet of the BlackBerry. But the Z10 looks like every other smartphone on the shelf. It's a flat black slab with a touch screen, measuring 4.2 inches. Only once you turn it on do the differences become more evident. Older BlackBerrys are great communications devices, but are poor at multimedia and at running third-party apps, something the iPhone excels at. The new BlackBerry 10 software is a serious attempt at marrying these two feature sets.
? Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer
IOS DEVICE:
IPHONE 5, APPLE INC.
The iPhone 5 is the biggest overhaul to the line since the release of the 3G in 2008. Compared with other high-end smartphones, however, it's more of a catch-up move. The 4-inch screen is larger than previous iPhones, but smaller than many Android devices. The iPhone now works with 4G LTE cellular networks, something many Android devices already did. The iPhone 5 doesn't break much new ground, but it supports the things that really set the iPhone apart: the slick, reliable operating system and the multitude of high-quality, third-party applications. Released in September, the iPhone 5 is getting old. But don't expect a new model until at least this fall. A software update, iOS 7, is also expected for free then.
? Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer
Source: http://www.dailycomet.com/article/20130711/wire/130719945
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LOUDON, N.H. (AP) ? Brad Keselowski is back on top of NASCAR.
Well, for a race, at least.
But he's quickly running out of time to make it back to the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship and defend his series championship.
His first pole of the season might give his season the boost he needs to become a contender. Keselowski turned a lap of 135.922 mph on Friday to set a track record at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
Keselowski won only his third career pole and first since 2011. With eight races left until the 12-driver Chase field is set, Keselowski is winless and sitting in an uncomfortable 13th place in the points standings.
"There is a sense of urgency but not a sense of panic," Keselowski said. "I think there is a strong difference between the two. We are eager to get going, we are hungry and feel like we can do it but I don't feel a sense of panic. There are still two months of racing essentially to get into the Chase."
Keselowski led a fast day at the track as nine drivers topped the previous track record held by Ryan Newman, who went 135.232 in 2011.
Ten drivers topped that lap until points leader Jimmie Johnson's second-fastest qualifying time was scrapped after his car failed inspection. His No. 48 Chevrolet, which had two issues in the pre-qualifying inspection, failed after his attempt because both sides of the front were too low. He'll start in the rear in 43rd.
"We were able to get the car right," crew chief Chad Knaus said. "just not exactly right."
Johnson will actually start behind 71-year-old Morgan Shepherd. Shepherd will become the oldest driver to start a NASCAR Sprint Cup race.
Shepherd, who went only 128.290 in qualifying, made his Cup debut in 1970 and won four times in NASCAR's top series. He finished as high as fifth in the final standings in 1990 and hasn't started a race since 2006.
Four-time Cup champion Jeff Gordon had no problem with Shepherd competing on Sunday.
"I think that's quite an accomplishment," Gordon said. "We talk about how amazing it is to see Mark Martin out there being competitive over 50 years old, but to just go out there and do what he does as far as Morgan is concerned at 71, that's amazing."
Jim Fitzgerald when he was 65 years, 6 months and 20 days when he raced in 1987 at Riverside International Raceway.
"At some point, I think you just have to trust that he knows what he can do and what he can't do," Keselowski said.
Kurt Busch will now join Keselowski on the front row. Dale Earnhardt Jr., Kyle Busch and Gordon round out the top five. Carl Edwards, Denny Hamlin, Kasey Kahne, and Jeff Burton all topped Newman's record.
Keselowski won five races this season but lost his consistency this season in the No. 2 Ford. He has three straight finishes of 21st or worse and only one top-10 finish in his last 10 races.
Whatever worked for Keselowski last season is gone. His team has been in a tailspin since a failed April inspection in Texas after NASCAR confiscated parts in the rear suspensions of his Ford.
Keselowski knows a win or two can propel him back into the Chase and keep alive his bid for a second straight title.
"I still have the same goal and that is to continue to be a winner and that is what fuels me inside," he said. "The competitive fire that burns inside of me is still there whether I was a champion or not. I probably have it with a little bit more confidence and I believe in myself and those around me a little stronger because of the championship."
The long-expected Stewart-Haas Racing shakeup was finalized Friday. Kevin Harvick and his Budweiser sponsorship will join SHR teammates Tony Stewart and Danica Patrick in 2014. Ryan Newman is out of the New Hampshire record book ? and a job at SHR.
Newman (15th) and Stewart (16th) actually start on the same row. Harvick starts 18th and Patrick is 32nd.
There was at least one palatable shift with Harvick's move ? Stewart might have to crack open a cold Bud to celebrate.
For years, he's been an open admirer ? and frequent chugger ? of low-budget Schlitz.
"Yeah, I'm finally upgrading to the good stuff," Stewart said. "I feel like 'The Jeffersons' now. I've moved up. Yeah, it's the end of my Schlitz era. I can't say that it's terribly disappointing. Now I get to drink the good stuff every day, guilt free."
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/keselowski-wins-pole-hampshire-215832139.html
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SAN FRANCISCO (AP) ? Firefighters encountered smoke, leaking jet fuel and passengers coming down on chutes when they arrived at the Asiana jet crash at San Francisco International Airport that killed two people and injured more than 180.
Lt. Christine Emmons said Monday at a news conference that she and her partner ran up a chute into the plane after Saturday's crash of the Boeing 777 and found four passengers trapped in the back. The conditions in the plane were changing rapidly, with the fire coming down on rescuers and the smoke thickening as the trapped passengers were pulled out to safety, she said.
Investigators have determined that Asiana Airlines Flight 214 was traveling "significantly below" the target speed during its approach and that the crew tried to abort the landing just before it smashed onto the runway. What they don't yet know is whether the pilot's inexperience with the type of aircraft and at San Francisco's airport played a role.
Officials said Sunday the probe was also focusing on whether the airport or plane's equipment also could have malfunctioned.
The South Korea government announced Monday that officials will inspect engines and landing equipment on all Boeing 777 planes owned by Asiana and Korean Air, the national carrier.
Also Sunday, San Mateo County Coroner Robert Foucrault said he was investigating whether one of the two teenage passengers killed actually survived the crash but was run over by a rescue vehicle rushing to aid victims fleeing the burning aircraft. Remarkably, 305 of 307 passengers and crew survived the crash and more than a third didn't even require hospitalization. Only a small number were critically injured.
Investigators said that the weather was unusually fair for foggy San Francisco. The winds were mild, too. During the descent, with their throttles set to idle, the pilots never discussed having any problems with the plane or its positioning until it was too late.
Seven seconds before the Boeing 777 struck down, a member of the flight crew made a call to increase the jet's lagging speed, National Transportation Safety Board chief Deborah Hersman said at a briefing based on the plane's cockpit and flight data recorders. Three seconds later came a warning that the plane was about to stall.
Two-and-a-half seconds later, the crew attempted to abort the landing and go back up for another try. The air traffic controller guiding the plane heard the crash that followed almost instantly, Hersman said.
Federal and local authorities plan to release more information Monday morning about the investigation and the initial response.
While investigators from both the U.S. and South Korea are in the early stages of an investigation that will include a weekslong examination of the wreckage and alcohol tests for the crew, the news confirmed what survivors and other witnesses had reported: a slow-moving airliner flying low to the ground.
"We are not talking about a few knots" difference between the aircraft's target landing speed of 137 knots, or 157 mph (250 kph), and how fast it was going as it came in for a landing, Hersman said.
Pilots normally try to land at the target speed, in this case 137 knots, plus an additional 5 more knots, said Bob Coffman, an American Airlines captain who has flown 777s. He said the briefing raises an important question: "Why was the plane going so slow?"
The airline said Monday in Seoul that the pilot at the controls had little experience flying that type of plane and was landing one for the first time at that airport.
Asiana spokeswoman Lee Hyomin said that Lee Gang-guk, who was at the controls, had nearly 10,000 hours flying other planes but only 43 in the 777, a plane she said he still was getting used to flying. Another pilot on the flight, Lee Jeong-min, had about 12,390 hours of flying experience, including 3,220 hours on the 777, according to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport in South Korea. Lee was the deputy pilot, tasked with helping Lee Gang-guk get accustomed to the 777, according to Asiana Airlines.
Two other pilots were aboard, with teams rotating at the controls.
The plane's Pratt & Whitney engines were on idle and the pilots were flying under visual flight rules, Hersman said. Under visual flight procedures in the Boeing 777, a wide-body jet, the autopilot would typically have been turned off while the automatic throttle, which regulates speed, would have been on until the plane had descended to 500 feet (150 meters) in altitude, Coffman said. At that point, pilots would normally check their airspeed before switching off the autothrottle to continue a "hand fly" approach, he said.
There was no indication in the discussions between the pilots and the air traffic controllers that there were problems with the aircraft.
Survivors and rescuers said it was nothing less than astonishing that nearly everyone survived after a frightful scene of fire burning inside the fuselage, pieces of the aircraft scattered across the runway and people fleeing for their lives.
In the first comments on the crash by a crew member, cabin manager Lee Yoon-hye said that seconds before impact she felt that something was wrong.
"Right before touchdown, I felt like the plane was trying to take off. I was thinking 'what's happening?' and then I felt a bang," Lee told reporters Sunday night in San Francisco. "That bang felt harder than a normal landing. It was a very big shock. Afterward, there was another shock and the plane swayed to the right and to the left."
She said that during the evacuation, two inflatable slides that were supposed to inflate toward the outside instead inflated toward the inside of the plane, hurting two Asiana flight attendants. Pilots came to rescue the flight attendants but even after getting injured, she said that the crew did not leave the plane until after the passengers evacuated. She said she was the last one to go.
South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said the 291 passengers included 141 Chinese, 77 South Koreans, 64 Americans, three Canadians, three Indians, one Japanese, one Vietnamese and one person from France.
The two dead passengers have been identified as students from China ?16 and 17 years old ? who were scheduled to attend summer camp in California with dozens of classmates. Hospital officials said Sunday that two of the people who remained hospitalized in critical condition were paralyzed with spinal injuries, while another two showed "road rash" injuries consistent with being dragged.
Foucrault, the coroner, said one of the bodies was found on the tarmac near where the plane's tail broke off when it slammed into the runway. The other was found on the left side of the plane about 30 feet (10 meters) away from where the jetliner came to rest after it skidded down the runway. Foucrault said an autopsy he expects to be completed by Monday will involve determining whether the second girl's death was caused by injuries suffered in the crash or "a secondary incident."
He said he did not get a close enough look at the victims on Saturday to know whether they had external injuries.
The flight originated in Shanghai, China, and stopped over in Seoul, South Korea, before making the nearly 11-hour trip to San Francisco.
On audio recordings from the air traffic tower, controllers told all pilots in other planes to stay put after the crash. "All runways are closed. Airport is closed. San Francisco tower," said one controller.
At one point, the pilot of a United Airlines plane radioed.
"We see people ... that need immediate attention," the pilot said. "They are alive and walking around."
"Think you said people are just walking outside the airplane right now?" the controller replied.
"Yes," answered the pilot of United Flight 885. "Some people, it looks like, are struggling."
When the plane hit the ground, oxygen masks dropped down, said Xu Da, a product manager at an Internet company in Hangzhou, China, who was sitting with his wife and teenage son near the back of the plane. He stood up and saw sparking ? perhaps from exposed electrical wires ? and a gaping hole through the back of the plane where its galley was torn away along with the tail.
Xu and his family escaped through the opening. Once on the tarmac, they watched the plane catch fire, and firefighters hose it down.
In the chaotic moments after the landing, when baggage was tumbling from the overhead bins onto passengers and people all around her were screaming, Wen Zhang grabbed her 4-year-old son, who hit the seat in front of him and broke his leg.
Spotting a hole at the back of the jumbo jet where the bathroom had been, she carried her boy to safety.
"I had no time to be scared," she said.
Nearby, people who escaped were dousing themselves with water from the bay, possibly to cool burn injuries, authorities said.
By the time the flames were out, much of the top of the fuselage had burned away. The tail section was gone, with pieces of it scattered across the beginning of the runway. One engine was gone, and the other was no longer on the wing.
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Lowy reported from Washington, D.C. Associated Press writers Terry Collins, Terry Chea, Lisa Leff and Sudhin Thanawala in San Francisco, David Koenig in Dallas, Louise Watt in Beijing and Hyung-jin Kim in Seoul contributed to this report.
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/rescuers-describe-harrowing-scene-plane-crash-173724368.html
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