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"i saw the plane come out from over there and it was really low in altitude," this man says. and then -- "we heard a very loud sound, like dynamite," she says. within 30 minutes, rescue choppers on the scene. dangerous terrain for a recovery mission, so steep and the debris scattered over a huge area. the french alps, now the scene of a massive effort. abcs hamish macdonald is there. >> reporter: when day breaks in a few hours from now, well over 700 people will be working on this operation. but...

Blamed. but for now, nothing explains why the plane fell so far so fast, with such terrible consequences. bill neely, nbc news, france. >> this is tom costello. the disaster now strewn over the french alps may have started at or near 38,000 feet. the plane only spent one to three minutes at that altitude before beginning what appears to be a programmed descent, 4,000 feet per minute. unusually steep but not extreme. what puzzles veteran crash investigators is why the crew never radioed a mayday....

Good weather that suddenly plummets more than 30,000 feet in ten minutes. unimaginable for those onboard. im at rescue headquarters today, high up in these mountains. the search began for clues and for the dead. on a rugged french mountainside in thousands of scattered pieces, the remains of a crashed plane. here and there, rescuers. but there was no one left alive to rescue. the airbus with 150 people onboard had simply disintegrated on impact. searchers, though, did find the cockpit voice reco...

"serial," tonight taking a new turn. adnan syed, serving a life sentence, now pushing for a new trial, arguing his lawyer failed to interview a key witness that who would have vouched for his alibi, he says. to tom cruise tonight. we saw that image while filming "mission impossible 5." tonight, the video, the trailer showing the 52-year-old in action. now viewed nearly 3 million times tonight. cruise calling it the most stunt hes ever done. when we come back here, did pope francis perform a ...

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>> reporter: but before he gave up, prosecutors showed jurors he did more than just write a so-called jihadi manifesto on the boats hull with this blood-stained pencil. he also carved this into a wooden panel -- "stop killing our innocent people, and we will stop." and david, today, we learned for the first time that dzhokhar tsarnaev actually stopped by three different homes in watertown, while that area was under lockdown ditching two cell phones breaking them and a stolen atm card before hidi...

Last year alone. most of them were crudely-made barrel bombs packed with explosives and shrapnel. often theyll circle back to drop a second bomb targeting rescue workers. alla told us his friend was killed this way. "he was just 200 yards ahead of us. then suddenly a second barrel bomb landed on his car." what was your feeling in that moment? "i felt desperate," he said. "world leaders are watching the syrian people dying and they do nothing." but the white helmets are undeterred. even in the mo...

>> glor: a drag racer somehow survived a horrific crash in florida. larry was blasting down the track at 280 miles per hour in gainesville when his car starting shaking and broke apart in midair before crashing into a wall. dixon was not seriously hurt. another spectacle nearly turned tragic today at an air show in malaysia, two jets practice ago stunt got too close and clind each other in midair. all four pilots were able to eject safely with their parachutes. the burning debris did set a house...