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The united states have to provide some health backgrounds all the way back to grandparents. so, you know if theres any indication of physical ailments and even mental ail ailments that has to be provided. >> we have peter with us former ntsb managing director. peter, i think there are a lot of people who are listening to this conversation a bit surprised that these investigative or background checks especially in the wake of 9/11 do not go as far as speaking with relatives, people who are close ...

Hold. we are learning here that there will be only two of what have been until now five helicopters flying each day, two only flying saturday but some progress in identifying the 150 people aboard that flight so far. we are told investigators have now identified 16 different people through dna analysis. wolf? >> sad, sad story indeed. nic, thank you. lets get a closer look at the backgrounds of the co-pilot background of the co-pilot andreas lubitz. cnns will ripley is joining us now live. hes j...

For various reasons. theres a lot of interesting backgrounds. this is not something i would ever conceive of any of my colleagues for the airline that i fly for. >> and presumably, youre a pilot of a 777, you know what was going through the mind of that pilot as he may have been quietly been trying to get back in that door. maybe the passengers didnt know until much more towards the actual moment of impact. but that pilot knew, didnt he? >> of course he knew. he probably tried to get through to ...

>> i was not surprised. some people just arent >> maybe they dont necessarily not understand the songs about oklahoma with american high school graduates who actually dont know anything about lynching and dont understand that that song was about >> i was not surprised. some people just arent educated, like some people dont come from those backgrounds. you are never exposed to those

What is it you are doing right now? tracing his last steps over the last few days? whats the key here? >> id like to add that the request for the fbi, thats just a formality. the fbis already been working with the authorities. it has a large office in paris, berlin and madrid already involved in doing backgrounds looking at the passenger list, crew list and pilots. scrubbing all the data bases in the u.s. and also using interpol. so this is not something that started today. the criminal investig...

Gavin, you wrote a great peek in 2012 in the logic behind hollywoods resistance to black entertainment. which was a sort of i think a different cultural moment then. but why has it been difficult at other periods for films that are about folks that arent white to get made or tv shows? >> thats really simple. people have a tendency to want to make film product about things that they really understand, and that they connect to. unfortunately, and wrongly, the people who run major entertainment com...

Some people just arent educated, like some people dont come from those backgrounds. you are never exposed to those things and its important for the school system at a young age to expose people to why these things are young, to make these people culturally sensitive to things like this. thats a huge part of why unheard became because we wanted to change the culture of the university and educate, give people an opportunity to know this is wrong, why its wrong, and how its wrong, and just how to m...

Artistic director of the classical theater of harlem. great to have you both. gavin, you bro a great piece in 2012 the logic behind hollywoods resistance to black entertainment. which was a sort of i think a different cultural moment then. but why has it been difficult at other periods for films that are about folks that arent white to get made or tv shows? >> thats really simple. people have a tendency to want to make film product about things that they really understand, and that they connect ...

Disclosure as fast as possible is essential. and we saw this with mh370. tremendous moon of suspicion of what has happened with that flight. a lot of that has come from the handling of the tragedy in the first couple of weeks by malaysia airlines and more in particular the government of malaysia and its relevant authorities. and thats fueled enormous distrust by the relatives of those victims. we must urge lufthanza to give us a frank explanation of why we havent got those pilots names and their...

Making names for themselves. but we should be very cognizant this could be one of those ups. until the leadership changes, thats where substantive change will happen in terms of seeing real diversity. >> how does that change gavin? how do you get the situation where essentially the gatekeepers themselves come to reflect the way the country looks? >> it happens in other industries. the ceo of merck, which is arguably the most pharmaceutical company is a black man, the ceo of american express, one...