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Dominique theres no end of things to do in the aftermath of hurricane maria. and me check out egypts future center of government the new capital what will life be like in the desert city. urban centers created on a computer rows of uniform houses all erected in record time planted cities can be found around the world the modern prototype is brazils capital brasilia built on a towering plateau it was the late one nine hundred fifty s. architectural megaproject. sedona sent petersburg and manhatta...

A cashier at the trip to his old neighborhood takes an hour and a half. and now he just works occasionally here in a smart painting houses. when we were in the center of town and now were in a suburb it certainly makes a huge difference whether you live on the riverside or in the desert. the new apartment may be clean and modern but for mohameds extended family its awfully small they werent allowed to bring their own furniture the new decor is more subdued. we dont hide shot i used to sit with m...

Of course this work isnt good for my health but who else is supposed to feed my family i have to do something. karim lives in s. but. a slum in the middle of cairo. they call the quarter the peoples republic of china because its hopelessly overpopulated and dilapidated. houses here are practically all in need of repair the sewage system doesnt work right and the air is polluted he pays twenty euros a month here for two rooms a kitchen and a bathroom it may be cheap but its also very basic. there...

Be like in the desert city. urban centers created on a computer rows of uniform houses all are acted in record time planned cities can be found around the world the modern prototype is brazils capital brasilia built on a towering plateau it was the late one nine hundred fifty s. architectural megaproject. barcelona sent petersburg and manhattan all also conceived on a drawing board and now its egypts turn. its fifty kilometers from cairos eastern edge through sandy deserts and blistering heat. o...

Psychologist dealing with that, were told over the weekend that at least 100 of the families, people from the families availed themselves of this help. also medical professionals have been on hand for the families on their saturday night into sunday. the sort of first real night of realization for the families that they werent going to see their loved ones again. 24 balances were called to the hospital to give medical help to those families. we see them inside the hotel where theyre staying. its...

Where the tail hit the runway. whoa dont know if that would have played into it at all. its like li lie likely the pla would have been repaired and inspected. theres a lot of worthiness about the this plane. >> our daughter chatted with him before the flight. he complained before the flight that one could wish for better technical condition of the plane. >> rosemary, we know according to the civil aviation minister this plane was inspected before it flew. we also know that the pilot didnt compla...

Investigation? >> reporter: well, im outside the main morgue here in cairo where bodies are still being stored. we had those 144 go to st. petersburg. 187 bodies now have been recovered. theres still 30 bodies out there in the desert waiting to be recovered. crews are still out there searching not only for the bodies but trying to search for clues. this is a large area. this is about 20 square kilometers that theyre going over and looking for evidence, and weve seen in some of this video that as...

Brought down this plane. now, how they would do that is also being raised, because they technically just do not have the fire power to launch a missile or the ability to do it to bring down a plane thats traveling over 30,000 feet. so a lot of people are thinking this is just isis trying to be opportunistic. there are other ways they could have done it. and these are things that investigators are going to be looking into, potentially, was a bomb on board? we dont know, and these are things that ...

Is also in egypt and later today an irish team will be on the ground, helping the the egyptians through this. those black boxes are in cairo. now we heard from richard quest who said that he was unsure that egypt would have the ability, the technical abilities to decipher these black boxes. that could be why the irish has been brought in. theyre going to be trying to figure out the moment right before the plane disappeared from radar, and what happened afterward. we heard from the russians that ...

>> mubarak thought he could wreck the revolution by putting egypt on information lockdown. so he literally shut down the internet. >> nora younis is a reporter for the "egypt independent," an online and print news source. on the morning of january 28th, nora and a colleague hear about a hotel in central cairo that still has internet service. they try to get a room with a view of tahrir square. >> they said they have orders from state security not to sell any rooms overlooking tahrir. so we said ...