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Miguel. >> ian, are the data recorders staying in egypt or going to france? >> reporter: so far, they will remain in egypt. we know there is a team from airbus which include french and germans and a team from ireland on the ground to help with the investigation. originally we didnt know if egypt had the capability to read the black boxes or if the russians did either. right now, we are not hearing anything about the black boxes leaving. it sounds like the experts are coming here. >> interesting....

Must have been caused by some external impact. all the people we see here minute by minute, hour by hour, day by day, are still asking themselves those questions. of course theyre going to look to the investigators in egypt. theyre going to look to the data recorders to get some of the answers. but of course the toughest thing here, the second plane carrying bodies came back into st. petersburg just a few hours ago. families continuing that very long and slow process of recognizing the bodies. w...

Radar, one of the tracking systems. were going to really have to wait on that until we see the information from the data recorders. of course right now the egyptians have that. how willing they will be to share that with the world, we dont know. all we can do is wait because its out of our control. >> bob, thank you very much. >> youre welcome. >> we come back, more on whats going on in chicago where they want to tax the rich. one protester said we used to have a top rate of 90%. waste -- whats ...

Difficult finding them, as you can see. it is now night here in egypt. what were also hearing and very crucial, is that the black box, one of the black boxes, the one that is in the tail section, has been recovered. officials are now going over that, to try to determine what, exactly, happened to the plane, after it took off from sharm el sheikh, traveling for 20 minutes, and then it disappeared and then the crash. that is the moment that they are going to be trying to discover what exactly happ...

Ground. the plane split upon impact and according to reuters there are possible survivors of the crash. 224 people on board this aircraft, 217 of them passengers. the seven crew members also aboard and as this plane was heading to the st. petersburg, russia, we believe most if not all were vacationers who were going home from a vacation there in the resort city of sharm el sheikh when they crashed 23 minutes after takeoff. listening to your guests talk about the stall, im a pilot and i can tell ...

Now. and were entering a new phase of the investigation and a navy salvage team has been called in. >> one week after the ship sank this is no longer a rescue but the search is really important. now there is a goal of finding the ship. bunz you find the ship searchers will have a better chance of finding the data recorders and that would really hold a lot of the answers. that data recorder would have started pinging once it hits the water. it has a battery life about 30 days. some of the informa...

Ship had lost propulsion. thats when they lost contact. so now you have the ntsb, and it is their job to get on site and to try and determine why the ship lost propulsion. theyll be on site for seven to ten days. but as youve pointed out this morning, a key piece of this investigation could be recovering the data recorders. and while the focus is on finding survivors, some of those resources will have to wait to be deployed in order to go search for those data recorders. >> and, of course, the c...

Theyre trained, he had a life at sea. i would have no doubt that a ship that goes through inspection such at al far owe, he should not have had a problem navigating through that storm. it would be rough, thats for sure. >> whats the question that still remains for you? >> i dont know if well ever get to the bottom of why did they lose propulsion. the vessel is in 15,000 feet of water. its really going to be too hard to tell. there are data recorders. could you have an unmanned submersible possib...

With the probable cause, in other words, try to determine exactly what happened to this vessel, why it did not make it to san juan, puerto rico, which is where it was headed when it apparently ran head-on into hurricane joaquin. pamela? >> were learning the search for survivors may be ending, but the search for answers as you point out, martin, continue. alexandra, on that note, what do we know about the status of the black box search? >> this will now become the focus. earlier, we knew that the...

I think more what theyre looking into and their expertise is going to be concerned with is what the damage part can tell about the crash itself. one of the things that happened here is flight 447 the france flight on the way from brazil that disappeared in the atlanta. one of the first pieces of debris picked out of the ocean was a food service cart. it had trays inside that collapsed on top of each other. later after they found the cockpit voice recorder they discovered in fact because the plan...