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Happening now, recovery crews working at the crash scene in the french alps face another day. a huge effort to catalog and collect the scattered remains and wreckage transporting it to a staging area by helicopter. i want to bring in cnns erin mclaughlin. >> reporter: john recovery workers say they are making good progress. this is still an agonizing wait for families. 70 to 80 victims have been identified using dna analysis. i say human remains because not a single whole body has been found at ...

Good progress. this is still an agonizing wait for the families as well according to french media reports, the prosecutor now saying the human remains of 70 to 80 victims have been identified using dna analysis. i say human remains because authorities say the impact of the crash was so great, they have not found any single whole body. human remains strewn across hundreds of meters of the treacherous landscape. a difficult task for the rescue workers. many locals expressed doubt they will ever be...

>> reporter: john, authorities say they are making good progress according to french media reports. the prosecutor says human remains between 70 to 80 of the victims have now been identified using dna analysis. though it is still an agonizing wait a head for the families authorities say the human remains will not be repatriated to the families which could take weeks. the crash was so devastating upon impact not a single whole body has been recovered. in fact, local residents express doubts they ...

Samples and placed them in the county jailhouse. even elmores public defender had doubts about his innocence. >> many people will proclaim constantly their innocence and i cannot remember mr. elmore vociferously proclaiming his innocence and i got the feeling that there might be something for him to hide. >> elmores case came to trial only 82 days after his arrest. prosecutors say dorothy had been killed saturday night when elmore was alone and had no alibi. >> you want to find out whether or no...

French alalps. we are seeing the choppers flying overhead. it is painstaking process. the new video from the crash site is showing the challenges that the investigators are showing on site. the terrain is treacherous and steep, and very icy, and the debris is heavily fragmented and spread across hundreds of meters, and the security is a concern there. the investigators are having to be tethered to either a police officer or a firefighter or a mountaineering expert to insure their safety. the foc...

As to how the plane was being flown in the moments before the crash. they are looking for human remains. remains being air lifted out of the crash site for the all important identification process. the dna analysis expected to take weeks. investigators saying they will not return the bodies to the families until the dna analysis is complete. a long wait for the families. meanwhile, we are hearing from the prosecutor in marseille. he is responsible for the investigation into the actions of 27-yea...

Loading them onto boxes there and from there, theyre trucking them to a separate center for that very important dna analysis. were now hering that yesterday investigators began to collect dna from the family members. that comparative analysis expected to take weeks. >> erin live for us. lets talk about how tough this job is. when its an underwater crash, is its harder when its a craggy set of ravines like this? and what are they doing with this mapping process? >> its good to remind us if we loo...

To the refrigerated trucks, and brought to another scenter wher the dna analysis is under way, and the windy conditions are proving to be problematic, and slowing it down, and investigators are saying that the wind continues at this rate to the take them 10 to 15 days to clear the site. and then the dna analysis could take weeks and investigators are saying that the bodies could not be returned to families until that dna analysis process is complete. so it could be a very agonizing wait for the ...

The french alps this morning. the first choppers flying out from the staging area. you see behind me the staging area. the plane was absolutely obliterated. wreckage strewn over a wide area. very steep and cold and icy conditions for the workers. priorities are at this point twofold. they are looking for the flight data recorder to give them more information as to how the plane was being flown into the moments before the crash. they are also looking to recover human remains. remains air lifted o...

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...