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Well continue to follow this throughout this hour. any other late developments throughout the night. but the human dimension to all of this and its so important as richard said to focus on this. 150 lives lost. many of them young live. kids returning from an exchange program, from a small town in germany. small town struggling to absorb what it lost. 16 high school student, two young teachers returning from that trip to spain. plus the opera singer and the young mom, her partner and baby traveli...

U.s. citizen was on board the flight but not releasing the name at this time out of respect for the family. ♪ >> reporter: among the others silenced here, 4-year-old opera singer maria radner, who was traveling with her husband and baby. she had just completed performances in barcelona with her colleague, who died alongside her. >> translator: this is tearing a huge gap, and there will be scars left over. >> reporter: at this headmaster school in germany, theyre mourning the loss of 16 young s...

We havent got the final list. as for age, we know two babies on board. we know two opera singers on board. we know it was 16 german schoolkids there who had been on an exchange program with a spanish school not far here from barcelona, but what lufthansa is now telling us, around 150 family members and friends gathered here at barcelona in the course of today and lufthansa studying the possibility of whether its practical to take them to france during the day so they can be closer to the recover...

Are believed to have perished on flight 9525. victims include 16 high school state of the unions returning from an exchange program in spain. in their town and across germany germany, obviously, the heartbreak is immeasurable. dusseldorf was the final destination of the flight. frederik pleitgen is there with the latest. fred? >> reporter: hi anderson. certainly, i would say germany at this point is a country thats in shock and also somewhat in disbelief. one of the things that we have to keep i...

Nearly half of them at least 67 were german. the german chancellor angela merkel saying the crash has plunged germany, france and spain into deep mourning. today she will travel to the crash site. 16 students 2 teachers on the flight were returning to the town of haltern near dusseldorf after a week at a foreign exchange program in spain. cnns rosie tompkins joins us from dusseldorf with the latest. rosie, this town saw its young people and two teachers go for the educational experience have a c...

Chris? >> the urgency is obvious, nic and 0 obviously what theyre all trying to do there is give dignity to the people who lost their lives, make sure everything is done the right way. well check back with you. there are details emerging overnight about the victims. 16 german high school students and two teachers returning from an exchange program are now feared gone. cnns diana magne is in a small town in germany dealing with the tragedy. >> you can see some of the friends of the students gathe...

>> reporter: among the others silenced here 34-year-old opera singer maria radner who was traveling with her husband and baby. radner had just completed performances in barcelona with her colleague, oleg bryjak who died alongside her. >> this is tearing a huge gap and there will be scars left over. >> reporter: at this headmasters school in germany, they are mourning the loss of 16 young students and two instructors. one teacher was recently married. the other, engaged. >> they had plans for the...

Flight cockpit voice recorder. its damaged. they are optimistic theyll be able to repair that recorder in the coming hours. carol? >> all right. erin mclaughlin reporting live from the staging area this morning. lets head to germany now and check in with cnns diana magnay. she has more on some of the victims including 16 students and their teachers who were onboard that germanwings flight. tell us more diana. >> reporter: carol, two americans amongst those killed alongside people from a score of...

His state visit to france to return home this morning. the germanwings flight originated in barcelona, and a count of spanish surnames suggests about 45 of the passengers may have been spanish nationals. still no official count, though from officials in spain. mourning along with those families in germany are the residents of this small spanish town where the german students attended that exchange program. hundreds gathering at a mass to remember their new friends. cnns karl penhaul is there w...

Overseeing this investigation any minute. kate? >> you can hear the painstaking process with all of that debris being so small and so spread out, john. as john had just noted a short time ago, there is word this morning that two americans were on the germanwings flight and families from now more than a dozen nations are desperately awaiting news about their loved ones. heres some of what we know so far about the 144 passengers and six crew members onboard that flight. there were 16 german high s...