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That just tastes better. with more vitamins. and 25% less saturated fat. only egglands best. better taste. better nutrition. better eggs. this is cn breaking news. >> pay jor developmemajor devel the crash that crashed over the sinai e peninsula. the uk is suspending all flights after the british government put out a statement saying that as more information has come the light, we are concerned that the plane may well have been brought down by an explosive device, meaning of course, a bomb. le...

You have some news for us, nic. what have you learned? >> reporter: brooke, ive been talking to my sources in the middle east, and a source does confirm to me that he is aware that a bomb was placed aboard that aircraft. there has been concern according to this source in the middle east about the security in the sinai and the potential for this sort of thing to happen at sharm el sheikh. so this is something that people were aware of in the region. and the bomb put aboard the aircraft in sharm e...

Peninsula, killing 224 people, all of whom that were on board there. just moments ago, britains foreign secretary philip hammond announced that the uk was limiting british flights to and from the sharm el sheikh airport. take a listen. >> when we are in possession of information, we will not hesitate to act on it in order to protect that security and we will take whatever criticisms we receive. we have to act in the interest of british nationals. weve looked at the broad picture of information a...

Just going around circles in this. >> please do. >> it could also be an explosion from the fuel tank. if you have that sort of explosion, you would get a detonation-like experience and you would get metal fragments. now, if those metal fragments are more akin to parts of the aircraft or nuts, bolts, shrapnel, the sort of things we saw with mh-17 where the cockpit crew had very specific pieces of shrapnel from the missile within them. >> thats what theyll be looking for. >> thats what theyre look...

First question to you, talking to paul cruickshank, he was essentially saying this would be the holy grail to be able to pull off putting on a bomb on a plane in egypt. are you surprised that isis or an isis affiliate could actually pull this off? >> brooke, no. the sinai is the middle of an islamic insurgency. it has a lot of sympathizers, even among egyptian officials. the muslim brotherhood government that was overthrown year before last, egypt is in turmoil. the possibility of sboorning some...

Really can center on at this point. they know it was not a missile. theres no technical evidence supporting a missile for this heat flash. so, its either a mechanical event that is so catastrophic, the pilot couldnt even make a mayday call, or potentially some sort of bomb, some sort of explosive device on the plane. carol? >> barbara starr reporting. thank you. republican presidential hopeful donald trump widens the attacks against his rivals, even as ben carson tightens his grip around the l...

Over the decades to take down a plane with an explosive device, a bomb in the suitcase or fuselage, miles, so is the focus somehow too much on the possibility of a missile when it could be something in the air? >> well, when you think about what it takes to bring down an airliner at 33,000 feet, a surface-to-air missile battery which is guided by two radar systems and a lot of sophistication of technology and people to operate it. its unclear whether isil has that level of sophistication. you kn...

The number of flashes are the key. if there was a muffle launch youd get an infrared flash for the launch itself and a second flash, a second infrared signature for the impact itself, and possibly even a third when the structure struck the floor of the desert as further fuel might have exploded, so the number of heat signatures is crucial. if in fact only one was detected, that in some respects might steer one away from a missile launch and on to some idea of an explosion on board the aircraft. ...

Didnt affect the planes safety. in st. petersburg, a second day of mourning. they know that their country is bombing syria and theyve been the victims of terrorism before. so for now all eyes are on the black box flight recorders recovered at the scene. theyre still being examined in cairo and the voices and information on those most likely will unlock this mystery. >> what is the latest youre hearing about this crash? >> we had some kind of conflicting translations of what the russians are sayi...

Stormed a mogadishu hotel on sunday. at least 15 people, killed in the attack which began with a suicide car bombing. >> reporter: the attack began at dawn sunday when a suicide bomber drove a car into a hotel. gunmen followed killing. when first responders arrived to help, a second explosive device was triggered, injuring and killing more. among the dead, a former commander of the somali national army, the owner of the hotel, a freelance journalist and a well known member of parliament. somalia...