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>> announcer: this is cnn breaking news. top of the hour, im brooke baldwin. breaking news here on cnn. lets go straight to san diego. we know people living in this san diego apartment complex being told right now, stay where you are and stay away from your windows. police say a man has barricaded himself inside of his apartment at one point was shooting at police, missing them by mere inches with what theyre calling a high-powered rifle. police know where he is but cannot confirm whether anyo...

But whats next? for all binge watchers. movie geeks. sports freaks. x1 from xfinity will change the way you experience tv. back to our breaking story there in san diego. here are some pictures, s.w.a.t., police all arrived on the scene as this standoff is still under way in this apartment in the little italy/bakers hill area of downtown san diego. as a result of this, we are now hearing from officials at the san diego airport that the airport is at a ground stop for arriving flights because th...

Curiosity is answers for the families and justice for the lives lost, if it is appropriate. lets get more with david soucie, former faa accident investigator and inspector. david, while we wait for answers, the good news is they have the black boxes. they believe they are intact. what will you know conclusively when that information is downloaded? >> as soon as the boxes come out, chris, it will be put against a time line. that time line will show various things throughout the aircraft. you have...

Smuggle on plane. that leaves sabotage as the only scenario, but it is much more like likely that it was some sort of catastrophic structural failure, and not terrorism at this point. >> and peter to you now, what is the condition of the bodies or the wreckage tell us about the crash, because it can be telling, i can imagine. >> well, once they have done the testing for the explosive resid residue, and a bomb or missile will leave very clear marks. then they have to look at the m metal of the ai...

Sure will help. >> thats right. there are a number of investigations under way. of course, this plane went down when it was at cruising altitude, about 30,000 feet. how unusual is it for a plane to fall out of the sky when its at that kind of location within a flight path? >> only about 13% of accidents occur in cruise. its obviously the safest part of of the flight. so it is fairly unusual. but obviously it does happen. weve seen this in recent years. we lost a mcdonnell douglas md-80 over afri...

Well just have to wait until we get the information from the recorders and take it from there. obviously, the russians are visiting the offices of metro jet and theyre looking at all the background information, including even the fuel that was put aboard the aircraft before it left. they always do that. they take fuel samples from the tanks where the fuel came from, that was used aboard the airplane. theyre going to check out everything. egyptians are going to be thorough about this and the russ...

Pieces broken in half it usually indicates that the airplane hit the ground at a lower speed and that increases the chance for survivors. that will be something that the investigators will look at as obviously theyll look at the flight path of the airplane as it impacts. but usually when there are large pieces, large parts of the fuselage, it says that the airplane -- it was at a lower speed when the impact occurred. so thats one additional piece of evidence that weve got this morning. its still...

Its been around 20 or so years. the carrier itself, flight 9268 was the flight number of this aircraft that is believed to have had a lot of russian holiday goers on board heading back to st. petersburg this morning. 23 minutes after it took off, it disappeared on the flight path over the sinai. >> nic, reiterate for those just joining us, the name of the plane and how many passengers on board. >> reporter: 224 people total on board. of those, 217 were passengers. the other seven were crew membe...

Website tracking the flight. this is what it ran parallel with before veering to the north and west toward the central sinai peninsula. the red sea to the south. egypt and israel to the east. im going to zoom into the flight path before losing known contact. you see this airplane was meant to make contact with the cypress air control about 23 minutes after take off. that, unfortunately, was the last moment air control heard from them. a-321 airbus, maximum distance of about 3,000 nautical miles ...

They put shrapnel into the airframe and cause it to drop quickly. >> talk about this region, scharm el sheikh flying over the mediterranean sea would have been the flight path there but also close to israel there are plenty of places to land. would water have been a concern as he was trying to make an emergency landing? >> no, not necessarily. he had enough altitude if he was under control, he had enough altitude to get to alternative area to land the aircraft. there was one report that he proba...