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Site here. overnight nearly two dozen rescue workers actually spent the night, a very cold night up at that crash site. overnight, families have begun to arrive here and we expect the first bodies to be recovered from the mountain along with debris and brought back here. the debris field is some four acres. it is estimated. some searchers said they spotted debris, the size of a door or small car yesterday when we spoke to them and the kind and size of debris and how is broken up will give invest...

The only way to get there is by helicopter. rescue workers must send -- from the helicopter to the crash site. thats why they spent the night on the mountain so they could start at first light. i can tell you the helicopters are ready to take off and bring the bodies and debris back to the staging area. reena, alex. >> all right, molly, we will be following the story all morning. that is molly hunter live from the french alps. thank you. president obama is among those offering condolences sayi...

Overnight nearly two dozen rescue workers actually spent the night, a very cold night up at that crash site. overnight, families have begun to arrive here and we expect the first bodies to be recovered from the mountain along with debris and brought back here. the debris field is some four acres. it is estimated. some searchers said they spotted debris, the size of a door or small car yesterday when we spoke to them and the kind and size of debris and how is broken up will give investigators clu...

The only way to get there is by helicopter. rescue workers must send -- from the helicopter to the crash site. thats why they spent the night on the mountain so they could start at first light. i can tell you the helicopters are ready to take off and bring the bodies and debris back to the staging area. reena, alex. >> all right, molly, we will be following the story all morning. that is molly hunter live from the french alps. thank you. president obama is among those offering condolences sayi...

Recorder. it contains sounds and voices but it is still too early to draw any conclusions for it. the contents of the second black box are still missing. what can you tell us at this hour? >> reporter: its about 10:00 in the evening. this is the town that is closest to the crash site. the rescue operation or recovery operation at this point has been wrapped up for today, but it will start tomorrow morning at the crack of dawn. we saw six separate helicopters carrying back and forth the rescue wo...

Board. so far, the cockpit voice recorder which records sounds and cockpit conversations has been found, although the external orange casing is damaged, french aviation investigators assess the computer chips inside which contain an audio recording of the cockpit during the entire flight. investigators didnt reveal when the pilots voices can be heard during the critical final ten minutes. after meeting with rescue workers and thanking them for their efforts, french president francois hollande ge...

Of wreckage and try to gather as much as they can right now of some of those bodies those unfortunate passengers that lost their lives. and complicating the rescue effort is the fact that the ground is frozen. this means that rescue workers are going to have to wear special gear and snow is forecast for tomorrow. this is making it all the harder for the operation that is high up in the mountain about 2,000 meters were told wolf. >> 6,000 feet or so. its a real disaster. hala gorani reporting for...

Getting the information to us. likely a significant number offer is mans of than flight from barcelona to dusseldorf given this is a heavy vacation time and they use those flights. the accident happened in a zone that is very hard to access according to one expert here on the scene. a spokesman for france for frances aviation authority said the airliner crashed near the town of barcelonnette, 100 kilometers near the french riviera city of nice. the statement of the prime ministers office said th...

And most importantly for the families and loved ones try to get to the people who sadly it seems now have lost their lives in this tragedy. i spoke also to a mountain guide earlier who was telling me look heres the problem. this big cloud formation is lowering itself on to this mountain formation. its going to be very difficult even to fly helicopters. the president of that french region told me snow is forecast tomorrow. the ground is frozen which means that rescue workers are going to have to ...

Plane went down. a local mountain guide in the french alps. what did he tell you? >> he basically described the terrain. he said the reported crash site would be inaccessible to emergency vehicles and the only way to get there would be to chopper rescue officials and rescue workers in. this complicates the situation quite a bit because he said that low cloud formation is sort of enveloping that mountainous area where we believe the plane went down. he has eyes on choppers he was telling me a few...