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Bomb may have well brought down the plane. are you getting any further details on the security assessment done by the uk aviation experts. and further y et, what it would mean for these british tourists stuck right now in sham el sheikh. >> were waiting for an update this morning. but the last update we had suggests that the egyptian authorities had done more to improve security screening at sham el sheikh, more still needs to be done. effectively you have a team of british officials on the grou...

Inspected the airport, do we know much more about that? >> reporter: hi, anderson, well, we understand that assessment is complete. out of that assessment, british foreign secretary saying they took the decision to change travel advice to the area, passenger jets no longer flying from the united kingdom into sham el-sheikh international airport. for the british citizens currently here, well, secretary hammond said that british authorities are working with egyptian officials on additional securit...

Intelligence suggest as bomb planted took down the russian passenger jet killing down everyone on board. u.s. intelligence suggests someone inside the airport in sharm el-sheikh may have played a role. our erin mclaughlin joins us in sharm el-sheikh. the news the british delegation went to sharm el-sheikh, inspected the airport, do we know much more about that? >> hi, anderson. well, we understand that assessment is complete. out of that assessment, british foreign secretary saying they took the...

Without knowing that, the tsa stepped up their inside tactics. there is -- or operations internally to the airport operations. the check point operations where passengers go through are relatively secure and i say because you always have to work to ensure you do the right thing. you dont want to take that for granted. if it looks like an insider threat that had legitimate access to the airline that could have sec creted a device, there is an operation to ensure they are constantly vetting and ch...

Out of cairo, but not sharm elshake. as we mentioned yesterday, this mandates that if any u.s. carrier does fly into or out of the sinai or for that matter over the sinai, they must notify the faa. we did hear today from the white house suggesting that they are evaluating the security protocols and its possible that they might make some changes as it relates to passengers coming from certain regions of the world. in other words, i think youre looking at the middle east into the united states. in...

A british team arrived at sharm el sheikh tonight, about three hours ago, and already it seems they and perhaps the russians and maybe the egyptians themselves have uncovered very lax security procedures at that airport, involving people having access to the runway after only one brief security check. and its understood that the british are recommending and the egyptians are going to go ahead with this, that they bring in extra bomb-sniffing dogs to check the food, for example, thats brought int...

Security in sharm el sheikh in egypt where this plane this, flight originated from? do they have in-depth security procedures there? >> they do. i spoke with jalal hadair with the international investigative unit just moments ago and he said that they do have screening, that they have screening that actually tests for the barometric triggered devices on every bag as the bag goes through, they barometrically change the pressure on the bags before they are loaded on the aircraft to test to see if ...

Systems and a lot of sophistication of technology and people to operate it. its unclear whether isil has that level of sophistication. you know, surface, you know, a shoulder-mounted surface-to-air missile is one thing, thats a degree of simplicity, but this airplane was flying too high to be struck by such a surface-to-air missile, as it were. bringing down an airliner if youre a terrorist, its a little simpler in many respects, requires a lot less technology if that device is on the aircraft. ...

That maybe there were elements on the ground there that were not a part of the plane? do you have anything on that? >> reporter: kate, i think thats rather suspect. its from a news agency but that could refer to suitcases. its not necessarily anything that should raise suspicions so i would discount that. what i do found interesting is at sharm el sheikh airport there are egyptian and russian officials checking everything. theyre looking at the security procedures at the airport. theyre question...

Which is this is a witch hunt? >> you know, its just staggering to hear that. i was take back and forth and i felt terrible when i heard it. who are we kidding, from the second they put this committee together, the idea was to go after hillary clinton. there are a lot of other things about the war, and wars in the middle east that could be covered. but in this case, she was the principal target. it was clear from the beginning that was -- that is what it was about. look, theres been 20 or 30 hea...