Tail Part News Today

Theres breaking news in the trial of the actor jesse smollett, accused of falsely reporting a hate crime. omar jimenez is covering the trial for us. omar, whats the latest? >> reporter: wolf, the prosecution just rested a few minutes ago, but not after what was basically a show of fireworks towards the tail part of the day that included some crying, accusations of the judge physically intimidating an attorney, and a call for a mistrial. this began during the cross-examination of o ola osendaro a...

The tail on the sea floor. the airplanes flight recorders, the so-called black boxes are located in the tail section. but there is no word yet on whether they have been found. search officials announced the find just a short while ago in fact. >> we have found the tail. that has been our main target today. the tail part has been found and confirmed. it was in the second priority search area. >> at least 27 people are dead. dozens more wounded in a car bombing in yemen. authorities say it happene...

Today. the tail part has been found and confirmed it was in the second priority search area. not in the main priority area as was reported. >> reporter: now the other new information that we have received is that another body has been discovered. that takes the total to 40. but we are talking about another 122 passengers and crew that are still missing. so for the families here that come to the crisis center every day, you know, they just want 51-- they want confirmation that their loved ones ha...

The rage is limited. the location however is in the tail part of the plane. and one would hope that the tail part has remained relatively in tact. if that is so then they will find the black boxes without need to report to the pings. but hopefully a combination of both will allow them to get the black boxes back fairly rapt rapidly. >> thank you so much. stick around. we have a lot of questions that have come in from our viewers and we want to pose some of those questions to ourto you. and even ...

>> at this point absolutely not. you cannot send them without security. and you know, in a situation like this ha they have to do is go in quickly and have to go in quietly. if i was on the team working this crash i would keep everything, all the findings close to the vest and ha they have to do is document as fast as they can. i suspect whats going to happen they are going to be given limited access, maybe a few hours a day, maybe a few days or a week or two. so they have to work quickly and ha...

The fuselage is lying on the sea floor. the black boxes in the tail part, rear of the plane. so they would really have to find out through either photographs, by camera on the blue fin, or putting down a submersible that it can explore the wreckage and look at it and basically take photographs. and i dont think theyre going to announce that they find the black box until theyve done that. were a little bit further than we could do that. what could happen is as you mention in your news, the "echo"...

It out. now that the tail part is still there and the technology is in the hands of the pakistanis, there is some worry the pakistanis because of a slightly frayed relationship with the u.s. right now could pass that technology on to a third party, say russia or china were to get their hands on it, it could do two things, not only do they adapt it to their own aircraft but come up with ways to defeat that technology and make that stealth capability useless. >> thanks to chris lawrence at the pen...