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The taser being dropped. youre a police officer 24 years this new york. when you look at that evidence im not asking you to be judge, jury what does that look like? >> something looks funny. the way he dropped it it was like he was walking and like he wasnt dropping it. >> like he wanted to hide what he was doing. >> the assumptions it might be the taser. we cant tell. we have to get the video enhanced. we have to read the real police report. even though he was videotaping, he was probably a lot...

Continuing our live coverage right now of this plane crash in the french alps. i want to bring in senior cnn meteorologist chad myers whos standing by. one of the big headlines in this crash is the weather conditions as that plane went down and the weather conditions still moving in for those who have to go into this. >> and when we see the ceilings lower down below that 6,000-foot level with rain and snow, those helicopters that are going to be so instrumental at least for now will be grounded....

They dont see a terrorist link to whats happened out there. >> jim acosta reporting live from the white house, thank you. we may not know what caused germanwings flight 9525 to crash, but we certainly from information about that very aircraft. the plane was an airbus model a320. the twin engine single aisle aircraft. it was carrying 150 people. we can confirm that is the final number, 150. it was delivered to lufthansa from the production line back in 1991. and it had just a little more than 58,...

Whos live in barcelona and jim bittermann whos live in paris. let me begin with you, jim. set the scene for me now. what is happening in france to locate that damage and get people to the scene? >> reporter: well, in fact, there are about 500 people around the scene trying to get to the actual crash site. just in the last hour or so, ashleigh, weve heard from a french member of parliament who was with the interior minister, the french interior ministry went down to the site and flew over the sit...

The families of 150 people on board a plane that went down in the french alps are wondering not only where are their loved ones but what happened? what happened to bring that plane down relatively quickly and what happened that authorities announced fairly quickly that there were likely no survivors? i want to get back to jim bittermann whos live with us in paris. jim, i understand were getting information from one of the provincial presidents in the region who seems to have some information fro...

Captain. this is a workhorse plane, not a plane known to have tremendous problems. it has problems but nothing out of the ordinary as far as we know. if you look at the flight pattern of this plane, ashleigh, thats where the mystery comes in because everything looked normal. this is the speed of the plane here in red. the blue is the altitude of the plane. and all of this looks perfectly fine. along in here, the plane was going somewhere around 500 miles an hour plus which is perfectly normal. i...

Extreme hikers. and the weather is now another terrible obstacle for any of the crews who are trying to get in there to rescue if there is anyone to rescue or recover if theres anything even left to recover. just ahead, a virtual look at the plane and then that remarkable terrain where it went down. when you ache and havent youre not you. tylenol® pm relieves pain and helps you fall fast asleep and stay asleep. we give you a better night. youre a better you all day. tylenol®. first impressions...

That plane came down in the mountains in the southeast of france. and the problem right now, it is extraordinarily remote, it is so hard to access. here with me in new york is cnn aviation analyst, a 777 captain and contributing editor for "flying" magazine. also joined by mary schiavo whos live in our london newsroom right now. les, lets talk about the flight path. it was headed to dusseldorf, 45 minutes into this flight, all of a sudden, no contact at all. and yet were getting a notification f...

The distress call came from the ground to the plane, not from the plane. >> thats my understanding. with a lot of emergencies, weve talked about this before on air. its aifuate, navigate and communicate. that may have been in the process of navigating so they werent getting themselves into a terrain danger because they know, im sure, theyre situationally aware of the terrain in the alps. and then they wanted to communicate. something stopped them from communicating directly because maybe they ha...

For some unknown reason it began a catastrophic eight-minute descent which no one at this point is believed to have survived. recovery teams and investigators are scrambling to reach the crash site at this time while devastated families are converging on several airports. at a news conference in germany, the airlines ceo said both the captain and the plane were in seasoned condition. >> translator: the captain of the airliner was a captain who had been working for lufthansa germanwings for over ...