what's the status of the investigation there? what are the egyptian officials saying? >> reporter: at the moment egyptian authorities are not commenting on the u.s. intelligence assessment. today we did speak with the egyptian foreign minister who says it's too soon, too premature to draw any conclusions. he pointed to this ongoing investigation, egypt's civil aviation authority says they're in the process of analyzing the black boxes. in terms of the flight data recorder they've managed to download all the information from that. they're combing through that. no conclusions on that so far. in terms of the docockpit voice recorder, they say that has been damaged. that analysis could take longer. worth noting, jake, from the outset egyptian authorities have been downplaying the possibility of terrorism. >> erin, does airport security there appear to be lax or at least not as intense as it is in europe or the united states? >> reporter: i would say nothing