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Vanishing from radar. The airbus a320 departed from paris and disappeared over the Mediterranean Sea shortly before it was set to land in cairo. There were early reports of plane wreckage found in the mediterranean, but it was later confirmed that the debris was not the missing plane. Nbc news has learned from data officials there was some sort of explosion on the plane. Here is what egypts transportation minister had to say during a press conference yesterday. Well, no americans were on board, the u. S. Has joined great britain, france and greece to offer support to egypt as it takes charge of the investigation. There has been no claim of responsibility for the missing plane. U. S. Intelligence sources say the initial check of the flights passenger manifest found no one on the u. S. Terror watch list. Joining me now for more from paris is nbcs keir simmons. Whats the latest in the search . Reporter well, three investigators from france, three from britain and the investigator from the Company Airbus have arrived in cairo to help with that inquiry into what happened and as soon as they find the plane and that is still a question how long will that take, they claim theyre looking for the black boxes which will be the most crucial piece of evidence. But already across the u. S. Airports are reacting. At l. A. X. Officials are saying that they have heightened the Security Posture there and enhanced the counterterrorism security measures. Officials will be meeting at chicagos ohare to look at their Security Posture. Looking at what possible events may have occurred here at this paris airport that may have led to the downing of this plane. That said, officials here are urging caution. The french are saying there is absolutely no indication of the cause. Thats the French Foreign minister, a junior minister from the transport saying no theory is favored and urging the greatest caution. Meanwhile, reuters is reporting that multiple u. S. Agencies are telling it that there is no indication from satellite imaginary that there was an explosion on board this plane. And saying that and warning against media reports suggesting the United States believed a bomb was responsible for the crash. Betty . All right. Keir simmons in paris, thank you. Well, the possibility this plane crashed from the act of terror puts renewed tension on the vulnerabilities of flying here at home, including the potential threat of an airport insider. And now u. S. Airports like Los Angeles International are stepping up their counterterrorism efforts as a precaution. A higher number of tsa agents are being called on the assist. This comes just days after a tsa shortage created enormous lines at some of the countrys largest airports. Up with more, nbcs tracie potts joins me. Walk me through the security measures. Reporter well chicago ohare is looking to step up the security. They were already looking at more tsa agents there. Now, lets talk about l. A. X. Another major airport here in the United States. Laying out the fact that they are also going to be making some changes and fairly detailed statement, l. A. X. Says that the tsa is going to be taking a look at other security measures there. Reducing access to secure areas within the airport. Restricting 150 doors from the passenger terminals. And they also point out that they look at the 48,000 employees who work at l. A. X. As the eyes and ears to actually keep us safe. Home land security here in washington saying that nationwide throughout the System Security is already high. And as keir noted u. S. Investigators are trying to help by looking at those satellite images. Not yet confirmed as an explosion, but may have had eyes on the mediterranean at the time. The fbi director said we have developed extraordinary capabilities since 9 11 to do that. Also, the u. S. Helping check that passenger manifest. All right. A lot to do that. Thank you so much. Reaction from the leading president ial candidates could not be more different. Following the planes disappearance, trump took to twitter to claim it was an act of terror and Hillary Clinton was quick to react. He says a lot of things that are provocative, that actually make the important task of building this coalition, bringing everybody to the table and defeating terrorism more difficult. When you say were going to bar all muslims, you are sending a message to the muslim world. Youre also sending a message to the terrorists. And i have concluded he is not qualified to be president of the United States. Trump held his ground and went after clinton for her comments and he also said theres no way flight 804 wasnt blown up by terrorists. So today we had a terrible tragedy and she said that donald trump talk about radical islamic terrorism which she didnt want to use. She doesnt want to use that term. She refuses to use that term. Im saying to myself, what just happened about 12 hours ago . A plane got blown out of the sky. And if anything if anybody thinks it wasnt ploep blown out of the sky youre wrong. A majority of republicans 80 want their party to unify behind donald trump. That same poll has trump and clinton with soaring levels of unpopularity. 55 of voters having an unfavorable view of trump. 52 feel the same about clinton. Bernie sanders is the only candidate to have a higher favorable rating among voters at 41 . However, when asked who they believe would win the democratic nomination, 83 said Hillary Clinton. Just 14 thought sanders could win. And with clinton on the verge of sewing up the nomination, the Washington Post has a new report that the dnc is attempting to prevent an ugly conflict at the democratic convention. It plans to offer a major concession to sanders seats on a Key Convention platform committee. Now to this, oklahoma lawmakers passed a bill that would effectively ban abortion in its state. It would be a felony for doctors to perform an abortion and an offen offense punishable by three years in prison. Roe v. Wade is still the law of the land and they deem this unconstitutional. The governor has five days to approve or ban the bill. And Phil Mickelson will not be charged with insider trading. It was based on a tip, he bought 240,000 shares of the dean foods company. He was charged as a relief defendant and he has agreed to pay back all ill gotten gains. A spokesperson says he takes full responsibility and is pleased that the matter is over. Things got ugly on the house floor thursday. Check it out. It happened during a vote on an amendment that would have barred hiring federal contractors that discriminate against the lgbt. It was help open for an additional six minutes and republicans convinced a few of their own to switch the votes. In the end it was defeated by a single vote. And this is how democrats reacted. Shame, shame, shame you could hear them chanting shame, shame, shame. Well, the amendment sponsored by moloney said everyone should be ashamed of themselves. Your children will remember your hate. Lets get down to business with cnbcs landon dowdy. Happy friday to you. Happy friday, betty. Finally here. And gap is closing more stores as the clothing retailer continues to struggle with the prolonged sales slump. The company will shutter 75 stores outside of north america in japan and several Banana Republic stores. On thursday, gap reported the fifth straight lower profits. Another company to add to the wreck of retail we have seen. 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We have had thousands of lightning strikes with these. So this is some dangerous storms. Panama city, wait until the storms pass by until you head out. Otherwise, the southeast will get soaked and on saturday, we have the belmont going on, a big event, looks like a rainy first half of the day, maryland and the midatlantic. Headed up to new york city later in the afternoon. That should continue even into sunday, it will linger, unfortunately in the northeast. For all of our friends in the midatlantic and northeast, today is by far the best of the next three days. Get out and enjoy it . Yeah. Later today. Well, two brazen burglars walked into a Florida Hotel and check it out, they walked out carrying the lobby atm in their hands. Hoisting the 500 pound machine like a sofa. The pair casually left as security cameras reported the 3 00 a. M. Caper. Police are still looking for the strapping thieves. On assignment this sunday nbc chief Foreign Correspondent Richard Engel has an exclusive interview with an american who fell under the spell of isis, escaped and turned informant. Ive let my family down. I let my nation down and i let god down. And i have a lot to make up for. So you in this interview and other places are apologizing . Absolutely. I lost sight of how people could be so evil. You can see more of the interview in our series on assignment, sunday night. Legendary 60 minutes reporter morley safer died yesterday. Nbcs harry smith takes a look back. Im morley. Morley safer . Yes. Himself. Reporter the morley safer we knew best was arguably the most gifted storyteller on television. During his decades on 60 minutes he wandered the world and often amusing himself. Party amusing. Reporter but a journalists first task is the truth. Safer changed the way americans viewed the vietnam war. When he showed u. S. Marines torching the thatched huts of civilians. This is what the war in vietnam is all about. Im standing in east germany. Reporter years as a Foreign Correspondent followed. Im morley safer. Reporter with the move to 60 minutes. He was skewering sacred cows like modern art. Its a rectangle. Right. Hes a minimal artist. I would say so. Reporter finding humor where there was none. Not to be confused with the groin grinding latin american one. Reporter he loved cars and he shared that with frequency. Morley safer set a standard few have been unable to equal. Harry smith, nbc news, new york. Dead at the age of 84. We do have some breaking news in the search for egyptair flight 804. I want to go now to nbcs keir simmons in paris with the latest on this new information. What have you learned, keir . Reporter betty, this hasnt been confirmed by nbc news, but we can tell you whats become reported. We are we are hearing that the Egyptian Army saying that parts of ms804 debris has been found. It says that the debris includes passengers by longings. This is a report being told to Egyptian State tv it seems. Egyptian navy finds passengers belongings and debris from the plane. Now a note of caution. We heard yesterday that the egyptians thought that wreckage from the plane had been found. And then the greeks clarified that in fact on closer inspection that had not turned out to be debris from the plane. So again, nbc news has not confirmed the reports but in egypt it is being reported that debris and passengers belongings have been found during this search of the mediterranean as they try to find the plane that took off from here in paris and went down about 30 minutes before it was supposed to land in cairo. I know the information is still coming in, but does it specify at all where it was found . Reporter i havent seen any reports yet that tells us exactly where it was found. No, sorry, im just reading another bulletin here that says the reporting says 180 miles north of alexandria, so that is alexandria in egypt, so off the coast, quite a long way off the coast there. We do know they were searching around the island of crete. Theyre not far from egypt so the mediterranean is not a huge ocean. So things can be quite close to each other. 180 miles off the coast of alexandria. I guess will be the kind of place that you would be expecting to look for a plane 30 minutes out of cairo. Yeah. Were looking at the map right now. Youre trying to harkin back to what we were hearing when the plane was last seen on radar, around 2 45 a. M. In cairo. It was coming close to a portion of the flight where they were going to land. It wasnt too far off, it was within egyptian air space. Thats where they were zeroing in on the search. But then yesterday, i think were kind of moving with caution here because we were told yesterday that, you know, debris from the wreckage was found and then later that was denied. Reporter yeah. Thats right. I mean, the greeks thought that they had found debris from the wreckage because youll know the plane flew through greek air space on its way to egypt. They thought they had found wreckage. The egyptians reported that to be the case and then on closer inspection the greeks found it was not wreckage from the plane. All of our oceans sadly are full of debris of one kind or another. So when youre trying to carry out a search like this one of the challenges is to accomplish what youre really seeing. Those guys in the air above the mediterranean, on the ocean, in ships will be seeing a lot. I have flown with aircraft looking for debris in the past. You see a lot of stuff in the water if you like and the task is to get close to it. And figure out what it is and then to send a ship in to pick it up and be certain. But it does look from these reports that the egyptians the Egyptian Army is saying that the Egyptian Navy has found and these this debris in the ocean. That seems like stronger reporting perhaps than we had seen yesterday. Again, though just a note of caution, nbc news has not confirmed these reports but what the egyptians are saying again they have found part of the planes fuselage and passengers belongings. That too of course if that was the case would confirm that the plane you would think would confirm that the plane had broken up on its way down and of course we had those reports from the Greek Defense ministry who were monitoring with their own radar that the plane dropped very, very heavily and then spun at 1. 3one point 360 degrees. We dont know if it did that during the fast descent, so finding the plane itself is crucial because of course once you have found the plane then theres the potential to find the black boxes and in those black boxes will be for example audio recordings of what was happening on the plane in the moments and seconds before it disappeared. We know they didnt send a distress signal. Why didnt they, what was going on there that led to the plane to end up in the mediterranean. Just another point by the way, betty, to clarify too, reuters the news agency is reporting that multiple u. S. Agencies are telling it that there is not in fact evidence from satellite imaginary that there was an explosion during the point at which the plane disappeared and the u. S. Officials are urging through reuters the media to be cautious about suggesting that the u. S. Intelligence believes that this was indeed a bomb. French officials too urging caution saying that it is not clear yet what the cause of this was. So if it is the case now that they have found this plane, then that means that they are they have found the kind of evidence that they will need to find some answers to all of these questions. Betty . Absolutely. It will be key, no doubt. Im going to ask you to stand by, keir, because we want to bring in john cox, the former u. S. Airways pilot who joins us by phone. As youre listening to all of this, it seems like they are zeroing in on some debris that may really provide a clue and as keir was saying more importantly, the black boxes hopefully they can find those. That would really answer a whole lot of questions. Well, finding the debris is certainly one of the first steps because the debris can lead us to the wreckage itself. And within the wreckage of course is the recorders. Also, the wreckage will provide some answers to some questions about for example how quickly the airplane came down, some things like that. So this is a one of the next steps in the process is finding the debris. We have been looking for it for it since yesterday and im hopeful that in fact they have located the debris because we need to find those recorders and we need for the investigators to have access to the wreckage so that they can understand what happened in the tragedy. So what happens if indeed this is the debris, what happens now in this investigation when they go out and try to i guess find the black boxes . How does that operate . Well, they start documenting the the investigators right now are in the data gathering stage. All theyre looking for is evidence and data and to document that. They build this they build a mass of this evidence and then bit by bit, thats where the decisions and conclusions can be drawn about what happened. This is by looking at the information from all of this the evidence. And the debris is the first part of it. Once they find debris, they can start looking to see the pattern of the debris. Where it is and that should get it to the wreckage itself. Whether the wreckage is over a large area, which could would indicate the possibility that the airplane broke apart in flight or is it in the small, condensed area which means that it was the airplane was all in one piece, those are the kinds of questions that the investigators are going to be looking to answer. Yeah. And that debris might not be exactly close to where the rest of the plane is. Because were talking about the mediterranean, so it could be the chance that, you know, some parts of it are just floating and then they have got to find the main portion of it. John, thank you so much for your insight. And of course the latest on this breaking news is that Egyptian Army has found some debris from this plane. Well bring you the latest developments as we get them. But stay tuned because more is coming. Way too early is up next. Ym b. 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It is friday, may 20th. Im alex witt. We begin with breaking news, the Egyptian Military says they have found some belongings of the passengers, even potentially parts of the plane itself. This from egyptair 804. They describe the items as being 180 miles outside of alexandria, egypt. It has been more than 24 hours since that flight disappeared from radar, and the cause of the apparent crash still unclear. Now, the missing egyptair jet took off after 11 00 p. M. Local time and radar detected it flying over the Mediterranean Sea mere minutes before it was scheduled to land in cairo. Egyptair has identified the pilot and copilot and the egyptian interior minister told the New York Times that both men had no known political affiliations and had passed security background checks. A senior u. S. Intelligence official told nbc news infrared and multispectral images strongly suggest there was an explosion aboard that plane. That is not a confirmation. Rather, a working theory for investigators. So far at least we have no claim of responsibility or evidence that this was an intentional act, but the fbi as you would expect is working with our partners around the world to try and gain a better understanding of what happened. And right now, u. S. And french intelligence officials are comparing names on that passenger manifest against known terrorist watch lists. Investigators are interviewing ground staff who hadcc