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The u.s. embassy in cairo has told u.s. employees not to travel to the sinai peninsula. >> this could be an inside operation. somebody that is -- or some people that are familiar with how the baggage process works. and let's not just limit it to the cargo hold. catering could be involved with this too. >> isis has put out two statements claiming responsibility for bringing down the plane, but they have not given any details. the u.s. official says the administration has not come to a firm conclusion, but the belief it's a bomb is based in part on monitoring of internal isis messages separate f...

They are analyzing that in terms of the cockpit voice recorder while they say that is partially damaged, that they say is going to take more time. analysis of those black boxes very much an international effort. egypt is leading the investigation. russia taking part but also germany, france and ireland and we've heard from a french official saying that at the moment they weren't able to drive any sort of conclusions from the data that it is still being analyzed. from the start, egyptian officials have been down playing the idea that terrorism could have taken the plane down. egyptian president...

We were at the airport yesterday and today, no visible signs of heightening security in line with what the egyptian interior ministry was saying yesterday. they were saying that they were not increasing security, they were saying they were not interviewing employees at the airport because at that point, they said there was no indications that terrorism brought the plane down, though security situation at the airports throughout egypt changing today. the egyptian foreign minister saying they are heightening the presence to reassure people, not in response to conclusions from the investigation. ...

Happen anywhere? >> no, is the short answer and most of the airports, certainly in the developed world probably not. but here it's not as secure. you heard people on this program making that claim. the egyptian tourism minister told me yesterday that the airport conformed to every international standard that it was required to, but this has to be counted with the evidence of those who have been there and of course security experts that say it is entirely possible, particularly since we know that there was isis activity and a cell within that particular region. so you got to be -- if you look t...

I cannot respond to that question. i'm sorry to be such a poor witness today, but i'm trying to honor the commitment that i have to the process here in terms of keeping intelligence briefings confidential. the other thing i think it's important though, wolf, is a lot of circumstantial evidence has been developing. and you've reported a lot of it now. we're really not sure. i haven't heard anything that is definitive. and i think we need to be a little bit patient. one of the problems though with this is the primary responsibility for the investigation is going to rest in egypt. and unfortunate...