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Quite frequently. Weve seen a lot of French Police helicopters, the occasional italian helicopter flying in here. The interior minister saying the operations were delayed and slowed overnight. The recovery operations appear to be in full swing. The interior minister spokesman saying that right now the focus and the effort is all towards recovering the victims of the crash. This morning, thousands of feet up in the french alps recovery of the obliterated Germanwings Flight 9525 continues. The crash site a picture of horror says germanys foreign minister. Wreckage of plane strewn across ten acre...

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Get past those things? >> not on that germanwings is part of lufthansa. but it's a very close-knit part of lufthansa. it's the budget airline, point-to-point division of it. i was not as unless you have a mass sort of we don't think it's safe and there's no evidence of that. none. zero. before anybody goes off to the races with that. >> i'm glad you're making that point. we have a statement from the pilots union that says just what you're saying, let me read it it has nothing to do with safety. the pilots have friends and colleagues who have died that is such a heavy emotional burden. that it ...

It was slightly longer but it doesn't avoid the core issue, that we don't know what happened. this plane took off got to its cruise altitude stayed there for a couple of minutes. and then inexplicably began this ten-minute descent to the ground. >> deb, we've heard just unusual this is for a crash at mid flight. when you look at everything that's come out in the past 24 hours, what stands out to you? >> you know i think the thing that really stands out is that we've got experienced pilots we've got reliable aircraft and inexplicably we've got an aircraft that's descending towards mountainous t...

So. >> investigators have not ruled out terrorism. they say this morning, though the french minister says it is very likely it is not terrorism. can they assess that this early in the investigation? >> i think they probably can. but the and deborah has much more experience of having to weigh those decisions. but if the inexplicable nature of what happened that leads you to say, in this case normally i'm the first one to take something off the table, but i'm also now saying leave everything on the table. >> deb, do you agree, are they leaving everything on the table at this point? and should th...