Booking package deals in order to have their babies in the u. S. A very warm welcome to the program. Now, a korean nationalist has slashed the face of the u. S. Ambassador to south korea at a breakfast meeting in seoul. This is video of the immediate aftermath of the attack on mark lip lippert. He needed 80 stitches. Pyongyang said the attack was the punishment that the United States deserved. Police in south korea are now searching the home of the attacker. From seoul, steve evans. Reporter the attack was vicious and serious. Ambassador lippert was at a breakfast meeting when a 55yearold man slashed him twice, once in the face and once across the body. The attacker was arrested and pinned down. Hed shouted that he wanted a unified korea. He also voiced dwrir at the large u. S. Military presence in korea. American troops and south korean troops have just started a joint exercise involving 200,000 personnel. The American Embassy is a fortress, like all american embassies, but the event
Are set to resume their work looking for clues in the crash of Germanwings Flights 9525. German worker have set up a staging area not far from the crash site. Theyve hear recovered one of the planes socalled black boxes. Because the debris is spread over such a wide area and of course the terrain is mountainous, it could take days before they are able to recover any victims. Translatorranslator our goal is to get as many victims back as possible. Not only the body anything to identify them such as personal belongings which will be scrupulously picked up and taken away. Airplane employee and the companys ceo health a candlelight vimggil in cologne, germany. All 150 passengers and crew were killed. German chancellor merkel french president hollande and the spanish Prime Minister also plan to visit the crash site today. The german business kings plane of headed from barcelona to ducal dover when it crashed. It was in the air for less than an hour when it taxook place. Investigators say th
About the fate of Malaysia Airlines flight 370. The report was released sunday exactly one year after the planes disappearance, but it doesnt offer any new information about where the plane may be or why it went missing in the first place. It points to a serious lapse that made the aircraft even more difficult to find. Anna is in kuala lumpur with more on this. The report is striking in its di tail and simultaneous lack of any new leads into this aviation mystery. What exactly do we know today . Yeah look you touch on that battery that had expired in the flight data recorder. That seems to be the glaring error that has come out of this report. However, experts are saying you know it doesnt necessarily suggest that that hindered the search. The reason i say that is because the battery was still operating in the other black box, the cockpit voice recorder. It certainly suggests there was a failure in the maintenance of this particular equipment. The report also gives us a blowbyblow idea
Pilots have been making all arrangements. Cnns gary tuckman is at the International Airport in indonesia. He joins us live. Gary, the families are there. Theyre trying to help them through an unimaginable difficult time. Their courage is unbelievable inspirational. I walked back there to that room. Thats where they are. Hes got 100 people in there right now. All sitting in chairs and theyre watching the news. Theres three mon tors and theyre watching updates. Theyre just very stoic. For the most part, just looking at the tvs and trying to get as much information as they can. What theyre going through, youre right, is unimaginable but how theyre dealing with it is incredible. I dont know how many of us can deal with this situation like these people are. The communication has been rather good here with indonesia officials. Theyre answering any questions they have at anytime they want the questions answered even if they dont have the answers. Thats providing some comfort. A seventh body w
Likely receiving news they did not want to hear. Lets go to Andrew Stevens, who is live at the airport. Andrew of course everyone now is hoping there will be survivors, but there are now reports there have been victims spotted in the water. Reporter yeah there has been images shown of victims in the water. Bodies floating in the water, john but no sign of any survivors. But also there is still a lot of rescue vessels that need to get to that area. The chances of finding anyone alive honestly are very, very slim, indeed. The head of the National Search and rescue team the main man in charge of the search and rescue here in indonesia saying he was 95 certain that this debris is from airasia flight 8501. The only reason he didnt say 100 is because he actually hadnt seen it with his own eyes. But obviously this is very very compelling evidence. The plane, for all intents and purposes has now been located, or debris of the plane. The rest obviously is under water. It coincides closely to wh