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Corruption scandal. but morales will find that cleaning up guatemala is going to be very tough and very serious work. thanks to all of you for being part of my program. see you next week. thanks for joining me in the "newsroom." i'm fredricka whitfield. we begin with new developments in the russian plane crash in egypt that killed all 224 people on board. russian aviation officials now say the airliner broke into pieces in midair. this is new video of the crash site of russian aviation officials said fragments of the plane are scattered around seven square miles on the sinai peninsula. rig...

Across 12 scare miles. cautioning again not to jump to conclusions. it is only the investigation of those two flight recorders that will bring us the hard evidence, and they are not being looked at by investigators from russian russian, egypt. also french investigators because airbus manufactured this plane. indeed the u.s. national transportation safety board is also involved because the engines were manufactured in the united states. they are looking at those black boxes, trying to answer the basic questions why on earth did this plane descend so quickly and so rapidly, why was there no dist...

New here theories on what happened to that russian airliner that crashed on the sinai peninsula. all 224 died in that crash. they are scouring the scene for clues. the plane's flight recorders have been recovered. let's bring in aviation jay rollins. jay, what we have today that we didn't have yesterday, at least for us in the public, not involved in the investigation, we've got the pictures. we have the understanding of how wide the debris field is. and it could be 12 square miles or even more. what are your impressions from what we've learned in the last 24 hours? >> well, mostly that we don...

The next day, the first major piece of wreckage is found. the vertical stabilizer but there are still more questions than answers about what downed the airbus 330. >> evidence of an inflight breakup. >> did it start with a lightning strike? >> investigators need to locate the main fuselage and the flight recorders. these brightly colored orange devices known as black boxes are equipped with water activated locater beacons of pingers that remain active for 30 days. >> this is what you are looking for. in the middle of the atlantic ocean. >> but 30 days come and go and the flight recorders haven...

It's not the mystery we have seen with other plane crashes in the past year. the two black box flight recorders have been recovered along with all of the bodies. the plane was carrying three babies, two other children, and 49 adults. it took off in heavy rain and fog, and at last contact, half an hour later, crashing into dense jungle on a mountainside. so dense, some planes that have crashed there have never been found. this one, though, was spotted from the air, but search teams still have to hike for two days to reach it. it was carrying nearly half a million dollars in cash for local villa...