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In germany at the family home. >> reporter: here we are, a day after the police arrived to search the family home behind me. you see sounded by media. as the focus has shifted away from how this could have happened and on to why. why this young man apparently normal and happy young man realizing his dream would do such a thing. deliberately crashing the plane and killing all of the people. the family here described as a nice family and good family engaged in the local community. lubitz himself, we spoken to people who knew him. we spoken to people who knew him at the local flying school. the w...

Rosie, what do we know? >> as you can see, global media gathered outside what until last week until the last few days was just a normal home in germany. and today, the focus of global scrutiny as people search for answers as to why this young man who grew up here andreas lubitz grew up here with his parents, why he would do such a thing. the local community in shock as you say. they cannot understand it. people that knew him by all accounts described him as a normal young man, polite friendly. he had friends at the local flying school. he said he was so excited since he was a teenager about be...

Hometown where we hear he was quiet, well-liked seemingly a normal child growing up. and then you have this period where he goes to the flying school which is close to where he lived. and there they say he was a man who was totally dedicated to his gliding and his flying. and he was absolutely delighted when he was able to finally achieve his dream job of becoming an airline pilot. in the middle of that wolf you get this training period where we know that he went to lufthansa's training academy in phoenix, arizona, having taken a six-month gap or several-month gap for an undisclosed reason. an...

Heading, altitudes, et cetera, so that there is some degree of situational awareness when an airplane is beyond radar coverage. when you get into the area they're talking about, there aren't even really too many jet routes. so the chance of being able to put an airplane down out there somewhere, if that's your intent and have it disappear completely is pretty good. >> so you know these routes well then. what do these routes tell you that they may have taken, given that pivot point may have occurred and heading west? what does that tell you? heading toward the middle east? >> no. first of all, ...

Some of the first images broadcast of the tsunami came from here. the water, barreling ashore and sweeping across sendai airport friday, engulfing runways and battering the air bridges. this is what it looked like on the ground today. this is the parking lot of the sendai flying school. now amid the wrecked cars sits this training aircraft, dumped here by the wave, swept from the hangers over the back there. >> when we return, the nuclear crisis in japan and what it will take to avoid a meltdown. @@ tempur-pedic