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doing outdoor sports there. you'll have helicopters in almost every village that has skiing that are on stand by. this he do a lot in the winter months and we have easter coming up as well there are a lot of tourists. you will have a good sort of saturation if you will of people who could rescue them. simply the fact that the plane went down in mountainous terrain is something that the french hez has confirmed would make it -- >> you were referring that there were a lot of birds in the area to get up and help rescue people in the alps. there's a pilot in a chopper who is saying it is in difficult terrain. what he's sighting from the air in terms of the debris field. let's bring in mary sciavo from a rescue and recovery standpoint. if the pilot is saying that from the helicopter this is a tough area what fred just said this is an active area of sporting and there is a lot of development in these mountain villages around there. what happens in terms of how you
there in the south of france they have a lot of experience in dealing with the mountainous terrain. and due to the fact that you'll have a lot of helicopters there for instance that help skiers. that get in trouble there all the time. so usually there is a pretty good net of rescue and recovery of helping people and of getting to the crash site as fast as possible. >> fred stand by for us if you would. we're showing the flight path there on the screen. we'll pull it up for you, it shows that the flight the germanwings flight left from barcelona, it was heading to deuceusseldorf and something happens around the southern france region where you see the mountainous alps depicted on the map. if you're just waking up we're sad to report to you that there has been a plane crash here in the south of france 142 people were on board. we're getting reports that some first debris has been found. we want to bring in our aviation our cnn aviation analyst mary sciavo.
here. if you hear the public statements that have been going out from iranian officials, they certainly are ones that seem very combative. >> fred stand by. fred pleitgen is the only u.s. television network correspondent in iran right now. let's go to jerusalem and get some reaction. the prime minister is now back in israel. what's the mood over there? i understand some polls are about to be released by one of the tv channels. >> we just got our first look at the polls from our affiliate here in israel. it's interesting what they reveal. according to the latest polls, the zionist camp, viewed as netanyahu's biggest rival in the elections, will win 24 out of 120 seats. netanyahu's party will win 23 seats. it's interesting the insight that gives us. it means at least from these figures that netanyahu's speech didn't have all that great of an effect here on the israeli public. those are roughly the numbers we've seen not only in the last poll but leading up to here. these are very close elections.