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Let's get to cnn's senior international correspondent nic robertson in france with an update. >> well the wind is picking up here today, but the helicopter operations and recovery effort is continuing despite the high winds. what we're seeing an increased number of helicopters, we're seeing the recovery teams with their backpacks and harnesses being lifted high into the mountains. we are expecting more families to be brought here today by the french authorities. yesterday a service was held in a local church. and a memorial service was held in a field that the french authorities brought more t...

Like. then he was trying to break the door down. in the post 9/11 world, how difficult is it to open the doors by force? >> oh, it's almost impossible. they're very strong. there's a camera there so the pilots can see who is trying to get into the door. they're reinforced. you would not be able to knock it down with your fists, as it were. >> tom, thank you. tom valentine there, senior correspondent in sydney. we appreciate you being with us. thank you. well, search crews have recovered the first human remains from the crash. our cnn affiliate in france reports helicopters have airlifted the...

Amount. for instance, why didn't the captain or whichever pilot was inside, why didn't they respond? was it because they didn't want to or because they couldn't? >> so many questions. we'll have to leave it there. richard quest, thank you so much. >> and search crews have recovered the first human remains from the crash zone. helicopters have airlifted those remains out of the site. >> nic robertson is at the staging area in the french alps and as he reports, the search process is slow and it certainly is difficult. >> reporter: ropes, harnesses, recovery teams and equipment. this no straightf...

Mountainside is where the crash took place. what we're expecting is the first of those family members who want to come here will be arriving in france in the south of france possibly marseilles as early as tomorrow afternoon. some of them would be expected to stay in this village here. it's a very small village in the mountain mountain. so others would stay in other places. however the chance of them actually getting into that site are going to be very very unlikely in the short term. why? because even today the air accident investigators were only overflying the site looking from the air. the...

>> the cliff was approximately 200, 250-foot cliff side and he was approximately 75 to 100 feet down right in that area, in a steeper section of the cliff. >> los angeles firefighters oscar and robert are part of the team called in to help save ivan and his dog from a nearly 200-foot fall. helicopters make the first attempt. a rescuer is lowered down a safety line and tries to attach harnesses to both ivan and the dog. >> the reason why we decided or the department decided to go with the helicopter first, i guess that's how our procedure works, our protocol. we figured that would be the easies...