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We'll continue to follow this throughout this hour. any other late developments throughout the night. but the human dimension to all of this and it's so important as richard said to focus on this. 150 lives lost. many of them young live. kids returning from an exchange program, from a small town in germany. small town struggling to absorb what it lost. 16 high school student, two young teachers returning from that trip to spain. plus the opera singer and the young mom, her partner and baby traveling with her. i'll talk to her close friend, an opera singer. ♪ you can call me shallow...

Plane had been brought down, a civilian plane potentially. so we drove out here and found a sort of strange scene of smoke rising over this hillside. rebels kind of waving us through checkpoints which they normally don't do. and we found i think -- what i said last night. it still stands, i mean, it is a total disaster and a total tragedy. and looking at it now in daylight you wander through the fields and you pretty much have to watch every step because if you don't you step on a person's organs. it is like it was raining body parts. >> well, one can only imagine what the relatives of the peo...

Black colleges, currently empty. moments ago, the associate the press reported the u.s. has scrapped its plans in lawrenceville. you were at last night's town meeting in lawrenceville. eric, thank you so much for being with us and helping us understand the human dimension of this story. i thought of you right away when we started seeing the news out of lawrenceville and the community backlash. it reminded me -- i'm from virginia -- very much of what you documented in prince william county. did you feel a similar sentiment from the residents there in lawrenceville? >> it certainly was similar, ...

Couldn't ignore it. i think when it comes to obama sometimes the media has kind of a wait till the roof caves in approach. maybe it will go away. but then all of the sudden the roof caves in and they can't ignore it. >> yet there is something different i would say about this story. let's take a look at a couple of interviews on national and local television that i think will explain why this one resonates. >> i'm saying working at this hospital to make my dad suffer the way they did for a whole year. my dad was a really strong man, a very brave man. >> and i grabbed his hand. i said, pop, no m...

And it's a human tragedy. the next phase is the human dimension of this drama. and it's excruciating. >> speak to that, what do you mean? >> well, the people from china whose loved ones who are on this flight. they are not a sophisticated people. they're middle class, lower middle class people who have never been on a vacation. this is something that's new to them and all of a sudden it disappears. why did it disappear? the rumors about the pilot going rogue or an intervention, a hijacking, this drives people crazy. >> i would argue your level of sophistication or education may not matter that...