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Servicing is done, that everybody is properly credentialed and there's a screening capability. that's how we do it here. in egypt, they haven't had that approach. given, al qaeda operates in that area. you just had russia attack isis. you can expect that is going to be one of the targets they're going to seek. >> ammann is live with us in cairo. good morning. what are the latest things officials are telling you about that plane incident? >> egyptian officials continue to pour water on allegations coming out of the west that it was a bomb that may have brought down this plane. egyptian official...

Because in the early stages of this investigation, we know that the flight data recorder was recovered but it was our understanding and according to government sources, that the cockpit voice recorder was actually damaged. there was even some talk that there was going to be a need to transport the voice recorder outside of egypt. but now it seems that an initial reading of the cockpit voice recorder suggests that it is audible, that it was analyzed here in cairo and perhaps tomorrow, we are going to learn more from egyptian officials as to what information they were able to glean from that ana...

. >> ayman mohyeldin in cairo. thank you very much. let's go live now to nbc's tom costello in washington, d.c. tom, good morning. what security measures are aviation officials in this country thinking about doing or taking in response to all of this? >> reporter: yeah, jose, good morning. as you know, the white house announced in the wake of this metrojet crash, they are reviewing security and really reviewing it at overseas airports for flights that are inbound. in total, 275 airports overseas have agreements with the u.s., specifically the tsa, on how to ensure their security is optimal and...

Holds a press conference here in cairo. a thing that's significant if in fact they can get the information is what exact sli on that flight voice recorder. is there a sound of an explosion? can they learn anymore in terms of the simultaneous cutoff of both of the recorders? certainly those questions are all being asked by the experts leading this and keep in mind this is an investigation involves several different countries. you have countries where the plane was registered, obviously the russians with their citizens and you have european including germans and the french involved this because ...

>> reporter: british prime minister david cameron telephoned egyptian president al sisi and announced that all flights between the uk and sharm el-sheikh are suspended until security measures can be assured. ireland, doing the same. the u.s. embassy in cairo has told u.s. employees not to travel to the sinai peninsula. >> this could be an inside operation. someone who is familiar with how the baggage process works. and let's not just limit it to the cargo hold. catering could be involved with this, too. >> reporter: isis has put out two statements claiming responsibility for bringing down the ...