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Today, we were told by the government that it was a mountainous terrain and as we can see there, there weren't many mountains in the nearby facility. trying to go through and pick about what happened and get those bodies. we're hearing from the prime minister that 129 bodies have been recovered so far. they have been brought here from cairo. and we're learning from the civil aviation minister about the final moments before the crash. contradicted earlier reports that a distress call was issued. he said no distress call was issued by the pilot. the plane was there one minute and it disappeared....

That they will be brought to hospitals here in cairo. but from what we're hearing, it is unlikely that there would be any at this time. now this plane was taking people as we heard from nic, tourists from sharm el-sheikh, to st. petersburg. this is a very popular route. sharm el-sheikh gets a lot of tourists hike this coming down, trying to escape the cold weather. as we heard, 17 of those people killed were children. a lot of families go on this route. egyptian officials though saying they still have yet to reach the site of the crash. the only eyes that they've had on it now are from militar...

>> reporter: yeah. it is a mountainous region. this morning we were hearing this the plane had crashed in the mountains from the authorities but when a bit more information came out we now have the pictures that show it was one of the planes that is adjacent to the mountains. this is a five-mile search area. so there is a lot to -- a lot of ground to cover. it's night here. so that will make it even more difficult. but the northern sinai has had problems with an insurgency. we haven't heard if that has hampered any of the recovery efforts. but that is something that authorities are going to be...

And then took her eye off of the ball and basically participating in the lax security because she was not making decision, and then kind of missed the storm cloud coming with with the benghazi attacks. the day of to attacks, there was a massive protest against this video at the u.s. embassy in cairo and massive protest and very violent and a lot of damg done to the emp bas si, and then the following day, violent protests about this video at the u.s. embassies in tunisia and yemen and when she said main th statement that some have sought to justify this vicious behavior as response to the infla...

He sent whatever he could muster to our rescue. and the crowd was disbursed. the damage was extensive. but we thankfully did not have anything other than property damage to the embassy and to the american school. and the government of tunisia later helped us to repair that. but it was the kind of incredibly tense moment. we had protesters going over the walls of our embassy in khartoum. we had protests, as you rightly point out, all the way to indonesia. thankfully no americans were killed. partly because i had been consistent in speaking out about that video from the very first day when we kn...