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Jenny and her husband. he says their 30-year-old son is struggling to cope. >> reporter: this restaurant in about 15, 20 years, it's a very good restaurant and the flowers, of course, all the comments on the internet, and always working for the son and for the business. this was their vacation. >> reporter: another family was also on vacation aboard flight mh17. upcoming deejay was on his way to vietnam. his close friend and fellow deejay says he could have been one of the greats. >> he was one of the biggest in the netherlands that was an upcoming deejay producer. >> reporter: but that wasn't...

Level of being a human being on this planet. >> reporter: the florist, the restaurantuers, the deejay, some of the dutch passengers who were killed. this country mourns them all. >> well, at the airport in amsterdam, joining us now on the phone. erin, we've heard that in kuala lumpur, family members have been turning up at the airport there demanding answers. what have you been seeing and hearing there in amsterdam at the airport? >> reporter: well, there's a small makeshift memorial just outside the terminal where malaysian airlines passengers are continuing to check in. small group of flower...

Government says they don't have them. the international monitor says they don't have them. the indication appears to be the rebels still have those black boxes and they are vital to the investigation. so all of these things are on the agenda for the monitors today, but it's not clear yet if they are going to get what they want and they certainly don't have the means, if you will, to pressure the pro-russian rebels to get access. they are not armed. they are there with flat jackets alone, working only on the good will of those rebels and so far that good will hasn't been forthcoming, isha. >> n...

>> reporter: a soft plea, daddy, don't leave me. he's only three. he's never picked a fight in his life, so he can't understand why he's being punished. just go ahead and tell the world my son was firing rockets in tel aviv or jerusalem, his father says, words loaded with irony and anger. an israeli missile slammed into their home in eastern gaza just before dawn. cnn teams saw that neighborhood under heavy bombardment as israel launched its ground invasion. this was the gaza skyline through the night, ablaze with bombs and artillery fire. benjamin netanyahu accuses hamas militants of using ci...

There will be opportunities to remember those who were lost on the plane. >> and more than half of the 298 people onboard malaysia airlines flight 17 were from the netherlands. the flight originated in amsterdam and people there have been leaving flowers and other momentos at the airport and people from at least nine different countries were onboard that plane, including families heading to holiday in bali and as you just heard, prominent aids researchers heading off to an international conference in melbourne, australia. well, aaron mclaughlin is there in amsterdam with more on the dutch vi...