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Golf ball size hale pummelled part of that state. torrential downpours caused flooding along the missouri/kansas boarder. andrea peters joins me. >> we have gone to the severe weather season. what are we looking at? yesterday, eight tornadoes were out there. a lot of times you get strong, straight line wind. we saw about 133 of those. also very large hail back through texas yesterday. a lot of people think this is a yesterday incident. that is not the case. in fact, we are still looking at the squall line with the weather. you can cisse veer thunderstorm watches currently out there. the threat...

Plastic material that might e out there. but one of the things they're going to be looking at and one of the things that's a significant part of this investigation that needed to be ruled out eventually is looking for fire and soot and other evidence of a preimpact fire very well still may be on the wreckage, so it doesn't rule out the ability to see those type of evidence or clue. >> we know they're looking ultimately, talking about the debris field, they want to trace it back to the black box to find out what happened. is it possible if you're flying a plane, you're in the cockpit, don't kno...

>> translator: she only had a scar here on the chin. there was no damage to the rest of the body. i recognize her right away. >> testimony from those who did survive will later prove valuable. but in the meantime there are countless other clues to pursue. >> we had millions of airplane parts scattered over a mountainside. but the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder, as well as witness statements, all of these different sources of information help investigators put the puzzle together. >> within days two important clues turn up. a photograph taken by an amateur photographer as t...

Sometime from now doesn't mean it's still not valuable. right? just means it makes it difficult to find in the interim? >> well, what they would be doing is looking for the tail section of the aircraft, which is where these boxes are kept, and hope they would still be in the tail or nearby, and they could be recovered quite a while from now. a year or two from now. and provide the data. the voice recorder, however, only records the last two hours of conversation. it's a tape loop that just tapes over itself. so that's unlikely to tell us the genesis of this accident. but the flight data record...

The tremendous force blows the vertical fin and other parts of the tail section right off the giant 747. critical hydraulic lines are severed in the process. >> the first officer makes several radio calls that says, we're in uncontrollable flight, we do not have control of the airplane. they're fighting literally for their lives. >> the airplane starts to go into what they call a pitch oscillation, up and down, as well as a dutch roll. the airplane starts to swing back and forth. and no matter what the pilot tries to do, as far as flight control inputs, he's not having an effect. >> the pilots...