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Mali. >> very much so. very much so. al qaeda affiliated group occupy a huge swath of territory in the northern part of the country. that was an area where fighters traversed into libya. so much conflict going on there as well. it was a transit area for fighters into libya. mostly connected again to al qaeda. no shortage of islamist terrorists operating in that region. a number of attacks, you mentioned one within the last year in mali. a frequent target for terror groups there. as of now, no known isis connection. the reason we wonder is because of what happened one week ago last friday night...

They wait to find out what will happen next. >> stuck in limbo at a moscow airport, a family of syrian refugees with only their phones to plead their plight. >> we're from syria, we're living in airport and this is our life. we are living in airport in terminal in transition. >> for the past 50 days, they have been held in a transit area while authorities check their documents. >> i have two brothers and one sister and father and mother. we want you to help us, please. it's very cold for living ar sleeping. it's very cold. >> his father hassan is desperate. we need your help, he says. because ...

Medication that night, carol. >> what are investigators doing at the scene now. >> i want to you take a look at the scene behind me really is a hive of activity. investigators still hard at work. it appears as though they are trying to clear just over this way the end of the train. yesterday we saw two cars here. today there's only one you can see they moved heavy equipment in the area. we understand from the ntsb they are taking cars to a secure location off sight. they are still premuch trying to analyze tracks, signals. you can see over there some men actually looking like they are testing ...

All contact was lost with the airplane. most of that plane's flight path took it over open water. and if you're looking at the map here that green country, where you see the plane was, not really over but from the perspective of the map, it looks like it. that's malaysia. of so this is the region that has seen two air disasters in this past year. that right there shows where this plane was when air traffic control lost contact with the airplane over the java sea. we know that there are c-130s there, ships in that region. this is a very busy transit area of the sea, very busy with maritime traf...

>> a lot of refugee process, fraudulent process goes on in transit areas in some of those airport. we have run into that in our business over the years, singapore, malaysia, thai land, whatever. someone gets a bogus airport never leaves the transit area. they december proi the documents they eninitially traveled from. they had to claim fef see stat does or the two stolen passports have nothing at all to do with this. it is possible they could as well. >> i think it was interesting they were both lost or stolen in