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coalesund an alternative. i have more on the breaking christie news later tonight. while trump isolding his own fox hall appearance tonight. he watched in person as his lawyer made unlawful claims about why they think a president should have a license to kill the political rivals in america without being prosecuted. so as the headlines range from the start of the primaries to those brazen claims about assassination, right now, we have something special for you. we're beginning in a way with the weather. last year had some of the most extreme weather ever, driven, of course, by climat...

Government for giving out too many permits. they say that that is an unfounded allegation. others are saying that you have greater numbers of inexperienced climbers trying to do the summit with companies that are cutting too many corners. and thiz inexperienced climbers don't necessarily know how to take these calculated risks, they don't know how to mitigate them, and they also don't know how to listen to their own bodies. and then, erica, you have the weather component. and this year in particular, there weren't that many days where people could summit. so you had this massive rush, especial...

It's based in cologne, it is owned by lufthansa. the reports are that the plane was traveling from bars lobecelona to dusseldorf. mary sciavo in london tell us what you're hearing there. >> 142 passengers a total of 148 with the crew. the weather is quite good so you know often you have the weather component to the flight and there really isn't any information on the cause, no information on and you wouldn't expect that it would be survivable in the alps. but really not much more than that. obviously lufthansa has been around for 80 years. it's a very very old and established airline. the wing...

Mechanical, including maintenance and manuals, pilot error and weather. we don't have a weather component that we know of. the odds are, it will be a mechanical and pilot error, terrorism actually ranks far less than the number of accidents. and because it is a boeing, boeing will be there in full force. there's 1,000 reasons for them to participate, and it's called 777. >> a lot being made of the fact that the pilots didn't communicate. pilots didn't communicate then either, even though they were wrestling with the aircraft that we now know it took two years to figure out. we're wrestling wit...

Like this happens, how involved is the u.s., fran? >> well, you have americans -- you're going to have some of the family members of one victim, but once there are americans involved, the u.s. law enforcement, the fbi takes the lead for the u.s. role. and they'll coordinate and provide support to malaysian authorities. they'll work with their thai counter parts where the passports were stolen. they'll work with interpol and they'll work with the other countries where they have victims. >> mary, what do you make of the idea that officials are now moving away from the terrorism idea? >> well, i ...