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good morning, everyone. welcome to "weekends with alex witt". here's what's happening right now. we have new revelations in the investigation into tuesday's crash into germanwings flight. investigators believe he intentionally crashed the plane. he said one day i will do something that will change the whole system and everybody will know my name then. nbc news has not confirmed this report. a special church service was held in a french town this morning to remember the 150 victims of the doomed flight. the service was open to the public. nbc has confirmed they will make a a palestinian payment up to $54,000 to the relatives of crash victims to cover immediate costs. families could ultimately receive more.

german prosecutors believe lubitz may have hidden an illness from his doctors. a note excusing him on the day of the crash were found at his apartment. claudio, with a good day to you. >> reporter: the helicopter just passed by. four taking 15 investigators and recovery specialists through that crash site. this is not an easy operation. as we reported in the last few days, the way it works, they take two at a time. they drop 80 meters drop on that crash site. then they have to try to collect any debris that may be useful for investigators and of course try to identify the victims. their job is not made easier by the fact of the revelation by a colonel from the national police here that not a single body was

found intact. it is body parts scattered all over the place, i'm afraid. it is not making the identification of those victims any easier. they will try to get the dna and match it with the dna that the families left when they came and they are still coming here to visit that memorial site that was set up a few miles from here. and the families keep coming. about 200 came in the last couple of days. today there is the families of the colombian and japanese passengers. we have been told by original officer that as many as 1,000 family members are expected the next 15 days, a alex. >> it is extraordinary. so, have they given any ballpark time frame that they expect to wrap up the recovery operation? giving the description you're telling us it probably could go for quite some time. >> reporter: yeah. this is not going to be days alex. this is going to be weeks, if not months. you have seen the aerial footage

from the crash site you cannot identify a single piece of the plane, not the fuselage, nothing. it is thousands of pieces of debris. of course not even mentioning the bodies. they will have to first of all, concentrate, apart from identification of the bodies which is a priority they will have to concentrates in finding that second black box. the flight data recorder that contains the statistical information from the flight from take-off to the point of impact. and that will reveal whether there was any technical fault. it is believed the co-pilot just flew deliberately that plane into the mountain. but that is the priority of the investigators, alex. >> claudio, thank you so much. we'll he see you again later today. let's bring in analyst john cox. john, with a welcome to you. let's talk about the depression and the mental stability of mr. lubitz here. how do airlines in this country and around the world go about

certifying the health and mental well-being of their pilots? >> well alex when a candidate shows up for employment with the airline as a pilot, you go through a whole bat of tests, academic, practical, and medical and psychological. so there's a pretty good indication of how well this individual will fit into the airline. and as they go through training they are carefully evaluated by instructor pilots and pilots that they fly with. once they're qualified and they're flying what ends up happening for the most part is what's known as a peer review. that is pilots work very closely with each other. you're on the road you're traveling together you're working in close physical proximity to each other. and if someone is not meeting the standard or seems preoccupied, it is not uncommon that one of the pilots will ask the other, are you doing okay?

do you have anything going on? if i have flown with them before, you are not flying the way that you did previously. and if the answer is yeah i have a sick child or my shouse is not well and they seem distracted, there's usual lip a means by which they can get help and get some days off. so it's not a career jeopardy situation. but one where it helps provide it. training flight crew members is very expensive. the airline has a vest issed interest in helping people return to the flight deck and be able to concentrate on flying the airplane. particularly in north america and to a lesser degree but similar in europe. >> so john but wait. are you -- when you're a pilot, do you fly with the same co-pilot all the time? are you like a team? >> no. >> okay. so if that's not the case how is it that you can really know someone's background? because you have he's long six-hour flights say from new york to los angeles?

you do a lot of talking? >> the physical proximity, because the cockpit is so small, it lends itself to conversation. it is not uncommon to not flow a flight crew member on the first day of a trip. on a multiday trip you get to know them pretty well pretty quickly because you're not only working together but quite frequently you're eating together at the layover, hotels whatever so you are physically together for several days. and this means you get to know pretty quickly what's the individual characteristics. >> let's talk about the cockpit door and the fact that it can be locked from the inside. obviously it's from terrorists and bad guys getting into the cockpit. in this case it was a problem. does that need to be addressed?

does it need to be changed? >> well safety and security procedures are ever evolving. and this is going to be i think a result of the outgrowth of this investigation. it is going to be a close review of safety and security procedures to see if there is a way to keep the cockpit safe. that's most important. because the threat from the outside from a passenger with nefarious intent still exists. we have to protect the flight deck from that. also now if we have a second crew member as we do in the united states, that may be found to be a good means to ensure that if a a rogue pilot -- and this happens extremely rarely. we're talking about an extreme remote possibility. but if it were to occur, having a second person in the flight deck could be a mitigation to that. because they can get the door open. if you take this germanwings example with the captain beating on the door had there been a second person in the flight deck, they could have opened the

door and let the captain in. so the outcome possibly would have been different. that's speculative, and i recognize that. but it does show the value of having a second person in there. also it causes conversation between that second person and the pilot that is remaining there. and i think that could have benefit as well. so this is something, the review of policies and procedures, it's ongoing now. and it will go in the future. >> yeah okay. john cox, thank you so much for weighing in. appreciate that. later on we'll talk about how pilots are screened before they are hired. that is coming up at the bottom of the hour. to yemen now. today saudi arabia's intervention by air strike is bombarding rebel positions at the way to the southern coast with civilian and rebel death tolls rising. yesterday they rescued two

fighter pilots after they eject ejected from the jet. joining me now medal of honor recipient retired colonel jack jacobs and msnbc military analyst. they say they are preparing ground troops for the saudis. that would be unprecedented. so where do you see this going? >> they are trying to figure out how to put this coalition together. and it means they have to put the coalition together before they do anything. it is unlikely they will be able to do it any time soon. it does reflect a really important military truth and it's this you can't destroy force on the ground just with air strike. you actually have 206 troops on the ground to seize and hold terrain. that's why they are trying to

put this coalition together. >> it appears to be pretty big. it stretches from morocco to pakistan. why are so many countries so concerned about this rebel group that a few weeks ago most people have never heard of. >> it is backed by iran. they perceive this as an attempt by iran to dominate the region. to be honest with you, they're not wrong. saudi arabia in particular terribly concerned about these rebels moving across the very porous border from yemen to saudi arabia. that's where they are trying to act now. >> do you see the u.s. getting back on the ground in yemen as part of the coalition? >> i can't see that. certainly not in a combat role. we're going to support all of these people with overhead assets satellites and that sort of stuff. maybe even some logistical support. but troops on the ground? i doubt it.

>> does this all blow up into a major regional war, or are we already there? >> well, i like that view that we're already there. i think it's clear we're already there. the place is falling to pieces. i think it's liable to get much nastiyer and wider. i don't think anybody is going to lying the results. you're liable to have cups that are now dissolving their their component pieces. the fights between shia and sunni will continue no matter what happens on the ground. by the way, that's a fight that's been going on 1,300 years and is not going to stop any time soon. >> okay. thank you, sir. >> you're very welcome. >> a legal expert called it a long shot. now the courtroom drama is over for amanda knox. and the outrage in indiana over a new law some say is an invitation to discriminate against gays and lesbians. (little girl) no! saw her first day of school. (little girl) bye bye!

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i'm still absorbing what all of this means and what -- what comes to mind is my gratitude for the life that's been given to me. >> that the was amanda knox after an i tailal court cleared him for the murder of her roommate. it is the second time they overturned convictions for her and her hex-boyfriend. what has been the reaction in italy. have you heard from the family of meredith kercher? >> first of all, good day to you, alex. yes, we have heard from the family of meredith kercher in a statement. the reaction in italy is much like the united states.

surprise and shock really in such a definitive decision. the conviction was completely overturned. no retrials. no appeals. case closed. in a statement the kercher family said it wasn't a decision they were expecting but one they accepted. in the judge's ruling they said last night these two people did not commit this crime. now exonerated with her murder conviction overturned amanda knox broke her long silence late friday night. >> i'm incredible grateful for what has happened for the justice i have received for the support that i've had from everyone. and i'm so grateful that i have my life back. >> reporter: at italy's highest court, deliberations lasted 10 hours. late friday the five-judge panel overturned both murder convictions.

>> this is a mistake, a a mistake from the beginning. we should not have waited all theories years. >> reporter: it's been seven and a half years since meredith kercher was stabbed to death in porussia italy. she and her boyfriend were convicted of murder in 2009 acquitted in 2011 then convicted again last year. since knox's tearful, a job at a newspaper, an engagement. she said she worried about prison. she said she also had hope. >> there's no trace of me in the room where my friend was murdered. theres traces all over the place of the man who always did this. rudy dudet was convicted. >> reporter: no retrails.

no extradition. >> meredith was my friend. and -- i'm the lucky one. >> when all of this was going on amanda knox said she would be dragged back to italy kicking and screaming if there were any sort of extradition procedure. what a change in events alex. we have it on good authority that she is now looking forward to returning to italy one day voluntarily as a free woman. >> won't that be something? okay. thank you so much. i appreciate it kelly. so what lies ahead for amanda knox? could she seek compensation for the time she spent in prison? in other news now, funeral services for the man in mississippi found hanging from a tree. he was found happening from a bed sheet behind his home last week.

authorities are expected to release the cause of death in the coming days. the moment of the first explosion which led to a massive fire in new york city's east village. you can see the blast in the upper part of your screen. that started a seven-alarm fire that caused three buildings to collapse on thursday. 28 people were injured. four in critical condition. two people are still missing. on friday the new york city mayor said the explosion may have been caused by someone improperly tapping a natural gas line. you are looking at a million dollar penny. the first one cent coin put into circulation was put into an auction house for 1.2%. it was sold to a rare coin dealer. it dates back to 1792. only 10 of these coins in existence. let's go you to not weather. a big scare in seattle after a land slide. three homes had to be evacuated. the soil is still shifting.

cold here in the east. dr. greg postel is here. good morning. >> reporter: more snow is in the offing for the east. let's time it out. we will see snow in parts of new england. it will continue in the afternoon hours. a few inches in eastern rhode island will be coming your way. if you're sick of winter you have to wait until this weekend and probably some more to go. we're not done with winter yet. by tomorrow morning, this should be offshore not before dropping three to five inches in parts of southeastern new england. a couple of inches of snow possible all the way back to eastern new york state. in the southeast, below average pretty much everywhere by 10 to 20 depress. also in the northeast, no surprise there. winter weather. boston, you may get up to 41 if you're lucky. we'll see if that is verified. tomorrow morning, it's going to

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the study will give scientists a better understanding how the body reacts and adapt toss space. dr. christopher mason is a general et sift in new york city and part of this national team conducting the study. with a welcome to you. we have had this headline astronaut scott kelly will return a year older and younger than his brother. >> thanks for having me. it will be an effect of relativity. if you're moving closer to the speed of light, you will be younger than somebody on earth. i have done the calculation. it will only be .1 seconds younger but he will technically be a little bit younger than his brother. >> that is very interesting. this twin study say combination of 10 separate investigations that focuses on four first years, human physiology behavioral health microbiology and microbiome.

what is the date are they collecting from the kelly brothers and what insight do you think you will get from it? >> we will learn things on three different levels. what happens to the human body when it is some space for that long and had a a level of detail that's never been done before. dna, rna, proteins what is to the microbes in you and on you, sleep patterns cognition, how you respond in space. the second thing is we will learn new techniques and biochemical methods. and the third aspect is we will be able to integrate all the data, which is more you have for any patient earth or any ever study indeed human history. >> what's a practical application? how to you hope to implement what you learn. >> what we do for cancer patients is precision medicine. we try to understand how we can

treat different patients. we usually use only dna, or ra or the book of life. your gna is your molecular recipe. it makes it a more complete biology of the body. >> okay. do they affect anything? >> we have some hypotheses about what will happen once they are sharing the confined space. it is call their microbiome, all the bacteria that you carry that keep you healthy. they will synchronize at the space station. >> so i know you want to put this information into context here on earth. do you also think this will help for future missions in space? is that a lot of this longer

missions, say, to on mars? >> this is a long stairwell on what you can call a a space fairing species. this kind of research really sets the foundation for how you can understand physiological changes, medically important changes inside the body and what would happen for really long-term travel. >> going to be a fascinating year ahead. thank you so much. >> thank you very much. a german tabloid is reporting a shocking claim from andreas lubitz's former girlfriends. it may give insight to the germanwings tragedy.

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one excusing him from work on the day of the crash. katie, with a good morning to you. what's the latest in the investigation? you know what? we're going to toss to katie's report. let's take a listen to that >> reporter: as recovery workers go through the french a alps collecting debris and parts of victims, german prosecutors are combing for the life of a man they say caused it all. co-pilot andreas lubitz. carrying boxes of evidence and computers from his home in dusseldorf and mont tkpwar. they found evidence that he was ill, including doctors notes excusing him from work the day of the crash, notes he should have given to the airline instead in pieces in a trash bin. the torn up sick note says the prosecutor support our

assumption that he hid his illness. the prosecutors office wouldn't elaborate on what illness the doctor excused him for. but a dusseldorf hospital confirm he had been there as reasonable as march 10th is though they say they did not treat him for depression. they are quoting a woman who claims to be lubitz's ex-girlfriend. lubitz told her last year one day i'm going to do something that will change the whole system. and everyone will know my name and remember. it's a claim nbc news cannot confirm. back at the crash site families mourn for 16 high school students two babies mothers, fathers, brothers, sisters, daughters and sons trying to find peace now that the worst is done. >> i don't feel angry. i'm really sad for the father, the parents of that young pilot.

>> reporter: and i believe my audio is now working. "the wall street journal" is reporting that that doctor's note was from a psychologist treating depression. just because somebody is depressed, it doesn't mean they are suicidal let alone homicidal. >> i imagine the reaction has been mixed. but that one gentleman that you interviewed katie who said he felt so sorry for andreas lubitz's parents, is that generally what you get or is there a wide response to the news that, as you said nbc news, has not confirmed? >> it is mixed. people here are mostly shocked more than anything else that this could happen here.

people said they knew him described a pilot, fungi. they didn't see anything wrong with. but reports from german newspapers, from people refusing to be identified are painting a slightly different picture, that he was a little bit more how they are describing depressed. there might have been something more dark going on with him. the ex-girlfriend report from germany's largest tabloid. none of that has been confirmed because these people are not giving their names. we just don't know. just pause you're not feeling good about yourself doesn't mean you decide to crash a plane in the side of a mountain. there is something much deeper going on there. certainly nobody has been able to uncover that quite yet. investigators will be interviewing everybody that he was close with including potential ex-girlfriends to see what the state of mind was, whether or not he was going through some sort of personal crisis. was there a breakup involved.

did he feel he would lose his job. that he gave doctors notes about depression. did he potentially have some -- who knows. they're going to try to figure out exactly what happened to get some closure and try to see if they can stop something like this from happening in the future. this is very hard to predict and have hard to diagnose. >> absolutely. sounds like the investigation is going to be a long-time forth coming alongside that one happening on the mountain as well. katy tur, thank you for that report. seth with a welcome to you. what is the general aviation community's reaction to the crash and the information we have learned, confirmed and otherwise about the pilot. >> people in the airline industry feel just like everybody else. shocked obviously. and asking themselves what could have been done to prevent this. and what can be done to prevent something like this in the future. how do you screen people so you

don't end up with somebody like this in the cockpit. secondly what do you do if somebody like that slips through. airlines already having taken a lot of steps from preventing this from happening again. there was already a procedure in place where there would have been somebody else in the cockpit. impossible to say whether that would have prevented it. but the flight attendant could have fought to open the door. we know andreas lubitz should not have been in the cockpit. the doctor who was concerned about going to work should we have set aside privacy concerns and said a doctor like that could inform an employer in a situation like that. as katie mentioned, plenty of depressed people in the world would do something like this. how do you identify that person and keep him or her from the cockpit? >> yeah. this rule of two, though that we implement here.

north american airlines has to used it. it hasn't been implemented in europe. four or five said we're going to do this now. from a common sense standpoint in the wake of 9/11 it's curious they hadn't put that into effect. what's behind that? >> it is. we have to separate out what we now know unfortunately based on what's happening this weekend. and, alex a lot of things where you kind of can't optimize for everything. let's think about the fact that that reinforced cockpit door that came into effect because of 9/11 made it so difficult in this case for the good guys so to speak to get in the cockpit. not to say this could have been prevented. because, i mean there were pilot murder/suicides before 9/11. yeah absolutely. it certainly does make a lot of

sense. air canada said we're going to do this with or without the regulator. they have recommended to airlines that they do this. not having yet mandated it. but that's probably forth coming. as you said alex several airlines including lufthansa, had already implemented that on their own. >> thank you so much seth. arkansas is one step closer to joining 20 states with controversial religious freedom laws. governor hutchinson vowed to sign it when it hits his desk. they sanction lgbt people under the guise of religion. the measure was signed into law on thursday. boycott indiana was one of the top trending hashtags this week.

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meredith kercher. they thanked supporters and also paid tribute to meredith. >> meredith was my friend. and -- it's -- she deserved so much in this life. i -- i'm the lucky one. so thank you. joining me now is nina buehrle, a national correspondent for "newsweek". she has been following the battles from the beginning. with a welcome to you. when you listen to her, how authentic do you think that is? there was a drama to it. that could reflect the last eight years of her life? >> there's always been a problem for her with people judging her on authenticity as posed to the

facts in the case. it's very difficult for people who are innocent accused of a crime to come across as authentically innocent when people are examining them for lying. and i think that has been her problem ever since the very beginning of this. >> i guess defense attorney would say, hey, be quiet. they have to be very measured in their statements. let's talk about legal flip-flopping. twice found guilty twice cleared. are we done? >> we are done. the supreme court of italy a nulled the conviction. that means it is over. as far as the civil side of this, i'm not sure what the law allows. i know that the kercher family was convinced that a amanda knox and saell eleven toe were

involved. the attorney in florence at one point was talking about trying to get $36 million out of the three defendants. let's not forget there is somebody in jail for this murder who must of us who looked at this case closely believe was probably burgling the house when meredith kercher came home. will someone file for money? it's hard to tell. i can't answer that here. but it is the end of the criminal part of this case. and these students will not have fugitive hanging over their head. >> given all of your research for your book and the amount of time that you spent over there covering this trial, is this the correct answer? i mean do you see anything that's still left hanging that's unanswered? >> what remains to be answered is really what happened. what was rudy gudet doing in

there and why he was ignored by the prosecution and the police? >> if you hear prosecutors or defense they say i say dna was all over the place. he is serving time for meredith kercher's murder. >> it is complicated. i explain it in my book. there's national bias. there are racial issues. there was gender bias. people focused on the girl. they focused on the female murderer into the much more mundane and boring male killer. mistake early on, they arrested the students first and then they got their science and they saw dna belong to somebody else. guday was hiding out in germany. they threw him back. and through him into this theory

and orchestrated by a psycho. they never changed their story. i think what remains to be done is the guday trial, the records are sealed for some mysterious reason. in italy they don't have a freedom of information act we have here. those journalists working over there, i think they would do a great service to the family and to the public if they began demanding that those records be opened so we cannot understand what guday said he was doing there. >> that might be forthcoming. that might button this up. good to see you. gone without a train. the server hosting hillary clinton's e-mail account is wiped clean.wh so what happened? e a whitening toothpaste? let's see. the paste didn't seem to do much for me. the whitestrips made a huge difference. : trips work below the enamel surface to whiten 25 times better than the leading whitening toothpaste. crest whitestrips. the way to whiten ♪

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a new revelation in the hillary clinton e-mail saga. the republican chair of the house committee investigating the benghazi attack said friday the former secretary of state wiped her e-mail server quote, clean. in a released on friday a

spokesman said she turned all over relevant e-mails. the department of state is there for possession of all secretary clinton's work related e-mails from the personal account. joining me is a washington post political reporter. does this end the e-mail question? there are no more to be had, or does it raise more questions? >> i think there is a partisan answer to both. we will hear both of those answers. there is a strong case to be made that far from answers all of the questions that have arisen about the e-mails. frankly, the phrase wiped clean, doesn't necessarily mean none of the e-mails can be recovered if the server were in the possession of somebody who could recover there. there is going to be a lot of fighting over the short term. the long term the big challenge is this is all related to the benghazi investigation. one of the things that will come up when she inevidently runs for president will be what happens

that night on benghazi. this will be one of the many clouds to be pointed to by republicans. some are hazy some are dark clouds she will have to deal with. >> let's go to the race for 2016 and ted cruz. how do you gauge the announcement and how does it change what we know about the gop race so far? >> there hasn't been any polling so far. i think that he made sort of a small splash. i don't think it was the big splash that he was hoping for. he was really banking on far right conservatives coming out and being supportive of him. he's making a play for evangelical voters. there is already some good candidates in that space that are getting support. it will tough for him to work his way into that. >> harry reid has announced he's retiring. do you think his accident had anything to do with that? >> i find it hard to believe an

accident that severe had nothing to do with it. he said he'd been planning on that for a while. he was well-prepared for this. >> good to see you. that's a wrap of this hour of weekends with alex witt. more smart political talk on up with steve coracy. you've got to be prepared to sit at the edge of your seat and be ready to get up. there's no "deep couch sitting." definitely not good for my back. this is the part i really don't like right here. (doorbell) what's that? a package! it's a swiffer wetjet. it almost feels like it's moving itself. this is kind of fun. that comes from my floor? eww! this is deep couch sitting. [jerry bell iii] deep couch sitting!

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