claudio lavanga, thank you so much. there's a lot of focus, of course, today on the post-9/11 procedures that lock the cockpit door. in 2002 the airbus group, which makes the plane involved in the germanwings flight, created a safety video showing the steps of locking this door and the emergency access procedures to override it. we want to play that for you now, so you can see it first hand. remember, this is a demonstration video with actors. this is not the crew that was on this flight. take a look. >> on the code patch, he enters the emergency code then presses the hash key. this triggers the timer for 30 seconds. the green light on the code pad flashes, indicating imminent unlocking. in the cockpit, the buzzer sounds continuously and the open light flashes, also indicating imminent unlocking. when the elapsed time is over with no action from cockpit crew the door goes into unlocking sequence for five seconds. the green light on the code pad remains steady. the open light comes on for five seconds during the unlockin

claudio, what is the latest there? >> reporter: well, lawrence, i'm here at the rescue command center. this is the town that's closest to the crash site. now, that crash site is on a steep mountainous terrain which makes it difficult for rescuers to reach. they'll try again tomorrow morning in the light of day. they've been using 300 firemen, 300 policemen, and particularly, local mountain police that know the area very well. they will try to reach the bodies of the 150 passengers and crew. now they have converted -- we've been told they will convert a sports center here in the town into a morgue where the bodies will be taken. but from tomorrow, investigators will have to answer that question of what happened on that flight when it started normally on a route that plane, or that company has taken many times before. the weather was fair, it was perfectly fine, and the plane reached a cruising altitude, as you said in your intro, of 38,000 feet. then suddenly it dropped heavily to 6,000 feet in eight minutes, then crash

earlier protesters calling for more immigration made their feelings known as claudio levanga reports. >> this is the northern league on a southern charm offensive. held a rally where they are least popular rome. the peart has long blamed the capital and the centralized government of stealing from the industrialized rich north of italy to finance the poorer south. but its new leader says that rather than breaking up the country he wants to unite it under his leadership. >> i am sicilian, but i think northerners southerners the french should all be united against europe. >> the parties supporting 6% to 30% and it is now the most popular right wing party in italy. but he wants more, he wants to capitalize on anti-euro antisensement, essentially he wants to make the league less northern and more national. >> to broaden its base the northern league is partnering with others and france's northern front but many in rome have not forgotten nor forgiven. part of a coalition government led by silvio is bairls bairls coin. bairlz coin. berlusconi. >> claudio levanga rome. >> still to come on the

claudio, what else have authorities learned about lubitz app the days before the crash? >> reporter: they said they did not find the suicide note or a claim of responsibility written in the apartment when they searched it or they do not believe there was a political or religious motive behind it. so everything is pointing into the direction of the certificate of many mysterious illness. we don't know the nature of that yet. now this also raises more questions than answers. for instance, why did he tear it apart. was he angry? why did he show up for work any way. did he plan this or just decide it on the spot? this is something investigators will have to look into. >> claudio loveango. thank you. and tom following this, tom, the rules changed as relation to pilots and the mental health. >> here in the united states, the faa said we have to take steps to take the stigma out of mental health because they realized, there are plenty of people out there who live every day with depression and take medicine for depression or mental health issues and we feed to take the stigma ou

joining us now is claudio lavanga near the crash site in the french alps.ther or not this news from "the new york times" is making waves there at the crash site, whether people are talking about this as a potential explanation for what might have happened there in the alps? >> reporter: well, rachel, it's 2:00 in the morning here. it just came out about an hour ago, this report. so we have been trying to find independent confirmation of that report in "the new york times." but as i said, it's very late, or early in the morning. we've been trying to contact those officials that we've been talking to all day here. but it's quite difficult, of course, to reach them. i believe the first time we're going to hear from them, or get some kind of denial of confirmation of the reports will be tomorrow morning. but let me tell you something. well, today, of course, we were all -- there were a whole bunch of theories flying around. the most credible one was the two pilots were in some way lost consciousness. otherwise it would not explain why that plane -- it didn't no

claudio lavanga reports. >> this is northern league on a southern charm offensive. on sat the anti-europe and anti-immigration party held a party where they were least popular, rome. stealing from the industrialized rich north of italy to finance the poorer south. but its new leader says that rather than breaking up the country, he wants to unite it under his leadership. >> i'm sicilian but i think we should all be united against europe. >> salvini is the only politician who is trying to do something for all italians let alone the northern league. >> the party increased from 6% to 30% and is now the most popular right wing party in italy. but he wants to essentially want to make the league less northern and more national. >> to broaden its base the northern league is partnering with other right wing movements including the neofascist group and france's national party. but many in rome have not forgot forgotten years of antiimmigration law they passed led by sharif yo sylvio berlusconi. feelings were still rung running high. >> the partnership with the neofascists yo

claudio levanga roam. >> in kenya watching television could be confusing. switching from allen analog to digital. haru mutasa has the story. >> there's a very confusing message. >> staying in the darkness is frustrating. we don't know what's happening in the rest of the country. we captain even watch the news. >> the communications authority of kenya recently switched from analog to digital. but some didn't comply so the government switched their signals off. >> there's nothing. >> the trio of stations which didn't make the switch said they combined to produce new content. the chinese locals broadcasters who have to use their signals say they're worried about censorship. >> the negative to my question is being seized upon by individuals in government who want to control whattence forth kenyans will see on their television screens. >> the deposit has no interest in controlling the content that is going out. what has happened is that the market migration value chain has changed. as opposed to what happened during the analog era where broadcasters could be kno

joining me now, near the crash site in france is nbc's claudio lavania. do you think this report by "the new york times" tonight will put pressure on the french authorities tomorrow to reveal more of what they know about what's on that voice recorder? >> reporter: lawrence, it certainly will especially after today's press conference from the aviation authority where they said they did have that audio file extracted from the black box, but all they said was that they could hear the voices in the cockpit, they could hear the sound, but they have to interpret them. so it will take a number of days and weeks. that sounded a bit weird at that time. but now that this scenario has been revealed by "the new york times," of course it's not confirmed yet and let me stress it all becomes a lot more clear, because obviously there are more questions that are arising from that scenario that is true why did the second pilot lock himself in even if the door automatically closed as it does happened why did he not respond and open it? was he unconscious? was he conscious?

nbc's claudio, latane campbell and kitty, thank you all for your expertise. and coming up we'll have more on the 27-year-old copilot of this germanwings flight. what could have motivated him to crash in plane directly into the french alps. and as i told you at the top of the hour. more on the brand new news. the building collapse here in downtown new york. you're looking at pictures just off east 7th street. local nbc affiliate covering that. as we know more we'll tell you everything we can gather about what's happening. stay with us. try alka seltzer reliefchews. they work just as fast and taste better than tums smoothies assorted fruit. mmm... amazing. yeah, i get that a lot. alka seltzer heartburn reliefchews. enjoy the relief. ♪ building aircraft, the likes of which the world has never seen. this is what we do. ♪ that's the value of performance. northrop grumman. curling up in bed with a ... ...favorite book is nice. but i think women would rather curl up with their favorite man. but here's the thing: about half of men over 40 have some degree of erectile

we'll start with claudio at that scene. first of all, claudio, let's talk about the effort obviously to retrieve the remains and any parts of that plane that can be recovered at this point. >> we've been told this morning tamron, that the first body parts or bodies have been airlifted from that crash site but certainly the news of the day is that revelation the shocking revelation that the co-pilot may have downed the plane voluntarily. must have come as a massive shock to families who just arrived here 15 minutes ago in seyne-les-alpes. not too far from the crash site and not far from this airfield in a makeshift chapel where they are attending a special ceremony for the victims. later they will be taking to the mountain where they will set up a makeshift memorial. we've seen some flags and many of the nationalities that were on the plane being set up there. some would just walk to the crash site from that distance and that location. others who feel like they will be transported, airlifted with other members to go to the a

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. >> claudio, thank you very much. as claudio was saying the investigation is now under way to determine what exactly caused this crash. for that let's bring in nbc's tom costello. tom, what are some of the most pressing questions at this point? >> hi mika good morning. this morning still just as many questions as we had yesterday, but i think the key questions as relates to the investigation really are why did this plane descend rather rapidly, a controlled descent, programmed descent. why did it descend from 38,000 feet down to 6,000 feet and why did the crew members not talk at all to air traffic control? the disaster now strewn over the french alps may have started at or near 38,000 feet. the plane only spent one to three minutes at that altitude before beginning a programmed descent, 4,000 feet per minute. unusually steep but not extreme. what puzzled investigators is why the crew never radioed a mayday. >> they didn't provide a stress call, anyway, shape or form a problem with the aircraft. that's very unusual gi

lavagna, thank you, claudio. joining me now, michael goldfora. there's so much to get here. >> yes, where to start. >> so before we get to the possible motivation for this, or precedent for this. let's just talk for a second about the cockpit door and protocol there. i mean, obviously, one of the big safety concerns after 9/11 was the impregnability of the cockpit. and we did see a real design shift and protocol shift, not just in the u.s. and around the world, right, around making that cockpit as much as a fortress as possible. >> well, in the united states, certainly, but some places around the world, not quite as much. but the thinking, as you said, after 9/11 was, we need to protect the cockpit from the cabin. this turns that equation on its head. we may need to protect the cabin from the cockpit. that fundamentally changes the security threat. so here we have a situation, and, you know, from what we know, the voice recorder obviously, clearly, he intentionally did this. and then we had data streaming, that l

nbc's claudio lavanga is still with us at the crash site. also with us john cox, a retired airline pilot who has flown the a-320. john, the important information we got was that the voice recorder is being analyzed. it may takes weeks or months. they've found some data. they have not been able to identify the actual voices yet. he went through details. they have not found the second black box, contrary to some reports that the envelope or the casing for it was found in pieces. they have not found it but the round part of the voice recorder the first black box, is intact. despite the damage to the surrounding casement they have been able to start analyzing that data. what else did you pick up from your vantage point as an expert? >> well a couple things. one, the fact that the data is able to be extracted from the cockpit voice recorder. that means that they'll probably get most of it even if some of the chips are damaged. they'll probably be able to get it put together. one thing that they did not say was whether the crew during the descent

claudio, the victims' families were there today. what's the scene like? >> reporter: well right now it's about 11:00 in the evening, so it's all quieted down. the recovery operation, of course, has been suspended for the day. it will recover at the crack of dawn tomorrow morning. evening though it's quiet right now, but it was a emotional day. the families visiting here. so they came here in the afternoon to see the crash site from a distance, from about two miles away. they set up a makeshift memorial site over there, and they were looking at the mountain range in silence. of course we saw many crying. the police were consoling them but of course it was twice as hard for them because they learned only a few hours before arriving here, that their relatives were killed deliberately by the actions of this co-pilot. >> have they been able to recover much debris from the site, claudio? >> reporter: well they are still looking for the second black box, which is the one piece of debris that is of interest for the investigators. of course, that is the flight dat

nbc's claudio lavanga standing by. what's the latest on the investigation from the ground?g website, flight radar 24, has said that they did figure out that somebody of course the co-pilot in this particular case set the autopilot after reaching cruise altitude of 38,000 feet sets the autopilot for the plane to descend to 100 feet which is the lowest possible setting. now, this is something that this flight radar 24 site said. they passed the information on to the investigators in france. of course, they're looking at every possible lead. they're trying to find out in particular why. what would lead this 28-year-old man to crash a plane with 150 people on board? we do know he had a six-month break from his job as a pilot for a burnout syndrome some kind of depression. investigators believe that's got nothing to do with it for now. but of course they'll have to look into it very carefully. >> claudio lavanga on the ground for us there in france. thank you so much. well cockpit safety is back in the forefront of this following the germanwings crash in the alps. frances rivera

farmers like claudio cruz.papaya. >> since he's seen rats eat entire fields of corn, no one wants them dead more than claudio. but he has very reasonable worries. what if the government decides not to bring the cows back. what if the poison gets into the water? [ speaking in foreign language ] which is easier? sniping a quarter million goats? or poisoning a million rats on an island like this? or convincing the locals that these are good ideas? >> the more challenging part is working in partnership with communities, so that essentially, they make the decisions. >> yeah. >> that they don't want, you know, rats and cats on their island. and then what they want is mockingbirds and floreana tortoises back on their island, and not to have, you know, impacts to their crops. >> right. >> but if you think his job is hard, meet francesca cottingham. she's devoted her life to saving the most endangered species in galapagos, the mangrove finch. >> there's an abandoned nest up here. >> it's kind of bird that hides deep in

claudio nos trae la historia desde daisy cuevas. >> la niÑa puso en aprietos a la primera dama cuandomamÁ no tenÍa papeles ahora es una adolescente de 12 aÑos. canta, se pinta las uÑas y colorea mensajes para su grupo preferido one direction. cuando mira la imagen que dio la vuelta al mundo, dice: daisy: era muy buena idea decirlo porque nadie hablÓ de sus familias, no sabe cÓmo los niÑos se preocupan por su familia. >> se refiere a niÑas como ella que sufre porque sus padres indocumentados tienen un futuro incierto en el paÍs. daisy siente el mismo miedo que sintiÓ el dÍa que la primera dama visitÓ su escuela. ♪ el sueÑo de adolescente de daisy es el mismo sueÑo que tuvo cuando fue niÑa, de una polÍtica migratoria que logre que su mamÁ deje de llorar. daisy: yo le digo a mi mamÁ que no llore, porque. ya va a salir y vamos a viajar. fÉlix: tras la liberaciÓn en mÉxico de hipÓlito mora, fundador de las autodefensas en michoacÁn, muchas son las comunidades en ese paÍs que albergan la intenciÓn de crear grupos armados parecidos. eso acaba de suceder en jalisco donde anunciaron la activac

claudio, what's the latest from there? >> reporter: the recovery operation continues here what we know is that at this moment, there are about 30 investigators that were lowered from the helicopter there on that crash site. what they're doing is they are working on a grid situation, a grid -- working through the mountain combing every single angle or corner of that crash site. 15 of them are in charge of taking collecting dna samples that will then have to be matched with the dna samples that were taken and will be taken from relatives of the passengers and the other 15 are in charge of technicalities. they'll have to look into collecting the debris, they'll have to look for the second black box which hasn't been found yet, the flight data recorder which tracks all the technical data from take-off to the moment of impact. that will be very very important for investigators because, of course there are allegations -- this is not yet confirmed, that it was even though it is believed that it was the co-pilot to fly the plane i

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claudio, this is a big distinction about what we had initially heard about his sabbatical in 2009 fromal months off but that also he was issued after that a medical certificate that deemed him fit to fly. what is still unclear is whether that flight score did pass on the e-mail that contained the submission that he did go through a severe depression. if they would have received it, would it have made a difference to grant him a pilot's license, thomas. >> claudio, just as we're learning more information about lubitz, what's the latest on the crash site and what's the possibility of ever finding that flight box. >> reporter: they just receive add boost today. the roads that can take workers on 4 x 4 vehicles has been opened by emergency construction workers. this will speed up the process. the only way to get them there was by helicopters. unfortunately they haven't found the second black box yet, but they hope to do so in the next few days and weeks. that is the only way to confirm that the plane did not crash because of a technical fault even though it is believed, of course, it was l

on the screen we've been running by nbc news according to the timeline, but can you speak to what claudio is telling us. they're starting at 10:00 a.m. from takeoff and over the next 40 minutes it goes through this problem without communication. >> i think that's a good analysis. it's highly unusual for pilots especially for pilots that are this experienced, not to make any radio call or communication. i've been through a de decompression event. you make a call to air traffic control that you have a problem. >> just explain what is a decompression event specifically. >> your airplane is pressurized. you're trying to keep the cabin pressurized so they're breathing as though they are at sea level or above. as the airplane climbs up to a normal cruising altitude the cabin altitude would have been just like they were sitting on top of a 6,000 or 7,000 foot mountain. if you depressurize it, there's not enough pressure to force the oxygen into their bloodstream and lungs. they're going to very rapidly become lethargic and go unconscious. almost all airlines have extensive training for decompres

claudio lavagna, nbc news. >> about two hours from now family and friend will gather to remember thetims of a deadly mass shooting in southeast washington. it happened five years ago today. three people were killed six others hurt at the corner of south capital and brandywine streets. the community will gather at 6:30 this evening at the faith presbyterian church in south washington. then a candlelight vigil will be held at the site of the shooting. that starts at 8:15. police say the violence was part of a series of revenge attacks that started over stolen jewelry. five men were convicted in the case. >>> village idiots. that's the headline screaming from a major newspaper this afternoon and it comes amid backlash against people who were posting selfies in very precarious place. "the new york post" published this cover with the phrase "village idiots." people took selfies at the site of the gas explosion in the east village that killed two people. three buildings were destroyed. investigators are trying to figure out what sparked the explosion today. >> all right. this week we've go

nbc's claudio lavanga is there. good morning. >> good morning, jose.everybody is in bit of a state of shock. locals following the news and when it transpired an hour ago, after the leak from the "new york times," but when it was confirmed that that co-pilot downed that plane voluntarily, the word that i've been hearing among locals more frequently is incredible. they just cannot believe that this could happen and neither did we, of course. but, of course, we're trying to get more reaction from local authorities, including the mayor later on but for now the question really that remains here is why would the co-pilot or first officer as he's officially known would down the plane without saying a single word to the control tower or even to himself. >> yeah and that crash scene is now a crime scene. it's a murder scene, and -- and the families of lufthansa was just saying that the families are being taken care of as well as you can under the circumstances but i'm sure a lot of them want to fly, want to get as close as they can to where their family members

nbc's claudio lavanga is live from the crash site. let's start with you on the ground there. what's the very latest? >> reporter: well craig, of course the recovery operation here continues. we've seen helicopters going back and forth from the air field, where i'm standing. what they are doing, carrying 15 emergency recovery workers there on the crash site it's very difficult to reach. we know that by now and the way they do is that they hover over the crash site and drop where two -- recovery workers at the time are dropped on that site. what they are going to do there is get samples, dna samples from the body parts at this point and match it with dna that the families have left here and they are continuing to do so. then there are other investigators who are in charge of recovering pieces of debris that may be useful to investigators and of course trying to bring back the bodies here. but the families are continuing to arrive. yesterday we saw about 200. today there were more. we saw some families this morning driving up to that memorial, makeshift memorial site two miles f

here's nbc's claudio lavagna. >> reporter: while german prosecutors tried to find more evidence that it was the co-pilot andreas lubitz who flew deliberately that germanwings plane into the french mountains last tuesday, german investigators say that they haven't found a suicide note or a written claim of responsibility, but they did say that he underwent some psychotherapy treatment some time ago before he was granted a pilot's license. he had at that time been in treatment of a psychotherapist because of what is documented as being suicidal. this of course will rain forth the theory it was him who deliberately flew the plane into the french mountains in the french alps. many families keep arriving to lay flowers over that makeshift memorial that was built about two miles from that crash site. we know as of today, 325 family members have arrived here. 200 to 300 more will arrive over the next month. the media have been kept at a distance from a family but we spoke to a mayor of a nearby town who spoke to the families and said they're both distressed because of the loss of their love

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 t

nbc's claudio lavanga is live from the crash scene. what's the latest?ice just confirmed they hope to open in the next few days a ground path that will allow land vehicles to s tos to reach that air crash location. that will speed up greatly the recovery operation because as you know in the past few days the only way since tuesday, of course, to get investigators there would be to winch them down from a helicopter into an 80-meter drop on that location. we hopefully will see that ground path open in the next few days. in the meantime investigators told us they managed to isolate 78 unique dna from the more than 600 body parts recovered since tuesday. those dna samples were then sent to paris to match them with family members. now, no i.d. no positive i.d. has been found yet. it's only a matter of hours, if not days before the first remains will be identified, alex. >> all right. nbc's claudio lavanga. thank you. >>> meantime, today in egypt, the arab league made it official. a joint military force against the houthi rebels in yemen. in yemen, though, the

claudio lavanga at the crash side. the families are grieving and being asked for dna and can see how difficult this recovery is. >> reporter: it is very difficult, andrea today the helicopters are still taking the recovery workers to the crash site. it is very windy here. we know there are four helicopters deployed to take 15 security emergency and recovery workers on the crash site. the way to do it they drop two at a time 80 meters drop to the crash site while ten of them are dna specialists who will take as much as they can dna samples from the remains and it will then try to match them with a dna which was left taken from the families and other five are recovery experts. we'll try to get pieces of debris and of course bodies back. but the families keep coming and we saw 200 relatives of the victims who visited a makeshift memorial about two miles from here. the original officer told us in the next 15 days there will be more to come to up to 1,000 family members will gather here and come and go. we have japanese rel

claudio joins me. what else are authorities learning about his background? >> reporter: the authorities believe there is a connection between the fact that andreas lube its hid information about that illness, we don't know what it was, and the fact he boarded that plane anyway even though he was exempt. the doctor said clearly he shouldn't work for a number of days, that he shouldn't have boarded that plane but he did that anyway. that implies and suggests that he may, this is only speculation for now, he may have feared that his illness, whatever it was, could have prevented him from continuing to do his dream job, which was flying a plane. let me remind you, this was a pretty new job for him, has only flown a year and a half on germanwings, 630 hours of flight experience but this was his childhood dream. now we do know about six years ago he had a six month period of leave from training at lufthansa because of a burned out syndrome, some kind of depression. so this could be something similar. did he was he afraid this time they will stop him working as a p

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. >> we start at the crash site nbc's claudio lavanga is there. >> reporter: that road to the crash site is now completed and as early as tomorrow morning, a convoy of four-by-four cars will take the emergency workers and investigators from the air crash site by car. now, that's a two-point miles ground path that was built in only a matter of days by using heavy machinery, but they did need to do that as quickly as possible because until today, the only way to bring the investigators and the emergency workers and recovery workers on that site was by winching them down a cable by a helicopter, 80 meters drop, on that crash site and, of course this operation was even slowed down dramatically by the strong winds that we experienced in the past few days. we've also been told by the french police that as many as 4,500 pieces of debris and body parts were recovered so far, toure. >> claudio lavanga, thank you again for that. let's head to germany where investigators are digging into lubitz's files. nbc's katy tur is live with the latest. >> reporter: hi there, toure. investigators are trying t

nbc's claudio alongo is reporting from france where families are paying tribute. >> reporter: here theperations continue as helicopters, as you can see, just going back and forth recovery and investigators to that crash scene. this is a difficult operation. investigators on saturday were brought -- were wenched down to the crash site. the ones that will go into -- they roll down from the top of the mountain in a formation trying to comb every single corner of that enormous crash site. there are thousands of pieces of debris scattered over the ravine. investigators are dna specialists and will be looking through the body parts, the body remains that let's remind you that there was not a single body that was found. in fact only body remains because of the violence of that impact the plane with the mountain and they will then take that dna and match it with the dna that the families left while they come here to lay flowers and pay their last respects today. because of the difficult terrain, because of the thousands of pieces on that crash site it will take days maybe weeks, maybe months t

tsa screener claudio sunax arranged for another screener, amanda lopez to pass a bag from anabo ramirez through an x-ray machine. in exchange, they would split the $8,000 between them. the plan was hatched in a series of facebook messages. ramirez would receive a coded text message reading the coffee is ready. when they would walk through the security line acting as if they didn't know each other, the complaint said. once they arrived in honolulu, they would meet outside the bathroom to exchange the drugs and money. instead, the three were arrested and charges with bribery and drug smuggling. according to the complaint, fbi investigators did not think this was the first time that workers had allegedly smuggled drugs through security. in fact, they think these three knew each other from a previous operation. christin ayers, kpix5. >> all three are expected to return to court next week. they could each face life in prison. >>> tonight, we are learning that harrison ford asked where am i after crashing on a santa monica golf course yesterday. as juan fernandez reports, agents are applaudin

claudio, thank you. as we mentioned earlier, that second black box, it is still missing. however, investigators are examining the contents of the lone black box that they have found. nbc's tom costello covers aviation and joins me from washington. so let's talk about the usefulness of the one rorecovered black box and how useful it can be. >> i think it's going to be absolutely critical, especially if they don't find that second black box, the flight data recorder. clearly that's going to be a priority on the mountain. as it relates to the cockpit voice recorder they say they have sounds and voices but it is far too premature to identify whose voices you're hearing, they're hearing, what those sounds are. this is an exact science that investigators spend years honing. this is not something that they're going to rush out with an interpretation on. they're going to listen and listen and listen. they're going to run the sounds through all sorts of audio file checks. they're going to then bring in expert voi

claudio, good morning. what are we learning about the investigation?ogether. what's important about this piece of evidence found by investigators is that this unspecified illness should have prevented or exempt andreas lubitz from boarding the plane and from working a number of days successively. that means lubitz hid that unspecified illness from his employers and work environment and boarded that plane possibly with the plan of crashing it into the alps. we don't know what the illness is but we know six years ago he suffered six month period of burned out syndrome some kind of depression so it may be something similar. the investigators say that they're searching houses of the parents of lubitz and his small house in dusseldorf. didn't find any suicidal note motive or any other clues that may have led to religious or political reason behind the crash, so obviously there's speculation that lubitz was suffering from an illness that he may be believed that would have prevented him flying in the future. >> and claudio, meanwhile dozens of people are righ

. >> thank you very much claudio. the waiting continues at this moment because there is no information on what caused this plane to crash? >> reporter: no and waiting, certainly, is almost the hardest part to find answers for just what happened to their loved ones, but, really what's weighing on the minds and hearts of the people out here is the loss of such an unimaginable scale. it's 18 students -- 18 people total, 18 students 6 teachers on that plane in barcelona for a week-long spanish exchange program just coming home and the school kids woke up yesterday not thinking anything was wrong, went to school, and wondered what exactly happened when the too muchers told them to go home, they dismissed class, learning they lost a number of classmates in the crash. the morning is continuing here. lighting candles on these steps. growing by the hour. we've seen kids come up with bags full of tealights and within just a few minutes they're all lit. we did speak with a few kids last night including the cousin of one of the v