and to talk about china's connection to this tragedy i've asked evan osnos to join me.cently evan was the kina correspondent for "the new yorker." he's just back from a reporting trip to beijing. evan, what strikes you as significant about the way in which the chinese people and the government are reacting to this loss? >> well, what's particularly interesting is when you look at the people on that flight they come from the new chinese middle class and they have a very different conception of the kind of information they deserve and the kind of recognition that their sacrifices deserve. a generation ago people died in china in very large numbers. 171,000 people died, for instance, in a single cascade of dam collapses. today you have -- >> this was in the '70s. >> in 1975. today you have a group of people, 154 passengers and their families now, who are demanding information about what happened. they're asking their own government. they're asking the chinese press. and of course they're asking the malaysian government. >> the youngest person on board that flight, describe