are concerned about the safety of the planes they fly in. >> at 9:5 , germanwings works 0 observe a minute of silence at the airline's cornerstone headquarters. the crash has deeply shaken the people who work for the lufthansa group worldwide. >> let me say this for all of us at lufthansa and germanwings. we still cannot understand how a technically sound plane with two experienced lufthansa pilot could experience such a tragedy in the middle what seems like an uneventful flights. >> many desks were close today as crews refused to fly after the disaster. whether personal fierce or questions -- fears or questions is behind it we don't know. >> all we know is there are colleagues so distressed by what happened that they don't feel ready to fly again. >> but a day after the crash travelers in dumervil are not letting the tragic events in france put them off their journeys? >> sure there is uncertainty. i don't think planes are going to start crashing once. >> but a lunch to enormity for germanwings and its staff is is still a far way off. >> let's take a look at the airline th

. >>> german prosecutors found doctors notes excusing the co-pilot of germanwings from work on the day he flew a plane into the french alps fuelling suspicious that andreas lubitz was hiding an ill innocence before the crash -- illness before the crash which killed 150 people. dominique kain reports from montabaur, his home down in germany. >> reporter: are president pays his respect. as more information emerges about the co-pilot of the crashed state, germany's head of state joined these people at this church in a small town that is mourning 16 pupils, and two teachers killed in the federals as they -- fraps, as -- french alps as they returned from a school trip. i came out of church, i was among the crowd and herd people sobbing. i wanted to mourn with them. >> reporter: in germany many are struggling to understand why andreas lubitz flew the airbus a320 into the mountainside on purpose. german media reports that he suffered depression no 2009, for which he received treatment. now prosecutors say they found evidence at his apartment, shedding new light on his mental state. >> medical

he said a team from luf than sa airbus and germanwings were on their way to the crash site. and they would workith french authorities to find the cause of the crash. let's go back now to berlin and talk to dominic kane. dominic, the ceo of germanwings talking about teams from lufthansa airlines. we're getting a bigger picture of the response of the germans now? >> yes, angela merkel spoke confirming that the transport minister and the foreign minister are on the way to the crash site and she herself will go to the crash site tomorrow. it emerged that apparently two babies were amongst the 144 people on board the the -- passengers on board the aircraft which came down. and here in germany, some media are reporting the number of germans on board the plane were something like 67. neither germany nor lufthansa are reporting that or giving any senseover the numbers. but that's what is being reported by german television. if that is the case that explains why strong the response has been from the government all expressing their regret about this their condolences to those involved in this incident. o

. >>> german prosecutors have found doctors notes excusing the co-pilot of germanwings from work on the day he flew a plane into the french alps. fuelling suspicions that andreas lubitz was hiding an illness before the crash killing 150 people. we have this report from his home town montabaur in jeremy. >> reporter: a president pays his respects. [ bell tolls ] >> reporter: more information emerged, germany's head of state joined hundreds at this church. the small town is mourning 16 pupils and two teachers killed in the french alps as they returned from a school trip to spain. >> i came out of the church in the midst of people who lost the most precious thing, a child, a loved one. i heard the sobbing of people. i wanted to mourn with them. >> reporter: in germany many are struggling to understand. and andreas lubitz flew the a320 on purpose into the mountain. german media reported that he suffered a serious bout of depression in 2009 for which he received treatment. prosecutors found important evidence at his parent's house in montabaur, shedding new light on his mental state. >> repo

could be quite flattering as well and gave her flowers and she was a flight attendant at germanwings and workedsions but this was someone who also had a very dark side to him as well. very often he would get angry. at times he locked himself into the bathroom. for instance he would have bad dreams, would wake up in the middle of the night. she says that ultimately the reason why they split up was that she was beginning to become afraid of him because she said it became more and more clear to her that he had psychological problems that she wasn't sure he really had under control anymore. so all of this brooke is very important to the investigation going forward as they try to find out what sort of mental condition andreas lubitz had and what role that played in bringing that plane down in southern france. brooke? >> fred pleitgen thank ou very much. we'll have much more on what officials call his suicidal tendencies coming up in a few minutes. >>> also ahead, this. >> oh my god! >> absolutely frightening video. this firefighter falling through the roof of a home and then this massive fireball er

he was half a year in arizona flying there, and here frequently at the germanwings headquarters and working with many flight crews along the way. people will be questioned about this, colleagues, former friends and former girlfriend. >> he dreamt of flying, isn't it? so it is becoming more and more complex. let's get more on this developing story by is your honoring to myles o'brian. i'm not sure if you heard fred's report there, but i want to ask you how unusual you think it is that a co-pilot had mental health issues, how is it that wasn't known and that he was evaluated with more frequency? >> well the system is not desired very well to catch people like this. basically when you're hired on there is a psychological process and the interview is part of that process where they try to weed out people that may have problems. and they interview other pilots because who spends more time with them than the other ie lots in the small room with them. pilots have checked each other out. you say you do not want to fly with someone and if you get a lot of do not flies then somebody talks to you. wha

working for. >> reporter: ashleigh, there's two more points that are significant in all this. one of them is that germanwings, the company that he worked for, has now come forward and said that they did not ever receive a sick note from him. they said that corroborates with what the public prosecutor said. we've also been in touch with the university medical dusseldo the places where he had his flat. they did not say what kind of illness he visited for. >> what else was and was not found? so many people were speculating about terrorism, religious affiliation, et cetera. what did the investigators comb through? what did they get? >> reporter: again, they visited both the places where he lived. one was in a place about an hour and a half where i am. and the other is in dusseldorf. what they did not find was any sort of good-bye letter or anything else indicating that this was what he was about to do. they also said there's no indication which was a religious or political motive behind all this. right now, say they what they're focusing on is these medical records they found. they say the records are extensive

in 2013, he joined germanwings and spent several months working as a flight attendant before qualifyingas a copilot. there are no clues on his facebook profile either. a spielg lubitz sits in front of the golden gate bridge. lubitz lived alone in this apartment in dusseldorf, but spent a lot of time at his parents home in the small village of montabaur. today, police searched both the apartment and the home, which was cordoned off. why he took a break from flight training is a subject of much speculation tonight, scott. german press reports are quoting a friend as saying lubitz confided to him several years ago that he was burned out and depressed. >> pelley: allen pizzey in montabaur, germany tonight, thank you allen. so how are flight crews in america vetted for fitness? transportation correspondent jeff pegues found out. >> reporter: in the u.s., commercial pilots are screened and evaluated prior to being hired. on the job, they undergo medical exams every six months for pilots 40 or older and every year for those who are younger. but determining a pilot's mental and emotional state

germanwings parent company lufthansa says it is working on the assumption that it is an accident.ter: it took just hours per search teams to locate one of the plane's black boxes. the flight reporter will give investigators vital information into the cause of the crash. the french interior minister says he is sparing no effort or resource? >> we are putting exhaustive investigative and rescue efforts in place. we have almost 300 firemen and the support of volunteer troops. we are also mobilizing the resources of the national police force. we have 300 officers here. >> at dusseldorf airport crisis teams were brought into console grieving friends and relatives. at least 67 germans were on board the flight. among them, a group of 16 schoolchildren. authorities say there is little chance that any of the passengers survived. in barcelona distraught relatives are also being counseled. more than 40 spanish nationals are thought to have died in the crash. king felipe of spain was visiting french president francois hollande in paris when news of the tragedy broke. king felipe: all of us, t

. >> translator: the captain of the airliner was a captain who had been working for lufthansa germanwings for over ten years. the model airbus, he had actually flown with over 6,000 flight hours. >> our live coverage begins this hour with cnn's karl penhaul who's live in barcelona and jim bittermann who's live in paris. let me begin with you, jim. set the scene for me now. what is happening in france to locate that damage and get people to the scene? >> reporter: well, in fact, there are about 500 people around the scene trying to get to the actual crash site. just in the last hour or so, ashleigh, we've heard from a french member of parliament who was with the interior minister, the french interior ministry went down to the site and flew over the site in his helicopter. and the member of parliament described it this way, he said there are no more pieces of the plane, only debris. the remains of men, women and children on the site. it's a very high-mountain grade, no trees, sad and dark. he said that there was absolutely no reason for him to believe that anyone survived this crash. and we

working for. >> reporter: tonight, germanwings airline says it did not receive any sick note for lubitz on the day of the crash. investigators aren't saying if he was diagnosed with psychological or physical problems but he appears to have received some kind of treatment by a doctor for a period of time. officials at university medical center in dusseldorf say lubitz was a patient as recently as march 10th. they won't say why, because of patient confidentiality, but they are denying reports he was treated for depression. police are digging for more clues at lubitz's apartment and his parents' home. they haven't found a suicide note or any evidence he had political or religious motive to kill himself and the 149 other people on board. as more victims' relatives gather near the remote mountain crash site to confront the horror of what happened germanwings parent company lufthansa announced it's changing its rules to now require two crew members in the cockpit at all times. prosecutors say lubitz locked the captain out of the cockpit before he intentionally brought down the plane. the captain of the

work. >> reporter: tonight, germanwings said it never received a sick note for lubitz for the day of the flight. it appears lubitz was trying to keep his condition a secret. >> we have reason to believe that he hid this ill nessness from the company he was working for. >> reporter: authorities have not said publicly whether lubitz's illness was related to mental helt issues but lubitz was treated for depression and was excused from work by a neuropsychologist for a period of time including the day of the crash. this is dusseldorf university medical clinic. we know andreas lubitz came to be here for treatment in a condition back in february of this year and most recently the trip. the clinic wouldn't say what that condition was but made it clear it wasn't for depression. those who knew lubitz seen here running a marathon in 2013 tell cnn he didn't lend on anything was wrong. >> he was for me very healthy guy. i can't imagine that he was mentally ill, depressed, and sad. he doesn't seem like it. so i was shocked when i heard that. >> reporter: lubitz's medical history and what germanwings

andreas lubitz had been working for germanwings since 2013 and tonight we're hearing from those close to drexel university grad emily selke and, of course her mother yvonne. >> they were among three americans to die when the germanwings plane slammed into a mountainside. parishioners in northern virginia say they feel like they've lost two members of their family. her mother yvonne was active in the children's programs for many years and emily sang in the choir. the pastor says he's having a hard time with this and offers these words of comfort to emily's father. >> we are told to embrace the light. stay in the light. don't give into the darkness so that's what i tell everybody and that's what i'll tell him. >> the selkes have been active members of their church for more than 20 years. volunteering much of their free time. >>> our coverage continues on nbc 10 news at 6:00 and then be sure to watch nbc nightly news for the latest on the crash investigation and the victims. >>> now your nbc 10 first alert weather. >>> we have seen a warm day with on and off showers and made it into the

working. now to the crash of germanwing flight 9525. a hospital is denying treating the co-pilot but they are confirming he was there for a diagnostic appointment. he killed 250 people including two americans with ties to our area. there is evidence that he hid an illness from the airline. >>> the legal saga is over for amanda knox. the two are convicted of killing knox's roommate in 2007. knox spent four years in prison. she says she is tremendously relieved and grateful for today's ruling. >>> from our jersey shore bureau plans are back on to redevelop the pier shop cesars. there was a legal dispute with cesars that was only recently settled. >> runs of la salle university students kicked off the relay for life campaign. it is the largest on campus fundraiser. participants say it's a good way to get everyone involved. >> we want today do an event that brought in all students from sororities service trips, and raise money for a positive cause. >> studenting are hoping to raise $26,000, and right now they're pretty close to reaching tha

the germantown ofmontbauer, people who knew him said he appeared normal and happy to be working with germanwings airlines. investigators don't believe lubitz was a terrorist. they are focusing on his personal and professional life to figure out what motivated him. cbs news has learned that lubitz train at an air zone flight school in 2010 and had a u.s. pilots license. lubitz family traveled here to france to visit the the crash site, they are being kept separate from the victim's families. some families arrived thursday at a staging area about 8 miles from the remote crash site. flags from the countries of the victims are on display and officials have set up a viewing area where families can look toward the crash site. in france, tina krause for cbs-3 "eyewitness news". >>> well, the who canning details of this tragedy now have left a lot of people wondering if the same thing could happen here in the united states. at 5:30 today three on your side jim donovan he spent eight years as a flight attendant for a major airline and he will have insights. we hope you will join us for that. >>> keep it

the captain of the airliner was a captain who had been working for lufthansa germanwings for over ten years. the model airbus he had actually flown with over 6,000 flight hours. a team of german wings is in dusseldorf at this moment in time in order to support the relatives of all of those passengers on the flight list. they'll be informed at this moment in time and please bear in mind that we of course have to inform first the relatives of the passengers died before we inform you. germanwings and all of the team of the engineers, technicians are on their way to the crash site. in order to support the investigation of the crash. in order to find out as quickly as possible why our airbus crashed. at the moment the most important matter is that we wish to inform you that of course we have our deepest sympathy toward the relatives of the passengers killed and also the crew members killed we think about the victims at this moment in time. at the same time we of course will do as much as possible with the authorities in order to find out about the reason of this crash and carry out a prope

in the french alps, a search for debris and human remains. 30 investigators are working at the crash site of germanwingsht 9525 as relatives come to pay tribute. we have the latest from the french alps. >> the recovery operation here continues as helicopters, as you can see, just bring back and forth recovery investigators to that crash scene. this is a very difficult operation about 306 investigators on saturday were wench winched down to the crash site. they were trying to comb every single corner of that enormous crash site. there are thousands of pieces of debris scattered all over that va vene. now 15 of those investigators are dna specialists who will be looking through the body parts and body remains that let's remind you that there was not a single body that was found intact. only body remains because of the violence of that impact of the plane with the mountain. and they will then take that dna and try to match it with the dna that the families left while they come here to lay flowers and pay their last respects to their loved ones. because of the difficult terrain and the thousands of pieces t

french alps a painstaking search for debris and human remains. 30 investigators are working at the crash site of germanwings 9525 as relatives come to pay tribute. nbc has the latest from the french alps. >> the recovery operation here in seyne-les-alpes continues as helicopters bring back and forth recovery investigators to that crash scene. this is a very difficult operation. about 30 investigators on saturday were winched down to the crash site and once there, they work down from the top of the mountain in a grid formation trying to comb every single corner of that enormous crash site. there are debris thousands of pieces scattered all over that ravine. now 15 of those investigators are dna specialists who will be looking through the body parts and body remains that let's remind you that there was not a single body dhq impact to the plane with the mountain. and they will then take ta dna and try to match it with the dna that the families left while they come here to lay flowers and pay last respects to loved ones. but because of the difficult terrain and because of the thousands of pieces that have scatt

. >> and only worked for germ germanwings for a short time. >>> now a story develop iing th hour, took a bizarre turn. denise huskins turned up miin southern california and now she's off the map again. now they are calling it a hoax. >> we're tracking this. we'll have a live update in about 15 minutes. >>> turning attention to department in mourning. flags at half staff as officers honer fallen officer michael johnson. >> bob redell is joined outside of the police station where the memorial for officer johnson continues to grow, bob. >> reporter: good morning. to honor officer michael johnson, you see police are leaving candles and a lot of flowers outside of police meade quarters. we understand police officers will meet with city leaders to discuss funeral plans and figure out how to memorialize officer johnson who is a veteran of the san francisco police department. this was the scene yesterday as san jose police officers escorted the body from the coroner's office to a mortuary in los gatos. one person said it's important to support officers like michael johnson because they don't a

>> prosecutors in germany say they have found doctors notes excusing a pilot from work on the day he flew is germanwingsassenger jet into a mountain. it added to suspicions that he was hiding an illness before the crash which called 150 people. nadine barber reports. >> reporter: a president paying his respects. as more information emerges germany's head of state joined hundreds of people at this church. this small town is in mourning for 16 pupils killed in the french alps as they returned from a school trip to spain. >> translator: i came out of the church from the midst of people who lost the most precious thing to them. a child, a loved one. i heard the sobbing of people mourning their loss and i wanted to mourn with them. >> reporter: many people are struggling to understand why the co-pilot flu the airbus into the mountains on purpose. the german media reports said he suffered a serious ep poed of dep regulars in 2009. and after voters searched his house and his parent's house a new twist in the tragedy. >> translator: medical documents were confiscated pointing towards an existing illness. the fa

all of that did not stop 27-year-old andreas lubitz going to work tuesday, co-pilots germanwings flighttors blame him for deliberately crashing the plane. i bring in aviation psychologist joining me now and part of the faa member safety team. doc, welcome. >> thank you. >> okay so my first question would be when you hear this medical doctor saying this young man was unfit for duty, what would that mean? what kind of illness, condition could that entail? >> okay. looking at what the faa requires i have a list of medical conditions in which the pilot, if he falls under these or takes certain medications, they are not physically fit to fly. i would presume that the physician psychiatrist whoever saw him, made a determination that his mental or medical status was such that flying the airplane could lead to difficulty and would be unsafe. >> what kind of incentive would a pilot or co-pilot have to let his employer know that he is unfit to fly? that would probably be -- he would be grounded. he wouldn't be able to fly and wouldn't be paid. >> yes. well the faa places the primary responsibilit

some took planes work ss organized by germanwings from dusseldorf. i think we have some pictures we can show you here. others took flights from barcelona, although we understand about 14 spaniards in barcelona decided they couldn't face flying at all and they took a bus overnight to come to marseille. so not immediately clear where they will be taken to in this region. and actually you can probably just hear another helicopter flying overhead, which is ferry ferrying investigators to the crash site. we don't believe that these family members will be taken to the crash site itself because there are still, we understand many dozens of bodies and wreckage strewn over that site. that would be too harrowing for them to perhaps confront. let's just get more details from anna holligan though who joins us from dusseldorf. anna, do we know how many of the victims' families were traveling on board? >> reporter: we're told by lufthansa that 50 of the victims' families were traveling onboard that flight that left here just over an hour ago, from dusseldorf airpo

a memorial erected in honor of those on germanwings flight 9525. >>> they are make working on makingd to the crash site. the marp of the town closest to the side said every meter is important in trying to get the families close to their loved ones. >>> pamela brown is heading unfortunaup out of live coverage in germany. pamela, good morning to you. >> reporter: good morning to you, alison and victor. we are learning more about this co-pilot andreas lubitz. according to a newspaper, he had a live-in girlfriend who worked as a school teacher not far from where he lived in dusseldorf about 30 minutes away from where i am right now. according to media reports here in germany and elsewhere, investigators have found a lot of prescription drugs inside of his apartment. in fact, "the new york times" is reporting that he may have suffered from a psycho somatic illness and he may have had vision problems but a german aviation source i spoke with said he was tested this past summer and passed his recertification test and that his vision was tested during that exam. louv lufthansa says it's hard

the note declared he was unfit for work this according to a german prosecutor working on the investigation. germanwings officials say they neve saw the note and that the airline and its parent company lufthansa considered lubitz fit to fly. dusseldorf university hospital said he came to the hospital as recently as march 10th. the hospital says he was only there for what they're calling diagnostic tests. the families have been taken as close as possible to the site and they have ar set up a memorial with an engraved stone where people are leaving flowers and candles. the plane was on its way to dusseldorf germany, from bars lo lonaw -- barcelona, spain. all 150 on board were killed. >>> after 5 1/2 hours, u.s. marshals are still dealing with a barricade situation in a home in northeast d.c. someone called 911 this morning and said a man barricaded himself in the attic of the house near the intersection of 49th and lee streets. we're told the man is wanted for some parole violations. we will monitor this situation and keep you updated here and on the nbc washington app. >>> abuse allegations are rocking

day on airliners such as this one the a320 which is a work horse of very many aviation fleets of airlines around the world certainly that germanwingsd 15 or 16a320s and other airbus products, as well. this is an incident that will causes concern for john f. kennedy, for the germ man government and also for the manufacturers of the airbus. any impediment to its safety is something that with him impact upon the manufacturer and other airliners around the world hence the significance of the investigation into this incident which is ongoing. >> many of us haven't heard about germanwings. we had heard about the parent company, lufthansa. tell us a bit more about germanwings and their fleets and where they operate and their relationship with lufthansa. >> ok, so it's a subsidiary of lufthansa and operates mostly inside the europe union from regional airport hubs around germany, here in berlin, from germany, dÜsseldorf, which was the destination of this particular aircraft that has come down. germanwings employs around 2,000 people and has around 80 aircraft, 15 or 16 of which are the a320 and there are other aircraft inside its fleet, as

working closely together. we have put all these questions to lufthansa and germanwings themselves. they say late in the summer of 2014, he passed his last physical exam, which declared him fit to fly. at that point and time, he did not tell his employer he had mental issues or depression related problems. that is something he would have had to do had he known about the problems and he was seeking a doctor. we know germanwings never received the sick note found torn up in his apartment. germanwings and lufthansa says there was no indication something was wrong with lubitz's eyes. had there been, their doctor would have found out. >> you are outside the offices of germanwings. what is the mood like there? >> reporter: oh, i mean it's absolutely devastated. i spoke, obviously, to the ceo of -- off the record, i spoke to the ceo's of germanwings and lufthansa. they are devastated by this. these two companies, especially lufthansa prided itself in selection process of pilots and second the training of pilots and thirds of all, the way they maintain their pilots, treat the pilots, the wa

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. >> translator: the captain of the airliner was a captain who had been working for lufthansa and germanwings for over ten years. the model airbus he had actually flown with over 6,000 flight hours. >> joining me now, i have cnn international anchor live for us in london. also with us cnn's safety analyst and former faa safety inspector and author of "malaysia airlines flight 370." we have a lot to pick through. i was reading part of this transcript of your interview with the president of this region of france. this person really walked you through a lot of the new details as far as the recovery mission, how helicopters can land in this region when they can land in this region. tell me what he told you. >> well, it's difficult terrain. it's very difficult to navigate. you can't drive there. you have to send helicopters with search and rescue officials on board to try to figure out first of all the lay of the land. where's the wreckage? how far is it strewn? how far is it scattered? he told me that so far -- this is about 45 minutes ago -- that no helicopter has been able to land. no bodies ha

germanwings flight 9525. a medical doctor found andreas lubitz, quote, unfit to work.ccording to a letter found today in a waste bin in his apartment in germany. prosecutors say other documents reveal the 27-year-old had a medical illness that he hid from his employers. investigators also found torn-up medical excuse notes. >> translator: we've secured documents that indicate a medical illness. we also found sick notes that were torn to pieces. among the sick notes was one which covered the day of the crash. we assume the deceased kept his illness secret from his employer. >> in another major development, lufthansa, the parent company of germanwings, and other airlines now around the world have adopted a new rule. they now require two people to be in the cockpit at all times. let's get a closer look at the co-pilot's medical condition. with us peter goelz, former managing director of the ntsb also joining us the clinical psychologist, dr. ruth wintersgreen. she also served in the united states air force. ruth, thanks very much for joining us. peter, glad to have you as

work goes on. searchers looking for remains and clues on this steep treacherous slope. all that's left of germanwings flight 9525. officials say this man, 27-year-old co-pilot andreas lubitz locked 9 pilot out of the cockpit and deliberate flew the airbus into the ground. the cockpit voice recorder capturing it all. as it hits cruising altitude the captain asks lubitz to take control stepping out of the cockpit presumably to use the rest room lubitz resetting the autopilot beginning the deadly descent. the pilot frantically banging on the door 34r50eding to be let back into the cockpit. but there's no response. lubitz is heard breathing normally never speaking as the seconds tick by. the jet closes in on the mountains in full view of the passengers. in germany, the home he shared with his family now a crime scene. police gathering any clues that could explain his motive. lubitz had just 630 flying hours. but the airlines saying there were no red flags, he was 100% fit to fly. he even did some of his training two years ago in arizona. back here in france a touching ceremony flags in tribute showing al

. >>> recovery crews dealing with the wreckage of germanwings flight 9525 expect rough weather to hamper the work over the course of the day. french president hollande german chancellor merkel and the spanish prime minister are expected to visit the site later. >>> meanwhile, the head of germanwings airline has described the plane's final moments. >> by ten.10:45 it had the height of 10,000 feet to reach that him at that time. the airliner then left this height after one minute and went straight down. this souris our knowledge at this point in time that the coming down lasted eight minutes altogether. >> we are learning new details about the 150 people aboard the flightment we know there were at least 67 germans. among them 16 teenage students and two teachers. they were returning from a week studying in barcelona. at least one person from belgium and one from the netherlands were also on that plane. also on board, two passengers from colombia an architect and an economist. and a nurse from australia was traveling with her adult son who was an engineer. >> a former commercial pilot and cnn analys

give him those so he could be off work for several days including tuesday, the day the plane flew into a mountain and killed 150 people on board. lufthansa owns germanwings. they didn't find a suicide note or any claim of responsibility in that apartment. >>> new at 11:00, police arrested man for having a suspicious device and now we have learned he worked for i.c.e. and homeland security. allen has been charged with possessing and making an explosive explosive. he's being held without bond. on thursday a maintenance crew went into the apartment. >>> some maryland students are fired up tonight over a sexist racism e-mail that rocked the college park campus. they think is student who sent it is getting off easy. they're making their voices heard. >> hey, hey, these sexist words have got to go. >> reporter: dozens of university of maryland students gathered in front of the fraternity house just off campus this evening. they're anger was sparked by an e-mail from a fraternity brother to several others. it was written last year but only recently began appearing on the internet. in vulgar and racist terms. he urges his friends not to invite african-american a

consideration of changing that yesterday, that they felt their procedures in place had worked well up until obviously the germanwingsnow they are changing their rule of mandating there have to be two authorized people in the cockpit at all times. that could be a cabin crew member if one of the pilots needs to leave for any reason to go to the bathroom or any kind of a break. a flight crew member would come into the cockpit until the pilot returned. the other piece of information, we now have prosecutor on camera saying that the co-pilot did have a mental condition, a mental illness and this is the first time we're actually hearing directly from the prosecutor talking about the mental illness though he didn't go into great detail. here's what he said. >> translator: we have secured documents of medical nature and that indicate to a medical illness, a mental illness. and we also found sick notes that were torn to pieces that were sick notes that included the day of the act, and this is why we assume that the killed person kept secret his illness before his employer. >> i want to bring in cnn national security analyst

they cost around $100 million and they're considered to be the work horse of short haul no frills airlines. germanwingshas regional bases around germany which this destination, short haul destinations around the europe union. if there is an issue with the airliner, they will have to make sure that the airliner is safe for them to operate all the other routes that they maintain around the europe union. >> how concerned will efficient there be about the fact that the aircraft made a rapid descent from 38,000 feet to 6800 feet in just a few short minutes? without going into the realms of speculation, there will be concern about how that happened. >> well, of course, there will be great concern about that, because until there is certainty about what exactly happened to that airliner, then it is natural for people to speculate about what might have happened and that will be of concern not just to germanwings, not just to lufthansa, but to all airlines that operate this particular aircraft and indeed, as i say to the manufacturer. it's difficult to see why a pilot of an airliner would want to descend that ra

. >> empty emerges that germany germanwings pilot who crashed the plane was ill and should not have been at work. >>> nigeria's military claims victory against boko haram. >> and two astronauts set off for the longest-ever stay on the international space station. >> the saudi-led coalition has bombed yemen for the third successor successive night. they struck the capital of sanaa and the struck the oil-producing region in the south occupied by houthi fighters. >> they were attacked by the coalition. now the area is under the control of the yemeni army. we continue, we will continue to parking lot the target the movement until we can clear all the area they are controlling now. yemen's ousted president has called for a cease-fire. ali abdullah saleh said he wants to return to u.n.-brokered peace attacks. the united states said it does not want an open-ended war in yemen. here is how they answered our correspondent kimberly halkett when she asked if the u.s. found itself in a difficult position supporting the saudi-led campaign. >> we've seen the military take over in aden, which forced president

work out. if iraq curves the nuclear program, the country will be rewarded. >>> and the latest news is that the co-pilot of germanwings had undergone psychiatric help for many years before becoming a pilot. the plane he was driving he flew right into the french alps last tuesday. meantime investigators are working to identify the dna of the victims. meantime, this video emerged showing lubitz flying a glider. he was a member of a german flight club which held summer flying camps. >>> tragedy at the sunuco centennial complex on green street yesterday. they have not revealed what went wrong. >>> and convicted philadelphia cop killer abu jamaal is in the hospital but the prison official refuses to say why. he was rushed to the medical center in schuylkill county. we checked with prison officials who cannot comment because of security reasons and the hospital is not commenting. he is serving a life sentence for the 1981 killing of a philadelphia police officer daniel faulkner. this all comes on the heels of prison rights groups that are challenging the law to allow them to file and contribute to the victim's mental anguis

germanwings flight 9525 into the french alps. >> his doctors documented him to be unable to work or to fly but these documents don't show any hintm being suicidal or being aggressive to other people. >> pam :lubitz's employer lufthansa is not saying if it was aware of his mental instability - citing confidentiality rules. meanwhile, family members continue to gather near the crash site. milad eslami -- an iranian sports journalist, was one of the passengers. his sister mahsid was also there saying her final farewell. >> "he said to one of his friend, if someone is killed in a flight crash it would be ok because it's for one minute." >> alecia :the german newspaper "bild" published a summary of the transcript from the cockpit voice recorder. in the report, the pilot is heard shouting and banging on the door to be let back into the cockpit. minutes later, as the plane crashes into the alps. alecia reid kron 4 news. >> pam :still ahead. gary has the latest honor bestowed upon the record setting plus. the final four floor is installed in indianapolis. all the sports next!!!! ♪ ♪ ee-e-e-oh-mum-oh-weh ♪ ♪ hush my darling... ♪ ♪ don't

. >> time to take stock and work out the details we have managed to establish. a plane a germanwingse with 142 passengers and six crew onboard set off from barcelona airport en route to dÜsseldorf in germany. a short while after takeoff, it established the required height of 38,000 feet. as it entered french territory something seemed to have gone wrong, because it plum melted, quite literally plum tedded, lost and awful lot of height in a fairly short space of time. we're talking about plunging from 38,000 feet down to 6,800 feet. now, at this point it's in french territory it's very close to the alps and finally it goes down in the southern alps just north of nice, but in a community of small villages, not terribly densely populated. we understand from a tweet from the transport minister of france that there are no survivors, and that the remnants of the plane and unfortunately, the bodies are being found at an altitude of about 2,000 meters, so clearly, this is a mountainous region. the french interior minister bernard cazenueve is there. this is the scene at the moment. the frenc

tell me about the other lufthansa and germanwings pilots and flight attendants and others who are now refusing to workoday because of -- they're concerned about the losses obviously but they're also concerned about safety, is that right? >> reporter: well it's really unclear at this point in time. it's a very interesting topic. it is being talked a lot about here in germany and internationally as well. there were indeed several crews on the day that this happened who said they didn't want to fly airplanes. apparently all of those crews were crews of a320 aircraft. now, the way that germanwings puts it they say that these people were crew members who most probably knew the pilots who were killed in this incident. we don't know the identities of the pilots that were killed yet. but they say it was just that these pilots felt unfit to fly because of the emotional trauma they were going through. whether or not they felt that their aircraft might not be safe is something that the airline itself has rejected something the german pilot union has rejected as well. but it's certainly something still being spec

germanwings flight 9525. among them an opera singer and many more. we'll hear his worksay tribute to all those on board. many wrinkle creams come with high hopes, but hope... doesn't work on wrinkles. clinically proven neutrogena® rapid wrinkle repair with the fastest retinol formula available, it works on fine lines and even deep wrinkles. you'll see younger looking skin in just one week. stop hoping for results, and start seeing them. rapid wrinkle repair... ...and for dark spots rapid tone repair. from neutrogena®. >>> we are following some breaking news here in the cnn newsroom in the crash of germanwings flight 9525. police in dusseldorf, germany say they've taken a number of objects including papers and other possible evidence from the home of co-pilot andreas lubitz. they say it may reveal more information on why he deliberately crashed the plane. a french prosecutor says lubitz locked the pilot out of the cockpit and set the autopilot on descend. all 150 people on that plane were killed. >> why he would make a decision to take down so many people with him. well,

he works for germanwings.ack and forth. >> so to suggest that this was the moment. tom fuentes has maybe more. i can't say the total relevance. >> tom fuentes, to you do you think that investigators -- you've been involved when you were with the fbi at looking at plane incidents. do you think investigators are going to make anything of a fact line that? >> no. because in this particular situation. if this guy was only suicidal and only had depression he could have flown himself into the side of a mountain all by himself in a hang-glider or let loose. it's a very dangerous sport in the first place. he didn't have to take 149 men, women and babies with him. so we're talking about something that had severe anger problems. there were other things going on in his life. i'm sure we'll find out more about in the days ahead. and especially from the police. and i think the reason the prosecutors haven't said more is they're probably still waiting for more of his internet records to come in. they have a subpoena process

lufthansa and germanwings and their management are 24 hours around the clock at work. colleague of mine is also attend attending a church service. a managing director is also in dusseldorf at the moment to oversee the counseling of the families at the airport. i myself will be going after this press conference together with the chief comprehensiveexecutive officer will go to dusseldorf and barcelona to do the same duties there. near the accident site there are the team of the german accident investigation unit. the security pilot of germanwings and lufthansa and lufthansa and air traffic control experts monitoring the surveillance of the operation, this normally would be french authorities, in this case the dpa. we believe with those from lufthansa and germanwings we now and to fly. for lufthansa and came forward and said we will fly on your behalf. that this is case yesterday because crews of germanwings be it in the cabin or cockpit for emotional reasons, they have been saying we are unfit to fly. our management has full understanding for this. we are a small family.

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germanwings victims as the daunting task is still ongoing. we are live with the latest next. >>> happening now. recovery crews working at the crash scene in the french alps face another day of painstaking effort cataloging and collecting scattered remains. small pieces transported to a staging area by helicopter. for more on the work here i want to bring in erin mclaughlin. erin erin i know this is hard for the investigators and crews. the plane crashed in the mountain side with such force, there are a lot of small pieces. >> reporter: hi christine. authorities say they are making good progress. this is still an agonizing wait for the families as well according to french media reports, the prosecutor now saying the human remains of 70 to 80 victims have been identified using dna analysis. i say human remains because authorities say the impact of the crash was so great, they have not found any single whole body. human remains strewn across hundreds of meters of the treacherous landscape. a difficult task for the rescue workers. many locals expressed doubt they will ever be able to recover all of the human remains of t

now airline pilots, those who work for the type of airline that germanwings are, typically have to go through at least one, and frequently, depending upon their age if they're over 40 two physicals each year to maintain their medical certificates. we're talking about a relatively close community a small number of doctors that these pilots go to. >> but still, if i'm a pilot and i'm taking some kind of drug or i'm depressed or something like that, they're relying on me to tell these doctors oh by the way i'm taking these drugs or i'm depressed. there is no automatic reporting. >> i think that's correct. if the doctor observes a problem, the doctor, because he's a designated aviation medical examiner is going to report it. but we also have to recognize that these pilots are operating in very closed environments in the sense of traveling two or three days with crew members, and they're self-checking one another. but to say that something is possible, yes, something is possible. i think we have to note that something like this has never happened in the context of the u.s. system. >> you'r