it's unreal. >> reporter: but hilverson is a focus for investigators as well as mourners. british detective is among them. >> i'm confident that we will identify them but this will take-- we're talking in terms of weeks, months, and not days. >> reporter: because of the state in which these remains were recovered? >> because of the processes we have to take with human remains that have suffered such trauma, yes. >> reporter: hilverson's trauma is told by flowers, but this is now the town that this country looks for many of the answers, too. >> woodruff: in other developments, dutch investigators said the initial look at the plane's black boxes show no sign of tampering. and in ukraine, prime minister arseniy yatsenyuk announced he's resigning, after two parties withdrew from the government. the move clears the way for new parliamentary elections. >> ifill: the iraqi parliament elected a veteran kurdish politician as president today. a key step toward trying to form a government. afterward, fouad massoum was sworn in to the ceremonial position. his first task is picking a c