katie tur is in germany with the latest. katie, good evening. >> reporter: carl, the flight data recorder is still missing. there's a chilling report about the other black box, the cockpit voice recorder describeing exactlyily what it sounded like in that plane. it was a glider friends say lubitz first learned to fly. friends that flew with him say it was clear he had a love for the sky. what's not clear is why he would crash a plane carrying 149 others into the side of a mountain. no answers but today the german tabloid reported a timeline of the last minutes from the cockpit voice recorder. the flight started normally with the captain apologizing for a delay. during the descent he mentioned to the co-pilot lubitz he didn't get a chance to use the bathroom. lubitz says he can take over at any time. a few minutes later, he's prepareing for dus dorfdus -- dusseldorf. lubitz says you can go now. the captain leaves. shortly after, lubitz is heard pushing his chair back. the door clicks shut. the captain begins banging on the doo

katy tur, nbc news, london. >>> and that will do it for us on this monday night. i'm savannah guthrie. i'll see you bright and early tomorrow morning on "today." for all of us at nbc news, >>> right now at 6:00 a landmark closing day. 15 years in the making. the nasdaq hits a storied high, but is it time to celebrate, or is this dot-com deja vu. >> thanks for joining us. not since the days of the dot-com boom have silicon valley tech stocks been this hot. you can see it here on this graphic. now it's over 5,000, and some worry we're going to go for a roller coaster ride again. are we doomed? >> well i don't know if we're doomed. let's face it. stocks are hot. we're probably due for a pullback in the near future. but this time around the companies leading the way up are making money. so experts say we're not due for a bust any time soon. yahoo! opened today, sitting because it was full of nostalgia who remember the dot-com boom days when yahoo was king. >> it was an interesting time. i want it back to execute a series of stock trades. >> that's 8x8 ceo who wants a

katy tur tonight. katy, thank you. >>> back in this country, a very personal announcement from one of the biggest stars in the world, facing a family history of cancer and a gene that puts her at higher risk. two years ago angelina jolie underwent a double mastectomy. today she revealed a new scare led her to take preventive measures once again. anne thompson has her story. >> reporter: who you are and what you do is no protection from cancer as angelina jolie made clear in today's "new york times." two weeks ago, the 39-year-old oscar winner's blood tests showed what could be an early sign of ovarian cancer. her husband, actor brad pitt, flew back from france immediately. the beautiful thing about such moments in life, she wrote, is that there is so much clarity. you know what you live for and what matters. it is polarizing and it is peaceful. in 2013, jolie had a preventive double mastectomy, after testing positive for a mutation of brca, the breast cancer gene. cancer took her grandmother, aunt and

katy tur nbc news london. >>> authorities in japan say they've arrested a man accused of making phone calls threatening u.s. ambassador caroline kennedy. police say the 52-year-old man also made bomb threats against the u.s. embassy in tokyo. the arrest comes as kennedy attended a series of events today with first lady michelle obama who is on a tour of asia to promote the education of girls. >>> want to turn to the growing investigation into real estate heir robert durst charged with murder, and the question of whether there could be more to this than first thought. we've learned that the fbi is working with local law enforcement to determine if durst could have links to missing person cases in places where he's been. nbc's stephanie gosk has this report. >> reporter: the investigation of robert durst did not end with his arrest. in fact, it may have grown even wider. federal law enforcement sources say they're working with local police on cold cases in several cities, like the 1997 disappearance of 16-year-old karen mitchell in eureka california. durst owned a home in a nearby town.

katy tur, nbc news, london. >>> big medical news still ahead tonight. blockbuster new drugs unveiled that could be life-changing for millions of americans with high cholesterol. >>> also a huge dream home and the owner who is giving it away for next to nothing. >>> there is big medical news tonight about lowering cholesterol. there's a new class of drugs and it could help a lot of people who have trouble keeping it under control. in experiments so far patients have seen dramatic drops in cholesterol levels, reducing their risk of heart attacks and strokes. nbc's rehema ellis has details. >> reporter: 71 million americans have high cholesterol. a major risk factor for heart attack and stroke. but for some taking cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins, both measures sometimes just aren't enough to reduce the threat of cardiovascular disease. >> genetics plays a pretty significant role in people's cholesterol levels. so in spite of their efforts to lower their ldl either with drugs or exercise or diet they just can't get the levels low enough. >> report

katy tur, nbc news, london. >>> new twist tonight in the real estate heir accused of murder.he evidence led police to believe robert durst left his home intending never to come back checking into a hotel room to hide interest authorities and possibly planning to leave the country. >> reporter: the police believe robert durst was getting ready to run, even though he says he didn't kill susan berman. in houston investigators searched his home for new evidence. nbc news obtained the warrant. the documents show police estimate the real estate heir is worth $100 million. since october of last year detectives say durst had been withdrawing large sums of money from his bank accounts most often daily withdrawals of $9,000. after the 71-year-old's arrest in new orleans police found more than $42,000 in his hotel room, $100 bills kept in small envelopes. also found in the room a loaded gun with four rounds, a rubber mask which would cover an individual's head and neck and u.p.s. tracking numbers that durst told police were for a shipment of a large sum of cash. the warrant redetails so

nbc's katy tur has the latest developments. >> reporter: the first bomb went off inside the mosque, the second at the gates as those left standing tried to escape. in the pandemonium, worshippers rushed the wounded away while others prayed over the dead. moments later, two more explosions at another mosque. one bomber believed to have hidden his explosives in a fake cast on his leg. coordinated suicide bombings during midday prayers, targeting followers of the shiite houthi movement that seized power in the capital last month. this father lost his son. many victims were young boys. >> those boys accompany their fathers to the friday prayers. it's really a family thing. >> reporter: within hours, isis claimed responsibility, just as it did for wednesday's museum massacre in tunisia, which left 20 foreign tourists dead. but again it offered no proof, a fact underscored by the white house today. >> it does appear that these kinds of claims are often made for a perception that they have, that it benefits their propaganda. >> reporter: some experts say yemen, an al qaeda stronghold, may be t

. >> reporter: this is katy tur in montabar, germany. andreas lubitz was 27, a german who spoke fluent english, grew up in a picturesque town and friends say had dreams of flying. he began training with lufthansa in 2008 including time at this facility in phoenix. he was certified as a co-pilot in september 2013 but accumulated only 630 flight hours until officials say he deliberately crashed flight 9525 into the side of a mountain, killing everyone on board. no one saw it coming. he had no criminal record, no known terrorist connection. >> he passed all tests because nobody gets into the cockpit without passing the tests. >> reporter: lufthansa says lubitz took a break from flight school in 2009. it hasn't said why. but the ceo of their subsidiary germanwings told nbc news he was readmitted a few months later after passing technical, medical and psychological tests. today, investigators searched his parents home in montabaur, removing items that appear to be a computer and escorting out an unidentified person. boxes of potential evidenc

we get the story tonight from katie tur. >> reporter: in tunis today, funerals and a national museum scarred with bullet holes after gunmen opened fire onion suspecting tourists killing at least 23. officials have made nine arrests, and this morning, isis claimed responsibility for the attack though it offered no evidence posting online that the attackers used automatic weapons and grenades. >> they wants us to think that they now have a franchise africa it's spread into south asia as well but this is all based on propaganda. >> reporter: tunis is still shaken by the images of terrified visitors running for their lives, some carrying small children. many had just arrived on a mediterranean cruise. this woman was traveling with her husband. australian javier camilo was killed alongside his mother. this morning, security forces found a man and his wife still hiding paralyzed with fear. juan carlos says he saw one person shot. today tunisians were defiant, saying they won't be intimidated. but as survivors embraced and left it for home there were nagging fears that terrorism is taking d

those who knew him were stunned. >> nbc's katy tur reporting. >>> the building explosion in new york city, this morning the fire is still not under control. the blast inside a sushi restaurant ripped apart a five-story building in the east village. smoke quickly filled the sky on the ground cell phones captured the chaos. people trapped, scaling down fire escapes, jumping to safety. the explosion hurting 19, four critically. >> we thought it was a bomb. >> i saw the whole storefront on the street. walked outside and just see no building there at all. >> within seconds the situation got worse as the flames spread to three other buildings. people could smell smoke 50 blocks away. when the heat proved too much the building collapsed along with two others. >> preliminary evidence suggests a gas-related explosion. that investigation is ongoing. >> city officials say construction workers were installing a new gas meter in the building before the blast. con edison had its inspectors on the scene. it said the installation didn't pass their inspection at that time. those inspectors left an ho

nbc's katy tur follows the story from london. katy, what's the very latest? basically what you've been saying. we know very little now because the situation seems to be still ongoing. eight people shot and killed nbc news confirmed, and seven of those people were actually foreign tourists. two gunmen involved in this and we're hearing one of those gunman has been captured. this is at the bardo museum as you said. it's right next to the parliament building which was evacuated after this happened. there's no nationalities released right now as to who exactly these potential hostages or who these victims are. they're not saying at the hoemt. moment. this museum is a popular tourist spot, home to a number of famous roman mosaics. the u.s. state department issued something of a warning to u.s. citizens traveling in tunisia telling them to take caution, but no warning or no message for them not to go there. now, no word right now on who is responsible for this attack but tunisia has struggled with islamic extremists in the past even issues with isis. so far, though

katy tur, nbc news london. >>> now to a story that continues to fascinate here at home. the case of real estate heir accused of murder the evidence uncovered led police to believe robert durst left his houston home and never intended to come back. checking into a new orleans hotel room to hide from authorities and possibly planning to flee the country. nbc's stephanie gosk is on the story for us from new orleans. >> reporter: the police believe robert durst was getting ready to run. even though he says he didn't kill susan berman. in houston investigators searched his home for new evidence. nbc news obtained the warrant. the documents show that police estimate the real estate heir is worth $100 million. since october of last year detectives say durst had been withdrawing large sums of money from his bank account. most often with daily withdrawals of $9,000. after the 71-year-old's arrest in new orleans, police found more than $42,000 in his hotel room. $100 bills kept in small envelopes. also found in the room a loaded gun with four rounds a rubber mask which would cover

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nbc's katy tur has been working this story for us all day and has more. >> reporter: guns drawn, tunisian officers scramble to evacuate tourists from the museum. one describes her terror as police told her to get out fast saying, you must run, you must run. the gunmen killed at least 19 people. others were held hostage. tunisian forces finally killed two gunmen, but others may still be at large. the bardo museum is next to parliament which went into lockdown during the standoff. members of parliament sang the national anthem in defiance. tunisia's prime minister said our nation is in danger. the arab spring began in tunisia in 2011, but the country has been struggling since. >> in addition to the arab spring providing opportunities for democratic growth in tunisia, unfortunately it also unleashed a wave of radicalism. >> reporter: an estimated 3,000 tunisians have joined isis in syria and iraq, more than any other country. and terrorism threatens crucial tourism. should there be a worry about traveling to tunisia now? >> no, i hope not. i mean, this is -- if foreign tourists stop coming t

katy tur, nbc news, london. >>> and that will do it for us on this monday night. i'm savannah guthrie. i'll see you bright and early tomorrow morning on "today." for all of us at nbc news, thanks for watching and have a good night. >>> lights, camera, access. >>> hi, dad. >> yeah. >> it's just isis. >> you know it's freedom of speech. >> people have to lighten up. >> insensitive, offensive or a well-delivered counter punch? >> i'm billy bush with the

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. >>> we begin with katy tur and bill neely. that was certainly definitive. it's not explainable by any rationale. a guy who wanted to kill everybody on the plane. that's the way he explained it. >> reporter: yeah, that's the way it's being seen right now. the german officials, lufthansa official wouldn't go so far to say that on camera, but that's certainly how people are feeling, this guy deliberately flew this plane into a mountain and deliberate will i killed 149 other people, including children. there were two babies on that flight, 16 school children from one town here in germany, including two of their teachers. it's a serious state of mourning here, and now a very serious state of shock. we know about the co-pilot. he was german, fluent in english. friends said he had dreams of flying since he was a little kid. he started training in 2008, got his co-pilot's license in 2013, just a year and a half later after only 630 hours of flight time, officials say that he deliberately crashed that plane into the side of a mountain. investigators are trying to fi

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nbc katy tur is in germany this morning. good morning. >> reporter: in some ways these revelations have been revealing. for instance was this premeditated. they still don't know. right now investigators do have somewhere to start at least as they search this home. as recovery workers comb through the french alps painstakingly collecting debris and parts of victims, german prosecutors are combing through the life of the man they say caused it all, co-pilot andreas lubitz. carrying boxes of evidence and computers from his homes in dusseldorf and month bar, they say they found evidence 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 prosecutor's office wouldn't elaborate what illness the doctor's note excused him for, but a hospital confirmed he was examined in february and as recently as march 10th. the hospital says they did

katy tur joins us live from london. katy state department is being tight lipped about specifics of the threats. they have indicated the person did speak english. >> the calls came from somebody speaking english. she assumed that post in 2013 and is obviously a high profile figure there. with the violent attack on another u.s. ambassador this month, police are investigating how serious this might be. all seemed normal as she gave a lecture at a university in tokyo today. the press reports japanese police are investigating death threats against her. japanese media say calls were made to the u.s. embassy, came from somebody speaking english. they're looking into the possibility the person might be trying to blackmail the 57-year-old mother and diplomat. the u.s. embassy did not have comment, but threats like this against u.s. politicians and diplomats are not uncommon. still, reports come on the heels of the attack on u.s. ambassador mark lip earth in south korea earlier this month. a korean national testified he knifed him

all of that bringing f up confidentiality laws. >> katy tur. thanks. >>> they're done as well.sing arguments will begin on monday. until then a stern warning from the judge to superior sjury errors. do not talk to yourself especially in a mirror. >> that was kind of a light hearted moment for the judge to have the jury errors keep things to themselves. we expected the defense to hold some some sort of defense. here they rested on the second day. they called a couple of witnesses yesterday and today and most of the witnesses were going to be defense strategy which is to suggest that tamerlan czar nerve wastsarnaev was the one who was behind this and dzhokhar tsarnaev was roped into it. we're expecting closing argument and the jury will get instructs. what was interesting is some sort of dispute over the photographs. we don't know how that was resolved. if it was resolved today. if they're going to resolve it over the next couple of days but the jury has been sent away for five days easter weekend. as you mentioned, don't talk to anyone in the case including themselves in the mir

katy tur has more. >> what was he thinking?they could hear from the cockpit in the final eight minutes was steady breathing. no prayer no claim of responsibility, no words. no motives. in the week that's passed investigators have searched his parents home his apartment in dusseldorf. they have spoken to members of his family combs through his medical records, they found torn up doctors notes excusing him from work the day of the crash and fdz he was treated for suicidal tendencyies several years ago before he got his pilot's license, but still -- >> we have not found anything that is giving us any hint that enables us to say anything about his motivation. >> with the lack of obvious intentions speculation has been growing. was it a breakup? a potential loss of eyesight a dashing of his dreams? just rumors according to this friend who didn't want his real name used. i only knew him as a really friendly, nice and helpful person. when i saw him with his girlfriend, he didn't seem depressive. he looks really happy, he said. i canno

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katy tur is in germany and has more details on what is going on in the investigation. the today show. >>> developing this morning, an investigation a plane crash that killed a spotsylvania county teen. this happened near the airport in orange county. zachary kiesch live outside river bend high school where grief counselors will be today. >> reporter: yes, good morning. classmates wasted no time jumping on social media yesterday sharing their memories of their fallen classmate using the #rip ryan mccall. he was certainly a loved man here at this local high school. he also had a passion for flying. as you mentioned, sunday morning yesterday morning, he was killed when the plane that he was flying was involved in a crash about a mile away from the orange county airport. today is expected to be anything but a typical monday morning here at students are dealing with heavy hearts. mccall was proceed announced ted when the small plane he was in crashed at about 9:45 yesterday morning. that plane a 1974 piper single engine fixed wing plane, multiple reports indicate mccall had

. >> katy tur joins us by phone. she is on her way i believe to the co-pilot's hometown his house. what do we know about andreas lubitz only 630 flight hours, less than would be required for an american pilot to actually get into that cockpit. >> yes, we don't really know that much about him. we do know had a private pilot's license as well. he did go through lufthansa flight school. they said it is the most rigorous flight school in the world and they go through exhaustive testing before they give a pilot's license at dlr in germany, basically equivalent to america's nasa and call them very rigorous tests they go through everything to do with flying and just oral tests as well as writing tests and then also psychological tests. they say they are rigorous psychological tests. we don't know the questions go into them or what sort of things they evaluate them on as of this moment, but that's when they get the pilots license, if they pass those tests, they are free to go. every six months they get re-evaluated on medical and ability to fly and ability to know all of the controls withi

. >>> let's go to nbc's katy tur live from dusseldorf. you visited the school today that the german students on board this flight attended. how are the people there holding up, first of all? >> reporter: well not well as you would imagine. there's a lot of questions about what happened to this plane. meanwhile, the people who knew and loved those on board are struggling to come to terms with this unimaginal loss. i visited the school. it's about 45 minutes to the north of dusseldorf, where 16 students and two teachers who are on board that plane, that's where they went to school. the kids there are just struggling to come to terms with it. they were lighting a number of candles in memory of their lost friends, hoping by some miracle, somebody might still be alive. i spoke to a number of them and they just said that the school feels at this point just completely empty. i also spoke to one girl whose cousin was on that flight. here's what she had to say. >> i still think she will come to school tomorrow, but all the others say she won't be

nbc's katy tur is in cologne, germany with more on that report. >> reporter: it was in piloting glidersfriends say andreas lubitz first realized his dream of flight. friends who flew with him say it was clear he had a love for the sky. what is still not clear, though is why he would crash a plane carrying 149 others into the side of a mountain. no answers, but today the german tabloid bild reported a timeline of the flight's last minutes from the cockpit voice recorder. the flight started normally with the captain apologizing for a delay. during the ascent is he mentions the copilot andreas lubitz that he didn't get a chance to use the rest room. lubitz tells the captain he can take over at any time. the captain asks lubitz to prepare for landing at doesle door dusseldorf. the captain leaves and shortly after he is gone lubitz can be heard pushing his chair back. the door clicks shut. the plane begins to descend. air traffic control calls. no answer. the captain begins yelling on the door yelling for god's sake, open the door. passengers scream in the background. nbc news has not confir

back to you. >> that was katy tur reporting from germany. stay with us for continuing coverage of the sorie. you can also get the latest on our website, nbcbayarea.com. >>> new details now on an early morning scare for people waking up in the east bay. an estimated thousands of pounds of chemicals released in a plume that led public health officials to warn of the effects in pittsburg and antioch. just before 3:00 this morning, chemicals involved in making soap like products released after a high pressure machine malfunctioned. spokesperson said the visible plume lasted just ten minutes before onsite company emergency crews were able to contain the situation. there was no fire nor any injuries to any of the half dozen or so workers in the plant. >> all of our emergency services and response took care of the situation very quickly. we have a lot of professionals out there who take care of this stuff, so it was pretty quickly contained. >> now, the chemicals involved here the spokesman said if you were to touch those chemicals, you would not b

katy tur nbc news london. >> more than 1,000 students gathered overnight at the university of virginia demanding justice for what they say was the rough arrest of a student there. the incident occurred outside a bar on the uva campus in charlottesville. the governor is calling for an investigation. willie geist reports. >> his head is bleeding! yo, his head is bleeding! >> this video obtained by student newspaper the cavalier daily, shows officers with a state department of alcohol, beverage control arresting university of virginia student martese johnson outside an irish pub early wednesday morning. >> uv ark. i go to uva! i go to uva. >> johnson is seen on the ground yelling as officers handcuff him. >> i go to uva! >> the abc officers say 20-year-old johnson, a member of uva's honor committee was detained after being refused entry to the bar charging him on two counts obstruction of justice without force, and public swearing or intoxication. the virginia department of abc saying in a statement, a determination was made by the agents to further detain the individual based on their ob

. >> joining me now to discuss all of this nbc's katy tur in germany and claudio lavanga and john cox from tampa. let me start with you, obviously word from the german prosecutor that the pilot had, mr. lubitz, in fact suicidal tendencies. what more do we know. >> reporter: we don't know for a fact much more than that, other than what the prosecutor out here has confirmed to us on the record, that they didn't find any evidence of what they call an organic illness basically a physical illness like cancer or heart disease. they did find evidence of a psycho somatic disorder suicide tendencies before he got his pilot's license and he has seen doctors since then. there has been no proof since then that he had suicidal tendencies after that or exhibited any aggressive behavior towards others. they do add right now they have no motive for why he did this allegedly did this. they've interviewed a number of his close friends and family and so far they've not been able to discern exactly what was going on in his head or what would lead him to not just commit suicide but to allegedly commit mas

nbc's katy tur has the latest from germany. >> reporter: in the sams recovery is slow and arduous. researchers each collecting pieces, one by one, of debris and parts of bodies. the work proving just as trying as the investigation into the man they say caused it all. now the country's biggest tabloid, "bild," says it received a transcript soft voice recorder. 10:01, the pilot apologizing for a delay. 10:27, the captain asked lubitz to prepare for landing. lubitz replies, "hopefully" and "we'll see." the captain leaves moments later, the sound of lubitz pushing his chair back the door clicks shut. 10:29, the plane begins to descend. 10:32, air traffic control calls. no answer. the captain begins banging on the door yelling, "for god's sake open the door." passengers scream in the background. alarm bells sound. inside the cockpit, only steady breathing until 10:40, a sound like the scraping of the plane's right wing on the mountaintop, then nothing. the audio cuts out. nbc news has not independently verified the timeline and investigators will neither confirm nor deny it. in germany

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>> katy tur thank you very much. i know you'll keep reporting and building a profile of this pilot. >>> i'm joined by nbc's aviation correspondent, tom costello and erin bowen, an aviation psychology expert from embry-riddle aeronautical university. welcome to you both. tom, following up on this report this morning, you hear an ax. there are axes on airplanes? >> there is an ax we know for sure in the cockpit, that's standard procedure. but there is also according to lufthansa, they have one hidden in the passenger compartment, and only the crew members know where that ax might be. so we were a little surprised by that as well to find there is an ax somewhere hidden in the cabin, but apparently there is. now, we can't confirm the bild's reporting that the pilot was using an ax to try to get through the door. but in theory, there is an ax in the cabin. >> we're having a larger conversation about mental health and mental fitness of pilots. i think we're finding out that there isn't a lot of mental health checks done of

>> katy tur for us this morning thank you. >>> new legislation in indiana could be coming as early as this week as backlash grows over a controversial new law. supporters say it protects religious predomsfreedoms while opponents insist it realizes discrimination. the latest from nbc's gabe gutierrez. >> reporter: this morning the controversy over indiana's new religionest freedom restoration act is growing. >> it allows people to use their religious belief to discriminate against other people. >> reporter: governor mike sense says he was support new legislation this week to clarify the intent of the bill he signed on thursday allowing businesses to deny service bases on their religious beliefs. >> this is not about legalizing discrimination. it is about restricting the government's ability to intrude on the religious liberty of our citizens. >> reporter: indiana is now 1 of 20 states with similar laws. but opponents argue it would legalize discrimination after the state's ban on same-sex marriage was overturned last year. with basketball on the minds of many fans ahead of next weekend

katy tur has more from germanwings headquarters. >> reporter: tamron the prosecutor's office says he was not treated for any sort of organic illness, a cancer or heart disease. they say he was treated for suicidal tendencies but that was several years ago before he became a pilot. recently when he was checked again, they found no proof that he had any suicidal tendencies or any aggressiveness toward others. they say they still do not have a motive. in the alps the recovery is slow and arduous. workers dropped in by helicopter or climbed up by foot. each collecting pieces one by one, of debris and parts of bodies. the work proving just as trying as the investigation into the man they say caused it all, seen here a decade ago, flying a glider according to a german tv station. now the biggest tabloid bild says it obtained a time line from the cockpit voice recorder. the captain started normally apologizing for delay. 10:27, as the plane reached krugz altitude. he asked him to prepare for landing. he leaves moments later, sound of lubitz pushing his chair back door clicked shut. 10:32, a

katy tur is near the school. how is the community coping. >> reporter: the town is coping as best it can but it is taking it quite hard. the small town of haltern, a suburb to the north of dusseldorf and the high school alone they lost 18 people. 16 students and two teachers. most of the students were girls. they are 15 and 16-year-olds in the 10th grade. they had gone to barcelona for a school spanish exchange program and there just for a week and for many it was really supposed to be the highlight of their year. the school does this every few years and sometimes the spanish kids come from germany and other times they go to spain and it is supposed to be the highlight of their year and it ended in tragedy. i spoke with one student who said the school feels empty without the kids. there is about a thousand kids in the entire school so the loss of 16 of them is certainly felt deeply. even if they didn't know the kids personally, the oeshl students would see -- the other students would see them in the hall and so e

katy tur in germany, thank you so much. 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

nbc's katy tur, thank so much. greatly appreciated.tes" with the grown-ups. it's always -- that's just -- >> never stops. >> not even monday morning. the assad interview absolutely fascinating. >> yeah. first of all a great get obviously and then the conditions were curious but had to go on syrian tv making it very odd. it's clear assad is in a state of total denial about everything. >> assad is not going. >> not going. >> and you look at assad and look at isis and you think, you know what? my thought was, this guy is going to be around for a very long time. >> yeah, and the world political games he was playing with which are which are, like i have the legitimate support of all the people, and charlie would say how do you know? well i have my finger on the pulse of the people. no, you don't. you know? you're not like going up for elections or anything like that. >> he does seem -- gave an interview to the bbc a couple weeks ago. i took away how confident. >> very confident. >> he may not have the support of a lot of the syrian people i