nic levels potent offenses in the arsenal. with tens of millions of lives in realtime to assess patterns of behavior with threats to the nation deal to mitt lawyer with the insatiable curiosity and a ravenous and opportunity for data. and if that left as bad taste to create the slightest irritation nic would spit it out with the alert to law enforcement agencies. i have a paragraph on this in the captures the mood. >> to be in a country with wrecked overload everybody was suspicious or us suspect or a patriot or democrat. but the american vision forced the democracy to defeat the nazis to land a man on the moon was peeking through a window shades and looking over shoulders. if you think about it that is where they were in 2004. i will make a final point the real open to questions. brad was talking about the profile in the style section i with been happy for you to read the entire thing. when i wrote this book it was partly a release, a party reflection, i had no idea. first of all, i didn't know it would be published but it wa

i have nic. again before we even knew the fact that the nsa had software and algorithms to listen to certain elements of our emails i have a super computer named nick. i like "star trek" so this is minored "star trek" computer i thought would be cool but whittle did i know i could reveal critical intelligence information. [laughter] so i have this season were scooter libya and karl rove are driving to the national security agency in the white house pool car. i will read the opening to sentences then i will skip over. . . would do almost anything for his boss the vice president he would offer the half-truths' with the un truce even go to jail although he knew the prospect was not likely as cheney would always have his back. >> he was imprisoned. >> but going for a long drive on the parkway going through the suburbs to test the limits of his patients the air conditioner fought against the heat and where are we going? i told you. undisclosed location in. where? if i told you where it would be disclo

nic levels potent offenses in the arsenal. with tens of millions of lives in realtime to assess patterns of behavior with threats to the nation deal to mitt lawyer with the insatiable curiosity and a ravenous and opportunity for data. and if that left as bad taste to create the slightest irritation nic would spit it out with the alert to law enforcement agencies. i have a paragraph on this in the captures the mood. >> to be in a country with wrecked overload everybody was suspicious or us suspect or a patriot or democrat. but the american vision forced the democracy to defeat the nazis to land a man on the moon was peeking through a window shades and looking over shoulders. if you think about it that is where they were in 2004. i will make a final point the real open to questions. brad was talking about the profile in the style section i with been happy for you to read the entire thing. when i wrote this book it was partly a release, a party reflection, i had no idea. first of all, i didn't know it would be published but it wa

. >> nic robertson is at the talks in lusanne. nic, what's the latest? >> reporter: i was speaking with the foreign minister as he was walking back in. i asked what he thought about president obama's message to the iranian people and negotiators here. he said i already tweeted that with a smile on his face. he is a supporter, it seems of getting a deal here and the necessary steps that are taken. when he went out to take his walk as he does every morning about half an hour ago i asked him then what he thought the chances are of getting a deal by the deadline on the 31st of march. this is what he told me. >> do you think a deal is possible by the 31st of march? >> i think indeed a deal is possible anytime. whether there is a political will to reach one. >> reporter: well there you have it. for him, it is about the political will which is interesting because earlier this week he was talking about the need to make progress on technical issues and we heard earlier in the week from secretary kerry putting emphasis on political compromise. it seems the iranian

. >> we have nic robertson following the developments for us. nic. >> reporter: secretary kerry before the meeting today over the weekend said he believes that the situation with the talk was iranians is like this that there are some technical issues to discuss with iranian foreign minister but it is a matter of political judgments. two weeks now is the deadline to get that framework agreement and final agreement by the end of june this year. however, when you listen to what the iranian foreign minister said, he feels this is still a lot of technical issues to get through here. both men were due to meet sunday evening. they did not. the deputies met earlier in the day. off to brucessels today to brief the germans and french. you get a sense they did not meet yesterday and a session this morning. it doesn't seem they are close to that framework agreement. >> nic robertson, thanks. >>> breaking overnight, three teenage boys out on bail in london after caught trying to join isis. two 17-year-olds and one 19-year-old stopped by turkish officials tip

joining us now with the latest is nic robertson. nic, what is the progress on the negotiations and how is the report of spying how will that effect the negotiations. >> reporter: what secretary kerry has said in his recent statements is progress has been made. he came to london at the weekend after finishing up in switzerland on friday to brief the british, french and german foreign ministers. we heard over the weekend from ayatollah khomeini the top religious leader in iran. the leader in iran. he has been very clear. he said the united states is bullying iran and we won't give in to the bullying. the toned down message from president rouhani. a deal is possible, but it depends on the political will. it is how secretary kerry deals with zarif. they have to choose if they want agreement or put pressure. progress has been made there are still divisions and issues that haven't been resolved of the eye the. the iranians are pushing back. now this article is something we are hearing already on the margins that france's position and view

i want to bring in correspondent nic robertson. what is the latest nic?cretary kerry and iranian prime minister have been in talks for hours. the issue of the letter did come up. although state department officials not saying what and how kerry responded to it. it came up as well in lower level meetings sunday. it is an issue for the iranians. they are putting it out there. there is a lot of issues because what we are hearing from the five-hour session yesterday, they feel the iranian side still have tough and necessary choices to make. these are sort of political judgments, if you will. they are not sure that this march 31st deadline for a framework agreement can be achieved. this was echoed later in the day. zariff went to brussels and saying a glimmer of hope. we will finally get something. yet, the meeting he went to in brussels with the french and german and british officials, and a source with reuters said the meeting was long but the differences have not been narrowed. substantial gaps remain. the message that is emerging here is one that the irani

joining us now is nic robertson. here we have been watching this spying. a new very serious wrinkle. >> reporter: indeed. one of the points of the wall street journal makes is israel sent a delegation to paris to influence the french position. the implication it is not just sway pillolitics in the united states. they will use this information to gain a voice and stronger voice inside those talks. p-5 plus 1, united states france britain, germany, russia china. the state of the talks, secretary kerry said progress has been made but more needs to be done. the iranian position is entrenched. the president there is talking about progress but the supreme leader ayatollah khomeini in iran is saying at the moment the united states is in effect bullying iran and iran will not cower and give in to bullying. his position has been look you can choose the united states and allies. stop pressuring iran and the team at the negotiations. take the pressure off and you will get an agreement. the talks are still in a very rocky situat

good morning, nic. >> reporter: good morning, christine. odd and strange here is you have on the one hand characterizations like this from the sort of isis defector if you will and on the other hand we hear other narratives from the cage group. they say he was a nice guy. one newspaper here has tracked down his former employer. a computer company in kuwait. that company says that emwazi was their best employee. the perfect salesman. he was a nice guy. you know you have the two very contradictory images. another journalist here said a couple of years before he left for syria, emwazi contacted him by e-mail. saying he was a dead man walking. under pressure from the british intelligence services. this organization cage activist organization cage, released e-mails exchanged between them and emwazi. the narrative has expanded. emwazi feels he was put under pressure by british intelligence services. they tried to recruit him. people here familiar with the way counterterrorism officials work in the country, if that was happening, there was a reaso

nic, i appreciate it. >> reporter: indeed. that was my question as well.ah no, i have the same thought as you, anderson. i mean how would it be for the families who only yesterday morning learned that this was -- that the crash was a result of the direct intervention with the aircraft of the could pie-pilot how would they react. we're not sure if that list of names has been taken away. certainly yesterday when we understood a list of names had been prepared it was before that information had been made public about the actions of the co-pilot. so it's certainly a very pertinent and poignant question at this moment. >> nic robertson, appreciate you being there. thank you, nic. >>> the crash is raising so many questions for so many people. we do want to give you some answers. we're going to try to answer your questions. you can tweet us using #germanwingsqs. joining us is scott miller peter goelz and former ntsb managing director and paul callan cnn analyst. we've gotten a number of questions already. i want to start putting them to you. peter and scott, can

let's bring in nic robertson. a grim assessment nic. >> reporter: it is a grim assessment. no indication that the houthis rebels are about to put down the weapons. the united nations said they support the elected president hadi in the south in the southern city of aden. his presidential compound was bombed by aircraft on thursday. on friday more than 130 worshippers to sunni mosques near the capital for attacked by isis. more than 300 people were wounded along with the dead. you have the u.s. special forces pulling out, but also the houthis rebels extending to the south and taking the city of taiz. that puts them about 100 miles of the international by backed president hadi. a real concern that not only will this civil war escalate but it could overturn and overrun the internationally elected government. the concern behind all of this particularly when you pull out the last of the u.s. special forces that are really there to target al qaeda and isis is what we have seen in syria is isis and al qaeda will take advantage of the civil war situation to build themselves up and m

nic robertson, thank you. >>> breaking overnight.hree teenager boys out on bail after trying to join isis. the two 17-year-olds and one 19-year-old were tipped off by british authorities. they were arrested saturday night after being brought back to the united kingdom. we have arwa damon with more from istanbul. arwa turkey has been criticized for not being quick enough to bring these issues to light. >> reporter: and maintained it is doing all it can. it is not turns a blind eye to the flow of weapons and isis fighters. in cases of this one like the three teenagers. saying if you share intelligence and turkey wants more intelligence sharing, they will take action. they received the tip early on friday and that evening, that night when they arrived in istanbul's airport, they immediately detained. turkey feels at this stage it is being made out to be much more of a scapegoat. too much blame laid at turkey's feet when it comes to preventing these individuals from reaching isis territory. turkey says europe has to have a certain level

let's bring in nic robertson.this is a grim picture this morning. >> reporter: it is grim christine. one reason it is grim is al qaeda in yemen has a history of planning to perpetrate the most sophisticated attacks yet on the united states. the under pants bomber was an effort to bring down an airliner in detroit in 2009. the bomb maker there is the best they have. the year 2000 the "uss cole" attacked by al qaeda. what you have right now is an environment where al qaeda can thrive. it is an environment where isis is thriving. they attacked two mosques killing more than 130 people and wounding hundreds of others in twin suicide bombing attacks. you have the houthis rebels who isis and al qaeda are fighting. they are taking the airports and government buildings as they continue to push to the south where the recognized president is. the united nations security council meeting on sunday in an emergency session gave the united nations full support for president hadi. he appears to be in a precarious position right no

. >> senior correspondent nic robertson is at the talks in switzerland. nic, we have the multilayer negotiations going on behind you at the hotel and the president speaking to the iranian people and the foreign minister speaking to the american people. >> reporter: there is a lot going on. not clear if a meeting started yet with secretary kerry and foreign minister zarif. it is not unusual for the meetings to slip. we had a chance to talk to the foreign minister this morning. i wanted to know if a deal is possible by the 31st of march. this is what he told me. >> do you think a deal is possible by the 31st of march? >> i think indeed it is possible at anytime. it depends on the political will to reach one. >> reporter: you know which is interesting because earlier in the week, a lot of technical issues where secretary kerry had said the emphasis was on political will. i asked the foreign minister what was his response to president obama's message to the iranian people. he told me he tweeted that already. the tweet is interesting. i'll read it to you. he s

thanks so much nic. i want to bring in of the former chair of the national transportation safety board and president of the national safety council, deborah hirschman. over the last few hours we've seen pictures from this crash site, this debris field in the words of vettors there, you can see how that flight was completely obliterated. how will investigators now work this field to find clues about what happened to this aircraft? what do you see? >> you know, i would say a lot of times we're focused on the technology but really it's the environmental challenges that mother nature has to offer with the fall of night. we're really going to be suspending what's going on on the ground. that's super challenging for investigators, particularly in a 24-hour world where everyone is looking for new information and looking for updates. then we're going to have weather challenges compounding it. and i think that makes it really hard to get on scene, to find what they need, and to do it safely. you want to make sure

nic robertson is there. he joins us now. what's the latest? >> reporter: well in all of this it's hard to say good information, anderson but at least it's a help for the families. we understand from the recovery teams now that they've identified 16 of the victims as being done in dna labs. the lights you see behind me police headquarters they're working through the night here. behind that the recovery teams are processing the bodies as they bring them up. we also understand they're bringing in biometric equipment as well to help in the process of identifying the bodies. this will include fingerprinting equipment and we also understand when the families come here the french authorities as we know given the opportunity to go as close as they can to the crash site but they're also taking dna samples from the families as well. and again, all of this to sort of speed the process by which they can make these very difficult identifications,

nic robertson, we'll continue to check in with you. we're just learn that the french government formally requested the fbi assist in the investigation into the germanwings air crash and the copilot. back to cnn law enforcement analyst tom fuentes formally with the fbi. how does that work? >> they would already have been assisting in this case from day one. this happens in every international air crash, that the host crash asks the fbi to look at the passenger manifests, the crew, anybody that came close to the aircraft when it was on the ground if they think there are sabotage involved. the fact they have finally gotten around to a formal request, to make it politically correct or whatever really doesn't matter. i'd also like to correct the notion that this has suddenly become a criminal investigation. every air crash where it's not obvious what happened, like the plane off the runway in laguardia in the ice. every one is a criminal investigation simultaneously conducted with the mechanical and engineering investigation, as to whether

the nic have known of these problems for decades.y have made decisions not to fundamentally clang to make the organizations safe. so i hear the words. the words come out every year when people gravitate around these problems and hear if anecdotal issues related to the risks. these organizations still don't tell the public the truth about how serious the risks are under college campuses. the fraternities were --? finish up. let me finish this up. the fraternities were ranked at the 6th worst risk ahead of waste disposal companies. you don't get to that risk factor without having scores of injuries and deaths across this country. >> to paint the fraternity community with the same negative broad brush. the implication that the fraternity experience is not a positive one is simply untrue. it's the fraternity community that has stepped forward to address these issues in proactive ways. the amount of money, time effort energy invested in the education of our students for proactive action is what the fraternity experience is all about. we h

our nic robertson joins us from there. good evening, nic. >> reporter: each day begins here.elicopters lifting off. local rescue pilot among them friday particularly tough. >> the winds was always turning inside so, sometimes this way, sometimes this way, and for us it was very difficult. and the meshing, we are always in very very closely knit. >> reporter: lives are in his hands. luring recovery teams to the crash site. >> in the closed crews area very very close from the mountains. it's a very short place, so it's quite difficult for us. >> reporter: as the teams make their gruesome discoveries, locate the victim he comes back lifting literally swinging them homeward. >> i don't want to focus on the possible victims i see on the floor, so i'm proud because i know i will bring back bodies to the family and i think it's very important. it's my duty. >> reporter: from the mountains, the bodies are brought here to a mobile forensics lab for biometric and dna testing. all of this happening in a remote and small alpine village. and here they have opened their hearts touched by t

nic robertson is at a staging area now. what's the latest nic? >>. >> reporter: the crash site is above us in the mountains. about 7 miles this way and of those, hamper efforts and the fact the whole side is so steep there, the wreckage side is over several hundred meters. that's a concern. access is really only by helicopter. we've seen those helicopters sitting on the ground here throughout the day and the question when daybreaks in the morning, how low is the clouds and will the helicopters be able to fly and get access to the site? the rain has been coming over some of the high mountain passes here. particularly strong also that. falling rain or snow again at the crash site. that also worry, anderson. >> obviously, concern for families is have they been able to cover any of their loved ones. have teams been able to recover any of the passengers? >> reporter: yeah. from what we understand so far, helicopters have only been able to fly over the site. although we do understand one black box has been recovered and taken away. but as far as landin

we have c nshgs nshgsnn reporters life all over the world to bring us the latest information and nic robertson is in the mountains, and diana magnate is at the home of the co-pilot, and we have stephanie e elam in victorville, california at the airport where the maintenance work is done on the airbus and richard quest here with me in new york. and sara sidner as well. and so richard, we had information that the pilot was locked out of the cabin and now we know that he was, and that the co-pilot brought this plane down. why are they so sure? >> because they have listened to the voice recorder, and it is clear. they can hear the captain leaving the cockpit after a conversation and hear him banging to get back in again, and they can hear the cockpit, the co-pilot doing nothing. the word we heard again and again today, don, he was silent. no word ss, and nothing was said just quiet breathing. so he ignored all of the banging, and then we hear the screams, and we have heard from the cockpit voice recorder about the controls but then another piece of the jigsaw that we heard from the atsb

nic, give us an update on the search and the recovery effort. take it they're trying to recover debris and obviously they're looking for bodies. >> reporter: wolf they are. and it does appear as if -- night is about to fall here. and it appears as if the teams are coming back in after their day on the mountain. what we know from the head of the teams putting the recovery teams on the ground he told us earlier in the day that the helicopters cannot actually land in the area that the only way they can put the recovery teams on the ground is to winch them down. so it's a slow operation, it's a laborious operation. you cannot put in a lot of people all at one time. the recovery teams on the ground we understand at the moment today, have been marking the positions of the bodies as they find them on the mountainside. what they have to do before they can remove them from the mountainside we're told is record their location. and there is some kind of medical certification that needs to be given at the site in the mountain. so we're told do not expect an

helicopters have airlifted those remains out of the site. >> nic robertson is at the staging area in french alps and as he reports, the search process is slow and it certainly is difficult. >> reporter: ropes, harnesses, recovery teams and equipment. this no straightforward crash recovery. high in the frechnch alps, only helicopters can only get to the site to drop in investigators by rope. this lady lives here, heard the crash, knows the mountains as well. >> in fact, it's behind here. you see? it's a very small valley, very close. >> reporter: helicopters in the air all day. priority recovery of bodies. slow, as none can be moved, until remains are documented. [ indiscernible ] >> reporter: each helicopter one step closer to recovering the bodies of the victims from the mountainside. this now a race against time. concerns are that the weather is closing in. that rain, even snow could be coming, hampering investigators, as well. air accident and criminal investigators taken into the mountains, too. not just the cause of the crash in question, but responsibility for the deaths. the f

nic robertson is live in switzerland with more nic. >> reporter: good morning, michaela.hat has been said to the iranians is you have a choice. it's a tough choice but you need to do that to get this negotiated deal. this is what he told the iranian people. >> iran's leaders have a choice between two paths. if they cannot agree to a reasonable deal they will keep iran on the path it's on today, a path has isolated iran and the iranian people from so much of the world. if iran's leaders can agree to a reasonable deal, it can lead to a better path the path of greater opportunities for the iranian people. >> reporter: now i asked the iranian foreign minister here mr. zarif this morning what he thought about president obama's message. he told me that he had already decided what his response was and that he'd put that out in a tweet and he said as part of that tweet he said it is high time that the united states and its allies choose between pressure or agreement, a clear push back against president obama's message and against the negotiating team here with secretary kerry cle

nic robertson, cnn, france. >> and derek vandam joins us now for more on the difficult weather, which some of these searchers are encountering right now. we've been talking about this weather, how bad it's been. is there any possibility of a break? >> fortunately, they're in a narrow gap of 24 hours where they do have a break in the weather, but the winds will be a factor going into friday. these crews, both in the air and on the ground, are truly risking their lives as they go forward with this recovery effort. these helicopters are flying into a ravine. that's only 250 meters wide. let alone the crews on the krounld have ground have to deal with terrain like this. that leaves the possibility of rock slides. this is the spring season, so we have varying precipitation. so rocks will expand and contract, depending on the temperature and precipitation they're dealing with. that's going to make the rocks very unstable, leading to the possibility of slides in the ravines below. these crews having to rappel to locate some of the body remains and some of the plane, as well. the fact that we

senior correspondent nic robertson following the latest for us.t is going relatively well. villages have been taken. tikrit not just strategically important, but because it is to the north of mosul. it is if you will the part of the government would see the sunni resistance against the government. this is the birth place of the former president saddam hussein. it is important on many levels. they are saying they are attacks from five sides. the tribe getting isis from getting in. the potential of problems of ieds. i think if we look at the recent track record of the iraqi army taking quite an amount of time to take a percentage of that village al bagdadi in the west of the country. taking a long long long time to take control of the oil refinery to the north of where they are tikrit. success here is not expected to happen overnight. part of the success will come in the composition of the 30,000 troops involved. it is not just iraqi army. shi'a militias but significantly some sunni tribesmen fighting alongside the government forces there. why is th

nic robertson, thank you. >>> u.s.s have been tracking shipments for weeks and none of the weapons have been used yet. they could cause civilian cast casualties. the terrorists innflictsing heavy casualties. the white house is monitoring the issues closely with the help of david petraeus. the retired general now consulting the obama administration on the iran strategy. that is although petraeus was convicted of leaking classified information to his mistress and lying about it to the fbi. >>> let's bring alison kosik for an early look at your money. >> good morning. asian markets closing higher. european markets mixed. monday's stocks jumped. rebounding from big losses last week. the dow gained 227 points. the s&p and nasdaq added 1%. that puts the dow and s&p back in positive territory for the year. if you are not keeping track, stocks are close to highs. dow is about 2% away from the record. the nasdaq and s&p are not far behind that. we are watching oil prices. oil continuing to fall. plunging yesterday to the lowest

nic robertson is there. he joins us now. what's the latest?>> reporter: well, in all of this, it's hard to say good information, anderson, but at least it's a help for the families. we understand from the recovery teams now that they've identified 16 of the victims as being done in dna labs. the lights you see behind me, police headquarters, they're working through the night here. behind that, the recovery teams are processing the bodies as they bring them up. we also understand they're bringing in biometric equipment as well to help in the process of identifying the bodies. this will include fingerprinting equipment and we also understand when the families come here, the french authorities as we know given the opportunity to go as close as they can to the crash site, but they're also taking dna samples from the families as well. and again, all of this to sort of speed the process by which they can make these very difficult identifications, anderson. >> horrific process. clearly seems communication is much better with family members than we ha

and cnn reporters are live throughout the areas, and nic robertson is there, and we have richard queste in new york and fred pleitgen in dusseldorf. richard, what do we know happened? >> we have absolutely no idea. it was 40-some-odd minutes into the flight, and it had reached the cruising altitude of 38,000 feet and about two minutes after it did, that it sudden starts to descend. there is some dispute as to what rate of speed it is descending. some suggest it is a consistent descent at around 3,000 feet per minute and one or two reports suggesting it is more erratic, but we have no idea what happened at that moment. >> and even though it was 8,000 foot plunge we have no idea the if it was erratic. >> it was going down 3,000 feet per minute give or take, and now one or two people saying it is more erratic, and if you average it out it is more than the range of 1,500 to 5,000, and we don't know. what is significant in this area is that was this a koncontrolled gradual descent albeit e steep by the auto pilot under descent of the aircraft or out of control? we have no idea certainly of

nic robertson in switzerland for us. thank you. >>> add another irritant to that tension between the white house and israel's new re-elected prime minister just a couple weeks after house speaker john boehner invited benjamin netanyahu to address congress we're learning that the republican leader will now visit israel. boehner's trip will take place in the next two weeks, just days after netanyahu's surprisingly strong win. newspapers in the middle east predict that boehner will receive red carpet treatment and one paper said the trip amounts to a victory celebration. >>> after waiting two days president obama makes a congratulatory call to netanyahu but the message maybe after two days you're not surprised. it's lukewarm at best. the president is warning that the u.s. will reassess some of its relationship with israel after netanyahu rebuffed a long standing agreement on creating a palestinian state. netanyahu, by the way, later backed off on that statement that further strains u.s./israel ties. cnn's michelle kaczynski

nic, what you can tell me about the passengers there? what were the >> well, the full passenger manifest has still not been announced. but we understand that most of them were german nationals. germany says about 67 of them were german nationals. 45 people thought to have spanish last names according to spanish government officials. now, just back from barcelona airport where relatives of the victims who gathered throughout the day have been told that they can visit this area, close to the crash site reports suggest that could happen as early as tomorrow. family members are staying overnight at nearby hotels and being updated on the tragic events in the french apps. i'm also being consoled by psychologists and red cross. now, among the victims were a group of german school children who had been on exchange program in spain. their spanish friends held a mass, a very poignant mass for them in their memory tuesday evening. and as i mentioned several were german nationals who were going home after a few days in barcelona. or the mediterranea

nic robertson maintains that as of tuesday, hadhi is in yemen. >> we're joined by nick paton walsh. nic, now that saudi arabia has launched this military operation in yemen, what is the latest on the houthi targets that have been hit and the response from the rebels? which countries are involved and what roles are they playing? >> reporter: it is still early days here. we know that saudis say they have 100 planes and on the border 1 50,000 troops potentially involved. we know that the egyptian government said it is ready to offer political and military support, as well. it is unclear if any of that is already involved in the operation. there are plenty of conflicting reports about the scale and breadth of the gulf countries involvement wee heard a statement out -- involved. we have heard a statement theyithey i combined and under the houthi advance three yemen, calling it a dangerous step for global security. if you listen to the white house statement, they refer to gcc-led operations which does suggest there will be more than just the saudis involved in this in in the hours or dice

hi nic. >> hi carol. that is the real concern. we've seen it in syria where isis and al qaeda took advantage of the civil war to build strongholds, places for recruitment and places for training and plan to turn it around and export terror to the united states. that is the big concern for yemen at the moment. it really is moving quickly towards a civil war. now in control of the international airport in the southwestern city of taiz the u.n. warning yemen is at the edge of civil war. this sectarian violence between shiite rebels and sunni majority government spreading across the country, where houthis who control the cap salkapcapital of sanaa and areas of the north to taiz the country's largest city. following the embassy's evacuation last month, the u.s. pulled out 1 whun00 special forces. this attack on friday. more than 130 killed and hundreds more injured. >> as we're seeing extremists try to capitalize inside of yemen to carry out these acts of violence. >> reporter: the nation now in an especially perilous position caught b

nic, you have been there. you've been there with the rescue crews.irst off, the question, how is the weather? how is it complicating the search-and-recovery efforts today? >> reporter: well, the clouds are coming down off the mountains now. the temperature is really dropping here. and the upper elevations where the crash site is, it will be much colder, probably below freezing. what we heard from the air accident investigation team was that the site is a steep-sided valley and the terrain itself physically is unstable. we were talking earlier today with the lead of the search team. and he told us, it's impossible to put a helicopter on the ground there, that they have to literally winch the teams in. we're seeing the helicopters come back in to the recovery site just now. it appears as if this time of day they're bringing these recovery teams out of the search area. but how does the weather conditions at the moment affect the recovery effort? there's a real concern that as the -- the air is cooling here, wetter weather is coming in. there may be more

nic joins us from the crash site. how long could recovery take, early today, you were reporting they can't even land helicopters at the site. actually have to lower recovery workers by cable from hovering helicopters. >> reporter: what we understand, there were two recovery workers and one mountain guide in each team and we've been able to see pictures of them working there. literally pulling debris out of the ground digging in the ground with their hands but of course, there's a limited number. it's very, very steep. so it is slow and what we understand from the recovery of the bodies that could be several weeks, the recovery of all the important parts of aircraft debris could take much longer because the steepness of the terrain, the fact that the rocks are unstable and freezing, so that will hamper the efforts. what the recovery teams are looking for, in terms of the investigation, is that data recorder that will have recorded the instruments on the aircraft, that remains important. and that could be, you know, ver

our senior international correspondent, nic robertson, joins us to talk about the situation. we've seen scenarios like this before when you talk about a failed state and groups wanting to have a foothold there. have we seen this type of scenario where you is sunni aqap fighters shia-backed houthi rebels and isis looking to make gains? it almost looks as if it's a two, three-sided battle in this almost failed state. >> reporter: you know if you sort of change the names a little bit here not only of isis and al qaeda but change the name of the houthi rebels for the shia backing for the government of president bashar al assad, his drawing on shia support in the country, his drawing on hezbollah from lebanon was drawing at least on shia fighters from iraq and is getting support from iran. in that way, there are a lot of similarities here. this of course is the real concern for the international community. when you pull out the british special forces, the u.s. special forces who would have been there on missions to target the growth and stop the growth of al qaeda and isis we've s

nic robertson live in london. good morning. >> reporter: the foreign minsters have been meeting for three hours this morning. zariff when he arrived in switzerland said he believed they were technical issues. secretary kerry said look there are technical issues to get through here. he now believes this is a matter of political judgment. they were supposed to meet sunday. >> that didn't happen. zariff off to belgium to meet with the european leaders to brief them on a deadline. it doesn't appear we are close to crossing that final hurdle if you will. >> the british foreign minister saying there is a long way to go there. also secretary kerry also speaking out about a willingness to sit down with syrias a bashar al-assad. listen to what he had to say. >> everybody agrees there is no military solution. there is only a political solution. i am convinced with the effort of our allies and others there will be increased pressure on assad. >> and you will be willing to negotiate with him? >> well we have to negotiate e ne

nic robertson, first to you. here's this ceo of lufthansa just this past hour. he did make news and they'll be providing a flight for some of the family members to come as close as possible to where you are to this crash site. but can you just explain to all of us watching, this is a crash site where you can't even land a helicopter here. >> yeah it's just difficult to understate really how steep the mountainside is where the crash took place. what we're expecting is the first of those family members who want to come here will be arriving in france in the south of france possibly marseilles as early as tomorrow afternoon. some of them would be expected to stay in this village here. it's a very small village in the mountain mountain. so others would stay in other places. however the chance of them actually getting into that site are going to be very very unlikely in the short term. why? because even today the air accident investigators were only overflying the site looking from the air. the recovery teams were only getting on the ground because the helicopters we

nic? >> reporter: well this was a day where the family members of the victims of that crash got a chance to get close to that site. they couldn't get all the way there. the german authorities from lufthansa organized flights to bring them to france. the french authorities organized a memorial service in a field. this field just a couple of miles from the crash site itself. an emotional day for more than 100 family members who made the journey to southern france so they could spend time near the place where their loved ones perished. the grieving relatives arrived at the site just hours after french investigators described in chilling detail the final moments of germanwings flight 9525. marseille prosecutor bryce robin says it seems co-pilot andreas lubitz wanted to destroy the aircraft but it's unclear why. the audio from the aircraft's mangled cockpit voice recorder reveals the 28-year-old german co-pilot was alone at the controls when the airbus 320 crashed, killing all 150 people on boa

nic robertson live for us from london. what do we know nic?rn is isis and al qaeda will do precisely what they did in syria and iraq and use the instability there to develop bases for training, develop their bomb making and therefore be a bigger threat to the united states and europe. all of this is happening as that becomes more and more possible as the country slips deeper towards civil war. >> reporter: shiite houthi rebels now in control of the international airport in the south western city of taiz. the u.n. warn ging yemen is at the edge of civil war. this sectarian violence between shiite rebels and a sunni government spreading across the country. where houthis that control the capital of sanaa and areas of the north now going south to the largest city and the u.s. pushing the u.s. military to pull out over the weekend following the u.s. embassy evacuation last month. isis claiming responsibility for this suicide attack on two mosques on friday. more than 130 killed hundreds more injured. >> as we're seeing extremists try to capitalize

nic robertson has more on this. >> reporter: each day begins here. helicopters lifting off. local rescue pilot david among them. friday, particularly tough. >> the wind was always turning inside. sometimes this way, sometimes this way. for us, it was very difficult. we are always in very, very close limits. >> reporter: lives are in his hands bringing recovery teams to the crash site. >> we are in a closed area, very, very closed from the mountains. it's a very short place. it's quite difficult for us. >> reporter: as the team makes the gruesome discoveries, he comes back, lifting, swinging them homeward. >> i don't want to focus on the possible victims i see on the floor. so, i know i will bring back bodies to the family and i think it's very important, it's my duty. >> reporter: from the mountains, the bodies are brought here to a mobile forensic's lab for dna testing. all of this happening in a remote and small alpine village. here, they have opened their hearts, touched by the tragedy unfolding around them. people at the nearby building gathering at the memorial for the

we have cnn's nic robertson joining us live from beirut. >> reporter: good morning, john. you have to look at the map of yemen to realize the air strikes are going on all over the country. in the north, close to the saudi arabia border, air strikes. up around sanaa, air strikes. to the town east of the country air strikes according to the houthis. women and children killed and more people wounded. look at the south of the country. aden, this is the last stronghold of president hadi. houthi is closing in there. the war ships shelling the road coming into the town to cut the houthis houthis off. aden may be the place if a ground offensive is placed it could come from there. yesterday, in a displaced person's camp close to the saudi border according to red cross officials and doctors without borders, they say 29 people or up to 40 people killed there. saudis say the houthis rebels are hiding and may have shot at the aircraft. >> nic robertson, thank you. >>> jay-z wants you to drop spotify and subscribe to his music service. what will it cost you? look at the lineup of people

back to you. >> okay nic. goelz. he's former ntsb managing director. david soucie is safety analyst and former fcc investigator. and michael wellner, psychologist. great to have you with us to help us understand the developments that just came out. the german prosecutor has just announced some of the findings of going to this co-pilot's home. they found evidence david, let me start with you, to show evidence that he did have some sort of medical condition though they are vague on what it is. they also found chillingly a torn up note a doctor's note that would have given him permission to take a couple of days off including the day of the plane crash. what are your thoughts? >> well we have to be careful of tying this to some kind of psychological treatment because we don't know that. in fact this medical examiner who's looking at the pilots he's not really the psychologist or the psychiatrist that would be treating this. so we have to be cautious about that. the fact that the certificate is noted. if you have

nic, set the scene for us. what's it like over there? through the french alps and to the recovery site. we're climbing through the mountains and we're over 3,000, 4,000 feet in some places. the temperature is dropping close to zero. there's heavy rain. we're hitting patches of fog. the crash site is even higher in the mountains. the terrain there is very steep, very rugged where the aircraft hit the hillside. the access to that area is very difficult. there is snow on the ground. helicopters will be the main way in for the recovery teams. what we're being told by officials tonight is that this weather, the low clouds they believe there could be snow at the altitude of the crash site tonight where we have rain a little lower. there will be snow higher up. they believe that this could well hamper the recovery effort. they have paused for the night. it's dark here right now but they hope to begin with first light in the morning and that's going to depend on the weather conditions and right now it's raining here quite steadily and we're hitt

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nic? >> reporter: we are learning tonight that investigators here are bringing in biometric equipment, special biometric equipment, to measure and read the fingerprints of the victims that they are bringing off the mountain here. the big news of the day coming in germany as police raided an apartment lived in by andreas lubitz finding in there medical records torn up discarded by him. important new evidence seized from the apartment of flight 9525 co-pilot andreas lubitz including a doctor's medical leave note for the day that the crash occurred. >> we have found a letter that indicated that he was declared by a medical doctor unfit to work. >> reporter: the prosecutor's office says the doctor's notes were discovered torn up in the trash. >> so we have reason to believe that he hid his illness from the company he was 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 diagnose