it went down in the provence region. 142 patternings and three crew were onboard.pain's deputy foreign minister confirmed this were -- >> what more have officials there been saying. >> we've been getting more details of the rescue operation that's underway. as we've already reported, the french interior minister has gone to the scene of the accident and he's expected to seek in the coming hours but we're also hearing that 245 firefighters have been deployed from neighboring districts as have three squadron of police officers, so clearly the french emergency services from the whole region being mobilized and sent to the scene of the crash. >> jacki and president hollande already suggested it was unlikely that there will be any survivors from the crash. that's a pretty grim assessment even at this early stage. >> it is a grim assessment, but it's a logical and realistic one. we have had confirmation from the french transport minister that that is the case. when you bear in mind that the flight, the aircraft was traveling 38,000 feet at the time of the incident, as we

germanwings flight 9525 crashed in the southern french alps in the provence region.debris has been found at an at too old of 2,000 meters. it's tough to get to and rescue crews around expected to arrive at the crash site for sometime. the plane was en route from the spanish city of barcelona to dÜsseldorf in germany when it went down. 144 passengers and six crew were onboard the airbus a320. the french president francois hollande has said there are no survivors. in the past hour, president hollande made a statement about the crash. >> our thoughts are with the families of those who are suffering this terrible loss today. we are offering every means and ways possible to try and find out what happened in this accident and to find the wreckage and also bodies of the victims. the accident happened in a particularly difficult zone to get to, so rescue services will not really be able to give us results for a few hours. i want all of our different services to mobilize. >> president hollande said there were passengers from germany and turkey onboard but didn't think there w

she is 1'55" 120 pounds blonde hair and blue eyes, anyone with information call the upper provence police department. >>> students head back to class after a classmate was found dead. cayman naib's body was discovered yesterday yards from his home. chad perdelli is live at the newtown township police department with more. chad. >> reporter: students arrived at the shipley school with heavy hearts this morning yesterday 13-year-old cayman naib was found dead near darby creek yards from his family's 17-acre newtown square property. it was a tragic ending after an exhaustive search. >> this is devastating and our thoughts and love and our pairs prayers are with the family. cayman was a terrific kid. >> reporter: a vigil was held last night at the shipley school. students remembered a young man who thought outside the box and helped others. his sister is a 9th grader at the school. the head maforts said the school -- head master said the school. >> we'll work together and be able to identify when somebody is in need to get or her help. >>> chopper 6hd was over the toms river river, "action ne

of that germanwings plane crash flight knife 525 that's the flight number that went down in the provencen. 142 passengers and six crew members were known to be on the plane traveling from barcelona to dÜsseldorf.

. >> a lot of people come and say it's like provence, it's like italy. we say no. >> you like it?, okra. >> onion and mint. that's all it is. what they do a lot here is just char the hell out of it. so it's really smoky just from being in the pan on very high heat. >> so generally speaking, who lives in this area? mostly arab -- ethnically arab in this particular town? >> only muslim. >> i'm the only jewish in the village. >> and this? >> zucchini that's been grilled. then we use fried yogurt, so that's the sauce. that intense kind of goat flavor. very typical for palestinian cooking. >> it's good. >> i just had this incredibly delicious meal completely oblivious to the fact that it's entirely vegetarian. if any of the vegetarian restaurants in new york served food that tasted like this, i would actually go there. i'd consider it. fresh zucchini with mint. >> and little sweet apricots. >> this food is really intensely delicious. are you hopeful? >> of course. i have my children. i need to say that. >> i respect her religion. she respect my religion, my family. together we can buil

if you look at the canadian provenÇal markets, atlantic, canada, has been soft and unemployment goingup for several months, even a couple quarters now, the same is true in quebec very soft, rolled over last year in the middle of the year, but alberta and saskatchewan where the oil boom have been going on have been strong and kept the stats up until now. january like they fell out of bed. calgary home sales listings up 40% and sales down 40% in january alone. never seen such a dropoff. and so if you continue to see soft oil prices you're going to see the beginning of weakness there and because the setup is so leveraged and loss ratios are so low, provisions so low, and there is so much leverage in the system, we think it plays out very similar to the u.s. housing bubble. >> i have to run. really quick, maybe the posterboy of stocks, tesla, you're also still short that name? >> you know, once again, an inflection point, right. it's all about timing. numbers stopped going up last year and, in fact, have come down dramatically in the last three months. earnings down almost 70% since novem

it is south of provence.he plane had diverted trying to -- had diverted, disappeared off radar, and was lost around 7000 feet of. tom: much more on this as we learned more information. this is just breaking from france. we greatly appreciate this. tom: much more to talk about. we will talk about the controversial call of a stronger u.s. dollar. robert kaplan from harvick -- from harvard business school. ♪ . . >> this is "bloomberg surveillance." tom: good morning, everyone. neidichneidich"bloomberg surveillance" from new york city. a plane down in france, breaking news within 20 minutes within a number of 140 some onboard. this is digne france, north of marseille. olivia: it crash in the northern part of the country near the city of digne. it was on a flight from barcelona to dusseldorf. authorities lost contact with the plane at about 6800 feet. it appears the plane was carrying 142 passengers with a crew of six people. german wing is a low-cost carrier owned by germany's flagship airline what times a. it is

it apparently did go down in france the provence the alps region the mid point, as you just pointed outeither takeoff or landing. french authorities also saying fairly early on richard, that this coming from the french president, hollande he did not expect survivors among the 142 passengers including six crew on board. early on they said they saw debris. this area is mountainous, there's also the grenoble airport in that area. but when you hear early on they don't expect survivors, they must know what they heard from that cockpit and translate it now into that reality, yes? >> well i think now we know that there was a distress call. you can start to understand what might have happened. you could be talking about major disastrous malfunction of the aircraft. and for example, a catastrophic collapse of part of the aircraft. you could be talking about an in-flight fire. they have been extremely deadly. there are all sorts of reasons why an aircraft could find itself in extremis. it's a very rare situation. now you will have a distress call. you will have the cockpit voice recorder you'll h