. >> whaablyhappened, this crew was fly along on auto pilot, in the middle of theday, of that aircraft and all t d oud tonight the u.s. beliesexplion was caedy aine blown outsky.t down, not accint >> they wouldn't have had a chance to outmaneuver it, once the missile impacted the aircraft, that flight was >> reporter: it's unclear who filed the missile, but7 did fly over a war zone. confli bwe the russians and the ukrainians. >> it's hard to understands why you would route an aircraft over a known combat zone. >> but the plane's altitude was determined to be safe for commercial air traffic, even though nato's top commander philip breed love said recently that russia has been providing air defense training to the pro-russian rebels. >> why this malaysian flight did not file to go left or right and not over the combat zone is still a mystery tonight.ndor photogra abc news freelance produceroh wl was one of the first journtsat ing the scene to george stephanopoulos you're at the crh e. >> it's a ptty rote country road and there are rebel fighters here who hav seecured . there's a smoulder

m and to srth essdr clouds will be breaking but they're not going to clear out completely during thedayntime toy, the future gust showing gusts starting to pick up in the atlantic city area. they'll go stronger as we go into the afternn. we could see shors and thunderstorms develop. 22 mile-an-hour wind gusts at 2:00 this afternoon from wilmingt and atlan an we'll del gusty winds this afternoon for areas north and west and into the city. 24 mile-an-hour wind g at 4:00 this afternoon. closer to 30 mile-an-hour wind gustin trento en higher than that. last night storms winds gusted to more than 60 miles an hour in parts of new jersey. during the y,artly sunny skies to start with. 80 degrees by 9:00 and then tracking showers by lunch time today. which will be in and out durin the afternoon hours. and the seven-day forecast, calling for temperatures to be not as hot tomorrow. 87 degrees the high on thursday with partly sunny skies. and less humid for friday, 86 and a warm weeken highs in the upper 80s saturday with lots of sunshine. we'll start with sunshine on sunday. but weay end up withto

have the forces changed the -- since theday attack yesterday? any majort know of change to that residence. in the still about 10,000 to 12,000, it fluctuates a little bit from week to week. the point is that over time there has been a steady increase of these combined arms tactical battalions across the border on the russian side to the southeast of ukraine. they are close to the border. they are many places closer than were alignedwho along the east. we had tens of thousands that were along the eastern border with ukraine, but not as close as these units appeared to be. all they're doing is worth your escalating testing -- further escalating tensions. they are there, they are growing in size week by week and they continue to do nothing more than as you leave the tension -- escalate the tension. separate fromess the -- >> i have not seen any indication that they are act of late involved in the provision of support to separatist. but they are continuing to mass alongside that southern part of the border. >> two questions. does the massing of forc

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