victor blackwell has new information to report from louisiana. g although some officials have expected this. i just spoke with a spokesperson there at eglin and she says that human remains have now begun to wash ashore there near the site where that black hawk went down. she is stressing that this is still an active search and rescue scene so they are still hoping for the very best but as we've reported military officials expect the seven marines and four crew members who were based here at the louisiana army national guard who were crew of that black hawk they are all presumed dead. carol? >> all right. tragic news. victor blackwell, thanks so much. checking other top stories for you at 59 past. utah lawmakers passing a bill allowing firing squads to execute death row prisoners. lawmakers say the measure is backup plan but it's necessary because of problems with obtaining lethal injection drugs. the bill will be sent to the governor. he's not said whether it will be signed into law. >>> the euro has fallen to a 12-year low against the dollar. tha

victor blackwell. again, we'll check back in throughout the next couple of hours and are standing by for that 3:00 news conference and we hope to get an update on the investigation into the helicopter crash as well as more information perhaps from those on that second helicopter that made it back safely. >>> we have been hearing about the plan now for days and now the fight is on. iraqi forces have begun their offensive to liberate saddam hussein's hometown of tikrit from isis. and they've already seen celebrations of their successes along the way. watch this. that iraqi woman and others joining her, cries for joy that isis is out of that town of al la lann near tikrit. iraqi troops advanced into tikrit. today they won back a key military hospital. a couple good signs there, this as isis loses ground of course. the president is trying to gain more support now on capitol hill for his plan to defeat this terrorist group. his top three advisers on this issue, joint chiefs of staff, general martin dempsey,

. >> our victor blackwell is live in hammond, louisiana. ctor, update me on the latest to find the 11 missing service members and also what led to this. >> reporter: well, ashleigh, even with that tragic development of the discovery of human remains, a spokesperson there at eglin base there says this is still an active search-and-rescue scene. so they are still working to find hopefully people who are still alive there. they say the coast guard has secured the waterways. although overnight and into the morning, fog has hampered the search. and they're looking at that fog and "weather issues" overnight during this training mission to see whether that was a contributing factor to this accident. they've not yet determined what caused the accident. but what they know so far, at least what they're making public, is that about 8:30, one of two blackhawks based here at the louisiana army national guard was reported missing. 11 people on board. seven marines from camp lejeune in north carolina, four crew member, two pilots, two crew members from thi

victor blackwell has more on the turning point in american history. >> reporter: it was supposed to beon-violent march for voting rights. but it became one of the most violent days of the civil rights movement. march 7, 1965, alabama. 600 demonstrators set off to march 54 miles from selma to montgomery. to bring attention to the need for voting rights protections in the south. they were led by civil rights activists hosea williams. and now congressman john lewis. >> "as we crossed the edmund pettis bridge, we were met by state troopers who shot us with tear gas, beat us with night sticks and trampled us with horses. i was hit on the head and suffered a concussion on the bridge." >> reporter: lewis and 16 others were taken to hospitals. and the day was known, thereafter. as bloody sunday. since then, selma has hosted a bridge-crossing jubilee on the first sunday in march. year after year.thousands return to cross the edmund pettis bridge. civil rights activists and leaders. and members of congress. have re-enacted march. in the final months of his administration president clinton crosse

>> victor blackwell for us in louisiana. victor, thank you very much. we'll stay close to this because this is developing as we speak "at this hour." we'll also looking at the war against isis. it's front and center right now on capitol hill. three of the nation's top national security officials are testifying before the senate foreign relations committee facing questions on the president's war request to defeat the terror group. military operations are already under way of course in that region. the administration is looking for formal authorization to use military force against isis and congress has said it wants to have its say. >> some live pictures from that hearing right now as you can see those testifying are secretary of state john kerry and also there with him is defense secretary ash carter and chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, martin dempsey. they are testifying on what's going on against isis in iraq and syria but this discussion really, this feisty debate got very, very heated when the issue of iran came up. listen. >> in essence the w

. >> i'm victor blackwell. >>> new information in the crash of 9525.he information is that the co-pilot that crashed the airliner into the french alps was suffering from a psychological illness. >> reporter: pamela brown is outside the germanwings headquarters in cologne, germany. >> reporter: there is new reporting out there that andreas lubitz had vision problems according to "the new york times" and it could be the result of a psychosomatic illness and something that investigators are exploring. we are also learning that antidepressants were found inside of his apartment. investigators have been in and out of his apartment in dusseldorf trying to collect as much evidence as they can to figure out a motivate here. why did andreas lubitz deliberately crash that plane into the french alps as the french prosecutor alleges? for more on his medical background i bring in frederik pleitgen. fred, we have learned the last 24 hours what illness he may have been suffering from? >> reporter: it seems like multiple things. on the one hand psychosomatic issues he

let's go to cnn's victor blackwell who is live from hammond, louisiana, from where the helicopter took. do we know what might have caused this crash yet? >> reporter: we are told that army safety inspectors will make the final decision but the discussion now is the weather. we have reported that there was really thick fog near eglin air force base. in fact the fog was so thick the major general at louisiana army national guard who spoke just a moment ago says that the second black hawk that was attempting to engage in these training missions determined not to take off and turned back because the fog was just too thick. there will be an inspection of the wreckage and the records, but that will be we are told a very lengthy process to determine exactly what caused this accident. jake? >> other than the fog, do we have any other details about the training exercise that was being conducted? >> reporter: i spoke with the spokesperson at camp lejeune and he says this was a seven-day training exercise involving amphibious operations. basically these marines would be dropped into the water and

. >> i'm victor blackwell. good to be with you. 8:00 here on the east coast. dramatic new developments in the crash of flight 9525 including reports that andreas lubitz, the pilot who steered that plane into the french alps suffered from a severe psychosomatic illness. >> let's get to pamela brown. good morning, pamela. >> reporter: well, good morning to you, alisyn and victor. we are learning more about andreas lubitz condition according to the reports here and "the new york times" that he had vision problems and that these vision problems may have been the result of some psychosomatic illness. we had previously reported that he from "the new york times", wall street journal, german media, that he had suffered from depression and investigators have apparently found medicine bottles, prescription pills, a lot of them inside his apartment. the investigation into his background continues. i will tell you, i spoke to a lufthansa spokesperson who recently said she finds it hard to believe that he was suffering from any type of vision problems because every year pi

. >> i'm victor blackwell. huge crowds as we saw are taking to the streets in the heart of moscow. back to those live pictures here from the russian capitol. we've seen the number of people here increase steadily. they're paying tribute to boris nemtsov. he was shot and killed two days ago on a bridge 100 yards from the kremlin. he planned to lead an opposition rally. this is a march. they're moving through the streets, a march for him. they will actually pass by the spot where he was gunned down. it's now covered in flowers. >> we've seen a lot of flags and black ribbons, russian flags and people holding signs that say he died for the future. some say they were afraid of you, boris. and i'm not afraid. let's bring in fred pleitgen who is there and matthew is at the bridge. fred, we want to start with you. we see more and more people coming out. is this a stronger turnout than people expected primarily? >> reporter: yeah, it certainly is stronger than they would have gotten if this would have been the opposition rally to criticize russia's policies in ukraine which was what it was

i'm victor blackwell. we have ten americans possibly exposed to ebola. >> they've been taken to the university of nebraska in omaha. six more patients are expected to arrive today or tomorrow and they will immediately be transferred to either emory in atlanta or the national institutes of health in maryland. >> none of these individuals has been diagnosed with ebola but health officials are concerned they may have been exposed while in sierra leone after an american health care worker indeed, contracted it there. that patient is now being treated in maryland and is listed in serious condition. we've got cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen on the phone with us. elizabeth, let's start with the four people who are in nebraska. >> reporter: victor, those four, they have the highest -- they had the highest exposure to ebola so you consider them -- you can consider them the highest risk patients. those patients are being watched, they're being monitored and they've self-quarantined. so they are in t

victor blackwell is joining us live from hammond, louisiana, that's where the helicopter was based. now you have some new information on the investigation. what are you learning? >> reporter: new information from both the officials at camp lejeune in north carolina and from the officials there at eglin air force base. the only glimmer of good news in this entire story, that the weather is starting to clear there in the search area. the fog had been such a major problem hampering the coast guard efforts. the effort to find the victims of this now-determined still missing, some officials believe they're all presumed dead there. we also know that from official there is in camp lejeune that the relatives of the marines who were on board that blackhawk that went down they are in the process now of being notified and a command level official is en route from camp lejeune to eglin air force base. of course this all happened on a foggy night, last night, during a training mission involving two blackhawks from this station here at louisiana army national guard. one of them went down the other

. >> good morning, i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm christi paul.d there is a huge rally. again, live pictures so you can see wha

. >> i'm victor blackwell.ood to be with you. >> video inside a yemen mosque that shows the moment that bomb exploded while people were worshipping. take a listen. >> the situation in yemen is so bad now. the u.s. is pulling its last military forces in yemen out because of the situation taking place there. our correspondent is joining us now live in baghdad. i think it's pretty obvious here that the jihadist organizations will be able to exploit the absence of the u.s. in yemen w now. >> reporter: absolutely. this has been the concern. the u.s. describing the evacuation of these troops as a temporary relocation outside the country but the situation there is looking grim right now. the country seems to be descending into further chaos. concerns about possible all-out civil war in the country. this is coming after the u.s. embassy in sanaa was shut last month. as you recall, u.s. staff pulled out. they are having concerns what this means for the counterterrorism in the country operations there. you know the u.s.

. >> i'm joe johns, in for victor blackwell. 10:00 in the east 7:00 in the west. you're in the cnn newsroom. >> always good to have you here joe. >> good to be here. >> we want to begin this hour with new developments in the death of russian opposition leader boris nemtsov after a week or just about a week after one of president vladimir putin's most vocal critics was shot in the back and killed in the heart of moscow. two suspects are under arrest this morning. >> and there is surveillance video that captured nemtsov's assassination. he was gunned down walking across a moscow bridge with his girlfriend. he died just steps from the kremlin. cnn senior international correspondent matthew chance is live in moscow. >> thanks very much. the head of the fsb, which is the main security service here in russia appeared on national television earlier today making this announcement that two people had been detained on suspicion involvement in the killing. the fact such a high level officer, official would appear on state television indicating the kremlin wants to be taken s

. >> i'm victor blackwell. this morning the u.s.vely monitor any terror threats to this country coming from yemen. >> that's even though right now all u.s. special operations forces and personnel have been pulled out of the tiny yet volatile nation. dramatic new video into cnn this morning we want to share with you that really underscores the terror threat yemen itself is facing. >> that's video from inside one of the mosques. at least 137 people were killed there. more than 330 wounded. isis is claiming responsibility for those attacks. >> the u.n. security council is meeting today. in addition to the terror threat, rebel fighters have also seized parts of yemen's third largest city we're learning. cnn's jomana karache has more. >> reporter: christi, it includes the navy seals and the delta force in the region. the state department says they were evacuated because of the deer i don't remember rating security situation in the country. they were the last remaining u.s. personnel in yemen. this comes after the u.s. embassy in sanaa wa

. >> i'm joe johns in for victor blackwell. >> breaking news is called a massive failure of civilian and military radar along with air traffic control. >> malaysia airlines flight 370 van issued one year ago today. we just received hundreds of pages of the first interim report from the malaysian government. >> part of that confusion involves radar operators who were back and forth for hours asking, have you seen that plane? richard quest sifted through all of these documents. good morning, richard. >> reporter: good morning. hundreds of pages of documents supporting background information have now been released. although they don't give us any information about what happened in the cockpit, we still don't know why the plane went missing. or, indeed where it ended up. they paint a very detailed picture of the aircraft, its systems, its crew, and how air traffic control performed on the night. it's not a pretty picture. on the question of the pilots, any evidence, there is simply no evidence that the captain was in any way unstable. in fact, the report specifically says the captain's a

i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm alison kosik in for christi paul. >>> including reports that the co-pilotteered this commercial jetliner into the french alps and suffered from a severe psycho somatic illness. >> let's get to pamela brown in germany. good morning, pamela. >> reporter: good morning to both of you. that's right, dramatic new developments here. we are learning from "the new york times" that andreas lubitz may have had vision problem and that may be as a result of a psychosomatic illness. a lot of precipitatiscription de found inside of his apartment. i spoke to a lufthansa spokesperson who finds is hard to believe he could have had vision problems. we know as recertification process the pilots get their vision tested. i spoke it an aviation source who said that he passed his last exam last summer, but we know since then that he has visited medical clinic here in dusseldorf just a couple times the past few months. also we are learning from german media that there may be another woman involved who lived with him. i was just at his apartment yesterday and there are two names on

. >> i'm joe johns, in for victor blackwell. 10:00 in the east 7:00 in the west.oom. >> always good to have you here joe. >> good to be here. >> we want to begin this hour with new developments in the death of russian opposition leader boris nemtsov after a week or just about a week after one of president vladimir putin's most vocal critics was shot in the back and killed in the heart of moscow. two suspects are under arrest this morning. >> and there is surveillance video that captured nemtsov's assassination. he was gunned down walking across a

. >> good morning, i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm christi paul. so good to have you with us. >>> as we just mentioned there is a huge rally. again, live pictures so you can see what is happening right this moment in the heart of moscow. thousands of people expected to protest the murder of boris nemtsov. immediately following this rally, we know they are going to join a morning march for him specifically. >> we have video of the moments when he was gunned down on the moscow bridge. time footage from russian tv. you see two people in the circle believed to be nemtsov own a companion walking and a snowplow moves along the street and blocks them from view and you see running someone there to what may be the get-away car behind the snowplow. the car stops and then takes off. it's thought that person may have been lying in wait for nemtsov and shot him multiple times. cnn cannot confirm the video's awe thuthenticit authenticity. >> with you can tell you we know who who was with him when he was shot. a ukrainian model anna duritskaya and we understand s

i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm christi paul. glad to have you with us. 10:00 in the east 7:00 in the west. you're in the "cnn newsroom".." >>> the south pacific island chain of vanuatu is declaring a state of emergency in the wake of the powerful and deadly cyclone. >> relief workers say the destruction from tropical cyclone pam is so massive it looks like a bomb went off in vanuatu's capital port vila. six people are dead after the storm roared assure yesterday and it's seriously feared this toll will go much higher. the u.n. says the airport's damaged which, of course makes it hard for international aid teams to get in. >> trees are down there in many areas, cutting off access to some roads there in hard-hit regions and when it roared ashore the cyclone'ss winds reached 200 miles per hour equal to a category 5 hurricane. >> cannot imagine. it's been about 24 hours now since it hit in fact and right now, the priority is to get food water, emergency supplies to the people who really need it so we talked to chloe morrison from wo

. >> i'm victor blackwell. we're in the cnn "newsroom" and you're starting this hour with breaking news. cnn is now able to confirm the identity of the captain of the germanwings flight 9525. >> let's go to cologne, germany. fred, what have you learned about the pilot? >> reporter: yeah good morning, guys. this comes from a relative of patrick zondeheimer. he confirmed to a cnn crew that met him there that indeed his relative patrick sondenheimer was the captain of the flight the man who attempted to get back into the cockpit after he was locked out by andreas lieu bits. he was described as a man with a lot of experience about 6,000 flying hours in total-. been with the company for ten years and we know his name is patrick sondenheimer. he is the man who attempted to get back into the cockpit. >> fred you're from cologne, germany. you know a lot of the officials. there have been some new revelations coming to light that the co-pilot who authorities say crashed the plane had an illness. there has been speculatio

. >> i'm victor blackwell. >>> ten americans possibly exposed to ebola and their return to the u.s. >four americans we know are back in the united states this morning. they have been taken to the university of maine medical center in omaha and there for observation but six more patients are expected to arrive either today or tomorrow and immediately transferred to emory hospital in atlanta or the hospital in omaha. >> none of these have been diagnosed to ebola but may have been exposed in sierra leone. let's bring in cnn senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joining us by phone. elizabeth, start with the four who are in omaha. what do we know about them? >> reporter: what we know about them, victor, these four had the highest level of exposure compared to the others in this group. so they have the highest level of exposure. they are monitored for fever and any other symptoms of ebola and being watched to make sure they don't leave their quarantine. having said, that as you and christi said before, it's important to remember, these folks have not shown any signs of ebola so, the

. >> i'm victor blackwell. the u.s. is evacuating about 100 special forces from an air base in yemen. sources tell cnn it's due to the deteriorating security situation in that country. >> cnn's -- senior international correspondent nic peyton walsh joining us by phone right now. is this the last of the american troops stationed there if. >> that is said to be the case yes. many of the u.s. operations in yemen have been shrouded in secrecy to the nature of what they are, advanced counter terrorism operations using drone aircraft to attack al qaeda in the arabian peninsula leadership. ever since the embassy was in closed in february a result of a deteriorating security situation in yemen, that counterterror mission has been severely in jeopardy. pentagon officials suggested they would be able to condition much of what they could do remotely or from other locations but lacking an embassy was a significant blow to that operation. the remaining 100 special forces u.s. special forces in yemen, have been or are in the process

. >> i'm joe johns in for victor blackwell. >> breaking news is called a massive failure of civilian

victor blackwell is live with more.from attorney general eric holder from this past hour referring to this as heinous, cowardly acts and un unequivocally condemns the repugnant attacks and wants to throw federal resources into any investigation there in ferguson. tell me what you know. >> reporter: very strong word as you said from the attorney general saying that this was not someone who wanted to bring harmony to this community. he called this person a damn punk and that's the person they're still looking for. we can tell you, of course about that tactical operation this morning that happened at a home in ferguson. we can tell you the latest we just received from st. louis county police department is that two men and one woman who were inside that home that officers went into are still being questioned. no arrests as in relation to that tactical operation. they are not in custody but still being questioned by st. louis county investigators. but not just state authorities, local authorities, as well but there will be f

. >> i'm victor blackwell. in the cnn "newsroom" and you're starting this hour with breaking news. cnn is now able to confirm the identity of the captain of th

let's go to cnn's victor blackwell over at the louisiana army national guard base in hammond, louisianat's the latest over there? >> reporter: i just learned that the search and rescue operation is being shut down for the night. i just had a conversation with a spokesman at eglin air force base near where this black hawk went down on tuesday night, and they say that the fog is rolling in again, it's thickening and it's just not safe for the boats and for the helicopters to continue this search through the night. they expect they will be able to resume it tomorrow not at daybreak but once the fog burns off, their forecast expects that will be sometime mid-morning. as you know it will take some time to determine exactly what the cause of this accident was, but there are concerns that the fog from last night, the weather, is a major contributor. we have also learned that fort rucker in alabama, the accident investigators there, will take time to review the damage the wreckage and the records of this chopper to determine exactly the cause of the crash. we have also learned from that eglin s

. >> i'm victor blackwell. orleans at the airport and panic there, travelers just sent running as police shoot a man threatening tsa agents with a machete. this incident started with 62-year-old richard white storming through a security checkpoint, confronting a tsa agent and dousing him with wasp spray. >> it was a dramatic scene. one agent fought white with a piece of luggage. a police officer opened fire shooting him in the leg, the chest and the face. following this story, what do you know about that man specifically? what have you learned? >> according to police he does not have a criminal background, just minor infractions so a lot of what investigators will do is interviewing family and friends and neighbors to just discover what made richard white go on this rampage? a chaotic scene at new orleans's armstrong international airport. as an injured tsa officer is wheeled away on a stretcher. after police say a machete-wielding man who used wasp spray attacked security staff at a concourse checkpoint. >> he

i'm victor blackwell. >> i'm christi paul. let's talk about this tropical paradise.orms killed at least six people. this is the island vags of vanuatu and it's feared the death toll could go higher. tropical cyclone pam barreled ashore with winds gusting to 200 miles per hour. that's as strong as a category 5 hurricane. >> it's feared entire villages are wiped out. look at what you're seeing here. trees are down, roads blocked. and that of course is making it difficult if not impossible in some areas to get to some of those hard hit regions right now. one emergency official says it looks like a bomb hit the capital. that's how bad the devastation is. chloe, we're glad you're okay. we know that communication has really been a little difficult today because of the situation but what can you tell me about what it's like there right now? >> okay. so, right now it's actually dark, it's nighttime in port vila so almost 24 hours, it's a real terrifying moments which happened about with midnight on friday night here. during the day when it was safe for me to go outside and a

"bild" is reporting this that the ex-girlfriend was interviewed and he talked to our victor blackwellknow on a flight and it ended up in -- it came to a relationship but they kept this relationship secret because she was a little bit worried about this relationship might -- could affect on her career you know? and actually she told me that this relationship lasted for five months and in the end it was her decision to break up because she felt after those months with him a little bit scared a little frightened because of his spontaneous reaction. she told me about a -- he tends to be aggressive in terms of -- and they were discussing especially about their job situation. maria told me that he was, during their relationship quite unhappy with the job situation. he told her, like you mentioned before one night he suddenly jumped up from suffering from a nightmare and screamed the plane goes down we're going down. there was another moment when he locked himself into a toilet according to her, and at least one hour she told me and she didn't know why he did that. >> john did he ever accord

blackwell joins us from hammond, louisiana. victor we know the army black hawk crashed during very foggy conditions. it was night training mission. what else have you learned? >> reporter: well the cause of that crash has not yet been determined. we have been told by representatives here at louisiana army national guard, the base here in hamenednin hammond louisiana, there were weather issues but they've not determined that the weather actually caused the crash. we are awaiting as you said a news conference from the major general, the head of the 11,000 louisiana national guard giving update only on the four member the pilots and the crew of the two uh-60 black hawks. one that landed safely as we know. the other that went down. we have heard that several of the members of the other chopper that landed safely they soon will be questioned screened to find out if they can add anything to the investigation about what sent this chopper down, but as we know this has been a major tragedy for louisiana army national guard. four of them still