that they found in the bodies of the crew members who died. that evidence suggests it did in fact come from a buk missile. you re right, this was a russian or a soviet so there is plenty here for both sides to chew on. tom costello, always a pleasure. you bet. still ahead, jeb bush presents his own plan to repeal and replace obama care. plus iran gives the okay for nuclear deals with iran to go forward. and this is what happens when technology and alcohol mix. a suspected drunk driver tells the world on per scope, hey, let s see if i get a d.u.i. we ll tell you how this turned out but let s just say she
cockpit were later recovered from the victims, from the cockpit crew and they used those pieces of evidence to determine what they say happened to malaysia flight 17. a short time ago, the chairman of the dutch safety board. as a result of the detonation, the forward part of the airplane was torn off. the airplane broke up in the air. the wreckage came down in an area of about 50 kilometers in the eastern part of ukraine. the missile was launched from a 320-square kilometer area in eastern part of ukraine. of course, that s contested territory. what the dutch are not saying is who fired that missile. but they do say it is a russian-built missile. they believe it is an sa-11, a buk missile. that is the missile that brought down malaysia flight 17. however, now the dutch and pardon me, the americans and the
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status quo of the conflict in east ukraine which was shattered when the plane was shot done next week. thank you so much for your reporting, great job. thank you for having me. american and western governments have been opinioning to mounting evidence that a russian-bill buk missile system was responsible, russian media are getting a different picture. for instance, the plane moved off the flight path, that dispatchers summoned the plane lower just before the crash. the ukraine army has air defense systems in the area where flight 17 was full of corpses when it took off from a&mster dam. the last part that the passengers were already dead at the time of the crash was made by this man, originally from moscow, one of the rebel commanders in the area and today at a command center, russian generals from the defense ministry in russia made the case the ukrainian fighter plane
back over the russian border. in the past day or so. the implication, of course, that russia is trying to tamper with the evidence. now, the buk missile system is something we ve been hearing a lot about over the past couple of days. tom foreman is in washington to take a closer look at exactly what it is. and tom, what is the buk? again, it s spelled b-u-k. what s it capable of? it is a four-man unit. it has four ready to fire missiles up on top. it can set up and fire very quickly and move away after firing very quickly. those missiles have a tremendous amount of power. let s bring one in here and talk about that. each one is about 16 feet long. we re showing them a little bit smaller to make it all fit. it will weigh about 1,500 pounds. and it has a 154 -pound warhead on it. that means 154 pounds of high explosive. it doesn t actually have to hit the target. it just has to get close to it, but with electronic guidance systems, it can get very close