airliner. another theory these were actually bodies the plane was full of dead bodies from mh370 crash that were stored and deposited here. really, conspiracy theories rather ridiculous. but, the sort of official position we heard, for example from the defense ministry and the russian ambassador to the u.n. is that they are asking questions of kiev as to why they were buk missile launches that belonged to the ukrainian military at the time. why they say there was a ukrainian fighter jet flying close to the malaysian airline plane when it went down. and the russian officials refute the evidence that the u.s. and the ukrainians put there that these audios that were doctored.
we do not know how many bodies at this time have been transported and we don t yet know exactly where they are being transported to. it was just two days ago malaysia airlines flight 17 en route from amsterdam to kuala lumpur and malaysia was shot down by a russian made surface-to-air missile in ukraine. our reporters are around the world covering the story. chris cuomo in donetsk, ukraine. elise labott. our foreign correspondent, elise, is with us. i want to go to new day s chris cuomo who was at the crash site earlier today as well. elise, let me start you because i know you have breaking news for us tonight. well, erin, you know our barbara starr and jim sciutto and others have been reporting over the last few days the initial assessment of the intelligence community was that this russian-made buk missile, this sa-11 surface-to-air
where does the debris start? if the debris starts miles from where you re describing, then that shows that the airplane started coming apart back then. they re going to look at the radar tapes. they re going to determine the rate of descent of the aircraft. was it spiraling out of control? was it gliding? and you put all of these things together and pretty soon you have a very concrete understanding of what happened. now, you tie that fact to the missile launch, and you put in the intelligence data, and this thing will tell a story from start to finish. almost as if you were sitting there watching the whole thing happen in front of you. and what do you perceive that story to be? i mean you ve watched the video. you ve seen what we ve seen, the pictures coming from the crash site. you ve also seen the evidence that it came in from the radar systems where we immediately almost determined that it was a missile that shot it down. what do you think? i think what we re going to find is w
i m leland vittert. and i m heather childers. we re in for uma peng ram u. america s news headquarters starts right now. we begin with the investigation into the downing of malaysian airlines flight 17, where international monitors have been trying to get better access to the crash site to see if the area has yet been compromised. jennifer griffin is monitoring the geopolitical fallout as ukraine accuses russia of helping separatist rebels disturb the evidence at the site. jennifer, what can you tell us? heather, senior western intelligence officials tell me they believe this video shows the actual sa-11 missile launcher used to bring down the malaysian plane. it is missing two of its four missiles and shows the missile launcher heading toward the russian border at dawn yesterday. u.s. officials now believe they have pinpointed the launch site for the missile that brought down the plane, inside ukraine.
surfaced of the actual rocket launcher we believe was used to bring down that plane. national security correspondent has been following the developments and joins us now with more. talk to us a little bit more of the video that has been released of this potential possible launcher. this is significant because this video came outeleased by the ukraine interior ministry yesterday. but i have since spoken to western intelligence sources who have confirmed that they believe that is the actual sa-11 launcher that was used to fire at least one missile at the malaysian plane. they ve been following this rocket launcher since the plane went down, and according to my sources, there has been an effort to hide the launcher by the russian separatists. it s been moved around. and when it was seen yesterday in this video that was released by the interior ministry, it was filmed by a ukrainian police unit at about dawn and it was heading towards the border with