families how this plane went down. tonight, investigators are mapping the debris field in the french alps where the aircraft is described as obliterated. recovery teams are struggling to get to the wreckage spread far apart starting in an altitude of about 6,000 feet. their challenge, navigating vertical slopes and deep ravines is enormous. they may have little cliff edges that they may have to pick things off of. as they descend, they may have to stop similar to this gather things put them into a bag and keep rappelling down. reporter: this high altitude mountaineer has climbed stark peaks just like those in the alps. we rappeled with him to see what the recovery teams are up against. he says depending on where the helicopters can drop those teams, rescuers may have to climb up or rappel down to get on the debris and remains of passengers. they will battle dangerous crevices fatigue and weather
1.8 million higher than the year before. the numbers adding further urgency for it eurozone plan to deal with its mounting debt crisis. back to our top story. three million people without any power or air-conditioning on the east coast amid the sweltering temperatures and heat index above in some places 100. elizabeth prann live in charleston, west virgina on the phone. elizabeth? reporter: hi, good to hear you. adding insult to injury another line coming through last night causing some serious setbacks in the efforts to restore power to all those stranded for the third night in a row. even knocking out power to some in this area for the second time. so a lot of people are saying, why is it taking so long for us to get power back? not only the population size, just like you said. millions of people are without power but the terrain. a lot of these power lines are in deep ravines. it is hard for power crews to get to them. what is it causing? well basically it causes a