with the damming of this aircraft. no one here has specifically knocked down the notion that a bomb was put on board. they categorically won t do that. the very latest is from the main aviation authority here. they say it s up to the egyptians to lead the investigation and the accident happened there and they go on to say that it would be against the law in effect for russia to make an announcement on the state of that investigation without the explicit permission of the egyptian authorities. that sounds in a way like the russians saying we can t talk about it until the egyptians get out ahead of it, wolf. you re in st. petersburg, nick. that s where russian experts are examining the bodies even as we speak. explain what they are finding. reporter: wolf, you got forensic experts not far here and a morgue helping the
show signs of explosive trauma, that they have metal fragments in the bodies. not far from the airport there s a morgue here. families are being taken there. there are government forensic experts working with those bodies. a local newspaper has said now that there were metal fragments from an explosion found in some of the bodies, wolf. that s what there have been several of these reports that shrapnel was found in some of these bodies as well. thanks very much for that, nic robertson. let s dig deeper into all of this with the independent senator angus king of maine, key member of the senate intelligence and armed services committee. senator, thanks for joining us. i know there are some restrictions of what you can and cannot say. give us the latest information on what happened. well, i think i can t really go beyond what you ve already reported, wolf. and the pieces are starting to come together. we know the plane went down. we know that isil has taken credit for it. if you take
three exited the perimeter before it was officially sealed off. further into the enveinvestigat others were identified with businesses and residential videos showing three individuals that matched the description of what lieutenant gliniewicz called out. they were identified and they were interviewed and all had rock solid alibis and alibied out. but just because those three were eliminated, we opened the door back up to the belief that there were three others that were out there and the three that we had spoken to obviously weren t so there were three others remaining at large. this investigation is like dumping a 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle on a table without a diagram and putting the pieces together one by one. once everything started coming together, we were able to take the other, the suicide angle
it s about time that we do it before tragedy happens. i m calling this opportunity the tsa here where we know we don t have security instead of statement after statement without any results to see security in high level. do it now before it will be late. tom fuentes, is the fbi as far as you know getting involved being brought into this investigation? because the ramifications for the u.s. clearly are enormous. well, i don t know at this point if they actually are, but i think that the possibility of somebody at the airport introducing an employee let s say introducing contraband there was a bomb onto that plane is significant. we have reports here on cnn, drew griffin s reporting about the airport the one in atlanta the gun case where employees waltz into the airport with no security, with a bag of guns and someone a passenger that s cleared security then they trade in the bathroom. he boards the plane. well, that could have been