those on board flight 39525 that crashed into the french alps. they re starting to arrive to the crash location. many chartered by bus and flights sfr germany and spain. you re seeing some gathering now. the first stop was the memorial service in the village. then the families will travel to this village as close as possible to this crash sight where another memorial service is planned. that s the village serving as the staging area for the recovery operation. cnn senior international correspondent is there with a little more of family members. just imagining how difficult it would be to be so close to their loved ones remains and now with information about the co-pilot. have you had a chance to see any of them nick? reporter: we saw a lot of them arrive about 100 or so perhaps a few more. they came on 70 seat coaches and
kerry cancelled a meeting with russia officials. diana, good morning. reporter: hi brooke. the ousted ukrainian president viktor yanukovych said the elections weren t legitimate and the new government is backed by nationalists and fasists and that he s still the leader of this country and armed forces. frankly here in crimea, it doesn t feel this way. you wouldn t find many people even here who want mr. yanukovych back. on the pro russian side in crimea, you have people telling you mr. putin is the real leader and they don t think kiev is legitimate. certainly no one keen on mr. yanukovych coming back. as you said, john kerry canc cancelled a meeting with the
the passports of the other passengers on flight 370 checked out as legitimate. the general say more information officials get the more they focus on factors other than terrorism as the cause of the plane to go missing. brook? pamela, thank you very much. what happened exactly? so many questions as far as what happened to this plane. this flight 370 in the 239 people on board. right now dozens of ships and planes from at least ten countries are involved in this search overnight. a pacific pilot reported seeing large solid debris floating in the ocean during a flight from hong kong. at this hour, still no trace of this massive missing jetliner. jim is working this from kuala lumpur. good morning. reporter: good morning to you brook. the pressure is really on.
what does it mean to everyday life there? reporter: it means a lot of work, chris. we re on the mobile bay, a coast guard cutter. this is an ice breaker. guys are getting ready to go outside now on lake michigan. you see matthew cooking breakfast. this is the big break out week. annually coast guard cutter, the entire fleet heads out into the ice. the problem is this year there s so much ice, up to four inches in some areas. you can take a look at some of the chopped up ice here in the bay. what the cutters and other ships in the coast guard fleet have to do is create shipping lanes for cargo ships. 90 million tons of cargo shipped through the great lakes last year. getting them up and running this week is imperative. there are two ships now in the bay ready to leave. they can t because they are locked in. the coast guard is starting their operations today. they ll move this ice out,
in our view of the threat to the security of the international community, our allies and the united states, and that means that there is some options we might not otherwise exercise that we would that we would strongly consider. and want to talk about syria and the potential u.s. response here as we go forward. fred pleitgen is standing by in damascus and barbara starr at the pentagon. barbara, i want to come to you in a minute. first fred, tell me what you re seeing in the capital city today, and what are conditions like there? reporter: hi brooke. i was at that bombing site about 20 minutes after that bombing happened. i can tell you it was a scene of absolute carnage there, there were still wounded beingy angry. a lot of them we have been speaking to said they believe it was the opposition. there is a degree of uncertainty. there had been a lot more