the phone with the french equivalent of ntsb. it does appear to be badly damaged on the outside but at this point that does not mean that they will not be able to get valuable information off of the cockpit voice recorders. what s happening as we speak right now is the team is working to open the orange casing that you re looking at because inside of the orange casing are motherboards that hold this critical information and data. so they are in the process of opening that up right now. if everything is okay and all goes well and there s no damage i m told the bea will be able to download this information today. however, if there is damage then that complicates things and now that could be a two to three-day process. as far as at the investigation site what we know now is that bea investigators are taking
citizens were aboard that tragic flight. the dutch prime minister has come out very harshly against the separatists, accusing them of not treating the bodies with enough respect. and the malaysian authorities have questioned the investigation site, the crash site, saying that it has been compromised there. now, this has come on top of direct accusations from the ukrainian government which has been battling the rebels in this deadly conflict for three months. the ukrainian government, which has accused the rebels of a cover-up and have released recordings of what they claim are conversations over the phone between rebel commanders and rebels on the ground in which they urge the rebels to try to secure the black boxes, the flight recorders as fast as possible and keep them out of other people s hands under the purported orders of moscow. take a listen to this.
starting rounding up the bodies in their trucks and loading the body bags on to the trucks and transporting them out. so it s a difficult thing to watch, but it s really important that it s happening. hmm. and so, chris, it sounds like the picture you re painting for us, this is not an issue, or an example of trying to hide evidence, but this this is the only means they have, and these local miners, perhaps, really feel they re doing the right thing by assisting, by moving these bodies that are decomposing. maybe not as mindful about what is needed at an investigation site, that would that authorities would reporter: i think a spin on this, no, i don t see people that understand the investigation. there s a lot of arguing on one of the men dealing with the body bags, had some type of seizure, wound up in an ambulance and they were treating him. the miners, i believe, may be part of the recovery teams, and they may have some training in this, but all they re doing is
captured it and they could have catch tuned it tap cured it this is not a system that you can train someone in a day to operate it. it requires training and unless you have ukraine rebels who had prior training or have served in the russian military. we don t know. who do they report the shoot-down to? we understand they reported it to the russians. and twitter is a possibility there. some tweets that were scrubbed two questions about the investigation site do you think we re likely to get in there? we re going to send guys in with fbi jacketed and they ll be targets. i think, none one, an investigation can t attends if the investigators are at risk so it s very important to make do we send troops in with them to protect them. i think there has to be a a secure zone, troops we can
people died in that flight, but, reena, three more were added to that total. we learned three infants were on board and among the dead there. a very sad situation in ukraine. what always gets me with the coverage are the personal effects that you find on the ground. martha was reporting about playing cards, children s books, a packet of stickers. you know, sort of moves me as a mom because these are all the things i would pack for my kids to keep them occupied. there was even a traveler s guide book to bali. these are the left the items that people were carrying on their plane to go on their trip. of course, so many body parts we can t show you on the air, but graphic, horrible images that the world is waking up to this morning from eastern ukraine. and we re also going to be looking at the investigation site. the rebels on the ground that are pro-russian, they are backed by the russians, they do, in fact are saying they will allow investigators to come. that s our news for t