american airports. there are is some suspicion that the bomb was put on the metro jet flight by an insider of egyptian airport worker in sharm el sheikh where the aircraft made the final takeoff. our government correspondent rene marsh is join g ing us. we are talking about only a million workers here in the united states, and 450 airports, and what exactly are the tsa and homeland department concerns? well, wolf, with my conversations of the several people involved with the security, they are saying the same thank, this major concern is the insider threat, the individual who works at the airliner and has that unfettered secure access to the airport as well as the aircraft. i spoke with one congressman john catco who is the chairman of the senate transportation committee, and he said in his own words, we simply do not know
you state here and around the world. i m george howell. cnn newsroom starts right now. > good day to you. we start in the sinai peninsula. weather there has been a factor hampering the investigation into the crash of metro jet flight 9268. in a news kfrps, the lead investigators stayed debris is strewn across a wide area. about 13 kilometers. he said the voice recorder picked up a suspicious noise in its final seconds. the official was quick to also add that, despite the noise and that wide scattered debris field, it s still too soon, too early to be sure whether a bomb brought that plane down. cnn is covering the story from all angles. let s go first to ian lee, standing by in sharm el sheikh where that flight originated. ian, good to have you with us. let s talk about the investigation first. there is focus on that noise.
6-year-old. what we found about their past, as a town remembers that boy. moments ago, russia mourns their dead. 224 lives lost on board that passenger plane that fell apart in egypt just over a week ago. good morning, everyone.victor b i m centennial olympic park. a somber moment service just ended at the one of the iconic cathedra cathedrals. the bells ringing 224 times once for each of the passengers on jet flight 9628. suspicion that a bomb exploded and brought that plane down. one telling cnn 99.9% certain of
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speaking now. as i said, incredibly animated, calling the questions that have been raised about his life story a bunch of lies. sunlen is with me now in that very room. no, we don t have her. when we get her, we ll bring her to you. we re going to take a brief break, though. when we come back, our other major breaking news, investigators now convinced it was a bomb that took down metro jet flight 9268. and with increasing evidence that the bomb on board was hidden in the cargo hold, we re going to go inside that hold. we ll be back. 40% of the streetlights in detroit, at one point, did not work. you had some blocks and you had major thoroughfares and corridors that were just totally pitch black. those things had to change.