passengers, the state department is combing through the manifest carefully. so far, there are no american names to confirm. that doesn t mean there aren t americans, wolf. some of those times there are common names. a lot of names on the manifest don t have passports that are easily identifiable as american iz cs. a lot of these citizens would be primary nationalities of another country but have a dual nationality of u.s. citizenship. the state department doesn t want to say there are no americans aboard but breathing a cautious sigh of relief right now saying there are no americans so far to confirm and they have not as of now, wolf, heard from nel american families saying they have a family member aboard. all right. thanks for that information. elise labott reporting from the state department. let s get more with our chief national security correspondent jim sciutto, he s with us, national security analyst bob bare and jewelial jofi, the
senior editor of the new republic, an expert on russia. do the pro-russian separates in ukraine have the capability to carry out an attack like this without moscow s help? you know the separatists are denying they have this capability. they ve put out a statement saying they lack it. however, back on june 29th, just a couple weeks ago, they captured a buk missile system from the ukrainian forces. they announced this it was carried in the official russian press. so even by the rebels own accounting they do have what takes. and that missile system clearly could knock a plane like this one out of the sky even if it s flying at 30,000 or 35,000 feet. jim, with separatists in ukraine, the pro-russian separatists based on everything you know, and you were just there a few weeks ago, would they will do there without instructs from moscow? it s the ukrainian officials contention they were in touch today as this plane was shot down. the pro-russian separatists in