Thanks for being with us. Im christi paul. Im victor blackwell. Were learning that what may be one of the black boxes from downed malaysian flight mh17 has been recovered from the crash site. You see that orange item there. This is in a field in Eastern Ukraine where the plane went down. Apparently happened two days ago. This video is new in to cnn what appears to be ukrainian searcher carrying either the flight data recorder or the digital voice recorder. Its not known where the black box is. It could tell us a lot about the final moments of the flight that ended so tragically with the loss of 298 lives. A brief ceasefire for a neighborhood east of gaza city, the area has seen near constant shelling since last night. 40 people are dead following last nights assault. And many more could be buried under rubble. Cakarl penhaul describes the citizens as shell shocked. A jury awarded a widow 23. 6 billion, with a b. 23. 6 billion in punitive damages for her suit against the rj reynolds com
People on this island are being asked to look out for more debris. Hear why this debris could tell investigators what happened in a planes final moments. All of this as the families of 370 wait for answers. This is cnns special live coverage. This is cnn breaking news. Im john berman. Im kate bolduan. We are following breaking news at this hour in the search for Malaysia Airlines flight mh370. Rene marsh is being told by her source that is boeing investigators now have in their words a high level of confidence that the debris found on reunion island comes from a boeing 777 jet, and thats not just because of the photos that theyve been analyzing but because of a part number that corresponds to a 777. Now, they are confident, but they still want to get their hands on it to take a closer look to make the final determines nation. That piece youre looking at right there, it is a flaperon. Its a piece that appears on the wing of a boeing 777. Again, a high degree of confidence it comes from
Answers at this point, there really is nothing but questions. And we also have some breaking news, breaking new details coming in just now. Lets get to justice reporter evan perez with much more on that. Evan, what are you picking up . Kate and john, right now u. S. Officials really have very little to go on, but one of the things that their leading theory right now for u. S. Investigators who are watching this closely is that they believe its most likely a bombing that brought down this aircraft. Again, this is not based on any hard evidence, but simply the circumstances of what were dealing with. Were talking about a highly sophisticated aircraft, an aircraft that has a lot of redundancies. It makes it even difficult for someone to deliberately stall this aircraft, and just the circumstances of the threat picture that were facing in europe and also in egypt. Again, this is early indications, early theories by u. S. Officials who are closely tracking this. They want to be invited to h
Just like donald trump does at many of his hotels, by the way. This is someone running to be president of the United States of america. Unlike donald trump, i will not pander to the gun lobby and we will not be silenced and we will not be intimidated. As long as children anywhere are being killed by gun violence, we will keep fighting for our kids because they deserve a president who stands up for them and stands with the mothers here. Lets talk more about this with brian morganstern, good to see all of you. Brian, you first, how do you explain this . His choice of words and what seems to be a change in sentiment . Yeah, well, classic trump, i suppose. He changes his positions not just month to month or day to day, but minute to minute sometimes. Thats just kind of how he rolls. Theres a big endorsement from the nra so talking about guns and mobilizing the tens of millions of americans for whom the Second Amendment is a huge issue is not the worst play in the world. For the democrats,
From on board a ship as teams pull out of the water, human remains, plane debris, life jackets, aircraft seats and suitcases from the water. You can see them there. We can also now play for you the first audio transmissions from inside the cockpit. The pilot speaking to air Traffic Controllers before his plane went down. Lets have a listen. Helloholo egyptair 804. Flight level 370. Squawk number 7624. Egyptair 804. Thank you so much, good night. That was communication from the plane with a ground station in zurich as the plane began its journey. The airbus a 320 bound for cairo went down minutes after intering egyptian airspace during what was otherwise a routine flight from paris. What we do now know is that moments before it plummeted from 37,000 feet, the plane sent automated warning messages indicating smoke was detected in the front part of the aircraft. Egyptians standing by their belief this plane was likely brought down by an act of terrorism. But without those crucial black bo