somewhere and they ll find it. when they do find the cockpit voice recorder, the so-called black boxes, how much information specifically will we be able to glean from that as far as whether it was an air-to-air missile or a surface-to-air missile, for example? that i m not sure about. you may be able to interpret something from the sound of the airplane being struck. those microphones pick up sound like the microphone over which i m talking to you. but they also pick up vibrations, sound vibrations that travel through the airframe. there may be something that the crew says. they may know something else. it s going to be a long, long investigation. matthew wall, thanks for that useful information. we re watching this story for all of our viewers. we re watching another breaking news story. stand by. we ve got lots of news right here in the situation room.
russian is increasing the provision of heavy weapons to separatists in ukraine. add to that what the senior officials have been telling reporters that some of the companies in russia, that those companies are responsible for the production of surface to air missiles. administrators noting that a ukrainian jet was shot down just days ago. little bits and pieces come in as the white house is becoming very concerned about the evidence and the debris field in ukraine in that phone call with poroshenko, the president making it clear he wants the evidence preserved. yeah, they certainly do. all evidence at least so far pointing to a deliberate shootdown of that malaysian airliner. matthew wall is joining us now. what are you hearing about the apparent shootdown of the malaysian airliner. several different things.