Can an historic breakthrough be reached . We are breaking down the angles of the big story ahead. History of suicidal tendencies and motive to kill. Disturbing information about the pilot who flew flight 9525 into a mountain. New backlash for indiana. Its religious freedom law criticized into legalizing discrimination. Im christine romans. Welcome to early start. Im john berman. Happening right now, negotiators in switzerland working to reach a deal to curb Irans Nuclear program. The deadline to reach the framework of an agreement is today. Just hours to go and stumbling blocks remain. Breaking in the last few minutes, lavrov is returning to the talks in switzerland. Could this be a sign that they are closing in on a deal. Lets get the latest from elise labott who joins us now from the talks. The Russian Foreign minister on his way back. Elise. Reporter john when he left yesterday, i thought he was saying get your act together and ill come back when something is ready to close. By him
Investigators one step closer to figure out what caused the plane to crash. One of the pilots was locked out of the cockpit as the plane descended and flew into the mountain. A senior military official says the pilot can be heard on the cockpit voice recorder first tapping and then knocking and trying to smash down the door. That plane crashed with him still trying to get into the cockpit. Turning to Erin Mclaughlin live at the staging area in the french alps. There is a lot of information that needs to be put together. A lot of pieces of the puzzle. This information, first reported by the New York Times. Since reported by the french media really is shocking. Reporter shocking and it really does serve to deepen this mystery, christine. What we dont know we dont know why the pilot got up and left the cockpit. We also dont know why the other pilot did not let him back inside inside. Now so far, authorities here are not commenting on the very chilling reports. The most they said about the
Northern city of rochelle leaving a path of destruction more than 25 miles long. We quickly went down to the basement. And could feel the tornado right over our house. Rochelles hospital in disaster mode throughout the night. Emergency crews quickly clearing debris. Rescuing a dozen people trapped in the storm cellar of this local restaurant. The back wall fell right on top of it when the tornado hit. And we were trapped. And we were about an hour hour and a half in there at least. Im in shock. Ive got no job and no car, so its its scary. So but im glad im alive. Just north in the cities of fairdale and kirkland illinois the local Fire Department says a tornado pretty much wiped out the town. And in iowa the storms breaking out so quickly that this camera crew planning on covering a baseball game holy [ bleep ], dude its spinning. Captured this footage of a possible tornado. It took us most of the night to go around this area because the police had blocked off so much of it. So a lot o
U. S. War ships patrolling the waters off yemen. Those on board engaging in a show of force to block iranian vessels suspected of providing weapons to the rebels in yemen. Iranian officials are not backing down. The commander of the regular iranian navy said we dont let anyone give us warnings or threats. Our correspondent Nick Paton Walsh has the latest developments for us. Reporter john more and more fire power ability assisting the Saudiled Coalition around yemen. The latest joining about ten ships already in the region. Uss Theodore Roosevelt and the carrier, uss normandy. There is a practical dimension to this. The u. S. Has eyes on about nine ships thought to be carrying weapons. It is unclear the destination. If they will move to the yemeni coast. Bear in mind john United Nations Security Council resolution accuseing an arms blockade. It will become a point if the iranian ships move toward yemen that the u. S. Is faced if they let them carry on or block them. It may likely not c
Kind of deal. So the pressure is really on. But were talking about a very vague statement, even if one comes out today, because its very clear there is still unresolved issues. It seems as if at the best theyre agreeing to keep talking. Chris . Elise, please keep us informed of any movement in the talks. There is no question that president obama has a lot riding on the iran situation. The question is now, what if this plan to negotiate doesnt work . Lets bring in cnn senior White House Correspondent jim acosta with more. The white house is adamant that president obama is not going to accept a bad deal with iran. Last night the president held a Video Conference call with his National Security team and with secretary of state john kerry, and Energy Secretary earnest monese leading the u. S. Side of the talks in switzerland. At this point u. S. Officials cannot say whether theyll reach a breakthrough at the negotiations the one thing that press secretary made clear to reporters yesterday