burnett. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. outfront tonight the breaking news, shot down, malaysia 17. many late breaking developments. the united states pointing fingers at pro russian rebels. these are the first pictures cnn is getting of the wreckage. our phil black is at the crash site in eastern ukraine. it took 24 hours to get to the site. it s remote and dangerous and controlled by rebel fighters. in short, this is a war zone. we re going to speak to phil in a moment and he s going to show you this horrible scene. first the late nest the shocking and fast-moving story. tonight the united states has says it knows who is responsible for the death of all 298 people on board the malaysia airlines boeing 777 shot down on the russian border on route between
happened because when a plane goes down the first thing you think about is most probably technical or mechanical failure or something of that sort but after listening in and paying very good attention for eight hours and looking at you guys at cnn, we figured out that it was shot down over ukraine, and that somehow makes it a bit better for us to fly, but it s still it s a difficult period to fly. of course, it is. you also have that personal loss, as well. did it exactly. did it ever cross your mind to change the flight, or are you just full steam ahead. yeah, yeah, that s the first thing we tried to shift to the klm flight at night for tomorrow night, but it wasn t possible, so we thought well, you know, lightning doesn t strike twice in the same place, so let s just
assistant from the russian personnel. it s strange to think it could be used by separatists without at least some measure of russian support. reporter: the missile that shot down the jet say u.s. officials came from this missile system, a russian made buk or sa-11. today, new audio recordings obtained by cnn from ukrainian officials describe how they received the same missile launcher from russia. [ speaking foreign language ]. and after the malaysian jet was shot down, ukrainian intelligence points to this video which shows a vehicle carrying the launcher back into russian territory, minus one missile on top. today, sergey lavrov said he
naturalized u.s. citizen who was born in pakistan. he is expected in a federal courthouse a couple of hours from now. he was taken into custody last night at new york s jfk airport. in fact, we have been learning he was on a plane bound for pakistan via dubai, and a federal law enforcement source was telling cnn that it was not some sort of ruse to allow him on the plane, to sitting in his seat at the last minute. this was a close call, folks. he was that close to leaving country. a law enforcement official tells cnn shahzad has told investigators he acted alone. he s also believed to be the person who drove that nissan pathfinder full of explosives into times square saturday evening. evening. cnn continues in just a minute.
maybe that s how he got the idea to buy this vehicle he was going to bring into times square. that s what we have got for you so far. if you get any neighbors who are willing to talk to you on camera, we would love to hear from them personally. excellent job reporting out of connecticut. thank you for that. obviously, a lot of ground to cover on this story. to get the bigger, better picture in this investigation, someone else who has been working it up all night for us, cnn s drew griffin of the special investigations unit working his sources overnight joining me now from new york. i want to start with the big break in this case, that is the vin number, and a lot of people don t realize, you have the vin number on the dashboard, which, of course, shahzad had removed. there are many other locations on a car where a vin number is at. right. as many as 15 perhaps, different places. this particular vin number, you said, the one that we are all familiar with on the doosh boas was remo