accepting of homosexuality. that s none n-o-n-e-s, not the other kind. i turn you over to wolf blitzer next door in the situation room. happening now, midair explosion, cnn is learning a satellite detected a heat flash moments before a russian airliner broke apart and crashed on the sinai peninsula. with a missile all but ruled out, was it on board? was a bomb on board that brought down the plane. terror connection? threats against russia by the head of al qaeda calling for attacks in an ominous new message. was the plane disaster a terror attack? backing assad, russia insisting tonight its position on syrian dictator al assad has not changed but earlier a foreign ministry spokeswoman said keeping him in power isn t
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channel taking place just over a week away from now. this new plan won t affect that debate. it will start with cnn s next debate in december. alisyn? athena, thanks so much for all of that. we ll get back to the conditions from the candidates shortly in the program. right now we want to get back to our top story, the russian plane disaster and what brought it down. joining us is david susi, former accident investigator and inspector. good morning, david. good morning. you ve looked at the evidence, now that that exists. why do you believe this plane broke up, exploded, basically, in midair? well, if you look at the pictures that we have of the accident site and the report of the distance, the area that s being recovered, we re looking at satellite images for cnn an we should have that very shortly. basically this is spread out so far it s indicative of an in-flight breakup at a high
problem because you re going to have trouble getting the fuel for emergency generators if you re using diesel. we re on natural gas, but natural gas has to be powered through the lines ultimately by pumps that are run by electricity. ted koppel, thanks so much. the book is lights out kwt, a r attack, a nation unprepared surviving the aftermath. that s it for me jake tapper and the lead. turning over to wolf blitzer in the situation room. happening now, airliner down. the mystery surrounding the crash of a russian passenger jet in egypt s sinai peninsula deepening tonight. all 224 people onboard killed, the black boxes now in the hands of investigators. will they reveal what caused this plane to break apart in midair? terror claims. egyptian militants with ties to isis say they re responsible for the plane disaster. but officials in moscow and washington aren t necessarily buying it. was the doomed flight downed by a terrorist missile or a bomb?
beginning to get cold here for the winter. and also concern because quite a number of parents had gone on the trip to sharm el sheikh and left their young children with relatives here. now quite a number of orphans have been created by this plane disaster. this is striking an emotional chord. so many people we see standing openly weeping trying to figure out what precisely took place. the things that you are beginning to hear. hearing from metrojet. they will be more questions from the plane company. how did the aircraft break apart in the air? people will ask that question. and hopefully the black boxes will give answers. nic robertson, thank you. republican candidates trying to seize more control of the tv debate process from networks and republican party. meeting last night for the first time face-to-face.