pandemonium, i am sure, down there, and we gathered that from the eyewitnesses with whom we spoke and how terrifying this was for them to see. you can only imagine as you get closer to the twin towers, that a new york landmark, how what the scene must be like there. you talked about the building looking like they ve buckled. they re designed to have a two-degree sway in either direction because of the height of the building, being able to deal with the wind and stress, but something like that, probably, more than it was designed. we want to go out to jane derenowski who is a television producer here in new york. jane, can you hear me? yes, i can hear you. i m down here near the world trade center. i was walking down sixth avenue this morning a8:42 a.m. a group of us saw a plane veer through the building then saw a huge cloud of smoke and then fire came out of one of the towers here. it s near the upper floor, as you can probably see with your
and how terrifying this was to see. yoz can only imagine as you get closer to the twin towers, a new york landmark, how what the seen must be like there. you talked about the building looks like they re buckling. they re designed to have a two-degree sway in either direction because of the height of the building and to be able to deal with wind and stress. but something like that is more than it s probably designed for. we want to go out to jane, who i understand is a television producer here in new york. jane, can you hear me? yes, i can hear you. i m down here near the world trade center. i was walking down sixth avenue this morning at 8:42 a.m. a group of us saw a plane veer through the buildings, then we saw a huge cloud of smoke. and then fire came out of one of the towers. here, it s near the upper floor, as you can probably see with your chopper shot. and then about ten minutes ago, a second explosion in the second tower. lower down. that was not effected by the
and there s a whole series of bills just waiting for president obama to challenge him over the details of this frame work deal. to the administration has a lot of convincing to do. investigators have collected all of the main evidence from the germanwings crash site. it has been gut wrenching for the victim s families and for the villagers who live near the crash scene. carl penhall has the story. reporter: this should have been the view from the window seat high in the sky, instdead it may have been the last of their lives. i saw the plane go over and i thought my god, it s going to hit the mountain i saw the plane veer left and after that i saw the smoke.
don t miss a special edition of the lead at 9:00 p.m. eastern starting tonight. i m jake tapper. thanks for watching the lead. happening now, breaking news. the mystery of flight 370. an urgent race to verify not one but two pings detected underwater. the signals are consistent with an airliner s black boxes. search officials call this the best lead yet. and the u.s. navy is voicing what they call cautious optimism. i ll speak live at this hour with the u.s. navy commander aboard a ship in the region. we ll take a closer look at the next steps in the high-tech underwater search. and a deepening mystery over the plane s flight path right now. why did the plane veer north of indonesia before turning south over the indian ocean? was it an effort to avoid radar detection? i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room.
so that s when they believe the flight went missing. still trying to piece together all of this information to find out what went on onboard, and what made the plane veer off-course and what made it end up in what they believe is the indian ocean. they formed a working group to analyze this data further and try to get to the bottom of this. thanks so much. stand by. now, i want to turn to cnn s richard quest, and jeff weiss. and michael kay, a former advisor to the ministry of defense. and michael verna. and richard, you first.