thank you so much. jim? russian investigators say they have now recovered flight recorders from the plane wreckage from the crash that is believed to have killed yevgeny prigozhin. the cause of the crash remains under investigation. u.s. officials say there are no signs that it was shot down by a missile, either a surface-to-air missile or air-to-air missile, as we reported yesterday. but the u.s. does believe the wagner chief was on that plane and is now dead. russia says genetic testing is underway to confirm if that is the case and that ten body versus been recovered from the wreckage. cnn pentagon correspondent oren liebermann joins us now. the u.s. is watching this somewhat from afar. tell us what they re learning so far and how far they re willing to go in terms of their confidence as to what happened here and whether even prigozhin is indeed gone. reporter: of course, jim. and this information, it s important to caution, is based
Four of the five Indians who died in the passenger plane crash initially planned to reach Pokhara on a bus, but later changed the plan and took a flight instead, one of their friends said.
to his facebook page as that plane was coming in to land. the reason it s important is because you can see that there s no sign of panic, none of the passengers seem to be in any way upset. there s no announcements about an emergency. we re only showing you a short snippet of this video. as it continues, you hear a loud bang, and then you see flames. this plane wreckage is in a really difficult area. it s in a ravine, about 1,000 feet down. it s a tough place for search and rescue crews to work. they re still looking for at least two, possibly three people who were on board that plane. they ve had to call off the search for the day. they hope to resume tomorrow. conditions are difficult on the ground. kelly, such a tragedy. thank you. turning to italy where the most wanted man in the country, the godfather is now in custody
draws a crowd. thank you very much. we will pause. we re going to take a bit of a palate-cleansing moment here. candidly, we were trying to sneak in a break before we get into the next story for transition parties but we want to talk about it, tom costello, the challenger, the 1986 space shuttle disaster, and nasa is now confirming a piece of wreckage found from the challenger, it has been found in the ocean. this is from the history channel. look at this video. divers from the history channel, covering this 20-foot chunk of the challenger in waters off the coast of florida. nasa is saying it is the first major discovery of wreckage from the disaster in 25 years. what are you guys doing? it is an amazing piece of video from the divers at the history channel. what you are looking at is the divers who discovered this piece of debris, they were looking for world war ii plane wreckage off the coast of florida and the