i was dead. and i was shot down the whole right-hand side of my body. i saw that the photographer with me, greg robinson, congressman ryan, bob brown, don harris of nbc and patricia parks who is one of the defectors were all dead. i thought, oh, my god. this is it. i m 28 years old. i m not going to live to be in my 80s. i m not going to have the opportunity to get married and have children. it s over.
346 surviving passengers and crew get off the plane within one minute. people say, how in the world could everybody get off that quick? and i tell them, we had a very highly motivated group of people. a grinding noise woke me up. it was a bang and a flash. i looked up. the whole right-hand side of the business compartment had gone. the sound of the explosion, the feeling of the explosion and the violence of the explosion is awesome. and i hope none of you have to go through it. it s a tragedy for the families of the nine passengers who don t survive and a trauma for the rest, but at least it s over. but for investigators, the story is just beginning. they see that the cargo door is missing. what they don t know is, why did
dismissed as nothing to do with mh-370. the lookout now will be for, you know much much bigger pieces. not that they will confirm that it was from mh-370 which we know but, again, to find out how and why this plane crashed where it did. thomas? okay. and for viewers just joining us bill, stand by for me. for those just joining us it was a short time ago in the last hour we got word from malaysian officials that they confirmed that the fragment that was found on the beaches of reunion island that wing fragment is that from mh-370. missing flight that wept off taking off from cue la lumpur in march on the way to beijing and disappearing in the indian ocean. 239 people on board. on the upper right-hand side of your screen that s people assembling for a press conference that will happen in france. our bill neely is there for us.
we re good, we ve called q. zblts the s.e.c. has been hit by budget cuts for the past few years and that s a big problem. it s easy to pick on s.e.c. but i don t envy their head at all. she has a tough job. well, we are awaiting a live news conference, you can see the small box on the bottom right-hand side of your screen. this will be a lively press conference from the press room at the white house and we will have our top people on it for you. thanks so much for riding this one out with us. we ll continue to watch the story here on cnn. i m going make way for dana bash, she ll take over. she has wolf s show handled from here. hello, i m dana bash in for wolf blitzer. it s 1:00 p.m. in washington, 6:00 p.m. in london and 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem. wherever you re watching from around the world, thanks for joining us. we begin with breaking news
that s so awful, especially that mother howling there. howling. she s in the middle of it all. it s just awful. dennis, thank you for your insight as well. very helpful to understand this and such incredible information and so necessary for so many members across the country. we are still watching that picture on the bottom right-hand side of your screen, expecting that live news briefing at the u.s. state department at any moment. possibly two updates here. an update on the terror attack at the museum in tunisia and then of course those death threats being made against ambassador caroline kennedy in japan. also coming up, it is hard enough to believe the stories about troubled american teens running off to join isis. but what about a united states military veteran? that man just appeared in a federal court in america and you guessed it, the charge is trying to help out isis. the real question that needs to be asked is