but it s your plane, it s your souls on board, it s your life, it s your crew, what do you do? so it s pretty easy to sit here and say that seemed like an overreaction but if you re in that situation, it s hard to know. it all comes down to how much information was available at the early hour when the los angeles authorities had to make this decision. as far as we can determine, at least at this point at 12:30 in the afternoon east coast time, we don t think there was much federal coordination here. we don t believe that the department of homeland security was involved. we don t think the federal department of education was involved. we don t think the fbi was involved or the justice department. and of course, normally speaking, you wouldn t think it would be, because these decisions on closing schools are very local ones. but i m sure we are going to learn more about how much consultation they were involved in and how much effort they made to try to reach out and verify
the u.s. intelligence community increasingly believes it may have been a bomb that brought down the airplane killing all 224 souls on board. a u.s. official telling me and i quote, there is a definite feeling it was an explosive device planted in luggage or somewhere on the plane. the u.s. has been monitoring isis communications. they believe it is possible it was isis or an isis affiliate behind all of this. they had been worried about the security situation in sinai for months as militants increasingly moved in. after the attack, they began to see the isis online claims. these online communications that are not part of the public claims of responsibility. think of it as isis chatter if you will that the u.s. intelligence community is monitoring. we now have seen the u.k.,
job. the latest on that from cnn s barbara starr. reporter: our own elise labott is hearing from her sources it is possible that someone at the airport in sharm el sheikh may have been involved in trying to get a bomb on board the aircraft. where it stands now is it is not absolute. it is not a final assessment. the u.s. intelligence community may believe it was a bomb bringing down that airplane killing all 224 souls on board. the u.s. official telling me, quote there is a definite feeling it was an explosive device planted in luggage or somewhere on the plane. the u.s. has been monitoring isis communications. they believe it is possible it was either isis or isis affiliate behind all of this. they have been worried about the security situation in sinai for months as militants increasingly
are people who will survive this ultimately, but right now, we don t know of any survivors officially. again, 224 souls on board that aircraft. ron mott reporting from london, thank you so much. yes, again, we are hoping there are survivors on board. let s hope the next details you bring will be that. let s bring in tom costello. what are investigators looking at when they see this plane and the flight data recorder possibly when that s that found? you re right, the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder, those are critical to picking up. so the egyptian military or whoever is able to recover the wreckage will be clearly focusing on that once they have dealt with the victims of this crash. i think there s a lot at this point, this investigation is wide open. so in no particular order they ll look at the weather conditions at the time. at the moment all of those are reported to be have been normal and fine for flight.
33 souls on board, including 28 americans. there was one unidentified victim wearing a cold water emergency suit was found. mary s daughter was among the missing. we will scream and cry and pray. questions now growing, why did the el faro set out from puerto rico? the company says at the time it set out, joaquin was only a tropical storm but cnn reported hours earlier joaquin was forecasted to become a full-on hurricane and would cross el faro s intended path. last wednesday, they got an e-mail from the ship s captain indicating everything was okay. he understood the weather condition that was out in front of him, the location that he had been monitoring the track and that he had a sound plan that