were or simply chose to ignore that? captioning funded by cbs this is the contribution cbs morning news for thursday march 26 2015. good morning. i m alison harmelin in for anne-marie green. an unidentified official said one of the pilots was apparently locked out of the cockpit as the plane slammed slammed into the side of the mountain. the pilot can be heard banging on the cockpit door. the investigator says it s unclear why the pilot left the cockpit. meanwhile the head of the french investigating team said the airbus flew on a straight line into the mountains. and the state department says there were at least three americans on board. two have been identified. yvonne selke and arch crews desperate to find the victims while families sat and wait. crews are flying again over the french alps this morning searching for the data recorder belonging to the doomed germanwings jet. so far analysis of the plane s voice recorder only deepens the mystery over tuesday s crash.
this is the contribution cbs morning news for thursday march 26 2015. good morning. i m alison harmelin in for anne-marie green. an unidentified official said one of the pilots was apparently locked out of the cockpit as the plane slammed slammed into the side of the mountain. the pilot can be heard banging on the cockpit door. the investigator says it s unclear why the pilot left the cockpit. meanwhile the head of the french investigating team said the airbus flew on a straight line into the mountains. and the state department says there were at least three americans on board. two have been identified. yvonne selke and her daughter. her family called them wonderful people. tina kraus is in digne at the crash site. good morning. reporter: the sun came up early this morning and so did the helicopters full of the search crews desperate to find the victims while families sat and wait. crews are flying again over the french alps this morning searching for the data recorder
revealing how a german airliner crashed in the french alps killing all 150 onboard. we learned today that three americans are among the dead including emily selke of nokesville, virginia. the rest from the plane were mostly germans and spaniards on a flight from barcelona to dusseldorf. in clear skies, with no hint of trouble, the germanwings airbus a-320 descended into a mountain at nearly 450 miles an hour. we have a team of correspondents on the story. first we ll go to mark phillips in france. reporter: from the break of dawn and all day long, they flew, ferrying medics and investigators to the crash site. their mission find the dead and try to find out why they had died. it s as difficult a crash scene as is possible to imagine, a remote mountainside, the wreckage and the victims strewn down a 60-degree slope and over a 10-acre site. among the discoveries, though, the cockpit voice recorder damaged in the high-impact crash, but according to french air accident investi
dictator assad in response to syria s use of nerve gas against civilians. one year later the world is reacting to reports of yet another devastating chemical attack on civilians. be warned the images you re about to see are graphic and disturbing. dozens of civilians including children were killed in a rebel held town near damascus currently under sieged but the russian backed forces. the state department condemned the attack and pinned the blame on russia, saying they upt bear responsibility for the brutal targeting of count is syrians with chemical weapons. it s unclear exactly how the united states respond. right now american foreign policy exceptionally ruder is even by the standard of the trump era. trump s new pick of pompeo has yet to be confirmed and uber hawk john bolton starts his job on monday. the president tweeted about syria only after a typical weekend morning tweet storm attacking the washington post and fraizing fox news. in true trumpian fashion he blamed