have been horrible to witness and that the folk there is on maui are dealing with so much. can you give us a sense of what forensic teams are going through to try to identify people? hi, briana. yes, they ve got very large kings over there. a very wide array of forensic specialists so we re over there right now with anywhere from ten to 13 forensic anthropologists. o dontologists, forensic dentists, radiologists, dna specialists. i think what they re continuing to do is we ve got two ends of the spectrum here. the scene where the wildfire was and so that s going to be the recovery area and then we have the identification process. so we ve got teams that are out doing the recoveries and searching, recovering as much they can. everything they find will go back to the morgue to the forensic facility and that s where the teams and identification specialists such as i are working together to
scene in the alps. the recovery will soon come to a close today, right? reporter: the sun is setting here in seyne-les-alpes. it s a very difficult operation, especially in very windy conditions such as in the last couple of days. what they re doing there is 15 of them are dna specialists. they are trying to collect as much dna samples, as many as they can from the body parts. investigators haven t found a body that is intact because of the violence of that impact. and then they will try to match that dna with of course the dna samples left by the families to identify the victims. the other 15 are recovery specialists. they will be looking through the thousands of pieces of debris very small debris that may help
we heard this morning four helicopters, 15 investigators on the crash site that s not an easy job enthe last few days. two people have to be dropped from the helicopter 80 millimeters drop on the crash site. 10 of 15 are dna specialists, able to take dna samples from bodies then have to match with samples left by families. yesterday five more will try to collect as much debris as they can and bring back the bodies. it is souch a big plane, such little pieces remain. appreciate your time. i want to bring in john cox. first, your reaction to new developments we are learning about. well as this investigation unfolds, particularly the criminal investigation being done by the police bits of evidence continue to add that
us. i m don lemon in tampa, florida, where preparations are under way right now for monday s cnn tea party republican debate. we begin with the tenth anniversary of 9/11. in the arms of the angels the nation, if not the entire world, pauses to mourn the nearly 3,000 people who lost their lives ten years ago on the morning of september 11th. former presidents bush and clinton were in shanksville, pennsylvania, just this afternoon to dedicate a memorial to the heroic passengers of united airlines flight 93. their sacrifice on that extraordinary day, no doubt saved countless other lives. president obama has declared this weekend national days of prayer and remembrance. he and the first lady spent some time today at arlington national cemetery. they visited a section where service members killed in iraq and afghanistan are buried. just a short distance away at the pentagon, former president bush and his wife laid a wreath of flowers at a site known as the 9/11 stone. 184 peop
andrea. and still a lot of unanswered questions. what a terrible mystery but new bits of evidence turning up every day. katy tur in germany, thank you so much. claudio lavanga at the crash side. the families are grieving and being asked for dna and can see how difficult this recovery is. reporter: it is very difficult, andrea today the helicopters are still taking the recovery workers to the crash site. it is very windy here. we know there are four helicopters deployed to take 15 security emergency and recovery workers on the crash site. the way to do it they drop two at a time 80 meters drop to the crash site while ten of them are dna specialists who will take as much as they can dna samples from the remains and it will then try to match them with a