Also in world news, the faa barring u. S. Flights into israels Busiest Airport for another 24 hours, but secretary of state john kerry still managed to land there. What can he say or do to help end the fighting . Hi there. Im Brianna Keilar filling in for jake tapper. In our world lead, in a moment well bring you the incredible images from the netherlands as the country finally receives the remains from flight 17. The faa extended its ban to israels main airport for another 24 hours after a rocket from gaza landed close to the airport on tuesday, but one prominent jewishamerican says he isnt the least bit afraid to fly into israel and hes putting his considerable money where his mouth is. Michael bloomberg, former mayor of new york flew intotel aviv, el al, calling the flying restrictions a mistake giving hamas an undeserved victory. Wolf blitzer is standing by live in jerusalem. Wolf . Reporter brianna, thanks very much. Mayor bloomberg is here with erekat, the mayor of jerusalem. Thi
So far weve heard nothing more from president obama. In iraq the terror group isis continues butchering the troops we trained. And it emerged at a congressional hearing yesterday that the Obama Administration refused repeated requests by the iraqis that we target this group with drone strikes. Despite the iraqis warnings about isis, the white house later claimed it was caught by surprise when that group took over onethird of iraq. And tonight we have this, what we are told is video of that very terror group, isis, using explosives using it to destroy the tomb of jonah. Part of a campaign of terror against more than a million christians in iraq who have now been told to leave, convert to islam or be killed. So far nothing from president obama on this either. Elsewhere in the middle east new concerns tonight about hamas using civilians as shields in its war with israel. And launching attacks on israel from civilian neighborhoods in gaza. When israel went after what it believed were hamas
Airasia flight 8501. It was en route from the city there on the bottom part of your screen surabaya to singapore when it lost contact with air Traffic Control early undsunday morning. It was a short flight just under two hours long. The pilot at some point well into the flight i believe asked to change routes because of the weather. And soon afterwards contact with that airport airplane was lost. This is a picture of the plane were talking about. Its an airbus a320. We do know how many people were on that flight now. 162 on the flight manifest. Thats 155 passengers and seven cry. Most on board were indonesians with three south koreans, one singaporean, one from malaysia and one french person on board. We have also learned of the passengers 17 were children and that includes one baby. The ceo of airasia tweeted this short statement thank you for all your thoughts and prayers. We must stay strong. We havent heard from them in a while. If we get any updates from the Airline Company itself
Searching, authorities deciding about what how theyre going to search for this plane. What they have done is called it a very broad search area and divided it into four parts, quad rants, each one of them about 100,000 square kilometers. Indonesia sending vessels, but other countries are helping. Singapore, australia sending planes. Malaysia sendingships. The weather is better than it was yesterday when large waves and clouds hampered operations and of course visibility. Air controllers lost contact with airasia flight 8501 about 30 hours ago now. 162 passengers and crew on board. Lets go now to paula hancocks. She joins us from indonesia where some of the searches are being launched from. And what are you being told about how its going to be conducted . Caller well just in the last half hour weve seen one of the indonesian helicopters take off. This airport here is really where some of the military and search and rescue helicopters are coming to refuel. So its becoming a staging area.
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