Good morning, welcome to early start. Im christine romans. It is 5 00 a. M. In the east. John berman is in washington all week. This morning the black box has been recovered, and investigators are trying to figure out what caused the crash of that germanwings plane in the alps. 150 people on board. Everyone on the flight from barcelona, spain, to dusseldorf germany, presumed dead including two babies. The cause of the crash, a mystery. Germanwings says the plane descended from its cruising altitude for eight minutes before radar contact was lost and the plane slammed into the mountain. Now crews struggling to recover bodies and wreckage from this snowcovered highmountain valley where the plane went down. For the very latest lets bring in cnns Erin Mclaughlin about six miles from the crash site. Good morning, erin. Youve seen rescue helicopters taking off, havent you . Reporter we have christine. The recovery operation very much under way. The field that you see behind me a hive of acti
airlines being involved. did that have teeth? that could have teeth. essentially, it s a really fundamental question actually for the european union because the poles are saying we re not letting anyone across our border. we re not only going to build the barbed wire, we re going to build a wall as well. when the rest of the eu has wall, they re not happy about that at all. what they did, the german foreign minister, that s where they end up realistically. we need to sanction the airlines that fly people into belarus, knowingly fly them to belarus. if you have a route, for instance, of a middle eastern airline that flies, say, from beruit to gradano in belarus, that s not exactly a touristic center. they re saying, look, they know these people are going to try and get across the border. they know these are not students that are going to stay in belarus. eu is saying airlines are benefiting from this, and those airlines need to feel some teeth as you say, from the european union. po
some of those students the parents, the teachers will be taking part in a commemoration service inside the school here. that s likely to be a very simple and certainly very private affair so that people can begin to come to terms with the loss of friends, young friends, and friendships that had just only begun to flourish. back down in barcelona, lufthansa, the airline company, while they re going through the passenger lists to find out exactly what nationalityies were on board, but it is a number of nationalities. we ve already counted about eight or ten different nationalities that could have been on board. why? because barcelona is a very cosmopolitan city. it s a touristic center so people go there for short stays, even weekends even weekend breaks and longer stays. it is an area where northern europeans will head south for a little bit of winter sun as well. but it s also an industrial and commercial center. and of the spaniards that were