[Brooke Baldwin, Cnn Anchor:] Wolf, thank you. Hi there. I'm Brooke Baldwin. Great to be with you on this Tuesday. We have major breaking news to pass along to you right now. The continuous violence in the Mideast has thus far remained contained within the region, but its impact is starting to spread. Here's what we know at this hour. The FAA has just issued a notice to all U.S. airlines telling carriers that they are prohibited from flying into Israel's main airport in Tel Aviv. You have the German carrier Lufthansa also suspending flights, and KLM has canceled a flight for later today. Here's the backdrop. All of this coming after word that a rocket, or at least debris associated with a rocket, has landed near Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion Airport causing major damage to a home. After that attack, three different U.S. carriers, Delta, United, and U.S. Airways suspended flights to Israel on their own even before the FAA issued its notice. So we have CNN's Atika Shubert. She is standing by for us live, here she is, at Ben Gurion Airport. Also, our aviation correspondent, Richard Quest, is standing by for us as well. And, Richard, I'll get to you in just a moment. But, Atika, since you are there, let's begin with you and tell me if you're seeing, what you're hearing, flights coming and going or not at all?
[Atika Shubert, Cnn Correspondent:] No, no, no, we've seen plenty of flights coming and going. The airport seems to be operating as normal. But having said that, just a few seconds ago, before we were actually live, the sirens went off, there was a red alert and we actually saw a rocket interception in the air just above the airport, and then just a few seconds later, a plane taking off. And so that perhaps goes to show the reality here that the airport is dealing with. Rockets are landing and are being intercepted right above the airport. In fact, that rocket that you mentioned earlier landed just a mile from here. We are in the town of Yahood, where that home was destroyed by a rocket. So this is the environment that the planes are flying in and out of and this is why the FAA has put out that notice not to fly in or out of this airport for the next 24 hours.
[Baldwin:] Atika, let me just stay with you, just given what you have just reported, that you yourself have you've seen, you know, this rocket being intercepted just over Ben Gurion. I'm curious what the airport itself has said in the wake of this decision by multiple air carriers.
[Shubert:] Well, what we heard is a statement from Israel's transportation minister, Yisrael Katz, criticizing the airlines for diverting their flights, telling them basically that by doing this they are, quote, "offering a prized terrorist." So as far as Israel is concerned, they see this as an overreaction. I mean you have to put this into perspective. If Tel Aviv, which is really the only major airport Israel has, starts to see all this massive cancellations, it will be a huge blow for Israel. We're talking about 14 million passengers a year that come through here. So this would be a significant thing if all of a sudden all these start flights flights start canceling.
[Baldwin:] Richard Quest, let me just pose that to you, to Atika's point, about, you know, Israel saying that this is an overreaction. Do you think it's an overreaction?
[Richard Quest, Cnn Aviation Correspondent:] Whether it is or not it doesn't matter because, Brooke, the reality is that following on from MH17, then the airlines have no choice. MH17 showed that when the country involved, in that case Ukraine, doesn't take responsibility for closing the air space and ICAO doesn't move in and do it for them, then the airlines are left with no other choice. It's unsatisfactory. I was just talking, as you heard on Wolf's program a second ago, we were just talking to the head of Malaysia Airlines, the chief operating officer, and he makes the point, they're not intelligence agencies. They have to go on the best advice. Now, you have three of the world's largest airlines, Delta, United, U.S. American. When they choose to say, we're not flying, rightly or wrongly, when the FAA says we're prohibiting it, when Norwegian, Air France, Lufthansa Group, which includes Austria and Swiss, when all those airlines say, we're not flying, whether rightly or wrongly, you've got to take that seriously. And that's something that frankly the Israeli transport authorities, rather than saying you're giving a prize to the terrorists, need to be asking whether the air space is safe.
[Baldwin:] Richard Quest, this has just me thinking bigger picture as we've been reporting on the downed MH17 over Ukraine or, you know, Israel's perspective that it's overreaction, but, you know, these airlines going based upon this intelligence that they should and our own reporter there reporting, you know, this rocket intercepted over her head, over Ben Gurion Airport. How will this change how we fly from here on out?
[Quest:] Oh, it's going to have a dramatic change over time because ICAO, IATA, the airlines, they're going to have to rethink, first of all, any conflict zone. The opportunity for surface-to-air missiles has now rewritten this this theory. But also, most crucially, the government the airlines themselves are going to have to basically put the pressure on you don't have to hit the airline or the plane. You only have to hit the runway. You only have to create a threat. You only have to create the perception. This is about perception. And I accept the Israeli point that there may be no real risk, but as long as the perception, you need to deal with that.
[Baldwin:] Richard Quest, thank you. Atika Shubert, thank you for us. Pivoting to the other huge story we're following for you this afternoon, this grim arrival of both human remains and evidence from the downing of that flight, MH17, in eastern Ukraine. The so-called morgue train, here it is, delivering many of the victims to relative safety in the Ukrainian city of Kharkiv. The remains are being held in a factory awaiting flight then on to the Netherlands. Here's what else we know. Also aboard this train were the plane's black boxes, the flight data and cockpit voice recorders that were handed over by the pro-Russian rebels who controlled that crash site. And we now have a chilling new image from the Pentagon. It depicts the Malaysian airliners flight path, seen on the left side of your screen in yellow, OK. The path of the surface-to-air missile. That's what you see in green. The point of impact and the spot where the plane exploded as it hit the ground. President Barack Obama, who signed a condolence book earlier today at the embassy of the Netherlands, pressuring Vladimir Putin to use his power to get these rebels to back off. Putin responding to the calls from Moscow.
[Vladimir Putin, Russian President:] Concerning the event linked to the horrible tragedy which occurred in the sky above Donetsk, we, of course, again, express our condolences to all families of the victims. Of course it is a tragedy. Russia will do everything it can for a thorough, comprehensive, deep, and transparent investigation. We are being called upon to influence the separatists in the southeast. Everything that is within our power, I repeat, we will, of course, do.
[Baldwin:] Joining me now on the phone from Kharkiv, Ukraine, Nick Paton Walsh, our senior international correspondent. Nick, let's begin with this moving morgue, this train. Where are the remains now?
[Nick Paton Walsh, Cnn Senior International Correspondent:] The remains are now in the factory where which is close to the railway station where they pulled up to and slowly being worked through by Dutch officials and other international experts and Ukrainian officials trying to get them in a condition where they can at least be put in coffins and then flown back to Amsterdam. Brooke, I should tell you, I've just come out of a press conference been given by Ukrainian officials with the head of the Dutch delegation standing behind them. And some confusion
[Baldwin:] Right, as you're pointing out, 200. Do the quick math and that's 98 victims, 98 bodies still unaccounted for and presumably back in eastern Ukraine at that crash site. Let me ask also you, Nick, about the black boxes, the analysis of the black box data. Who will be taking custody from here on out?
[Walsh:] The black boxes have been still in the territory of Ukraine.
[Baldwin:] The big question is, were they tampered with, how much would that affect the investigation? Nick Paton Walsh on the phone. Thank you so much, Nick. And just ahead, we're also seeing today these new photographs could reveal the key evidence of what brought down Flight 17. What these small holes tell investigators about those final moments for those 298 passengers on board the plane. Also, yachts and mansions and professional sports teams. One columnist says he knows how to hit Vladimir Putin where it hurts. The regime's dirty money. And I'll speak live with a reporter who says she was detained by pro- Russian rebels while investigating the crash site. Here what happens as she sat on a bench surrounded by gunmen deciding her fate. Stay right here. You're watching CNN's special live coverage.