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As it stands there is still no major developments. four objects have been found. speculation that the tail had been spotted. well the head of the search and recovery operation has confirmed it was not the tail. there is confirmation there. certainly we have heard in the last half an hour that two other bodies have since been retrieved from of water. that takes the total from 39 bodies that have been recovered from the java sea ever since that airasia flight 8501 went down on the 28th of december...

Search for flight 8501. authorities consider the red box on your screen the most probable area for the wreckage. it is 1,575 square nautical miles or twice the size of lux luxemborg. lets go to indonesia and david joins us now. david, a lot to get to first, but the victim recovery and identification process. more remains have been identified. what can you tell us? >> reporter: an absolutely heart breaking afternoon here in surabaya outside the crisis center and police hospital. a short time ago,...

Base coming down here to the police hospital for identification. but at this stage, there has only been four of the 30 bodies recovered and identified. that identification process will continue over the next few days around the clock as well. its a painstaking process, they have to get it right. we dont know when the next i.d.s will be done but it will be an ongoing process obviously over the next few days. >> andrew stevens for us in surabaya thanks so much. i want to bring in our aviation anal...

Rainy seasons like this very serious for us for the pilots. >> lets bring in nbc news correspondent kelly could bebialla. we understand more victims have been recovered. what it like for families and officials as they try and recover more of these bodies? >> its been successful for searchers today considering they recovered 20 more bodies. thats more than theyve been able to recover in the past 20few days. brings the total now to 30. the identification process here is going on 24/7. there are co...

Picks up and they have to ride it out. they do have the acoustic listening devices. from what weve understand theyve only got one in the water at the moment. painfully slow. this could continue to sunday. its now thursday night. but until sunday before they get better conditions. >> very very difficult to work in these conditions andrew. what about the identification process on the bodies? one identified so far. >> reporter: just to give you an idea of the progress on iding the victims as they c...

Andrew i understand she has already been laid to rest. >> reporter: thats right. she was a 49-year-old passenger on that flight. she was one of two, the first two victims brought back here to the police hospital where we are now, where the new crisis center is for identification yesterday. both the remaining arriving yesterday. she was identified more than 24 hours later. theyve been very very careful in the identification process to make sure theyve got it exactly right. dental records are bein...

To receive victim who will then undergo the formal identification process. now, just next door to the hospital where we were police headquarters for java that will become the new crisis center here for family members. so families of the 162 passengers and crew on board that flight invited to come make themselves at home. meet caregivers for religious officials, and that will be where they receive updates from officials. theyll be able to monitor news on giant monitors put up in the auditorium. i...

>> its a gruesome process, especially for the families that have to deal with this identification process. but the way it plays out is that the two boxes, the black boxes we refer to all the time, one is digital flight data. that has all sorts of information. flight controls, altitude, speed, trajectory. it has thousands of parameters. that will be combined with the cockpit voice recorder, which not only gives all the voices from the cockpit and transmissions to air traffic control, it also prov...

Cnns david malco live at a hospital in surabaya where the bodies will be taken to be identified. david. >> hi christine. about 30 minutes drive from where you spoke to gary there at the international airport, here an extremely sobering scene, i can confirm that the first two bodies, the remains of passengers or crew from the airasia flight arrived about 15 minutes ago. brought down by ambulances through the gate escorted by a half dozen police cars. we were here an hour ago and able to take a cl...

Situation, many passengers on that airplane are not afforded the protections of the montreal convention. >> you mentioned that. help us you know be in the shoes, if you can, of some of these family members. we now know seven bodies have been recovered. take me back to what that identification process was like for your family since thats where we are. >> one thing to be aware of is each crash is different. in our case the airplane hit the water traveling close to the speed of sound. everything sh...