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Is this morning on "world news now" -- terror in france. the police force 90,000 strong searching for two gunmen wanted for a newspaper office massacre. the latest clues and connections to al qaeda. desperate search. what divers are uncovering near the wreckage of the airasia flight 8501. the new video and the major developments. trouble brewing at your favorite coffee shop. what the germ patrol discovered that may have you thinking twice about that next cup of java. later, star power at...

This morning on "world news now" -- terror in france. the police force, 90,000 strong, searching for two gunmen wanted for a newspaper office massacre. the latest clues and connections to al qaeda. desperate search. what divers are uncovering near the wreckage of the airasia flight 8501. the new video and the major developments. trouble brewing at your favorite coffee shop. what the germ patrol discovered that may have you thinking twice about that next cup of java. later, star power at th...

For the first time since 1955, four major leaguers have been elected to the hall of fame. randy johnson struck out nearly 4900 batters in his career. then pedro martinez. won three cy young awards. helped the red sox in their long world series drought. john smoltz went from starter to reliever with the braves. joined by craig biggio, the first ever member of the houston astros to be elected. all of them will be enshrined this summer. plenty of folks around here love coffee. here some are facts...

Boxes may explain what led to this disaster. but how will searchers look for the plane under water? first, they will likely listen for it. all commercial airplanes are required to carry pingers, underwater locater beacons attached to the black boxes. they emit a ping once a second. >> its really simplified an under water microphone. this is the type of device theyll tow behind the vessel and listen for that pinger locater. >> how far can it hear? >> about five miles. >> unlike the extreme depths...

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...

And bring the rovs back. >> its amazing the technology we have. and no toad pinger locaters. we dont have to use that? why. >> you do want to use toad pinger locaters but we do not need the huge systems for flight 37. because the pinger doesnt weigh much. but when you drop it down two miles or three miles, its steel cable and electrical power and telemetry that weighs and it gets huge. so these smaller systems, we have hand-held systems and pingers on our robots. if we happen to lose a robot. we...

What they believe is parts of the airplane in red and white could could correspond to parts of the airplane from the flight 8501. it was leaving from surabaya. theyve been looking as i said, for three days, looking for debris. they were pretty sure that the jet had gone down in the waters of the java. it is not a very, very deep sea so theyve been waiting to see if debris would come up and start floating. there was a possible sighting of a smoke coming off so they were seeing if smoke coming fro...

Two-hour flight. that plane right now is missing. 162 people on board. passengers of course seven of them are crew members, 18 of them are children including one infant. we now have word from indonesian television reports that the search has resumed as daylight has broken there. the search going on between the indonesian island of java and singapore. the flight should have taken, as i said just less than two hours. the captain radioed to the ground that the weather was a problem. then nothing. t...

That certain location, the last call so hopefully they will have some information. theyve also seen an oil slick i know from my experience sometimes those are the first things you see when youre looking for a crash. ken christianson, thanks so much for joining us. trace: in the sea of java, its 151 foot average depth. were looking in the indian ocean, and its 15 18,000 feet at some points. this is going to be an easier search once they find those pings, the oil slicks. leah: and its so important...

Mark? >> good afternoon, richard. we continue to follow the weather situation surrounding that air asia flight 8501. on the screen now is the flight path through the java are sea from indonesia up toward singapore was the planned path. it does appear the weather played a big role in what happened with this flight. the colors you see on the screen. this is our enhanced infrared imagery. looking down on the earth at the clouds, the brighter thor colors, yellows and reds indicating the higher cloud...