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That is the way i would be leaning. >> aircraft hitting in tact. we are seeing bodies on the surface here which indicates that the fuselage at least did not sink in tact. >> exactly. it would have broken off by the wings. >> we know andrew stevens is reporting authorities are telling us that it is 40 meters deep the water there. that means they can look quickly for the fuselage and also for the flight data and voice orders. >> the towed ping locaters are on the way. they will expedite it. it is ...

Area that weve seen in the last several days but we may get a break and not have another round until friday. our search grid which is actually larger than the country of greece, is etgetting widdled down a little bit. heres another look at our square and you can start to see them blossom in the early morning hours. tremendous downpours now over our search area these will continue to lift to the north. this time of year the air currents along with the ocean currents are parallel to each other fro...

>> and hopefully daylight will help them get closer. thank you very much for your perspective. >> thank you. they are battling the elements in the recovery efforts concerning 8501. bill karins joining me with more on the weathers impact on the recovery effort. how is it looking so far? >> theyve had an okay weather so far. a good day yesterday. and its niejt -- nighttime there. its on and off showers. now they know they found the debris, now they have to go and figure out what the ocean curren...

But theyll also use pinger locaters to find out where the flight data recorders are and any sort of underwater robotics they want to look through the wreckage, to retrieve some of the wreckage. they have a lot of tools as their disposal here. they will probably deploy all f of them as they try to collect every piece of this plane that they can, along with all of the victims. >> do they use the divers and submersibles at the same time? >> not everything is created equal down here. recovery of the...

Is out of the hospital. this is the file picture that he has been released from houston and will be back home for the new year. lets turn now back to that other breaking news from the tragic day from flight 8501 the passengers and the crew. the families first learned of the bodies found from a local television feed. they were watching live tv airing gruesome pictures while officials were trying to give them an uh date. that has been suspended until tomorrow morning. the search area will expand a...

Standard procedures for emergency dont seem to have been deployed. >> yeah. weve heard from airasia saying they dont have much more information to share with us. but let me ask you this. what can you tell us about this route? is it a difficult one from surabaya, indonesia to singapore? >> well, its difficult only in terms of, you know, youre flying around a number of different jurisdictions. youre flying sometimes in difficult weather over the oceans, land masses, ocean currents can send up part...

Traveling to the last point of contact of this particular airasia plane waves could be very choppy. were talking about two, three, even four-meter waves possible with some of this wind-swept ocean currents from thunderstorms moving through. aisha. >> all right. our derek van dam closely monitoring this for us from cnns international weather center. derek, we appreciate it. do stand by for us. if you are just joining us we want to reset and tell you about the breaking news coming in to us here at...

Floating garbage. recently, a chinese ship in search of the airport came across trash instead. even sea life cant tell the difference. fish, sea lions, birds, they all ingest this junk thinking it might be food. >> you know, i hear this talk about there being 300-plus pieces from the aircraft. there are 300,000 plus pieces of trash already there. >> reporter: the indian ocean gyre is not the only one that exists, there are also two in the pacific and two in the atlantic. they form when ocean cur...

>> sure. >> recap that for us for folks just tuning in. >> you have an underwater mountain like the zenith plateau south of the area theyre looking at. the scale is distorted because this is a couple of miles of ocean water >> a couple of miles. >> yeah. this is a tiny ship way up there and this is a tiny vehicle hanging down by a long cable. this is also much bigger than it really is. this would be a tiny spec on this type of topography. so what were looking at is the sound emanating from here....

There. so the aircraft is blending into all that. >> reporter: which is one reason why locating the missing plane is such a challenge. satellite images once thought to be debris fields likely just floating garbage. recently, a chinese ship in search of the airport came across trash instead. even sea life cant tell the difference. fish, sea lions, birds, they all ingest this junk thinking it might be food. >> you know, i hear this talk about there being 300-plus pieces from the aircraft. there ar...