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Police officers on alert this morning. warned that they could become the targets. gunmen. baltimore police revealing their own scare as two officers recovering from being shot. dangerous cold weather bearing across the country. a dangerous whirl. and a chill thats closing schools and delaying flights. welcome back to "early start." im christine romans. >> im john berman. we do have breaking news for airasia flight 8501. just a few hours ago, we got word that divers located at least part of the...

Good morning. welcome back to "early start." this mornings breaking news divers in the java sea have located at least part of the tail section of airasia flight 8501. this discovery is a breakthrough because the planes black boxes are mounted in the tail section. divers have spent 11 days fighting harsh weather at the surface, zero visibility at the bottom. efforts to find the rest of the plane continue. and of course we dont know if those black boxes are in that exact piece of the tail section,...

8501. you can see early images of it here. this is located in the expanded area of the ongoing search zone. divers took these images of the tail on the sea floor. early information but its very promising. the black boxes are located in the tail section. they could provide answers as to what went wrong. however, we should note that no word yet on whether those black boxes have been found. >> anna, this is obviously very significant news the tail section now has been found. now that the weather ha...

The tail section of airasia flight 8501 has been found. >> divers are in the water looking for those black boxes. >> the tail may have come away from the aircraft in the violent thunderstorm event. >> temperatures potentially deadly. >> wind chills easily 20 to 30 below zero some areas could be closing in on 40 below zero. >> well be monitoring it on a minute-by-minute basis. baltimore police urging other east coast police agencies to be on heightened alert. >> im going to send a message, were...

On it. if the tale is even still exact, what would that tell but how the plane went down? what thatted in those last moments? how controlled could it have been? >> it could have been going down in a flat spin. the tail section separated. as a matter of fact the vertical stabilizer the fin which goes in the top of the tail section, was floating in the ocean and was discovered a couple days after the crash. it was quite some time however, before they found the flight date recorder the cockpit voic...

Searchers thought -- they thought -- they had spotted the planes tail section which is where those devices are kept. but the official leading the search operation has now ruled that out. no tail section, at least not yet. recovery crews did manage to retrieve two more bodies today, bringing the total number found to 39. the prevailing belief at this point is that most of the other victims are strapped into their seats still in the planes sunken fuselage wherever that might be. our david molko is...

We have new video into cnn a short time ago. this is our first look at the american warship the uss "sampson" taking part in the search for airasia flight 8501. bad weather again getting in the way of search operations in the java sea. a new effort to find the crucial black boxes. searchers thought they spotted the plains tale section where the black boxes reside, in the aircraft but the official leading the search operation has ruled that out. no tail section, at least not yet. recovery crews d...

The time they locate the fuselage here and specifically toward the tail section. >> do the pingers fade as each day passes? >> well yes but we have in this case a number of passengers we have debris and so we know we here in the right general area and i agree with jeff we have to go upstream and see where the impact was before the currents took the debris down. >> jeff, if those black boxes simply arent found, will we ever have the answers we need? >> that would be incredible. the black boxes we...

Reportedly said the tail section might -- we say might have been found. if confirmed, which so far its not, it would be a major development. because, obviously, the tail is where the airliners cockpit and flight data recorders are located. the investigation tonight yielding new theories about why the airbus a-320 fell from the sky over a week ago on its way to singapore. what triggered the crash, indonesian officials pointing to engine icing as it flew through brutal weather thats caused so much...

And cnn law enforcement analyst, tom fuentes. peter, this report from reuters that the tail section, we have not confirmed this, the tail section may have been found, that would be very very significant. >> that would be. it would mean that the black boxes are not far away. it doesnt disturb me that they havent heard the pingers yet. sometimes they break loose. sometimes theyre buried under debris. if youre not directly over them sometimes you cant hear. if they found the tail section, then it i...