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Authorities as well as european authorities and bringing in the best experts because they want to make sure that they answer the question of exactly what brought this plane down. we were on a plane flying in from seoul with a member of the ntsb and he was telling us that the very top experts are being brought in in preparation for analysis of those black boxes. they are hoping the indonesian authorities are hoping to get ahead of this and get the answers out there as quickly as possible. >> kyun...

For days by rough weather and strong currents. but there may be a breakthrough when the operation resumes tomorrow. they think they may have located the tail section of the plane that could hold both black boxes. the republican field for president is starting to get crowded, but its chris christies weekend on the sidelines that has everyone talking. you are watching "andrea mitchell reports" only on msfbc. with the incredible fuel efficiency of 38 miles-per-gallon highway you can feel like royal...

Bodies that theyve been able to find to 37. 37 out of 162 who were passengers and crew on board that plane. 13 of those victims have now been identified. the sonar has picked up several large pieces of what may, may be wings or fuselage on the ocean floor. one piece discovered over the weekend turned out to be nothing at all except from a piece from a ship wreck. teams are most eager to find the airasias planes tail section. cnns david molko is in surabaya where flight 8501 originated. without g...

>> alison kosik, well stay in touch with you. the dow jones industrials down 312 points. well see what happens. lets move on. lets get the latest in the search for airasia flight 8501. the search has been suspended due to bad weather and darkness. dozens of divers were dropped in the water to look for the wreckage. so far murky conditions strong currents have hampered the efforts. there are reports of a possible break through. a captain told reuters he thinks they found the tail section. thats...

Continues not that final end amount that final compensation amount. also air asia made it clear in its draft letter this is not confirmation that their family members were deceased. there are also reports of a possible break through today because the captain of one of these search ships told reuters that he thinks his crew found the tail section of that plane and keep in mind thats crucial because in the tail you have the black boxes, those flight data recorders. thats where they are record. tha...

Parts -- people who may not be found whole. there are a couple of laboratories working here. but the crux of this investigation and knowing exactly why this plane went down will be finding the black boxes. if that tail section, if that is indeed the tail section, then the black boxes will be pulled up theyll be brought here. and then wolf the very very big question of exactly why airasia went down, perhaps that will be answered. >> once they find those two black boxes, the flight data recorder t...

>> thats a huge huge challenge. final quepstion, were focusing so much on debris and hopefully finding the tail section because therein lies the flight data recorders. theyre still pulling bodies -- as a navy woman, how would you be trained knowing that at any given moment you may see someone? >> these are trained military divers. and this is something that we are used to doing, unfortunately. it is a part of our mission. and we know that thats just something that we need to be prepared for. whe...

Tail section which is where the black boxes will be and they will be able to recover it an advance that investigation. once again, a lot depends on the weather and whether or not the divers can get below the surface and actually see something which they were not able to do today because the visibility was to poor. thank you very much for that update. new air strikes this weekend against isis. the pentagon says the u.s. and its partners conducted six strikes against isis positions on the border...

Lading gear and so forth. hopefully the tail section of the black boxes is quite close there as well. and so we hear some talk about search areas. its not always entirely clear what theyre searching for where. but what is really important is to find that stuff on the bottom of the ocean on the sea bed where the black boxes are going to be. thats where the answers are going to be. >> and, of course, the divers cant go in because the water is just too rough there. and some of the aircraft are ofte...

Vicinity. we dont know what happened to these guys that didnt happen to everybody else. >> lets center on the recovery efforts. 30 bodies have been recovered so far. we know that sonar has picked up pieces on the ocean floor. is it your belief that that could be the fuselage and thats where the bulk of the passengers and crew would likely be found? >> well, from the evidence that we have, i mean the indication is that this major piece was i believe almost 60 feet long. and the a-320, 123 feet i ...