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Searchers from getting to those destinations. and the search has been suspendeded until sunday when the weather is expected to be better. indonesian officials say airasia didnt have a license to fly from surabaya to singapore that day. they say the airline was approved to fly the route four days a week but not on sundays which is when the plane went down. so far, crews have recovered 30 bodies. six have been identified. and for those families, some of the waiting is over. for loved ones of the v...

>> she had just walked three quarters of a mile through very very rough territory. and she was barefooted. she had one sock on her foot. that was all. she was dressed for florida. wearing shorts. just a blouse no coat. >> reporter: wilkins said the 7-year-old likely spotted a light on at his house and made her way towards it. a kentucky state police officer who also helped the little girl seemed to speak for most when he said -- >> its just really a miracle. >> if you would see the terrain, you ...

Diver who tells us he knows exactly what that process is like. the number of crews from around the world helping to search for airasia flight 8501 continues to grow. and if anyone knows the job that lies ahead, especially for the dozens of divers involved its gino. the 51-year-old is an experienced diver who said hes helped after recent catastrophes including the japan tsunami and the earthquake. part of airbus 320 have been recovered so have dozens of bodies but waves as high as 13 feet have ha...

Situation, you know theres going to be bodies down there? >> theres nothing worse than bumping into a bloated body in the water. >> reporter: hes still haunted by the victims hes recovered. especially children. emotion that divers in the java sea will have to come to terms with. >> you get past it saying youre helping a family. >> reporter: he tells us it could take weeks, maybe months, for divers to finish the job in the java sea. fred reeblg rikcka fredricka. >> thank you. also ahead, the fl...

>> reporter: weve gotten a few new details from the state department but first let me read to you from that security alert from the embassy. they say the u.s. embassy has been made aware of a potential threat against u.s.-associated hotels and banks in surabaya. the u.s. embassy recommends heightened vigilance ofand awareness. now, what we also heard from a state department official is whenever the u.s. government receives credible specific and noncounterable threat information, they have an obl...

Main wreckage. and theres a lot of hope in the sunday search. >> reporter: yeah fredricka, a lot of hope indeed when the sun comes up in three to four hours now in surabaya. out in the search zone thats several hundred kilometers northwest of where i am. conditions expected to improve drastically, that is really important. weve been seeing waves, 10 to 12 to 16-foot range. choppy seas making it really really difficult for divers to get in and out of the water. were told by search officials that ...

>> a dry suit is totally seal ted wrists. the boots are incorporated in it. and has a zipper that closes at the neck. that way, you have a helmet. >> this is considered a lighter one. >> but its incredibly heavy? >> 37 pounds. >> reporter: divers will be hooked up to a command center like this one. >> these instruments right here are telling us what the depths of the divers are at. this is the pressure going through them. the main air. standby air. emergency air. diver one, diver two, diver thre...

Recent flu-related deaths is a 3-year-old girl in iowa. her parents say she went from perfect health with no pre-existing conditions and became severely dehydrated in pain. then rushed to a hospital in des moines where she later died. just a few days after showing initial signs of the flu. another tragic case in minnesota. 7-year-old ruby hanson died christmas eve. her mother believe shed might have survived had she not had a pre-existing medical condition. >> the flu would not have done her in ...

Maybe 15 minutes later. he makes a cell phone call. very shortly after, you hear the first bomb go off. >> reporter: day four, the fbi asks the public for help finding two men later identified as tamerlan and dzhokhar tsarnaev. now on the run. officials say they execute sean collier, car jack an suv and get into a shoot-out with police. watertown police chief ed devoe said 26-year-old tamerlan tsarnaev is shot but manages to reload about four times. >> he runs out of ammunition and throws his gu...

Were seeing causing virus is this h3n2 virus. when weve seen h3n2 in previous seasons weve seen relatively severe seasons. its possible we could have a severe season again this year. >> reporter: its being widespread in 32 states approaching peak levels that we saw two years ago. doctors are seeing more patients. >> i was on a ship the other day. i saw about 35 patients. i saw ten positive flu swabs. and there was a couple i didnt even swab. i just treated them because its so prevalent. were def...