Turning their backs on the mayor during the funeral of one of their own over the weekend. You know weve been reporting on this tensions between new yorks leader and new yorks finest seem to be worsening. How will this well take this News Conference against with the Police Commissioner and mayor live momentarily. Meantime just a short time ago the pentagon confirming u. S. Troops in iraq are under quoteunquote regular attack by isis. Remember as weve been reporting u. S. Troops they are there serving in advisory role not in this combat role. Weve heard that the president over and over clarifying that right . But in the wake of these attacks might that change . The attacks are happening there in the orange part of your screen Anbar Province al asad air business in western iraq. Lets go to barbara starr. What specifics do you have as far as what kinds of attacks are these . Reporter what we are hearing now it is specifically at Al Asad Air Base in western iraq a very remote area where these attacks are happening. These are socalled indirect fire. Rocket and mortar attacks launched by isis militants against the base. They are very impreisiscise attacks. They aim these weapons at the base. No u. S. Troops injured thankfully. We dont know about any iraqi troops injured. They are very imprecise attacks. And pretty much at the moment limited to this area where there are so many u. S. Troops. About 320 u. S. Troops helping train the iraqi forces. But what it does do is under score the concern about keeping those u. S. Troops safe. The president has said no u. S. Troops in Ground Combat. But as these types of harassment fire if you will continue the question is whether or not the law of averages may take over some day and some u. S. Personnel could get hurt in one of these rocket or mortar attacks. So right now plenty of concern about all of this. They think they can keep u. S. Troops safe but that isnt to say they arent worried or concerned as these attacks in western iraq continue on a very regular basis. Brooke. Let me quickly follow up. You mention nod injuries or no casualties thank goodness with u. S. Troops but i mean u. S. Is there to train the iraqi troops. How are they . Are they at this base . Are they being tar get as well . Well anyone at the base of course would basically be a target and thats a really good point. Its the iraqi and u. S. Troops who are there. Right now no information about any of them. But keep in mind u. S. Troops now over 2,000 spread out across iraq hundreds in baghdad at the embassy at the airport other troops at other bases in northern and western iraq. And the Training Program that the u. S. Is doing for the iraqis moving them to full swing, just several days ago they began at a base another 170 u. S. Troops there, they are beginning to train the iraqi forces. So youre seeing a higher profile, a more spread out profile of u. S. Troops in iraq and it goes this very question the president has said no Ground Troops in combat as we have been saying the question may be whether Ground Combat will come to the u. S. Troops who are there. Brooke . Barbara starr, thank you so much at the pentagon. We also have some new deechlts in the mysterious disappearance of air asia flight 8501 as now three more bodies have been pulled from the murky waters of the java sea. Cnn has just found out exactly how much is being offered to the families of these victims and that answer is 24,000. To be Crystal Clear this is just to cover them while the search 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. That news has yet to be confirmed. Heres what we do know. We do know the time is ticking to find that plane, to find that tail to find the black box with three weeks left of the black boxes. In indonesia the slow the heartbreaking process of identifying the victims of flight 8501 is under way. One family lost seven members. So far only two, a mother and a daughter have been identified. Gary tuckman talked to these grieving relatives who are in disbelief and of course in shock. Reporter as most families wait for their loved ones to be found these are the caskets of a mother and tower, two victims of air asia flight 8501. Several days ago we talked with this brother and sister who were among those waiting. Translator my mother and then my sister and my brotherinlaw and his whole family and my inlaw to be so in total seven people. Reporter today they wait for five people because this mother and her 10yearold daughter are two of the seven. Translator i am devastated. And now the waiting for the rest of the family is so difficult. Reporter please accept our condolences. Im sorry. The sister and her brother had hoped for a miracle for days. In this Family Picture this is the daughter and mother. All are now realizing that miracle is not going to happen. Translator im very sad. Even up until now i cannot accept it. Reporter this is a traditional buddhist funeral visitation. Mourners pay their respects at a candle lit altar in front of the coffins. Family and friends fold up hundreds of pieces of paper which are ultimately thrown into fire to represent money which will symbolically provide for mother and daughter in the after life. Stevie turned 10 years old two weeks before the trip she was looking forward to. Her mother would have turned 45 six days after the accident. Translator my sister was a business woman. She worked hard. She was kind to everybody. Reporter she tells us about little stevie. Translator stevie was a very cheerful girl. She brightens up everyone shes around. Everyone loves her. Reporter their funeral was at the end of the week but at the same time brother and sister mourn the other five including their mother the matriarch of the family an 81yearold. Translator i cannot accept this. I cannot believe it. Where are my familys bodies. Where is my mother . My heart is breaking. Reporter gary tuckman, cnn, surabaya indonesia. Gary tuckman, thank you so much. Much more on that story coming up. Meantime next two former new York Police Detectives react to protests by officers against the mayor. Are they justified. The mayor himself will speaking alongside the Police Commissioner right there, live pictures inside Police Headquarters in down manhattan. Well listen in see what news they could be making here. Some of the reporters here in this clearly packed room will be asking questions. Well take that live. Also ahead as jury selection begin in the boston bombing case what happened to the alleged bombers widow, that older brotherer and what about their sisters . Those details are ahead. And a stunning story here. The 7yearold girl is the only survivor plane crash that killed her entire family. Hear the remarkable story of what she did moments after that plane went down. Youre watching cnn. Im brooke baldwin. I want to take you to boston where jury selection is under way for Dzhokar Tsarnaev. Laughs have to whittle down 1,200 prospective jurors to 12 jurors and then on top of that six alternates. Opening statements are settle to begin three weeks from today and rachel crane retraces the timeline of events that brings us to today. Reporter april 15th 2013. Monday afternoon at 2 50 p. M. A bomb explodes near the Boston Marathon finish line. 1 seconds later theres another blast. The blasts kill three people. Injure at least 264. Each bomb was contained in a Pressure Cooker with bblike pellets and nails. Theres no known suspect or motive at this time. We still do not know who did this or why. Reporter april 16th, the names of two of those killed are released. An 8yearold and a 29yearold woman. At 11 30 a. M. President obama speaks again. Given what we now know by what took place the fbi is investigating it as an act of terrorism. Reporter april 17th the lid to a Pressure Cooker is found on a rooftop near the scene of an take. Cnn is told the lid is believed to have been used in the bombings. The name of the third victim was released. A Boston University grad student from china. Then the fbi releases pictures of two male suspects they are seeking in connection with the bombings. Later an m. I. T. Police officer is shot and killed on campus. Triggering a massive Law Enforcement response. April 19th Early Morning in cambridge the suspected bombers car jack a man at gunpoint. 1 00 a. M. Police are able to track down the suspects in the stolen vehicle. Several explosive devices were discharged from the car at the Police Officers. Reporter three explosives detonate and two fail. Officers fire back with an estimated 200 rounds of gunfire. One suspect is badly injured and apprehended by police. The accomplice drives away. The injured suspect later dies. 8 00 a. M. The city of boston goes into lock down. Boston Police Identified the bombing suspect as 26yearold Tamerlan Tsarnaev and Dzhokar Tsarnaev brothers living in cambridge, massachusetts. Tamerlan tsarnaev is the person identified killed by police. But Dzhokar Tsarnaev remains at large. Hundreds of Law Enforcement officers go doortodoor in watertown looking for Dzhokar Tsarnaev. Residents are asked to stay inside. 6 00 p. M. The lock down is lifted. Soon after watertown Resident David hambry steps into his backyard. He sees a lot of blood and a man under a tarp on the floor. 8 15 p. M. Authorities announce they have Dzhokar Tsarnaev cornered. Law enforcement agents capture tsarnaev and transported to a local hospital in serious condition. So there you havefve the chronology. Let me bring in our cnn Senior Investigative correspondent drew griffin. You have been looking into the family. You were there in watertown when police had the younger tsarnaev cornered in that boat. The key question did this widow, all right, then wife what did she know in the lead up before those Pressure Cooker bombs went off in boston . That has been the question brooke because when you see the tiny apartment that she was living in with her husband, tamerlan and realized the fbi believes at least partially these bombs were created on her Kitchen Table how could she not know. Shes been very cooperative according to attorneys with the fbi all along. They have never said she was a suspect in any of this. She threw her attorney has said she was shocked when she found out that her husband and brotherinlaw were involved with this. And as far as we know we cant even determine if shes on the extensive witness list for this trial. So right now it seems Catherine Russell remains not involved in the criminal aspect of this case. She had lived as you mentioned with the family in the tiny apartment in cambridge. Has she gone back to live with her family in rhode island . Initially she did. Last summer in june her parents sold that house in rhode island. The last known address we have for her was in north bergen new jersey an Apartment Building across the river from manhattan and very very close within blocks to sistersinlaw. Shes been seen with them in public. A month and a half ago because of paparazzi, et cetera that Kathryn Russell moved from that apartment but we dont believe shes in rhode island we believe shes more closely aligned herself with the tsarnaev family or those who remain in the United States in new jersey. You mentioned the certain s sistersinlaw what do you know . They have petty crime. Older daughter bella is on charges for Marijuana Possession with intent to distribute. The other is accused of all things of threatening a romantic rival with a bomb. Saying that she knows people who know how to make bombs or place bombs. Shes currently going through that litigation in the Prosecutors Office there. Their mother is back in russia. Shes wanted in boston for felony theft charges involving the stealing clothes from lord and taylor. The family has all kinds of troubles in its past but this is the family that Catherine Russell, at least, appears to have aligned herself with. Drew griffin, thank you. I know you have much more tonight at 7 00 and 8 00. Lets take you to down manhattan and well hear from the mayor bill de blasio and Police Commissioner standing to his right bill bratton. That would reduce crime even when compared to the record Previous Year that we saw before we came into office 2014 proves to be the most extraordinary year of all. I have said to some of you, i would like to repeat it when i was preparing to take office a lot of people in this department, a lot of people who watch these issues closely said to me with a certain reverence that it would be nearly impossible to repeat the achievement was 2013 and this nypd did such an extraordinary job that it was probably as good as it gets. Youre about to hear from leaders of this department youre about to see the charts and facts that make clear that 2014 was a year of even greater achievement record setting year extraordinary year. This department did things that previously were unimaginable in terms of bringing down crime and they did it with ever fairer approaches and a greater closeness to our communities. So much of the credit goes to commissioner bratton. I was certain when i chose him as our commissioner that he would lead us to place we had never been before better places and he has fulfilled that promise so clearly. His leadership Leadership Team he assembled around and most importantly the men and women of the nypd have done an extraordinary job and these numbers speak to it. Overall major crime down 4. 6 . 2014 compared to 2013. Overall crime down 4. 6 . The lowest number of homicides since the modern policing era began in 1993 since what we call the comstat era, the lowest number of homicides weve ever seen. 2,600 fewer robberies than the year before. This number so many powerful numbers youll see today. But think about the every day lives of our people 2,600 new yorkers did not experience robbery compared to what we had seen the year before. Thats an extraordinary impact on peoples lives also setting a record. And in our transit sinl ourystem, our subways, major crime down 15 , 15, 15 in 2014 compared to 2013. Only two homicides in our entire subway system for the entire year of 2014. These are numbers. For those of us who lived in the city for a long time these were numbers once unimaginable and this is a time to appreciate what all the people around me have achieved and i want to thank them so many gathered here our first Deputy Commissioner ben tucker chief of department carlos gomez, our Deputy Commissioner for intelligence and Counter Terrorism john miller our Deputy Commissioner for operations our chief intelligence chef of detectives chief of housing, this Leadership Team is one for the ages. Commissioner i want to congratulate you for really having brought together the best and the brightest. Now, again, this is not just about numbers. Numbers are so important but every number indicates a human life or a family and every number that we show thats made progress means a family or an individual who didnt go through the pain of a crime. This has been progress that has had a deep impact on our neighborhoods all across the five boroughs and some of these numbers specifically are absolutely outstanding, one example in our Public Housing, stapleton houses in staten island, last year crime was down to 40 . 40. 40 compared to the year before. That was due in part to the over 200 Million Investment we made in the Housing Authority with a focus on security measures like additional lighting that made residents lives better but also made the work of our police better and safer. And the human impact in these situations goes beyond just being free from crime it improves peoples lives, their sense of well being, their sense of freedom, people in so many of our Public Housing developments have been able to feel their lives getting a little better. Able to be outside a little more. Have a sense their kids would be safer because of these actions, because of the work of the men and women of the nypd. Now, we know that this very difficult work. Ive spent the last year all over this city in Police Precincts and talking to officers who did extraordinary things, giving accolades that were examples of this department talking to new yorkers what it means to them. People in this city appreciate our police. They appreciate how hard the work is and they see the progress were making. Yesterday tens of thousands paid their respects to detective wenjian liu and his family and so many people