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Searching, authorities deciding about what how they're going to search for this plane. what they have done is called it a very broad search area and divided it into four parts, quad rants, each one of them about 100,000 square kilometers. indonesia sending vessels, but other countries are helping. singapore, australia sending planes. malaysia sendingships. the weather is better than it was yesterday when large waves and clouds hampered operations and of course visibility. air controllers lost contact with airasia flight 8501 about 30 hours ago now. 162 passengers and crew on board. let's go no...

Analyzing all the evidence. and grieving pilot. new information about the plane's captain, including his flight record and a very personal loss only days ago. we want to welcome our viewers in the united states and around the world. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm brianna keilar. you're in "the situation room." >> this is cnn breaking news. we have breaking news this hour. the search for a missing airasia passenger plane is due to get back under way and expand to cover four additional areas. it's about 6:00 a.m. tuesday in indonesia just after daybreak. it's been two full days since air con...

Lost contact with air controllers over java sea. dense storm clouds blanketed the area at the time of the disappearance. air searches are suspended until daylight, about four hours away there, but ships are still combing the area. meanwhile relatives of the 162 people on board are awaiting any word. live in honolulu where president obama is on vacation is being believed on the situation. dan? >> reporter: that's right, doug. shortly after that airasia flight disappeared, the white house issued a statement saying basically the president has been briefed and he's monitoring the situation. as f...

Are flying. they do deconfliction and separate the two areas of attack to make sure we don't bump into each other. >> one of the key questions what does iran get out of this and is it a wink, wink? we have iran not directly but take care of the problem on the ground and that we can't fully and effectively do because we don't have air controllers on the ground, does that help to buy iowa ran additional time and are we trading those things is what i am asking? >> that is a great question. there has to be a quid pro quo at work here and perhaps the iowa rannians with a wink saying to us in the ba...

Their mission is not to engage. they may eventually turn into terminal air controllers where if they do initiate air strikes they will control the air at the point of impact, but that's the only engagement that they will. even in afghanistan when the special forces went in, they were never really engaged during the invasion of afghanistan. they were actually controlling air. so at the same time, these -- this shows support and it gives the iraqi army the necessary ba backbone to really push forward with had this. and it gives them, the sunni people -- and i just heard this again from a sunni r...