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They'll be looking for the black boxes. it's unclear whether they'll find the black boxes among the larger debris or somewhere else in the water. quite a bit of time before they can officially tell anybody what went wrong with this flight. >> nbc's katy tur, thanks very much. we'll be back with you throughout the morning. greg, we don't want to get into a great deal of speculation, but in terms of debris field 40 bodies, what does this tell you? >> immediately, the fact that we have bodies floating we have what looks to be interior debris with life vests and interior material, says the fuselag...

Thunderstorms popped up. and if they actually -- the director could let me an meat on the screen i can point out what i'm talking about here. it's right in the middle. that line of storms that goes east to west above the letters there with the java sea. that is where we are looking at this line right there. that is the line of storms that they had to fry through. that is where they found the debris during the last 12 hours. so there was a pilot who saw it those storms were exploding quickly right in the flight path. they didn't want to go around so they tried to go above them like thousands do...

To accept those offers. >> yesterday indonesian authorities asked the state department for help with the search part of the investigation, so there is the possibility that may now morph to include help with the investigation of this debris and all the other parts. and there has also been criticism about how the indonesian government has handled this in trying to offer assistance to the families. >> it is also a tragic reminder that flying is serious business. you know it's gotten so safe. i know this year is a bad year for flying but 2013 was the safest year in history. you go back to the mid ...

From those black boxes will be things like what altitudes was the aircraft at. what was the rate of descent. what were the engines doing, what was the rpm doing, the pressure doing and so on and so forth. so this is the first step in the investigation. >> we are now being told that the aircraft -- the airline has confirmed the debris is from the aircraft. it is from the aircraft. so this is the aircraft that they have been searching for. the airline confirms that. david rothgoth in miami, let me ask you in terms of the search now ongoing, no longer a rescue the search mission, how is it employ...

Off course no matter what. ultimately, the pileot is the one who can decide if they feel their safety is in jeopardy. >> we go to singapore and katy tur live from singapore. can you writebring us up to date? first of all, a lot of people just tuned in it and probably don't know what occurred at that initial press conference when the local television station -- tell us what happened and how horrendous it must have been for the people there. >> reporter: yeah, we have more detail. there was a press conference going on the family members were in another room watching the press conference on live ...