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Into a mission like this is retired u.s. army general and cnn military analyst james spider marks. good to have you with us sir. >> hi michaela. >> they've been not officially tasked with the search efforts obviously. but the u.s. military lending to the efforts. we highlighted the fact that the "sampson "sampson" is already on scene. but we know the "uss fort worth" is being deployed from singapore. give us an idea of the capability of that military asset? >> both of the ships, one is a destroyer. i don't know what the other one is what this primarily does is this gives a command and control ...

Here in indonesia. nearly one-third of the total. people who died in this terrible accident were from that small church. michaela? >> that small church that nation grieving. as are so many in light of that disaster. gary thank you for bringing that to us. airasia's ceoey fernandez is meeting this morning with family members of the passenger and the crew that were aboard the doomed flight 14 of the victims have arrived back on land. the first funeral has now taken place. let's get to andrew stevens with more on that part of the story. hi, andrew. >> hi michaela. well i'm actually out here at th...

Vanished early sunday during stormy stormy weather. it was flying from the indonesian city of surabaya to singapore. distraught family members have gathered now at that airport in surabaya where the flight originated. that's where we find david molko. david, thanks so much for joining me. i can't imagine. i know you're experiencing it alongside them. the grief at that airport, the families learning of that news today. talk to us about the latest and the recovery effort. what do we know? >> hi michaela. it's just 11:00 in the evening here in surabaya and indonesia tonight, surabaya a city in mo...

International aviation community. just after we started working on this and making known a few things like the 30-day pingers, why didn't we do something about that and now i've heard from my connections in the airlines that they're already saying even though it's not mandated, even though the regulations haven't been put in place, it's only for aircraft from 2015 forward, they've already started doing it. >> that's great. >> isn't that awesome? >> that's impressive. >> it puts them in a situation saying we knew we would have done this and now we're doing it. i'm very proud of our community. >...

Is us, michaela pereira, alo alongside john berman and ana cabrera. chris and kate are off on a much deserved vacation. two deadly attacks in russia, at least 14 people are dead after a suicide bombing on a bus in the same city where 17 were killed in a rail station attack sunday. officials are scrambling to guarantee the safety of athletes and fans. the bombings and sochi are separated by only 400 miles. diana moss has the latest. >> hi michaela, russian parliamentary officials say despite the attacks they do not need to up the security measures around the olympic games, they have taken all t...