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As it stands there is still no major developments. four objects have been found. speculation that the tail had been spotted. well the head of the search and recovery operation has confirmed it was not the tail. there is confirmation there. certainly we have heard in the last half an hour that two other bodies have since been retrieved from of water. that takes the total from 39 bodies that have been recovered from the java sea ever since that airasia flight 8501 went down on the 28th of december. the two bodies are prepared to be flown here to surabaya where they will be handed over to the hos...

Search for flight 8501. authorities consider the red box on your screen the most probable area for the wreckage. it is 1,575 square nautical miles or twice the size of lux luxemborg. let's go to indonesia and david joins us now. david, a lot to get to first, but the victim recovery and identification process. more remains have been identified. what can you tell us? >> reporter: an absolutely heart breaking afternoon here in surabaya outside the crisis center and police hospital. a short time ago, three additional victims of the crash of flight 8501 were identified here. let me read their names...

Base coming down here to the police hospital for identification. but at this stage, there has only been four of the 30 bodies recovered and identified. that identification process will continue over the next few days around the clock as well. it's a painstaking process, they have to get it right. we don't know when the next i.d.s will be done but it will be an ongoing process obviously over the next few days. >> andrew stevens for us in surabaya thanks so much. i want to bring in our aviation analyst here, les abend is with us, a commercial pilot. we have our safety analyst and former faa safe...

Rainy seasons like this very serious for us for the pilots. >> let's bring in nbc news correspondent kelly could bebialla. we understand more victims have been recovered. what it like for families and officials as they try and recover more of these bodies? >> it's been successful for searchers today considering they recovered 20 more bodies. that's more than they've been able to recover in the past 20few days. brings the total now to 30. the identification process here is going on 24/7. there are constantly relatives coming in and out of the family tent. people looking worried. distraught. as ...

Picks up and they have to ride it out. they do have the acoustic listening devices. from what we've understand they've only got one in the water at the moment. painfully slow. this could continue to sunday. it's now thursday night. but until sunday before they get better conditions. >> very very difficult to work in these conditions andrew. what about the identification process on the bodies? one identified so far. >> reporter: just to give you an idea of the progress on iding the victims as they come in there's been one positive id. that was the flight attendant. she was buried in a simple ce...