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Andrew i understand she has already been laid to rest. >> reporter: that's right. she was a 49-year-old passenger on that flight. she was one of two, the first two victims brought back here to the police hospital where we are now, where the new crisis center is for identification yesterday. both the remaining arriving yesterday. she was identified more than 24 hours later. they've been very very careful in the identification process to make sure they've got it exactly right. dental records are being used. she actually had a piece of jewelry, a very easily defined piece of jewelry which helped ...

To receive victim who will then undergo the formal identification process. now, just next door to the hospital where we were police headquarters for java that will become the new crisis center here for family members. so families of the 162 passengers and crew on board that flight invited to come make themselves at home. meet caregivers for religious officials, and that will be where they receive updates from officials. they'll be able to monitor news on giant monitors put up in the auditorium. i have to tell you, christine, just talking to some of the family members, one gentleman in particul...

>> it's a gruesome process, especially for the families that have to deal with this identification process. but the way it plays out is that the two boxes, the black boxes we refer to all the time, one is digital flight data. that has all sorts of information. flight controls, altitude, speed, trajectory. it has thousands of parameters. that will be combined with the cockpit voice recorder, which not only gives all the voices from the cockpit and transmissions to air traffic control, it also provides for

Cnn's david malco live at a hospital in surabaya where the bodies will be taken to be identified. david. >> hi christine. about 30 minutes' drive from where you spoke to gary there at the international airport, here an extremely sobering scene, i can confirm that the first two bodies, the remains of passengers or crew from the airasia flight arrived about 15 minutes ago. brought down by ambulances through the gate escorted by a half dozen police cars. we were here an hour ago and able to take a closer look at the area where the remains will be held. and the identification process will take pla...

Situation, many passengers on that airplane are not afforded the protections of the montreal convention. >> you mentioned that. help us you know be in the shoes, if you can, of some of these family members. we now know seven bodies have been recovered. take me back to what that identification process was like for your family since that's where we are. >> one thing to be aware of is each crash is different. in our case the airplane hit the water traveling close to the speed of sound. everything shattered. and what records could be recovered took many many months from 60 miles off nantucket. nts...