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Pulled from the water. that brings that number as we said up to 34. still 162 people were on that plane. only nine have been identified so far. as for the plane, the main wreckage is still far, far underneath the surface of the java sea. but search crews say they can see a piece of wreckage about 50 feet long on the bottom. they used it -- they found it rather using sonar. getting to it that is the problem, especially with the weather that we've had. high winds, high waves. awful conditions for searchers trying to spot wreckage floating on the surface. today was supposed to be a big improvemen...

Simulations in weather equal to that? that the pilot reported? and also how quickly can they get into trouble in a situation like that? >> very quickly because what typically happens, or what has happened in these types of storms, is that the area that looks most clear, and the area that looks the safest to go through, is actually the worst because that's where these updrafts that jeff had just mentioned occur. that's where the hot air is coming up out of it to feed the storm. and so when pilots see that they're mistakenly thinking that maybe that's the best place for them to go. so if they ha...

Of some kind and we all know there's lots of ways to learn about the weather. >> on the issue of icing jeff wise the weather agency said icing was the most likely of possible wish factors. does that seem probable to you >> i heard that and it struck me that it's probably too early to make that kind of a strong statement. >> why? >> a thunderstorm -- because we know so little -- we haven't found the black boggses or data recorders. we don't know what happened. we have some reports from the automatic equipment that was transmitting information about flight. we know something about how the flight...

Condition above the surface of the java sea is half the battle because divers who do make to it the ocean floor hitting muddy waters and what we're hearing is zero visibility. so now they've rely on sonar which according to a report from reuters moosely picked up the tail of the plane which contains the all-important black boxes that keep in mind one large piece of the wreckage initially believed to be part of the missing plane turned out to be a wrecked ship. search teams did manage to find three more bodies today bringing the total number of victims recovered to 37. keep in mind that's 37 ou...

We're in the area where some bodies and debris have been found. you can see how challenging it is the fact that as soon as you see something in the distance it disappears behind a wave and then it's very difficult to try and spot it again. >> all right, so, david, webhen we look at the weather conditions like this. paula was explaining how bad it is. some people saying that say, it doesn't look as bad as it could. it's very very inclement weather on and off. storming not storming. how much is this hampering a search for someone who's done investigations like this before? >> it's really difficu...