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Down. aside from rough weather, the search zone is about 60,000 square miles. to put that into perspective it's bigger than the state of florida. once officials locate the plane the next challenge begins pulling the wreckage from the water. let's bring in cnn's senior washington correspondent he has more on that good morning, joe johns. >> good morning carol t is an enormous job and can take a long time. they have to map out where all of the pieces of the plane are, like how crime scene technicians log the evidence when and where they find it and then the heavy lifting begins. how do you pull ...

Continue to rake in small debris. lousy weather is hampering the search. divers cannot confirm a shadow on the sea floor is actually the plane. it may take a week to locate those so-called black boxes. of course they contain the flight data and voice recorders that will likely explain exactly what caused that plane to go down. let's get the latest. andrew stevens is in surabaya indonesia. hi, andrew. >> reporter: thanks very much. agony for the families. the weather over the search zone is severely hampering the operation. we're told no helicopters could get up today, no divers into the water ...

Weather will continue through perhaps sunday. it's now thursday evening here. searchers are having to work between the bands of weather coming through. we're told that in the search zone today waves getting up to four meters 15 feet high. strong winds, strong driving rain which cuts visibility of course. divers couldn't get into the water. so they couldn't get into the area where they think their may be that large object which was seen from an aerial reconnaissance a couple days ago. they haven't been able to fully locate it and find out what it is. divers haven't been able to get into the wat...

Get more rainfall and not any better. telephone best weather we have is at night. now if you give the scale of one to ten, let's say for the weather in the past week ten being the best, the worst was the day we lost that aircraft. two days ago i would give it a two. pretty bad nicole politzi no nines or tens. at night things clear up. we had rough weather yesterday. mainly it was about the winds kicking up the seas. it's clear. it is calm. we have massive activity those just to the south of our search zone. it does look like it wants to push up into the region. it's so erratic. yesterday in th...

162 passengers on that board have been recovered. just this morning four coffins transported here inside this station. they are matching dna tests to confirm the identity of the recovered bodies. search teams still looking for the plane's fuselage with little luck so far. the suspected area has been expanded. the weather in the search zone only cooperated for a brief window this morning too short to make any significant progress. officials are asking the media to keep a respectable distance from the families. they're still hanging on to any glimmer of hope that their loved ones will be back. k...