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From that same storm system. that's it. over to you. weather caused major problems and delays in the search for crashed airasia flight 8501. recovery crews from around the world including the u.s. scouring the java sea looking for debris and human remains in the doomed flight. rough seas making it nearly impossible for drivers to explore possible wreckage. so far only 8 of 162 bodies have been recovered. at the stroke of midnight, many american businesses given something to worry about. the terrorism risk insurance act has expired. congress unable to renew the program by the end of 2014. i...

>> reporter: good morning to you and merry christmas to you, betty. santa has posted us outside his reindeer pen to make sure that all eight of them stay put. i don't know if you can tell, but these guys are some very rambunctious characters. they're desperate to take off for christmas eve, but they've got to wait. they've got to wait till wednesday night. but you can see they're already wide awake here at this early hour, just anxious to go. the one with the fur is comet. the one with the antlers, that's -- you've got prancer, dancer, vixen and cupid. and the other three are in the back, and ...

The 44-year-old extremely rare rhino died sunday apparently from old age. attempts to breed him with a female white rhino at the zoo were unsuccessful. poaching has pushed his species to the brink of extinction. from business insider, this plane will be able to fly anywhere in the world in four hours. british firm reaction engine says its new engine technology will allow the skyline to fly at mock five, five times the speed of sound. also able to fly in space, they say. test flights are planned for 2019. some other stories that we are following right now, in sydney australia, a gunman ente...

Laps around the earth in what nasa leaders describe as a near-perfect mission. this is the first of two unmanned test flights for orion with a manned version in as soon as 2021. orion sent back striking images and successful test flight was celebrated as giving a much-needed boost to a space agency than has in recent years, had to grapple with tighter budgets and questions about its long term mission. while this was a banner day for nasa, critics say it's deeply flawed and that the technology being embraced today, the one to try to get to mars, is the result of a massive boondoggle engineered ...

When the air pressurized air in the plane gushes out into explosive force. those inside the plane need to get to an oxygen mask immediately or they suffer badly from asphyxia. on the two test flights. on one of the test flights, maximum altitude, 43,000 feet and the pilot just got it down, and even then, four of the test crew had to be taken to hospital to be treated for in diving terms called the bends, because they didn't get to their oxygen masks in time. now, it's very fortunate that that happened at that stage in the flight test program, and it exposed a flaw in a valve in the air conditi...