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At bally's biggest temple on the slopes of mount where shippers with face masks at the ready to protect them from the fumes and ash being spewed out by the volcano. the island of bali is indonesia's top tourist destination the visitor trade has been hit hard by the travel destruction which forced the airport to close for two days the run up to christmas and new year is normally high season not this year. some guests cancelled when most again began erupting but the worst came after the airport closed almost ninety percent of the guests cancelled their bookings. for those who reached bali the vo...

Because my mother my sister, we were very close. >> again, nine victims' bodies have been recovered with another 153 people who need to be found. those search crews are up against incredibly tough weather conditions right now because it is monsoon season there in indonesia and along the java sea. 10 to 13 foot waves are hampering the search. we know there are 90 vessels and aircraft from numerous countries involved in the search singapore, malaysia and u.s. are involved. also a note we learned singaporean ship with enhanced under water protection as well as that ship joe johns was talking abou...

Be the waves that's the big problem. we're starting to find winds, mid-level winds and surface winds are blowing in the same direction. instead of creating a crisscross pattern. when they go in the same direction it's a wave problem. we had nine aircraft yesterday, four helicopters five fixed wings intermittent flights. not just the search area we're concerned about you got a broad area and in one position or one city where there's a staging ground such as in this case it's going to cause problems. when we look at the region of indonesia there's differences in the rainfall this time of the yea...

I don't want this to be a cultural slur about indonesian but we have to look at the technical competence. in that case the nearest city with a laboratory to handle this is cameron in australia. they do have the equipment to properly analyze this. once we get those flight recorders they are the essential keys to answer these questions you have been asking today. it's important it gets there fast and i would be very surprised if it went to indonesian. i don't think that's a good idea at all. >> right now that's the plan. does that indicate that indonesia is taking the lead on this investigation?...

Clyde irving back with us the author of "the jumbo, the making of 774." this is new information we're getting. is indonesia's lab the best place to analyze the black box? >> it isn't. i don't think so at all. >> why? >> well i don't think they have the same technical resource as required. in the case of air france 447 for example a french owned plane and french airline and it happened in international waters over the atlantic so there was never much of a battle about who should investigate that. they went to the french investigation in paris. you have a malaysia owned airline. you have it flyi...