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A big development in the search for debris for airasia flight 8501. four large objects were found in the sonar stretch area. one is 60 feet and another 40 feet long. indonesian officials say they found it after they saw an oil slick. huge waves as high as 15 feet and strong currents kept divers out of the water. the search has been suspended until sunday when the weather is expected to be better. and when the search does resume crews will have help from the "u.s.s. ft. worth" it arrived in the area today. also two more victims were identified. a 44-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man, that is...

This point. >> okay. there are at least two u.s. warships in that area. the "u.s.s. ft. worth" that just arrived. and you talk about the sonar capabilities. the sonar, we understand from which ship actually located four more items. how might the sonar help detect the black boxes? and would that typically be the way in which those black boxes are located? >> well typically, you don't use sonar to detect the black box, or the sonar or the ping from the black box should show up on the sonar record. so you'll see a line across the image that would indicate that the pinger is close by. then what yo...

About 90 feet. >> two pieces here.larger object is about 30 feet by 15 feet. the smaller object is about 24 feet by just over a foot and a half. >> waves are reaching 13 feet high, though. so they're really keeping the search teams from recovering those pieces right now. but dozens of diver, ready to go as soon as that weather calms down. >> again, 30 bodies have been recovered so far. six of them have now been identified. and so far, the rough waters has kept divers from finding any more bodies today. >> the "u.s.s. ft. worth" now in that search area. it has side sonar equipment that could be...

Looking for the plane had to turn back. >> meanwhile, there's a team of russian divers with specialized search equipment that is there now along with the "u.s.s. ft. worth" that has sonar capabilities there. cnn's alina has the recovery. >> reporter: it may be going on 11,000 miles here in south florida, but we spoke to one commercial diver who said he knows exactly what that process is like. the number of crews around the world helping to search for airasia 8501 kopcontinues to gr. and if anyone knows the job ahead for the dozens of divers involved is this man. >> it's a very somber situation...

Great to have you both with us. you are the crash expert here. i want to get your take on the piece of debris that was found. joe, let's actually go to you first because you've been involved in looking at the search. we saw this u.s. navy ship on site and working. >> we knew the "uss sampson" had been deployed and recovered two bodies on thursday. also, the "uss ft. worth" set sail. not clear of what its function will be. a 16-month deployment starting at the end of december, the "ft. worth" is one of the newest ships and the side scan sonar takes a view of the ocean floor. the u.s. has said i...