malaysia has been particularly bad hit with epic flooding. at least ten people killed and more than 160,000 people forced from their homes. so 2014 has not just been bad in the skies, jake. malaysia has been severely tested this year. >> elise labott, thank you so much. appreciate it. the mystery and geography have led to easy comparisons between the disappearances of the airasia flight and malaysian airlines flight 370 from earlier this year there are also some distinct differences. for starters the search area for flight 370 was much deeper in the southern indian ocean compared to the more shallow and heavily trafficked java sea. then there are the sizes of the search areas, for flight 370, it was about the size of west virginia ultimately. for airasia, at least right now, it's about the size of west virginia and south carolina combined. of course, it is early in that search. and then there are the circumstances under which both planes went down, such as the weather. it was crystal clear for the