pal, i am derked out in the dennis basso and actual joan coat. i ve been with joan when she would wear it. she would scream at peta which i know is not supposed to be funny. why are you wearing a real fur? because i love joan. we all love joan. we can t wait to see kathy griffin on fashion police. at least i can t. really weird together but fun in a strange kind of way. happy new year to all of you. the next hour of cnn newsroom starts now. captions by vitac www.vitac.com good morning and happy new year. i m carol costello. we begin this hour with the crash of airasia 8501. the investigators search for answers. the families search foreclosure. just a few hours ago, indonesian authorities confirmed their first identification of a victim the woman is among nine bodies recovered so far. after a small break from bad
the holiday brought disaster to china where dozens of revelers were killed in a stampede. it happened just before midnight at the historic waterfront in shanghai. 35 people were crushed to death and more than 40 injured as thousands of people gathered to usher in 2015. eyewitnesses say the chaos started when faked money was thrown into the crowd from a window. and more bodies from airasia 8501 are being brought to indonesia. several days of bad weather have slowed the search but there are calm seas and clear skies in the search area. and that s good because time is running out to find bodies, debris and the all-important black boxes that may provide answers to what happened. we have bodies that need to be recovered on the surface of the ocean but they ve been pushed around for days now. because of those currents, the search area has now been expanded. singapore today brought in an
have a lot more information, i would guess. i m not familiar with airasia as far as what their capabilities were on the ground but remember this is a very very dynamic weather area and it can change within 15 or 20 minutes you can go from just a rainstorm to an incredibly intense thunderstorm and i think that s what happened here in my estimation. yeah was there hail was there severe hail that s one of the questions out there, too. david soucie alistair thank you to both of you, we ll have chad myers talking more about the severe weather event coming up. later, what it takes to recover a plane like airasia 8501. and we want to hear from you, you ve had many questions, use the #8501qs on twitter and we ll have our experts answer your questions. next the latest on weather conditions in the area where recovery teams are looking for victims and evidence from the crash. cholesterol. new ensure active heart health
community and the u.s., as well as the department of homeland security. and foreign partners. and the fbi did lay out part of their case about why they reached the conclusion they did. but we re told that that was just the tip of the iceberg, as this investigation continues, the fbi could release even more information backing up their case. christine. all right. pamela brown, what an interesting story there. we have not heard the last of it i m sure. going to take a look at what s coming up on new day, michaela pereira joins us there. certainly, christine, you ll be joining me with poppy harlow. and the three of us will look at the developments overnight in the crash of airasia 8501. we were told overnight that the wreckage had been found, but now officials, though are backing off that assertion slightly. they still believe from sonar imaging that objects located at the bottom of the java sea are from the wreckage of the plane.
for a lot of reasons. when it first came out in the news that another plane was missing, another plane in asia, it hit a lot of them as if it was the day that flight 370 disappe disappeared. it brought them back to that day. and speaking to the son of a woman who was on the plane and he said, he prays every day for his mother, and he s also been praying that perhaps in this case, there was some sort of a miracle, as he called it, where perhaps there might be some survivors. maybe the plane lapped on an island somewhere and people were able to get out alive. it was during the interview that debris had been found then a bodies were starting to be recovered. and you could see in this his face just how painful that was for him, almost as if he was hearing about the plane his mother was on. to this day, he can t truly accept the fact that she is