Airasia flight 8501 divers say they ve found the tail section of the jet in the murky waters off the java sea. the tale is where the flight data recorders are located. you re looking at the pictures coming in. divers had to be down about 100 feet bottom of the sea. images show the airasia logo other debris that all seem related to this crash on the seabed. all this as we learn that the pilots of the ill-fated flight never picked up the paperwork, the weather report before taking off. meanwhile, another body has been pulled from the water bringing the total number to 40. and cnn learning that the victims families will receive roughly $100,000 in compensation per passenger. we have the developments covered. so let s begin with anna coren line on the ground in indonesia. good morning, anna. hi alisyn. as you say, a major breakthrough in day 11 of the search for airasia flight 8501. with teams discovering the tail
This wednesday. fbi director james komi says in no uncertain terms today despite recent claims from cyber security experts, north korea was behind the sony hack. we didn t hack sony. it was the north koreans who hacked sony. there is not much in this life that i have high confidence about. i have very high confidence about this. he also says the evidence of the attack came to light because the hackers, quote, got sloppy and used ip addresses connected directly to north korea. officials in indonesia have found the tail section of the ill-fated airasia flight 8501. the airplane s black boxes are housed in the tail. the discovery could be the break investigators need to find out exactly what happened before the airbus 320 dropped from radar more than a week ago. the bodies of more victims of the crash were also recovered, bringing the total number to
The tail on the sea floor. the airplane s flight recorders, the so-called black boxes are located in the tail section. but there is no word yet on whether they have been found. search officials announced the find just a short while ago in fact. we have found the tail. that has been our main target today. the tail part has been found and confirmed. it was in the second priority search area. at least 27 people are dead. dozens more wounded in a car bombing in yemen. authorities say it happened outside of a police academy in the capital. no one has claimed responsibility at this point but al qaeda in the arabian peninsula has carried out a number of attacks in recent months. the loss of airasia flight
Speak. they went back down after taking those incredible images that our viewers are looking at. and they are now inspecting the tail in the hope that they locate those black boxes. if the divers can t do that they re going to have to retrieve it pull it up on to one of the vessels, according to the search and rescue agency. they have all of the equipment, all the ships. everything that has been tried at the search is now being directed to this particular site. but as we know if the black boxes are in this particular part of the tail we don t know if this tail is completely intact then from that information, in those black boxes, we ll be able to get a much better idea as to what exactly happened to the airasia flight 8501. with which 162 passengers and crew on board. now 40 bodies have since been recovered, which 24 have now been identified, john. divers as you say, in the water right now with that tail
Warned they may become the targets of gunmen. baltimore police revealing their own security scare, as two new york officers recover from being shot. we re breaking down the new threat to police officers and how they may be responding. dangerous cold weather across the country. millions facing this arctic chill that has already closed schools and cancelled flights. we re tracking what you need to know for this cold day. welcome back to early start, everyone. i m john berman. i m christine romans. nice to see you this morning. 30 minutes past the hour. let s begin with this breaking news this morning. 11 days into the search for airasia flight 8501. part of the plane s tail section has now been found. divers fighting stormy seas and near zero visibility they have reached what is potentially a crucial turning point here. why is it so important? the black boxes in airbus a