a setback in the search for airasia flight 8501. this morning, divers in the water trying to recover pieces of the plane s wreckage. we are live with what we are learning next. happening today. the boston marathon terror trial set to begin. a jury to be selected. to try suspect dzhokhar tsarnaev. what victims of the attack are saying about the trial. and in just hours, the new gop-controlled congress gets to work. will compromise or gridlock prevail? why only those choices? take option c. welcome back to early start. i m christine romans. i m john berman. this morning, there has been a setback in the search for airasia flight 8501.
malaysia flight 370 but conditions are very difficult. search teams battle high wave muddy water, poor visibility. extreme conditions complicating the recovery of bodies and wreckage and frustrating teams in their search for the black boxes. the flight data and cockpit voice recorders on airasia flight 8501. only about three weeks remain before the pingers, the beacons on those black boxes die out. officials say at least three ships equipped with towed pinger locators are in the area. those are high-tech devices listening for hours at a time for the pinging sound coming from the black boxes. how far away kit be? the outside edge is about two miles. a mile and a half to two miles away it can detect the sound. reporter: a u.s. navy official tells cnn the towed pinger locator may not be as effective in this search area.
13 have now been identified but you are talking about 162 passengers who were on board that ill-fated airasia flight 8501 that crashed on the 28th of december. now nine days ago. the problem for the recovery team is they are racing against the clock. the bodies are deteriorating in the warm tropical waters in the java sea. if they can t get them with the skin in tact on their finger tips they have to resort to teeth and bones to identify these bodies. so they are having serious problems out there. yes, 57 divers went down today when there was a window of opportunity. the weather has since come in and that has really hampered efforts once again. they are coming across a really rough conditions. there is a lot of mud at the bottom of the ocean floor. officials here telling us if the
happening now, divers in the water searching for victims and searching for wreckage of airasia flight 8501. investigators focused on finding the black boxes to figure out what went wrong. this morning, a big setback to tell you about in the search. we are live with the latest. happening today, jury selection begins in the boston marathon terror trial. what victims of the attack are saying about the trial of dzhokhar tsarnaev. bracing for battles. the new gop-led congress back in session today. will we see compromise or gridlock? or something else? c, singing. musical theater and tap. good morning. welcome to early start. i m christine romans. i m john berman. it is monday, january 5th. 5:00 a.m. in the east. a setback in the search for airasia flight 8501. one of the large objects discovered by the search teams has turned out to be part of a
a setback in the search for airasia flight 8501. divers in the water trying to recover victims and find pieces of the wreckage. we are live with what we are learning this morning. . happening today. a jury set to select the boston marathon dzhokhar tsarnaev. and in just hour the congress gets back to washington. will it be a week of compromise or a week of gridlock or something else we have not thought of yet? we are breaking that down. welcome back to early start. i m john berman. i m christine romans. searching are still trawling the java sea trying to find more