York. Im joe johns. Thanks for joining us. Cnn newsroom continues now with ashlee banfield. We went over the fiscal cliff. Yep at midnight and then just a couple hours later, the senate came up with a solution. Now its off to the house. The house has to sign off. They will get back to work this afternoon. Whats in the deal . Well, it starts with the new income tax threshold. Those folks agreed to let the taxes go up but only on the family who is make over 450,000 in combined income. The itemized deductions will also be capped at 300,000 for families. And the estate tax, that was a big Sticking Point for lawmakers, and now the tax rate goes up to 40 for estates that are valued over 5 million. So if youre under 5 million, you skated there too. Other key points are an extension of the longterm unemployment benefits. The renewal of tuition and child care tax credits and then something called the doc fix. It reimburses doctors who take medicare patients. And what about the automatic spendin
All that and so much more ahead at this hour. Happy monday everyone. Im john berman. Happy new year john nice to see you. Im michaela pereira. We start with the search for airasia flight 8501. Setbacks in the search now. Todays operations had to be called off because of storms. Officials say divers who were able to make it to the bottom of the sea encountered muddy waters leaving zero visibility. A large piece of wreckage initially believed to be part of the plane, well it turned out to be from a sunken ship. Search teams did recover three more bodies today, bringing the total number recovered to 37. Each victim is returned to surabaya in indonesia. That is where the flight originated. Our david molko is there. David, we now know one of the large objects searchers spotted, they were very hopeful, it turned out to be from part of a ship wreck, not the jet at all. But there were other objects they found. What do we know about those . Thats right, john and michaela. A lot of news coming i
surabaya. 37 bodies recovered from the sea but still no clear sign of the plane so what is making this search so difficult? we re going to show you just ahead this hour. and another much smaller but no less tragic plane crash in kentucky. the lone survivor, that s her, a child. maybe the most amazing 7-year-old girl you will ever meet. hello, everyone. i m ashlee banfield and welcome to legal view. four dead, hundreds injured and a city in absolute shock. 21 months later the man the feds say is responsible for the boston mayor a dhon bombing is getting his day in court and so is everyone else. dzhokhar tsarnaev facing 30, 30 federal counts for his alleged role in detonating two bombs at the finish line of the marathon back in 2013. in all, three people were killed from the blast. 264 were injured. but that wasn t it.
that s coming to us courtesy of reuters. can you expand on that and let us know how much we know about that possibility? reporter: ashlee , a lot going on in the search zone and a lot of reports coming out, this from, as you mentioned, the captain of an indonesian naval vessel saying there is a possibility, emphasis on the word possibility, that they may have found the tail of the aircraft. ashlee , i think we have to take this with a grain of salt. over the last week we ve had lots of reports like this coming in, first that they had seen the shadow underwater of what looked like the fuselage of the plane, turned out not to be the case. last week as well, the fact that they had found the main wreckage of flight 8501. ashlee , the thing that is really causing so much difficulty here, that is slowing things down for search teams is the weather. we ve been talking about it all week. i think we re going to be continuing to talk about it. it is monsoon season. that means choppy seas.
carnage that define boston, it was our reaction and the boston strong and the one fund and the foundations and the stories of the victims and the fact that when the bombs went off, ashlee , what did people in boston do? we ran towards the injured. what did runners do, they kept running to mass. general, many of whom were doctors so they could step in and perform surgeries after running 26 miles. we will not be defined by this blast nor will we be intimidated or offended by this trial. nobody needs to be saved from going through this? eric holder, how could you i m offended that our leadership, that elizabeth warren, that the new mayor, marty walsh who both are anti-death penalty will not come out and say, give the guy a plea. we don t want the taxpayers to pay for this trial. he could easily plead for this. we don t need 142 civilian witnesses to have to reopen the old wounds. he s gonna die in prison anyway. why do we need to stoop to a