On board. Bad for business russias ruble is on the slide meaning tough time for a border town in china. We begin the newshour with a continuing search for an airasia plane that disappeared shortly after takeoff on sunday. Flight qz8501 was on its way to singapore from the indonesian city of surabaya with 162 people on board. Search teams are scouring the area looking for signs of the plane around the islands of singkep, banka and belitung island. The head of the indonesian search operation says its likely the plane is at the bottom of the sea. We have reporters in singapore and indonesia following the story, well hear from Veronica Pedrosa who is at Singapores Changi airport, but first to scott heidler, who is in surabaya, from where the plane took off on sunday. As i understand it Vice President is where you are earlier today. What did he have to say . Yes, he was here. First he went into a waiting room, if you will that has been turned into the Crisis Center for the family members, a