the search for answers and for more wreckage from the doomed plane. reporter: breaking this morning, a devastating discovery, airasia confirming a number of bodies passengers of airasia 8501 found floating in the java sea. the vicks and debris some six miles from the aircraft s last known location. i think the debris field confirms a catastrophic event. i expect that the plane fuselage probably split in two. reporter: officials saying the debris found belongs to the missing airasia flight 8501. searchers locating the debris in at least three separate locations, but so far, no survivors. a heartbreaking end to the three-day search for the plane. relatives of those on board the plane in anguish over the news screaming, crying. these loved ones set to fly over
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that s now caused major national blowback as it should. we have to go. we ll talk more about this later on. thank you so much for watching. join me back here for the lead at 4:00. brianna keilar will continue our coverage now. thanks for watching. hi, there. i m brianna keilar in for wolf blitzer. it is 1:00 p.m. here in washington. 6:00 p.m. in london. 8:00 p.m. in jerusalem and 1:00 a.m. in jakarta, indonesia. wherever you re watching us from around the world, thank you for joining us. we begin with the heartbreaking discovery in the waters off of indonesia, airasia has confirmed that debris found in the java sea is from flight 8501. search crews have also recovered three bodies. 162 people were on board the plane when it lost contact with air traffic control early sunday. here are the latest headlines.
and certainly it s really those black boxes that we ll be waiting for to really answer all of these questions. thanks for joining us on the phone. now that some of the wreckage of airasia has been discovered crews will be able to go under water and start searching for the rest of the plane. we ll have a look at how they might be doing that next. and one security group says north korea was not behind that attack on sony. they think they know exactly who is. (vo) nourished. rescued. protected. given new hope. during the subaru share the love event, subaru owners feel it, too. because when you take home a new subaru we donate 250 dollars to helping those in need. we ll have given 50 million dollars over seven years. love. it s what makes a subaru a subaru.
the search area wednesday above a specially chartered airasia flight to pray for their loved ones. it s unclear if families will move forward with that flight. airasia s ceo, tony fernandez, expressing his condolences saying my heart is filled with sadness for all the families involved in qz 8501. now the somber task of recovering the wreckage, the flight data and cockpit voice recorders and piecing together what caused the plane to go down. overnight, audio transmissions from airasia 8501 s cockpit to air traffic control surfacing providing little to know clues. the pilots cleared for take-off from surabaya to singapore but would never arrive. for more now on the discovery of debris and what this could tell us i m joined by cnn aviation correspondent richard quest, david soucie and peter