being cautious. i would like to think the investigators know what they re doing, but i agree with jeff there is that possibility. absolutely. so waiting to clear that up. and they re not in the water right now, not searches because of the weather. let s talk about what we know and don t know and how all of this information is going to be so important to investigators, we know that parts of the plane may have been located by sonar at the bottom of the sea. we doesn t know how large the parts are, where they were located or their orientation on the sea floor, there s a lot to discover here. we ve seen this before in other accident investigations information comes out early in the process, it s sketchy. it s inconsistent. it s going to take a little bit of time to sort out what s true and what s rumor at this point. we know also gentlemen, that the debris was found a distance from the last known location of the plane. or what condition it s in. we know the debris was found in the
but air asia s ceo says the weather forecast for the next few days is not looking good. for more on the latest developments let s head to gary tuchman live once again from indonesia. gary? michaela that s the newest information that more bodies have been recovered, upping the total to 10. in addition to that five more bodies will be brought back here to this area this airport, the naval air base near here for a ceremony like the one we saw about two and a half hours ago. it was incredibly moving. the first two victims were brought in their coffins, on an indonesian air force jet. there was an honor guard of 110 members of indonesia s army, ifrs and navy they walked two hearses that were waiting, they were numbered 001 and 002. not only because they were the first two victims brought back to the city where the plane took off from but because their identities are not yet known. they were transported to a
situation. let s talk about the currents in the area. that s an issue right now for both where the debris is floating where the debris is and how difficult it will be for them to recover more bodies. let s look at the currents, we can pile it on and you can see how the currents may be pushing this into borneo. the currents in this benefit is the fact that it s only 100 feet deep. but the bad thing about that is that the currents are higher when it s that shallow. so it s rougher. yes. and air france 447, whatever went to the bottom stayed on the bottom. in this situation, the only thing that s going to stay object on the bottom in this area are the really heavy things the engines, landing gear the hard solid pieces of metal. what do you make of the fact that in the recovery zone we ve found seven bodies and a few pieces of the wreckage. things that would float from the interior of an airplane. it s too early for me to say it s conclusive in any way. however what concerns
sonar equipment may have found objects believed to be from airasia flight 8501 at the bottom of the java sea. the u.s. now has a second naval ship the uss fort worth at the port of singapore, ready to deploy in the recovery effort. joining me to discuss what goes on and what goes into a mission like this is retired u.s. army general and cnn military analyst general spider marks. good to have you here and a happy new year to you. thank you, michaela you as well. let s talk about this we know there are u.s. assets one on scene, the uss sampson we know the uss fort worth is ready to deploy in singapore to aid in this. what will the focus of the u.s. military assets be? well that s a great question.