this morning the sports world mourning the loss of espn s stuart scott. he lost his battle with cancer this morning. he was an anchor for the flagship show of the network sportcenter and continued to work while battling the disease. he leaves behind two daughters. scott was 49 years old. okay. we are back now to the grim search for wreckage and victims from flight 8501. bad weather hampering today s recovery efforts. this coming as we learn airasia was not given permission to fly the route it flew over the java sea before vanishing from radar and crashing last sunday. how exactly does this play into the investigation into how flight 8501 crashed. weighing in now is an aviation
provided initial compensation to the familieses of $24,000 each, if they want it. that would say hopefully the insurance market is going to do the right thing and compensate the families. but that remains to be seen as we move forward. without that it changes not to focus on the monetary aspect but it changes how much they could get. singapore, indonesia have different compensation. absolutely. under indonesia law they were party to an old treaty which limits compensation to a smallment amount of oh money. indonesia singapore was the more mo attorney treaty. i think the insurance market will make decisions. they need to do the right thing and compensate the families. doug, thank you so much. you re welcome. thank you. the centers for disease control are describing this season s flu season as a bad one. it s an epidemic. spreading now to 36 states. coming up, we ll tell you how to protect yourself and your family
attorney doug loto. i want to start with with this. i m sure you read the same thing that the transport ministry said the air line didn t have a permit to fly on sunday. but singapore s civil aviation authority said saturday from its end the airline had been approved to fly the route. what sort of questions does this raise for you? most importantly, it raises insurance issues. and what impact the insurance coverage will have with respect to the airline flying on a day that it wasn t authorized to fly. apparently they were allowed to fly on four days per week. for some reason they were given permission to fly on saturday but not on sunday. will the insurer use the fact they violated regulations to deny coverage and compensation to the families which would be tragic. as you know the news today is they are saying the black boxes, they are pretty sure they will find them tomorrow. how will this open up the investigation? critical. the digital flight data recorder, the cockpit voice r