Im Deborah Feyerick and this is a special edition of cnn newsroom. For those expecting to see fareed zakaria, were live this hour as we prepare for the funeral of fallen nypd officer wenjian liu. Liu was one of two officers shot and killed by a lone gunman last month. Right now youre looking at live pictures where those Funeral Services are set to take place on a very rainy sunday. This was the somber scene yesterday as police lined up to pay their respects at a private wake. The line stretching two full blocks. Among those in attendance Governor Andrew Cuomo who said off lericer liu had his dream job. This was his dream, to become an nypd officer. In some ways its the ultimate assimilation into america, into new york to become a Police Officer, and obviously he was so proud and he was so proud for his whole family. And a number of highprofile officials are expected to attend todays service clurg bill de blasio and on behalf of the white house fbi director james comey. Bill bratton has
Burnett tonight. There is now an Aerial Search over the java sea as the search intensifies and zeros in closer to the target. 30 bodies have been recovered as day breaks over the java sea and day five of the search is set to begin. Crews from around the world are focusing their efforts on a zone that covers just over 2,000 square miles. Officials are calling that zone the most probable area in which to find the fuselage and their top priority the planes black boxes. 59 teams of divers are ready to go but bad weather and rough seas waves reported to be as high as 13 feet have stalled the work. A piece of wreckage possibly a window panel was found today. Of the 30 bodies recovered, four are identified. Among them one of the Flight Attendants. Airasia Tony Fernandez is accompanying that body home. Writing on twitter. I cannot describe how i feel. There are no words. The uss sampson part of the Recovery Team has recovered a dozen bodies and the uss fort worth with dive teams set to sail fr
We are almost done but we have just enough time for our traditional final question for our guest. For all weve been through in the past 12 months what would you wish for america in the coming year . Oh god, my wish for 2015 is peace. And my own show on cnn. I hope all these countries can just stop protesting and rioting and just live and love each other and life is so short. And my other dream is to play first base of the cleveland indians. My hope for 2015 is that the news becomes a little bit easier to follow. Because its gotten more peaceful. Thats probably not going to happen. But we could hope. Its been a rough year we need a good 2015. My hope for 2015 is the world gets motivated to Work Together on climate change. If we could just live in a world where we thought the police were being policed by somebody i think 2015 would be a dramatic improvement. Over 2014. My hopes for 2015 is that we can all get along and all just love each other more and help each other more and you know w
That search. Just hours ago, four large objects believed to be from the airasia jetliner were found in the java sea where weather conditions are very stormy right now. They were discovered within close proximity to one another after searchers spotted an oil slick. We are told one of the objects is 59 feet long. But just a short time later, the search for bodies and debris has halted for the day due to bad weather. Back on land two more of the 30 recovered souls have been identified bringing the total now to six that have been identified. We know one recently identified a 44yearold woman. Also a 23yearold man. And in a Disturbing Development the plane apparently was not supposed to be flying that day in the first place. Indonesias transport ministry claims that the plane was not permitted to fly that specific route on sundays. Let me bring in our expert guests to talk about this. Jeff weise is a pilot and also author of the new book extreme fear. Dan duke is a retired United Airlines pi
Primary. And primarily speaking, bill clinton sizes up the voters and saves his best lines to attack donald trump. Hello, everyone. Im alex witt here in new york at msnbc headquarters. Heres whats happening right now. We have this new information at this hour the crash of egyptair flight 804, egyptian officials just releasing this debris. It is from the jet that they continue to scour for in the mediterranean sea. The focus is locating the planes black boxes which could provide pivotal clues as to what caused that crash. So far we know there were Serious Problems around the cockpit just moments before that flight came down. The planes sensors detected smoke in multiple locations there, suggesting a fire on board. Lets go to nbcs Chris Jansing who joins us from paris outside their airport. Chris, good morning to you. Officials assisting in the investigation are also confirming the detection of smoke. How confirming are these findings . Reporter its the first information we have, the sol