lives in the attempt futile attempt to try to get out there and rescue or retrieve evidence. all right. david, thank you so much. always appreciate your expertise. thank you, fredericka. as more victims and debris are found and recovered in the waters off indonesia, it seems more and more likely search crews ultimately will find flight 8501 at the bottom of the java sea. it s the point of view of so many. it s a relatively shallow body of water. about 100 to 150 feet deep. that s in large part why. hopefully making the search and the salvage operation easier. cnn joe johns reports on what it may take to recover the plane from the sea floor. how do you pull the plane up from the bottom of the ocean? what you want to do first is to really map the entire accident scene. we spoke with peter, a former investigator with ntsb who worked on the recovery and rebuilding of twa flight 800, that crashed after takeoff from
left. investigators need the black boxes to get a much more clear picture of why air asia flight 8501 went down. joining me right now is former ntsb medical officer mitch garber. the senior managing consultant for esi. good to see you. thanks for coming in. 22 days or so with the battery life but it could be longer. maybe on average it s 30 days. maybe more. fredericka obviously that s a variable and it can be longer or even shorter than that depending on the kndz and the specific batteries. i think in this case though the investigators seem to be fairly clear that they found what they believe to be a majority of the wreckage. so you feel fairly kflt if they ve isolated what they think to be the area of where most of the wreckage can be you feel
the police commissioner has asked officers not to turn their backs on mayor bill de blasio. thanks for watching state of the union. debraorah feyerick picks up our coverage of the nypd officer s funeral. a final good-bye. thousands of police officers from around the country gathering right now. they re paying final respects to a fellow brother in blue gunned down by a madman inside his squad car. we re live outside the funeral for detective wenjian liu. and difficult but improving conditions search teams find more victims from air asia flight 8501 as the airline gets set to make its first payments to families of the 162 victims on board that fateful flight. you are live in the cnn newsroom. and good morning, everyone.
if they don t recover, the part of the plane that failed in flight the cause of the crash may remain a mystery. cnn los angeles. all right. we have much more straight ahead and it all starts right now. hello again everyone. nightfall over the sea and the search for wreckage and bodies have been slowed down by the weather. earlier crews recovered four more bodies from the murky water. that brings the total number to 34. just about an hour from now, first light in indonesia and
all right. there remains in place a tornado warning for savanna, georgia, area. a tornado warning is in effect it includes hilton head. so if searchers don t find the black boxes from air asia flight 8501 then what? no doubt it makes the crash investigation a lot more difficult but not impossible. here now is stephanie elam. to find out what brought down