His spirit will continue to look after us. Detective wenjian liu was a good man. He walked a path of courage, a path of sacrifice, and a path of kindness. This is who he was. And he was taken from us much too soon. I do not know why there is so much evil and heartache in our world. I cannot understand evil. I cannot explain evil. I will not try. But what i believe with all my heart is that our obligation is to try to make something good come of tragedy. So that evil is not allowed to hold the field. So that evil is not allowed to win the day. Detective liu is the police that we want. Lets also in this city in this country, the police that we have. And for that and for how he died but for how he lived and performed his duty with that, i am so honored as has already been referenced to pothsthumously promote detective liu to first. New york stands a little taller today because of the time he walked among us. Those words today from new york city mayor bill dede blasio giving the eulogy for
30 bodies have been pulled from the java sea. Technicians onland have identified four of the bodky kyyies and the search is roughly the size of the state of delaware. Lets get the latest from surabaya indonesia, where many families are gathered awaiting news. Andrew stevens is there, hi andrew. Hi carol. The line here today is that search frustrations continue just because the weather remains very very bad. Its slightly better than yesterday, i should add, but conditions are described as challenging so the actual visual part of this search has just basically proved to be impossible. Where theyre focusing now in that smaller area you mentioned there, just 2,000 square miles now, is going to be on the underwater sonar, looking at sonar readings looking at very very faint whatever they can get on acoustic readings anything thats a pinging underwater. They havent found anything they havent told us that anything has turned up yet so theyre still looking. Weve got warships on site and pretty
Climb before it crashed possibly pushing it beyond the planes limits. New years day was a frustrated one for search crews in the java sea. The weather over the search zone was once again terrible grounding planes sending helicopters home and keeping divers on board their ships. But another body was pulled from the ocean bringing the total to nine and thats out of 162 passengers and crew. The other eight victims recovered are now on shore and we can now confirm the identity of one of them. Local media said shes a teacher. Her i. D. Still attached to her body along with an initialled necklace. Andrew stevens is at the new Crisis Center set up for family members at surabaya indonesia. What do we know about the identification process for these other victims . Reporter well they are going to follow a very similar process which is going to be a very pain staking and thorough process, ana. As you say there are now eight bodies here at the Police Hospital which are currently undergoing identif
Youre in the cnn newsroom. Im poppy harlow in new york. Thanks for joining me this evening. 6 00 on the east coast. Our top story, a sea of blue paying tribute to a fallen hero. Thousands of nypd officers lined up for more than a mile today to honor slain officer wenjian liu at his funeral. Look at that image. Wen was gunned down in at ambush in his patrol car last month along with his partner. Devoted family man, hardworking cop, a proud new husband. He just married his wife a few months before he was killed. His widow trembled with tears throughout the ceremony and she thanked her family of blue for attending todays service. He was always there when anyone needed something. When wenjian wasnt working, wenjian cared a lot for the chinese community. He always wanted to do his best to help and support. The very community that he was part of he was loved by his friends, colleagues and our extended family that is here today. I think her words touched so many people today. Sarah joins me n
This as indonesian authorities focus on pin pointing the exact location of airasia flight 8501 officials confirming sonar imagery located wreckage believed to be if the aircraft submerged at the bottom of the java sea. Whats going to be of particular interest is what part of the airplane are there, the wings, the tail just to sort of try to understand whether the plane broke up in flight or remained intact. Other reports suggest the plane may be lying upsidedown according to the wall street journal. On tuesday Recovery Team brings in pieces of debris along with the remains of seven victims. A gruesome task recovering more bodies and identifying them. But some still hold on to hope one woman with six family members aboard tells cnn, theres nothing confirmed with what happened to the passengers and we are still hoping there is a miracle. At the Crisis Center in surabaya surabaya relatives gather for a Prayer Service inside the airport. Next the hunt for clues, answers as to what brought