we wish the families the best and pray for them. david malco, thank you so much in indonesia. as we mentioned bad weather stalling the search in the java sea. they have located the wremage using sonar. and now comes the difficult task of trying get in there. meteorologist pedram javaheri has more. pedram? christine, you know the christians s conditions are going to go from bad to worse. we have 45 minutes to an hour of daylight left in this place. thermal signature, essentially the temperatures atop the cloud tops the darker they are, the higher the clouds are, the stronger the thunderstorms are. and to the northern location of the debris location. plenty of cloud cover to the south as well. the concern builds over the next 24 hours.
and italian to offer a hymn of thanksgiving for the past year. it s been quite a year for this pope. from his trip to the middle east in march to his role brokering a deal to normalize relations between the u.s. and cuba. we are less than 13 hours from the start of 2015 on the east coast in the u.s. and, of course, that means the iconic ball drop in new york s times square. revellers have started to stake out their spots and the nypd is gearing up for a busy night of its own with counterterrorism teams, bomb-sniffing dogs helicopters all pressed into objection to keep as many as a million partiers safe. there will be hundreds of cameras, some of which are displayed on the screen in our joint operations center and monitored live via the nypd s doe maybe awareness system. reporter: layering on a new concern this year police are monitoring social media and keeping an eye out for protests that may arise following weeks of demonstration december manning an end to police
plane s flight attendants. the first two of those bodies are now back there in surabaya. dozens of ships and planes have been involved in the search and recovery operation but that operation has been halted now. in the past half hour they halted that operation due to bad weather. cnn s gary tuchman is live in indonesia for us gary. reporter: christine, hello to you, surabaya indonesia, now dusk. an hour ago, the decision was made it was too windy, too murky, too foggy to continue safely with the ships and 30 threatens or so on the sea looking for those aboard the airasia 8501 flight. behind me the crisis center at the surabaya airport. this is where the plane left sunday. 100 family members inside the doors that is not open right
airport. they ve given each other support. they have religious leaders, food water and they re watching all of the coverage of this. many of them acknowledged the fact that their loved ones are not going to come back. their number one goal. and this is what officials here are telling us please tell me when will the body of my loved one be brought back. what we can tell you, christine, that ceremony of that person very moving will be repeated for each and every one of the victims as the bodies are recovered. that will be a long and emotional process, gary especially since the search has been halted for a while. gary tuchman, thank you. so far, searchers have recovered seven bodies from airasia 8501. and again, the search is paused because of the fog, because of the monsoon condition. there is word that the plane itself has been found on the bottom of the java sea. they ll have to wait a bit before they can get there again to try to look for it.
steven wang a young man whose mother was on board flight 370. he told me he was hoping for a miracle of airasia 8501. he was hoping that perhaps there would be survivors. it was during our interview that the news came in that in fact the debris had been found and bodies pulled from the water, christine. thank you for that will. we re going to continue to cover the latest of recovery of airasia 8501 all morning long. first, millions of americans soon getting a raise. an early start on your money next.