indonesians are trying to recover from a deadly tsunami. the death toll is 429 people, that number is expected to rise. officials are warning people that the threat of more deadly waves is very real. cnn s ivan watson has more. reporter: kate, since saturday s deadly tsunami, the death toll, the number of people injured, the number of people missing, just continues to rise. among the victims of this tsunami, the wife of the lead singer of the indonesian pop band 17, their concert was tragically cut short saturday night when the tsunami struck. all of the bad members aside from the lead singer were killed. he announced on tuesday his wife was killed as well. cnn journalists caught up with some of the search and rescue teams that included k9 sniffer dogs. unfortunately, in the event of
died. more than 150 still missing at this hour. we ve now learned that the wife of the lead singer from an indonesian pop band, you remember this video as that wave struck, well, she s now been found dead. she and the band swept away when a giant wave hit their stage in the middle of a performance. the lead singer, the only survivor. for the latest, let s turn to senior international correspondent ivan watson. ivan. recover recovery efforts do we know where they stand now? this is hard, grim work that s going on and we re not hearing a lot of bright spots here, jim. as you mentioned the lead singer of the indonesian pop band confirmed, not only were all of the band members in its band that saw the concert tragically cut short, not only were they all killed, but his wife was killed, as well and when our teams on the ground along west java along the devastated coastlines caught up with search
full moon and had been high tide at the time. some survivors we talked to say there was no warning whatsoever and the waters didn t recede before the tsunami struck as you sometimes get in other cases and that s part of the why the results were so devastating. this band we ve seen, indonesian pop band 17, their lead singer has announced on his social media accounts that all three of his band members were killed by the wave that tragically interrupted their concert. jim? that video, we showed you again, just shocking. shows the surprise. they put in these buoys after the 2004 earthquake that will rise and fall with sea rise. a few months ago, many of them weren t working. why not and what is the government going to do about it? the indonesian president was touring the disaster zone and said we need to install an early warning system. but indonesia got one installed
been working around the clock to get to trapped people. hospitals have been overwhelmed with victims. the army has stepped in helping with the recovery and this is now the second deadly tsunami to strike indonesia this year. 2500 people killed in september and we remember all of those devastating images from 2004, the day after christmas when the deadliest tsunami ever recorded claims more than 230,000 lives. saturday s incident a lot smaller in scale but that s not going to make it less painful for those who lost loved ones and those awaiting word about their missing loved ones as we speak. speaking of devastating images, you showed us the image of a collapse that happened at a concert. watching this, this is the kind of thing that s happening and people are still trying to recover from. lucy, what do we know about the people inside that building? morgan, this was the performance by a indonesian pop