Watching football with his wife. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, december 29th. Announcer from abc news, this is world news now. We need to start with that expanding search for a missing airasia jet. Australia has joined the effort but an indonesian official doesnt hold out much hope. He said he expects they will find the plane at the bottom of the ocean. Abcs david kerley has more. Reporter this is the actual airarbia a320 missing at this hour. Indonesian aircraft looking for any sign of the jetliner carrying 161 people mostly indonesians. Flight 8501 took off from indonesia Early Saturday Morning headed northwest for singapore. 42 minutes into the flight the jet runs into severe weather, thunderstorms and turbulence. The pilot asked to turn and to increase altitude significantly from 32,000 feet to 38,000 feet. The jet, then just disappears off radar. Its hard to imagine how a thunderstorm would bring down an airplane especially as experienced as this crew is. Well
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And good evening. Thank you for joining us on this busy sunday evening. Im tom llamas. Two breaking stories we are following tonight. A desperate rescue effort. A burning ferry off the coast of greece. Right now, hundreds of passengers are trapped. We begin with the urgent search for this missing asia jet, 8501. The terrible weather there when the plane went missing, a possible factor. Fierce thunderstorms, towering clouds, ferocious winds and the agonizing wait for the family members, 162 people on board including 16 children and an infant. All of this just nine months of Malaysian Airlines flight 370 disappeared. So many asking, how can it happen again. We have Team Coverage tonight with david kerley. Reporter its the Early Morning hours in indonesia, the launch of the first full day of searching for the jet liner which just vanished from radar screens. This tonight, another missing jet liner from southeast asia. Air area flight 8501. Within hours, indonesia says it will have a dozen
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Slowing down traffic. Subjects it to title 2 regulation. 32 along party lines. Today, after a decade of debate in an open and robust yearlong process, we finally have rules to ensure that the internet stays fast, fair, and open. Over the next 20 minutes we will have an indepth discussion on net rules to ensure neutrality and what it means for global business. Peter cook caught up with Steve Wosniak who attended the vote and had these comments. I believe in the the internet was so beautiful when it first came, even when it was dialup it was such an open and Free Expression forum. And over time it started getting closer and closer to getting clamped down. Decisions were made by the gate keepers. And do we trust them and we trust them to make decisions . No. We need some kind of supervision of their bad behavior. Are they likely to make deals and take breebs . Give somebody preference on their channel, thats a bribe. So youre confident that the rule today will ensure an open and Free Inte