And against all odds. His snowmobile crashes through the ice in the alaskan wilderness, frozen to the bone. He walks 30 miles looking for help. My boys, my family. Fighting off ferocious animals he says, before help finally arrives. An extraordinary, emotional story of survival this morning. Good morning, everybody. Lets get straight to our top story the breaking news overnight. Nine months after air flight 370 disappeared, another passenger plane has vanished in the same part of the world. Air asia 8501 was flying from indonesian city of surabaya to singapore when it disappeared from radar. Air asia is also based in malaysia. The final communication from the pilot and air Traffic Control came at 6 12 a. M. When the pilot asked to turn left and climb to 38,000 feet to, quote, avoid clouds. There were more than 160 people on board, including 17 children, one an infant. As their families desperately await word, theres a massive search and rescue effort under way right now. And Abcs David
Help in the search this morning. What a moment. A son just tried to do Something Special for his parent. Why mommies so shock by what is inside of that letter. It is coming up, in the trend. Good day everybody. It is monday, december 29th, 2014. As we wind down another year. s we wind up and try to get the energy going at 5 01. I think the world is asleep or at least on vacation this week. It is true, caitlin. A lot of holiday hang over for everyone and hopefully you will get to sleep in but if you are watching us right now that means you are not sleeping in and you have to head back to work too. A couple of days before that next holiday. We have a shower out there right now. You might remember the light rain that came flaw yesterday at times especially in the evening. That was along the front that is month toward our south but it has now stalled. If you are in delaware and south jersey you have a chance of seeing these showers through this morning. Some pushing off shore, right now, a
Apartment building. Four children rescued, including that boy who jumped. They are all doing okay. The fire started by food left on the stove. Surfers in Central California are keeping a close eye an the water after a surfer was bitten by a great white. The surfboard shows scars of the attack which happened yesterday. He was dragged under water by the juvenile great white and bitten on the hip. He was able to paddle to shore where he made a tourniquet with his leash cord. The biggest blessing was there was a woman doctor happened to be right there on the beach. She came don and gave a quick assessment of how bad the wound was. The man wise flown to the hospital. Another surfer says there was no warning. The shark came straight out of the depp ths. The beach is open but warning signs are posted. A man in alaska beat the odds not to mention the freezing temperatures. This happened with a snowmobile accident. That was just the start. Abcs aditi roy with the details. Yeah, i think its a mi
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
Snowmobile crashes through the ice in the alaskan wilderness, frozen to the bone. He walks 30 miles looking for help. My boys, my family. Fighting off ferocious animals he says, before help finally arrives. An extraordinary, emotional story of survival this morning. Good morning, everybody. Lets get straight to our top story this morning, the breaking news overnight. Nine months after air flight 370 disappeared, another plane simply vanished in the same part of the world. Air asia 8501 was flying from surabaya to singapore when it disappeared from radar. Air asia is also based in malaysia. The final communication from the pilot came at 6 12 a. M. When the pilot asked to turn left and climb to 38,000 feet to, quote, avoid clouds. There were more than 160 people on board, including 17 children one on infant. As their families desperately await word theres a massive search and rescue effort under way right now. David kerley kicks off our coverage. Reporter this jetliner has been missing f