members, and 3 americans. but we continue to learn about their stories. and among those believed lost, teens in love, grandparents on the trip of a lifetime, a father who just landed his dream job. the only catch, it was a plane ride away from his two young sons. people magazine reminds us of the human side of this tragedy with its cover story, faces of flight 370 is on newsstands now. and news editor liz mcneil joins us to tell us about their stories. it s so heartbreaking to read these stories. one of them, you highlight, is paul weeks, who just took on this new job and he e-mailed his wife before taking off saying, give the boys an extra hug and kiss from their dad, those monkeys are my world, as are you. obviously, i m emotional, everyone reading it is emotional. it s hard to get a better sense of who they are. yeah, we did our best to portray who these people were on the flight. that story was incredibly moving, before paul got on the plane, he had given his wife his wedding
for another day. it s storm season there, and we are talking gale-force winds, up to 50 miles an hour, driving rains, a low cloud ceiling, and massive ocean swells. 12 feet high. as many as a dozen aircraft are expected to be in the air as soon as possible. that includes seven military aircraft. the only plus is that the search zone has shifted east. it is now about 1,500 miles off the australian coast, meaning less travel time and more search time. the zone s narrowed from nearly 3 million square miles at its largest to just more than 600,000 square miles today. once the weather does clear, an australian naval vessel will sweep the waters where several pieces of possible debris were seen from the air on monday. six countries are on stand by to assist in that search and india has assets on route. the u.s. navy s black box detector, underwater microphones, and a mini subare also in perth. they will likely be deployed next week along with an australian vessel. here s what those
families have been speaking out. some were talking to people magazine for the first time. when you look at grief as usually such a private act for people, what did you see about the way that this particular community is grieving more publicly? there are certainly families that are grieving privately, and for them, talking at this time wasn t the right thing. but some did want to talk. i think because they feel compelled. as daniel bardon s far, mark, said to us, he said, we have no choice. we have to speak out. there has to be change in this country. they want the world to know about their children. liz mcneil, great work. thank you very much for that. as we take a break, a reminder of the lives lost on that day. hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah
they are now talking to anne marie murphy s children. they re close. they have her i.d. that her children gave to them. she told us their families are forever linked. they say that they get strength from the outpouring of love that from the things people say to them. they said that they were grateful for the love that they feel, as jenny hubbard said to me, she s the mother of catherine hubbard, we can t forget that humanity is good. thr them to say that after what they ve gone through, it s just astounding to us. they re really courageous people. yeah, liz, on that same note, you talked to some first responders like sergeant david calgrin who was saying for him he s had to focus on the fact that they got a lot of kids out safely. for him, he says that s a healing trigger. how are the survivors managing to help heal the community? well, one thing that dave
said, you know, david, the sergeant was one of the first four people there that day. he decided to talk to us because we wanted to talk about healing. he talked about finding a new normal. that what they ve lived through is something there are really no words for him to convey what he saw. he said those who have been in war zones would understand. but he said he focuses on the children that he got out that day. he says it helps him when people come up to him on the street and say, thank you for helping my son and daughter get out of school that day. what they ve lived through, what they ve experienced is something that s so unlike anything i think that we can even imagine. that they i think every day is it s still new for them as one of the parents told us, it s getting harder actually. but they re open to talking about it, to telling the world about their children. and they all want good to come out of this. liz, in terms of telling the world, some people in these