Sweeps through a ferry with hundreds of people on board. Why are authorities now launching a criminal investigation . Wolf blitzer is off today. Im brianna keilar. Youre in the situation room. Were following the breaking news. The indonesian government officially asking for u. S. Help in the search for that missing airasia flight. The pentagon says it could include planes ships, perhaps underwater devices and the massive search is about to get under way for a third day as dawn is breaking over the java sea where officials fear the plane crashed with 162 people on board. We are covering all angles of the breaking news with our correspondents and expert guests including the former head of the National Transportation safety board, debra hersman. We begin in surabaya indonesia with cnns Andrew Stevens. Andrew, give us the latest. Reporter brianna, as you say, dawn is just breaking here in surabaya. And the search aircrafts will be back in the air in the moment now. They have about an hour
In new video posted a few hours ago, al qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula based in yemen again claimed responsibility for the assault on the magazines offices that took the lives of 12 people. A Senior Leader of the group claims aqap ordered, planned, funded the attack on orders from al qaedas top leader ayman al zawahri. The claims a day after the new video of the attack was released, shows the brothers calmly reloading rifles as they prepare to make a get away after the attack. One also shouts weve very longed the Prophet Muhammad. One brother opens fire on a police car which then goes into reverse. Within seconds, the brothers killed a plan at point blank range. Ron allen joins us from paris. Lets talk about the reaction and number of people that grabbed a copy of charlie hebdo, even though we know the threat is still very present in paris, and quite honestly around the country at this point. Reporter well, it is impossible to get a copy of the newspaper here for most people. We do hav
Singapore. Unlike flight 370, it went missing over the java sea in a heavily traveled shipping channel with shallow waters. 1,126 searchers are deployed from australia, singapore, malaysia south korea, japan, and new zealand. Along with Indonesias Navy army air force, and police force. And the uss sampson is also on its way to the java sea, where its already tuesday morning. We have an expert Team Standing by to answer all of your questions. Make sure you use the hashtag 8501 qz. But i want to get to cnns reporters in the search zone. Andrew stevens is in surabaya indonesia. Will ripley joins us from beijing. And cnn aviation correspondent Richard Quest here with me this evening in the studio. Hello to all of you gentlemen. Im going to start with you, andrew. Reports of smoke we have seen, that has been seen on an island in the asia air flight 8501 search area. What do you know about the smoke . Don, thats the key. Within the search zone. Remember this search zone continues to widen ra
Did you miss it because you were up late watching movies . Big was on last night. I did watch big last night. Thats a great movie. Love that movie. Maybe you were busy playing laser tag at joe bidens house. The lasers are really cool. I have been tinkering around the white house setting up a similar system. Now its easy for the right to nail the president on this, but its not the right thats just nailing him. It is everyone. Its not our fault he makes it so easy. It serves to remind us why it happened because fanatics murdered citizens especially as the outrage is going to get lost. For instead of learning lessons about evil the media returns to platitudes on tolerance like a forgetful dog eating its own vomit. In nigeria thieves placed bombs on young girls killing 20 after boko haram murdered 2,000. That got lost in the paris shuffle. No arm linking chant of famous names and faces is going to stop that. Forgive me if a march for unity leaves me cold. It should be a march for war. Forg
These people have the best seats and best roles in the proceedings. And what has Hillary Clinton been up to lately . Shes been flying under the radar. She has been up to a lot. Well have all the details ahead on the show. We begin with the message that president obama will deliver to the nation on tuesday night. Details of a major tax proposal that hell offer in his state of the Union Address leaking out overnight. Basic idea is one that the president and his party have been stressing for years, asking the wealthiest americans to pay more using that money to help working and middle class americans. Tax reform is also something republicans talk about. Though their idea of reform may be very different from what the president is about to sell. With all of the details on the president s plan what he will be saying on tuesday night, we turn to nbc News White House correspondent kristinen welker. A lot coming out this morning. Take us through it. Just to reiterate the point, you made the pre