video image which are subject to misinterpretation and may, in fact, lead investigators away from accurate conclusions. randi kaye, cnn, new york. we just learned from erin mclachlan there near the crash site the difficult conditions that these workers are working in there on that very steep terrain. derek van dam is joining us from the international weather center. in fact, she said normally there are five helicopters, just five. you know, trying to remove bits and pieces of the plane. and today there will be only two. reporter: yeah, it leads to the question what is that reason for the decrease in helicopter. the weather conditions across the area, which you saw in erin s live shot a moment ago, sunny weather overhead. that doesn t mean that the wind isn t still a concern, especially across the ravines and crevasses in this mountainous part of southeastern france. on the latest satellite loop
temperature drop in jack southern mississippi, from wednesday into thursday. as this cold front swept through. here it is on our satellite loop this large shading of white, that of course being the cloud cover, moving off the new england coast, plunging our temperatures to near record low minimum temperatures especially across the east coast. record lows near the big apple, 6 agrees. we re in the middle teens at the moment. we ll be running 18 degrees below where we should be this time of year normal temperature for new york city is about 36. more of the same for washington wug d.c., toward atlanta. a few scattered showers throughout the florida panhandle. a lot of us have been wondering, is this the last of winter? one thing s for sure only 14 more days till spring. back to you. authorities in south korea investigating a possible connection between the suspect who slashed u.s. ambassador mark
drive in standing water. similar scene in virginia. those too are roads, though man, you see the streets. look at the street sign right there. takes six inches of water, maybe even less than six inches to sweep an suv off the road. crazy. huge storm now moving off into the atlantic, but behind it is cold. cold temperatures. i want to bring in meteorologist derrick van dam for an early look at your weather this morning. good morning, john and christine. just to give you an idea of how potent this cold front actually was, we had a 50 degree temperature drop in jackson, mississippi, from wednesday into thursday. as this cold front swept through. here it is on our satellite loop. this large shading of white, that s the cloud cover, moving off the new england coast, but also plunging our temperatures to near record low minimum temperatures especially across the east coast. record lows near the big apple 6 degrees. in the middle teens at the moment. we re running 18 degrees below whe
think is going to make out for the next few days. shallower water, the currents are stronger in these shallower bat waters and we know murky to say the at least. mud-like clay in this portion of the java sea. there s a debris field location 100 to 200 kill meters from the last point of the aircraft. satellite loop in motion here for you. tremendous thunderstorm development on this infrared satellite imagery that we see north of the java sea. we do have some moderate storms taking place and low clouds also. so the weather is better across this region. but still far from ideal. so we take you through the model forecasting into the afternoon and evening hours, about four hours left before sunset. the weather going to be improving over the next four hours. isolated showers. this is early thursday morning. thunderstorms really begin to blossom across this region.
this time of year. once it reaches this mountainous region, it actually cools, condecembers, the air, forms the thunder storms and remember thunder storms in order to initiate, we have to have some sort of updraft. some sort of uplift whether it be mountains, warm air rising, that s what creates that turbulent affect in the upper levels of the atmosphere for airplanes. pilots want to try to avoid thunder storms at all costs. sometimes it s just simply impossible to do. here is the satellite loop once again. you can see just how active that region has been and unfortunately, as we start to focus on what could potentially be a recovery effort going forward, we have more monsoonal thunder showers in the forecast across this region. the ocean will be very turbulent at this time if there are any boats heading toward that particular location. choppy waves. additional rainfall.