Reporter now. she is at the crisis center in surabaya indonesia. we have to mention these nech divers who are heading out in these terrorism russ conditions. really and truly risking their lives to try and find answers and find some answers to what went wrong. we re ten days into this. what does that tell us about what they re likely to find if anything? well we re not going to have any answers until we find the black boxes. as far as the divers go they are on standby. we got word that two of them went in this morning to look at conditions. they came back up saying that visibility was terrible. so no search by those divers today. another two bodies they have been identified. i should say. they have been spotted. that is what we are hearing from the search and recovery team out
reporter: gary tuchman, cnn, surabaya, indonesia. and as anna coren explained earlier, the grim task of identifying bodies goes on. the more time that passes of course the harder their task becomes. later in the show we will speak with an expert on victim identification. all right. let s take a look at markets now. a big question. will tuesday be a rebound day on wall street? you see how it ended monday down nasdaq and s&p 500 futures are now trending higher we should mention during the overnight hours here in the u.s. but this follows a blue money for blue chips. the dow industrials dropped 331 points losing about 2% of their value. the nasdaq and s&p 500 posted similar percentage drops following a down day in europe. and most of the big asia pacific markets felt the sting left over from the u.s. and europe. the trading day has already
These are the latest victims who have been identified. taking the number to 16 identified. we had word there were three other bodies that had been identified. they were not media. number retrieved is 37. that remains the status quo. however, they have spot two-day other bodies in the java sea. because of bad conditions out there as it has been the case now for days helicopters are able to pick up those bodies take them back to the bangalanbon military base and taken here to surabaya handed over to the d.v.i. unit which goes through the painstaking task of trying to piece together who these people are and i.d. them so that the families can then have these bodies and then bury them properly. it s a very slow difficult
Up to identify them since it s been ten days? yeah. that s absolutely right them need a break in the weather to retrieve those bodies. they then take them back to the base where they are prepared and flown here to surabaya to the hospital where they are handed over to the disaster victims identification unit. we spent the morning with the head of that unit and the doctor and his team it has grown to several hundred people. emhe s had to tell other countries to stop sending in forensic officers because they have too many people now that are part of the team. they only have eight beds for, or eight forensic tables where they look at the remains. so far the remains that have been brought back, the bodies that have been brought back are intact. as we know the longer they stay in the water, the more they decompose. and they would normally rely finger prints for
Now on day ten, officials say the rest of the 162 passengers on board will be harder to identify if found. from the first days you can find the body in very good condition. but lately you ll find the dead bodies more decomposed. well john these black boxes, that have been in the water now for ten days they have another 20 before the batteries run out. so as you can imagine, a great deal of pressure is on to find them. our anna coren in surabaya indonesia. we ll talk more about the search but before that i want to show you live pictures of cape canaveral in florida, a launch is about to take place in a few seconds of a falcon 9 rocket. that is lifting off, sending a capsule to the international