he had four relatives on board including two young grandkids. he says if this goes into the third week and there s no news then maybe i ll want to head out there, too. the fact that families are already thinking about the third week of the search when it s only tuesday certainly doesn t bode well. that sort of suggests that expectations of what may happen this week, not so good. the bottom line jake searching is slow going, it s slow progress. 149 families still don t have answers. jake? david molko in surabaya indonesia, thank you so much. in our national lead today, he is the only suspect to be charged in the boston marathon terrorist attack and today his trial begins with potential new evidence come more questions, such as did dzhokhar tsarnaev and his brother, tamerlan, really definitely act alone? that s next.
eerie picture there for sure. well the families of those on board flight 8501 have been huddling and waiting for any news of their loved ones inside a crisis center in surabaya indonesia. while the families were away cnn correspondent david mulco was allowed a look inside. reporter: this is where the families of those aboard flight 8501 have been spending their days. it s auditorium inside east java police headquarters but for these families it s a place of agony, a place to grieve and a place to wait. i want to give you a look around this caught my eye on the front wall. this is a list of the 162 passengers and crew on board the flight. 162 souls presumed lost at this point. nearby there s a medical area this is where families have been coming and giving information about their loved ones dental records, fingerprints.
room there s still hope. imam sappor had two young granddaughters and he believes they still might be alive. david molko, surabaya indonesia. trial for tamerlan tsarnaev starts in just hours with jury selection. the 21-year-old is charged with plotting the attack along with his late brother. three people died. more than 260 others were injured in the bombing. heather abbott lost her foot in the attack. she says she ll be in the courtroom during the trial. several people that i am now very close with will be testifying so i want to support them and i think, you know this is my only chance to kind of experience what this might bring for me if it s any sort of closure. more than half of the charges
weather, equipment, and pilots is where i think you ll find the issue. joining us now from surabaya nbc news foreign correspondent katie tur. what do we know about objects that have been detected so far? reporter: it s nighttime here in surabaya indonesia. the search is over for today. they hoped that they were going to be able to find the black boxes today. yesterday they said they were confident they would find them but today that did not happen. they were able to recover a little bit of wreckage including a seat from the airplane but they still don t have confirmation of visual of where they believe the bulk of that fuselage is. as you said they want to get divers down there to get a good look at it but every single day there s weather issues and today even though skies were clear for most of the day there were currents issues. the currents were too strong to get anywhere within that water so they had to come back up. so strong in fact they weren t able to use their subs. when t
is actually a shipwreck in the java sea so they just focus on those four items that they have located spotting and sonar obviously divers are now in that vicinity combing the waters. we understand several hours ago there were at least 57 divers in the waters but they re having great difficulty the visibility is proven to be a real problem because of the mud on the bottom of the ocean floor. the waves, it s very choppy one to three meters plus they re expecting rain this afternoon. we re actually waiting to are a press briefing to update us on how that is going but certainly we are expecting the weather to close in on that search area which will no doubt call off the search for today, but we are in the middle of monsoon season here in indonesia, so this is something that we are going to see over the coming days and obviously the mud on the bottom of the ocean floor is proving to