Just hours ago, bad weather descended on the search area in the java sea. Do you think that the numbers of bodies recovered will be growing rapidly . Translator we dont know. Because the victims, i believe most of them are still inside the aircraft and they have their safety belts buckled. We hope that the evacuation process will go fast. Cnns gary tuchman is in surabaya where the doomed flight began and where the victims will make their final journey home. Reporter carol, ten bodies have been recovered from this airasia plane. There are still 152 souls no the rofd. Behind me the Crisis Center at this airport where their loved ones took off from people getting counseling getting religious counseling, getting food, bat water, watching newscasts, hoping for any word about the recovery of the bodies of their loved ones. Most of them have come to terms with the fact that their loved ones did not survive that terrible accident. Right now theres no longer a mystery about where this plane went down. Theres still plenty of mystery about why it went down. This morning, the first group of recovered passengers arriving in surabaya in an emotional ceremony in caskets marked 001 and 002. This is indonesian authorities focus on pinpointing the exact location of airasia flight 8501. Officials confirming sonar imagery located wreckage believed to be from the aircraft, sun merged at the wot bottom of the java sea. What parts of the airplane are there, the wings, the tile to understand whether the plane broke up in flight or remained intact. Reporter others reports suggest the plane may be lying upside down according to the wall street journal. On tuesday, recovery teams bring in pieces of debris ashore, along with the remains of six passengers and a flight attendant. Authorities now faced with a grew some task, recovering more of the passengers from the wreckage, and identifying the bodies for griefstricken families, but some still hold onto hope. One woman with six family members on board telling cnn, there is nothing confirmed as far as what happened to the passengers, and we are still hoping there is a miracle, and they survive. At the Crisis Center here in surabaya, relatives gather for a Prayer Service inside the airport. Next, the hunt for clues. Answers as to what brought down airasia 8501. Likely contained in the planes flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder, otherwise known as the black boxes located in the tail section of the aircraft. Im hoping by first thing next week that were going to have a very clear picture of what happened to this airplane because the industry absolutely needs to know urgency what went wrong. Reporter here at the surabaya airport most of the day this Crisis Center was filled with family members, more than 100 at times but they are moving out, moving to a new center thats being set up at a hospital about an hour away from here where their loved ones bodies will be brought. Carol . Gary tuchman reporting. Trying to pinpoint the exact resting place of flight 8501 is an enormous challenge. Waters in the java sea are about 100 feet deep. To put that into perspective, thats about the height of a tenstory building. Adding to the difficulty rough weather which forced crews to halt the search today. Despite the challenges finding all of the wreckage could help solve what happened during the flights final moments. Tom foreman has more. Carol, there are three layers of the physical search right now, the one weve been talking about a lot is the first layer. We talk about where the plane took off, where it disappeared. We talk about the search areas and where we have debris on the surface in these roiling waters of the java sea. It is the first layer because its the top of the water but why is it important . Those pieces that they find on the top even if they dont tell a whole lot about what happened to the plane are indicators because when you move down into the second layer of the search the water column below, and you start comparing the location of those pieces to the water currents, which way theyre moving underneath there, they can help give you an idea through reverse engineering where they came from if they floated up from the debris on the bottom because that third layer, the bottom is where you really have to get to reach the important pieces out there. What are we talking about . When youre trying to figure out what happened to a plane, you want to know what happened to the critical systems, what happened to the wings . What happened to the tail . What happened to the engines at 9,000 pounds each where is the flight data recorder . Where is the voice recorder . What was going on with the electronics, almost all of those are heavy bits that once they hit the water will go straight down, here we talk about 80 100 feet down not that far to go and theyre not moving. Theyre right there and all of that matters because if you can pull it all together you can get a picture of what happens and we know that because its happened before. When twa 800 went down off long island it took many months of people diving there and robotics and Everything Else but they were able to recover 95 of that plane. Thats how they were able to put it together and figure out exactly what happened. Thats what you do to figure out if there was a fire whether it broke up on impact or landed intact and just sank. Thats what theyre hoping for here and in these conditions carol, maybe with luck theyll get the evidence they need to know what happened. We hope so. A treacherous new year in Southern California where powerful winds toppled trees and deep snow has snarled traffic in a scary way. 139 people were actually stranded in their cars overnight in the San Bernardino moun tans. Rescue cruise had to be called in to get them out of harms way. The San Bernardino county Fire Department tweeted these pictures of the rescues, crews used snowcats trucksized vehicles designed to move heavy snow to pluck people to safety. Sara sidner is in foothills in the San BernardinoNational Forest good morning. Reporter good morning, carol. I want to give you some idea of what theyre deal with in the Higher Elevations that are hard to get to. This is some of the ice that dropped off a couple of the cars that have been driving down that, one just behind me still has a bit of snow on it. It wasnt that much snow. Lot of people are saying wait a minute this of only a foot of snow but you have to understand the terrain that people were dealing with and if they didnt have if it caught them by surprise and they didnt have chains on their wheels they would slide and thats what happened in some cases, they were hitting each other, there were accidents and people literally got stuck in their cars as the snow was coming down. Now its not happening right now, but the other thing that people have been dealing with is very strong gusts of wind. We were unable to go up to the Higher Elevations partly because the road was closed out and partly because as soon as it opened the wind gusts were just too strong. They were knocking our car about. Lot of folks are having to deal with these kinds of conditions and it is extremely cold out here. Lot of californians not so used to the cold at least as cold as its gotten. So look whats happening now is at least those people have been rescued. They are in shelters and thats the latest on the situation here. Carol . So the people who are rescued from their cars who stayed in their cars overnight, waiting to be rescued, theyre in shelters now. Will they make it home in time for new years . Oh sara sidner is frozen there. Not in the literal sense, which is a good thing but we lost sara. Hopefully the people will get home in time for new years day. California is not the only state being blasted by horrible weather this new years eve. Temperatures could fall 20 or 30 degrees below average in many parts of the country. Oh chad, i almost dont want to talk about this. I know. I dont even want to talk about it. I want to say United States is not the only country seeing snow right now because it is snowing east of tijuana, mexico in the mountains south and southeast of san diego. Thats how far south this cold air is. Its 33 with cloudy skies in vegas right now. They think they could see some snow especially on the mountains around vegas. 7 Million People right now from california to texas under winter storm warnings. Some people could get 16 inches of snow. Now you have to understand the people that got stuck yesterday, most of them were out playing in the snow anyway. They went to go to the ski resorts to play in it and got stuck coming home. If youll play in it plan on being there for a couple of days because a foot and a half even in colorado will make the roads very very slow. Some lakeeffect snow into buffalo, watertown the next couple of days winter storm advisories lakeeffect snow warnings probably six to ten inches in some spots and south of watertown a foot and a half of snow. Its very cold everywhere. At least its below normal. 75 will be below normal. Kansas city 24 obviously it cools down a lot overnight and close to midnight new york city watching the ball drop around the freezing mark, atlanta the peach drop at 50 degrees, nice in miami and key west temperatures upper 70s, back out to the west dry Seattle Portland and also down into medford, and well see temperatures nice in l. A. Although east of there in the mountains you are going to see the snow maybe st. George and the four corners but l. A. In the mason 58. I was stuck on the 70s in miami because that sounds awfully nice. Its an hour and 45minute flight from here. Lets go. Chad myers, thanks so much. You, too. Still to come in the newsroom protests of Police Brutality expected to ring in the new year across the story. Rosa flores will have the story for us from new yorks times square. Push your enterprise and you can move the world. But to get from the old way to the new youll need the right it infrastructure. From a partner who knows how to make your enterprise more agile, borderless and secure. Hp helps business move on all the possibilities of today. And stay ready for everything that is still to come. It is traditionally a night of champagne, fireworks and smooches, but this year protests are planned in several u. S. Cities. The group called stop mass incarceration is now calling for nationwide demonstrations to protest recent police bruteality, but in boston the mayor is delivering a strong message to another online group, asking activists to hold off on a planned diein during tonights festivities, and in new york city amidst celebratory anticipation the relationship between police and mayor bill de blasio remains tense and when i say tense i mean tense. The New York Times reporting new York City Police are carrying their solidarity tantrum to new and dangerous levels. Statistics suggest cops are walking off the job and no longer making lowlevel arrests. The New York Post reporting tuesday for the week starting december 22nd days after two officers were executed traffic citations have fallen by 94 over the same period last year. Parking violations are down 92 , and drug arrests are down 84 . Still, new York City Police say theyll keep revelers safe in times square tonight, and that might not be easy. Cnns rosa flores is in the crowd right now. Good morning. Reporter good morning, carol. Here is the biggest takeaway from the nypd. They say that the experience here in times square in new york city will be the same like every other year. Take a look. You can already see revelers arriving from every corner of the world. Of course theyre here to ring in the new year. As for the new security measures yes, behind the scenes the nypd telling us that they will have heightened security more eyes and ears on the street and they will also be monitoring social media. Social media, why . Because of the threats coming in to nypd officers following the ambush killing of two of their own. We talked to the nypd and heres what they had to say. As with any new years eve detail were absolutely concerned about the security of everyone there, including the Police Officers. So there is obviously a heightened sense of security during this detail so as we turn the Police Officers out, we remind them they have to look out for each other and Work Together and make sure we all stay safe throughout this great event tomorrow night. Reporter now because of those threats, because of those two Police Officers who were gunned down there has been an outburst of protests in this city. Now the nypd also telling us that they have a special detail ready to go at a moments notice if a protest erupts. Carol . Rosa flores reporting live from times square this morning, thanks so much. Lets talk about the fun part of new years eve because i invite to you keep it here on cnn. You can ring in 2015 with Anderson Cooper along with kathy griffin, and you know thats sure to be crazy. I handcuffed myself to Anderson Cooper. You guys like did it and i dont have the key at all. This is truly my worst nightmare. Were together forever. If i cant have you, no one can. I will gnaw off my hand. Thats the pg rated version. Catch tonights special starting at 9 00 p. M. Eastern but you dont have to wait for the fun. Head over to cnn. Com nye. The pear already started there. We may still have a few hours left in 2014 but as i take to you a break, look at the celebrations already happening around the world, like this one in sydney, australia. Narrator this is the storm sea captain theres a storm comin narrator that whipped through the turbine which poured. Surplus energy into the plant which generously lowered its price and tipped off the house which used all that energy to stay warm through the storm. Chipmunk theres a bad storm comin narrator the internet of everything is changing how energy works. Is your Network Ready . The fbi is Standing Firm on its original assessment that north korea is behind that massive hack on sony this despite a Cyber Security firm claiming it was a disgruntled former sony employee responsible and not the rogue nation. Cnn justice reporter evan perez joins us now more and the fbi says, i mean it met with no, why meet with no, whose company says it was an inside job if no, didnt have a point . Carol, they were sort of in a tough place, right, because this companys getting a lot of publicity trying to bring doubts upon the fbis case and if they didnt meet with them they would be accused of ignoring perhaps valuable evidence so what they did was meet with them in a field office down in st. Louis, which is normal. If you call up the fbi and say you have information about a crime, theyll give you a meeting. So its not an abnormal situation. What is abnormal is for this company to make a publicity push putting out a press release about the meeting. The fbi is calling these claims to be frankly bunk. They think that this company has only one small part of this hack that its been poe fussing on which is this alleged action of a former employee disgruntled employee. The fbi says however, that the hackers for sure stole the credentials of a system administrator. You and i talked about that somebody who had free reign of the Computer System at sony and they also say that the hackers again from north korea routed the attack through about a dozen countries, carol, so that was designed to make it look like it was coming from somewhere else and finally, they say there was some telltale signs in the malware code that showed you know characters from either china or north korea, which again, you know from their alphabet which shows you that they believe that these hackers were trying to mask where this thing was coming from but again, according to the fbi, had some telltale signals that came directly from that country. So are you calling out no, and saying theyre on a big pr campaign to make themselves look bet ear enget more business . Im not exactly saying that but one of the things successful about this everyone knows what this companys name is. Id never heard of them before this whole series of announcements. Evan perez, thanks so much. He is a political guy that evan. Still to come in the newsroom the first victims of the airasia crash come home and the search is at the start of the monsoon season. Good morning, im carol costello. Thank you so much for joining me. In indonesia, the monsoon season rolls in. The bleak reality of the airasia crash hits home. The first victims arrive onshore in wooden boxes labeled 001 and 002, grim reminders of the 160 other victims, as bad weather descends on the java sea. Also conflicting information in the search for answers. One official saying sonar may have located underwater wreckage but the airline is now downplaying that. Search and rescue team is doing a fantastic job, and theyre narrowing the search. They are feeling more comfortable that they are beginning to know where it is but there is no confirmation of them no sonar, nothing. Some visual identification, but nothing confirmed. Cnns Paula Hancocks is live with the latest. What do they know paula . Reporter well carol, at this point theyre saying that the focus is on finding the passengers and the crew. Ten bodies we understand at this point have been retrieved, and we know that two of them have already come through here. We are in kalimantan on the west coast, about 110 nautical miles away from the crash site where the bodies are brought first, treated and prepared and then they basically have the initial identification here before being sent to surabaya and the families. You saw the two coffins arriving earlier today. We understand there are obviously more bodies that will be coming here in the near future. Now what they do here is they basically treat the body and they also try and make some kind of identification for example, how tall the person is whether theyre male, female any identitying marks, any visual identification they can give. Remember the families