The king s half brother has taken over at the palace. abdullah who was 90 is remembered for his efforts to modernize saudi arabia and a key figure in the u.s. fight against al qaeda. abdullah s death led to 2.5% jump in oil prices. some describe it as a knee-jerk reaction and expect fuel prices to go lower. saudi arabia is facing a major deficit because of falling oil prices. also in the mideast, the president of yemen has quit under pressure sending the country into deeper chaos. the resignation of the leader and his cabinet complicates american efforts in the fight against al qaeda. rebels who control the capital have been holding him captive in his home. he is expected to take control. the u.s. embassy is open but staffing is cut. the crash of airasia flight 8501 and the disappearance of the malaysian airlines airliner have led to possible aviation changes in the u.s. the feds want to make it easier to track passenger jets.
Abc s david kerley has the details. reporter: out on the southern indian ocean these ships are still searching for malaysia 370, one of aviation s greatest mysteries. after that frustratingly long search for the wreck of the airasia jet. a new plan aims to keep this from ever happening again to a jet flying over water. the national transportation safety board wants jet line toers transmit their location more often or a flight data location more often so rescue crews have a smaller area to search or the jets should be equipped with an ejectable recorder when something goes wrong. the board is asking low frequency transmitters be attached to the plane which will make it easier to hear, making the fuselage easier to find. this as we are learning happened in the airasia flight 8501 and the chaos in the cockpit. one unnamed source quoted in the french press said there were so many alarms captured by the voice recorder that the jet was, in essence, screaming at the pilots.
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For. but a version of it. it s interesting because i ve reported on dozens of plane crashes, but i ve never actually seen one of these black boxes before in real life. it s much heavier than i ever imagine with all the equipment inside it. how confident are you that the black boxes in the airasia flight at the bottom of the sea are still in the tail section. the cockpit voice recorder is further forward, it depends where the tail broke off as to whether they re together or not. typically like on the 777, the boxes are co-located. in this case one is a little more forward than the other. so depending where it broke off it could be a very very difficult task trying to find both boxes, we have to have both in order to get really good information. david soucie can you explain where the tail section was located? it wasn t in the primary search location it was in a secondary search location. yeah david i m sorry,
We re tracking what you need to know for this very cold day. good morning, everyone, welcome to early start. i m john berman. and i m christine romans. it s wednesday, january 7th 4:00 a.m. in the east. 11 days into the search for airasia flight 8501. the tail has been found. this is potentially crucial here. divers struggling against stormy seas near zero visibility. they have found at least part of the tail section of that plane. this could be a major find because the black boxes in airbus 832200 are housed in the section. anna cornyn from surabaya indonesia. reporter: a major find for airasia flight 8501. the search and recovery teams discovered the tail of the aircraft which contains the vital black box flight recorders. now, they found the tail by