watching football with his wife. those are some of our top stories on this monday, december 29th. announcer: from abc news, this is world news now. we need to start with that expanding search for a missing airasia jet. australia has joined the effort but an indonesian official doesn t hold out much hope. he said he expects they will find the plane at the bottom of the ocean. abc s david kerley has more. reporter: this is the actual airarbia a320 missing at this hour. indonesian aircraft looking for any sign of the jetliner carrying 161 people mostly indonesians. flight 8501 took off from indonesia early saturday morning headed northwest for singapore. 42 minutes into the flight the jet runs into severe weather, thunderstorms and turbulence. the pilot asked to turn and to increase altitude significantly from 32,000 feet to 38,000 feet. the jet, then just disappears off radar. it s hard to imagine how a thunderstorm would bring down an airplane especially as experie
apartment building. four children rescued, including that boy who jumped. they are all doing okay. the fire started by food left on the stove. surfers in central california are keeping a close eye an the water after a surfer was bitten by a great white. the surfboard shows scars of the attack which happened yesterday. he was dragged under water by the juvenile great white and bitten on the hip. he was able to paddle to shore where he made a tourniquet with his leash cord. the biggest blessing was there was a woman doctor happened to be right there on the beach. she came don and gave a quick assessment of how bad the wound was. the man wise flown to the hospital. another surfer says there was no warning. the shark came straight out of the depp ths. the beach is open but warning signs are posted. a man in alaska beat the odds not to mention the freezing temperatures. this happened with a snowmobile accident. that was just the start. abc s aditi roy with the details. y
Time for the mix. a couple of proposals. one proposal, the guy couldn t be there for it. it s the season. he had santa step in. let s roll the footage. see the young lady. what s would you like? i want my boyfriend to come home from afghanistan. really? santa asks, what do you want for christmas? i want my boyfriend to come. she did not know her boyfriend sergeant clint underhill arranged this surprise with the young lady s mother. kimberly roberts is the now-fiancee. arranged this santa got down on a knee and found a creative way to do this. very nice. let s see if this tops that. a guy surprises his girlfriend with a proposal but she doesn t know what s coming. open this box. she pulls out letters one at a time. they spell out starting with a
all right. post-holiday lag. shake it off. get ready for the new year. enjoy ourselves. i m tai hernandez. good morning. i m t.j. holmes. new year coming in in just a couple of days. for now, another mystery. the search for another missing plane. airasia plane. that search is once again under way. australia s military is joining the search in the java sea with several other countries, although the u.s. has not been asked to take part. an official said the plane is likely to be at the bottom of the sea. abc s david kerley has more. reporter: another missing jetliner. indonesia says it will have a dozen ships, three helicopters and five aircraft looking for any sign of the jetliner. possible wreckage floating on the java sea. even though relatives still held out for better news. we still have hope. we cannot lose hope. reporter: it was just after 5:30 in the morning the nearly full airbus a320 jetliner took off from the surabaya airport heading northwest to singapore.