search and recovery efforts, locating two large, metal objects in the java sea. we'll have the latest from our searchers of the air asia flight. then -- >> they caused a lot of damage. and we will respond. >> and respond, they did. u.s. president barack obama signs off on sanctions to squeeze north korean officials behind the cyber attack on sony pictures. also ahead this hour new york's police commissioner warns his officers to do an

about-face in their ongoing protest with the city's mayor. and hello. welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the world. you're watching cnn live coverage. i'm natalie allen. it is 4:00 p.m. in indonesia, where rough seas are keeping search teams from getting a closer look at two, large pieces of metal spotted in the java sea. they believe the abouts are from airasia flight. the crews found in panel with two windows on friday. and planes flying overhead have spotted oil slicks. let's go to cnn's andrew stevens. certainly, they are cinching closer to more clues and hopefully this airplane andrew. >> reporter: yeah natalie. inching closer is the right way to express this.

it has so long for the search crews to actually try to get to where they need to be. they've been frustrated again. they found what is described as two, large objects. we know it's ten meters by five meters. the other is eight meters by half a meter. sizable abouts. but haven't been able to get closer to that. they were detected on scans. but they can't get a visual because the conditions are too bad. we've been told that sea conditions are over four meters. they can't put divers in. the weather means that the search for bodice continues. inching forward very, very slowly. no bodies have been recovered today, saturday. the number of bodice recovered still stands at 30. six have been identified. 24 are in this hospital here

behind me undergoing identification. >> right. the analysts do believe that many of the victims, the passengers on this plane, will be found in that fuselage. andrew let's talk about the ongoing investigation. the transport minister for indonesia says he will investigate all airasia flight schedules out of indonesia. what might have gone wrong here? >> reporter: this is an interesting story, natalie. airasia indonesia did not have a license o fly thatto fly that route. it has a license to fly that route, four days a week. the military of transportation

has launched a full investigation as to why it was flying on sunday. it will be investigating airasia indonesia. and will be investigating the airport authority here in surabaya. and will be looking at the general transportation office. that's quite a wide-ranging investigation. into exactly how it transpired. if airasia did not have a license to fly that route. they suspended all further flights between surabaya and singapore, for arabasia while the investigation gets under way. they will fully corporate with this investigation. and will not say anything until the results of that investigation are known. damaging for airasia they were flying unlicensed or without approval to fly that route on that specific day, given that 162 people are now presumed dead when the plane came down in the java sea.

>> one of the pieces of the puzzle that needs an answer. andrew stevens in surabaya. the ships looking for the missing plane, "the uss stinson" and "the uss ft. worth." the captain spoke with us earlier about the role they'll play in the search and recovery. >> our two ships that are committed right now, "ft. worth" and "sampson," they have three helicopters. both of them have a couple of small boats they will use for recovering debris or remains. they'll use the helicopters for searching. both of them have electrical optical camera systems, that allows them to see in pretty low light, with a good degree of fidelity. and helps them expand their

search. and search lights that the lookouts can use at night. >> search crews have not been able to recover anymore bodice from the sea today, as andrew reported. they have pulled 30 bodies from the water and identified 6 of them. paula hancocks joins us from indonesia. we keep hearing about the sophisticated equipment, paula, that people there have where you are. but weather continues to complicate things. what did you see? >> reporter: first of all, there's much happening behind me. this is a russian plane that handed about an hour ago. onboard, they have 22 deep sea divers. they have sonar and -- more specialized equipment has arrived in the region. we just spoke to the deputy ambassador. and he said it's the most

sophisticated equipment in the world, as far as he is concerned. they will be looking for the flight data recorders, which are crucial to find out what happened to this flight. and getting onboard an indonesian ship in the next hour. 3 1/2 meters to 4 meters are the waves. and it's too dangerous for divers to get in the water at that level. we went in a fleet helicopter today. we were going to be looking along the coastline because they were concerned that some debris and some bodies may have washed up along the western coast of borneo. we had to turn around after half an hour. the mission was aborted. the weather along the coastline was too dangerous to be up in the air. if you stayed in the air, the

visibility was too bad to be able to spot anything in the water. the weather is crippling this search operation. no bodies found today. and there is a short window to be able to find these bodies and be able to identify them. natalie? >> that's so unfortunate with all of the high-tech equipment, right behind you, flying in they can't use it yet. we hope they can soon. paula hancocks for us on a noisy tarmac. more coming up in about 30 minutes. we will talk with an aviation consultant and former pilot, on what the new debris can mean for the investigation. and we'll ask our guest about this report that air asia was not allowed to fly this route on that sunday. the u.s. has slapped north korea with another round of economic sanctions after alleging it was responsible for the hack against sony last

month. u.s. president obama signed the order while vacationing in hawaii. let's get into the specifics, will. what these sanctions will do. and how they'll try to hurt north korea economically. >> reporter: well essentially, what the sanctions do natalie, they aim at stopping north korea from obtaining cash in the form of u.s. currency through one of their primary moneymaking enterprises, which is arms trafficking. it's been known for a long time that north korea engages in the export of weapons. it's one of the way the regem makes its money. for the first time now, seven different officials believed to be involved in arms exports have been publicly named. this could make it difficult for them to do business even if they don't hold assets or direct

connections to the united states. u.s. currency from traveling in north korea, is highly valued there. it's one of the currencies they want the most. they want crisp bills when you go into that country because north korea is cash-starved. in addition to naming the official they're naming north korea's entity that deals in arms trafficking. and targeting one of the main government operations that is in charge of intelligence. specifically cyber intelligence. cutting off the cash flow naming high-level officials, the hope is this will hurt the north korean government. hurt the north korean regime without having adverse effects on the north korean people who are already suffering and believed to be starving by the millions in that country, natalie. >> we know the u.s. says this is just the start of the sanctions. more to come. will ripley following developments out of beijing. will has traveled to north korea before for cnn. coming up here a big change

in the investigation of a 12-year-old boy shot and killed by a police officer in cleveland, ohio. why the city is handing the case to another department. also ahead, women involved in a prostitution ring are telling their stories. and the name of britain's prince andrew has come up in a court document. we'll get reaction from the palace about that.

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four people who have died in a plane crash in the u.s. state of kentucky, that left one survivor a 7-year-old girl. a mother father and two, young girls were onboard. the surviving child reportedly walked away from the wreckage and told a nearby homeowner she had been in an airplane crash. searchers later found the plane along with the bodies of the people aboard. air traffic controllers lost contact with the plane over marshal county kentucky friday night, just after the pilot reported engine problems. the u.s. city of cleveland, ohio will no longer investigate a child's death by a police officer. and has asked its county sheriff's department to review the case instead. you may recall tamir rice was shot by an officer in a city park. police said the boy was reaching for a toy gun that the officer thought was a real weapon. the city's mayor says the decision to turn the investigation over is to ensure

transparency and impartiality in the case. the envoy to the united nations called it a step that will allow the palestinian people to seek justice. they submitted papers to the u.n. formally delivering the palestinian's request to join the international criminal court. what does that mean? he confirmed that palestinians will pursue war crimes complaints against israel relating to israeli military action and settlement policy. >> this is a very significant step in which we will be going through it to seek justice, through a legal option. it is a peaceful option.

>> israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu is urging the court to reject the bid. the state-run saudi press agency said the saudi king had to be given a breathing device earlier. he was admitted to the hospital earlier in the week. news of the king's condition comes at a tense time for saudi arabia as violent extremists remain a threat in the region. and the price of oil is plummeting. iran's deputy foreign minister says the falling oil prices will continue to hurt the middle east unless saudi arabia takes action. in an interview with reuters news serve, the deputy minister said the saudis are making a mistake in not slowing its oil production. oil prices hit a five-year low due to lack of demand and a global oversupply.

saudi arabia says it won't cut its oil output despite calls from other opec members to do so. winter weather is on the way in the united states. this was the snowy scene on the west coast earlier this week. up next, we'll tell you who in the u.s. should brace for the same kind of weather this weekend. that's coming up. and in a forthright note to his fans u2's bono reveals his fear for his future in music, following a bicycle accidents a few months ago.

as the search continues for airair sha flight 8501 we are learning that they are finding big pieces that are under the sea. they can't get to them yet. but perhaps investigators are inching closer to this airplane. and they do believe that many of the victims remain inside the fuselage. we're joined now, by the bishop of the town of surabaya where many of the passengers on this flight were from. thank you for joining us. we know now that 42 of the people on this airplane were catholic. many you know were part of your church. what are you saying to people there to help them?

>> yeah. my words can express, a moment to show empathy to the victims and the families of the victims. that's all we can do. maybe we have the good intention to console. but maybe, we make the mistake because many -- the mystery of this tragic death and disaster. >> you're there to try to help them. how are they doing? how are they copeing? we can't imagine how difficult this must be for them. >> yeah they are coping. to suffer this feeling of loss. and feeling of sadness because of their loved ones being deprived of any preparation to

enter this situation. difficult situation. >> moving forward, as more and more bodies hopefully, are recovered and identified for these families. >> yes. >> what else would you like to see the church do for them? and the community? what is the community doing to help all of these people? how are they banding together during this time? >> yeah. we have our tradition to show every sympathy or empathy to the -- only we can -- that's all we can do to be beside them. and because of the case -- we cannot do anything. just wait from the authorities,

that will announce they have found the dead bodies. >> as i said you are there for them. and you talked with them. do you believe that the community and the government is doing enough for them? you say that you're surrounding them and giving them support. go ahead. >> yeah. we go today with the civil authorities, how to -- we have -- the city authorities from surabaya are doing very well to extend their sympathy and to show any action to help them to survive with this sadness. >> well we appreciate your time sir. we understand you're very busy trying to help the survivors.

so many people on the airplane went to your church. we're very sorry. thank you for joining us. thank you. >> okay. well cnn's gary tuchman visited his church, the surabaya church and talked to families who lost loved ones on that airplane. >> reporter: they are people who at long have something in common. they belong to the same protestant denomination. but as they come into the church sanctuary, used by the police in surabaya they are all ones that lost loved ones aboard arabasia flight. the heartbroken people are part of the same church about 45,000 members across indonesia. sadly, many had packed the arabasia flight to celebrate the new year in singapore.

46 people from this church were on the plane. >> yes. >> reporter: that's almost one-third of the total people on the plane. >> that's right. we put the trust in god's hand. >> reporter: the 46 members of the church were not all traveling together. it was just a coincidence so many of them ended up on this flight. >> something that's happened in our lives, sometimes, we just don't understand what bod december really intent. and in that way, we just put our trust, completely in his way. he's going to bring everything is the best for our life. >> reporter: none of the bodies of the 46 members of the church have been recovered yet. the pastor telling me until they're accounted for, they're in a place between life and death. church members preferred not to talk on camera. but sometimes you don't need to hear words because when you look at their faces, you understand how they feel.

gary tuchman, cnn, surabaya indonesia. >> hopefully, as recovery crews continue to find pieces from this plane, it will help the families cope because hopefully they are going to get answers to what happened and recover more bodies. we'll have the very latest on the search for the plane and some breakthroughs. and we'll go live to england to talk with an aviation analyst about what the breakthroughs could mean. narrator: this is the storm sea captain:

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welcome back. you're watching cnn live coverage. i'm natalie allen. our top stories, now, the united states has slapped north korea with another round of economic sanctions after charging it was responsible -- the country was

responsible for the hack against sony. the sanctions target government leaders, preventing them from access to the united states. north korea assistinsists it had nothing to do with the cyber attack. an indonesian ship has found two piece of metal. the objecteds are about 30 meets under wayter in the java sea. the rough seas are preventing getting picture of them. waves are extremely high right now. the new debris and oil slick off the coast of borneo may mean that searchers are close to finding significant pieces of this plane. for more let's go to alistair rosenshine. he's an aviation consultant and former pilot. he joins us from sussex england. thank you, alex for speaking with us. you and i have spoken many times

since this crash and trying to piece together this puzzle. what does it say to you about the size of this metal piece they have found? something like 32 feet by 16 feet. does that say to you this could possibly be the tail? and if so, what does that say about what other big pieces even the fuselage could be in the vicinity? >> good morning, natalie. well yes, the piece, is large. it could possibly be the tail. but pushing it on the size. it's more likely to be part of the cabin of the aircraft. that's the main tubular structure of the aircraft. it could be part of the wing or one of the large flaps on the aircraft. it's difficult to tell from a dimension. it would indicate that the aircraft impacted with the sea at high energy.

it basically crashed into the sea and broke up. that's what one can draw from finding harj parts of the aircraft attached. >> the only reason we done know what it is is the weather is -- the conditions are too extreme right now. but they will certainly find out what that is in the java sea, as soon as the weather clears. let's talk this is grim but they found 30 bodies apart from the main bulk of the cabin. what does that spell as far as possibilities of what happened in the air? >> it tends to point, again, a heavy impact with the sea. if the aircraft had broken up in the air, the -- well bodies and parts of the aircraft would be spread over a much larger area. and it's not clear what sort of area they were found. it was two or three days before they started recoverying bodies.

with the winds and the currents and the debris bodies would have spread out from that area. again, it's difficult to say without having actually you know the parts of the aircraft onboard. but you can see the police were also giving a clue as to what happened. there will be an autopsy carried out on possibly several of the passengers. and certainly on the flight crew. >> what do you think of reports that perhaps, alistair that this plane went into a vertical stall before it disappeared? and why would something like that happen? >> yes. there's been a lot of speculation as to the flight path of the aircraft. we won't know what actually happened until we -- the black boxes are analyzed. that's the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder.

a vertical stall, is a layman's term here. but there's evidence that the plane pitched upwards until it perhaps ran out of air speed and fell back in a stall, towards the sea. that is possible in a thunderstorm. it's possible for pilots to reach a steep climb. but they had to be disoriented. alternatively be chasing air speed. a faulty air speed reading. this is not the sort of thing that professional pilots would normally do. but you know you can't know just what sort of information they were receiving on the flight deck. >> also want to ask you about the reports from indonesia's transport ministry. it's going to investigation airasia, after it has been

learned that it didn' license to fly on a sunday. it did for other days of the week. but not on this particular day. what do you make of that? >> well i mean if that is the case that's purely a legal/financial thing, in that country. other countries do have restrictions on flights on certain days of the week. i know israel imposes restrictions on saturdays. but i'm afraid that is out of my expertise. it wouldn't have affected the flight this terms of the technical aspects or any accident. this sounds to me very much like a legal, contractual thing between the airline and the government. >> we'll continue to see what comes from that. as always thank you for your time. and we will very likely speak with you again, as we learn more about what they're finding.

alastair rosenschein, thank you very much. up ahead, the fight against i.s.i.s. militants. 23 air strikes in area and iraq on thursday. according to the joint task force, they hit areas of 11 air strikes in fallujah and mosul. a cargo ship that was carrying migrants has daked in italy. this was the second rescue this week of a ship carrying migrants whose crew abandoned them. we learn more from london. >> reporter: a cruise ship carrying hundreds of abandon migrants drifts off the southern italian coast. this grainy footage shot by italy's coast guard, as they

respond to the distress call. it is the second such incidence in four days. the blue sky, docked in the southern port. the crew, abandoned ship. only after setting an autopilot coast for italy's rocky post line. the ship losing power in the rough seas. the italian coast guard called their rescue operation a disaster. the u.n. says in 2014 more than 200,000 people made the treacherous sea crossing to europe. many of them from mosul and syria. winder storms on the adriatic don't seem to be stopping them. nor do the patrols run by the border agency. so the italians are stepping in. e.u. crime-fighting agencies believe traffickers charge 3,000 u.s. dollars for passengers on ships that have been designated

as scrap. a multimillion-dollar industry with minimal outlay. they say in a statement this, is a worrying new trend. with war and poverty ravaging the middle east and africa there's no shortage of passengers taking this treacherous crossing. >> all of the people on that ship were from sierra leone. somali officials say ten people are dead after an aill shebab attack. they say that four somali soldiers and six militants were killed. elsewhere in small la, roadside bomb targeting a bus, wounded a bodyguard and ten other people. and officials blamed that attack on al shebab, also.

buckingham palace denying allegations against prisonbritain's prince andrew. why his name came up in documents about prostitution. a funeral for a slain new york police officer will be held this weekend. and the city's top officer has a warning for officers planning to attend the funeral. we'll tell you where that is, next. ss what day it is?? >>hump day! hummmp daaay! it's hump day! >>yeah! >>hey mike! mike mike mike mike mike! >>mike mike mike mike mike. hey! he knows! hey! guess what day it is! hey! camel! guess what day it is! >>it's not even wednesday. let it go, phil. if you're a camel, you put up with this all the time. it's what you do. (sigh) if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance, you switch to geico. it's what you do. ok...

the funeral for slain police officer, wynton lu will be sunday. his fake is hours from now at a brooklyn home. he and his partner were gunned down as they sat in their patrol car. new york's top police officer is urging his police force not to turn their backs on the city's mayor, seen here when he attends lu funeral. last weekend, hundreds of officers turned their backs on mayor bill de blasio when he arrived at the funeral service. the gesture supports the tension they have be with mayor, after he reportedly snubbed them. police commissioner william bratton sent a memo asking officers to focus their attention towards lu at the funeral. and said quote, a hero's funeral is about grieving not

grievance. jetblue airlines says it will pay for the flights of more than 1,100 police officers attending lu's funeral. officers will be flown in from 50 cities. the airline offered the same service for officer ramos' funeral, as well. the man who attempted to assassinate ronald reagan will not face murder charges for the latest press secretary. there's too many hurdles to prosecute john hinckley who shot james brady in the head. he survived with wounds but died last summer. that death was ruled a homicide by a medical examiner. prosecutors said because hinckley had been found not guilty by reason of insanity in his 1982 trial, it prevents the government from arguing he was

sane at the time of the shooting. britain's prince andrew is being accused of having forcible sex with a minor. his name appeared on a u.s. court filing. as cnn's max foster reports, in london officials with the british royal family are telling a different story and coming to his defense. >> reporter: buckingham palace strongly denying the claims that prince andrew sexually abused an underaged girl who alleged she was used as a sex slave. the woman not named in a lawsuit, accuses the prince of engaging in impropriety. the alleged abuse took place between 1999 and 2002. the woman claims that disgraced millionaire banker jeffrey epstein, loaned her out to his friends, including prince andrew.

epstein has been convicted of sexual offenses. but the latest filing relates to how prosecutors handled the conviction. the court documents says she was forced to have sexual relations with this prince when she was a minor, in london new york and on a private caribbean island in an orgy with numerous other underaged girls. the civil suit was filed in 2008. in 2011 prince andrew, apologized for the friendship with epstein, and denied having sexual contact with any of the young women. it's rare for buckingham palance to respond to ongoing legal proceedings. a statement, this relates to long-standing ongoing civil proceedings in the united states, to which the duke of york is not a party. andrew isn't party to the court action and hasn't been given the

opportunity to rebut the allegations in court. max foster, cnn, london. u2 front man, bono has revealed the recovery from the bicycle crash has been slow going. and now, he's worried he may never play guitar again. on new year's day, bonn low shared a blog industry on the band and website, in which he details his struggle. the music star wrote, he blanked out during the accident in new york and has no memory how he ended up in a hospital with multiple fractures. bono says he canceled every public appearance so he can focus on fully recovering. country music star little jimmy dickens died friday in tennessee. he tied of cardiac arrest after being a stroke on christmas day. he was a fixture at nashville's grand ole opry who he got in

1948. he got his nickname standing 4 president 14'11". he is survived by his wife and two daughters. coming up the oxford dictionary has added more words to its already massive collection. steven girerard has been one of liverpool's premiere footballers. we'll report on that coming up on cnn.

a storm system will impact millions of people in the u.s. this weekend. snow ice, heavy rain severe thunderstorms, you name it it's coming. let's go to our meteorologist ivan cabrera. it's pooring in atlanta. i had to toss my christmas tree out. >> you see a lot of christmas trees lined up. where do they go natalie? >> you can, you know recycle them. >> recycled somewhere. but it's a lovely smell of pine across the streets of atlanta. and i guess across the rest of the united states where it is very cold right now, except in miami. we don't count miami because it's in the tropics down there. that's where we go to escape the winter. but the rest of us are freezing.

35 in new york. and 48 in atlanta. 35 will be feeling fantastic by next week. we'll be talking about temperatures across portions of new england, may not get out of the single digits for high temperatures. that's for next week. for now, what we have is a storm system getting going. reports of nine inches of snow across parts of western texas. you can imagine that. that came with some icing and freezing rain. all of this beginning to push to the east. torrential downpours. there will be severe weather across the southern system of the storm system. it will merge with another low down from the west. and that will make for hefty snow amounts. it will switch over to rain in the latter part of the weekend. advisories out, warnings. the difference again, we go from advisory to watch, to warning. just a level of intensity that we're dealing with here. snow in west texas. we see pockets of freezing rain

from columbus to pittsburgh. advisories for new england. and winter storm warnings for new hampshire, vermont and maine, will the weather will be measured four to eight inches. some of the wait replaced by the rainfall on sunday. some of the snow will be getting rained on. the lake-effect snow getting going with the northwesterly wind by late weekend and early next week. and here are the rainfall tallies and the potential snow accumulations getting into the next couple of days. it will be a mess driving or just trying to fly across the mid-atlantic and northeast next couple of days. >> sounds like it. >> you have been warned. >> thank you, sir. he has played almost 700 games for liverpool, scored 180 goals and captained his team to a champions league victory. that's enough to make you a legend in any football club. and that's what stephen gerrard

is to liverpool fans. he will leave the club at the end of the season. he calls the decision the toughest of his life. have you made new year's resolutions yet? have you broken them? dr. sanjay gupta has tips on how to change your bad habits and keep them that way for a healthier lifestyle this year. >> beginning of the year is maybe one of the best times to try to make some new changes in your life. it's not always easy no matter when you start. and breaking bad habits is one of the interesting things that psychologists has talked about for a long time. let me give you a couple of things. in the beginning, it's always easy. it's the honeymoon phase. i can do this. i don't have to have ice cream. the problem is the first obstacle. you have to have a fight through. if you fight through it two or three times, you've gone from

the honeymoon phase into the second phase of breaking bad habits. after the fight-throughs after you get through this a few times, you have to get to the phase where it becomes secondary nature. it can take weeks or days. it depends who you are. when you get to the secondary nature phase, the habit had moved from a transient area of your brain to a more engrained part of your brain. it becomes part of who you are. there's another thing that was interesting about habits and your environment. if you disrupt your environment just a little bit, where this habit is either taking place or not taking place, it's more likely to create what you're trying to create. give you an example. after the vietnam war, g.i.s came back. we were stunned at how many heroin addicts were returning from vietnam. the g.i..ed, the sols, the recurrence race was low. it was closer to 5%. they realize the soldiers were

not just heroin addicts. they were heroin addicts in vietnam. when they came back to the united states the environment changed. and so did their likelihood of keeping up that bad habit. so what does this mean for you? maybe it's ice cream that you eat every night. well try and disrupt your environment just a little bit tonight. if you're going to eat that ice cream, maybe eat it while standing up. or eat it with your left hand instead of your right hand. sometimes it means letting go of people who are enpowering the bad habits. it means avoiding place where's the bad habits occur. think about a smoker. take a different way to work. the point is disrupt the environment just a little bit and you're more likely to break the bad habits. >> all right, sanjay. i'm left-handed. i'll eat my ice cream with my right hand. to find out more how to make positive changes and stick to them visit our website, cnn.com/health. and good luck. man-crush, duck face and

digital footprint. you may not have heard the words. but they're part of the oxford english dictionary slang category. here's some of our favorites. al desko, a play on alfresco to describe eating lunch or breakfast at their desk. or mahoosive. and keyboard warrior, someone who shares too much on facebook or other media sites. tamp it down. coming up in the next hour, we'll have more on the search and recovery efforts for the airasia flight. despite difficult weather, they are making breakthroughs. we'll tell you about it ahead here.

six days have passed since airasia flight 6501 has crashed. what the rescue flyers have found and what we know about the doomed flight and its passengers. the u.s. announcing new sanctions on north korea. we'll explain how that may affect the country's elite and their lifestyle. we'll also take you to

another country familiar with u.s. sanctions and see the optimism now that some of those sanctions are eased for cuba. and the film "back to the future" made big predictions for what 2015 would look like. just how right or wrong were they. that film is 30 years old. can you believe it? welcome to our viewers in the u.s. and around the