the bad weather posed another problem once again. and crews have not been able to recover any more bodies. so far, 30 bodies have been conferred. a u.s. ship is part of the recovery efforts. the "u.s.s. ft. worth" is there. david molko, with the objects found, unable to retrieve it. what's the hope for later on when the search resumes? >> reporter: yeah fredricka, when the sun comes up here in a few hour sunday morning, we're hearing weather conditions are going to improve significantly, at least for 24 hours. that means you're going to see waves in the range of seven feet instead of 17 feet. having less of a choppy sea means they're going to get potentially divers and an underwater robot. what you want to do is take a look at the objects. at least a couple of them the search and rescue team have said they're able to use a sonar device to sense waves and bounce

back. what that does is give you an outline in the image of the object. that also tells you it's man-made. it's not natural. what they're hoping for in the next 24 hours is actually take a closer look. maybe take photographs. and potentially bring the objects up. at least one of them out. just for context, that 60-foot object just to put it in perspective. wing span about 120 feet wide the length also about 120 feet. we'll see what happens when search gets throughout in the morning. fred. >> and david, there's other situations. locating of the wreckage. where is it? and where are more bodies? and what happened in the first place to bring this flight down. and preceding that because now apparently we're told airasia didn't have a permit to fly the route they took. explain is why that is important or is it an aside to the various

investigations? >> reporter: yeah fred i think at this point in the investigation, we don't know what happened to 8501 so everything has to be taken into account. what we do know about the violation you're mentions is that yaidz did not have a license to fly from surabaya to singapore on sunday. they had a tlons fly other days of the week but specifically not on sunday. the transportation ministry calling that a serious violation. they're launching an investigation, not only into yarz's practices, but they're looking at airline practices across indonesia. we tried to get in touch with the ce ovnlt of airasia indonesia for comment. he did tell a local tv station that they're cooperate twhag probe. in the meantime their service on that route has been suspended, pending the investigation. perhaps -- it's not connected but we'll see what happens in the days ahead. certainly, the words serious

violation not good for airasia at this point. >> now, david, while they're unable to retrieve any more bodies that may have been located in the seas. what about the family members? what's the proximity to where you are, to where many of them are, waiting for the fuse and just agonizing details about what happened? >> yeah fred just behind me here inside this building this is the crisis center. this is east java police headquarters. inside through the doors behind me where the families have been coming every day. dozens if not hundreds of people. along with relatives, teachers religious officials, counsel ellars to give them support. 30 body vbsies have been recover six i.d.'d. there are none that have to be transport here. but that's just 30. 162 people on that flight. that's 132 more. at this point, family members

still waiting for answers. growing frustrated with the search efforts. the mayor here in surabaya telling me that she's frustrated as well. and that the search and rescue officials are doing everything they can to get their loved ones home. >> david molko, keep us posted. two more victims were identified today. a 44-year-old woman and a 23-year-old man. that is six out of 30 bodies recovered have been identified. indonesia officials say they halted further recovery today because of the bad weather as david was underscoring. and cnn's paula hancocks actually got a look at the mission while on board a search helicopter. >> following the line going to the east. >> reporter: this man shows me the flight plan. scouring the southwest coast borneo. plans to reach the airasia crash site changed due to the weather. the airport evacuated bodies and

debris to go to the so-called site. officials believe the plane or bodies may have drifted around 100 nautical miles to land. dense vegetation and marshes make searching by land unrealistic. much of this area is barely inhabited. as the weather closes in the pilot tries to fly around it. but the front is too big. we're only half an hour into the flight. and the pilot has just decided that we have to abort this mission. he says that the weather up ahead is simply too dangerous. we cannot fly into those kinds of clouds and that rain so we're certainly going back to the airport. for those on board, they're going to be looking for debris and looking for bodies. they barely had a chance to even start their job. this was just along the coastline. this was not even out at sea where the weather is worse. back on land the team refuses

to be disheartened. the local police chief tells me we'll keep going until we find everyone. more victim have flown to dry land saturday despite the weather. once cleaned and treated, they're flown on to surabaya for formal identification. every number a loved member of a distraught family. an innocent soul who lost their life in the java sea. paula hancocks, cnn, indonesia. >> let's talk more about the debris that has been located in the search. and some some case found and retrieved. joineded by former ntsb and managing director and aviation expert peter skols. and mary schiavo, good to sigh as well. let's talk first about the debris located today. four large metal objects. one is being described as almost

60 feet long. so peter, what could that kind of piece be? would it be intact or would you envision that might be a broken off piece at 60 feet long? >> well it's obviously a broken off piece. you want to be optimistic. there's a lot of wreckage in the bottom of the java sea from world war ii forward. but this seems, you know very encouraging. the indonesians in this search and rescue have been very methodical. they've been very sober they haven't, you know increased expectations unnecessarily. if they're confident or they feel as though this is a real opportunity, i think we ought to take them at their word. i think we'll find out before the end of today. >> so by the end of today. mary even given the weather conditions you feel that there should be hope? it would be sunday there, and they do believe that the weather

is going to break. how encouraged are you by that? >> well i am. and it's clear that the pieces that are coming up are from an aircraft and the long piece might be a wing it might be part of a fuselage. but with a life raft or inflatable slide and that canister i believe, is draft gas which is what you would use to inflate the slide or the life raft. and some of the tubing. the wooden pieces are not from the plane. so i think they're very close on the trail. so i am encouraged that they will find more or the rest of the victims in short order. >> let's look at some of the debris in the images that we're speaking about. this one appearing to be a window. a side of a plane. peter, what does this image tell you, and what will investigators be looking at in terms of stress on these parts? >> well, i mean you know it's

very hard to you know determine from just a single piece. but there's no compression damage in this. which means that it was torn from the body perhaps on impact but we really need to wait another few hours to see what the underwater vehicles are going to tell us. it's just -- it's just too soon to be speculating. >> and it looks just from the break, it looks like this is the same item it's just flipped. yes, it is. >> you're seeing the interior and the exterior. so mary what do you look at? are you in agreement it's too early to try to discern anything? >> well i think i agree with peter, i think that given the debris pattern, they're starting to find more and more, sort of in the same area. it's not widely dispersed. i possibly will go a step further and indicate it did not break up in altitude.

we would find it far and wide. i think that peter's right when he says it looks like water on the wreckage pattern, you know the life raft the inflater bottle it's called draft gases there. with the slide or the life raft and it wasn't inflated. i think this is more weight that this made a water landing. i think peter hit it right. >> let's look at the damage here. it's in part what you were referring to mary. you talked about wood. you're seeing rescue crews, recovery cruiseews here holding like a cluster of wood or debris pieces. but in your vushgs is this the one that you were talking about that you don't think this would be from -- >> yeah if it's wood it's not from the plane. unless it was something in the cargo hold. there's just so much debris in the ocean. the plane, there's no sectional part of the plane made of wood.

>> and i think we have an even closer image of it. let's go to the second image. which is really the third image. now, holding up something there. i see hoses in one hand and, again, it looks like wood and some kind of compressed you know, material in the other. peter, what do you -- >> it's pretty hard to tell. at this point. as mary said you know there's considerable amount of debris in the ocean from all sorts of you know overthrown from boats and other things. but, you know one of the points i wanted to score today, is mary mentioned early on in the investigation, about the oversight of this air carrier. and the news that they did not have a license to fly on sunday. underscores the point she made early on that when you have an expanding industry and expanding company, the infrastructure within the company and within

the civil aviation authority, sometimes, doesn't keep pace. and she indicated that she ought to look at the dispatch system, which is absolutely correct. where was this plane dispatched correctly? and by people who were qualified and were the indonesians overseeing this process closely. clearly, they were not. at this point, was not licensed to fly on a sunday. >> then mary does that underscore or maybe reveal confusion. and maybe not just this time but there may be a pattern of confusion even? >> well absolutely. united states skepticism of the indonesian safety system goes back almost a decade. two decades because the faa in conjunction with the international civil aviation organization does review in compliance with the international safety standards. and we do that so we can determine if those airlines can land in the united states. just to protect the citizens of

the united states. and long ago we determined that indonesia does not have an acceptable oversight system. and they were very short on inspectors. so it leaves the airlines up to their own decisions, if you will and some are good some not so good. and following the rules are suggestive. >> mary peter, thanks to both of you. also ahead -- an inside look at the pings that could be key to finding airasia's black boxes and why time is running out also. what really is inside the black box and how does it work? we'll take take a look next. narrator: these are the tennis shoes skater kid: whoa narrator: that got torture tested by teenagers and cried out for help. from the surprised designers. who came to the rescue with a brilliant fix male designer: i love it narrator: which created thousands of new customers for the tennis shoes that got torture tested by teenagers.

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the search for airasia's black boxes growing more urgent with each passing day. that audible ping is expected to run out in just about 23 days. retrieving those devices and that data is crucial to figuring out what happened. cnn digital correspondent rachel crain has more. >> reporter: following a plane crash, the search for survivors always comes first. but just as important is the search for answers. the why and the how. often, those answers are found in the black box. since the '60s, all commercial airplanes have been required to have one on board. now, the name say little misleading because they're actually orange. and when we're talking about a black box, we're talking about

two different boxes, one being a cockpit voice recorder the other being a flight recorder. together they weigh anywhere from 30 to 40 pounds. and they have to be crash proof. black boxes can survive anything. temperatures up to 2,000 degrees fahrenheit for an hour. forces that are 3400 gs. that's 34 times the force of gravity. waterproof and can save data for two years. and it's a lot of data. a-rods the crew's voices. experts can determine if a stall took place, the rprs of the engine and the speed at which the plane was traveling when they're cross-referenceded with ground control information. then there's the flight data recorder. it gathering 25 hours of technical data from airplane sensors. recording several thousands of

piece of information. data about the air speed, altitude pitch, acceleration roll fuel. and the list goes on and on. but to make sense of the data first you have to find it. not an easy thing to do when a plane crashes into the ocean. both black box components are outfitted with underwater beacons. which self-activate the moment they come into water. they send pings to transmit information. and to transmit data as low as 20,000 feet. when the batteries run out but on land there's no such ping for the search. investigators have to sift through the wreckage until they find it. >> rachel crane, thank you very much. we'll have more on airasia flight 8501 in a moment but first -- >> it's just really a miracle. >> i went to the door. there was a little girl about 7 years old. crying. not bad.

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survivor of a terrible plane crash. her parents, sister and cousin died. but the little girl managed to walk away from the wreckage. walking in fact a mile in the freezing cold to get help. cnn spoke to the man who found her. >> i went to the door. there was a little girl about 7 years old. crying and not bad. her lips were quivering pretty good. and she was pretty bloody. had a bloody nose. and her arms and legs were scratched up real bad. and she told me that her mom and dad was dead. >> the ntsb and faa are now on the scene investigating the crash. parts of the nation bracing for the first major winter storm of the year. 34 states currently under a winter weather advisory. this as millions of americans head home after their holiday vacations. snow and wintry mix expected to

stretch from chicago to boston. farther south in the gulf states there is a threat of hail and even tornados in new york city. hundreds of people are gathering for the wake of fallen new york police detective wenjian liu. liu was one of two office ambushed and killed in brooklyn. liu's wake right now, live pictures taking place. it's under way. his funeral is set for tomorrow. the white house is sending fbi director james coney to represent the president at tomorrow's service. new york city mayor de blasio is expected to speak also. ahead of the mayor's address new york city police commissioner bill bratton is sending a message to nypd officers for today's service and tomorrow he says a hero's funeral is about grieving. not airing grievances. the warning comes after several police officers turned their backs on the mayor during the

funeral service for raphael ramos last week. the move was in frustration for anger and frustration for de blasio's handling with tensions with police. here is sarah gannon. >> reporter: fred the wake is actually closed to the public. but this afternoon in chinatown there's going to be a more public memorial. members of the community and members in common pay their respect to the officer. tomorrow is the funeral. tomorrow we expect just like last week with the funeral of his partner raphael ramos that there will be tens of thousands of officers coming to pay their respects. jetblue has said they'll be flying in more than 1100 officers from different jurisdictions across the country. we're also expecting to see the fbi direct 34. the police commissioner william bratton there be will. and the mayor of new york bill

de blasio. de blasio has come under fire after recent decisions newt excite the officer involved in the apparent choke hold death of eric garner. and since then there have been growing tensions and last week at ramos' funeral there were members of the nypd who actually turned their backs on the mayor as he was speaking. now, because of that william bratton, the police commissioner issued a memo this week zhag officers not do that again. he said that a hero's funeral say place for grieving. not for grievances. he said that this wasn't a mandate. that he would not be disciplining anyone over this. he said quote, it was not all the officers or disrespect directed at officer ramos. and it stole the honor, valor and attention that rightfully belonged to the memory of

raphael ramos' life and sacrifice. that was not the intent i know. but that was the result. fred. >> sarah beganganim. thank you so much. still ahead, the excruciating wait. >> no no until we see the body, we still pray. >> ahead, a sister's reason for holding ton hope amid tragedy. in the dog that woke the man who drove to the control room [ woman ] driverless mode engaged. find parking space. [ woman ] parking space found. [ male announcer ] ...that secured the data that directed the turbines that powered the farm that made the milk that went to the store that reminded the man to buy the milk that was poured by the girl who loved the cat. [ meows ] the internet of everything is changing everything. cisco. tomorrow starts here.

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hello again and thanks for joining me i'm fredricka whitfield. welcome to the "newsroom." we're following the latest developments on the crash of airasia flight 8501. four large objects were found by sonar in a search area today. one was almost 60 feet long. another, about 40 feet long. indonesian officials say they found the objects after they saw is an oil slick. but bad weather whipped up such huge waves that some as high as 15 feet that's really kept the

searchers from getting to those destinations. and the search has been suspendeded until sunday when the weather is expected to be better. indonesian officials say airasia didn't have a license to fly from surabaya to singapore that day. they say the airline was approved to fly the route four days a week but not on sundays which is when the plane went down. so far, crews have recovered 30 bodies. six have been identified. and for those families, some of the waiting is over. for loved ones of the victims still not identified. it remains a shred of hope. cnn's andrew stevens spoke to a woman still pray for her brother who was on board with his wife and children. >> i still hope and i still believe. i feel there's nothing to do here only hope. and pray. >> reporter: you come down here every day and just wait. >> yes, yes.

i do come here and wait for miracles. if nothing else. >> reporter: and what are they telling you every day? are you getting the information you need? >> actually not really. we're hoping that they have update every day. like three times, they promise us about 9:00, 1:00 and 5:00 maybe 7:00 every day. but here there's nothing else. >> reporter: you're not getting anything back. or do you think they just don't know the information? >> maybe yes, maybe no. >> reporter: how is your family coping? how are you coping? >> i try to be strong. mom is the one. i try to be strong. and still believe. he'll come back i don't know why. from the beginning, from the first time i believe.

i don't know. maybe you can call me crazy, but i feel in my heart, he's alive somewhere. i don't know but my mom and my mom's strong. my dad has tried to become so strong. he cannot cry from the first time until maybe four days. four days goes by. but we accept the worst part. we know the worst part we know already. >> reporter: you just want to see him come home you want to see if he has survived? >> yeah still. >> reporter: you want to say good-bye. >> no no not good-bye. i mean until we see the body we're still praying. >> wow. pretty extraordinary, she's one of many family members praying and still hoping after that tragic disaster. so 23 days. that's roughly the amount of time left on the pinger battery which could lead searchers to

the critical black boxes from airasia flight 8501. the bat eye ares are designed to last a month but in some cases can actually last longer. they will fade out, not abruptly before they shut off. joining me now is the vice president of teledyne systems. good to see you. are you confident, 23 days life typical battery life of those pingers, are you confident that those searchers will find the black boxes well before that time? >> well there are a couple of things going on. i'm quite confident for a couple reasons. first of all, they have a relatively small search area to localize the tail section of the airplane. secondly when we say that the pinger has a 30-day lifetime that's really the minimum requirement that's dictated by the faa. and typically for the pingers we

make we see lifetimes as long as 45 days. these pingers were brand new. they were put on the airplane my understanding, almost in the last few months. >> and when you talking about this smaller search area we're also talking about the depth being a little more forgiving than say, the malaysia flight that went missing in the indian ocean presumably last year. how will that assist in the search for it. if this is about 100 to 130 feet deep in this java sea? >> it completely changes the whole process. first of all, this access is easy. so once the weather, the weather calms. being able to do good sonar images. you can do that with sonar around the ships trying to put ships down deep. secondly you really have an opportunity to bring in the kinds of assets you couldn't use for the search for malaysian flight 370. it's just a completely different game. this is relatively simple at

this point. >> okay. there are at least two u.s. warships in that area. the "u.s.s. ft. worth" that just arrived. and you talk about the sonar capabilities. the sonar, we understand from which ship actually located four more items. how might the sonar help detect the black boxes? and would that typically be the way in which those black boxes are located? >> well typically, you don't use sonar to detect the black box, or the sonar or the ping from the black box should show up on the sonar record. so you'll see a line across the image that would indicate that the pinger is close by. then what you really want to use say pinger locator. there's a handheld system that we've manufactured that some of the other companies that are associated with this type of system manufactured you can

even put that on the divers by the divers close by a section. or remotely operated equipment. once you have that you can put those in had to find them. >> and we're looking at a graphic, we're seeing the submersible which would be scanning the southeast floor.ocean floor. how would that assist in better locating or getting a better view of those submerged. >> the sonar, most likely the side scanners on the navy vessels are lower frequency. which means they give a grainy resolution. you're not seeing specifics about the tail section. the sonars that are on the underwater autonomous vehicles that you're referencing have high imagery. you can tell whether how well intact the tail section is and

specific areas you that might want to have. so what you'll end up with is a pretty nice image with those vehicles. >> at what stage would that be used? >> it would be nice, it's more efficient that it's localized before you put that in. there's a little more logistic burden to launch those vehicles. there are vehicles being put on station right now. one of our vehicles that we make at teledyne are in the process of being in the general area in the next few days. >> thanks so much. >> thank you. >> we'll be right back in a moment.

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2013. three people were killed 264 injured in the attack. tsarnaev is also charged with the murder of an m.i.t. officer. deborah feyerick has more. >> reporter: the mar >> reporter: right before the marathon finished two explosions 12 second as mart. >> it was a scene of utter devastation and carnage out there. >> reporter: the homemade bombs kill three people. shrapnel tears through more than 300 spectators. rick delorier runs the office. >> we were recovering pieces of pressure cooker bombs. backpacks. >> reporter: day three, a break in the case. over 1200 surveillance videos from business spectators a man in a white ball cap. >> he places that backpack down on the ground sliding it off his shoulder. stands and mills around a short time later.

maybe 15 minutes later. he makes a cell phone call. very shortly after, you hear the first bomb go off. >> reporter: day four, the fbi asks the public for help finding two men later identified as tamerlan and dzhokhar tsarnaev. now on the run. officials say they execute sean collier, car jack an suv and get into a shoot-out with police. watertown police chief ed devoe said 26-year-old tamerlan tsarnaev is shot but manages to reload about four times. >> he runs out of ammunition and throws his gun at my sergeant. and he starts to run. >> reporter: officers tackle tamerlan. his brother tries to scatter police to free him. >> he drags his brother down. he's lodged under the stolen suv and he smashes into one of our cruisers. >> reporter: by sunrise friday millions in the boston area on lockdown.

when it is lifted that night. a resident calls 911, the suspect is hiding in his boat. >> he's got a sniper's rifle pointed right at his head because he was still a threat. >> he was still a threat. >> reporter: after an intent standoff tsarnaev surrenders. he's read his rights. deborah feyerick cnn, boston. >> federal prosecutors say they will seek the death penalty. let's bring in civil prosecutor good to sigh. and joining us from hawaii aloha to you. there you go. all right. let's talk about what is expected jury selection beginning monday. tsarnaev's lawyers tried to get this case delayed and moved out of boston. that was denied. so avery, to you first, how tough will it be to get an

impartial jury particularly because everybody in boston knows something about this case. >> unless you're living under a rock you know something about this case. this will be the largest jury pool in the history of boston. there will be 1200 people fred of which more selected 12. i think the process of the jury selection. the federal judge george o'toole plays a very significant role in this. i think you can achieve a fair and impartial jury. and i think despite the efforts of the defense team. there's a pending motion right now in the federal court of appeals ultimately will be denied either today or sunday. this case starts up first thing on monday morning. >> richard, prosecutors and defense attorneys each want to see jurors that are favorable to them. what are the questions a defense attorney is likely to skf a perspective juror? >> do you come here with any

reconceived ideas or preconceived notions about this case? have you heard anything about it because once you get to that point, you find out, close your eyes you can think of any color, but don't think of the color red. of course you think of red. these people avery, you're wrong, they're not going to be able to empanel an impartial jury in the united states. everybody in the united states has seen heard the pressure cooker bomb. there's no way in my opinion they can get a fair jury in boston. here's the verdict. guilty it's over. they're trying to put a defense in that he was manipulated by his brother like in a sniper case. that's just not going to fly. they did not make a plea deal. they should have made a plea dheerl. they want to get a penalty. very rare in a federal case to get the death penalty.

they're going for it. i think they're going to get it here. >> avery, prosecutors can go into this feeling that it's fairly favor only for them. especially in light of what richard has outlined for them. everybody has seen it and knows they're intimately involved in the details of this case. so why wouldn't there be on the defense part a more aggressive fight to have a change of venue. >> well i think there was a very aggressive fight. you got a team as good as it gets in capital cases and i think judge o'toole in his ruling and it's a comprehensive memo explains why there can be a fair jury. i, frankly, have a lot more faith in humanity and people in general than richard does. because i do think what's going to happen is that it's going to be an intense long effort to get this jury selected. and they are going to be impartial. let me tell you something, there are enough safe guards for tsarnaev in terms of his

protection against his violation of constitutional rights to go to the court of appeals. but, frankly, i think there's nothing to suggest that this federal district judge can do anything other than a good job in making the selection. there's going to be a jury selected. and it's going to take a while but it will start monday morning. >> it seems like it will take quite a while. 1200 people. whittled down to 12. richard avery, thank you. >> happy new year to you. >> and to richard. >> mahalo aloa chaka. >> all right. now you're off to the beach. hang ten. >> that's it. >> all right, gentlemen. appreciate that. search crews are looking for more wreckage from the crash of airasia flight 8501. but what may look like debris sometimes turns out to be trash. ahead -- we'll look at how that complicates the search and now exactly what is being done about it.

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unfactor complicating the search for bodies and debris from 8501 is the amount of trash

flowing in the java sea. cnn's stephanie elam looks at the threat this waste poses. >> reporter: it's trash. it's unfortunate it's taken human tragedy to highlight it. >> reporter: for aviation 2014 was scarred by two planes open the open water. the hunt for airasia flight 8501 in the java sea and malaysian air air flight 370 in the indian ocean has given the world a closer look at trash in the oceans. during the search for aircraft objects floating in the water turned out to be junk. discarded nets and old buoys, among a myriad of items. >> these are all items that we find in the oceans. >> reporter: anna cummings is the executive director. >> the biggest offender is plastic. 90% is plastic. the worst is people don't realize it's not just unsightly.

this plastic pollution is getting into the food chain and they ultimately affect our health. >> reporter: and it's affecting the animals? >> absolutely. roughly 660 species today and that's a conservative estimate. what's insidious about it the plastic in the ocean doesn't disappear. it acts as a sponge for contaminants. >> reporter: in the pacific alone, noaa said massive patches of plastic swirl about. there are laws that prohibit dumping blass ticks in the ocean. the problem is enforcement. governments need to do more on cracking down on pollution. and the vast waters are difficult to police. >> people are realizing we can't afford the use of single-use plastics. >> reporter: as for the airasia

jet, and mh-370 what impact will they have on these bodies of water? cummings says as air pollution going, the planes are a bigger drop in the bucket. >> roughly 70% of pollution we find out on our oceans starts on land. it's simple as the debris that were see on the stand, the cigarette butts, the straws the forbes the bottles, the items. >> reporter: some that may help daily life but pose a threat to our oceans. stephanie elam, cnn. it's your data. now at t-mobile, all your unused data rolls forward to the next month. and we'll even get you started with 10gb of free 4g lte data. these ally bank ira cds really do sound like a sure thing but i'm a

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the united states is hitting north korea with a new set of economic sanctions after determining kim jong-un regime was behind last month's computer hack at sony. cnn's will ripley is in our beijing are newsroom with an update. will? >> we're still working to get an official response to north korea to this latest round of white house sanctions that are in direct response to the hacks on sony that north korea has denied. that the white house said they are confident that north korea speculated despite experts. and the u.s. government the treasury specifically targeting three different north korean entities and ten individuals linked to the entities. now, the north korea organizations include their intelligence organization. their primary arms dealer. and their defense research and development entity.

now, what may hurt the most for north korea, certainly, financially, is the targeting of the primary arms dealer. and seven people were believed to be using arms stealing trade. and north korea makes a lot of money through extorting weapons to places like iran russia and syria. because the u.s. government is now naming these individuals publicly for the first time it makes them much more public. it makes it much more difficult for people to do business with them. certainly, for anybody who has a stake with what the united states has to stay about it. but what this also does perhaps more important, to send a message that this kind of cyberattack will not be tolerated. when they decide to publicly blame north korea with this a lot of people around the world are wondering what resource the united states has. now, you see the first response from the white house that any cyberattack against any u.s. corporation or others around the

world will be met with consequences. will ripley. cnn, beijing. >> we have much more straight ahead in the "newsroom." and it all starts right now. new details that the route 8501 was flying. turns out it was not authorized. where pieces of the plane are located. and saying good-bye to a slain hero. new york city police officers issued a warning as the mayor is due to arrive at the wake of officer wenjian liu any moment. will officers turn their backs again? plus -- >> it's just really a miracle. >> i went to the door. there's a little girl about 7 years old. crying. not bad. lips quivering pretty good.