we have reports from deborah patta and jeff pegues plus captain sully sullenberger on the type of plane one he is very familiar with. a ferry disaster off the coast of greece. fire leaves it stranded and more than 300 trapped. carter evans details a difficult rescue effort. >> federal lawmakers have signed off on a new kind of savings account that awards not interest but prize money. jill schlesinger explains. and new technology meets the new testament. allen pizzey on the nano -- >> this is the captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> jeff: hi, everyone, i'm jeff glor. and the first full day of searching is under way. crews are looking for airasia flight 8501 which has now been missing for more than 24 hours. teams from at least three different countries are involved. 162 people were on 8501 including 17 children. the search zone is in the java sea in between surabaya indonesia, where the plane took off and sing more-- singapore its intended destination. we have a series of reports. a terrible nine months facing malaysia we begin with deborah pat

we have reports from deborah patta and jeff pegues plus captain sully sullenberger on the type of plane one he is very familiar with. a ferry disaster off the coast of greece. fire leaves it stranded and more than 300 trapped. carter evans details a difficult rescue effort. >> federal lawmakers have signed off on a new kind of savings account that awards not interest but prize money. jill schlesinger explains. and new technology meets the new testament. allen pizzey on the nano -- >> this is the

the man behind the miracle on the hudson captain sully sullenberger and bizarre video north korea releases new images of leader kim jong-un flying a plane as sony makes moves to distribute its controversial film parodying him even more widely. wolf blitzer is off today. i'm brianna keilar. you're in "the situation room." -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com >>> new details and grim new discoveries in the crash of that airasia jet. the first bodies recovered have arrived on land. seven have now been pulled from the java sea where the plane crashed with 162 people onboard and while recovery efforts are going full force on the water the air search has been held up by bad weather. now there's conflicting information about whether the plane itself has been found. one search official tells cnn sonar has defected debris from the airbus a-320, but the head of asia denies that. we are covering all angles with our correspondents including reporters in the region and our guests including captain sully sullenberger, the pilot behind the so-called miracle on the hudson but first, here is the latest th

we turn to sully sullenberger captain of the miracle on the hudson now cbs news aviation safety expert joins us from reno nevada. captain, what do you make of what we know so far about fate of this aircraft the passengers and crews? >> major good morning. not much is known at this point. this is one of several aircraft that have gone missing over water recently. investigators will organize their initial investigation secure any reportings air crack troll radar information information with the flight. try as much as possible to narrow the search to as quickly as possible find the rare plane and of course recover the cockpit voice recorder. >> garrett: is this a rescue operation or simply recovery operation in all likelihood? >> at this point we don't know. what we do know is that the airplane by this time would have exhausted fuel supply would have reached the surface of the earth we don't know where or what shape. >> garrett: anything about this corridor or the pilot's request to defer because of cloud issues or weather issues to tell us anything we ought to pay particularly close atte

by the way, the a-320, it's my understanding, is the same type of aircraft that sully sullenberger landedthe hudson however, we have night and day conditions. >> yeah. that is the case right, les? >> a-320s. >> it absolutely is. >> all right. more questions, more of your questions answered by our expert panel after a quick break right here. ♪ ah, push it. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ push it. ♪ ♪ p...push it real good! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ ow! ♪ ♪ oooh baby baby...baby baby. ♪ if you're salt-n-pepa, you tell people to push it. ♪ push it real good. ♪ it's what you do. ♪ ah. push it. ♪ if you want to save fifteen percent or more on car insurance you switch to geico. it's what you do. ♪ ah. push it. ♪ i'm pushing. i'm pushing it real good! i take prilosec otc each morning for my frequent heartburn. because it gives me... zero heartburn! prilosec otc. the number 1 doctor-recommended frequent heartburn medicine for 9 straight years. one pill each morning. 24 hours. zero heartburn. >>> back with our continuing coverage of that airline that disappeared, airasia flight 8501. we continue to c

we have captain chesley sullenberger sully, the pilot behind the miracle on the hudson.we're going to talk to him about how what the pilots maybe should have done here because a lot of experts are wondering if this plane didn't stall and we're also going to talk to him about whether pilots should be better trained when it comes to flying really not relying so much on automation and what they could have done. he had the obvious benefit of immediate help after he landed that plane on the hudson river and it's been days since this has happened. so we're going to ask him about that and whether these planes should be monitored and we'll also talk to a spokesperson about the u.s. navy about resources headed in that direction. >> looking for it on the situation room with brianna keilar. i like the southbound ofnd of that. millions of you will opt for uber and god bless, but that ride might cost you more than usual. why uber is hiking prices tonight and what the extra charges might mean for the coverage tigz and competition and that's next on our money lead. narrator: these are

captain sully sullenberger successfully landed the plane on the hudson river.ll aboard survived. >>> this latest airline mystery has also taken a toll on the families of the passengers of the missing malaysia airlines flight 370. danica weeks husband, paul, was on that plane when it went missing ten months ago. and she says this holiday season, as you can imagine has been really tough for her and her two young sons. >> and another woman shared her reaction to the news of the disappearance of the plane. >> i just started to shake, kind of like when i heard the first news. the emotions just repeat. and then you instantly feel this incredible ache, it's a physical pain through your whole body, just imagining what all those families are feeling as well. i can imagine. unfortunately, i know exactly what they're going through, and it's horrible. and now, the same complete lack of news. you know, it's unbelievable. >> the day it happened i just had to go to bed. i totally couldn't function any longer, i think i sort of hoped that i would wake up and they would have ne

captain sully sullenberger successfully landed the plane on the hudson river. all 155 aboard survived. miguel marquez, cnn, new york. >> we're beginning to learn more about some of the passengers on board flight 8501. young jaden cruz and his two sisters were students at cambridge school. their parents were with them on that flight. his sister told cnn how she found out about the news. [ speaking foreign language ] >> she says her fiance was on the flight with his family. she had planned on meeting them for a vacation before their wedding. it was meant to go ahead next may. we're continuing to monitor this live news conference. this is the search and rescue officials. they're continuing to give details about what has been found in the waters in the java sea just off the coast of indonesia. so far, confirmation an emergency exit has been spotted. officials saying they have found a life jacket and other reports of a debris field, which may contain luggage. of course, the question is what happened to those on board, were there any survivors? and how soon can they

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and this is of course the same kind of aircraft that sully sullenberg landed in the hudson with. he didn't have time to throw the switch but the aircraft will float. so there might possibly be a good outcome. we don't know that this aircraft broke up in flight like the air algier flight. or in the case of the air france crash in 2009 that derek mentioned, that aircraft was flown into the water. one small correction, the engines didn't fail. the pilots just misinterpreted the data and literally flew the aircraft at 12 -- 11,000 feet per minute into the atlantic ocean. obviously, that aircraft disintegrated. we found debris floating right after the -- you know, within days they located debris on the aircraft accident. >> alan, i heard you say something earlier about -- we'll move off the weather in a moment because weather a factor in the area. weather believes perhaps to be the reason he or she, whoever the pilot is, for the deviation. but i heard you say that an airplane at these levels, we are talking about ace, can inject hail and could possibly therefore go down intact. >> wel

captain sully sullenberger successfully landed the plane on the hudson river.ved. miguel marquez, cnn, new york. >> back with me now, matthew wald mary schiavo, tim taylor, jeff wise and les abend. you said you don't like the word safe. >> no. safer. >> why is that? >> safe is a -- it's either safe or it isn't safe. it's -- it leads people to assume things. >> that something is 100% -- >> and nothing's ever 100%. >> fail-safe. or failproof. let's dig deeper and talk about this airbus a320. how safe is it? i have to use that word. >> these planes are workhorses. i mean they go up they come down, they're in the air more often than not. the thing that ages an aircraft isn't how much time it spends in the air. it's really what they call a cycle, how many times it lands and takes off. that's what puts the stress on the frame. this thing was six years old. it was considered young. they can take an enorls amount -- they're built very robustly. they're very solid. and if you look at the number of flights that take place every single day around the world compared to the

captain sully sullenberger tells us why it's different this time.t's ahead. >>> go gunmen opened fire on a police patrol unprovoked. part of los angeles under a tactical alert. the two gunmen with rifles fired at officers last night in southern los angeles. officers did return fire. police have one suspect in custody but say another is on the run. none of the saers were hurt. >>> and new york police are winning more high profile support. giants coach tom coughlin wore an nypd ahh during sunday's matchup with the eagles. players players wore warmup shirts that said "peace." but they're not getting support from city hall. >> good morning. bill de blasio's support of new york's finest was never anything but lukewarm at best. and it has now pushed that relationship near the breaking pound. >> reporter: streets were turned into a sea of blue on saturday in trib putte to officer rafael ramos. >> our hearts are aching today. >> reporter: but as mayor bill de blasio addressed the mourners, many officers outside turned away. new york police commissioner bill

it's about upkeep and as sully sullenberger says no matter how the plane is made there's always the humanthis week let's face it. but if you're flying within asia, there are a lot of airlines that you might be connected to. it might be a good idea to consult this list to should which have been banned. now, a lot of airlines banned actually got their act together and they're you need to update that list as well. >> let's talk about the wreckage and and they've recovered dozens of bodies. do you think we'll pretty quickly of what caused this crash? >> yeah the lesson of flight 370 is you can't find a needle in the haystack if you can't find the haystack. it's in relatively shallow water. remember, the black box gives you the last two hours of recorded conversation in an airplane cockpit. this happens within 48 minutes of takeoff. we're going to find out once they get that black box, the actual chain of events. >> thank you very much. >>> passengers are flying from las vegas to london this morning, one day after a scary emergency landing. look at this video, it shows virgin atlantic plane a

but we know how dangerous they can be, remembering the landing in the hudson by captain sully sullenberger. george? >> jim, thanks. no matter the cause, what a sad, sad story. >> very tragic. >>> turn now to the massive fire that destroyed an apartment building in los angeles and shut down traffic on two freeways. firefighters now trying to determine if it was set intentionally. brandi hitt is in l.a. with the very latest. good morning, brandi. >> reporter: good morning, lara. this morning, we have learned 20 federal agents and specialists will soon be joining this fire investigation. flames burning so hot this morning, we have seen firefighters still putting out hot spots, 24 hours later. from fighting this inferno, to now sifting through the rubble, this morning fire investigators are trying to determine whether this wall of fire engulfing an entire block of downtown los angeles -- >> heavy fire. multiple floors. >> reporter: -- is the work of an arsonist. >> it's all just about the level of involvement that concerns us. >> downtown l.a. on fire. i can feel the heat. >> reporter: red hot

. >> and this is the same aircraft that sully sullenberger landed on the hudson. >> you hope so. >> gosh hope so, 162 people on board. airasia flight 8501 vanishing now about 14 hours ago over the pacific. >> the plane reportedly flying in some nasty storms. joining us now, fox contributor robert mark and fox news aviation analyst mike boyd. guys monsoons we know monsoons come all the time in that area. the pilots in this particular case, the pilot had over 20,000 hours. you know we keep hearing how everything was normal which in my mind makes the whole thing more frightening. what was abnormal? what could have been abnormal about this situation? mike. >> well, weather is never normal. things can happen in the sky. airplanes have been torn out of the sky on the path not very often with weather like this. mistake res maek made and sometimes things aren't seen. so this is a piece of metal in the sky and things can happen. but it happens so rarely that that is why we're on fox news talking about it. >> very interesting point. i want to get your take on this, as well in the sense that most a