in this case, indonesia air asia but the air craft for example indonesia air asia has far, f ffar air craft than the parent company has. it will be an indonesian investigation. what i'm looking at now, look at the route this plane was taking over the water. it was up 32,000 feet give or take. the altitude seems to have been bouncing up and down a little bit and the pilot flying requested a deviation because of bad weather. those are the facts as we see them at the moment. >> richard, every search and rescue operation has its own unique challenges as you well know. as you look at this unique situation, what are the challenges here? >> well, the first challenge without any doubt is to get assets. we know the malaysians and indonesians have already sent planes. get assets on the way. we've seen this in all sorts but we're a lot more experiences in explaining this and a lot more people understand. you're going to see the sort of picture that we saw before of planes flying over water with people looking for wreckage. now in the case of 370, well, they could have will beilooked and wouldn't

we're talking about an 320 air craft in this missing air craft is an air bus. the air line flies to more than 100 destinations across 22 countries with its main hub and headquarters in its capital. i want to bring this up and put this on the screen for you. they have quickly updated their company pages on social media. both their facebook and twitter page logos. previous will you you might have noticed when we put up the picture of the aircraft, it was a red air asia logo. that has now changed as you see clearly on your screen. it is now been changed to gray. there have been no further updates posted on the pages. of course we are monitoring those pages. if there are any more details posted, we will bring them to you. let's bring in richard quest who joins us now on the phone. richard, we were just speaking to one aviation analyst who was just telling us that in in a crisis center right now, it's going to be very, very tense. >> yes. it will be tense. but it will be -- it should be certainly for an air line like air asia. i suspect air asia, the parent company

passenger air bags? since they're separate lines, i think the answer to that is no, correct? >> correct. >> for our folks at honda -- what analysis -- i saw the press release about the analysis you're going to be doing. if i've got it right here, honda today called for coordinated independent -- goal of ensuring all that are accurately identified and fixed as quickly as possible. what analysis did honda undergo, if any, and was it independent? have you done any independent analysis to date to determine if a recall of the air bags are necessary -- or the inflaters, rather? >> thank you, congressman. i think we need to separate the recall decision versus testing. so, the recall decision we make is based on information we receive, for example, from takata with regard to manufacturing defects, they told us what those manufacturing defects were. we did not simply blindly accept their analysis but our engineers looked at it and thought, is it reasonable? based on that, we have effected recalls over time. with

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the cross state air pollution comes from our good neighbor provision in the clean air act. states are obliged to address lucian -- pollution they are contribute into downwind areas. we will be working with states to assess whether there are those contributions in light of the other programs in place. as appropriate, we and the states would work together to put in place requirements that might affect large sources like power plants. >> a power plant owner looking at this proposed rule could expect the improvements in that they would be obliged to make as a result of the good neighbor policy would count towards the new ozone standard and would likely help reduce their emissions of ozone precursors as well. correct? >> that is correct. it depends on what the monitors show. any program helping the monitors show compliant air quality is helping. >> e.p.a.'s analysis that the benefits are between $6 billion and $13 billion and the cost analysis billion, that is not a first effort by e.p.a. questionlooked at the of cost benefit analysis of clean air regulations for many years. >>

we've got creach air force base. we've got a creative gaming industry that wants to provide bottle service by the pool with these things. i mean, the potential is great. we applied to become a test center, we got that. i was supportive of that. we've been working on it. but the enthusiasm is starting to wane because that test site is not producing like we thought it would. i hear ms. gilligan being positive about it, but the things that i hear from people who have briefed me from nevada are more in line with what dr. dillingham pointed out. just they just don't think it's getting off the ground, so to speak. and i heard ms. gilligan say about three different times, we are working on this so we can start to address some of the concerns. well, that doesn't give me a lot of comfort because you've been working on the rule for such a long time, i don't think working on it to address the concerns is going to get us there in time to be competitive. i don't know why a business wouldn't just go test in canada instead of going

more activity from the air.appropriate piece and with an appropriate sense of precision and urgency to meet the threats inside, both the threats posed by iis il and our ability to support iraqi security forces on the ground. you see a big spike in this week, but that was to help prepare the passmark and for the operations they conducted which while still ongoing have proven to be promising so for. there was a spike. again, in keeping with the exact way we are approaching the business of her strikes. it is twofold. go after them where we no we can we appreciate but to support iraqi security forces on the ground. you will see the numbers fluctuate, and that is what -- that is the measure we are using to determine how many are done where and with what frequency. it is not a matter of more or less. it less. it has to be appropriate to threaten the operation on the ground. >> the level of confidence on the iraqi participation on some of these strikes. how can they inspire confidence. >> they have a limited a limited

passenger air bags? since they're separate lines, i think the answer to that is no, correct? >> correct. >> for our folks at honda, -- what analysis -- i saw the press release about the analysis you're going to be doing. if i've got it right here, honda today called for coordinated independent -- goal of ensuring all that are accurately identified and fixed as quickly as possible. what analysis did rick schostek honda undergo, if any, and was it independent? have you done any independent analysis to date to determine if a recall of the air bags are necessary -- or the inflaters, rather? >> thank you, congressman. i think we need to separate the recall decision versus testing. so, the recall decision we make is based on information we receive, for example, from takata with regard to manufacturing defects, they told us what those manufacturing defects were. we did not simply blindly accept their analysis but our engineers looked at it and thought, is it reasonable? based on that, we have effected recalls o

we find ourselves very proud members of air national guard and the air force. with that i will give you a chance to ask me questions. thank you. [applause] >> just a couple r.o.e.'s for the q&a. our great friends at c-span are filming this and it will be televised later today and drop the holidays. bridget has got a microphone. if you will just wait for the mic to come to you. as they get ready for questions sid i can only thank you for your message but the consistency of your message over time from leadership like conaway shepard brubaker james wyatt, i mean this speech tailored for today for 2014 are the same words that people go back to the 1980s with about their thanks to the united states air force, to its leadership for the seamlessness. this is a tremendous message and i'm very proud to be part of a great united states air force. our secretary and the chief are doing a great job in keeping this gang together just like the air force association has done. and like mitchell is trying to do. with that too is a question for general clarke? back here in the ba

air asia missing. a statement posted on air asia facebook stage saying "at this time search and rescue operations are in progress. it's an air bus 32200 with 155 passengers. it was heading - this is a statement: at the present time we have no further information regarding the status of passengers and crew members. we will keep all parties informed as information becomes available:. the airline has set up a hot line for friends and family to contact. we are continuing to follow the information. the story, air asia indonesia flight missing. stay with us more after s . >> welcome back to al jazeera america. we continue to follow breaking news at this hour. reports that an air asia indonesian flight is missing. you are looking at the airbus 32200. this is not the aircraft it is a similar aircraft for air-asia we understand that it was travelling from surabaya to singapore. we understand it was a distance from belitung island. 155 passengers and crew are estimated to be on board. we are going to read a stat

the air separates, the air and the jet stream separate. so these storms can go up a little bit stronger. i'll back you up to when the plane takes off. here it goes into some bumpy weather. i'm sure all the passengers still has seat belts on. then all of a sudden somewhere around 6:06 local time the plane is approaching this wall of weather. and now the pilots have to decide where do we go left right, up down or between these storms? and this is where it gets so tricky because at 6:16 -- 6:24 is exactly the place where that plane was, in the most violent area of thunderstorm activity. it's up and down. it's bumpy. it's violent weather. 50,000-foot-tall thunderstorms here and many close together up and down next to each other. the pilot has to find the smoothest are place possible because the air goes over the wing to make the plane fly. this is how a plane flies. because the wing on top has a longer distance than the flap on the bottom that makes the plane go up. if you lose that flow you get the potential for stalling. and stalling means t

he took great space for the air force and then the royal canadian air force. anyways, it's absolutely fascinating. >> a-alpha, b-bravo, whatever, charlie. do you have a chart that was a u.s. version. >> the british version. >> in the german version. i thought the choice of names was really fun. sometimes they were the same like eating and keying. but the german ones -- >> the journals were on time, bruno, feature, doro. in fact, they even have a word that eludes me -- >> there is a thriller out called whiskey tango foxtrot. those are three of the code words in the british side of it. so there's a lot you can learn from this book that i found completely fascinating. i marked a couple of things. you've got all kinds of extra stuff in here like d-day movies in the d-day museum and the fact they didn't destroy the tapestry, even though they might well have because of the headquarters and so forth. the other thing i saved was your entry on john ford, which we've are talked about in which i love. he got a presidential medal of freedom. i was reading "the new york ti

same air offensive.a matter of fact, the story belongs to all men who fought for freedom and did it a long way from home. signed spots. thank you. >> to the italian man in the street, or what's left of the street, this is the fulfillment of a promise. the promise of the fascists to build a 20th century roman empire conceived in tyranny and dedicated to the proposition that some men were meant to be slaves of other men.v83Ñ special victims were the children. they saw things not meant for children's eyes. from the air, italy is more remote. the airmen never sees the face of the people, only the face of the country. from the air, you look down at the mountains. look down and wonder how our men on the ground ever got through. mountains and rivers. a volcano. a lot of american blood in that one. natural barriers made other campaigns tough, too. exhausted hannibal's elephants, caesar's legions. for the air men, the ground war is remote. the only war you really understand is the air war. you can see a pattern t

it's an air bus 200 series a-320. delivered in 2008. this plane had 23,000 flight hours and 13,600 flights. the a-320 is a short oh medium range jet. it can carry up to 180 passengers with a range of 3700 miles. let's bring in two aviation experts to shed light on what happened with the air asia flight. former ntsb investigator and nbc flight investigator and a former captain for u.s. airways. a-320. thousands are there. some 11,000 have been delivered or are on order here. it is one of the two big workhorses around the world. any concern or question about the equipment itself? >> i don't think there is a question regarding the mechanical soundness of the airplane. the airplane had flown several flights, four or five earlier that day. there was apparently no mechanical issues to ground the airplane. there was no reason or evidence now that we know of that would play a part in the investigation. it will be looked at as far as the maintenance history and things like that. any deferred items. now based on the evidence we have, there is not

there was bad weather in the air. this pocobo flight 612 which killed 170 people in august 2006 was actually climbing from 35,000 feet and it actually went into a deep stall. and in its attempt to climb. the weather clouds were actually at a height of about 49000, which is unusually high. from what we can tell from this flight, the weather was up to 44 thougs feet, from what we're seeing. so those are the two incidents that we can compare most closely to. pocobo flight 612 that tried to get past a weather situation at an extremely high, high, altitude eric. >> we'll clearly continue our coverage of this amid questions laura, about whether authorities have done enough with tubes, ice crystals. and there have been other such incidents when you deal with incredibly severe weather. >> important questions being asked and, of course the ntsb on board getting involved and ready to go if needed. and we're getting reports that things are changing. the sun, was at different time zones happening over there. hopefully we'll get m

singapore air traffic control was informed of this loss of contact at 7:54 hours. 7:54 by jakarta airf that and the time lapse? >> the time lapse doesn't sound -- i mean, i'm going to be realistic here. if it lost contact at 7:24, you're talking about a 20, 30-minute gap before singapore was -- i'm guessing in that time when we get the final transcripts what it will show almost certainly is that the air traffic control had had control of the aircraft, would have been calling to the previous one to see if they'd seen it. it would have been calling to other aircraft in the region, have you heard. they would have been calling back to airasia's network operations center. so it's not necessarily for 30 minutes people were twiddling their thumbs. if you look at >> people were making calls backwards and forwards to each other to try and work out what happen happened. they did a pretty bad job on it. however, i can see looking at what you've just said, i am seeing a lot more urgency and a lot more -- can i just bring you up to date on one point. you asked me a moment ago about how many a 320s

we have a very cold bitterly air mass that come down from canada. we're going to be watching some of the coldest air we've seen in nearly a month across the country. the worst is coming down from areas of the north dakota area all the way through the west. it's still supposed to snow on new year's eve in las vegas. dangerous windchills are mostly found there montana, wyoming, minneapolis, green bay. as far as kansas city negative one is cold enough for you. snow in kansas but that's not all that bad. your forecast for the tuesday if you're traveling east no problems whatsoever. a little bit of rain in orlando. the only snowy weather is in denver and billings. as far as the forecast goes even for new year's eve watching good travel conditions. but it will be cold. >>> we'll be back with more on "way too early" and the search on-air asia flight 8501. i'll speak with a former member of the ntsb. ♪ 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. ♪ pus

that air speed is what kept them in the air. and so even though you have a problem with the plane, statistically speaking, our own ntsb finds pilot error in three fourth of the cases. it is very important on the training aspect. >> thank you so much for your expertise. we'll come and speak with you several time throughout the show. stand by for us. thank you, mary. >> also want to bring in our meteorologist who is joining us from the cnn weather center to talk about what were the conditions here that this plane was undergoing? i understand it was several weather systems coming together. >> that's right. good morning. there have been reports that there have been roughly three thunderstorms that the pilot needed to navigate. and it's very clear with our latest satellite imagery that this area demarcated by the green circle which is the region where we have the last point of contact with air traffic control. there was a significant amount of intense monsoonal thunderstorm activity across the sea. navigating is very difficult. it's

the air come together at the surface. it can't go down. the converging air has to go up. earth is in the way. the rising air makes thunderstorms, creates strong to severe weather. in fact over hurricane season it will create severe cyclones typhoons and even hurricanes if it gets far enough from the equator to get the force or spin. this was not that it was just a severe storm. look at what has happened in the last hour. a line of weather has just developed over where they'll be searching today. but also wasn't there an hour ago. that's wham when this storm kind of blew up to the north of where the plane was. go back again. 24 hours, pretty clear skies. and the last three frames. boom! we have more severe weather right where the plane, where we're looking for it. so this hams all the time. what changes this plane from all the others that fly through this all the time. we still don't know and we won't be until we find the black boxes. thanks very much in atlantic. i want to bring in the attorney and a commercial pilot himself. and i bring back the director of the special e

and that's the worst case scenario here for air asia.y land safely and lose their engine but keep in mind this air bus has a unique safety device aboard it. safety system. that's the best case scenario that, you know, we're all hoping for. you will see if this is a sully sullivan situation or air disaster. the other thing is there are search vessels out there. before the government rescue boats do. >> let's hope it is indeed for survivors. we will take a quick break and talk more with you on the other side. at ancestry, we call it a hint.. our little leaf that helps guide you through the past. simply type in a name and you're taken on a journey. a journey that crosses generations. and continents. all to tell the most amazing story. yours. discover your story. start searching for free now at ancestry.com huh, fifteen minutes could save you fifteen percent or more on car insurance. everybody knows that. well, did you know you that former pro football player ickey woods will celebrate almost anything? unh-uh. number 44... whoooo! forty-four

air traffic control, engine air frame, human factors. obviously the companies that manufacture the aircraft and enswrinz and the avionics, electronics, will also be a party to the investigation. but things need to happen fairly expeditiously, and you need the expertise and the independence. and that's one thing i think is very critical. we'll have to watch, natalie, the next several days how it evolves. obviously this is separate from the issue of the recovery effort. the on-scene countries. and i've worked with the singaporean air force. they're very competent. i understand they've already got two c-130s. these are giant search and rescue transports that can be helpful. i'm sure their search vessels and derek pointed out the sea state, the weather on the surface is not going to be very benign. and these aircraft that are part of the search armada are also going to be facing some challenges. that's different. that's recovery rescue. but when it comes time to do the investigation i just hope president obama will offer the assets of the sa

an attempt to tackle air pollution. it found the city had the dirtiest air in the world. we have this report from new delhi. >> reporter: this man and had scooter - he has had it since he married anita 28 years ago. he says it has never let him down. >> i have driven around my kids on the scooter. i have taken my wife for a ride, and my mother, when she was sick, and we had to take her to the doctor. we went on this. india's green tribunal is forcing them to retire their two-wheeler in a bit to hang up. the tribunal banned vehicles older than 15 years. the city has been singled out by the world health organisation as having the world's worst air galtry. and a recent study by a university of california scientist suggests pollution levels on the road could be eight time higher than reported. >> an important pollutant is a particulate matter. it can lead to heart attacks, strokes, and these have major consequences globally and in india. with risks to public health, authorities are under pressure to clean up the air. the government and air pollution is caused by emissions. en

we've got creach air force base. we've got a creative gaming industry that wants to provide bottle service by the pool with these things. i mean, the potential is great. we applied to become a test center, we got that. i was supportive of that. we've been working on it. but the enthusiasm is starting to wane because that test site is not producing like we thought it would. i hear ms. gilligan being positive about it, but the things that i hear from people who have briefed me from nevada are more in line with what dr. dillingham pointed out. just they just don't think it's getting off the ground, so to speak. and i heard ms. gilligan say about three different times, we are working on this so we can start to address some of the concerns. well, that doesn't give me a lot of comfort because you've been working on the rule for such a long time, i don't think working on it to address the concerns is going to get us there in time to be competitive. i don't know why a business wouldn't just go test in canada instead of going

search at sea has been suspended for air asia 8501 because of darkness. it is the middle of the night. their local time. the area is a very busy shipping channel, though, and some ship that is are in that area continue to comb the waters off of indonesia, but a full blown search is now on hold until daylight returns to that area and that is still some hours off. the airbus a 32200 left indonesia and is bound for singapore. it is want a long flight. officials say at one point the pilot asked to climb to a higher altitude apparently to avoid heavy storms. the plane disappeared from radar while flying at around 38,000 feet and almost the entire flight was to be conducted over water. families as you can only begin to imagine, are desperate for any sign of what may have happened to this plane. there were no americans on board, but the ntsb is monitoring the wags situation from here in the united states and says it is prepared to assist if that request comes in. almost all the passengers on board are indonesian nationals and they include 18 children. this situa

on air france case 447 they didn't realize that their air speepd was deteriorating and literally spiralingt that plane and then west caribbean 708 that was about eight years ago they were in icing conditions at cruise altitude and didn't deploy all the icing equipment. >> i want to bring back in alastair who is a pilot and has flown this route in indonesia. let's pick up on what mary was talking about most of the time it's pilot error. what's your experience specifically with what we were talking about before the last break of the pilot using his or her own judgment versus allowing the computer to take control for lack of a better way to put it? >> well mary is quite right but the pilots do in fact cause more accidents than any other reason for an accident. however, going back to the advance technology the automation on this aircraft it greatly reduces the pilot's ability to -- let's be blunt about it -- to crash the airplane. i want has brought on other forms of accidents and that's pilot not fully understanding the equipment, the equipment not always properly designed it's very difficult

the plane and air butt 320 lost communications with air traffic control 42 minutes after taking off. >> translator: we have informed the coastal guards and all ships in the area to be on stand by and to relay information of any signs of the missing plane. we will provide updates of any developments on an hourly basis. >> reporter: at singapore's airport, those waiting for the flight to be to arrive are being given the same scant information. the plane lost contact as it flew over the java sea. the area was cloudy. air asia said the pilot requested to change course due to weather. this is the first major incidents for the malaysia low-cost carrier which has significant presence across southeast asia. but it trails two other malaysian i've areas tragedies this year. both involving the national carrier malaysia airlines. in march mh370 disappeared for a flight from koala lumper to beijing, it's still missing. then in july. mh17 from amsterdam to kuala lumbar was shot down over ukraine killing all 298 people aboard. air asia has never lost a plane before. and a search and rescue operatio

this time it was a plane flown by air asia's regional partner. bus a-320 was traveling from manila when it skidded and overshot the runway in the central philipp e philippines. emergency sides were deployed but no one was hurt. but it is important to know the error was being slammed by a tropical storm at the time, flash flooding and landslides have killed more than 30 people in the region. there's also brutal weather out west ending 2014 with a bras. they are talking about snow in vegas. they're going to have to rug up. >> looks like just a few hours before midnight on new year's eve, we might run into a few flurries across vegas. scattered about the portions of the southwest here. the higher elevations, certainly significant snow accumulations a probability. but the last time it snowed in las vegas on new year's eve, it was 1974. that gives you the idea that snow not usually the threat here for new year's across this region, even the higher elevations, northern mexico will tap in with some decent know. five to ten inches around flagstaff. model

air asia is owner of 49% of air asia indonesia which was the operator of this aircraft. highly rated stock as well. analysts had it as a byeuy rating before this incident. no fatalities. and an entrepreneur that has many plans for air asia is of course very very concerned at the fate of those crew and passengers. looking at the u.s. markets i'm taking a look over my shoulder after a very strong run up on the previous trading session on friday. we are slightly low and the dow down at 1%. the s&p futures trading 1% lower. this is coming off a very strong run for the u.s. markets in the last seven sessions the s&p put on 6% to the upside and registered it's 52nd record close of 2014. >> it's so great here. wouldn't it be great to finish at record highs and start the new year like that. steve is live in london for us thank you and have a great monday. still ahead more details on the search for the missing air asia flight. plus what makes the search differ from that of mh-370 earlier this year and regular season play comes to an end in the nfl. your sunday night football high

, indicated air speed to control the flight of the air control. one would expect to have a significant difference in speed between the indicated and ground speed. that radar in itself is not entirely conclusive. i believe there were winds of some 40 knots at that altitude. that has to be taken into account too. it is rather difficult to make a decision. as you get to higher altitude air is thinner. the aircraft becomes more susceptible to jet upset. severe turbulence which you encounter in thunderstorms can cause that to happen. in a climb, you would have the nose of the aircraft raised slightly above the horizon and increase power in order to climb. the air bus has auto flight systems, very sophisticated air control. unless the pilots choose to disengage or it was faulty t aircraft would fly at the correct speed and avoid entering a stall. that's what i can say in general terms. >> is it possible for the plane to go into a stall then? is that what you're saying? >> not at all. the aircraft can go into a stall in the event of really severe weather

air crew cannot go into overtime.s going to have a very serious knock-on effect throughout the whole weekend, despite them doing their very best trying to clear the backlog. >> paul thanks so much. >>> we get more on this story now from chris yates who joins us from manchester. thanks for being with us on the program. this air traffic control center in the south of england, it seems to have been plagued with problems, haven't they? >> yeah, they have. it's a problem that has been ongoing for a period of time. and in fact, the secretary of state for transport today suggested this was an unacceptable incident, and that he will be asking very sharp questions of the national air traffic service to -- to find out precisely what went wrong. we believe that it was the flight-planning server that -- that affectively went belly up, and without that, they couldn't produce the -- the flight strips and had to go to a manual system for the 30-odd minutes that it was out, to -- to recover the situation, and that means, that aircraf

traffic control as the plane leaves malaysian air space and enters vietnamese air space. >> malaysian 370. >> the controller here speaking to ho chi minh. he says good night 370. something i would do. >> there was no indication that anything had gone wrong. >> david soucie is a former safety inspector for the faa. so for the first 40 minutes of this flight up to that point everything has been routine. >> mm-hmm, yes. >> everything was routine until now. two minutes after talking with air traffic control, 40 minutes into the flight, the plane's transponder goes dark. >> the plane's transponder is effectively the instrument that sends out a signal to air traffic control. it tells you what height it's at, which direction and what speed it's traveling. suddenly this giant 777 is blind to the world. >> and there's no easy explanation for why it happened. >> either it was intentional and someone tried to turn all those systems off at once or the pilot was unable to communicate, kept from communicating or there was a mechanical failure of some kind that took all those systems out at one time

because of air traffic in the vaw inis tee the air traffic controller resibded that. that-- rescinded that. >> there is a lot of airplanes in the sky and along that corridor. there are 12 to14 flights from that airport. it just means the request to go up to 38,000 feet or whatever it was and the event was a few minutes. >> a short time after that we definitely understand that air asia 8051 actually disappeared. >> yes. that means something happened at some point in time after that last contact. what one would draw from that would be something to do with weather causing that airplane to lose its ability to fly. we don't know what that is yet. at least for the families, god love them, they will have some closure to know this is what happened. >> you forgive me for saying 8051 it is flight 8501. we do know at this point debris has been spotted and as a result they are going to send a helicopter there to bring that debris back. they also stated that they have spotted what appears to be victims. what can we learn from that? can we learn how it might have gone down or what

we confirm they are 100% parts of the air asia planes. families traumatized of bloated bodies of loved ones. their grief was overpowering. one after another fainted. medical teams doing their best to console the inconsolable. here, a woman is told that searchers have found debris and bodies. >> oh, they have? i'm still hopeful for the miracle. >> reporter: at the airport, body bags were loaded up. the mystery disappearance of flight 8501 now a recovery effort. much of the wreckage believed to be at the bottom of the sea. so far, seven bodies have been found. four men and three women. one flight attendant still in uniform. none appear to be wearing life vests. >> so, there are a couple things that could be deduced from finding human remains with no life jackets on. one is that whatever happened happened very quickly. it was not a prepared ditching. or the other thing is the airplane might have come apart in midair and the wind blast from people falling through space would have taken whatever they had on their bolds off. >> reporter: the wr

air france didn't. air france is the only one where an airbus did crash, so one would hope that if the pitot tubes in this case froze over the pilots would have training. but that could be any number of things that caused an upset here. >> this has been going on quickly about five years from now. what can we learn from this? >> first, it's time that the regulators band aid that you have real-time tracking on inging the airplanes. you have air france in 2009 where it took months to locate the main wreckage two years to recover the black boxes. you have malaysia 370 from earlier this year that they still don't know where the airplane is. now you got this flight where it really in wasn't, you know, that far off shore. we don't know where the airplane is. it's a regulators to main date real-time tracking. >> it's 12 hours plus going on and still the wreckage has not been found. 3:56 in the morning that search about to resume. scott hamilton thank you for joining us. >> you're welcome. >> we'll have much mor

you can see the dirty air. it's a spare-the-air day.isa argen will be along to talk more about that. your accuweather forecast in just a few. . >> the san francisco 49ers wrap-up their season today. it could be coach jim harbaugh's final day with the team. reports say he's leaving the bay area for the university of michigan. but harbaugh has not yet confirmed that. abc7 news reporter sergio quintana has the story. >> jim harbaugh we want him to stay, of course. he's been a good coach. he's done good for the 49ers >> went to the super bowl two years ago and the championship missed it by a hand and now all of a sudden you are the worst coach in the world? doesn't make sense to me. >> universities of michigan has been courting coach harbaugh for some time and according to reports members of their athletic department are in the bay area right now. the 49ers aren't countering any of the reports. >> i haven't heard anything from the niners like this is what we are doing. >> coach harbaugh is under contract for another year, so he cannot commu

at the time there was reports of air crafts. the defense specialist in london and amongst them, james defense weekly experts who specialize in this thing, they have seen the footage and confirm the plane in question is an iranian fighter jet f 4 that belongs to iran. they have identified it. it's curious that the iranians have denied having done this because obviously there's some evidence. the americans are saying they have confirmation of this. it's true, it shows a quantum sort of leap in iran's involvement. iran is getting more deeply involved in this fight against the i.s. in iraq. we know that there's been quite a bit of fighting near the border with iran on the road to iran that comes through the western part of iran and eastern part of iraq. right at the border 40 kilometers, the iranian border inside iraq there's been heavy fighting. a town there has been changed hands in the recent days. now in the hands of kurdish gorillas here. we know there's been bombings, heavy fighting in that area. we assume that this jet was ba

the search is going on for the airplane because mh 370, biggest air disaster air mystery ever. and so we certainly don't want a repeat of that. so will ripley we appreciate your perspective as someone who's covered that disaster and flies these skies a lot in asia. i want to bring in a pilot who has flown this exact route before alastair rosenshine. he joins us on the phone from sussex, england. what can you tell us about this flight path? you've taken it. what's your perspective on where this plane was going and the type of weather that it encounter and that planes often encounter in this region of the world? >> caller: yes, well i have to over this particular route on numerous cases all hoe not to surabaya itself. in this area you have an intertropical convergence which is a pattern of area that circles the entire globe. and it moves north and south with the season. and in january, it produces severe thunderstorms, up to altitudes, heights, which are well above maximum height an aircraft can fly. so typically, a pilot will try and fly round this sort of weather using the airb

joining us now is air ocean expert tim taylor.anks for being with us by phone on "fox & friends." >> good morning. >> we know the situation there it's dark over the java sea because it's nightfall. and the weather is not good. how difficult is it going to be to find the wreckage? >> obviously, weather is the main issue. they're going to have to get out there and look and if weather is hindering them we're back into the same thing as flight 370. time is our big nemesis here. the longer they take to get out there, the more difficult it's going to be. >> and, tim, obviously, as we've been talking all morning about some of the different air crashes that are similar to this, one that comes to mind is the air france crash, atlantic ocean brazil to paris. it took only a couple of days to find wreckage and then there was the issue to find recovery. it was so deep there in the middle of the atlantic ocean and so difficult to not only recover the wreckage, but obviously the black boxes which are so critical. talk to us about this part of th

this area is close to a government-controlled air base from, there, assad's air units can attack alecity and much of the wider area of dei az says zor province. in the countryside are oil fields. control of them has been fought over by all sides since the start of the civil war in 2011. last year, the al-nusra front was active here. but more recently. their influence has waned. in june, the free syrian army sent a convoy of its men through the streets of the city as a show of force. but now it's isil that is fighting for ascendancy. one of their main targets is the ammunition depot which supposedly contains a large number of heavy weapons and government soldiers. on thursday, isil up loaded pictures to social media from the nearby village. in the video their fighters humiliate a captured syrian government sole germ the man is taunted and asked where is bashar to help you? if the government forces were to lose their air base, and arms depot in the area, it would be a serious blow. which explains why the fighting here is so intense. and why so many casualties are being taken. dominick

>> breaking overnight an air asia plane has disappeared overseas. right now a frantic search is on for any trails of -- trace of the airliner killing more than 150 people. we have information on what the pilot did after take joe. details just -- take off just ahead. >>> a hit-and-run victim is rushed to the hospital. philadelphia police are looking for the vehicle involved and have questions for the victim because of what was left behind. penn state has won a bowl game after the sandusky scaldings. let's go outside to chris sowers. >> reporter: we have a few spritzes and sprinkles. we're already in the 40s some areas are pushing 50 degrees at this 7:00 a.m. hour. flipping it over to storm tracker 6 live double scan, heavy weather pushing through northern new jersey into man manhattan. in delaware valley, we have lighter shades of green. every now and then you can see the yellows there we're zoomed into upper bucks and montgomery county south of the lehigh valley. route 100 and route 222, 78 seeing wet weather. that's the last of it. there's a batch

tonight, a blast of cold arctic air is pushing part of the country into a deep freeze. icy highways in lovett, texas made driving dangerous today and in california, the 126th rose parade could be the coldest ever. meteorologist eric fisher of cbs station wbz has more on the new year's chill. eric. >> norah, good evening. it is frigid across the middle of the country right now "p" wind chill advisories and warningings for 16 states, feeling as cold as 45 below zero. wint wind chill values from the west to the midwest running below zero and many locations lot of layers required. also tracking a storm here into the southwest. a few snowflakes in los angeles tonight, and heading into new year's eve and day snow on the strip in vegas. they haven't had measurable snow in six years there. the heaviest snowfall, southern utah and northern arizona places like flagstaff could see up to a foot of snow. a lot of cold is on the map especially in the middle of the nation but almost all of the united states will be running below average. the one exception will be florida. if you want

veronica reports. >> reporter: from the air and at sea, an intense search for missing flight air asia the airbus a 320 was carrying 162 people on the way to singapore. 42 minutes after takeoff, the aircraft lost communication with air traffic control. >> i hope for a miracle. may god save them all. i should have been with them as i cancelled two weeks ago. i had two friends on board with five family members. >> those with relatives on board have been demanding answers. indonesia's disaster management authorities quickly set up a crisis center at suribaya airport as help from foreign countries pour in. >> the national search and rescue agency the air force and navy had their orders. they deployed the fullest extent of our resources and equipment to find the missing aircraft. >> there issing little information. the plane lost contact as it flew over the java sea. the area was cloudy. airasia said the pilot requested to change course because of bad weather. this is where they were supposed to arrive, air transport authorities at singapor's airport say 47 next of kin approached them. they

david, you helped find air france flight 447. you had searchers finding wreckage there within the first week really within days. but then it took the better part of two years to actually find the majority of the plane. do you think there are any sem layer teas here in these searchers? >> sure. in the case of air france 447, the impact area or the last known position was thousands of miles from land. and it took about -- and the weather was not the best at that time. it took about five days to find the first bits of wreckage and bodies. and in this case where the ports are closer the bodies of water is more constrained and it's taken three days which has gone pretty quickly, as far as i'm concerned. so it's chucking right along what needs to be done. the next step is to use the debris and, sadly, the bodies to reverse drift and try to find out where the plane impacted the surface of the java sea. >> eric you have the java sea -- actually i'm going to stick with you, david, as we fix a technical issue with eric. i wonder though dav

one is to do air strikes as the chairman has mentioned the success of those air strikes depends on who you're talking to. i do not believe they have been quite as successful as we had hoped they would be. the other is to take syrian moderate rebels, vet, train and equip them to go back to syria and defeat isis. how many of those people have been vetted, trained and equipped and sent back to syria to fight isis? >> congressman again, it's a d.o.d. program -- >> it's not. you're the ambassador. you represent the state department, you're not the states. we're at war with this country that we're at war with isis. you can't tell me politically whether we have armed, vetted, armed and trained anybody yet and sent them back to syria to fight isis? you can't give that answer. >> i did answer it. the answer right now is no. >> so non. >> it was designed to be a long-term program and we hope -- >> i understand, beard. just a second. no, you wait a minute. i'm asking the question. you give the answer. the answer is, we have not trained any -- none of them are back over there. meanwhile, isis is b

a request that was denied because of air traffic. the weather channel's carl parker. >> we know this flight was traveling about 32,000 feet, we also know there was a very tall thunderstorm ahead of the flight which they did try to get around but were not cleared to. and it's possible that they encountered very strong vertical winds, there are updrafts and downdrafts in thunderstorms that can exceed 80, even 100 miles per hour. at surabaya, loved ones were comforted by airasia's ceo tony fernandez who flew down only hours after the disappearance. >> we don't really want to speculate until we find the aircraft, we know what went wrong, then we'll look into it and see. >> reporter: a marked difference from the way the malaysia government handled mh-370 which disappeared in march. comparisons between the two flights are seemingly inevitable, but there are lots of differences. unlike mh-370 which flew undetected for hours, air traffic control immediately noticed when this flight went missing. airasia had been upgrading satellite tracking

but cold air. i mean really cold air and the breeze will be filtering in. sweetie, i'd love a hazelnut. mom? dad? big uncle wayne? hot chocolate. green tea. uh, decaf, cuz. wow. i'm dying for an herbal tea. the all new keurig 2.0. >>> oakland family is trying to get the word out about a home invasion scam that is apparently targeting the elderly. they were con bod opening their front door by a man who pretended to know them. this is surveillance video. the two daughters needed to use their bathroom and then the man two women and two children all went into the house with the couples daughter. there she is. she lives next door. she noticed what was happening and intervened. >> as i was watching from my porch i was in disbelief and shock. who are these people? and once they went in the house, something told me -- >> they did leave empty handed. but they were careful to wipe away any finger prints. the man was holding a piece of paper when he entered the home and when he left. the family believes the group had some sort of roster of the names and addresses of e

poor air quality and the very, very stable air with light winds.our sutro tower camera we are looking at a sunny sunday today. right around 10:00 101:00 the clouds really begin to guilter and we will see clearer conditions. more sunshine today. it will be cool pucks we are looking at the coldest days still to come as the strong cold front pushes down from the north on tuesday. so here's a look at our water vapor imagery. you see what's coming. you see the lines here. they are called ice oh bars where we have when they are very very close together that designates very windy conditions. the northeasterly winds. and perhaps up to 50 miles an hour, especially out by the delta w that the cold air. so overnight lows in the low to mid-30s in santa rosa right through wednesday morning. but then the passage of the cold front new year's day and friday. livermore temperatures at 40 this morning and numbers will continue to drop. they will drop throughout the day on tuesday. then the overnight lows even with the gusty northwest winds new york city enough mixin

air asia .hovers why were there so much tragedy in the skies in 2014? renee marsh is exploring this for us she is live if washington with more. >> mikaela, it's been a major headline, mohr times than we would like. commercial jets with lives on board, ending in a fatal crash. this morning we have a reality check. the disappearance of 162 people on board airasia is the second missing passenger plane in southeast asia in less than a year. >> it is eerie. it was unusual or it's just kind of spooky that this would happen in this area but we don't know the facts yet. >> reporter: after nearly ten months malaysia airlines flight 370 and the 239 people on board have still not been found. authorities are convinced the boeing 777 crashed in the indian ocean. >> malaysia there is good evidence to indicate it was flown a long long ways and again most likely as a criminal act by a rogue pilot or introud intruder or something like that. >> reporter: just four months later, july 17th, malaysia airlines would

but now he runs into this clear air. many pilots will tell you, this is where turbulence can be found and icing as well just as there's incredible uplift there's incredible downlift but there's also icing. if this is most likely what happened, he asked to increase his height from here at 32,000 feet to 38 -- >> hey, tom. >> because there was no wall of a thunderstorm. this is a band of tropical rainfall. so if he lost control of this anderson at this point, he had no time or space to recover before the heavy -- >> tom, let me just ask you, how quickly would a storm system like this pop up? >> these can do in a matter you know 15 20 minutes. we've all been in a plane, you see them billow up into the air. but the ones that are the tallest have the anvils. whatever direction that anvil is pointing tells you the direction the storm is moving. >> appreciate that. still a lot we do not know about this. back with richard quest, david gallo, director of special projects at the woods hole. he led the search for france air. and mi

for missing flight air asia qz8501. air bus was carrying 162 passenger asks crew from the indonesian city to singapore. 42 minutes after take off the aircraft lost communications with air traffic control. >> translator: i hope for a miracle and may god save them all. i should have been with them but canceled two weeks ago because i had something to do. i have two friends on board with five family members. >> reporter: those with relative on his board have been demanding answers. >> the weather conditions were not good, but we don't want to speculate anything more. obviously there was storm clouds and pilot had made a request to change altitude. that's as far as we know. we don't want to speculate as to whether weather was a reason or not. we really don't know. let's find the aircraft and then we'll do the proper investigation. >> reporter: indonesia's disaster management authorities quickly set up a crisis center at the airport. as offers of help from foreign countries poor in. there is little information the plane lost