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

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

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. >>

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

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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

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

the air is so thin. you're on a razor's edge which is why they fly the airplanes on auto pilot up there because they don't trust human control inputs. so when you get up that high the air is rare. it's so thin. and with all the turbulence of those thunderstorms it's very easy to upset that aircraft and put it out of controlled flight. >> what does your gut tell you regarding the speed in which it tried to elevate and then the turbulence if you mix all of that into this and possible lightning strikes. in these thunderstorms you have these drafts that are incredibly violent and powerful and could literally rattle an aircraft into pieces. do you believe that turbulence was ultimately to blame or do you believe that in the speed in which they tried to reach a higher altitude that they went up too quickly as opposed to the 100 feet that you just discussed. >> i think what happened, possibly what happened if weather is the cause and i think weather certainly played a part in this, is that they got up, they wer

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

passenger side air bags?since they're on separate lines, i think the answer to that is no. for our folks at honda, what analysis and i saw the press release about the analysis that you're going to be doing. if i've got it right, honda today called for a coordinated industry wide third party testing of takata testers are accurately identified and fixed as quickly as possible. what analysis did honda under go and was it independent? have you done any with the recall of the air bags are necessary? >> the recall decision that we make is based on information that we receive for example from takata with regard to manufacturing defects. they told us what those were. we did not blindly accept their analysis, but our engineers looked and thought, was it reasonable. based on that, we have effected recalls over time. with regard to the current problem, which is trying to understand the cause of the, is there a defect and what could be the b contributing cause, we began some independent testing recently, but were really

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

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 clean air clean air act requires epa to review national ambient air quality standards, which, if you initialize that it tends to an aa q's which in turn gets pronounced as max. that is why talks about it in this area requiring epa to review standards for ozone and five other pollutants every five years to ensure the protect public health. the current 75 ppb ozone standard has been too high since the day it was finalized by the bush administration back in 2,008 that decision by the bush administration was so out of line that the scientific advisory committee actually pushed back after the fact and wrote a very unusual letter to administrator johnson telling him that he had made a mistake and the number could not be justified. given the priorities of that administration, the scientific advice was not reckoned with. that is that is where the standard was set, and since then we have had false comfort that the air we breathe everyday is safe. the revised standard is a significant improvement based on extensive scientific research including over a thousand studies. this is a particular

cold air effects other areas. not as bad adds texas. 32 degrees in the city of dallas and the city of memphis. take a look at what happens here. you have cold temperatures only single dig gets in far go and billings. cold air continues to move southward and you will be in single digits. 20's for the high temperature in the city of kansas city and across places like chicago, buffalo. highs only in the 20's as well. otherwise we have areas of rain we are tracking early this morning across parts of the gulf coast including portions of alabama and mississippi up into parts of the carolinas and eventually across the eastern parts. the rain isn't going to be a big issue as far as flooding goes. we are looking at it moving through slowly today. otherwise we are expecting lots of snow. we are expecting along the lower elevations generally a couple inches. in the shadeings of blue along the higher elevations you are talking up to a foot of snow and higher amounts. great news for skiing out here. the snow continues to pile

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

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

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

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 bags can shoot shrapnel through the air and mac an accident even worse. if they do get a replacement that air bag may be subject to the same safety failure in the future because we still don't know if the root problem has gotten addressed. and today, we all want some answers. american people deserved to have confidence that the cars that they drive are safe and that the industry and government are doing everything that they can do to improve safety. the first question is whether or not it's a design flaw for the air bag or a manufacturing issue. until that question is answered, you're not going to be able to resolve the issue. deadly auto defects are not new subjects. i have listened to firestone to toyota to gm earlier this year. i authored a tread act to help catch and fix defects sooner to help avoid the disaster that we're facing today yet here we are today. requiring manufacturers to report the information needed to help ntsa quickly identify vehicle defects and remove flawed cars from the road right away. our goal was to prevent injury and save live

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

>> 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

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

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

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

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

here comes that cold air. tomorrow morning i mean sometime before noon we will set our temperatures. possibility of a high wind warning will be issued for the north and east bay hills. this will be the coldest air of the season. and then you put the -- partly cloudy up in tahoe. look at the lows over the next couple of days. they will go easily below zero. partly cloudy some morning fog and low clouds. some sun but cool out. 50s on your temps. but then by tomorrow if we have any 50s they will be set by 11:00 or non. and then after that here comes the cold air and the wind will really crank up. possible freeze issues as we head toward the first. a little warmer as we go into the weekend. >> it sounds like it could be dangerous too. >> i would say cover some plants probably. >> all right. >> are you ready? >> i don't mind. i will say if it's going to be this cold i wish it would snow. >> they will get a little bit but there is not a lot to this system. >> thank you. >>> the most popular place in the u.s. to vaca

shortly before air traffic control lost contact with air asia the pilot asked for a deviation due to weather. does that give you any indication of what could have happened next? d of thing. for the kind of flying i used to do it was just good practice to avoid it when you could. the fact that he deviated you know doesn't mean much to me. he was trying to go higher which means the air is a little smoother. that sort of thing. >> there are loofr other things that could have happened here. >> i didn't get to read in but have you ever had an opportunity to work search and rescue and efforts to try and locate aircraft that have been down? >> fup recall from the -- i don't want to draw a parallel to the malaysian incident you know ten months ago, but that sort of effort will be something they have to do here although it should be easier because there was a good iff hit on this aircraft aircraft. >> it's definitely not. it's a lot harder than people think. it's not like a bathtub. commercial airliners all have emergency locator transmitters on them. that sort of thing. that fact that nobody

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

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 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

, 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

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

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

if air traffic control has assisted in the search to find the plane?raft has been able to be surveyed at least on radar. and apparently fell off the radar screen very quickly so that will give the epicenter, or the point where they can start the search, unlike the malaysian aircraft we know where this plane went p down. >> the pilot requested to climb, as an air traffic controller and assuming it's weather related, what does that suggest? why climb? >> there was some heavy thunderstorms at the time stretched u up to 40,000 feet as i understand so you have a choice of going over it or going around it. and if you could see that by climbing over it you could reduce the turbulence then i think you request to climb to that 38,000 feet. so you would want to do that rather than fly through the cloud. >> once the aircraft was reported disappeared from radar, what is the protocol what happens, what does air traffic control do? >> well there is a search and rescue protocol every country has one, it involves the civilian military they draft the data which is reco

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

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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

dramatically losing air speed. it was slowing down but, in particular they had a problem with these things down here. you see this tiny device on the airplane you may have seen it if you have flown on one. the pitot tube tells you how fast the plane is moving through the air. in the air france crash, there had been previous problems of ice crystals forming giving false speed. if you look at the idea of a plane flying here, if that happens and you don't know how fast you're going, which they did not know in the air france crash, the pilot, who is chiefly in charge up here he kept trying to pull the nose of the plane up saying well i've got to get back in the air. i'm losing ground here and i've got to raise this plane up. obama when they were way too close to the water did the other pilot say, no no no you need to point that nose down to get control of the plane again. and by then it was too late. that is a mistake that can be made if they don't know how fast they are going and they are essentially falling through t

if mixed pacific air with this cold air mass. kind of tempered the extent of the colder air. we have a 33 going in chicago. 36 down in st. louis. >> co subzero up to the north. the good news is the pattern that is emerging here will feature instead of these highly buckle the jet stream winds that brought the colder air in much of autumn. >> even a little bit of warming up to the west. >> not bad right now. 35 at lansing. the wind is blowing in off the lake. we have a little cooling and there's a windchill effect. it feels like 28 degrees >> there's the view from our weather but. here is the view out in plainfield. temperatures in the '30's. all in the third is right there. other weather temperatures in the '30's. not a bad place to be. the next five days will average a little bit below normal. here is when we get into the warm-up. average of about two degrees above normal. starts late next week. average 14 degrees above normal. that would be enough to put daytime temperatures in the fifties around here. that would be pretty nice. 37 at o'hare yesterday. midway made it close t

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

the air comes in.hat the pressure of the air is and velocity of the air. >> what might have been the issue? >> mike brought up a good point about air worthiness directives. believe what he is referring to is the indicator of a tach, air worthiness directive, on this aircraft. number 216, 320-216. 216 it did not apply to. 214 and 217. >> okay. mike, when weep get on a plane. we hear about flotation devices, is that a false sense of security. we have had so many the air crashes that we have had, have had so many people on them. we haven't had more this year. just more people have died. do those provide passengers really with a false sense of security? >> i don't think there is a false sense of security. when you get in a big metal tube no matter what it is you are levitating yourself. i've don't know of an incident where we had an airplane of any size like this where everyone has been in their jackets and gotten off the airplane. inflated jackets after they got off. i don't know. it is something that is

air will shift and it will feel like december.e have showers on the radars, we'll have that coming up on storm tracker 6 live. >> the eagles face the giants today, the season ends today. here's jeff skeverski. >> reporter: of course, the eagles close out the regular season in a meaningless game at 1:00. don't tell that to chip kelly. the eagles coach is playing to win. that's right he wants to finish 10-6 for the second straight season. >> i'm going to win a football game that's what the organization is about it's not about what the future is. >> we want to finish off the season on a high note and get our 10th win, which is remarkable in this league. >> reporter: the last time the eagles faced the giants they shut them out at home. trenton cole plans to -- trent cole plans to play. check out eagles game day kickoff, the post-game show wraps it up after "action news" at 11:00 p.m. tonight. >>> the holiday is outline about giving, the only thing that the flyers got from their former coach is a big fat loss. the flyers were facing on

no -- very few roads were visible from the air. the roads that were visible were completely cut off from either side by floodwaters. this is making it very difficult for rescue and relief operations to take place. they cannot reach the most needy locations by road. >> the tinder market has been engulfed in flames. in karachi. spread to nearby homes and shops but it is unclear whether there were any injuries or death. pro-russian separatists in eastern ukraine have released four more prisoners nazanin mushiri reports. >> welcomes home these prisoners of war exchanged with hundreds of pro-russian fighters. this is a coup for petro poroshenko a leaders who struggles to unite his country. >> i tell you that as an ordinary citizen have a heart full of happiness that you will greet the new year, and i promise that you will do what we've been waiting for for so long. we're thankful again that we have you. >> reporter: there is relief but also sadness about those still being held. >> translator: it is pleasant that the president matters. w

the air asia pilot was experienced with more than 20,000 flying hours.he airline and the airplane, an airbus both have good safety ratings. >> if the plane did crash in shallow waters as some of the investigators believe, that would greatly increase the chances of finding the missing airbus flight recorders. the u.s. seventh fleet based in japan and guam on stand by to help if they are asked. >> let's go to veronica pedrosa live from singapore. how are relatives there doing? >> hering singapore, we have been pretty much as the media away from the relatives. authorities at the chinese airport be trying to protect their privacy. while we've seen people enter and leave the relatives' holding area we haven't been able to talk to them except briefly for them to tell us they have some relationship with a passenger onboard the missing plane. however, today be we did get a release from airport authorities showing a group of the next of kin, but faces were not shown but it showed them being given a briefing by the airport authorities, and the civil aviation autho

mass again, but right now with the lack of the wind we have yet another spare the air day. we have widely around the santa chara valley. we do have a combination at mid and high level clouds. dense fog at sonoma county. below freezing now inside santa rosa due to the clouds over there. est of the bay bridge into the try valley at 43 degrees these are the clouds that are in the area. they are reroding. move out. we'll have mostly sunny skies albeit hazy. temperatures in the 50s. northeast bridge at 5 miles per hour but we with that approaching front tomorrow, winds increase with a wind advisory in place especially for the costal areas and the higher elevation and then behind it some cold air mass though on wednesday night new year's eve into thursday morning temperatures into the mid 20s resumes after bad weather hampers a search effort this weekend. reporter spencer explains that the weather may have also played a part in the plane's disappearance. >> families at crisis center in indonesia trying to get what information they can. their parents, their kids and at least 1 cas

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