we will ask carl parker who joins me now.escribe to us what the weather conditions were that might have contributed to this apparent disappearance. >> there was a significant thunderstorm just ahead of the flight and the towering thunderstorms were likely a contributor to what happened with this particular flight. let's talk about what exactly a thunderstorm can do. when you have a very tall thunderstorm they reach well up into the atmosphere. we know this flight was traveling at 32,000 feet and thunderstorms can easily be up to 50,000 feet and higher. it may have been this this case. you have strong up and down motion as much as 100 miles per hour. also hail can be a significant threat and get into the turbans of the engines and cause them to fail. another is a presence of super cooled water droplets. if you know dust in the atmosphere you can have the droplets that do not form even though they are below freezing. when they come in contact with something solid, they do freeze. we know that was an issue with an airbus flight

the weather channel meteorologist carl parker has more on how weather might have affected that flight. >> one of the leading theories as to the cause of the air asia flight is super cooled water droplets of the thunderstorm cloud they flew into. here's the flight flying into the cloud. super cooled water droplets are liquid water droplets that exist below freezing because they don't have ice nuke le eye to form ice. when they come in contact, they can form ice. tubes on the front. planes. they are called the peto tubes that measure the air speed of the plane. airflows into the tube and that creates a pressure and that tube that is blocked for some reason they won't get a measurement. the tubes are heated so that generally does not occur, but it is possible that it could have been not heated. there could have been a malfunction and ice could have built up. in that case they wouldn't get a measurement and know how fast they were flying and in that case they may have gone into a stall. that's a possible explanation for what happened there on the other side of the world. >> that was the w

joy, back to you. >> weather channel meteorologist carl parker, thank you. let's go now to some drama on the high seas. authorities say the evacuation of hundreds of passengers and staff off a ferry that caught fire in the add dree ataid dree attic sea. 427 people were rescued, including 56 crew members. the italian coast guard says the captain was the last person to leave the ferry today. nbc's kier simmons is following the story from our london news room. >> reporter: we're hearing terrifying stories from those surviving passengers who are now arriving back on shore. one family for example, describing that their shoes were melting. the deck becoming boiling hot, they say, and saying in those initial hours yesterday, there was no sign of any crew. a father saying he had to find life jackets for his family for his children put them on the children themselves. there were no alarms. they weren't given any indication of what to do. they were faced with a difficult choice between that intense fire below deck and the smoke and going out on the top deck into freez

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 systems, but this particular plane was not yet modified. >> this aircraft will be found, it's just going

with more here is the weather channel's carl parker. >> let's begin with the modeling and where we are now. you see all of that wet weather across the state. as we step forward in time we expect it will thin out a little bit this afternoon. still coming down there especially in the mountainous areas of central california, southern california getting a really good dose this afternoon. we will find another round into tomorrow morning in the bay area and more on the way for southern california as well. so easily a couple of days of wet weather here. overall it's going to be about one to two inches with pockets of three to five in central california and in the higher elevations there in southern california. and this is good news. it's not nearly what we need to end the drought. we need about six to nine inches generally and about 9 to 12 in the central valley there in the central part of the state. >>> thank you very much. >>> chrysler firing up sales, ford stalling out. the auto brands and the models that will sell the best this holiday season. >>> developing news involving safety of mill

for more on that, here is the weather channel's carl parker. >> we're watching stormy weather on both ends of the country. a very strong low is bringing heavy rain and snow to the northeast. let's begin with the satellite picture. and this system will slowly move up across the northeast over the next couple of days, nirlly a lot of rain along the coast that could mean flooding and some trees down with stronger wind. and then the snow lingers with the upper level low for a couple 6 days. and so all told, there will be several inches in a large part of new york state as well as northern parts of new england. not very much snow along the coast. and in the west, we're watching a very strong jet stream coming acro across the pacific ocean and along with that the formation of a really powerful system that will move in starting tomorrow and then going through the day on thursday. along with this, very heavy rain on the way for northern and central california, there could be stormy weather, gusty wind, possibly wind damage. and heavy snow in the sierras. so we have all of the usual concerns a

let's go to carl parker with the weather channel. >> the snow is still coming down across new york state. this is a long duration event going right through today and tomorrow. let's take a look at the model forecast and show you this area of snow that really does not move very much at all. we so more of that again right into tomorrow. it's going to be lighter tomorrow but in areas where we have had as much as several inches, even a foot of snow. that is northern and western parts of new york state. the other big story is this major storm coming into the west coast, tremendous energy there and as that comes in the day today and then into early tomorrow we are expecting to see not only heavy rain there in northern and central california but possibly some severe weather, very gusty winds and there is going to be a lot of snow in the higher elevations in the west. look at this wide spread area of five to eight inches of rain. back to you. >> thank you very much. the retail crystal ball which companies are seeing future demand for their products. the stocks that will benefit straight ahead. >

here is carl parker. >> so we are going to see a pretty strong low coming up along the northeast coast in the next couple of days largely a rain storm for the coast and a pretty good snow storm for interior parts of the northeast. this is what it looks like on the maps. the low pulling in a lot of relatively warm air and a lot of moisture. the result in the colder air is going to be a pretty large area of heavy snow, broad area of several inches in the empire state and maybe a couple of feet. heavier snow in northern new england. mostly a rain storm up and down 95 with a lot of wind. it's not going to be a picnic. that wind will be strong enough to drive the water into the coast line tomorrow morning there along the jersey shore there are coastal flood alerts in effect anywhere from tidewater, virginia in through long island tomorrow. we may see another low later this week. >> carl, thank you very much. whatever that storm brings it won't hold a candle to the typhoon that hit the philippines this weekend. terrible flooding. people wading through knee deep water. other parts of the phil

here is carl parker. >> one of the leading theories as to the cause of the airasia flight is presencef super cooled water drop lets in the thunderstorm cloud. let's take a look at how that might have happened. here is the flight flying into the cloud. super cool water drop lets are liquid water drop lets that exist below freezing because they do not have ice nuke clee eye to form ice. but when they come in contact with objects such as a plane, they can form ice. there are tubes on the front of these planes and they measure the air speed of the plane. so air flows into the tube and that creates a certain pressure and that pressure is what reads the air speed. but if that tube is blocked for some reason, then they won't get an air speed measurement. p the tubes are heated so that generally does not occur. but it certainly is possible that it could have been not heated, there could have been a malfunction and ice could have built up thp case they wouldn't get an air speed measurement, they wouldn't know how fast they were flying and in that case they may have gone into a stall. that's a

parker is here with the surprising sectors he says to buy in 2015. >> sounds good, scott, thanks. >>> let's get over to the cme and get the santelli exchange with rick. >> good morning, carlu this thursday is going to be important as many ecb meetings are. let's call it for what it is. bigger placebo, please. great set of sentences in an article in the wall street today. written by simon nixon called "2340 magic bullet, junker plan still might ease bottlenecks." let's put it up on the screen. this is in regard to how bachkers see the issues. bankers complain the greatest bottlenecks to investment are bureaucratic, political and legal. byzantine, procurement processes, regulatory uncertainty and corruption. to vary iing degrees you could pretty much use those same complaints around the globe. whether japan, the united states, or in this case, europe. what's really fascinating though is, is that the call for quantitative easing just gets louder and louder for every meeting but it is in many ways a placebo because it's going to address any issues i just read. we could have read these same issues two years ago, four years ago, five years ago. some say when it comes to europe