let's get more from paula hancocks hancocks. >> reporter: as you can see, preparations are underway for the search vessels to search for the debris. this is a police boat. it will have search and rescue on board. some of the divers on board. they have been out a couple of times. many of them say they could not get into the water because it was too dangerous. today, they have waves of 4 meters or 30 feet high. it is too dangerous for them to get in. one diver said he would be giving up his life if he tried to do that. they are very frustrated. they have to sit and wait and hope for a break in the weather so they can try to bring back more bodies and bring closure to the families. paula hancocks cnn, indonesia. >> the waiting is agony for the loved ones of victims of flight 8501. listen to this man explain how his mother is coping after losing aunt and mother and grandmother on the flight. >> still a mess. she couldn't think straight. all she does is cry. she just looks lost. she is motionless. whenever we talk to her, she just stares and praying every night. i think most of our family is

daughter for not being able -- >> seems as though we're having a bit of audio difficulty there with paula hancock saying that the ceo of korean air did in fact take the stand today. the trial is ongoing at this hour. apologized for his daughter's actions and said also that he scolded his daughter his daughter did have an executive position within the company although the day that she forced the plane to go back to the gate because of the nut incident she was not traveling in an official capacity. we will continue to follow developments here and connect with paula later today. natalie? >> we move on to egypt where a group pledging allegiance to isis is claiming responsibility for deadly attacks. >> that's right this is the most sophisticated coordinated attack that we have seen spanning across three cities. then this attack they used car bombs and mortars. what we're hearing also is that there was a fire fight between security forces and the militants. this group has released a lot of videos showing their propaganda and attacks, also releasing a video showing the weapons that they take from these

paula hancocks cnn, indonesia. >> our thanks to paula hancocks for that. so let's keep discussing this. back with me jeff wise and also dan duke, both pilots. dan, you're a commercial airline pilot. i want to show you an image of one of the pieces of what is believed to be debris from the plane that was found. let's pull it up on the screen so you can see what i'm talking about here. hopefully we have it. it looks like part of a window from the plane. we're going to try to get it up for you. but as i ask you this, this is what's been found. and it is in decent condition. given that what does that tell you when you see this? obviously, it has been damaged. but looking at this, what does it tell you? >> well it's obviously been damaged. it's been ripped from the airplane. it appears to be an interior panel of the window. i can't -- i can't exactly tell from the configuration. and i'm sure there's a part number on it that will tell where it came from in the aircraft. that will probably be more telling of what happened to the airplane than just finding that pi

cnn's paula hancocks has more for you. >> reporter: we're on the west coast of borneo and, as you can, preparations are under way for one of the search vessels to head out to the search location and try and locate some of those bodies and also some of the debris. this is a police boat it's also going to have search-and-rescue on board. some of the divers are going to be on board as well. they've been out a couple of times but many say they couldn't get into the water, it was simply too dangerous. today they know they have waves of four meters or 13 feet high and it's simply too dangerous for them to get in. one diver said he would basically be giving up his life if he tried to do that. they're very frustrated. sometimes they just have to sit and wait and hope for a break in the weather so that they can try and bring back more bodies and bring some closure to those distraught families. paula hancocks cnn, indonesia. >> the big question now, whether rough weather will let up over the next several days so that divers can go underwater. let's bring in the man who knows, chad myers. good m

paula hancocks joins us from indonesia. we keep hearing about the sophisticated equipment, paula, that people there have where you are. but weather continues to complicate things. what did you see? >> reporter: first of all, there's much happening behind me. this is a russian plane that handed about an hour ago. onboard, they have 22 deep sea divers. they have sonar and -- more specialized equipment has arrived in the region. we just spoke to the deputy ambassador. and he said it's the most sophisticated equipment in the world, as far as he is concerned. they will be looking for the flight data recorders, which are crucial to find out what happened to this flight. and getting onboard an indonesian ship in the next hour. 3 1/2 meters to 4 meters are the waves. and it's too dangerous for divers to get in the water at that level. we went in a fleet helicopter today. we were going to be looking along the coastline because they were concerned that some debris and some bodies may have washed up along the western coast of borneo. w

paula hancocks has been there. they have been taking remains before flying them to surabaya.onference. they are talking about the numbers of bodies recovered. a lot of different numbers moving around right now. we are hearing 14 that has been recovered. we are monitoring that. out of the search area offshore of 200 kilometers offshore they are continuing to face challenging weather conditions. waves of 2 to 3 meters in the search zone and cloud cover. we're told by officials here in indonesia that those conditions are not expected to improve through the weekend. certainly proving challenging for those teams as they try to recover additional passengers and crew and debris of flight 8501. >> david, you have been reporting 14 bodies have been recovered so far. this is a massive and prolonged search. yet so many remains have yet to be retrieved. the main body the fuselage of the plane, still out there. what is the main challenge for the search teams? does it all come down to the conditions at sea and the weather? >> reporter: the weather is proving a big challenge for search team

it did so on saturday that's when our paula hancocks went out with a helicopter team, but they didn't get very far. here's what handppened. >> go to the east. >> reporter: he shows me the flight plan scouring the southwestcoast of borneo plans changed due to the weather. only aircraft allowed to risk the so-called red zone. remnants of the plane or bodies may have drifted around 100 nautical miles to land. dense vegetation and marshes make searching by land unrealistic. much of this area is barely inhabited. as the weather closes in the pilot tries to fly around it but the sfronts too big. we're only half an hour into the flight and the pilot has just decided that we have to abort this mission. he says that the weather up ahead is simply too dangerous. he cannot fly into those kind of clouds and that rain so we're circling back and going back to the airport. so for those on board they were going to be looking for debris and bodies. they've barely had a chance to start their job. and this was just along the coastline. this wasn't even at sea where the weather is worse. back on land the

paula hancocks right there for us where they're trying to get to the significant area. thank you, paula. >>> let's find out about the weather conditions. that's the story right now with this search. sonar meteorologist ivan carrera. 13 feet waves, 3 to 4 meters. that's some rough seas. what's the hope that it's going to get better? >> it is rough seas and it is going to continue unfortunately over the next couple of days. two issues the divers trying to go in and they can't do so because of the waves that are up be to at some point -- some times up to about 15 feet, dangerous, cannot do that. then you have the submersibles that are trying to get in there to do that and they can't because the waves are turning up a shallow sea that is very murky. you can't see anything through it. very frustrating, indeed for all the ships in and around this area here trying to find the wreckage here. there is your new probable area. you can see the thunderstorms blossoming up all around here. we have a few breaks. breaks sometimes are very short lived. then you have more thunderstorms th

paula hancocks, cnn, indonesia. >> let's talk more about the debris that has been located in the search. and some some case found and retrieved. joineded by former ntsb and managing director and aviation expert peter skols. and mary schiavo, good to sigh as well. let's talk first about the debris located today. four large metal objects. one is being described as almost 60 feet long. so peter, what could that kind of piece be? would it be intact or would you envision that might be a broken off piece at 60 feet long? >> well it's obviously a broken off piece. you want to be optimistic. there's a lot of wreckage in the bottom of the java sea from world war ii forward. but this seems, you know very encouraging. the indonesians in this search and rescue have been very methodical. they've been very sober they haven't, you know increased expectations unnecessarily. if they're confident or they feel as though this is a real opportunity, i think we ought to take them at their word. i think we'll find out before the end of today. >> so by the end of today. mary even given the weather conditions y

our paula hancocks was out with a search team when that call was made. >> coastline. go to the east. >> reporter: they show me the flight plan. scouring the southwest coast of borneo. plans to reach the air asia crash site changed due to the weather. all the aircraft evacuated bodies allowed to risk the so-called red zone. officials believe remnants of the plane or bodies may have drifted around 100 nautical miles to land. dense vegetation and marshes make searching by land unrealistic. much of this area is barely inhabited. as the weather closes in the pilot tries to fly around it. but the front is too big. we're only half an hour into the flight and the pilot has just decided that we have to abort this mission. he says that the weather up ahead is simply too dangerous. he cannot fly into those kind of clouds and that rain so we're circling back and going back to the airport. now, for those on board, we're going to be looking for debris and also looking for bodies. they barely had a chance to even start their job. and this was just along the coastline. this wasn't ev

. >>> well cnn's paula hancocks got a firsthand look at how the java sea's choppy waters have made search so tough. she takes you inside the rescue operation from a ship in the search zone. >> reporter: we are within sector four of the search area for the airasia flight and today most of the crew on this ship certainly and other officials were hoping for a break in the weather to be able to give the teams a real chance to try and find bodies and debris. now, as you can see, the conditions are less than ideal. many of the crew here are keeping their eyes peeled to see if they can see anything as we are within the area where some bodies and debris have been found. but you can see how challenging it is the fact that as soon as you see something in the distance it disappears behind a wave and then it's very difficult to try and spot it again. now, the captain himself i just spoke to him said he's not particularly happy to be out with this kind of boat in these kind of weather conditions he says this is not necessarily a big challenge for the bigger boats but for this small boat it is and you

paula hancocks cnn, indonesia. >> and when airasia flight 8501 crashed, there were many other flightsn that same area. also in the sky, fierce storms. but the other planes made it through that rough weather. here's cnn's tom foreman in washington with a look at what those flights and the storm systems can tell us about what might have happened. >> reporter: the skies above this part of the world have been growing steadily more crowded in the past few years. there's a lot of competition with different airlines there. so when this plane was flying along at 32,000 feet it encountered this great big storm, he had company out there. a storm about 200 square miles, 52,000 feet up in the air, really towering up there, could be producing big winds out there. 70 80 90 miles an hour, who knows? microbursts, all sorts of issues. we know though that he wasn't the only plane. at the time that he disappeared, there were at least these five other flights somewhere about 2,000 feet above and within 124 miles. that may seem like a long distance but for planes traveling this fast, it's not that long of

paula hancock tells bus the hospital that has the grim task of identifying these victims before they can be returned to their grieving families. >> reporter: sirens in the night announce their arrival. victims of flight 8501 on dry land and rushed into this hospital. the next morning two more bodies arrive. red cross and hospital workers take them to a private wing to be prepared for the next stop identification by distraught families. the hospital director said he's here 24 hours a day to give the deseesed the respect they deserve. because they've been in the water some days he tells me the bodies are swollen. but otherwise they are intact. patients look on somberly. their own ailments forgotten in the face of such tragedy. coffins are being delivered to give dignity to those who lost their lives so suddenly. this hospital has never had to deal with tragedy on this scale before. they have about two dozen caskets at the moment. they are being built as we speak. the hospital the director says they will have 162, one for every victim of this crash. a final prayer for each soul leaders

our paula hancocks is there live. good morning, paula. >> reporter: good morning, john. this point have been retrieved. now we do know that about half a dozen have come through this hospital today and basically what is happening is they come in from the ambulance that's picking them up from the portal from the airport, and then they are treated and put in the casket and basically cleaned up so the families can see them and then they are given the initial identification so we're certainly seeing a pattern emerging here. the doctors and nurses and many volunteers are getting into a routine. they usually have three people working here on this kind of work. they now have 40 including 20 volunteers. they say that they are having caskets built around the clock, they're having them built on site as well making sure they have 162, one for every member of that of the passengers and crew that were on that flight, but of course it is a slow process because of the weather. those waves that we understand from the search and rescue agency are three to four meters high. you can just im

>> paula hancocks reporting live for us, thanks so much. >>> from parts of the plane to pieces of the engine search teams scour the java sea for anything from flight 8501 putting back together the gigantic puzzle is the investigator's best way of figuring out what happened to the doomed flight. tom foreman has more for you. >> reporter: there are really flee layers to the physical search right now. the one we've been talking about the most right now is on the surface of the water. we know where the plane took off. we know where it disappeared. we know where they have found debris in the search area and we know the watt here is very rough at times. the surface matters because the surface is where you get your first clue most often. things floating on top of the water may or may not tell you a lot about the cause of the accident but they are indicators. when you move to the second layer the water column beneath them and start reverse engineering their position against the competing currents below you can get an estimate on where they came from and that can lead you to the third layer do

paula hancocks, cnn. >> it must be anning agonizing .innis karen maginnis is joining us. >> we are in the monsoon portion of the java sea. you heard that during the early part of this missing plane investigation. because of this monsoonal moisture that just kind of feeds in wave after wave, squall lines of thunderstorms, these embedded thunderstorms. what we're looking at now, the weather may be calming down in the next 48 hours. you can see over the last 24 hours and the location that is being searched. now, the dozens of vessels that are on the ocean and the number of aircraft in the sky, including helicopters, when visibility is low, when that water is getting churned up, it's going to be unproductive. but on saturday, you can see a few echos of what is predicted to be shower activity, maybe 1 to 2 inches of rainfall. and then we go later in the day on saturday, most of the heavy stuff is further south in the search area. you have to remember, this is a predictive forecast or outlook of what we think will happen in the next 24 to 48 h

paula hancocks cnn indonesia. >>> a top official calls the bad weather in the search zone the biggest obstacle to the search so far. karen maginnis is in the weather center. it seems like the weather is not i am moving. any change today? >> every day we've watched these huge clusters of thunderstorms wind their way across the java sea. they have seen torrential rainfall. this is monsoon season. there is a seasonal shift of precipitation. right around 7 degrees south latitude which is just about this position they can see enormous amounts of rain. even over the previous few weeks, they were seeing exceptional rainfall given this time of year. well to have so many vessels in the ocean or on the ocean or in the sky, to have visibility so poor really they want to be able to search they want to be able to give families some closure, they want to be able to find the voice recorders, the black boxes so they can figure out what has happened with this aircraft. now the area looks fair. the wind is not as gusty as it has been. the water here is only about 100 feet deep. it's like sloshing aroun

i was looking at paula hancock's report from the ship. you have to look out and see the vastness of the area. >> conditions. >> conditions. vastness of the area. in the right area. we know that. it is just a matter of, with the technology we are using today. in terms of tracking the air craft. we can discuss whether they should have more. or should have different types. but we want -- with what they were using, this is the only way they are going to find it. slow and very painfully so. >> david sousi, the fact that one of the pingers on the black boxes had gotten new batteries, that is obviously good news. >> very good news. the beltertter news the other pinger was replaced. if the competing model was manufactured this year. it would have a 90-day battery. it changed to make every one manufactured past the day. 90 days. may have a reprieve. i have a message in to confirm that or not. >> david gallow one official is, thought that perhaps the black boxes could be buried by mud. just how much would that or potentially could hat muffle the so

our paula hancocks is there. >> reporter: sirens in the night announce their arrival.ims of flight 8501 on dry land and rushed into this hospital. the next morning, two more bodies arrive. red cross and hospital workers take them to a private wing to be prepared for the next stop, identification by distraught families. the hospital director says he's here 24 hours a day to give the decease the respect they deserve. because they've been in the water some days, he tells me, the bodies are swollen, but otherwise they are intact. patients look on somberly, their own ailments forgotten in the face of such tragedy. coffins are being delivered to give dignity to those who lost their lives so suddenly. this hospital has never had to deal with a tragedy on this scale before. they have about two dozen caskets at the moment, they are being built as we speak. the hospital director says they will have 162, one for every victim of this crash. a final prayer for each soul, leaders of six different religions take their turn. the victim's religion may not be known, but customs must sti

paula hancocks, cnn on the java sea. >> paula, thank you for that. we'll have more on the severe weather that is really hampering the search effort coming up here at the half hour. >>> but right now, let me bring in alan diehl, former ntsb investigator author of the book "air safety: using science to save lives one crash at a time." bob we scoli, and former faa investigative, david siucci. and author of "malaysia airlines flight 370: why it disappeared and why it's a matter of time before it happens again." the searchers are having a very hard time battling battling this weather in the java sea. walk us through a procedure trying to recover most importantly these bodies all of these bodies and i know time is of the essence, and then they're grappling with all of this very difficult weather. >> yes, it is a very challenging diving and salvage operation because of the weather and the seas. the divers are standing by waiting for any break in this weather in order to get divers in the water. the ships and the sonar equipment is out there mapping out the

paula hancocks has more from you. >> as you can see preparations are under way for one of the search vessels to head out to the search location and try and locate some of those bodies and also some of the debris. this is a police boat also going to have search and rescue on board. some of the divers are going to be on board as well they've already been out a couple of times, but many of them say they couldn't get into the water, it was simply too dangerous. today, they know they have waves of four meters or 13 feet high and it's simply too dangerous for them to get in. one diver said he would basically be giving up his life if he tried to do that. they're very frustrated. sometimes they just have to sit and wait and hope for a break in the weather, so that they can try and bring back more bodies and bring some closure to those distraught families. paula hancocks cnn, indonesia. >> still to come in "the newsroom," the certain for flight 8501's black boxes turns critical as the batteries start losing power. look at why the black boxes, well we know why they're so important, we'll talk

>> paula hancocks reporting, thank you. >>> among the many challenges search crews are up against, bad weather. as i said strong winds high waves are hampering the search. keep in mind it's also monsoon season. how will this play out over the next several days. cnn's chad myers has more on that. >> what certainly makes things more difficult out there, waves 10 to 12 feet you're battling that battling wind at 20 to 30 miles per hour. on top of those waves all you see are white caps and you're looking for white pieces of a white plane. that makes it more like a washing machine in this area. the storms weren't as bad yesterday as we had. we had a couple storms here. one big cell right over that black box. right now things have calmed down. right up to current. there are clouds out there, but clear enough to get planes in the sky. the problem is it's 10:00 at night there, so there's no reason to put planes in the sky because it's completely dark. a couple showers around. but things get better when it comes to severe weather or rain and cloud cover, but things get worse when it comes to win

paula hancocks has more. >> reporter: sirens in the night announce their arrival. victims of flight 8501 on dry land and rushed into this hospital. the next morning two more bodies arrive. workers take them to a private wing to be prepared for the next spot identification by distraught families. the hospital director says he's here 24 hours a day to give the decease the respect they deserve. because they've been in the water some days, he tells me, the bodies are swollen, but otherwise they are intact. patients look on somberly, their own ailments forgotten in the face of such tragedy. coffins are being delivered to give dignity to those who lost their lives so suddenly. this hospital has never had to deal with a tragedy on this scale before. they have about two dozen caskets at the moment, they are being built as we speak. the hospital director says they will have 162, one for every victim of this crash. a final prayer for each soul, leaders of six different religions take their turn. the victim's religion may not be known, but customs must still be observed. thei

our paula hancocks spoke with a few of them about their vital but gruesome mission. >> loading up tothe operation, police and search-and-rescue teams prepare for the ten hour journey back to the crash scene. last-minute checks for divers facing the grim task of looking for bodies. this man couldn't even get into the water on his last trip, the weather made it impossible "this is my life" he says. "it's just too much of a risk." with waves of up to four meters or 13 feet today's condition are no better. the region's chief of police says the weather is without doubt the biggest obstacle in finding these victims. "i'd like to tell the families we are doing our best to get their loved ones out" he says. "we apologize if it's taking longer than hoped." a search-and-rescue boat docks nearby returning from a day near the crash site. the captain says they will not stop searching until everyone is found. "we were supposed to collect debris from a singaporeanship near the site" he says "but we gave up because the weather was too bad to do the handoff safely." a delivery of body bags for the po

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the latest from paula hancocks just back from a trip on one of the search vessels. talk to me about how difficult it is the conditions out there, the search for the wreckage and the victims. it's been slowed down by this rough weather. >> reporter: anderson you can see it's glorious weather on land here at the moment. that means nothing out there. the military helicopter that's taking off behind me right now, a group of muslim clerics on board, a group of imams who will fly over the search area and say a prayer for those victims who lost their lives in that airasia crash. now, on sunday we had a chance to get right into the middle of that search area sector four, with one of the search and rescue boats and see exactly what those weather conditions were like. they're not good. sunday was supposedly better than most other days but it was still very windy. the wind -- the waves were very high. the crew was looking out to see if they could see anything with the naked eye. i was looking as well. and if you saw something, it could disappear within a second behind a wave.

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thank you, paula hancocks. we certainly hope the weather will clear soon. >>> well one of the six bodies identified so far is that of a young flight attendant who chose the profession because she loved to travel. david mall cove met with their family. >> step by step to their final resting place. each bearing a number each number a soul. casket four no longer nameless but identified as the first crew member of 8501 still wearing her uniform. >> nisa is an obedient daughter. she's always tidy and loves to learn. lots of her friends love her. >> just like her dad. >> in the family hotel room nisa's parents smile and even offer a laugh as they share her memories. >> she cared about her family very much? >> yes. >> pictures show a poised young woman with a giving heart and an adventurous spirit that took her hundreds of miles away from home. >>. >> translator: it's a dream. it's fun. she never complained. she new the risks. >> translator: she knew the risks but she loved this. it was her dream. he loved traveling.

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let's bring in cnn's paula hancocks. she's right there on the indonesian coast watching what's going on. what are you picking up over there, paula? >> wolf new information is coming out that's meteorological officials here in indonesia say that the airasia officials didn't actually pick up the meteorological report ahead of the flight. they didn't pick them up in person ahead of flight 8501. this doesn't violate any policies at this point. but it does mean according to meteorologists that they missed the opportunity to talk to them face to face so they could potentially tell them about any dangers that may be ahead in the atmosphere and the weather for that flight. it doesn't appear as though airasia has changed its policy since the accident. it appears they haven't actually gone in person to pick up that information. but airasia officials say there is actually more useful and easier information to look at the electronic version of this weather report. so this is information coming in to us very interesting and something

paula hancocks cnn, seoul. >>> the u.s. senate passed a bill to allow construction of a pipeline that's met with strong opposition from the obama administration. senators voted 62-36 for the $8 billion extension for the key phone pipeline. nine democrats joined republicans to support the bill. the pipeline already runs from canada through refineries in illinois. check out this map. the bill would authorize construction of nearly 2,000 kilometer pipeline from canada to nebraska where it would tie into existing pipelines to texas and two pipelines in the gulf of mexico. the republican victory is likely to be short lived, though. president obama has already said he would veto the measure when the senate vote fell short to override the veto. >>> two tech companies are in the spotlight. the holidays were good for amazon. but missed the mark for google. amazon earned $214 million in the last quarter of 2014 sending its stock up 8% after the closing bell. meantime google says it's quarterly profit rose 41% over last year to $4.76

cnn's paula hancocks has that part of the story. >> reporter: loading up to rejoin the operation, police and search-and-rescue teams prepare for the ten-hour journey back to the crash scene. last-minute checks for divers facing the grim task of looking for bodies. this man couldn't even get into the water on his last trip the weather made it impossible. this is my life, he says. it's just too much of a risk. with waves of up to four meters or 13 feet today's conditions are no better. the regent's chief of police says the weather without a doubt is the biggest obstacle in finding the victims. i'd like to tell the families we're doing our best to get their loved ones back, he says. a search-and-rescue boat docks nearby returning from a day near the crash site. the captain says they will not stop searching until everyone is found. we were supposed to collect some debris from a singaporean ship but we gave up because it was too dangerous. a delivery of body bags for the police ship. this police boat is not going anywhere today. the weather simply too bad. another frustrating day for divers w

i was looking at paula hancocks' report at the ship. you've only got to look out and see the vastness of the area. >> the conditions. >> the conditions, the vastness of the area. they are in the right area. we know that. it is just a matter of with the technology that we're using today, in terms of tracking the aircraft we can discuss whether they should have more or should have different types, but with what they were using, this is the only way they're going to find it. slow and very painfully so. >> david soucie at least one of the pingers on the black boxes had just gotten new batteries. that is obviously, good news. >> that's very good news but the better news is the fact that the other pinger was replaced with a competing model. if that was manufactured this year it would have a 90 day battery in it because tso 21 has changed o changed to make 90 days. we may have a reprieve in and a message now from tony fernandez to confirm that or not. >> david gallo, one official thought perhaps the black boxes could be buried by mud. just how

guys, i want you to take a look at what paula hancocks our reporter encountered out there on the javaas you can see, the conditions are less than ideal. many of the crew here are keeping their eyes peeled to see if they can see anything as we're in the area where some bodies and debris have been found. you can see how challenging it is the fact that as soon as you see something in the distance it disappears behind a wave and then it's very difficult to try and spot it again. >> all right, so, david, webhen we look at the weather conditions like this. paula was explaining how bad it is. some people saying that say, it doesn't look as bad as it could. it's very very inclement weather on and off. storming not storming. how much is this hampering a search for someone who's done investigations like this before? >> it's really difficult because of the fact that not only the visibility on the surface, but once they do find something, the visibility underneath because of all of the activity is just terrible. what they need is several days of no weather so that they can get down and things wil

our paula hancocks had a firsthand look of the kinds of conditions they are facing.boarded a search vessel and travelled into the search zone. >> well michaela and john we have had heard plenty about these summer monsoons these adverse weather conditions in indonesia and on sunday i had the chance to travel with one of the search-and-rescue teams to see exactly how this weather is affecting their operations. the desserted beaches of west borneo, indonesia, belie the horror at sea. more than 100 nautical miles to the search zone calm waters and sunshine soon disappear. we've been on the sea now for about four hours, we have another three or four hours to go and as you can see, the weather has started to close in. the closer we get to this crash location. but we're being told that even though these waves are fairly high and you can see it's a lot choppier than it was, that this is still considered fairly good weather. this is better than it has been for some days. the crew looks for deb reeris and bodies. one of them spots something. he's unsure what exactly. the capta

cnn paula hancock was on that boat. >> reporter: we are within the area where some bodies and debrisave been found but you can see how challenging it is the fact that as soon as you see something in the distance it disappears behind a wave and very difficult to try to spot it again. >> joining me now, a retired navy captain and navy diver. bobbie nice to see you. >>> so we're getting words this afternoon that u.s. navy divers from the uss fort worth will be use sewing near equipment capable of finding items they say just even as small as a golf ball as they are helping the government there finding wreckage? how exactly will that sonar equipment work? >> well they have some additional this is similar to the type of side-scan sonar, it's a little bit more precise. they can help it to assist the search commander that's out there to help to detect what the different search areas actually have in them. so they're just another asset for that search commander to go out and interpret what he has in each of those different debris fields to help them get a feel for what those pieces are that t

. >> paula hancocks, appreciate your efforts.hank you very much. >>> few people know the challenges of conducting this kind of search better than david gallo. a cnn analyst and he joins us now with cnn safety analysis david susi, flight 370, why it disappeared and it's only a matter of time before it happens again. in the monsoon season in this area, i think, goes until april. >> yes. they'll be looking for any opportunity they can to make whatever searches they can. they know they're in the right area. that is the only piece of encouraging news. the reports of sonar, reuters reporting sonar has located the aft section or tail section of the plane. it's just a question now of managing to get down and actually see what is real and what is not. >> david susi, the report from one ship -- it is just from one ship, that they may have located the tail of the plane, in many ways that is the key to this search. >> it could very well be. however, in this aircraft, it's not the same as the 777 as to where they're both located in the far ba

we want to bring in cnn's paula hancocks who is live at a hospital in coastal indonesia. e victims are being brought. paula, good morning to you. what are you learning this morning? >> reporter: well, good morning. as you say there have been 30 bodies retrieved so far. but none of those bodies were retreevd todar retrieved today. an entire day where they were unable to find victims. the main reason, the weather. these waves are not easy to work with. you've got dozens of divers sitting on ships at the crash scene. waiting. waiting and hoping for a break in the weather. it's really frustrating for the operation. the interesting thing, they did find two large metal objects. they were going to send a remote control vehicle down below to find out what it is. it's not clear that they can do that because of the choppy sea. we understand with the search and res sue agency, we will find out and want to know what happened to their loved ones and why. >> 30 bodies have been recovered. only six have been identified. i know it's grim but i'm trying to be as sensitive as possible, but

. >> paula hancocks, good work. thanks very much. let's continue the conversation. joining us our aviation analyst, miles o'brien, our aviation analyst, former ntsb managing director peter goelz, tom fuentes, former fbi assistant director also joining us cnn analyst david gallo, the woods hull oceanographic institution. they may have found the suspected tail of the plane, according to reuters. how significant would that be given the fact that both the flight data recorder the voice recorder the cockpit recorder apparently located on that tail? >> sure. it would be fantastic. but we begin every day with some encouragement. we end every day with so much uncertainty. it's a bad pattern. the thing that worries me is that a calmer surface means we can get people in and out of the water a little bit easier and safer and hold position easier. but the visibility if we're waiting for that to improve, it could be weeks or a month before the monsoonal visibility is better at that depth. >> what worries a lot of people david, the rear admiral said they haven't heard any pings a

cnn's paula hancocks is one of the few reporters that traveled to the search zone in the choppy waters, paula tells us what it was like him paula. >> reporter: we have been hearing about the adverse weather conditions. officials say it's the biggest obstacle at this point. on sunday we traveled to the search zone. we can show you first hand what it was like. the deserted beaches of west bornia end nieceia, belie the horrors out at sea. more than 100 nautical miles to the search zone calm waters and sunshine soon disappeared. we have been on the sea now for about four hours. we got about three or four hours to go. as you can see, the weather has started to close in the closer we get to this crash location. but we are being told that even though these waves are fairly high. can you see it's a lot choppier than it was, this is considered good weather. this is better than it has been for some days. the crew looks for debris and bodies. one of them spots something. he's unsure what, exactly. the captain calls it in. a larger ship in the area will investigate. this search and rescue boat has