Search Continues for Downed AirAsia Plane's Black Box
PAUL: Before we head back to Paris we do want to get to the search for the remaining suspects in this week's terrorists attacks, too, but there is another story that we have to talk about, a developing story this morning.</s>BLACKWELL: Yes, the search crews that are one step closer possibly to answering some of the questions about the crash AirAsia flight 8501. Earlier today crews were able to lift the tail section of the plane off the sea floor and load it into an a waiting ship.</s>PAUL: CNN's David Melko joins us live from Jakarta. David, I can imagine the emotions as they were pulling this thing up on the ship.</s>DAVID MELKO, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Yes, certainly, Christi and Victor, applause and cheers from members on board one of the search vessels out there as they watch this unfold. Certainly not a celebration though. An achievement of three days of the tricky work in underwater conditions with currents that divers said had them sometimes fluttering like flags. When you see the tail section raised onto that ship it really drives home the loss here. There 162 passengers onboard that flight. The tail section hoisted up inch by inch using a crane, also giant balloons. What's interesting is when it kind of opens up on the deck, the portion of the tail, the vertical stabilizer, with the logo attached to the rear, the fuselage. You see some windows on the sides, but in the middle where there were seats and once people, there was just nothing. Images also showing at least one search worker kind of combing through, potentially looking for the black boxes. At this point from search officials there is no confirmation that they have found anything in the tail section that will help unlock the mystery.</s>BLACKWELL: All right, David, so the black boxes were not connected to this part of the tail. Tell us how you believe they will be able to go back and search again. This is a difficult area. Although it's shallow there is a lot of muck there in this part of the sea.</s>MELKO: Yes, Victor, that is right. I'm sure they are talking about moving the tail to shore and taking a closer look, but the fact that they are considering the underwater operation to continue to be a priority now indicating that they don't think they have found anything. One of the investigates here for the NTSC, which is kind of like the NTSB in the United States, saying they thought they heard possible pings again. There were some on Friday and now again on Saturday about a half mile from the tail section. The plan now to send divers into the water with underwater microphones, see if they can pick up the sounds of these pings. The batteries on the pingers have about two and a half weeks left, so still a little bit of time. Complicating the operation, though, is the number of divers, the number of ships in the area. All that can create tricky underwater conditions and acoustics in the Java Sea. Even though it's 100 feet deep, even though they know where they tail is, it could still be some tough work in the next few days. What we are hearing though from search officials, Victor and Christi, is a shift in tone. They are optimistic they are in the right place, they are on the right track, and that they will get results soon.</s>PAUL: We certainly hope so.</s>BLACKWELL: All right, David Melko in Jakarta for us. David, thank you so much.</s>TAPPER: I'm Jake Tapper in Paris, and I'm outside the place where the horrific terrorist attack on "Charlie Hebdo," the French satirical magazine, took place Wednesday. It has become a place of mourning, a place of honoring the victims of that horrible attack. People have been coming here by the thousands all day putting flowers, leaving notes. We saw a little girl writing a note saying "Je suis Charlie," "I am Charlie," a message of solidarity. People have been drawing cartoons and posting them around here, leaving them by the flowers. A cellist has been playing for at least an hour, a fitting and moving memorial as people come and honor their brothers and one sister who were killed in this horrific terrorist attack on Wednesday and the ensuing attacks as well. We're following breaking news right now. The Kouachi brothers and along with another suspect linked to the same terror cell are dead after French police carried out two terror raids yesterday. Now French police are searching for this woman, 26-year-old Hayat Boumediene. Here is what we know about her. Authorities believe she was the accomplice of the Amedy Coulibaly in a hostage-taking incident in a kosher grocery store yesterday in which Coulibaly killed four innocent civilians. Coulibaly himself was killed when police stormed the market. He seemed to run right into the police bullets. Now police say that they believe Boumediene was in the grocery store and escaped amidst the chaos. She also was previously wanted in as a suspect in the shooting death of a French policewoman on Thursday. Now, earlier today French President Francois Hollande held an emergency security meeting with top government and law enforcement officials to discuss how to better secure France. The town in northern France where two of the terrorist suspects were killed is slowly getting back to normal today, or at least as normal as it can get at least. CNN senior international correspondent Jim Bitterman has more now on how the suspects were killed. Jim?</s>JIM BITTERMAN, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: The police are still guarding the entrance to the factory here where in fact they headed for the two terrorists yesterday after a police assault, a very violent police assault on this factor involving helicopters and dozens and dozens of special forces that charged into the factory. Here is a look at how that went.</s>BITTERMAN: During that standoff with police yesterday, in fact the town of Dammartin virtually closed down. The schools were empty, shops were closed. People were told to stay away. And now today it's gradually coming back to life. The mayor told me that just getting things back to normal is first priority.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: That is what we want to do now. Come back to the normal stage.</s>BITTERMAN: Getting back to normal may also mean, however, raising questions the way authorities handled this entire terror episode, how it was these terrorists were not under better surveillance, how they were able to acquire weapons. One of the people at the mayor's office this morning confronted the mayor just on that issue and wanted to know exactly why this whole drama had to unfold in the way it did. Those questions are going to be asked a lot over the next few days here, especially after when we get past the march of unity taking place tomorrow across the nation involving hundreds and hundreds of thousands of French who wanted to show that they're unified against terrorism. Jim Bitterman, Dammartin-en-Goele, France.</s>TAPPER: Our thanks to Jim Bitterman. We of course will be bringing that unity rally to you live tomorrow on CNN. There are new links surfacing between the Paris terrorist suspects and an Al Qaeda affiliate. The link suggests the suspects may not have acted alone when they brutally slaughtered more than 17 people over the last three days. We will talk about all of that coming up next.