This Morning from CBS News, Jan. 1, 2015
Moving target
Authorities have identified one of the eight recovered bodies from AirAsia Flight 8501 as flight attendant Hayati Lutfiah Hamid. CBS News Correspondent Allen Pizzey reports the main wreckage from the jetliner remains elusive. It's in relatively shallow water, which will make it -- and the plane's "black boxes" -- accessible to divers. But bad weather may have shifted it miles from the site of impact.
Better plane tech
AirAsia Flight 8501, like Malaysia Airlines 370 before it, vanished without any clear indication of where it went down. Airlines and regulators are working on systems that can track flights better. Systems to more effectively track planes and locate black boxes exist and could have given Flight 8501 search teams a head start. CBS News Correspondent Jeff Pegues takes a look at the new systems and what stands in the way of them being implemented.
The next year
Change is coming to Washington in 2015 with the Republicans controlling the House and Senate for the first time in eight years since President Obama took office. The upcoming 2016 presidential elections will also be part of the discourse in the coming year. CBS News political director John Dickerson, congressional correspondent Nancy Cordes and CBS contributor and Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan joined "CBS This Morning" to highlight what to look out for in 2015.
Financial resolutions
It's that time of year when millions of Americans vow to change their habits to make the rest of their lives a little better. If your resolution for the New Year is to fix your financial life, and these six steps should help.
Whiskey's secret
Whiskey is booming. Once the drink of gruff old cowboys, today whiskeys like bourbon and rye are surging in popularity with young Americans. More than 130 new brands were introduced just this year. Most popular are the so-called hand-crafted bourbons. But there's a dirty little secret in the distilling industry: Many companies don't make what they bottle, even though their labels give the impression that they do -- a sore point for the growing legions of whiskey purists across the country.
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