ac360 starts right now. we begin tonight keeping them honest with breaking news. 360 has learned this waw not the first time that the costa conco concordia steered so close to shore. the cruise line not only knew about the route but approved it. the company that owns the ship said the accident was the result of a rogue decision that the captain and only the captain made. we learned the previous close call happened back in august. we have video, this is the video of the incident in august taken from the shore. the cruise line said the ship was a safe distance from the coastline. lloyds lip said it was dangerously close, closer, in fact, than it came on friday night when it hit the rocks. here is new satellite imagery of the wreck. look how big it is against the coast, just a massive, massive ship. the search for nearly two dozen was suspended when the wreckage began shifting. really dangerous for the rescue divers. a dutch salvage team has arrived to offload diesel fuel. als
plus my exclusive interview with the biggest music star you may not have heard of. you should. six-time grammy nominee bruno mars. just the way you are i ask him the questions few others have dared to put to him. what s the worst song you ve ever written? if i could take away the money or the women, which would you rather keep? definitely the women, piers. what kind of question is that? what is this, a setup? bruno mars, the man, his music. probably the biggest pop star in the world right now. this is piers morgan tonight. white house staffer, he played one on tv. it may be my favorite series of all time, the west wing. he s a politics junkie. rob lowe joins me. how are you? i m great. you must be excited because last time i interviewed you, politics is seeping through your veins, isn t it? look, this is one of my favorite times of year. iowa caucuses going into new hampshire. it s good. i ve been watching a lot of you getting my info. it was an amazin
watch this. welcome back, let s get right to it, the big story and quick question mark lying over the divided korean peninsula. who is in charge now that kim jong-il is dead? who s happening today with the nearly 30,000 american troops stationed just below the dmz? and does this mark the beginning of a brighter era for 25 million of the world s most tightly controlled people? all answers right here, tile to play reporter roulette. first to seoul we go. cnn s anna coren is there. reaction is still raw, emotional. anna i imagine concern is high. reporter: yeah, definitely, brooke. there is deep concern here in seoul, but i want to bring you something new what s come to us in the past hour. we have received reports from the u.s. state department they were set to announce plans to give north korea food aid in exchange for north korea saying that it would suspend its uranium enrichment program for nuclear weapon hes and allow international inspectors in to north korea. now, that
your first impression from what we learned from the eight republican candidates? i think there were a couple of really explosive parts of the debate for me. the first one was obviously iran. i thought that perry and gingrich led the way with strategy when it comes to iran. but the thing that sort of blew up in newt gingrich s face, i think, the discussion on immigration. he had a rick perry heartless moment with this. i think this is really going to impact him tomorrow. it s really going to impact him with grassroots conservatives. i can see both sides of the argument here. he was reaganesque, 84- 86, reagan signed a huge amnesty bill but i don t think he made that differential during the debate. this is one of the most substantive debates, we really were able to see a lot of different sides on the candidates on this side of the issue. ron paul did surprisingly well on a couple of different parts. perry talked more than normal. it was good. i think gingrich gingrich prob
critical condition. the confirmed death toll in sunday s disaster now stands at 118. but authorities say more than ten times that many still are unaccounted for. joplin s head of emergency management says people scattered and simply can t get home or maybe no longer have homes and haven t yet called in. but then there s will norton, blown out of his hummer on his way home from high school graduation. his family thinks thinks he s in a hospital somewhere. and sky lar logs don, a 1-year-old. his great uncle spoke to cnn this morning. the night of the tornado that evening. and they had him in the hallway in the house, and they all got covered in the hallway in the house and when the tornado hit, they lost track of him and we haven t seen him since. was skylar s mother holding on to him? yes, she was. and she lost him in the aftermath amidst all of this. and it s just terrible. and no one has seen him since. the rest of the family is doing okay. we ve just got to find h