Its last day of witnesses before easter break. The latest from pretoria. Hello, everyone. Good to have you with us on this thursday. Youre watching cnn newsroom. Im john vause. And im Rosemary Church. We want to welcome our viewers in the United States and all around the world. South koreas rescue operations are about to get slammed by heavy weather. For now the search does go on. Divers looking for nearly 300 people still missing since the ferry capsized. The death toll stands at nine but could rise sharply. Already griefstricken relatives are bracing for the worst. And just a short time ago the ships captain apologized. That comes after a similar message from the ships operator. Among the passengers were more than 300 High School Students on a field trip to the Resort Island of jeju. Many of those rescued are giving disturbing accounts of what happened as the ship quickly sank. Translator there was an announcement telling us to sit still on the ferry. But the ferry was already sinkin
speculation. i believe that what has been established just in the last two weeks with the assistance of the chinese government and authorities and the appointment of hamza zainuddin, the deputy minister of foreign fairs, and also chu mei fun as our cabinet envoy to deal with this has helped tremendously. but of course it s not going to be easy and the french team that dealt with the french airline has told me that the most difficult part of any investigation of this nature is having to deal with the families. in our case we re dealing with 14 different nationals. just focusing on the chinese families i think is not fair to the other nationals who do not have the same problems and have not been highlighted in the manner in which has been highlighted for the chinese families in beijing.