actually still in a lot of pain and still dealing with the traupl after this disas trauma of this disaster. 32 people died, hundreds of people rescued from the ship when it ran aground as you remember in january of last year. jon eaves, a mississippi lawyer representing 150 of the victims said the company had sacrificed passenger safety for prove it and he said profit. he said it too had to share the blame for what happened on the night the ship capsized. what he called poor emergency procedures, training and equipment. so there is still a lot of ill feeling and there is still a long way to go. we ve still got quite a few hearings to go in this preliminary case even before it s sent for trial. it will take a few months before we even see the trial yet. rick: josephine mckenna joining us on the phone from grn joining us from rome, thank you very much. thanks, rick. jenna: world-wide tension really hitting a fever pitch with north korea poised to launch a missile any minute.
0 rick: jennifer griffin live at the pentagon. jennifer, thank you very much. in a few minutes we ll explore north korea s motives as a nuclear-armed state. secretary kerry says the u.s. is open to talk if pongyong begins to dismantle the nuclear program but has the administration reached a point of no return? we ll talk about that with a couple expert straight ahead. jenna: a signs that bipartisan group of senators known as the gang of 8 could introduced comprehensive legislation as earlier as this week. the lawmakers working on the hot button issue already defending their proposed overhaul. critics charge it would give those who came here illegally amnesty and negatively impact the u.s. jobs market. doug mckelway is live on capitol hill with more on this. doug? reporter: one of the concerns republican haves is border security. republicans say the bill all likelihood going to be unveiled tomorrow has a trigger in it. the department of homeland security has to have 100% observation
the country beginning a final day of two-day celebration for the founder of north korea kim il-sung. he is grandfather of the current dictator, kim jong-un. he is threatened attacks on america before leaving the region to head back to the u.s., secretary of state hillary clinton saying that the obama administration would be open to talk with the north if it began to abandon its nuclear program. national security correspondent jennifer griffin live from the pentagon. how significant is secretary kerry s offer for these one-on-one talks with north korea? reporter: it is certainly a change in tone since you saw the pentagon sending b-2 bombers and b-52 bombers to korea as part of the exercises. it is a change in tone. if you listen to the caveats north korea will give up the nuclear program and die chruk nearize. denuclearize. what is interesting on saturday he was in china. he did not get the public, he did not get the public statement that he was looking for from china to
train stations and airports would be implemented to limit cross border movement but italy s government reacted furiously to the draft saying it focused too much on germany s concerns and ignored their calls for more a you support rome growing increasingly tired of taking orders from the e.u. . in europe the times are over when france and germany decided refugee policy when they told european italy what they had to pay and which migrants they had to take in. and firm action has a company. on thursday sylvania issued his latest refusal to rescue ship and pledge to block all in boats from docking initially. joining me now from. journalist josephine mckenna josephine some very tough talk coming out of italy