wheel and left at least 3 of 13 crew members hurt. the coast guard has dropped supplies. a cutter has made its way to the yacht, and at least two of the injured have been moved to a smaller ship. i want to go now by telephone to coast guard petty officer kcale critchfield. were you able to get help out? yes, we were. the coast guard cutter is on scene and they deployed their small response boat to go out to the yacht, and we were able to recover two of the injured people and get them on board the small boat. okay. so they are on scene right now as you and i are speaking rescuing these people, correct? yes. okay. the entire crew won t be taken off at first. only the injured. there are three injured. you are getting three persons off. are we to assume these are the people more seriously injured? yes. i think it would be safe to assume that. i m not sure what the plan is. i think they are trying to get the two people off the schmal boat on to the helo and will be flyin
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at what s private and what s public online as facebook offers new ways to protect its users. what we set out to do in response to a lot of the feedback we ve been getting is to make it really, really easy for people to control the information they put into facebook. woodruff: and we close with images of the changed coastline on the gulf, taken by a.p. photographer gerald herbert. reporter: this thing has been gushing oil for over a month now and it s been none stop, when & when you think about how much oil must now be in that gulf it s a pretty scary thing. it has everyone on this coast frightened frightened and angry. lehrer: that s all ahead on tonight s newshour. major funding for the pbs newshour has been provided by: and the william and flora hewlett foundation, working to solve social and environmental problems at home and around the world. and with the ongoing support of these institutions and foundations. and. this program was made possible by the corporatio
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