she back and al qaeda in northern peninsula. in addition to all humanitarian issues, you have some potential real national security implications. and in a briefing for reporters a senior u.s. intelligence official says u.s. does not take the lead on water security, other nations such as china will step. in and as this report shows the u.s. could well lose some of its leverage in the middle east, north africa and south arab sharks shep. shepard: kathleen herrige on capitol hill tonight. thanks. a convicted killer is back behind bars shortly after cops in russia said a couple people helped him escape prison in a hijacked helicopter. according to investigators there. the accomplices threatened the chopper pilots at gunpoint and ordered them fly to the prison. it was 200 miles north of moscow and once they got there they lowered a rope ladder. the killer just climbed right up the thing and they flew away. a russian foreign ministry spokesman says the prisoner then hijacked a taxicab bu
he tripped and fell off the ship and fell into a lifeboat but that is hard to believe. greta: bernie, we looked at the documents about what the passengers said before. you are looking into this, paid thousands of dollars and climbing down rope ladder trying to get in lifeboat. you can get $150. greta: $150. $150 for personal property. passenger safety you get nothing for being injured on this boat. you don t get a dime. beyond legal, this captain is just morally bankrupt. he just should.. greta: which is a separate issue. the passengers have, they have lost by virtue of taking. it you have to sign here. the whole thing, i tripped and i
they were full, but, of course, the swell of the water against the boat means it was bobbing up and down. they found a way how to stabilize it a little more and we transferred from boat to boat that went alongside the coastguard unit. it was the most daunting prospect going on your back side down this rope ladder at an angle to twist and turn and hold the rope ladder to jump down into this boat which was bobbing up and down. aches and pains show that i m not used to that. greta: it s extraordinary story. deeply troubling that so many people lost their lives. i m happy for you and your wife. congratulations on your wedding and marriage. i bresh yate you joining us.
he tripped and fell off the ship and fell into a lifeboat but that is hard to believe. greta: bernie, we looked at the documents about what the passengers said before. you are looking into this, paid thousands of dollars and climbing down rope ladder trying to get in lifeboat. you can get $150. greta: $150. $150 for personal property. passenger safety you get nothing for being injured on this boat. you don t get a dime. beyond legal, this captain is just morally bankrupt. he just should.. greta: which is a separate issue. the passengers have, they have lost by virtue of taking. it you have to sign here. the whole thing, i tripped and i
know what was happening. there was no announcement to say the ship won t sink underneath when we thought if it sinks further, we re underwater we wouldn t get out of that landing area where we were all waiting at the muster station outside the lifeboat and had to find another route. it was very much haphazard way of getting off the ship. somebody found that could get us out through the large portholes on the side of this particular area to get on to the hull where we stayed was the only way down was this rope ladder that was five stories or whatever above the sea line. the coastguard had a tender below. they changed the tenders when