the pentagon? any sense for how this happened? a lot of bewilderment. this doesn t happen. the navy doesn t have these kinds of catastrophic collisions at sea. what we re learning is how catastrophic it really was. think of what this crew was facing. it was dark. they had been in a collision. water is pouring into the ship, both beneath the waterline. they have damage above ground. the container ship and the navy ship hit exactly where the berthing compartment was and where communications were. the ship lost communications on board, dark, trying to struggle to survive, to save the ship and can t even communicate properly with each other. it was a catastrophe that befuddled everyone now, how it happened, but it will be fully investigated. john, help the rest of us to understand. aren t there radar systems on
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ablow when you need him? he could analyze that. martha: exactly. bill: a battered yacht, pulling into port days after the coast guard made a daring rescue. that ship hit by a massive wave as it hit the san francisco stop. the wave washing away the steering wheel on the yacht, seriously injuring two crew members, the coast guard managed to get them to safety but the waters were so rough that rescuers could not parachute in to reach them. captain thomas tramm was the ing officer during that rescue. captain, job well done! thank you very much. bill: you make a living off this stuff, and well, you save lives in this case. but that must have been one heck of a wave, sir. yes, it was. we steamed right into the teeth of the storm, i embarked a helicopter, tried to get that helicopter off to the vessel, and the stricken mariners. were unable to at first. by the time we closed them the weather abated enough to
a s.u.v. collided with a light rail train in sacramento, florida. the train was going 55 miles per hour. the force of impact scent that s.u.v. flying some 30 yards before it landed upside down. two adults and that baby died after a woman suffered serious injuries, as well. six people on board the train also hurt divers looking for any more sr. drivers or remains in the cruise ship disaster off italy s coast. they suspended their work for today, and this after officials said rough seas and strong winds caused the ship to shift suddenly and quite noticeably. they are saying it could take a very long time, a year, to move that ship. you will recall the ship hit rocks two weeks ago, autofew feet from shore. more than 4200 people on board. divers found the body of the wreck s 17th victim yesterday. a crewmember, at least 15 people still missing. there s also the matter of all that diesel fuel in that ship. that s why they want to move it
more than 20 people still unaccounted for. rescuers are blowing holes in the side of the ship to get where they think people might be located. they found five bodies yesterday nap matt c . confirm death toll is 11. the man at the controls that might is now under house arrest today. prosecutors say they are speechless that he s even out of jail. they want to charge him with manslaughter and abandoning his post. we also learned today that it might not be the first time that that same ship was dangerously close to that s land. more in a couple of minutes. but first listen to this passenger who told us today what it was like. people s faces were panicked and they were trying to jump in and they just started hitting people with anything they could, the oars, poles, trying to push people back. but people kept persisting. and that s really when the screaming started and everyone was screaming and that s when they said we need to go, we need to get this down and it was just heartbr