that the crash happened around 2:20 saturday morning. that s when the cargo ship involved in this mayday distress called. now the japanese coast guard is saying that based on interviews with members of the crew of the container ship, they believe that the crash actually happened about 50 minutes before that. they say it isn t unusual that the crew didn t immediately call for help. they could have been following other safety procedures or trying to navigate in that busy passageway. the u.s. military is holding firm. they believe this crash did, in fact, happen at 2:20 in the morning. why does this matter? both sides will be looking at the precise movement of both ships involved in order to determine how they could have been set on this collision course. this was a deadly crash. the crew of the uss fitzgerald numbered in the hundreds. several sailors did not survive the crash. the bodies were found by divers in the sleeping compartments below deck. the bodies of the sailors are being r
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the ship suffered significant damage but the heroic efforts of the crew prevented the destroyer from sinking. alex fields is in japan which serves as the home base of the fitzgerald. reporter: the uss fitzgerald is back in port. the damage described severe, the worst of it can t be seen above the water line. the compartments below the ship flooded. investigations ordered into what went wrong and the bodies of the missing servicemen aboard that u.s. destroyer have been found. divers went down there finding the bodies of those sailors inside two different sleeping compartments. we re told now the sleeping compartments can hold about 116 crew members. the entire ship holds more than 300 crew members. the collision happened in the early morning hours on saturday at a time when most of the crew were told would have been asleep. the impact is described as a
melania trump actually tweeted out how much her, the president and barron were enjoying it. he s getting ready for a long week ahead, including a speech in the midwest this week. the president again returning to the white house from camp david after his first trip there. on to some sad news from overseas. the u.s. navy says it s recovered the bodies of be seven sailors missing since an american destroy merchant ship collided off the coast of japan. their bodies were discovered in flooded sleeping compartments inside the uss fitzgerald. the captain of the ship says it was flooded. let s talk about it with retired rear admiral john kirby, a former spokesperson for the state department and the pentagon and also with us, cnn transportation analyst, mary schiavo, former inspector general of the department of
. an upindicate to a tragic story we ve been following all weekend. the u.s. navy recovered the bodies of seven sailors missing since an american destroyer and a merchant ship collided off the coast of japan. their bodies were found in flooded sleeping compartments in the uss fitzgerald. the commander of the navy s 7th fleet says the ship suffered significant kandamage but hero efforts by the crew prevented the destroyer from sinking. alex fields is at the home base for the uss fitzgerald. they re holding on to hope as the search went on, on the water and also by air but that search came to an end once the ship arrived back at the port and divers were sent down into the flooded compartments of a u.s. war ship that inexplicablely collided with a containership