coast guard and that captain, francesca schettino, tell the haunting story, a captain who left the ship, giving excuse after excuse why he won t go back on board while passengers struggle to survive. that captain was placed on house arrest today, charged with causing the wreck, abandoning ship and manslaughter. harry smith is an nbc news correspondent, just back from covering this story for italy for rock center and nbc news. harry, we are going to play some of that crazy conversation, horrible conversation. what s your report on this what looks to be just a human catastrophe, manmade horror? this guy has got to be the anti-sully. you think about people in charge and people doing the right thing. this guy couldn t have screwed up any more than he screwed up. we were on the water right next
the ship, carrying 4200 passengers, hit rock as it sailed off course, supposedly to show off the boat to the homeowner of a head waiter of the craft, a favor from the captain. after the impact, the captain turned it around and beached the vessel. transcripts between the italian coast guard and that captain, francesca schettino, tell the haunting story, a captain who left the ship, giving excuse after excuse why he won t go back on board while passengers struggle to survive. that captain was placed on house arrest today, charged with causing the wreck, abandoning ship and manslaughter. harry smith is an nbc news correspondent, just back from covering this story for italy for rock center and nbc news. harry, we are going to play some of that crazy conversation, horrible conversation. what s your report on this what looks to be just a human catastrophe, manmade horror? this guy has got to be the anti-sully. you think about people in charge and people doing the right
thing. this guy couldn t have screwed up any more than he screwed up. we were on the water right next to that ship yesterday yesterday morning. and the enormity of the ship, all the technology in the world this never should have happened. this guy went miles off course to come close by that giglio island and the rocks he hit and the graphic you showed before, you can actually see the rocks from google maps. yeah. the rocks have a name, called the secaldella scola. this guy, if in fact everything that looks like happened happened, this guy is one of the biggest screw ups of all time. an italian coast guard officer repeatedly told the captain, schettino to get back on that ship as it was sinking once he realized he had left the costa concordia , the captain gives several excuses why he can t get back aboard the ship. here is a portion of that transcript. let s listen to it in italian. okay.
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a far lower rate than people making much less. then he said i get speaker s fees from time to time, but not very much. not very much? that not very much amounted to $374,000 a year. that s roughly nine times what the average american makes. no one is denying mitt s right to make money, but no one is going to stop the democrats from making an issue out of it either. plus once again, the audience was the big story at last night s debate. big cheers when rick perry said south carolina was at war with the federal government. boos when the moderator asked newt about possibly making racially insensitive remarks. huge cheers for newt when he stuck it to juan williams with his answers. does all this matter? did the debate audience tell us about where the gop is these days? also, in wisconsin, opponents of governor scott walker have turned in 1 million signatures demanding his recall. this is about more than walker can survive an election. this is about mobilizing the base in a