reporter: hi alex. press is calling it the italian titanic. three people have lost their lives. the number unaccounted for dropped significantly today to 17 which you mentioned. but as people were being rescued, they were worried there were still passengers on board, trapped and they were right. this happened friday night. and the latest rescue was this afternoon. this man just rescued spent more than 36 hours trapped inside that ship. this video shows just a leading edge of the swell of panic that engulfed the costa concordia friday night. not safe here. when survivors climbed into lifeboats, the ship already tilted sharply and sinking, fast. it started just after 10:00 p.m. only hours after the nearly
witt. it s just past 11 a.m. in the east, 8:00 a.m. in the west. more news from the horrific shipwreck. they have found two more bodies in the hull of the costa concordia. this less than a day after it struck a rocky sandbar. michelle kosinski is there with the latest from there. good morning to you, michelle. reporter: hi alex. we saw some of the pictures now coming through of divers doing their work today for a second full day. trying to get to people inside. they were breaking windows and apparently while they were doing that, they found the bodies of two more passengers. that would bring the confirmed total of deaths now to five. earlier today, in fact about four hours ago, we saw a men rescued from the ship after being trapped inside for more than 36 hours. that s almost as tough to imagine as some of the scenes described by passengers while this was going on.
mitt romney sustains over his tenure at bain capital, there s one group that sees his time as a plus. former employees and employees there. a new report finds people connected to bain have given more than $2.7 million to romney s campaign and to the super pac s that support him. dave leventhal reporter, good morning to you. good morning to you, alex. in the interest of full disclosure, bain capital and nbc universal, we re each part owners of the weather channel. with that said, you wrote about this financial report on politico. all this donation from former bain employees and current ones what the report said is exactly that. people associated with bain capital in one form or another had given more money to mitt romney or committees that were associated with mitt romney more so than any other different company or organization ever and this goes back to his time as a governor in massachusetts and certainly goes up now to his time running for president.
for the iowa caucuses. do you read anything into this? does it at all talk about his campaign losing some steam? well, i don t want to shock you, alex. i don t think ron paul thinks he s going to win the nomination. so he s gone further than he ever expected. he s having a great deal of impact with his message, even beyond he s winning a lot of votes but he s having a lot of the other candidates coe opt his theme. he s been successful in restoring the libertarian theory to the republican party. i think he can kick back on his laurels and have a weekend off and he can keep going with this for a while longer. he s not going to be the president, alex. no weekends off for you, my friend. not when you have me on your show. no way. that s right. exactly dana mill bank. thanks so much. we ll have the former chairman of both parties, governor howard dean and michael steele. they are on deck with strategy talk heading your way at the bottom of the hour.
immediately. national weather service a no bra that was a no brainer when he looked at afghanistan. i had to believe that we were pulling out of afghanistan but we doubled down. i don t know as it doesn t take more from democrats than it does republicans and keeping in mind, the biggest growing segment of the american politics are independents and those that decline to state. so these are very different times and they re different times because i think we re on the verge of a monetary collapse unless we balance the federal budget. gary johnson, weighing in on all of this. presidential candidate for the libertarian party. thanks for joining me. alex, thank you very much for having me on. you re welcome. daniel radcliffe was the guest host on saturday night live last night. daniel was great. we loved weekend update with seth myers as host. here s your one-minute play bak. mitt romney on tuesday won new hampshire primary. it s the people saying like we