with anderson cooper airs next. thanks for joining us. i ll see you back here next weekend. have a good one. welcome to the whole story. tonight, we take you into a world that few people get to see up close. the world of superyachts. private boats, some longer than a football field. they can cost hundreds of millions of dollars and there are plenty of buyers. since the pandemic, more people are building and buying them. business is reportedly booming. they ve become status symbols for the super rich. their impact on the environment and the oceanis is a topic of debat. the u.s. has seized some superyachts of russia s elite and now, your tax dollars are being spent to keep them in shape. alisyn takes inside this world of superyachts and the first stop, the monaco yacht shohow. this is monaco. land of the ultra a wealthy. and dottining the harbrbor l li crowown jewel rs s are the e wo largest supeperyachts. that s no o surprise c consider thisis is the richest cocountry t
story . i m anderson cooper. last week at tokyo s haneda airport, a jal airbus collided with a smaller aircraft. five crew members on the coast guard plane died. but amazingly, all 379 people on the airbus survived. they were safely evacuated before the plane was engulfed in flames. investigation into what happened is still under way. it got us thinking about that miraculous story of survival that happened 15 years ago this month. us airways flight 1549 took off from new york s laguardia airport heading to charlotte, north carolina. there were 150 passengers onboard and 5 crew members, including the pilot, captain chesley sully sullenberger. it should have been a quick two-hour flight. but soon after takeoff the plane collided with a flock of geese. both engines went out and the plane headed down. captain sullenberger acted quickly, heading towards the hudson river for an emergency landing. his decisiveness saved the lives of all 159 people onboard. but this potential trage
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