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the everest climb. as you know 13 guides died there last night. >> this time they gave their lives. and the long trip home. the biggest carnivore ever to hit washington, d.c. arrives at his big new digs. and reminds us of a country cousin in a who dun i nit mystery in the one who nearly got away. >> and good evening, thanks for joining us. i'm joie chen. even as parents continue to pray for an unlikely miracle the first interview of crew members in the south korean ferry disaster painted a terrifying picture of confusion and instructions, that may have made the disaster worse.

the vessel upside down and submerged nearly 48 hours since the first cry for help. 29 are dead, almost 270 remain missing. at least 179 passengers were rescued. captain remains under arrest. rough seas and cold goes on. the u.s. navy says it will send salvage specialists to help. what we know from "america tonight"'s sheila macvicar. is. >> reporter: with hundreds of passengers trapped below. this is the time the captain decided to abandon ship. that order previously given to passengers to wait where they were. for families of the missing it was another long day. filled with grief and frustration. there has been so little news from divers inside the ship.

families hold out hope that their missing, most of them high school students could still be alive in pockets of trapped air. they have to hurry to rescue survivors says this father. the number of survivors will reach its limit today. and all families and rescuers know the water is cold, and if there are survivors, they will not last much longer. the keel of the ferry fell below the sea. it is still unstable, posing risks for rescuers. divers did manage to find a way into the ship and reached the submerged cafeteria where so many were believed trapped. they did find several bodies huddled together. night. it is difficult and dangerous. >> the current is too strong. it's so strong that divers get swept away in moments. it's too strong. >> reporter: huge cranes have been brought in preparing to raise the ship.

one will be placed on either side of the seawall. once the cables from both cranes have been lowered divers will tie the ends together. next both cranes will begin the lifting process. as the boat is lifted it will slowly be rolled onto its side to raise the vessel. rescuers know that it will possibly kill any survivors left inside. they agreed to not raise the ship until families agree. that could take days or more. investigators are trying understand what caused the ship to roll. the ship does not appear to have struck anything on the water. they are focusing on a, quote, sharp turn the ship made apparently when the captain was not at the helm. the transcript of the conversation between the ferry and the control, five minutes after the first radio indication anything was wrong, in that five

minutes, the tilting of the ship made it quickly to become difficult to move. incici tamura is a maritime expert. the ship was modified by a an extension to the left. >> would have made the center of gravityeen even higher. in this sense, i think it would have made it hard tore balance the ship. >> many ships of this sort of age will have modifications of this type to increase capacity or one or two other things. it's not unusual. in this particular case, it will have affected the stability by a small amount. >> reporter: that is one of many avenues to be investigated and raises questions about the safety of modifications made to other ferries and passenger ships. one more tragedy today, the body

of the vice principal of the school in which most of the students attended was found hang from a tree. it survives the tragedy not the guilt. >> it looks like that death was a suicide? >> i believe so. they found a note saying the situation was horrible. he will be cremated. >> they are trying get the numbers today. >> 20 of 29 crew members survived. three fifths of the passengers did not. that tells you the amount of preparedness of the crew. the area is a narrow channel, complex area to navigate. yet a third mate was at the helm. there.

>> so many children on board. high school students on board. sheila macvicar thanks very much. righting a ship after the infamous costa concordia. the 114,000 ton vessel back into an upright position. the crews used massive pulleys tanks to roll the ship over, at a cost of more than $800 million. on what it will take to raise the korean ferry back up, professor of maritime engineering, we appreciate you being with us. sir, for a lot of us it's hard to understand it's not just a matter of shipping this -- flipping this ship back over. >> no, it's not, it's a very

difficult task and preparation is absolutely essential. it's not thing you do at a drop of a hat. >> why is it so difficult? help us to understand. is tonight part the size, the weight, what is it that makes it so difficult? >> well, okay. the first thing is, everything depends upon the weather. so any time that the weather gets bad, any time the wind is blowing, this location has very bad currents. that makes it very difficult to work. and sometimes it makes it impossible. the second thing is, we're talking about a massive structure. thousands and thousands of tons. iin fact, the ferry is considerably smaller than the costa concordia and even so it displaces over 10,000 tons in my estimate. so now, we're talking about very large weights that have to be shifted. they have to be shifted very

carefully. and you have to be careful you don't shift it in such a way that you cause more damage and, in fact, make the situation worse. >> so you were present for the uprighting of the costa concordia. are there any similarities that will take place here? it was further away from shore, the korean ferry. >> yes, and unfortunately today, the korean ferry, the ship is still moving apparently and now it's entirety underwater. the costa concordia was never entirely under water. it was basically beached on a large rock. to this is going to make it very difficult. because the ship no only has to be uprighted but it last to be refloated. the costa concordia what -- basically they rolled it into position but they didn't have to make it float. >> so by refloating -- assemble so this is a tough situation. -- >> so this is a tough situation.

>> so by refloating you have to bilge out the water or what happens? >> at some point you have to either lift it or make it float. and i see that they're bringing heavy-lift cranes into position. they play have enough capacity to lift it eventually. right now i think what they're properly most concerned about is stabilizing it in place. keep it from moving any further. and then, they'll have to do an assessment to determine what the best method is to get it back up. >> very difficult work ahead. dr. richard burke, state university of new york maritime college, we appreciate you being here. after the break on "america tonight." a scientific break through. cloning humans. this time, it's real. but already, raising new alarm about whether it's right. and later, on everest. >> the biggest tragedy of this is it's the very beginning of the season. and to lose this number of people, at the very beginning of

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now these embryos were used to make stem cells from which scientists could grow any kind of tissue or organs. yet those could grow into humans. the massachusetts scientists have made it clear they don't intend to do that. nearly half have banned all forms of human cloning. the ethics about cloning humans, dr. marci darnofsky joins us. what is the concern here doctor, we're not trying to clone human beings but what are we worried about? >> well, i think the concern is that this area of research has been going on now since dolly the sheep as you said which was announced in 1997. and when that announcement was made president clinton felt it was so urgent that we set policy about human reproductive cloning, that is creating cloned human beings, that he asked his

bioethics commission to give him a report in 90 days. they did. they said human reprotective cloning was a bad idea. congress tried to pass laws to prohibit that use of technology and yet were unsuccessful. it didn't happen. >> so right now there is no federal overriding policy that says you can't create humans even though it's sort of left to the individual teams to say look, we're not trying to do that. >> well, that's right. and unlike the united states, more than 60 countries around the world have managed to put laws on their bucks sake that this particular -- books saying that this particular application is against the law, it's prohibited. we really need the united states to step up and take that action. president obama in 2009 when he lifted stem cell research, said that human reprotective cloning was not only

dangerous but profoundly wrong. we'll have to have the united states to join the dozens of other countries who have done this. >> usually, how we do that is by money, the federal government is behind much of the research that goes on. isn't it the way to control scientists or rogue scientists developing and trying to clone humans? >> well, unfortunately it is not adequate. this research for example was conducted with private funding and what we've seen over the past, what, 17 years, is that there unfortunately are some probably headline seeking scientists and fertility doctors who would like to try to clone a human being. so even though in every opinion poll you take you get numbers in the 90% or higher of people who say they don't want human cloning, and most reputable scientists will say or when pushed will say they don't want

to clone human beings. >> the risk is out there. >> they don't but we actually that. >> thank you for being with us. marci darnofsky, center for science and technology. gm has been taking heavy fire or the slow recall of cars with potentially faulty ignition switches. a car with a potentially fatal flaw, until lawsuits force its hand, if it sounds familiar it may be because of the man who launched the very first big campaign to give drivers more safety and strength behind the wheel . >> the corvair delivers the goods like no other compact car can. >> the chevy corvair, the heavy car in the 1960s. but gm's vehicle ran smashing into controversy.

as a yng consumer advocate ralph nader tracks in his 1965 book, "unsafe at any speed." a later study disputed nader's conclusions but today nearly 50 years after the publication of his first book, nader says. >> their fit and finish is better and millions of lives and injuries have been spared as a result. >> now nader is watching another generation of gm leaders face another round of tough questions over a design flaw and a delayed recall. >> i cannot tell you why it took years for a safety defect to be announced in that program. >> now, at 80, nader seems less the flame thrower and more likely to seek out the silver lining.

>> you must be awfully disappointed to go 50 years later and be back at the same company and back at the same issues of safety and safety questions being hidden. >> disappointed but i expected it. regulatory laws for health and safety always have to be renovated, improved, adequately budgeted, corporations always have to be watchdogged. every once in a while a tragedy can lead to stronger laws, passing through congress, better budgets for enforcement, more lifesaving standards. i think that's what we're dpog get out -- going to get out of this gm tragedy but gm has got to pay adequate compensation for fatalities and the injuries before and after the bankruptcy. its whole global image is in peril. >> his new book, he's written or co-awe o

co-authored several, nader emphasize is collaboration and what he sees as real opportunity. >> it's really simple. if we want to get something done in this country we got to bring left-right together on areas they already agree on. for example to revise the patriot act and civil liberties dom get rid of corporate welfare and david murphy bloated military budget and revising the trade agreements. >> do you think there are areas of real agreement left and right you have opposite mist on that? >> already. in 1983, we stopped the breeder reactor in tennessee, that the atomic energy commission was sponsoring. it was considered unbeatable. and once we got left right together in congress we won. >> do you think the american public though shares your optimism? on many things americans feel we are powerless.

how do you go about empowering people to stand up to corporations, to governments? how do you do that? >> down the abstraction ladder to where people live and work. on main street and elm street u.s.a, they may call themselves republicans and democrats, but they want good schools, clean air, fair wages, they want to have their social security preserved, full medicare for all. look at the polls. the polls have huge consensus behind major redirection in this country. once you go up and you end up in congress and the state legislature and money and campaigns flow that's when you get gridlock. >> nader don't forget has some experience with the national political machine. he's run for president five times. >> it's time to go beyond that. roll up our sleeves and mobilize a movement that tells them what to do! >> most recently in 2008.

>> you have spent your life watchdogging, writing, talking to people. and running for office. >> yes. >> on many occasions trying obring these issues to light. what's next for ralph nader? >> it's in that book unstoppable. i want to bring left-right together on the areas they already agree on but they haven't moved it into action. that means people in congress. that means people throughout the country. because my message sometimes startles people and here it is: abased on american history and the progress we've made it's a lot easier than we think. that our biggest opponent is our sense of powerlessness. >> so in that sense of empowerment do you want to run again? >> dialing for same commercial campaign dollars, it secludes other opponents from the debates. >> on both sides? >> it harasses third party

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helping you balance your finances and your life. now an hour, starting at 7 eastern / 4 pacific only on al jazeera america >> in washington, it's the time of year for swarms of visitors to tour the facing's capitol and this week was also moving day for a new very big resident. the new arrival at the smithsonian museum of history is an old one, 66 million years old, dubbed the nation's t rex, one of the most complete fossils found. the t rex got a lift via fedex, a 2,000 mile trip that was much easier journey than one of another tyrannosaur whose search for home was a lot more

complicated. the great gobi desert in southern mongolia covers half a million square miles and is home to countless long extinct life forms. one of those turned up for sale in new york city. >> i got an e-mail on a friday night about 6:30 in houston, basically said there's a dinosaur that's been stolen from the gobi desert. it's going to be auctioned sunday at 2:00 in new york. is there anything you can do legally to stop it? >> at stake the impending and illegal auction of one tarbosaurus betar, a smaller cousin of tyrannosaurus rex. a slightly smaller cousin . >> little bumps on bones or the

way teet are shaped or the architecture of the skull. these all tell us this is a betar. >> all the travel he ended up, the batar, he went from there to here? >> to gland to florida to texas to newark. >> that is one well traveled dinosaur. >> when the auction announced the sale of the batar, the auction company had discretion. >> we think this could be ours, could you show us the provenance? heritage auctions said buzz off, no. it was very fortunate that the auction house that was selling the dinosaur was texas-based because i'm licensed in texas and as it turns out there are things i can do.

>> it was the first of many coincidences which would play a role in the saga of batar. serendipity, loose lips and a lot of dumb luck. >> tell us who you are and what your role is. mongolia. >> that is president elbidorge to you. >> can you tell me why the dinosaur is important for mongolia? >> because that is our national treasure. i think dinosaur that is part of our heritage. >> to rescue this layer taj, painter had to -- heritage painter had to act fast. >> we have tools in our tool belt but a really tough thing odo on a friday night is to find a judge that will hear the temporary restraining order application. >> a colleague of painter's found one in dallas.

in the middle of the music festival at 10:00 flit. >> i get a phone call from an attorney that doesn't ever call me. he says here's the deal, i have a friend of mine who is went to law school with me, he is the private attorney of the president of a mongolia. they are going to file a motion for the prevention of a sale of a tyrannosaurus batar. i immediately hung up. >> once it's done that meant the imminent and irreparable harm. you can't go down to your walmart and get another one and replace it. >> i heard bit when i got the auction catalog. >> what did you think? >> i said look, this is here in new york, i can't believe these guys are doing this. >> i thought the most prudent thing was to go to new york.

>> you went into the auction house? >> there were like 300 items in the auction and the marquee item was the tyrannosaurus. 28 feet long, 12 feet tall he's there, he or she in the auction room. >> the auction didn't go well. >> we're walking around, overheard an official of heritage auctions talking rather loudly, saying we're not going to follow the order. they tell someone on the phone with whom we now know was the buyer. we're going to go ahead and do it but subject to the court's ruling we're going to do the auction. >> the sale of the next -- >> so we hauled called the judge on his cell phone, you need to tell them -- >> i told mr. painter to remind them this was an order not a suggestion.

>> you are the guy at the wedding who said, stop. >> that's right. >> you are a big guy. >> that's true. i dial my phone, a blackberry, a dinosaur of itself. >> the judge -- >> signed the restraining order that you're about to violate and he wants to explain why. >> okay. well you need to walk out -- >> the puzzled auctioneer says it's finished and the guy on the phone bought it. >> for how much? >> $875,000, that is -- >> so what is this 70 million year old mongolian fossil creating this big fuss? batar and his cousin t rex were the most fearsome dinosaurs that

roamed the earth. >> batar is the asian representation of this. >> do we know why they have such little arms? >> no, there is enormous speculation. >> they have these large legs but tiny little arms. >> they couldn't touch themselves. they couldn't go like this. >> but they could have eaten all the other little dinosaurs around them. and probably did. >> probably did. >> plon goaplon goal mongolia last become credit engaged in this looting of their land. we started to see illegal excavations there but it's only recently that mongolian government has recognized it as a real problem and engaged to stop it. >> if it's something in your borders the cub condition last the right to make those laws and to have those laws followed and

ripped respected. >> if you take the element of the dinosaur away from it, what is troubling to me, is the fact we could smuggle a 28 by eight foot are anything. >> the auction purchaser withdrew, with the dinosaur moved to an undisclosed location in queens, teams from united states, canada and a delegation in from mongolia identified him or her as 100% mongolian and then another lucky break. >> the mongolian delegation went back to their hotel in queens and an official from the mon goa mongolian ministry of culture, this guy from mongolia takes a picture with his iphone and

e-mails it to me, says i think this is the smuggler. they take this photo and i sent it to mongolia and the police take it out in the. >> greg: obi desert door to door and they find someone who says yes, that's mr. eric. >> this guy? >> this guy is mr. eric and they go to the computer and find photos of this guy in the gobi desert in mongolia with a hammer and sickle dicking in the dirt looking for dinosaurs. >> meantime the dinosaur was placed under arrest. >> it's an old legal concept, you you actually are trying to sue to return an asset, a piece of property. you put it in the name of the property. it's called united states of america versus one tyrannosaurus batar. it is a place where the -- a case where the government sued a dinosaur.

that's a first in my experience. >> from that point we were able to secure the civil complaint, able to secure a warrant, the dinosaur. would we be able to seize it? in december 2012 we had it in our possession. >> also in their possession a search warrant. the [ ayes ] immigration and customs enforcement went straight to the place of mr. eric, eric procapi. >> even better than that were the items we were looking for or at least part of the items we were looking for were actually getting delivered on the day we were there. >> talking about weird coincidences. of all the times the delivery truck were to show up, when the agents were there looking for dinosaurs, here is another one. >> what we were able to did is say thank you to the delivery driver, take the boxes, that

helped us greatly. >> eric prokapi pled guilty to why conspiracy and smuggling. sentencing. the temp judge has been formally recognized by the government of mongolia for his service. [applause] >> around so after less than a year in new york, tyrannosaurus batar was flown back to mongolia, first class. and today, batar is traveling again. but this time to temporary museums inside mongolia. >> so there was a rush that the people were so amazed that -- at the success, they love the dinosaur.

their her hero, their batar. >> the government is rebuilding the lenin museum to house their newest hero, the batar. the last one could have been genghis khan. >> that is a very good lesson to other people in mongolia, to young generations. you have to fight for had in mongolia, have something valuable. >> truly a fitting end. and by the way: the translation for the monday goa plo the mongolian word batar: it's hero. >> fellow

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only the priest's collar gives him away. father cesar and the sinners, uses music to preach music love and the word of god. whether he's rehearsing with his band or hosting his nightly radio program, this 50-year-old catholic priest has become the modern faith of an old clump church thank you to the pope. >> he never gave me a parish. he let me study record and play in public. he always said he believed in exploiting people's different talents. >> on his radio show called calm down, father cesar intertwines can music and life. >> during the

dictatorship in argentina, rock media denounced what the mainstream media did not. it awakens people. >> father cesar and the sinners have already recorded two albums with controversial songs abandoned love, dedicated to pursuits and to prostitutes. >> the motorcycle and the cathedral, this cathedral, the former arch bobby. arch bishop. >> influencely recorded song . it speaks of bringing a motorcycle into the cathedral. a metaphor for the pope's belief

in opening the church's doors to all people of goodwill. and to spread that message, he's recruited men like father cesar. a new breed of disciples. >> that's it for us here on "america tonight." remember if you would like to comment, log on to aljazeera.com/americatonight or you can join the conversation on twitter or on our facebook page. good night. >> results of analyses were skewed in favor of the prosecution >> the fbi can't force the states to look at those cases >> the truth will set you free yeah...don't kid yourself >> the system has failed me

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