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their attitudes towards people who have a disability. >> reporter: their story has touched so many. boston marathon officials dedicated a statue in their honor. >> you know, 52 years ago when rick was born, they said put him away. unbelievable. you know? who ever would have thought? i think it's helped us to bond ourselves together. we are not heroes. a lot of people say you are heroes. we are not heroes. heroes are people that go out and risk their life to save someone's life. >> reporter: both of you are heroes. you changed a lot of lives. >> thank you. >> reporter: we'll keep watching you every step of the way. jason carroll, cnn, boston. >> so many of us learned about the hoyt's story and the journey for those of us outside of boston in the ironman in hawaii and they have kept going strong all this time. we'll be rooting for them
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tomorrow, as well, in the boston marathon. this does it for me. the next hour begins now with jim in new york. you are in the cnn newsroom. i'm jim in for don today. a happy easter to you. it is dawn in south korea. monday morning there where millions of people are desperately clinging to the slim chance that by some miracle someone is still alive in that sunken ferry. realistic hope, however, is clearly fading. five agonizing days have passed since the ship tipped over and sank with hundreds of people on board. most of the passengers teenagers on a high school trip. the new figure today -- 59 people have now been found by rescue divers, none of them
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alive. 243 are still inside that ferry. i'm about to play for you the frantic audio conversation between the crew of the ship and both traffic controllers on shore. this is what was happening when the ferry started listing to the side and someone had to make the call abandon ship. have a listen. you can sense the panic there. people who survived the sinking say by that point the ferry tipped so sharply the lifeboats
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were useless. controllers were urging the ship's captain to order everyone off the ship. of course, part of the tragedy is that that message to abandon ship never got to the bulk of the passengers. searchers have not found any survivors since wednesday. and as will riply shows us, crews face big charges of their own in the search.
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>> reporter: another day of searching. another day of grim discoveries. body after body from the sunken "sewol" ferry. we watched as several bodies were pulled out of the water. the dive teams going out in groups and teams and they enter in the ferry using five different entry points. hundreds of divers, ships and dozens of aircraft are searching. we know the divers face very grueling conditions right now. the underwater currents are very strong and they're constantly shifting and visibility is really limited partially because there's a big oil slick coming up from the ferry and equipment here that will be used far salvage operation and a very large crane that could help pull the boat out of the water but that crane, that equipment is not used right now and only the divers. because these families do not want anything done to disturb the ship and potentially disturb an air pocket if there's a slim
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chance that somebody may still be alive under there. but sadly, as we see each new body found, it appears that this search mission is turning more into a recovery mission but still they're holding out hope. will ripley, cnn, jindo island, korea. >> each time searchers bring a body of a ferry victim on board as you saw in that picture just there, families must identify their loved ones and with many of the dead high school children, the effort is taking the toll on everyone, even veteran emergency workers. clearly, the biggest heartbreak for the families, the parents there, we have seen the anguish and for the veteran rescuers they must not have ever had a rescue mission like this before. >> reporter: no one, especially when you consider who we're talking about, because these are high school sophomores. and there is clearly the sense of hope almost disappearing. jims in the last few days we
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have been talking, we have always pointed out that there are families here at this dock waiting holding vigil looking out at sea. today there are very few families left. what we have seen instead, heading to the tents to identify their own children. the death toll so far, 59 and something that we have seen over and over again now. the bodies returning in white body bags, the families going to the tents to identify the children. it is a small dock here and you can hear their piercing pain as they positively identify their children and it's something that is as you point out affecting all of the search crews. you see the medical examiner breaking down and crying, auflt police officers are weeping and sobbing as the bodies go by. it is an extraordinary scene and impacting everybody. >> the painful for everyone. but what changed today? we talked yesterday about the danger of divers to go inside that ship to pull bodies out and seems that the pace picked up
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now in terms of bringing bodies ashore. what changed? >> reporter: what did change is that they were able to figure out how to penetrate the ship's hull. there was a lot of concern that if you did penetrate the hull you would basically suck out the air. any air that might be inside. it appears that they're not that concerned about that anymore. that they're breaking through the glass. they have several entryways into the ship's hull now. there are a total of five that we last heard that they can get in, look at each cabin and pull anybody out. and so, that's really the big difference is that they now have an organized path, several of them into the ship. >> yeah. sadly, they come back with sad news. thanks very much to kyung lah live in jindo, south korea. and now to the hunt for malaysia flight 370. families are furious after today's special briefing with a brand new committee that was
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designed to help them. family members say the meeting in kuala lumpur was totally useless in their words. quote, not a single one of our questions was answered. no experts capable of answering technical questions were even present. may la that's foreign deputy minister made this statement. >> they say we're hiding something. which, i mean, that's the facts of the matter we have given from day one and today. it's still the same. >> the plane disappeared 45 days ago and right now the bluefin underwater drone is on the eighth mission scouring the ocean floor for clues in that search area. it finished scouring about half of it. the next air search is set to begin in about 90 minutes as the sun rises in perth, australia. a boxer whose career was cut
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short after being wrongly convicted of murder died. we will have a look back at his remarkable life right after this break.
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boxing hurricane has died. reuben carter was 76 years old and many people saw the fight in the ring but even more learned about his story in the 1999 movie "the hurricane" with denzel washington. bob dylan wrote the song about carter wrongly convicted of a triple murder in the 1960s. a spokesperson said he died from complicated of prostate cancer. vick valencia joins us with more about the boxer's life. a movie about that story and inspiring, as well. so a real loss today. >> he was a very inspiring man, jim. you dwot thgot that right. he said his greatest life accomplishment is resisting bitterness. his friends and family say that
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was a sentiment he held on to until the very end. >> i did go to jail. my career was stopped. i didn't get out until 20 years later. those are facts. >> reporter: he grew to prominence as a boxer and died feiging for those who couldn't fight for himself. he died of complications of prostate cancer. >> we realize that the privatizations of prisons turned the prisons and capital punishment turned them into assembly lines of death. >> reporter: in the wrongly convicted of a triple murder in new jersey and spent 19 years behind bars. a judge ruled carter and a co-defendant didn't receive a fair trial and in 1985 the convictions were overturned. over three decades, he used the media as a boxing ring and carter was the first executive director of the association of the wrongly convicted. here he is in 2004 on cnn
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lobbying for a clemency. >> do you say that with 100% certainty that mr. cooper murdered these people? >> i can say with 100% certainty that there's volumes of evidence that has not been put before a jury. >> reporter: as passionate a fighter in the ring as outside of it, carter was portrayed in the 1999 film "hurricane" starring denzel washington. more than 20 years earlier, carter's legacy was immortalized in a sorry by bob dylan. the folk song was an anthem for the racial injustice. carter never got a world title as a boxer but to the supporters he didn't need a belt to call him a champion. he was 76. >> speaking of denzel washington, we heard from him. he released a statement to cnn saying, quote, god bless rubin carter and his fight to ensure justice for all. so many fans and those that
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followed his legacy. he will be very much so missed, jim. >> great story of turning a life around. a great story in atlanta. so-called easter truce in ukraine, shattered by gun fire. what does it mean for the peace option there? we'll explore right after this break. sked people a simple question: in retirement, will you outlive your money? uhhh. no, that can't happen. that's the thing, you don't know how long it has to last. everyone has retirement questions. so ameriprise created the exclusive.. confident retirement approach. now you and your ameripise advisor can get the real answers you need. well, knowing gives you confidence. start building your confident retirement today. mom has a headache! had a headache! but now, i& don't. excedrin is fast.
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important update from overseas. a second deadly air strike targeting akd hit yemen today. suspected drone strike killed at least a dozen people including a number of suspected al qaeda militants in a southwestern province there according to a yemeni government official. yesterday, another strike in a neighboring province killed ten suspected al qaeda members. a saturday strike targeted three well-known operatives. three civilians were also killed in that attack. and now to ukraine where it was hoped to be a quiet easter sunday is marked by deadly violence. a gun fight on a country road in eastern ukraine left several people dead. pro-russian groups say one of the roadblocks under attack early this morning and the government in kiev said two
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groups fought and the incident is still under investigation. russia seized on the clash as proof that ukraine cannot keep the peace there. two burned out cars were still at the scene this afternoon. one of them riddled with bullet holes. second deadly incident in the last four days in eastern ukraine. and i want to bring in eugene rumor in washington, director of carnegie's russia program. eugene, some sobering developments over the last 24, 48 hours. this clash, a deadly clash yesterday and the day before. clear signs that the pro-russian militants that occupied the buildings and supposed to vacate them under this peace agreement agreed to on thursday refusing to do that, perhaps consolidating the gains. what does this tell us about a diplomatic way out of the crisis there? >> well, if the diplomatic deal facing a struggle to begin with, with the geneva cords, i think the odds of it being implemented
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are worse now because it doesn't seem to be anyone in a position to implement the deal. the government of ukraine does not seem to control the situation. certainly we don't want the russians to control the situation there either and the united states and nato are not in a position to do that so you have something like a vacuum of power in the part of the country and the militants as you said consolidating the position. why would they stop now? >> russia, the big player in terms of influence there. i want to bray you a comment earlier today from the ukraine's prime minister he was on nbc's "meet the press" speaking about what he believes the intentions are of the u.s. have a listen to this. >> great. >> actually -- >> i can't hear it. >> we may not have that sound but i can paraphrase. his comments were, the ukrainian prime minister, he said that russia is deciding to restore the soviet union. this is something that i have heard other analysts say. do you think that that's true,
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they're trying to claw back some of this territory from former soviet states in a modern russia? is that their intention? they did it in crimea. might they have the same intention in yeern ukraine? >> i don't know if they want to recreate the soviet union. they want a sphere of influence. they want to have ukraine in their orbit as a satellite, probably restoring ukraine to russia as was the case of soviet union is too much of a burden for russia to carry and i suspect they don't want the financial responsibility of rebuilding ukraine. but having ukraine in the orbit as a satellite is a country that looks over its shoulder before it makes major foreign or domestic policy decisions is part of the goal. >> interesting. disrupt it just enough to have the influence there. i want to ask you about the u.s. reaction. "the new york times" story today talking about the obama administration's intention in effect a new containment for
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russia making russia a pariah state and the obama administration given up on making russia a partner and moving forward with the intention of containing it. do you think that's the right way forward? >> well, i think it is really perhaps the only way forward for us to proceed at this point because the breakdown in the relationship has gone so far that some aspects of it resemble the cold war. whether it's really containment ala the way it was conceived of early on after world war ii i'm not sure. but clearly, you know, the relationship is on a downward slope and we'll see further deterioration in probably days and weeks to come and beyond and something here for a long time with us. >> it's a shame to hear all the efforts over the last two decades after the fall of the wall to bring russia into the international community. you mentioned earlier that one of the challenges in bringing a
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peaceful solution to the crisis there right now is who's going to implement it. there are osce monitors on the ground, the organization for security and cooperation in europe trying to get in for sometime and of course not armed but monitors. is that a possible path to monitoring a peaceful diplomatic solution to this problem? >> it's a welcome step and a much-needed step. they're unarmed and you need somebody to enforce the truce. and so far it doesn't seem like anybody's willing or able to do that. >> well, that's a thing. you did have some officials calling for peacekeepers and i suppose it's hard to see that prospect of u.s. or european forces. thanks to you from washington. it's been a little more than a year since the boston marathon bombing. this year's race is tomorrow with bigger crowds than ever before and more security, as well. we'll take you live to boston
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welcome back. i'm jim sciutto in new york. rescue divers will try to reach the interior of the sunken ferry again. five days since the vessel went down. the fate of 243 people is still unknown but rescuers have found only bodies so far. 59 of them. relatives of the missing people are providing dna samples to help emergency crews identify the remains of victims eventually brought out of the ferry and today we heard recordings of radio chatter of water traffic controllers and the ferry quickly sinking. have a listen.
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you can really hear the panic there. i want to bring in jim staples, a 20-year captain in the merchant marines and personally sailed giant ships there. captain staples, a number of questions listening to the recording because this recording, this warning from ship to shore went out very soon after it took that turn and began listing. it took this ferry two and a half hours to sink so that there was ample time there had the captain ordered the ship evacuated to get the bulk, perhaps many or most of the people on board off. you're an expert. how much of a failure was that? do you think had the captain
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immediately said abandon ship that many more lives would have been saved? >> thank you, jim. this was probably a failure of the grandest type. the captain's delay caused -- will eventually cost the loss of the lives of the children. this is an incident because of his decision and not making a quick decision to get the people off the ship we see such situations happen. and again, as we saw with the italian coast guard telling the captain to get back on the ship and to evacuate and help evacuate the passengers, we see the same thing with the captain leaving the vessel and the passengers stranded. one of the things that we're trying to do in mandating and training with the maritime institute in baltimore is to set the course, to set a new type of training out there with simulation training such as the airline industries do. pilots go through simulation training and go through stressful events. we're trying to do it in the
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maritime industry and not regulated or man kated and only volunteer that they use a simulator and trying to set the course to set the new type of training and where a captain will have gone through an event like this and either an emergency type drill, a navigational skills type drill or any other type of evacuation that may need to be done so when the time comes that something like this has happened he'll already been in a high-stress situation and amazing some of the results we are starting to see. >> it's a great idea because you do think of how often pilots go through that kind of thing but i wonder is there any reason why a captain would tell the passengers to stay on board and wait for rescue? does that follow any regulation, any standard operating procedure whatsoever or was that just a bad call, a fatal call from the very beginning? >> well, i believe it just comes down to indecision. the man could not make a decision at the time because
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probably the high stress he was under. his reasoning was probable, yes, the water was very, very cold and the current was very swift and the probability of people being carried away could have happened but not to put the life rafts in the water is a grave mistake. that's the first thing he should have done and then would have had more time to get people evacuated and gotten them to those life rafts and we would have seen a lot more survivors than what we're seeing now. >> if only he had made that decision quickly as you say. thanks very much, captain jim staples. we'll bring you back in the next hour to talk more about the tragedy and what can be learned from it. after tragedy struck one of the most famous marathons in the world, world watched wondering if boston could ever recover and boy did it ever. boston has proven it is strong and this year's race promises to be proven than ever. brooke baldwin joins me now live from boston and you were there for days and weeks after the
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event and went back and talked to survivors. now a year later, tell us what the energy is like and the kind of commitment for boston to remain strong and come back. how does it feel to be there today? >> it feels wonderful. i am honored to be back in boston. i have lost count of how many trips i have been up there and i love coming every time. can you see the beautiful blue sky over me? i'm at beautiful boston common and people are out and about. i took a little i don't go this morning. it is the closest i'll get to a marathon. tomorrow's the big play. race at 10:00 empty morning in hopk hopkinton and ends where the finish line is. i was at the finish line earlier today and boylston street. this is when you know and you feel the excitement and energy in the air, people are walking around, the 36,000 by the way runners who will be running tomorrow morning. they're out and about here in boston, proudly wearing their
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boston marathon jackets. 36,000, 9,000 more than last year. that includes many of them who either did not finish last year, many of them who were injured because of those bombings and that includes one man i met earlier today who actually ran boston, the first marathon last year, running it for friend brad with leukemia and he made the commitment at mile 17 to do it again and then he was crossing the finish line barely remembers it because he was there when the blast went off. here he is. >> all of a sudden everything changed. it was this huge flash, incredibly loud noise. you know? i felt my foot get knocked sideways. i was pushed sideways. and it felt like i had been hit by a truck. and as i turned, i turned to my
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right and i look back to where i had just seen a whole lot of people standing there cheering and it was just complete devastation. >> brooke, it was amazing how sporting events can be therapeutic after big challen challenge challengedies. new york with the marathon after 9/11. new orleans saints after katrina. i remember as a new yorker and ran in the 2001 marathon here after 9/11 i just remember -- >> good for you. >> how important it was and of course in this case, it was a sporting event that was struck and particularly important for boston today to get all those runners out there again. >> reporter: yeah. i think, you know, let's mention the team here in boston. boston red sox, right? remember their story from worst to first and then in the season after the bombings, david ortiz saying this is our bleeping city and a big rallying cry and hung that, you know, jersey 617 in the dugout and there's a pregame
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ceremony and david who you just saw and a number of other who is survived the blast honored tonight far hour that pregame ceremony before the big game at 7:00. so go sox from a lot of people here in boston and incredible, incredible stories. boston strong. 1 million spectators are expected along the city streets tomorrow morning. >> incredible. we'll have you back in the next hour and i just want to remind the audience not to miss cnn's coverage of the race. brooke is there live at the starting line bright and early tomorrow morning and maybe run the race for us. as we speak, the bluefine 21 is scouring the indian ocean for any sign of malaysia flight 370. can it dive deep enough or send back pictures clear enough to get a better look? we'll explore next. ♪ like, really big... then expanded? ♪ or their new product tanked? ♪
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time for this week's "human factor." here's our dr. sanjay gupta. >> super bowl champion aaron taylor's job was to be big and strong and defend. fifrs at notre dame, two-time all-american and then for the green bay packers and san diego chargers. >> i was waking up more tired than i thought i should have been. i felt like i was hongover.
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i was irritability. >> reporter: while he had a family history of sleep apnea, a potentially life threatening condition, taylor never thought it would be something he'd have to deal with himself. >> bigger guys with bigger necks like myself where r the demographic and not solely a big person's disease state and 20 times per hour for 20 seconds per time i wasn't breathing. >> reporter: once diagnosed with sleep apnea, he made working out and eating healthy a priority. taylor started to using a breathing device to help him overcome it. he says it took a while to get used to did device business it was worth it. >> it pressurizes the room air and that basically keeps my throat open to breathe throughout the night. >> reporter: he's found success again in football as a college sports analyst on the road calling games around the country. >> there's a lot required
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physically to be able to do my job and from a mental capacity. if i'm undernourished or underrested from a sleep standpoint, i can't do my job. i have seen the difference that it's been able to make and drastic. >> reporter: dr. sanjay gupta, cnn reporting.
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right now the bluefin underwater drone is scouring the ocean floor for sign of malaysia 370. so far, the bluefine has not found a shred of evidence of flight 370. with us is rosa flores. you look at the tool s. this the right, best tool for the job? in what is an extremely challenging job. >> that question has been asked before. i went to the u.s. navy and asked, why the bluefine-21. they said, when searchers asked the u.s. government for help,
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they looked at the fleet and this is the one deep water that was available and sent out the bluefin-21. we pent on a search for an auv to go deeper than the bluefin-21 and here it is. this world war ii 2 era plane crashed off the coast of massachusetts in 1947. for more than 50 years, it remained lost on the bottom of the ocean. over a decade ago, an auv, aon the mouse underwater vehicle discovered the missing plane. >> coming up. having the right tool is always the best case that you're looking for. >> reporter: high droid make it is remus family of auv. this is a larger auv and found air france flight 447 in 2011. mike mall radiony was on that
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mission. >> at the end of the day we knew what we were doing is to try to help people answer questions about that flight. >> reporter: if the bluefin-21 currently being used in the search for malaysia flight 370 can't find the missing jet searchers could call upon the remus 6000 and navigate in waters almost 5,000 feet deeper than the bluefin-21. >> basically operated in most of the world's oceans. >> reporter: when searchers asked if u.s. government for an auv, the navy says, the bluefin-21 was the only deep water vehicle it had available. after the remus auvs, mapping the ocean floor, they usually come back with when's called low frequency images. these are pictures it took of the submerged plane in massachusetts. >> and this shows up as different from the surrounding area indicating that there's something on the bottom to go
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look at. >> reporter: but take a look at these images taken at a higher frequency you can clearly see the body of the plane, the two wings. >> sb -- >> reporter: here's what it looked like in the glory days. these auvs have still camera and video capabilities. giving investigators perspective and a better picture of the bottom of the ocean. >> so one thing i've been wondering what do the pictures look like that the bluefin sends back? because they're not perfect photographs and i know you brought some of the early scans. >> yes. this is a perfect example. this is a low res picture. why low res? you're able to scan a larger area. the goal to get as much area scanned as possible. you look at that and say, okay, there's something there. >> could be anything. >> anything.
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but to the trained eye, they would look at all of the area around it and mainly sand so that would be something that stands out. so now let's show the high res picture. there you have it. >> clearly an airplane. >> see the fuselage, the wings. so i asked the scientists, i said, what are you looking for? they said, right ankles. mother nature has curves. the way they put it. you see rocks and rounded. and if you look for right angles, they said man makes right angles. mother nature does not. >> a trained eye. you cleared up a point, start low res for a bigger area. if you see something, you go to res. >> send it back again, correct, correct. >> thank you as always underwater for the difficult search. coming up, the family of passengers aboard malaysia 370 demanding answers and details on the search.
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we want to bring you all the latest developments on the hunt for malaysia flight 370. right now the bluefin underwater drone is on its eight scanning mission. it will finish the whole job within a week. the plane disappeared, you'll
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remember, 45 days ago now. heartbroken relatives of flight 370 passengers are furious after a special briefing with a brand new malaysian committee designed to help them. the families say, however, that none of their questions were answered. so with me now to discuss all the latest, we have analyst michael kay who is with me here in new york, former british air force mary schiavo and ocean search specialist mike williamson. i want to start with you, going to just what was a disastrous meeting between the families of victims on board that plane and malaysian authorities today. they say there's been no mention of an interim payment to them. it's been more than six weeks, 45 days now. in airline scenarios, accident scenarios you've dealt with before, is it unusual to have that much of time, that long of a wait? >> yes, it is unusual. this was certainly an unusual accident. in the united states and other
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western countries usually what happens is the airline makes an initial payment no strings attached for $25,000. that will help the families get through the times. if they issue death certificates they could make claims and go forward with some type of negotiation on how they want to resolve it. but that initial 25,000 is very, very helpful just to get them through all the crisis and the travel and the things they have to do. >> just imagine an acknowledgment of the accident as well there. and that's one thing families appear to be looking for. michael, another complaint from the families is that there has been no independent review of all the data involved, the radar, the air traffic control tapes, engine ping data that we've been discussing a lot. do they have a fair argument that this should be released more publicly so others can take a look at it? >> a take more of a traditional view on this, jim, in terms of making sure that we and the experts have the right
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conclusions to the data that they're analyzing at the moment. i don't think we're quite there yet. i still think even the experts, because of the the nature of this mystery, because this is unprecedented in avs history, they'll be reticent to release this information because we're all still trying to figure this out. we're 45 days plus on this and we're still no closer to identifying where the wreckage is. it's a big mystery. experts would be nervous in releasing that information when they are using the inmarsat analysts to try to corroborate where this area is. there's still conclusions about the radar tracks, all this information out there, it still needs corroborating. it still doesn't add up. if i was an expert in charge and an representative of the ntsb, i want to firm up this. >> a lot more noise to have more
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analysts out there piping in. mike williamson, great to have you on board as an ocean search specialist. the bluefin now halfway done with this search area as australian and other officials have said they're very confident is the right place but they haven't found anything yet. they're talking about rebooting the search, should we be concerned at this point based on fact that they haven't seen anything, that they may be looking in the wrong place? >> on the air france, the debris field was only about one mile in diameter. so it could be a fairly small debris field. and until the area's completely searched, i don't think we should be giving up hope, but they obviously have to be looking forward to the next step if it doesn't find it. >> that's right. still a lot of square miles for them to search. hundreds, in fact. thanks very much to mary, mike and michael.
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on my mobile phone. anyone need a coupon? i don't. anthony bourdain rolls the dice and heads to las vegas. from the opulent hotels and casinos to the old haunts, he has nothing but love for sin city. >> in las vegas, no matter what you feel about it, like casinos, these massive pleasure domes, what's the most overused word in the english language? i believe it's awesome. they are, in fact, awe-inspiring. i mean, they're enormous.
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how do they work? how do they grind in all of these people in and out, relieving them so happily of their money? instinctively it would be so easy to sneer at all this, to find it obscene and horrifying. even if you can pretend successfully to hate this, and frankly that's a very difficult thing to do, off the strip old school vegas, who could hate that? now, where's my damn toga? >> that new episode airs tonight at 9:00 eastern right here on cnn. ♪ you are in the cnn newsroom. i'm jim sciutto in again today for don lemon. thanks for joining us and a very happy easter. it is just after dawn in south
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korea where they're desperately clinging to the slim chance that someone is still alive on that sunken ferry. realistic hope, however, is clearly fading. five agonizing days have passed since the ship tipped over and sank with hundreds on board. most of the passengers teenagers on a high school trip. the new figure today 59 people have now been found by rescue diver, none of them alive. 243 people are still inside that ferry. and i'm about to play for you the frantic audio conversation between the crew of the ship and boat traffic controllers on shore just as tragedy struck. this is what was happening when the ferry started listing and someone had to make the call to abandon ship.