the search for survivors off the coast of italy. as the investigation focuses on the actions of the ship's captain. bowing out, jon huntsman is throwing in the towel and throwing his support to mitt romney. and one giant leap. the new york giants send green and one giant leap. the new york giants send green bay packing and move closer to captioning funded by cbs this is the "cbs morning news" for monday, january 16, 2012. good morning everyone. i'm terrell brown.

rescue crews continue to search for survivors on a ship. the costa concordia ran aground friday. the conduct of the ship's captain is being questioned and is the focus of the investigation. 4200 people were on board. we now know this morning a sixth person was found dead. 16 others are still missing. including two americans. gerald and barbara hile of minnesota. their daughter says they had been looking forward to their vacation. >> my parents have always wanted to travel. and they sent them all to kids- private school throughout elementary to college. they never had any money. so they wanted to, when they retired, they went traveling and this was going to be a big deal. it was going to be a 16-day trip. so they were really excited about it. >> the captain is being held on suspicion of manslaughter. passengers said he abandoned ship before everyone else was evacuated.

anna ma trang a has more. >> rescue teams used a helicopter to lift out a third survivor from a damaged luxury cruise liner along the coast of italy. he was a crew member on the costa concordia who screamed for help while emergency workers checked the ship for survivors on sunday. divers found the bodies of two elderly men with their life vests still on. the cruise liner started to tip over on friday after it hit a rock causing a 160-foot hole in the hull. owners of the ship said in a statement on sunday, it appears the captain, francesco schettino made several mistakes. the captain denies he did anything wrong, saying. >> translator: the rocks were not marked on his map and the ship shouldn't have hit anything. >> there are questions about the evacuation process also. survivors say the rush to get on

lifeboats friday night was chaotic. >> people were getting on them. people were screaming, yelling, pushing. >> it's the nerve center of the rescue operations which continued night and day under dangerous conditions much that's because the ship could sink even laura and become splecomplete i submerged. >> the firefighters are preparing to board the ship. >> we'll keep working until we're sure that no one is alive. >> cbs news, giglio, italy. the republican presidential field, jon huntsman campaign announced he's withdrawing today and he'll endorse mitt romney. sar tara mergener has more. >> good morning, terrell. a campaign aide says huntsman is very proud of the race he ran, but it's time to get behind the person most likely to beat president obama. jon huntsman plans to drop out

of the race. the former utah governor will make it official in south carolina, nearly a week after he finished third in new hampshire's primary. >> i want to beat expectations like in nam shif. >> huntsman gave no sign he was planning to back out telling reporters it's too soon to predict how he will do. >> the land changes considerably. let not throw out too many conclusions yet. >> he always admitted expectations in south carolina were low. a recent poll showed him with only 4% support, putting him behind even stephen colbert. >> i'm doing it. >> but huntsman endorsement may not help romney where he needs it most, among social and evangelical conservatives. >> the people of south carolina, vote their conscience. >> rick santorum is going after that vote. he got a boost when a group decided to back him as a romney

alternative. newt gingrich was their second choice ahead of rick perry. >> i ask you to think about the kind of leader to preside over the next years. who will be faithful to your values? >> the candidates have another chance to make tear case tonight when they face off in the latest debate. and rick perry says he'll decide whether or not to stay in the race next saturday after the results of south carolina's primaries are in. terrell? >> tara mergener in washington this morning. thank you. meanwhile, rick perry disagrees the way a video is being held that shows four marines desecrating corpses in afghanistan. >> what's really disturbing to me is the over the top rhetoric from this administration and their disdain for the military, appears. whether it's the secretary of state or the secretary of defense. i mean, these kids made a mistake. >> the video appears to show the marines urinating on the corpses. a military criminal investigation is under way, as is an internal marine corps

review. >> al qaeda is expanding influence in yemen. security officials say militants captured a small town south of the yemeni capital. the fighters moved in facing little resistance. the town is surrounded. this is the latest town al qaeda has taken over in yemen since a year ago. more deadly sectarian violence in iraq. a car bomb exploded where shiite muslims live. eight people killed, four others wounded. a car bomb exploded 70 miles west of bag cad in anbar province. gunmen battled their way into a government compound that led to the first battle between insurgents and iraqi forces without the backup of american troops. violence in iraq surged since u.s. troops withdrew at the start of the year. in an unexpected move, syrian officials released

prisoners. they were given just ten minutes' notice. they are part of the thousands who have been arrested for protests against the government. thousands have been killed in the government's crackdown on of 0 minutes last night, the a miles an hour of cutter told bob simon arab troops should be deployed. >> would you be in favor of arab nations intervening in syria? >> i think for such a situation, to stop the killing, we have some -- some troops should go to stop the killing. >> opposition groups rallied again yesterday. pakistan's top court started proceedings. pakistan supreme court ruled that ga lan i failed to open up a probe against the president. the government refused to open the investigation because it

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>> he also said before he died, his father was planning a poor people's campaign that was meant to bring together americans from all walks of life to demand decent jobs with decent pay. in money watch this morning, wall street is closed for the holiday today. overnight, big losses in asia. the nikkei index shed 1%. alexis christoforous has who. apple's ipad 3 is expected to go on sale in march. there are reports that it will have a high def screen, run a faster processor and work with next generation wireless networks. the tablet will use a quad core chip letting users jump quickly between applications. it's the second biggest seller behind the iphone. eastman kodak is a stock to watch on tuesday when the market reopens. shares of the giant shrunk 23% on friday on worries that the company is preparing to file for bankruptcy. on friday, stocks fell after s&p

downgraded the debt of european countries, including france. that could make it more expensive for the affected countries to borrow money at a time when the europe's financial system is fragile. the dow jones industrial average lost 49 points, while the nasdaq gave back 14. movie and tv studio lionsgate is buying summit intertaint for $412 million summit produce the teen series twilight. the deal brings together two small studios putting them on a footing with the large he's studios in hollywood. lionsgate is set to release its own series, the hunger games, in march. that's your money watch. for more, stay with cbs money watch.com. in new york, i'm alexis christoforous. up next, your weather forecast for monday morning. a huge upset in green bay as the giants send the packers packing.

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during that big old snowstorm that stopped the northwest. forecasters say the snow will continue to fall in some areas through this morning. as much as a foot accumulated in the higher elevations. an advisory was in effect for much of receipt john. in sports, what an upset. the giants trounce the packers in green bay. new york had everything going their way, hakeem nicks goes up high and pulls down this hail mary pass at the end of the second. that puts new york up by ten. the giants d was on fire too. aaron rodgers gets sacked four times that forced the packs to cough up the ball three times. new york takes down the super bowl champs 37-20. it didn't surprise giants coach tom coughlin. >> we did know that some of the things we were able to do were in indicative that we could play with them and as we prepared this week, we felt the exact same way. we look forward to coming in and playing, as i said, and our players were excited about it. >> kind of top of the mountain

and you forget how bad this feel is. after the 2009 season, we lost to arizona. it sucks. >> in the afc playoff in baltimore. the ravens much heralded the defense, choked the texans. they intercepted yates three times including a grab by ed reid. at the four-yard line with two minutes left. houston still had a chance to win it, but yates' hail mary pass ended up hitting the turf. no good there. ravens over the texans 20-13. here is next week's schedule. on sunday. baltimore and new england face off for the afc crown. you can see that here at 3:00 eastern on cbs. the giants in san francisco taking on the 49ers for the nfc championship. the winner of those games will clash two weeks later in super bowl xlvi. when we come back, another look at the top stories and a controversial voter i.d. law in south carolina which some say discriminates against minority. [ male announcer ] every day thousands of people are choosing advil®. here's one story.

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here's a look at the weather in some cities in the country. d.c., partly sunny, 42 degrees. partly sunny and 55 in atlantament afternoon showers in detroit and 40. 44 in denver. mostly cloudy, 37 degrees in seattle. here's another look at the top stories. the search continues inside that capsized cruise ship just off the coast of italy. at least six people are known to have died, 16 others, including

two americans are missing. the owners of the ship say there appears to be significant mistakes made by the captain. today jon huntsman is dropping out of the race for the republican nomination. huntsman plans to endorse mitt romney. there's a battle going on in south carolina over that state's controversial new voter i.d. laws. voters in nine states are already subject to these laws set to prevent voter fraud. critics say it faces a burden on young, low income voters. jeff glor report. >> it wasn't directed at minority. it was directed at the process. >> republican state senator larry martin sponsored south carolina's photo i.d. law, he says to protect the integrity of elections. >> i don't think you wait until there is a problem before you act. >> his state the goal? stopping voter praud. >> i know we didn't intend for it to be discriminatory. >> attorney general eric holder says it is discriminatory. because black voters are 20%

more likely than white voters to lack a drivers license or state photo i.d. card. 73-year-old junior glover is one of them. he's voted for decades but he doesn't have a birth certificate, which is required to get the new i.d. >> do i want to still vote? right or wrong. >> critics say the i.d. law is a solution in search of a problem. >> voter fraud in south carolina is a rare instance. it is not rampant. >> he has run elections in greenville county for 20 years. >> this is the voter registration list that is used. >> he says a typo or clerical error on a voting record is sometimes misconstrued as fraud. >> the election process in south carolina at least appears to be extremely clean over the entire state. >> but state motor vehicle's director points out that 37,000 dead people are still on the state's voter registration list.

and then he discovered this. >> at least 956 individuals voted after they were dead or more realistically, people voted using their name and/or credentials. >> he can't say where or when it occurred. he's passed the information along to s investigators. for now, the state's photo i.d. law won't apply in next week's presidential primary. it's on hold pending the justice department review. >> i certainly do not want it to be an impediment to anybody that wishes to vote. we just want to make sure that these folks are who they say they are. >> attorney general holder is expect today address the cont at a rally on monday. rch tions continue in beirut lebanon following a deadly building collapse. it collapsed yesterday killing at least 11. most of them foreigners. residents say the shake and pounding from a nearby construction site could have

weakened the foundation of their building causing that collapse. and nome, alaska is about to get fuel. a russian tanker is within half a mile of the frozen city. the crew must drag a hose into town. to complicate matters, the fuel can only be dumped during the day. at this time of year, nome only has about five hours of daylight. residents haven't had a fuel delivery since november after a massive snowstorm. coming up later on "cbs this morning," we'll hear from survivors of that italian cruise ship disaster. i'm terrell brown, this is the "cbs morning news." ñ that was me trying to be discreet with my vial and syringe. me, drawing my insulin dose. and me the day i discovered novolog flexpen. flexpen is pre-filled with your mealtime insulin. dial the exact dose, inject by pushing a button. no vials, syringes or coolers to carry.

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in southern china, a colorful fireworks show inside a dark tunnel. only problem here, it wasn't planned that way. the fireworks went off after they fell off a truck saturday. it took firefighters three hours to get a handle on that situation. thankfully, no one was hurt. although, traffic from the tunnel stretched for miles. interpret toy look at, though. the weekend box office got fired up with a couple new movies. contraband did better than expected. $24 million boosting ticket contraband was followed by beauty and the beast in 3d with

$18.5 million. mission impossible was third with $11.5 million. some of hollywood's best were awarded. the big winners, the artist and the descendants. shaban reports. >> a sigh let film made the most noise at the 69th annual golden globes. the artist won three awards, including best picture for a comedy or musical and best actor for frenchman jean dujardin. he gave a clever nod during his acceptance speech to silent film. as he would say -- thank you. the descendants. >> it was also a big night for the descendants. in the drama category, it won best picture and best actor for george clooney. who earlier was humble on the red carpet. >> i have four nominations and i will probably lose them all. in hollywood, the golden globes are considered a hint to

who might win the academy awards. many critics believe meryl streep is the favorite for an oscar after winning for her portrayal of margaret thatcher in the iron lady. morgan freeman was honored with the see sell b. did he mill award. in my movie career, i saved the world, solved crimes, commit crimes, be nelson man dem a, play the president of the you state and even god. for many, it serves as a hollywood reunion. >> it was a great party. a double pleasure to see people that i don't see on a regular basis. >> and win or lose, everyone feels like a star. even the jack russell who played the sidekick in the artist. proving that anyone can strut their stuff on the red carpet. cbs news, beverly hills. that guy stole the show. coming up later on "cbs this morning," the latest on that italian cruise ship disaster. we'll hear from survivors. former coach joe paterno

speaking out for the first time since being fired. we'll get analysis. winton marsalis shares his memories of martin luther king, jr. all that and more on "cbs this morning." that is the "cbs morning news" for this monday. as always, appreciate you watching. i'm terrell brown. thank you everybody. i'm terrell brown. thank you everybody. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com