time isunni time is running out for the hundreds of people lost at sea when a ferry capsizes off the coast of south korea, and now there are questions about a decision made by the captain that may have cost lives. >> the crisis in ukraine takes a violent turn. pro-russian forces clash with raine'military in the east while president obama sounds a warning to russia about intervening. >> each time russia takes these kinds of steps that are in kind to destabilize ukraine and violate their sovereignty, there's going to be consequences. and out of control, a runaway horse takes a carriage and its driver and tourists on a terrifying ride.

captioning funded by cbs is is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, april 17th this is the "cbs morning news" for thursday, april 17th, 2014. good morning. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. this morning the rescue teams are racing against the clock off the coast of south korea. more than 280 people are still missing after a ferry capsized on wednesday. at least nine people are confirmed dead and the rescue effort is being slowed by poor weather condition. coast guard searchers were able to make a dramatic rescue of a 6-year-old girl from a ship. she is hospitalized with no serious injuries, but her parents are still missing. and this morning a man identified as the ferry's captain apologized while being questioned at a coast guard office. the shift left off south korea's coast with hundreds of high school students but sank before it could reach the resort island of jeju. ter terry i okita has more as famil are waiting for more word.

>> reporter: crews are looking for passengers missing after a ferry boat capsize wednesday, distraught families are waiting for word. most of the missing are teenaged students headed to a tourist island on a class trip. some family members hired their own boat to go out to the site. this woman yelled at south korean politicians before collapsing in tears. one father said it's getting dark and we have to see what happened to our children. the captain sent a distress call after the ferry began listing to one side. passengers were told not to move from their seats. that instruction might have cost many lives. who told them to stay inside the boat, this relative said. does that make any sense? rescuers scrambled to save as many passengers as they could, but divers were unable to get inside the wreck because the current was too strong and the visibility was poor.

survivors were treated for broken bones and hypothermia. there were a lot of students who did not get out of the ship, he said. passengers who made it out say the severe tilt of the ship prevented people from reaching the exits. teri okita for cbs news. the crisis in ukraine took a deadly turn this morning. pro-russian separatists attacked a national guard base on the black sea in eastern ukraine. at least three separatists were killed. the attack is likely to overshadow a key meeting today in switzerland. tara mergener is in washington with the latest. good morning, tara. >> good morning to you, anne-marie. yes, the crisis appears to be growing more violent by the day, and by most accounts, not much progress is expected. president obama says if russia doesn't de-escalate, it will pay a price. hours before secretary of state john kerry arrived at geneva for a peace conference with russia, ukraine, and the eu, president obama told cbs news chief white

house chief correspondent major garrett moscow will face more penalties including sanctions if it keeps fueling the crisis in ukraine. >> what i've said consistently is that each time russia takes these kinds of steps that are designed to destabilize ukraine and violate their sovereignty, that there are going to be consequences. >> reporter: the comments wednesday came as pro-russian insurgents took over ukrainians and their vehicles. today ukrainian forces continue to face setbacks further south. when pro-russian activists and their supporters surrounded them. moscow maintains it is not backing the insurgency, but president obama disagrees. >> not only have russians gone in to crimea and annexed it, what they've also done is supported at minimum non-state militias in southern and eastern ukraine. >> reporter: while most analysts don't think today's meetings will lead to a breakthrough,

ukraine's acting minister hopes to use diplomatic means to calm the situation. ukraine wants russia to stop supporting insurgents and to withdraw troops from the eastern borders. and in eastern ukraine since launching the uprising earlier this month. anne-marie? >> tara mergener in washington. thank you, tara. kkayvon edson who was at the finish line will be evaluated. he's being held on $100,000 bail on charges of possessing a hoax device, a rice cooker in a backpack. police say he knew what he was doing but he said, quote, the performance got the best of me. his mother says edson has bipolar disorder. now police say they are ramping up security to protect spectators and runners following that backpack incident. joe shortsleeve of our boston station wbz has the latest. >> we're going to increase

visibility over the next couple of days because of that incident. we'll have bike patrols down there. >> reporter: watch as our cameras capture the barefoot 25-year-old wakefield man stumbling along just minutes before being arrested. and then there's this video from a bystander seconds before the arrest. now, you can see in this video marathon survivors are all gathered at the finish line when police are alerted by an unidentified man that the individual is approaching. at the top of the screen seconds later you can see what appear to be officers taking a barefoot man into custody. >> he went on the street, he had a backpack, and within a minute our officers were on him, and we had the backpack back down on the ground. >> he's the captain in charge of this detail, and he is from the bomb squad. >> reporter: we showed several of the videos to former boston police commissioner ed davis. >> i did have a high-ranking

police official yesterday confide in me that one of the thinks they're worried about are copycats. i think that they did exactly the right thing here, but you'd like to be able to grab it before they got that close or further down the road and i believe there'll be protocols for people acting out like this, to get them under control as quickly as possible. >> wbz's joe shortsleeve reporting. now, in denver, an investigation is under way to determine whether police responded quickly enough to a woman who was shot to death while on the phone with 911. christine kirk told the dispatcher on monday that her husband was hallucinating and asking her to shoot him. >> police say kirk was shot

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the nra said it would respond to bloomberg's proposal next week at its annual meeting in indianapolis. on the "cbs moneywatch" now, google earnigs missed estimates and president obama unveils job planning grants. jill wagner is at the new york stock exchange with that and more. good morning, jill. good morning, anne-marie. asian markets were muted. following lackluster comments from the bank of japan governor. tokyo's nikkei was unchanged. hong kong's hang seng added a fraction. here on wall street today is the final day of trading for the week because the markets close tomorrow for good friday. the dow rose 162 points on wednesday. the nasdaq gained 52 points. shares of google fell in after-hours trading. google reported quarterly earnings that fell short of analysts' expectations on wednesday. with the accelerating shift to sma smartphones and tablets, sales fell again because of weaker

pricing for smaller screens on mobile devices. yahoo! fire d henrique decastro with a huge severance package. decastro walked away with a package worth $58 million. that was more than double what yahoo!'s was paid. they require a four-year college degree. the president toured a training classroom on wednesday. he said that if you're willing to do the work, america should give you every opportunity to move upward in your career. he spoke to cbs chief white house correspondent major garrett about the importance of job skills training. >> what you end up seeing is not only folks getting jobs when they don't have work, but also people inside their own companies who want to advance suddenly seeing careers open up to them. that's good for the entire economy. >> mr. obama announced over $600 million in grants for students

and schools with training programs to help people land well paying jobs. and royal caribbean says it will move its hot new cruise ship to asia next year. the "quantum of the seas" will be based in shanghai starting in may of 2015. the ship will sail voyages of three to eight nights to japan and korea that are primarily aimed at the increasingly important chinese market. anne-marie? >> all right. jill wagner at the new york stock exchange. thanks a lot, jill. straight ahead, your thursday morning weather. and in sport, lance armstrong spoofs himself. the disgraced cyclist making a rare public appearance. e. yoplait is awesome. 100 calories? what?! i'm going yoplait. sorry chobani. it's a wrap. yoplait for the win. taste it for yourself. we did a 27-point inspection on your chevy,ce, you got new tires and our price match guarantee. who's this little guy? that's birney.

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♪ that little reward for all the things you do. ♪ only from ghirardelli. here's look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. in sports, the national hockey league drops the puck on the stanley cup playoffs. in the western conference, top seeded anaheim dispatches dallas in game one. kyle palmieri scores less than two minutes into the game. the ducks build a 4-0 lead and go on to win 4-3. the columbus blue jackets are still looking for their first playoff win in team history. they led a two-goal lead over the penguins slip away. and with the game tied at 3-3 in the third period, pittsburgh's

brandon sutter scores the game winner. pittsburgh wins, 4-3. in the other conference series, wednesday tampa bay and montreal head into overtime. in the extra period dale weise scores the first postseason goal of his career to give the canadiens a 5-4 win in game one. in baseball, the a's and the angels played deep into the night. los angeles ties up the game at 4-4 in the bottom of the ninth when howie kendrick hits into a fielder's choice. and with the game still tied in the 12th inning, chris iannetta crushes a walk-off homer in center field. the angels come from behind to win, 5-4. disgraced cyclist lance armstrong made one of his first public appearances in more than a year since admitting to using performance-enhancing drugs. hi. i'm lance armstrong, seven-time winner of the tour de france. hey, i didn't write the script. >> armstrong mocks himself in

this "outside" magazine instructional video on how to change a bike's tire. he had all seven of his tour de france titles stripped and was banned from cycling after he admitted to doping. when we return, the s.a.t. gets a reboot. students can forget about memorizing obscure vocabulary words thanks to changes in the college entrance exam. [ male announcer ] v8 v-fusion plus energy. natural energy from tea packed with real juice from delicious fruits and veggies. it's what you need for that extra boost!

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here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. time now for a check of the national forecast. it will be cold and stormy across the midwest. the northeast will be dry today, but temperatures are expected to remain up to 10 degrees below average. florida sees showers and thunderstorms today, and it will be warm and dry in the west

except for rain in the northwest. an investigation is under way into why two fire trucks from different companies collided in a los angeles suburb. both trucks were responding to a call when they slammed into each other on wednesday. one of the trucks careened into a restaurant. 15 people were injured, including six firefighters, one seriously. say the letters s.a.t. to a high school student and they'll probably wince. the scholastic aptitude test, once was the dominant college admissions test, but it was eclipsed by the a.c.t., forcing it to make changes. ben tracy takes a look. >> reporter: the s.a.t. is considered a necessary evil by many college-bound students, true or false. the college board, which administers the test, apparently believes it's true. it posted on its website that no longer will students use flash cards to memorize obscure words. only to forget them the minute

they put their test pencils down. students and parents were querulous, so the new s.a.t. opz takes more relevant words such as "intense," and makes students know their meaning in a sentence. >> there are some questions where it feels like it may be a little straightforward. i wouldn't necessarily use the term "easier," and there are other sample questions that are, quite frankly, challenging. >> reporter: there are others that focus on math that matters such as ratios and fractions. the essay is now optional and the test returns to a 1600-point scale. when president david coleman announced changes were coming, he acknowledged standardized tests are failing students. >> it's time to admit that the s.a.t. and a.c.t. have become far too disconnected in the work of our high schools. >> reporter: but the s.a.t. is

changing in part because the a.c.t., its main rival, is now more popular. last year 1.8 million took the a.c.t., about 100,000 more than took the s.a.t. >> a lot of the changes that s.a.t. is making do put it closer in line with what the a.c.t. has been doing for decades. >> reporter: this is the first redesign of the is.a.t. since 20 2005. the new test will go into effect in 2016. that should give nervous high school students plenty of times to find their equanimity, which is defined as steadiness, under stress. >> what a show-off. prince william and his wife kate visited an australian town that was ravaged by last year's wildfires. hundreds of people turned out to greet them. william and kate then planted a tree and posed for pictures with some children. coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," best selling author david baldacci on

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an art museum in massachusetts is getting a lot of attention for its current exhibit. as anthony mason tells us, it features valuable works from some of the world's greatest masters in forgery. >> reporter: the crate arriving from a london museum holds one of the star paintings in a new exhibit at the demore museum in springfield, massachusetts. >> this is being treated as a work of fine art. >> reporter: curator colette loll makes sure it's given the white glove treatment. but it's a fake. >> it is, but it's a very important fake. >> reporter: a copy of a 1622 dutch master piece, the problem russ, executed in the 1920s by notorious forger han van me gren. >> just because it's a fake

doesn't mean it's not valuable. socially and politically it's valuable. >> reporter: then he sold a fake vemeer to nazi leader. convicted a forgerer, he became a folk hero. >> he became one of the first romanticized by the media. this fooled ought the great lemaire followers. >> reporter: loll says the intent to deceive is all about masterpieces of deception. this is a fake. >> this is fake. >> this is a fake. >> this is a forgery. >> a forgery meaning not an exact copying but a painting in the style of the french matter modigliana actually painted by almir dehori. >> i do not feel bad for him. i feel good for me. >> reporter: he had trouble selling his own works slipped hundreds of pieces onto the art

market in the 1950s and '60s. >> i never offered a painting or drawing to a museum who didn't buy it. they never refused one. never. >> is there a common analyst between them? >> several of them were good artists but all of them were good con men. >> reporter: it raises questions about what really is art and the expert ability to develop the con artist. >> they i've all developed their own sort of fame, haven't they? >> they have, yes, with their own notoriety and with notoriety comes value. some of his portraits would fetch about $30,000 on the open market. >> mm-hmm. >> that's an expensive forgery. >> reporter: as a forger once said, if my work hangs in a museum long enough, it becomes real. anthony mason, cbs news, springfield, massachusetts. well, coming up after your local news on "cbs this morning," we will be live from south korea on the search for

the victims in that deadly ferry sinking. plus, more on major garrett's interview with president obama and vice president joe biden. and a former con artist reveals a so-called grandparent scam that robs older people of their money. that's the "cbs morning news" for this thursday. thanks for watching. i'm anne-marie green. have a great day. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com

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>> let's hope these two ar how are you doing? >> very good. fog you go at the coastline but looking like another gorgeous day ahead. plenty of sunshine, temperatures will be cooling down. we'll talk about that next. >> and our golden gate bridge camera is back. it was out for a while. very exciting in traffic circles. [ laughter ] >> southbound 101 is moving okay through marin county through sausalito. we have an accident on the almaden expressway in the south bay. more on that comiup. it is 4:30. we're following some developing news from the south korean coast where strong currents, rain and bad visibility are hampering the rescue efforts there. 287 passengers are missing, chances of finding more survivors are slim. linda yee talked with bay area korean families keeping a close eye on the rescue effort. reporter: divers combed the dark water