. >> reporter: christine kim encouraged her daughter billy to go a school field trip to jeju island but billy resisted because they had visited the resort island two months ago. >> so i told her, i think you be

>> actually, the journey the jeju island operates on the flight usually. but i think it can be -- it can be -- it can be not usual journey. >> thank you for joining us. with those pictures from the rescue taking place before the ship sank. let's go to ukraine now where the situation in the mainly russian speaking east of the country is said to be close to civil war. president putin himself has given the warning to u.n. secretary general ban ki-moon. he demanded the u.n. condemn the actions. mr. putin also gave the same civil war warning to the german chancellor angela merkel in a phone call. well, reports from eastern ukraine say armed men have now entered the city council building here in the mining center of donetsk. which is said they now control. the tense standoff in kramatorsk which is there continues between ukrainian troops and armed pro-russian separatists. there are similar tensions in slovyansk. right across this predominantly russian speaking area. pro-russian troops continue to occupy government buildings. so what has happened in kramatorsk, f

i spoke to one woman that had gone to jeju island. her daughter didn't want to go on the school trip. she said i just went with you. the mother convinced her to go saying it will be a good experience for you and your friends and that is a decision this mother regretted. so many sad stories. the families are asking very good technical questions. i think one of the things they are asking about is how to get in to the ship and such a large ship. this is a ferry that can carry 900 passengers. it had 1,000 containers on the bottom, more than 100 vehicles. 6,800 tons. bill, perhaps you can ask your guests, how do you stabilize this ship that size and try to preserve any sort of possible air pocket? we know there are four cranes on site waiting to do that. >> let's bring it to our professor. this is a 6800 ton boat. cade, our navy s.e.a.l. was suggesting they should focus on cutting in to the side of the hulls opposed to diving under. how would that work? would that release whatever air is inside? >> well, if you are talking to me, bill, i w

she and her daughter had been to jeju island two months ago and they had a great time, and jeju island is where the ferry was headed to. it's a resort island. and then when this school field trip came up this mother hen couraged her daughter to go on the school field trip. the daughter had said no, she wasn't interested because she had just been. and the mother persuaded her to go, saying she would have a lot of fun with her friends. and today when we spoke with her she broke down saying she absolutely regrets that decision. >> oh, just heartbreaking stories. there's nothing to say really. pauline chiou reporting there from jindo. many thanks. john. >>> louis ceto is the chairman of marine and naval architecture at the hong kong institute of engineers. he joins us now live from hong kong. sir, thank you for being with us. a lot of passengers were told to stay in their cabins, stay where they were. why would that order be given? >> initially, in case of abandoning ship or any dangerous which happen on the ship the captain may first announce that there might be abandon or evacuation, so

the ship was heading from incheon to the island of jeju. it sent out a distress signal about 20 kilometers off jindo island. it was carrying more than 450 people. more than 300 were high school students from near seoul. coast guard officials sent helicopters and ships for the rescue operation. they say they've recovered three bodies. a male student, and a female crew member are among them. one male has not yet been identified. the toll of the missing was revised upward dramatically after confusion in the wake of the accident. authorities say military personnel and special rescue teams including 160 divers are now in the area to search for the missing. >> translator: an announcement said we should stay where we were. but the ship was already sinking. many students could not get out. >> staff at a meteorological observatory on jindo island say there was fog at the time of the accident. the ferry operator says due to the fog the vessel left port three hours behind schedule. >>> we now have a live report from seoul. nhk world's anna jung is at t

more than 450 people were on the overnight ferry, travelling to jeju islands. 60 vessels were involved. 80 helicopters were used. 34 vessels from the coast guard and 25 from the navy were killed. survivors felt the jolt on the ship around breakfast time. the ferry began to tilt and sink. many were students. parents are travelling to the area by bus. they'll have an anxious wait. >> translation: i felt like my heart stopped. i can't describe the feeling in words. i was too shocked. i can't think about it. >> there are fears that some remained unaccounted for. 95% of the ship is submerged under water. it's not known why it sank. >> okay. we can go live to al jazeera's harry fawcett, on his way from seoul to the scene. we see you are in transit. from where you are, what is the latest. the numbers have been changing radically from hour to hour. >> they have, and we have been speaking to the coast guard, and they confirmed early numbers released from the government's disaster response headquarters which are that 459 people were on board the ship. 168 of those people have been rescued. that'

more than 450 people were on the overnight ferry, travelling from izyum to jeju island. >> 18 helicopters were used for the rescue, with a firefighting team, coast guard, navy and police. 34 vessels from the coast guard, 25 from the navy were used. >> survivors felt a jolt on the ship around breakfast. the ferry began to tilt and sink. many on board were students. they were on a trip from a high school in ansun city, near the capital in seoul. survivors waited anxiously for family members. some have been reunited. many other are waiting to hear the fate of their loved ones. >> i felt like my heart stopped, i can't describe the feel in word. i was too shocked. i can't think about it. >> there are fiercesome of the unaccounted for may be trapped. >> it's not known why it sapping. >> let's -- sank. >> let's go to harry fawcett, on his way from seoul to the scene of the accident. harry in his car travelling there. a lot of people unaccounted for. numbers have been revised. what is the latest you are hearing about the numbers? >> well, we spoke to the coast guard within the last few minutes. t

you see how widespread that rain is going to be across jeju island and across the southern tip of korea. so that is as we head into early on sunday, natalie. now is the time to get most of their work done. >> thank you, samantha. >>> diplomats meeting in geneva say they have reached a deal aimed at calming tensions in eastern ukraine. it was the first face-to-face meeting between russia and ukraine since this crisis began so many weeks ago. what emerged was an agreement calling for all militant groups to disarm and return all occupied buildings to their rightful owners. also all groups to leave the streets and public plazas and an end to all violence and amnesty for all the protesters. so a step forward. we'll see what happens next. >>> jewish leaders say flyers handed out in donesque ordering people to surrender property are fake. the leaflets were passed out in front of the main synagogue. jim sciutto report. >> reporter: on a single sheet of paper, a frightening threat to ukraine's jews. this leafletjews to register themselves and document property with the pro-russian government. se

at least four people are dead and 300 unaccounted for as a ferry sank off jeju island. government officials say over 300 of the passengers were students. the u.s. navy is standing by as south korean ships and a fleet of helicopters work the area. rescue efforts will continue throughout the night. it's just after 10:00 there right now. lieutenant arlo abramson is the public affairs officer for the commander u.s. naval forces. he joins us by phone now. sir, can you give us the latest on the water? is the u.s. navy directly involved in the rescue operations? >> first of all, luke, thanks for having me. first i want to say that our thoughts are with the passengers of this ship, this ferry, that sunk today. it is a terrible tragedy and our hearts go out to those families. >> and what's the latest in terms of the rescue operation? do we know how involved the military is there in south korea? and is the u.s. military involved? >> yes. it's important to point out that the south korean government has the lead in this operation, as you would expect. the u.s. navy is on standby. w

. >> more than 300 of the passengers were high school students, on their way to jeju island for a field trip. now, parents say they are angry that authorities are just not doing enough. and survivors are talking about their harrowing ordeal. >> people tilted, even came sliding down. at first, the water was really cold. >> i didn't feel the coldness that much. >> so i was staying put. but suddenly the water came up to my face. so i think it was a narrow escape from dying. >> you're supposed to be still. and then jump onto the boat but since the boat could not be next to the ship they said to jump and swim over to the boat. so i quickly jumped and swam over. >> we were told to stay where you are. so we kept staying, but later the water kept coming on, so we were beside ourselves, the kids kept shouting for help. >> emotions are running high in jindo, south korea, where the families now are waiting on the search. and more than 24 hours after this disaster, families are still waiting to hear word of their loved ones, what are they saying to you about the slow pace of the rescue operations?

on this particular route, it is a daily route from the jingo to jeju islands. it is possible that it would be cancelled by bad weather, but it is surprising that it came out of nowhere. >> and so 14 hours now, and geoff, you will keep us posted from the "global post" and again, we will update you throughout the hour as we get more information. >>> and meantime, a huge political story to tell you about this morning. michael bloomberg is taking on the nra head-on, and in is a monumental battle involving millions of dollars and with incredible confidence on both sides h. this is the big development this morning n. a push to reignite the fight in guns over mark, the former new york mayor and billionaire businessman is offering a $150 million dollar effort to push the effort. and notice the phrasing here which is reminiscent about a wartime strategy. >> this is not about dollars, but the hearts and the minds of americans to protect our children and the innocent people. if you take a look at the number of people who use illegal guns to commit suicide or the number of

our correspondent who, as you can see is on his way to the scene of the accident in jeju island. >> to russia, the president, vladimir putin, cold the german chancellor that ukraine is on the verge of still war. ukrainian troops took control of an airfield. this is part of a wider offensive againarmed gun many occupying property across the region. the latest operation was in the city of krematorsk. kim vinnell has more. >> firing warning shots ukrainian troops send a clear message to protesters at a military airfield. in the background a woman south that two young people have been wounded, but soldiers and police force hold their ground. outside the airfield pro-russian mobs barricade the exit and say they will not let the military leave. casualties have been reported on both side. the ukrainian defence ministry denies its troops have been injumptd tensions taking its toll. protesters unaware of where allegiances lie. >> translation: our goal is to defend the city, to defend the city from uninvited guests. >> translation: we want to defend the city from the military. we don't want war,

she talked about how she and her daughter just two months ago went to jeju island, which is the destination of this ferry. it's a resort island. and when this field trip came up, she encouraged her daughter to go, but her daughter didn't want to. and listen to how she recounts the story. >> my daughter said to me, "mom, i don't want to go there," because i went there again, a time again. so, i said to her, i think this trip will be very great experience for your school days. so, i'm very regretted. i'm very regretted at that. >> reporter: so difficult. and then after she talked with us, she also showed us some cell phone video of her daughter dancing and laughing. so, this is just such a difficult time for this mother and the parents of so many of the students who are still unaccounted for. and christine, take a look at the weather around me. rain and wind. this is making it very difficult for the search crews. and just to give you an idea of the challenges, there are many civilian divers as well as government divers that are participating, and three civilian divers earlier today actually l

it was on its way to jeju island from incheon. 475 people were onboard including 300 high school students on a field trip. the captain told local media he apologized to passengers and their families. he said he was deeply ashamed and could not find any words. but he did not explain what happened to the ship. the operator of the ferry also apologized. >> translator: we deeply apologize to the families. we are very sorry. our company promises that we will do our best to prevent any further loss of life. we're sorry. >> coast guard officials plan to pump air into the wreckage in an effort to keep it afloat while rescuers look for more survivors. >>> relatives of the missing have gathered at the port of jindo on the southern coast near the accident site. nhk world's anna john is there. anna? >> reporter: some of the family members of the missing have gathered at this gym about 30 minutes from the port that's close toast the accident site. they stayed up all night waiting for word on the fate of their loved ones. at about 4:30 this afternoon, government officials paid a visit here to offer emo

this happened yesterday as the ferry was headed to jeju island, the so-called hawaii of korea. you see the map here. six people are confirmed dead at this hour, but 300 are still missing. it's been almost 24 hours now. rescuers were only able to pull out about 160 people off the boat. it is now thursday morning in south korea as this search continues. >>> it is a throwback. we're talking about bilingual education. but tonight while you may have a chance to change the law that's been on the books in california for 16 years. it would help students prepare for the global economy some say. annette miranda joins us live with this new effort. this is a very divisive issue. >> reporter: very divisive. as you know, we live in a very diverse state. we think that people should be able to speak their own language, dress their own way. voters will be asked to make it easier to start a multilingual immersion program in california. meet chang and mona, fifth graders who have been in a chinese immersion program in a san francisco public school since they were 5 years old. >> this is going to

the students aboard were on their field trip, as you mentioned, to korea's resort island of jeju, a famoust destination from here at home and abroad. and now hundreds of family members of the students have arrived at an island near the accident scene to confirm the whereabouts of their children and are desperately waiting to hear from their loved ones. >> they must be incredibly worried about their children and those that are still missing. it's nighttime now. but that rescue operation is still under way. what details do we have about what efforts they're going to make during the night to try and find those who are missing? >> well, yes. the rescue operations are still under way. however, rescue experts say that there is very little chance for those missing to be alive. especially when considering the cold water temperature. and the exact cause of the accident has not yet been confirmed. many also speculate that the ship was having trouble due to dense fog. >> thank you very much for updating us. from ytn television in south korea. soon we have any more developments for you on that story,

we have a weak system pushing out of the region around jeju island.uds kaindicated in the dl white and gray colors, it will clear up but there will be another one in the next 24 hours. sea temperatures about 50 degrees farenheit. typically any time you are in that water one to two hours you will reach exhuastion and one to six hours is survival time. water reduces body heat 25 times faster than the same temperatures in the air would. and of course the amount of clothing you are wearing, your body fat percentage, and your activity in the water dictate and plays on that. and of course the initial shock you get from the cold temperatures makes you lose your ability to move your limbs as well, making it a very difficult situation to be in. >> and the big worry is if people are trapped inside. many thanks. >>> well, google launched its public one-day sale of google glass on tuesday, only for buyers in the united states. >> yeah the same day filed patents for wearables that are much smaller, a google glass light contact lens, now it would have a tiny built

many of the passengers on this sunken ferry were students heading to jeju island. six are confirmed dead. the cause of the ferry sinking is not clear, but the question is why passengers were told not to leave. >>> a psychiatric exam has been planned for a man accused of planting a hoax bomb near the marathon finish line. a bomb squad detonated the backpack last night. they said the suspect told them it contained a rice cooker, similar to what happened last year. this man pleaded not guilty. his mother says he is bipolar and that his condition has become worse. video shows him with a backpack. he was arrested hours aft ceremony marking the anniversary of the deadly boston bombings. >>> a half hour movie was released to deliver a statement. >> we would like to help you by giving you a stipend. >> a stipend. >> yes, a quarterly sum to help you with your expenses while you remain in the country. >> that is how the true story of glen shriver's criminal activity began. the fbi says it wants all american students traveling abroad to watch the video. students might find it

transcript of the initial -- transcript of the initial conversation with the port authorities, the jeju islandey should have been speaking to jindo island, the closest place the ship went down. had he done that it's possible that rescuers would have been on the scene earlier. >> harry fawcett. thank you. it's the worst disaster on everest ever, after an avalanche swept down the world's highest mountain. those killed were guides or sherpas who helped climbers scale the peak. about 100 more people are said to be cut off above the impact area of the avalanche. it could take days for rescue teams to create a new route that would allow the stranded climbers to return to base camp. it was everest's first major avalanche of the season. the route was the first route that climbers used to scale the summit in 1953. let's go to science and technology editor jake ward. talk about the issue. >> the tremendous danger of being at that altitude, 22,000 feet is of course the lack of oxygen to the body. when the climbers come off the mountain they are probably going to be put into a chamber like this, the hyper

out of the southeast at 13 in milan and jeju island, out of the east at 31 kilometers per hour. temperatures are cooling at 14 in jeju right now. a little further to the north, it is a half of a kilometer at milan, you can see as we move the time ahead here, visible improving slowly as we head later on into today and then once we get into the early morning and overnight hours, we should start to see some improvement once we get into sunday. so that is something to look forward to, for sure. you see how visibility has been affecting things here, though, this is one of the cranes and just with the poor visibility in the water, some 30 cms or so, can you only see some 30 cms in front of your mask if are you a diver. the winds rather gusty as we were talking about right now. they, too, look like they will be easing into sunday. in the meantime, we will have the 30 to 40 kilometer gusts we are having to deal with. it looks like the waves will be increasing as we head into the evening hours, they look about a meter as we head into the next 12 hours or so. >> all right. sa man that, tha

when you get out over the open water out of the east, up around 28 kilometers per hour there on jeju islandso the windy and choppy conditions, the poor visibility continuing to challenge the rescue workers here. the pattern is unsettled. showers from time to time across the waters here, and then another system on approach will bring more rain in over the course of the weekend. so most of the rain is fairly light at this point, but it will limit visibility to a certain degree here as we head into the weekend. so the weather model showing that next system moving out of eastern china, across the southern tip of south korea and then into southern japan, as well. now, this is the route that the ferryboat was taking, and it was plugging along at a normal rate of speed that a ferry would take. then it took this abrupt turn, and this is when they think something went terribly wrong and started moving to the north at a slow rate of speed at 4 kilometers per hour and abruptly changing direction here. so that's just one of the indicators that something failed and changed the direction in a very sad wa

these men were part of a group of 17 school friends heading to jeju island for their birthday. four of them are still missing. they say they owe their lives to park. she describes how the ship listed so much the wall became the floor. an open door made the gap between them and the exit too great to step over. her colleague was lying on the floor, he says, hanging onto the microphone telling passengers not to move. park took the keys from him, forced her way to the door, closed it and locked it to keep it shut so that passengers could walk across. she was right next to the exit, he says, she could easily have escaped. that door saved so many lives it was like the bridge of life. i asked, how many lives? they estimate around 50 escaped through that exit. that is nearly a third of all passengers who made it out alive, helped by just one woman. she was just a girl, says this man, but she was so brave. if every crew member on that boat was as brave as she was the disaster would not have been this bad. among the first to be rescued, kim says the captain and other crew members were al

. >> reporter: christine kim encouraged her daughter billy to go a school field trip to jeju island butuse they had visited the resort island two months ago. >> so i told her, i think you be very great experience for you. >> reporter: she successfully persuaded her daughter to go and now it haunts her. >> my daughter in the water! my daughter, i can never sleep! >> reporter: parents have waited for any news on their sons and daughters. my son was on board, this man says, but they were all like my children. many parents feel helpless as search divers work around the clock fighting strong currents and bad visibility. the president met with families thursday evening and she promised to add more resources to the rescue effort saying every minute is precious. and with each minute that passes, christine kim aches for the daughter she loves so much. >>> just heart breaking to watch and listen to those stories. rescue divers are looking for victims inside the ferry and they, themseles, face their own risks and dangers. joining me now is a veteran diver bobby scoli a retired u.s. navy captain. d

they were on their way to jeju island. >> 450 people sinking off the southwestern coast. as soon as we get more information we will check in. >>> now the latest on the search for flight 370. i want to turn to cnn reporters in the search zone michael hom holmes and joe johns in kuala lumpur. they didn't find any information of note in the data of the bluefin yesterday. it had to return hours after but are they expecting more from bluefin today. >> it was cut short because the programming basically, software in the bluefin told it if it got to 4500 meters down it had to come back up. that's what it did. they are talking about reprogramming the software to let it go down even deeper. it went about four square kilometers on the first trip, don. remember, on a full 16 hours on the ocean floor to go 15 1/2 square miles. that's 40 square kilometers. on this journey it did four square miles. they took up the data and found nothing of note. it is down there now and has six hours or so on the bottom before it comes back up and they will have another look. so far, nothing, but it is

the two of them were traveling with their parents to jeju island.omehow, it's still unclear how, somehow, the girl was able to get to the deck, where there were other passengers. she started crying because she was, of course, very afraid. the passengers passed her into one of their rescue boats, so that's how she survived. her brother and her parents are still missing. now, the doctor i spoke with told me that when she came into the hospital, physically, she was fine, but here's what he's worried about. >> translator: my biggest concern is after going through this kind of disaster, she may experience post-traumatic stress syndrome, especially when she finds out her parents and brother have died. how she deals with this would be the biggest challenge. in my opinion, recovering from this kind of psychological shock would be the biggest concern. >> reporter: now, this little girl is from the area outside of seoul. now, when she entered the hospital, the hospital staff had no idea who she was, because she has no identification. she was able to communica

we're not sure when there in the time line they contacted the destination of the ship, jeju island. >> knowing what you know about these kind of scenarios, and looking at the scene, we saw a video of the open oceans, the seas, the currents are strong, the waters are murky, temperatures are low. given what you know, how likely is it that there could be survivors under there? >> well, in other cases where vessels have sunk, we've had survivors that have been rescued as long as three days out from the incident. but, again, a lot depends on the size of the void inside the ship. >> when we talk about the void, you mean trapped air? >> that's correct. if the area is large enough for survivors to get into, provided there's enough air so the oxygen isn't depleted by the people who are occupying that space and also provided that the individual people are in water at the temperature that you find here, which is 50 degrees fahrenheit. >> break down a little bit of information we just received, the idea that the captain was not at the helm of this ship when it had the incident. the third mate was

the ferry was on its way to the island of jeju when it started to cinch wednesday. seth doane joins us now on the phone where the ship went down. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. certainly it's devastating to be here where family members are waiting for answers. we see cranes being brought in on ships to help the with salvage operation. of course, the family members want this to be a rescue operation. they want to get a rescue operation, but at this point folks are certainly giving. i spent the day at a local gymnasium sleeping on the floor and spoke with one girl whose younger sister was on the boat, part of that school trip that so many students were on heading out to that island of jeju. we know that the appears to be the third officer at the helm temporarily, that certainly is being looked into. we know there was an investigation at headquarters with the owners of the ferry that was searched today. the vessel has a safety record so it was for 2013 and this year as well. anyway ire turni they're turning to crew for answers. >>> thank you, sect

>> here's where they have to go, jeju island and that is the shortcut.at they were going 16 to 17 knots here, almost 20 miles per hour, and if you take another route to the south, that would have taken you almost 40 miles out of the way, burned a lot more fuel and time and this would have been probably a significantly different event, but this is the route that they go. this is the route right through here, it's down through here, here's where they rolled over and actually the boat continued to kind of drift in the current on up to here, where the current location is right there, and that's where the rescue and recovery is going on right now. this is going to go for awhile. we know about the currents, talked about the currents with the divers being in them six to seven miles per hour one way or the other, and that's what you have in this treacherous, treacherous channel. >> thanks very much to you, chad. willi william dougherty joins me. you know what chad's talking about when he's talking about the current going one way, then the other. what do you thin

they were on their way, a field trip to jeju island, supposed to be a happy occasion.e refused to leave until he could get as many students off as possible. we saw a huge crowd at his funeral, a lot of mourners wanting to pay their respect for a man who here in south korea is being hailed as a hero. >> absolutely. paula hancocks live from jindo, south korea, thank you. we know that more than 500 divers are helping in this search for the missing. >> cnn's will ripley is on a boat just feet from the wreckage off the coast of south korea's jindo island seeing firsthand a very, very sad scene. will? >> reporter: victor, randi, another day of searching in the area where the sewol ferry went down and sadly another day of grim discoveries. we watched as several bodies were pulled out of the water from korea coast guard ships. what's happening is the dive teams have been going out in groups, in teams and they enter in the ferry using five different entry points and they're searching the inside of the boat, the hallways and the cabins and the area outside of the boat as well. t

most passengers on the ship were students heading to the island of jeju. e ferry running into trouble off the coast off the island of jindo island. >> harry fawcett reports from a boat off the island of jindo in the yellow sea. >> when you get out to the center of the rescue site, you see the size of operation. it is emore or less, the number of -- enormous, the number of resources deployed. there's frustration that more risks have not been taken to get into the hull of ship and find survivors. at this period, this morning, we are approaching a time when rescuers said it would be the optimum time in terms of conditions. there'll be two periods in which the tides and conditions will be right to send more divers in. this is the first of the periods. there's a lot of activity around the area in the last few minutes. also, they are deploying three crane ships on friday. we have seen the first of them, disappearing under a blanket of fog, one is on the scene already. there'll be attempts later in the pros to raise the vessel, move it where it's easier to access.

as it neared jeju island today, something went tragically wrong. eyewitnesss say they heard a loud bang before the ferry lost control. this survivor saying the ship was tilted more than 45 degrees. it was very tense. the ship sent out a distress call, but there was confusion onboard. the student saying, "the ferry started to list, so we asked if we should escape now, but the announcement kept telling us to stay still." minutes later, rescuers including a u.s. navy ship arrived with helicopters, racing against time, lifting passengers to safety one by one. back on shore, parents clearly overwrought. desperate for more information about their children. the u.s. navy is on the scene helping south korea find the hundreds still missing. savannah? >> eunice yoon in beijing for us, thank you. >>> meantime, we're learning more this morning about a security scare on the anniversary of the boston marathon bombings. a man taken into custody for carrying a rice cooker in a backpack. today a court hearing is scheduled tied to last year's attack. nbc's ron mott

discussion between someone on the ship, we don't know exactly who is talking, and traffic control on jeju islandrs fell over, too. traffic controllers saying put the life vests on and get as many people ready as you may have to abandon ship. it is hard for people to move. this is something that's been being focused on quite closely. why were people told not to move on a sinking ship. carol? >> paula hancocks, reporting live from south korea this morning. >>> for the families of the missing it's an agonizing wait. hundreds crowded on the dock near the sunken ferry's location. others crowded into a nearby school gymnasium, all hoping somehow their loved ones survived this disaster. cnn's kyung lah spoke with some of them. >> reporter: hope, slipping away. palpable anger replacing grief as families lashed out at whoever they could. the news media and the government, chant iing, "return them to us," they say. these families have been here since the ship went down on wednesday. police officers were brought in to control the increasingly volatile crowd. "what do you expect of us" says this father? who

. >> the ferry was carrying 448 passengers to the holiday island of jeju, including 324 teenagers on school trip. some were rescued by fetching ishing boats. >> the announcement told us that we should stay still, but the ship was already sinking. there were lots of students who did not get out. >> it was very intense. the ship was tilted at 45 degrees. >> the rescue passengers fought back to drive land, the ferry sank completely. teams of divers are searching for the missing. >> the president has called for maximum efforts to rescue all the passengers and not to miss any one of them. curry's coast guard's -- korea 's coast guard and emergency management agency are in action. >> it is not yet known what caused the rack. the weather was calm before the accident. >> in northeast nigeria, 100 schoolgirls have been kidnapped by boko haram. sparking a search to track down the attackers. the mass kidnapping in borno state happened when gunmen stormed a girls' secondary school. just hours after a deadly bomb blast on the outskirts of the capital abuja killed 75. one year since twin bombs exp

carrying more than 470 people, many of them high school students on a field trip to the southern island of jeju. on their way there, officials say the boat began listing badly. a distress call was sent. several helicopters and rescue boats raced to the scene. it's not yet clear what caused the ship to sink. frances kuo, nbc news. >>> now to new video that appears to show a very large gathering of al qaeda members who recently escaped from a yemen prison. u.s. counterterrorism officials are examining this 15-minute video that was posted on youtube by the terrorism research and analysis consortium. it's described as showing dozens of militants who escaped from a yemen prison in february. u.s. intelligence officials tell nbc news they are being greeted by al qaeda's number two in command. a former guantanamo bay detainee and top official for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is also featured. u.s. intelligence officials tell nbc news the video seems recent and authentic, but that there's nothing to indicate the terror plot planning. they say drawing broader conclusions would be speculation. the vi

ferry was carrying more than 470 people many of them high school students on a field trip to the island of jeju. a distress call was sent. several hundred helicopters and rescue boats raced to the scene. it's not yet clear what caused the ship to sink, frances kuo, nbc news. >>> we want to show you a new video that appears to show a large number of al qaeda members who apparently escaped from a prison. american officials examining the video. it's described as showing dozens of militants who escaped from a yemen prison in february. now, u.s. intelligence officials tell nbc news they are being greeted by al qaeda's number two in command. a former guantanamo bay detainee and top official for al qaeda in the arabian peninsula is also featured in the video. u.s. intelligence officials tell nbc news the video seems recent and authentic but there's nothing to indicate the gathering was plotted to have any targets. the video was posted on april 4th but it's unclear when it was taken. >>> michael bloomberg is pledging some big cash to support gun control efforts. the former new york city mayor has annou

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 w

when they contacted jeju island. >> and it doesn't work when you contact these guys, it's not right for to them? >> well, no. >> because it didn't happen in the transcript. but they seem to be competently dealing with it. >> oh, they are, they're very competent. they're trying to get the situation aware, what's going on. they're focused with their area. and jindo is focused on their area. he already should have been in contact with jindo island. >> so while that is not the best performance, do you still suggest caution at this point before damning the captain and cry as to why this happened and why so many are going to die? >> obviously, it's not just the captain. there's other reasons why this happened. we need to find out why the stability wasn't positive the whole voyage. we need to find out if there was fuel on board. or cargo. there are many things we need to be aware. it's not just the captain. we don't know if he'd been up all night long, going through fog. if he had just gone down to his room to relieve himself. >> he said he had to go down there to take care of something. >> wh

it was on its way to a tourist hot spot, jeju island, the size of south korea.d and managed to get off the boat that he said he felt a bump and then many people fell over. then the ship started listing. and then it started to sink. they were basically given life jackets an told to jump t in the water. it is cold water. and we are hearing that really the chances of survival are really about two hours in that water. it's about 11 hours since the first distress signal went out. chris? >> paula, one last quick question. any word about whether there were life rafts on board? is there anything to do with doing that? >> this is a question we've been trying to find the answer to. but i think one of the things that's worth mentioning is the fact that this ship listed very quickly and it tilt very quickly and within a couple of hours that it tilted over completely and all you could see was the blue hull off the ship. so it completely turned over. it really was a quick sinking, that could have been part of the reason why they jumped in the water. but we don't know about th

here is a look at the route the ferry was taking, leaving the port city of inchon, headed to the island of jeju, and here is where something apparently happened. they reached the southern tip of the peninsula, near the island of jindo. >> the early stages of this disaster were filled with terror for the passengers as the ferry launched on to its side, but also with some hope. the rescue operation was under way swiftly, survivors plucked from the ship and the water. as they came asheer the government's -- ashore the government's response center said 358 had been saved, 107 missing. for the parents that waved their children off, they were told they were outline being rescued. a terrible revision. fewer than 80 children were confirmed safe, 300 passengers missing. as night fell for the parents waiting on the dock side fear was giving way to despair. the rawness of the weight too apparent. this father saying another parent received a text message from a child alive, still inside the ship. he and the rest of the parents here could only hope that the coming hours will bring them certainty about the f

capital in seoul, on their way from the port of inion on the west coast, down to the holiday island of jeju. we understand there were perhaps 320, perhaps slightly more students and teachers on the school trip. as well as that, perhaps 100 or more passengers. in total we understood the initial figure was 471 penning passengers on board the vessel. whatever happened to it, how it listed on the said, it happened quickly. the distress call happened before 9 am. within little more than an hour, most of the vessel was under water. we understand from twitter messages that people were sending is that they were told to gather on the ship, and at one stage the pa system, structed them all to jump into the water. a very fast-moving large rescue operation got underway with some 13 naval vessels, a naval helicopter, as well as from the pictures we see, fishing vessels, and five fire and rescue helicopters. of those rescued so far, we know that six have been tape to court with injuries, four with bruises, two with burns. we wait to see how many more have been rescued andway the condition is. >> that's h

that's where they were going, jeju, but they were skirting this tiny island there and that same guy andething and now moved up to the north. our team has this graphic and there's the guy and plotted it. there's where the course was and hit something and floating there in those currents as they go bark and forth twice a day at 6 to 7 miles an hour. >> i want to bringing up peter boynton founding co-director of a research institute for homeland security to help us out here. thanks for taking the time to join us here today. talk to us about how difficult it is to navigate those waters. let's say there are survivors in there, but you're dealing with an upside down boat and everything is probably backwards and all mangled up. trying to get out of there, you would have to stay put and wait on a rescue team if indeed you stood any chance of being rescued or saved at this point? >> that's right. the conditions are very difficult. the currents make it very difficult. the inverted nature of the ship make it very difficult. maneuvering around the ship, you have to exercise extreme caution not to f

many were high school students on their way to the southern resort island of jeju. a distress call and the ship had all but sunk two and a half hours later. parents checked the list to see if their kids were on the boat and hundreds boarded buses to take to the area where the boat sank. this mother of a high school student said i felt like my heart stopped. i can't describe the feeling with one word. i can't even talk about it. along with the passengers and crew on board, the ferry was also carrying about 150 vehicles. authorities have not said why they believe that that ferry got into trouble. norah? >> seth thank you. a man faces charges this morning after a security scare near the boston marathon finish line. he's accused of leaving a hoax device last night as the city marked one year after the marathon bombing. jeff is near downtown boston. >> reporter: good morning. police found two unattended bags last night. one had camera equipment inside. the other a pressure cooker but no explosives inside just confetti. police blew up the pair of back packs around 9:00 la

high school students, their teachers, other crew members and passengers en route to the resort island of jeju, the korean hawaii, it's called. then, disaster struck. desperate scenes off the coast of south korea. frantic efforts to rescue passengers from the stricken ferry, including hundreds of high school kids. more than 100 vessels and aircraft came to help. then, a horrible sight. the ferry sinks. almost 300 remain missing. young survivors describe the chaos. the announcement told us we should stay still, this student who scrambled to safety said. but the ship was already sinking. and there were a lot of students who did not get out of the ship. many passengers were at breakfast. others, still in bed. when survivors say they heard a loud crash. and the ship began shaking and immediately listing. it was very intense, this survivor recalled. the ship was tilted more than 45 degrees. anxious relatives gather at the school where the youngsters were students. now, a scene of dread and fear and weeping. survivors say many people may have remained trapped inside the ship when is sank in murky wa

people on board and many of them were high-school students on a trip sailing to the southern island of jejull after it started leaning to one side. the massive ship sank into the waters of the east china sea. 60 helicopters flew overhead and 30 food for rescue vessels were sent to the area to help in rescue operations. --34. now divers are trying to search the inside of the submerged vessel for anyone still inside. as to why the ship sank in the first place, that reason is still unknown. officials are looking into the possibility that it may have hit a reef. >>anny: >>will: the police union has said for years that san jose has been cutting their fourth three were talking about 500 fewer police officers do what we saw say six or seven years ago. the city of san jose could be getting help. the board of supervisors the santa clara board of supervisors voted unanimously yesterday to talk to the county sheriff's office. why don't you ask of the pd and asked the city of san jose. the need help. they have a news conference leading into the summer because they have a stretched another double- digit

after the ferry that was carrying hundreds of high school students sank en route to the resort island of jejuthe coast guard's footage showed ferry submerged off the southwest coast of the korean peninsula. they are heading with the rescue operation. we have about 15 minutes on this opening section. we are asking your opinion of attorney general eric holder. stephen on our line for republicans. good morning. are you there? caller: i am 46 years old and have been watching politics since i was a kid. iwatch republican and democratic presidents. this man is so disgusting. i have never seen an attorney general so far and away from the constitution. he tells people to legalize marijuana in small increments. you have fast and furious. 200 mexicans were killed. he doesn't answer questions. he goes up there playing a race card with the president. skin colorr seen used in this country. there is no racial violence going on. i work with people all day long. this man has such a problem in this country. he is doing it on purpose. he thinks he is smart and slick. i watched nancy pelosi, every one of them d

reporter: kate, new in to cnn, we just obtained the transcript between jeju traffic control and the ship itself. we heard the person on the islandthe person on the ship said it's impossible to confirm, the body of the ship is tilted. also saying containers in the ship had fallen over. traffic control said please get on the life vests. the person on the ship said it's hard for people to move. this will be looked at very closely as some survivors say they were told not to move. there are fears of lost lives. this morning divers have finally made its way into the ship's hull. the shib now kon completely seb merged, the strong currents and murky water making rescue efforts impossible. rescuers this morning pumping oxygen into the ship in the hopes of pumping air to anyone inside who may be alive. but for desperate families waiting for answers, it's not enough. they're pleading with authorities to do more, releasing a statement saying, we are making this appeal with tears because we are so furious with the way the government is so handling this. this man is waiting for word on his 16-year-old nephew. >> even if how hard it is, how di