CNN 2012-01-24

 

 
First up,authorities are questioning the captain of an Italian cruise ship that wrecked 1 last Friday.The captain was under house arrest yesterday.He may be accused of abandoning ship.The captain says the rock that the ship hit was uncharted and on his map it was just marked as water.This is infrared 2 video of the crash when it happened.It was taken by the Italian coastguard.You can see the ship on its side and the passengers lining 3 up to get off the boat.Here,you can see rescue worker pulling up alongside the ship.Other workers are already climbing up the hull 4.And this is the gash 5 that the rock caused when the ship hit it.Once they make their way onto the ship,emergency crews like the ones you see here are searching all over for passengers.As of Tuesday afternoon,nearly two dozen people were still reported missing.And look at this,we want you to watch right over the top of the ship.Rescue workers are setting off explosions so they can get better access to search the interior.Yesterday,they found 5 bodies bringing the number of people known to have died in the crash to 11.Officials are investigating the specific details,but we know some information about how this all started.Michael Homs is gonna break it down for us.Michael,what you have?
All right,Let's take a closer look at how and where this all happened.The Costa Concordia was heading north near Giglio island,you can see it there.Now let's have a look at the normal route that this,this boat normally takes.This happens dozens of times a year.This is the normal course heading north.But you can see here here,this is where it changes the course.This happened about 9:15 pm on Friday night.It's not just any old detour 6 either,this is a 4-kilometer detour to take a closer pass to the island,presumably to get a better view of the island.It's quite stunning 7 at night apparently 8.let's zoom 9 in now on the new course as it approaches Giglio ,you can see here the vessel 10 strikes a reef right there,and this is about 9:30 pm local time,this is just a few hundred meters off the coast.The captain continues on with a 15-metre gash in the hull.And the power is out,taking on water.At some point,he decided 11 that he was going to turn toward shore and get in close,you can see that's when the listing begins as he turns towards land,the ship coming to its rest on its side and that's where it ended up just meters away from the lighthouse,the entrance to Giglio harbour .
Our website is CNN Student News.Com.It's where you can go to get the latest details on this story.This is going to keep developing as rescue workers keep going.So CNN Student News.Com is where you can also watch report from Brown about how ship captains train for emergencies.It's all on the spotlight 12 section at CNN Student News.Com.
Today shoutout goes to Coach Howell's classes at Brooklyn KC high school in KC South Carolina.What country is home to Mount Kilimanjaro? You know what to do.Is it Argentina,Botswana,Nepal or Tanzania.You've got 3 seconds,go! You'll find Kilimanjaro in Tanzania.The mountain is the highest peak in all of Africa.That's your answer and that's your shoutout.
That means had quite the view.He climbed Mount Kilimanjaro and reached the top on Sunday.Not the first person to do that but he is the first quadruple amputee to make it up the mountain without any assistance.He was born with a condition called congenital amputation 13.His arms stop the elbows and his legs end near his knees.This is file footage of him training for the Kilimanjaro climb last year.We featured him on our show before.He's a motivational speaker and he has told reporters that he hoped his efforts would show other people no challenge is too big.
Following up now on a story out of Alaska.Fuel is flowing into Nome.We reported last week on the first ever attempt to deliver fuel to the city_through the sea ice.A coastguard ice breaker was helping 14 guide a Russian tanker 15 ship into Nome.More than a million gallons of fuel started flowing in on Monday evening.The tanker couldn't go all the way into the harbour.It's anchored out in the sea and the fuel is being pumped through 1200 yards of hoses.Officials considered flying fuel into Nome,but it would have taken more than 300 flights.