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Abandoning ship in the life raft. that call as you mentioned set off a quick and robust reaction with more than 200 first-responders, with mass casualty reception areas in newark and coast guard station in sandy hook reporting what they thought would be injured passengers. the coast guard deployed two boats and four coast guard helicopters and new jersey and long island police helped to search roughly 640 nautical square miles. a coast guard spokesperson said rescue crews searched five hours and...

York. >> reporter: this appears it was in fact a hoax, a very expensive hoax that took several hours of valuable time and resources away from potential real emergencies. and whoever faked this sos could face fines and jail time. now the coast guard received the first of two emergency radio calls around 4:20 p.m. yesterday. someone claiming to be the captain of a yacht named the blind date, said there was explosion on board near sandy hook new jersey. the caller said seven people were hurt and 21...

Released audio of what it says are fake emergency calls made yesterday afternoon. investigators say there is a certain amount of detail in the distress calls that they dont normally encounter with other hoax calls which sometimes can come from kids. listen to how the caller describes the fictional fiasco unfolding before him. >> we have 21 souls on board, 20 in the water right now. i have three deceased on board, nine injured because of the explosion weve had. im in three feet of water on the br...

sandusky founded for troubled kids. susan candiotti is live at courthouse in pennsylvania. as i understand it, there has been a last-minute filing of some information that is a bit of a bombshell with regards to whats happening in the courtroom. somewhat related but somewhat not related, right? >> thats right. it has to do with two other people who are charged in connection with the case against jerry sandusky. you remember the two former penn state officials are currently charged with...

>> good morning. its 4:00 on the west coast. lets get straight to it. we start with whats shaping up to be a pretty ugly holiday weekend in parts of the southeast, and you can blame it all on beryl. subtropical storm beryl is set to dump several inches of rain along the florida, south carolina coast today. already were seeing warnings and some beach lowerses off tibi island off georgia. at least 20 people had to be rescued because of potentially deadly rip currents. lets bring in bonni...

>> bob: dedicated to obama? >> eric: w welcome him one more time. >> bob: the world of journalism lost a giant. mike wallace on sunday. from cbs on many years, "60 minutes." the toughest questioner there was. he had his facts down and he could beat everybody on deadlines. journalists commenting on him and tell story about how relentless he was to get a story. he set the tone for "60 minutes" and he was an institution. he interviewed me once and i would never like him to do it again. we lost a bi...

leaderboard at the masters. there is not a tiger in sight. this easter sunday well be talking to the co-founder of the saddleback church, and well take you live to the vatican. now lets get you to a story that you have heard here first. the multiple shootings in tulsa, oklahoma, while you were sleeping. oklahoma police, the fbi, and u.s. marshalls were very busy, and that hard work paid off with two arrests that were coming less than an hour ago to us re right here. a reminder thre...

Seater, $100,000 sports car today? its not exactly the hottest selling type of car. >> its not. but there will always be an auto enthusiast. people not about the destination its about the drive. car enthusiasts always will be. this is usually somebodys second, third car. its the great for sunday drive. as long as there are car fanatics we are going to build cars for them. >> you are here from srt brand motorsports. this is off shoot of chrysler. chrysler has done everything right in the last cou...

Switching gears, literally. cars are tomorrow are here today at the new york auto show and gary gastelu is here to check them out. its easter weekend, its time for the new york auto show and tomorrow, for new york, from nissan, a brand new chevrolet impal la and the lincoln mkz, none of kwi matter because theres also this. >> its the successor to the dodge viper. and under srt. at sexy sports car proving that chrysler can take on the worlds best on the road and on the track. >> what does this ca...

Tuesday, officials say between six and 13 twisters tuxd down between the dallas area alone. officials in washington state say whooping cough has reached epidemic levels there. about 640 cases have been reported since march 31st. that compares to just 94 cases during that same period last year. the state is now urging all children and adults, get vaccinated against the disease. and the group invisible children released a new video today. a follow-up to their viral video kony 2012. the videos ar...