survive. at least 87 people have died. 215 are still missing. mothers and fathers, already burying their children. there you can see the soft chorus of women, really people, weeping there, overcome with grief, barely able to catch their breath. many of the dead are teenagers. cnn s kyung lah looks at tsolem moments as their bodies are brought from the sunken ferry. reporter: the first police boat returns from the search site. parents waiting, bracing. they return one by one in identical plain white bags. behind the screen, initial inspection. a blanket to cover. a short march back to land.
for. kentucky s kyung lah reports it is a painful environment for everyone as you can imagine, as bodies are brought ashore. reporter: the first police boat returns from the search site. parents waiting, bracing. they return one by one in identical plain white bags. behind the screen, initial inspection. a blanket to cover. and a short march back to land. parents rush to the white tents to identify their children. he must have said, daddy, save me, weeps this father.
the death toll rose to 59 a short time ago in that ferry off the coast of south korea. bodies are being recovered as heartbroken families watch. reporter: the first police boat returns from the search site. parents waiting, bracing. they return one by one in identical plain white bags. behind the screen, initial inspection. a blanket to cover. and a short march back to land.
you hear hundreds of parents, their cries punk waiting the air. it s been an extraordinarily difficult process that promises to repeat many times over. the first police boat returns from the search site. parents waiting. bracing. they return one by one in identical, plain white bags. behind the screen, initial inspection. a blanket to cover. and then a short march back to land. parents rush to the white tents to identify their children. you must have said, daddy, save
realize the gravity of the situation. one witness we spoke to earlier on this program said he thought it was all part of the movie. maybe a prank. but it wasn t. this eyewitness who spoke with fox and friends earlier this morning described it this way. the building shakes in the movie theater these days. that s what we thought was happening the then obviously, the scene died down and there was calm in the movie, that s when the real chaos started taking off, you know. that is the way the security or the i don t know if it was the guys in the movie house, or the projector house, somebody yelled get down and get back. that s when we knew things weren t right. you guys had a lot of trouble breathing. even though it was exploded in theater nine because the air-conditioning and circulation was on it was in your theater in no time, right? right, right. we were seven rose back from the screen. from what i m hearing reports he appeared from behind the screen in nine. he was in front vi