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Where is it effective? >> we dont know at this point which compartments were affected, we just know that it started in interim and spread what where the ship had to be evacuated and multiple air and surface assets from the coast guard as well as local law enforcement and fire rescue was funded immediately to help assist and get all those passengers actually. >> im curious how you do that, it was only a few hours ago that fire started or that you have a report that there was a fire on board. how ...

On this day in 1909 the first s.o.s. call went out in north america on the coast of north carolina when a ships propeller snapped. s.o.s. doesnt stan for anything, just a signal to send in morse code. after the titanic sank, the u.s. officially adopted this system. crews have used it to call for help and other famous shipwrecks including the andrea dora in 1956. now a satellite system has taken the place but the letters are still a universal signal for help after a steam ship put out the first s...

The moon within in the next ten years. the country does have rocket technology and has put satellites in space but thats a fair cry from putting people in space. an american astrophysicist sis it could be difficult but lil kim might be able to do it. the u.s. is the only nation to have pulled off manned missions to moon but main hell volunteer on a one-way trip to the moon himself, lil kim. on this day in 1790 president george washington creating a force that would become the coast guard. the ...

Daring rescues, after george washington credited a team to patrol our shores 226 years ago today. >> president obama is set to take questions from reporters in, well, just about 15 minutes from now. he is going to be holding a news conference after meeting with some of his top intelligence and defense officials at the pentagon. obviously were waiting to see if the president will make a direct comment about "the wall street journal" story of $400 million in cash that was airlifted in january to i...

A dispatch just in. a late development. >> 25 soviet ships steam toward cuba. >> if the ships captains do not stop, force will be used to stop them. >> it was all a truly historic drama taking place every moment of every day. >> we are now in the most dangerous situation since the end of world war ii. the next 48 hours will be decisive. >> right up until the last minute, the first ship looked like it was going through the barrier and at that point, kennedy would have had to do something more.

Therefore, i do not wish to answer a question thats put to me in the fashion in which prosecutor does. in due course, sir, you will have your replay. >> im prepared to wait for my answer until hell freezes over if thats your decision. >> each side didnt know what the other side was doing and there was a lot of room for miscalculation. >> we believe there are about 25 soviet ships moving toward cuba. if the vessel does not stop, refuses to heed the instructions, force will be applied to assure th...

Possible that some day there can be a woman in the white house. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com a supreme national effort will be needed to move the country safely through the 1960s. >> across the world, soviet missiles are aimed at the united states. whatever the president does, he risks nuclear war. >> he calls west berlin a cancerous sore. >> lines are drawn. >> 25 russian ships are enroute to cuba on what may be a collision course. >> no way of knowing whether western civilization wi...

>> khrushchev has changed his position. >> there was an announcement from moscow that they would withdraw the missiles. and i said, the other guy just blinked. >> this is the day we have every reason to believe when the world came out from under the most terrible threat of nuclear holocaust since the end of world war ii. >> the message to president kennedy was long and rambling but for the first time mr. khrushchev acknowledged the presence in cuba of soviet missiles. he argued they were defensi...

What it was wasnt even clear to him. >> the white house was on the point of being evacuated. they thought that this was the early stages of world war iii. >> listen to the tapes of the missile crisis and on the last day when we seemed so close to war, you can hear the voices becoming a little bit more ragged and a little bit more urgent. >> my main point is i dont think at this particular point we should show a weakness to khrushchev and i think we would show a weakness if we get -- >> president...

>> this is what happens with the disaster be seven advanced of the story. >> exactly. heather: so this collapsible lifeboat that is now what, up for auction or someone before it? >> know, we had three photographs. its a 19-month-old montage of three photographs and this account of the recovery ofthe lifeboat . heather: and it was used to actually rescue people off the titanic as we just heard some describe but some were rescued as well. >> what happened was as the case unfold after the titanic s...