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rahel solomon in for christine romans. a stormy and hot independence eve day eve, is in store for millions of people across the country. severe storms are expected to spread from mississippi to massachusetts, with wind gusts, hail and tornadoes possible in some areas. the streets of chicago flooded on sunday after record rainfall. meantime, more than 30 million people across the west coast, mid-atlantic and the carolinas will be under heat alerts today. and the severe weather could als...

Girlfriend for an intruder. prosecutors say he killed her in a rage after an argument. after tomorrows session the trial will adjourn until may 59. the nypd is debanding a commercial unit. it started after the september 11th terror attack sent undercover monday offiofficers . advocacy groups have long criticized these tactics. the department says community outreach could yield the same results. chris and kate? >> thank you very much. lets take a break. coming up next on "new day," were monit...

It is really very upsetting for these families. darkness has now fallen and with darkness fallen so do the hopes that many more survivors if any could be found. 291 still missing, still possibly in the water, still possibly in that ship itself. we understand divers have been drying to get inside the ship but the strong currents have been preventing them from it getting inside. the search and rescue operation are still very much under way. one of the uss navy ships from the u.s. seventh fleet is ...

Says, under water with many people fearing -- with many fear that people could still be trapped. lets get to pauline chiou live in hong kong with the latest deta details. >> the high school students you mentioned were on their way to a resort island for a four-day holiday. at 9:00 a.m. this morning the ferry sent out a distress signal and then two hours later that ferry was just about gone. a desperate rescue after a crowded passenger ferry suddenly began sinking off the coast of south korea. mo...

Assault ship. and the ship is operating in the vicinity t of the waters near where the ferry sunk. and we are on stand by awaiting request from the republic of korea government to support and the ship is -- the crew is ready to support as requested and as needed by the republic government. >> so far they havent asked you guys to do anything? >> no, sir. we have not -- we have not -- at this time we are still awaiting the request from the government toss a zest but we are standing by and we are r...

2008 in georgia. the only real material difference right now between georgia and here is that georgia decided to fight back and when they did it gave an opening for russia to go there n. and there was a lot of bloodshed. this time the ukraine kept its hands up and said we will not use force. hopefully that holds because we do not want to see more bloodshed. i think going forward we have to be very careful in seeing what is propaganda and what is in the influence of russia versus just trying to g...

Though initially when it was just at 45 degrees roll it does make it almost like scaling a mountain to go down and come back up. its not as easy as jumping on the boat and rescuing people. >> right. because the pathways, the hallways, doorways, everything is now different and -- theyve lost power. its dark on the inside of the ship so its just one situation thats not -- not, you know, incredibly unpleasant to be in a place like this. horrible. horrible. >> 300 eunaccounted for at last report. pe...

Thank you, barbara starr, for breaking that story. were following breaking news this morning of rescue operations under way right now after a ferry sank in south korea. hundreds are missing. also, the bluefin is back looking for flight 370. a lot of news to tell you about, a lot of news to tell you about, so lets get to it. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com a desperate rescue after a ferry sunk off south korea. technical issue brought it to the surface. they downloaded the data. no fou...

That could have been part of the reason why they jumped in the water. but we dont know about the life rafts. we didnt see any from the pictures. doesnt mean they werent there. >> paula, listing, solid rationale there. let us know what you learn there from the families. horrible waiting gim game for them. as this rescue operation for these nearly 300 missing continues, they are facing a lot of variables there. there are the currents, very quick there. and the water temperatures themselves are g...

Water. but as we can see right now, a very dangerous and urgent rescue operation happening as we speak. andrew, youve been on top of it all morning. thank you very, very much. chris? kate, the good news is some of the vessel is still above t water, meaning that theres some air buoyancy there. quick moving currents, the situation is moving rapidly and its difficult to get inside the ship to see if theres anyone to rescue. lets bring in former inspector general mary mary, ferries are not usually...