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Americans are among the 15 people still mising in fridays italian cruise ship disaster. at least five are now confirmed dead after the cruise ship hit rocks off the tuscan koes and then capsized. the ships owner is joining the list of those making serious accusations against the captain. in a statement, he says preliminary indications show that there may have been significant human error. witnesses say he abandoned ship and may have been showing off by putting it too close to shore. now chilling...

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People dead and 4,200 evacuated. we are joined by claudia. good morning. this seems like something that happened to a modern 21st century ship. >> reporter: well, alex, this is still a mystery. its anyones guess as such a modern cruise liner and this was built in 2005 to go off course by four nautical miles. thats a lot. what is worse than that is that it was aiming straight at an island off the coast that is not far away from where im standing. if it hadnt hit a rocky reef it would have been in...

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Theyre worried about the environmental disaster as well, bill. bill: why did the survivors sound so angry, greg? >> reporter:. bill:, you heard some of them yourself. basically you answer that in two words, chaos and cowardice. a lot of chaos and confusion. you see that through the amateur video. the cowardice, a lot of claims as well that the crew took care of themselves first. we saw also with the campaign -- campaign getting away and a sense of betrayal. for the first half hour they were told...

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Appeared to be significant human error on the part of that captain. >> an italian couple claims they saw that captain in a lifeboat covered by a blanket well before all the passengers were even off the ship. as abcs todd ed reports, the search and recovery mission off the coast of italy is happening right now. >> reporter: on sunday rescuers found three survivors. a crew member with a broken leg who was hoisted to safety and a south korean couple on their honeymoon trapped in their cabin. divers...

Surround the captain, arrested and questioned under suspicion of manslaughter and abandoning ship. he says they were about 1,000 feet from shore and shouldnt have hit anything. the ships owner says "there may have been significant human error on the part of the captain which resulted in these grave consequences." and added, "the route of the vessel appears to have been too close to shore and in handling the emergency the captain appears not to have followed standard costa procedures." the gash i...