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Right now, 13 survivors from this ferry accident are recovering. one of them is a 71-year-old woman who had an incredible story. her name is shin yong-ja, and she talks about how she was on vacation with four other friends. she was in a large common area where many of the passengers were sleeping. as soon as she felt that jolt, the ship started listing, she said, and water started coming in. it happens to be that shes a very good swimmer. she was always active her whole life. she started swimmin...

. breaking news tonight, the captain of that ferry that sank two days ago off south korea has been arrested the death toll stands at 2 with about 270 people missing and feared dead. there are questions about a sharp turn the ship took just before it started listing. also today, a school administrator who was rescued was hanging from a tree. the deadliest known disaster on the worlds highest peak has claimed at least 12 lives. an avalanche swept down a climbing route on mount everest. preside...

Ships were there. so it is certainly heartbreaking for them because these are the very parents, jake, who have instilled that sense of obedience and listening to their elders. >> absolutely tragic. thank you so much, kyung lah in south korea, appreciate it. while we still dont know why it sunk, the time it took to go under could be telling. tom foreman is here to explain. it only took about two hours. what are we to make of that? >> it does say that it was a catastrophic failure here. think abou...

>> yeah, im sure for the families it does not matter who pays as long as they just keep looking there. and speaking of those families we talked last night about them sort of taking matters into their own hands, organizing. listing 26 questions on that. where does that stand? will they get the answers they want? >> reporter: i would say if you ask them at the moment theyre not particularly hopeful. weve heard from malaysian authorities who say that they are going to send a high level delegation i...

Boat back to shore. >> all right. what is -- i read reports that there was some noise before it started listing and tilting and then over and down. is there any sort of preliminary thought an to what has taken this ferry down? >> well, greta, they are still not too sure exactly what that loud thud was that some of the people who got off the boat say they heard before it started to tilt. of course, there is speculation it could be a rock. some maritime observers there say that the channel where t...

The plane was and still dont. these families know where the vessel is. what do we know about the situation for these families that are watching and waiting? >> many of those high school students came from one high school. so they are a community all together, all waiting together and as you say, there are those huge differences between flight 370 and what happened here, but in the sense, the similarity is that you have families who simply dont know what happened and are having to sit and kind of...

Would this expression of school spirit ever be possible. kids of every category, lacrosse team to art club, the high school orchestra, the cheerleading squad. which you probably wouldnt hang out all that much in the lunchroom, coming together for a cause. 68 songs in 6 1/2 minutes. quite literally a cast of thousands. 2,700 to be exact. the whole school. this is the place. avon high school in avon, indiana. how did they bring it off? >> this is pretty much a one-take thing. >> reporter: one take...

Would this expression of school spirit ever be possible. kids of every category, lacrosse team to art club, the high school orchestra, the cheerleading squad. which you probably wouldnt hang out all that much in the lunchroom, coming together for a cause. 68 songs in 6 1/2 minutes. quite literally a cast of thousands. 2,700 to be exact. the whole school. this is the place. avon high school in avon, indiana. how did they bring it off? >> this is pretty much a one-take thing. >> reporter: one take...

Not confirmed that. those on board say they first heard a loud bang and the ship began lifting very hard left on top of the 450 passengers. there were dozens of vehicles on the boat, which is why it flipped over so fast. yet passengers were told repeatedly to sit still. listen and read the captions because its in koreanen. play this. >> many of those who obeyed are among the missing and on top of the water rushing in on them. remember, the boat was listing, they had cargo, other passengers and l...

Usually means contact with something. on either side and its narrow there are things that could have been hit. now what do we learn? theyre told while its listing, stay put. not get into life boats, not get ready to abandon ship. now, remember, each minute lost makes it that much harder to escape, shifting cargo and cars. it had 150 vehicles on board and doors that could flood easily at impact. now what happened? it goes from listing to completely submerging and rotating over. what does that mea...