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Watching one of the worst peacetime disasters in the history of an entire nation. In the waters off south korea tonight, over 280 people, most of them High School Students remain unaccounted for after the ferry boat they were riding on sank and a number of survivors report that even as the ship was listing badly to the side, people were told to stay where they were in the vessel and not rush out to the deck. The ferry, a large vessel, almost 500 feet long with a capacity of 900 passengers set sa...

In the ferry sinking. At least 87 are confirmed dead. 215 people are missing and most of them are high school students. The ferry at least 30 feet below the ocean surface. Look at the conditions. Divers struggling to search the freezing, murky waters. Theyre now trying to get into the cafeteria where officials believe most of the students were when the vessel started to capsize. South koreas president is calling the actions of the captain and crew members, quote, akin to murder. The captain and ...

Hello, im wolf blitzer reporting from washington. We start with the countdown to what could be an explosive News Conference from the nba commissioner, adam silver. In an hour from now, silver will talk about the scandal involving the Los Angeles Clippers owner Donald Sterling. Offensive racist comments on tape are being attributed to sterling. Hes been quiet about it to this point. But there have been so many calls for the commissioner to kick sterling out of the league. At the top of the hour, ...

Malaysia airlines fright 370. Australian Officials Say theyve recovered an object of interest, in their words, on the Western Australia coast, near the town of augusta, about 186 miles south of perth. The object is being described as a piece of sheet metal with rivets. Its being sent to investigators in perth to determine whether its a piece of the plane. The object was found more than 1,000 miles from the site of the underwater search. A hightech drone finished its tenth mission in that area to...

Objects, photographed by a commercial satellite. Australias Prime Minister today defended the decision to announce the discovery. Also reiterated the objects may not be from the missing plane. Also, malaysian authorities now say theyre aware of news reports, the pilot the of flight 370 placed a cell phone call only minutes before the plane took off. They say they have passed that information on to investigators. Military surveillance planes and commercial jet two merchant ships spent hours combi...

Brought to the farther end of the runway. It was surrounded by four to five patrol cars. We understand the passenger was brought into Police Custody but he was unarmed. Some flights at the airport were delayed, but everything, according to that cnn producer, was back to normal within the hour. Chris . Erin, thanks for the reporting. Lets bring in Richard Quest live from kuala lumpur. Were going to talk to you about the flight for 370 and your exclusive interview with the malaysian Prime Minister...

Justify taking crimea. And the father of the 15yearold stowaway speaks out for the first time. Find out why he believes his son ran away, risking his life in the wheel well of a jumbo jet. Hello, everyone, im john berman. And im michaela pereira. Its 11 kw 00 a. M. In the east. New video just into cnn. A dramatic standoff between families of those missing on flight 370 and representatives of malaysia airlines. The family members refused to allow Airline Officials to leave a packed Conference Roo...

Are dead. Doctors without borders and the w. H. O. Send teams in to help control the outbreak. Just three days later the number of cases jumps to 86. And by now 62 deaths. Isolation units are set up to help try and control the spread. Dealing with those who have been infected in a way that the virus is not transmitted to Health Workers and to the families, this involves putting up the isolation wards and facilities. Scared of whats lurking in their hometowns some of the people start to make the ...

Were going to intensify the deep water search. As teams pin their hopes if theres anything to be found on the surface, theyll find it. Youre live in the cnn newsroom. Good morning. Im carol costello. Thanks so much for joining me. We begin this morning in jindo, south korea, where the capsized ferry is now completely submerged. Youre looking at a live picture of the dock area where families have been waiting for any update from search officials. Arrest warrants have been issued for the captain a...

This new strategy will likely drag out the search a lot longer. This bluefin21 submarine takes six times to search as the towed pinger locater. Today the sub can only carry an area of about 15 square miles which is about 7,200 football fields meaning the scan of the entire search area which is the size of los angeles could take up to two months. The deployment of the autonomous under water vehicle has the potential to take us a further step towards visual identification since it offers a possibl...