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What is 9 latest? >> reporter: wolf, murky still. no word on the fate of the americans who were kidnapped. as for the ship, murky statements out of the nigeria. some say they dont know where the ship is, from the government spokesman. some suggesting it may be in an eastern port. u.s. officials telling us they have good reason to believe the ship is in port, but will not say where. security concerns, of course, still about the crew in nigeria. the key issue, of course, is not the location of the...

Guinea off the coast of nigeria. this has become a prime hunting ground for pirates. the most memorable pirate attack on an american is now a hit movie. captain richard phillips was kidnapped by somalia pirates and held hostage for five days at sea before he was rescued by navy s.e.a.l.s. but those nigerian pirates will pose a more of a threat. >> you got to understand its dangerous out in the gulf of guunea. >> reporter: acts of piracy have decreased pirate attacks off the coast of nigeria have...

Americans, the captain and the chief engineer in this pirate attack yesterday taken off the boat. at this hour, no word on where they are. this ship, lets go back to the photo of it, the "sea retriever" was going around in these west african waters resupplying oil installations. this is a very rough piece of territory off the coast of nigeria, very violent. it has suffered a lot of pirate attacks. lets just look at some of the numbers on how the violence has grown. last year alone, 62 attacks an...

This is a very tough neighborhood, wolf. pirate attacks, violent attacks have been rising steadily for the last couple years. last year alone 62 attacks, and you can see the previous two years, the same thing, a rice in attac attacks. this is in such contrast to whats been going on in east africa. we kept hearing for years about pirate attacks in somalia. well, thats down now, because security has xwroismd so much off the coast of nigeria. in fact right now theres a maritime exercise of several ...

Threatened before being rescued by u.s. navy seals who shot three pirates but the lawsuits allege it was captain phillips who steered his ship into harms way against the will of his crew before he sailed into the waters notorious for pirate attacks. suits are not against captain phillips personally. theyre actually against the ships owners and the crews employers. the crews attorney says they begged captain phillips not to go so close to the somali coast. just two days before the ship was taken,...

Some $7 billion. while we arent seeing results, the number of successful pirate attacks is tearing up exponentially. the issue becomes how sustainable is this in the long-term? how sustainable is it to constantly have to secure the waters -- well, one of the worlds busiest -- attacks of sort. so nato and others operating this area are looking into being able to continue their presence here. if we try and involve those who have the most at stake, those whose waters the pirates have been hijacking...

University telling the graduate they need to stay true to the needs of the church and our country and a sonic weapon used to ward off pirate attacks and drive back rioting used at the summer olympics, turns out. the defense ministry plans to use the device for security during the game. >> back to the top story right now. a government watch dog blasting the f.a.a. showing a lack of urgency over whistleblower complaints on aviation safety. now, the alleged offenses by air traffic control includes ...

>> a sonic weapon used to ward off pirate attacks will be used during londons summer olympics. the american-made device fires a sound thats louder than the sound of military jets. >> boston university holding a candlelight vigil for three students killed study ag broad in new zealand. at least five other students from the university also injured when their minivan crashed. >> all right. right now well get back to one of our top stories. governor romney delivering todays commencement speech at li...

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lets go "outfront." good evening, im erin burnett. "outfront" tonight, we told you so. the economy is doing a lot better. today, the third month in a row of frankly really good jobs nurls. todays report shows the u.s. added 227,000 jobs last month and more people felt optimistic enough to get back into the labor force cht thats why the unemployment rate held firm. now, everyone is increasingly obje optimistic. our strike team said there would not be a double dip recession last fall w...