their boat tipping over after it ran aground off of one of italy s islands. this is not how you re supposed to see the sunset from a cruise ship. look at those pictures. they are unbelievable. three people are dead. among more than 4,000 who were onboard that ship, and here is what authorities are saying. they say 43 to 70 people could still be missing. an estimated 16 americans, 126 were on the cruise, but none of them are reported hurt. the italian captain is under arrest right now. he could be charged with manslaughter and abandoning ship. the ship is owned by carnival. the biggest cruise line in the world based in miami. cnn spoke with one of the americans who had to flee the ship, army colonel vivian shafer on an r&r leave. we had just been on only a few hours. we didn t even have the safety brief yet. it was really bizarre. we had finished dinner and we were at the magic show. we thought it was really sort of a bizarre trick to have the curtains all be sideways and th
threatening to close the strait as global pressure grows over its nuclear program. 17 million barrels of oil flow through the strait every day. it s a choke point. as american officials have been warning privately and publicly, it is also a serious flash point. what about if they decide to block us off at the straits of hormuz? we made very clear that the united states will not tolerate blocking of the straits of hormuz. that s another red line for us and that we will respond to that. we will respond, he says. the question tonight is what will iran do next. what happens then. and what s being done right now to head off a crisis. barbara starr is at the pentagon. jill dougherty covering the diplomatic angle. and on the phone, kirk lippold, former commander of the uss cole. what does the u.s. believe the intent was? trying to bait the u.s. military, provoke an altercation? maybe a little bit of both. the thinking is is the iranians really were not looking for a shooti
strait of hormuz. it s a choke point, and as american officials have been warning privately and publicly, a serious flash point. what about if they decide to block us off at the straits of hormuz. we have made it clear that the united states will not tolerate the blocking of the straits of hormuz. we will respond to that. the question tonight is, what will iran do next? what happens then? what s being done right now to head it off. barbara starr is here, and on the phone, curt lithal, former commander of the u.s.s. cole. what do you believe to be the intent of the iranians. were they trying to bait the u.s. military, provoke an altercation? maybe just a little bit of both, anderson. the thinking is that the iranians were not looking for a shooting match. they were going to break off, but they were going to cause a little heart-stopping action before they did that. one of the things here is look, the iranians gained intelligence by getting so close to u.s. navy ships.
it s a choke point, and as american officials have been warning privately and publicly, a serious flash point. what about if they decide to block us off at the straits of hormuz. we have made it clear that the united states will not tolerate the blocking of the straits of hormuz. we will respond to that. the question tonight is, what will iran do next? what happens then? what s being done right now to head it off. barbara starr is here, and on the phone, curt lithal, former commander of the u.s.s. cole. what do you believe to be the intent of the iranians. were they trying to bait the u.s. military, provoke an altercation? maybe just a little bit of both, anderson. the thinking is that the iranians were not looking for a shooting match. they were going to break off, but they were going to cause a little heart-stopping action before they did that. one of the things here is look, the iranians gained intelligence by getting so close to u.s. navy ships. they were able to
the former governor haley barbour. before leaving office he gave 14 pardons including a murderer. in an exclusive interview with cnn, eps he s sorry and has found god and changed his life. he worked in the governor s office as part of a prison program for three years and talked with the governor he said every day. reporter: your pardon, as you probably know by now, has triggered a lot of outrage. not just yours, of course. but the pardons of other prisoners. yes, sir. reporter: what do you think about that? well, you know, if the lord lay it on the governor s heart, the inmates who work at the government around the world who have been working at the governor s mansion, be they, whatever they been doing their chores at the governor s mansion, yes, i think they should be pardoned. everybody deserved a second chance in life. martin savidge tracked him down and conducted that exclusive interview. martin, explain more on how he described his relationship with the governo