four americans, two american couples, one from california, the other from seattle, washington, captured by somali pirates over the weekend, are now confirmed dead. these are the two couples who were traveling together on board a yacht known as guest. if you have watched "america's newsroom" over the past two years we've talked about the somali pirates story at great length. this is a dangerous part of the world, where the somalis try and rapture -- capture in order for ransom, to get money. here's somali, is you have the red sea coming this way, which goes further into the suez canal. we'll talk about that. here is yemen, the gulf of aden, too, and these shipping lanes off the coast of somali are down to the gulf of aden, it's required commercial shippers to get the u.s. navy, the russian navy, the chinese navy, any one of these international world powers to escort commercial ship to go these lanes to get around the deadly wrath of the pirates.