failure. these are infrared images. what you're watching, those are actually people who are scrambling to save their lives on board that ship. now, right now, navy divers are using explosives to blast their way into the ship to search for others victims. perhaps survivors. you're going to want to hear what the captain said on the night of the disaster. we've got that up for you in just a few minutes. and brace yourself. gas prices going through the proof again. that's right. gasmoney.com says some of us could be paying around $5 a gallon by the summer. prices already at record highs. according to aaa, the average price for a gallon of unleaded has jumped to $3.39. it is the highest january gas prices ever. 30 cents higher than a year ago. mitt romney's rivals are not letting up on the attacks on him. romney was the main target last night in myrtle beach, south carolina. his opponents are keeping it up again today. rick santorum stopped just short of calling romney a liar on the issue of the super pac ads. he says romney needs to stop what he calls dirty politics. we don't need someone who supports lies and promotes lies and stands behind those lies in order to get elected president. >> if you live in south carolina, there's a good chance you'll run into republican presidential candidates because the primary is this saturday and the candidates, supporters, they are all across the state, just saturated. several events happening over the next two hours. rick santorum visits the akin republican club. that happens in about 30 minutes. rick perry's wife, anita, is campaigning in charleston. and newt gingrich has a stop in columbia. so members of congress, at least those in the house, getting back to work this morning. at least that's what we're hoping. a new cnn/orc poll found just 11% of people approve of how congress is handling jobs. that is at an all-time low. the previous all-time low was at 4% in august. and republican wisconsin scott walker could become just the third u.s. governor in history to be kicked out of office. today, his opponents are expected to submit more than 500,000 signatures to force a recall election. walker came under fire last year after he signed a law that stripped most public units of bargaining rights. sounds like a horror movie, yeah, huge snakes on the loose, spreading out of control. it's real in florida. anacondas, pythons like this one taking over the everglades. officials hope a new rule is going to help. this announcement was made this morning making it efrld to import three times of large snaims snakes or take them across state lines. i want to bring you back to the lead story wab cruise ship that turned into a death trap. we are getting news about the coast guard officer yelling at the captain to get back on the ship. things go so intense as this disaster played out friday night. what you're going to hear is a translated version of the conversation between the captain and a coast guard officer who gets panicked, even more panicked and furious by the moment as this unfolds. listen to this.( [ speaking foreign language ]. >> this is captain schettino. >> listen, schettino. there are people trapped on board. now, you have to go with your life boat and go under the boat stem on the straight side. there's a ladder there. get on board the ship and tell me, you tell me how many people there are. clear? i'm recording this conversation, capital yab schettino. >> i understand. listen, there are people coming down the stem ladder. you must take that ladder in the opt sit direction. get on board the ship and you tell me how many people there are and what they have. you tell me the there are children, women, people with special needs. and you tell me how many there are in each of this category. is that clear? look, schettino, you might have been saved from the sea, but i will make sure you go through a very rough time. i will make sure you go through a lot of trouble. get on board. >> i'm going now because there is the other motor boat that has stopped now. >> you go on board. it is an order. you cannot make any other violations. you have declared abandoning ship. now i'm in charge. you get on board. is it clear? >> comandant. >> are you not listening to me? >> i'm going. >> call me immediately when you get on board. my rescue officer is there. >> where is your rescue officer? >> my rescue officer is at the stem. go. >> okay. >> there are already dead bodies. >> how many? >> i don't know. i know of one. i've heard of one. you are the one to tell me how many there are. christ. >> all right. the question, will he or woep he? that is what everyone is asking mitt romney about releasing his tax returns. here is your chance to talk back. today's question, should romney release his tax returns? carol costello is joining us from washington with more on this. carol, perhaps you can explain why it has become so significant. certainly not required. hasn't happened in every campaign. this has become a pretty big deal. >> it has. republican opponents are saying, release your tax returns already. it was rick perry's battle cry against mitt romney at last night's debate. >> mitt, we need for you to release your income tax so the people of this country can see how you made your money. and i think that's a fair thing. listen, here is the real issue for us as republicans. we cannot fire our nominee in september. we need to know now. so i hope you'll put your tax records out there this week so the people of south carolina can take a look and decide if, you know, we have a flawed candidate or not. >> "the washington post" is asking that very question. why won't romney release his tax returns? what about that information you can't find elsewhere like tax shelters and charitable deductions? not to mention all the money that romney made at bain capital? whatever romney's pones hope to illustrate, they've pushed romney into a probably, but i'm not going to release anything before the south carolina primary mantra. >> time will tell, but i anticipate that most likely i'm going to get asked to do that around the april time period and i'll keep that open. >> romney has already released a personal financial disclosure report which is required of all presidential candidates. and we all know romney is richer than most of us will ever be. according to cnnmoney.com, romney is worth between $85 and $264 million. he owns several homes, one in lahoya, california, worth about $10 million. we also know the sec lists between $250,000 to $500,000 in horses and $250,000 to $500,000 in gold. but the horses and the gold belong to the misses. do you want to know more? the republicans who want to be president do. so to top that question today, should mitt romney release his tax returns? facebook.com/carolcnn. i'll read your comments later this hour. >> all right. thank you, carol. her is a run down of some of the stories we are covering first. a live report from italy on the future of the cruise ship's captain. and what exactly did the captain do wrong? we'll talk with a seaman. and they are beguning for mitt romney with four days to go before the south carolina primary. and this is for real. people in new york city taking pictures of rats and voting on them as part of a rate my rat contest. only in new york. [ female announcer ] in the grip of arthritis, back, or back joint pain? aspercreme breaks the grip, with maximum-strength medicine and no embarrassing odor. break the grip of pain with aspercreme. death toll in the italian cruise ship disaster has now risen to 11. navy divers are looking for victims. an italian court says a captain is going to stay in jail. journalist barbie nedeau as in the courtroom. first, dan, on the scene, do they believe there are any survivors? are they still in recovery mode trying to find people on that ship? >> reporter: well, with officially, they are saying they are still doing a search and rescue operation. i think the reality, though, the brutal reality is it's almost inconceivable now. it's almost four days since this accident happened that anyone could have survived for so long inside. it's been freezing cold here at night and, you know, the fact that that is counting against anyone who is trapped inside, they've been listening for sounds of life. as i'm speaking to you now, more launches are heading out to the costa concordia. but so far, all they have found are bodies, sadly. five more bodies recovered today, bringing the total confirmed number of dead to 11 with a large number of people still unaccounted for, 23 people still unaccounted for. so it is a pretty grim task for these officers who are searching through the wreckage and a dangerous one, as well. >> dan, tell us a little bit about the people who we -- what do we know about those who are missing? >> reporter: well, the large party of germans who are missing, 12, according to the german foreign ministry, and then there are a number of other nationalities, including some members of crew in that makeup. but it's very confused at the moment. the figures that we have are six italians, one of whom is a member of the crew. four french, as well. and then, of course, two americans, an indian and a pa proven adding to that list. so it's a very multi national list of missing, reflecting, really, the fact that this was a global company, that people from all over the world would come on these cruises, these lavish cruises around the mediterranean. and that is complicating the coordination of all this because they're having to coordinate with so many different governments around the world. >> dan, thank you. i want to talk a little bit about where exactly this ship was going and where it's going to end up. i want to bring in chad meyers and to explain the ship's path and how it diverted. >> literally, this is only in the water for a few hours. this ship had only left its first port for a seven-day cruise. it was on its way up to marseille and it was on the water for a couple of hours, having a nice time probably getting ready, probably getting dressed for a nice night at dinner. all of a sudden, the captain, someone decided to take this boat significantly too close to a rocky shore. i've been told that this isn't all that unusual. they try to get the boat as close as they can so the passengers have a nice view off the -- it would have been off the portside of the boat. that's what it looks like right now. this is the island that it eventually bumped into. there's another rock right there that it eventually floated around. so it's rome. you would take either a taxi or something over here. and then as it moved on through, we can zoom in here. you wanted to get through this rocky area right in through there. and this rocky zone through here, and over here, where you should be coming through the shipping channel, there will be red buoys, green buoys. and unfortunately, the boat got much too close to this reef over here, knocked the bottom out of the boat at some point in time and turned the boat into -- there's a small port here and we believe that the captain was trying to get a little bit closer. keep going on with that. there we go. there's the bump, another bump through there. the ship tried to turn around. clearly you get water in the bottom of the boat. the boat begins to lift. as the boat begins to lift, it gets difficult to get life boats off. people are panicked, obviously. it was getting dark. very cold outside. the water temperature only 57. at 57 depress, dwhur not in the water very long without getting very, very chilled. there was obviously rock right there that they're trying to get to. you bring this boat back, there we go. there's the picture from the rock as it was only beginning to lift. so people were going to try to get these life jackets, these life boats off, but didn't do a very good job of it as the boats went over on its slide. >> do we know there's any danger of that ship coming off those rocks there? >> there are tides coming in every day lifting the boat back up and back down. when the boat begins to lift like this, the metal begins to twist and doors won't open. so there may be people in air pockets in completely good rooms. even though those people are missing, that doesn't mean they're dead. as the boat lifts and the metal shifts, think of your doorway. you would never be able to get that door open if the doorjamb was stuck crooked. that's why they think maybe that's where some of these people are. there are divers literally feeling their way through this boat and looking for those people that are missing. >> chad, dan was saying that the weather there at night in particular is really, really cold. i can't imagine what the temperature is if you're in one of those cabins and you're in an air pocket, just how long you might be able to survive. >> the nighttime temperatures get down into the 20s. afternoon temperatures up into the 40s, maybe around 50 degrees. they're going to get up and make a big circle around the mediterranean. it goes warmer as you get over to barcelona. if you have clothes on and you're not sitting in water, you'll be completely fine. they could last for days if they have air. that would be the biggest things. >> that would be very optimis c optimistic, very hopeful. the italian court says the captain of that vessel will be staying in area. barbie nedeau is joining us by phone. explain to us if he has been charged, what he has been charged with. >> reporter: he hasn't officially been charged yet. the captain spent a couple hours out of jail today. he's been in custody since saturday. he was interrogated by an investing magistrate. who was trying]éó to make a decision whether or not he should remain in custody. it's possible if he's charged that he won't be officially charged for up to a year. by italian law they can keep a suspect in custody for that long without making an official charge. the judge today decided that she would reserve the right to make a sdilgz final decision on that. should she's put him back in jail for the night and she's going to revisit this question in the coming days and weeks. she wants to wait until the full recovery and rescue operation is finished so she knows exactly how many people are -- died in this accident, how many people survivedó&53 it. then she can make a better decision on whether or not he should stay in jail. he's potentially facing charges of man slaughter, of ship wrest and abandoning ship. those are very serious charges. abandoning a ship carries up to 15 years in prison. it was still very much a wait and see point at this juncture. >> and barbie, if he has not been charged with anything yet, why is he being held? why is he in jail? is it like our system of justice where it might be fear of a flight region whisk of flight? >> no. it is very different. the italian system allows forea suspect to be held for one year without charge. but they have to have enough reason, enough evidence against him in order to do that. what we heard today from the lawyer defending him and from the prosecutor trying to keep him in jail was that they do believe they have enough evidence. they do believe that there's evidence that he abandon the ship. that comes from transcripts that have published and tapes and audiotapes have been heard that show left the ship before the last passengers. that is, by law, enough to keep him in jail until he is charged. but the judges reserve the right to rule definitively on this. so this is really very much a wait and see point at this point. we'll see in the next, i would say, days if not weeks we'll know a little bit more about the judicial aspect. >> and barbie, we have seen and heard that transcript. what does the captain say in his defense? >> the captain's lawyer, i just spoke to very, very briefly today by phone says that he thinks the captain was heroic and that he did what he could, as a skillful ship captain to save as many passengers as possible. he says the captain is upset, is in emotional pain and distraught over this accident. and he says that his client did not abandon the ship and should not be in jail right now. >> all right. barbie, thank you very much. we're go the going to have much more on this story after the break. when you have diabetes... your doctor will say get smart about your weight. i tried weight loss plans... but their shakes aren't always made for people with diabetes. that's why there's new glucerna hunger smart shakes. they have carb steady, with carbs that digest slowly to help minimize blood sugar spikes. and they have 6 grams of sugars. with 15 grams of protein to help manage hunger... look who's getting smart about her weight. 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