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Bombings iin ining -- bombings, people died and more than 60 were injured. vice president joe biden called it the face of america's resolve. and we have more on that speedy and massive rescue operation off korea's south coast. >> the operators say the boat began to list and then went down. we're getting updated information about the rescue operation. >> that is right, john, yes, we now know from the coast guard that two people have been confirmed to have been killed in this accident. one we know is a phofemale, the body was found about two hours ago. and just in the last few minutes the coas...

Dead. they also tell us of the 474 people on board 180 people are confirmed rescued. and as we have been continuing to monitor the situation there, this rescue situation is in fact ongoing. all right, we will continue to bring you updates on that story. but we wanted to take a short break now, still to come here on cnn news room, five days of grueling cross examination are over for oscar pistorius at his murder trial. find out about the emotional final account he gave the court of the moment he shot and killed reeva steencamp. i dunno, i just ah woke up today and i said i need something sp...

News. we are getting reports a south korean ferry off the country any southern coast, carrying 450 passengers is sinking. the boat has been almost completely submerged. most passengers were high school students on a trip. navy and civilian vessels are on the scene to help with rescue. i am joined, from the scene, june yun, what's the latest you know about the rescue efforts? >> hi, a passenger ship carrying 474 people on board started sinking off south korea's southwest coast. two hours ago. the ship was on the way to an island. the passengers on board were mostly high school students. rescue ...

>> we have some updated figures for you. they now say they believe 474 people were on board this vessel. 447 were passengers. 27 workroom members. the latest figure we have on those that have been rescued is 169 still not updated over the past 20 minutes or so. that could in reality be higher. we effort from a coast guard one person has been killed in this incident. a female body was found at 1135 ibm, about an hour and a half ago. this started right about four hours ago at 9:00 a.m. a distress signal that came from this vessel. on its way home to the port just west of the capital of south kor...

816-474-8477. they want to get that information out widely because these are interstates. so people may be traveling in and out of missouri and having this happen or seeing something. so they're hoping they can widely get the information. jenna: we'll have to run. harris, thank you.