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Speaking in arizona right now on some of the problems. we're going to monitor what she's saying and check in,y up date you about the problems of the obama care website. stand by for that. let's get back to some other news in the meantime. this coming in, a new military response to a pirate attack on a u.s. ship in the abduction of two members. our pentagon correspondent barbara starr is following the story for us. pirates on the high seas, two americans missing. what's the latest? >> nigerian authorities are saying they're going to argue some sort of rescues for the americans kidnapped from ...

Alisyn that plays in people's deepest zie zoi. >> i can't believe they didn't ask for measurements or sign. 42 regular and scorpio. >> and good to know. uncle sam wasted no time running up the credit card. and the conconvince was that spending binge does not stop, alisyn. plus, two americans kidnapped in a pirate attack. and indictment of the parents of jonbennett realms. and what does it contain and what does it say about john and patsy ramsey.

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, let's 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. let's just look at some of the numbers on how the violence has grown. last year alone, 62 attacks and if you look over the previous two years, in 2011 and 2010, a steady rise. a lot of the violence ...

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 harm's way against the will of his crew before he sailed into the waters notorious for pirate attacks. suits are not against captain phillips personally. they're actually against the ship's owners and the crew's 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, two other vessels, as you probably remember, had come under pirate attack in the gulf that pro...

Steve, how did this all get to this point legislatively? >> reporter: well, as you saw, the defendants just arrived here in norfolk to make their first appearance in federal court here, they have the charges read against them, and then the judge will probably decide how they're going to get representation, lawyers to defend them. how it all came down was back on february 22nd, as you remember, a horrendous day, a very deadly pirate attack on an american yacht, the quest, that was out in the gulf of aden sea off the coast of amman when pirates seized it and held it, an american ship went to the...