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Right now. four hostages onboard a hijacked american yacht, killed by their pirate captors. our david mckinzie is in my robey, kenya, to tell us about what happened here. i mean, this is startling. this is something where the u.s. forces were keeping a close eye, hopefully negotiating. was this a botched rescue attempt? >> well, it's unclear at this point, suzanne. certainly four u.s. navy ships including an aircraft carrier were keeping an eye shadowing in the words of the u.s. navy this 58-foot pleasure yacht, the quest, which had four americans onboard all of them experienced sailors. what ...

Apparently, an active rescue effort under way. against all those 15 pirates aboard that boat when this -- the hostages were shot and killed, but apparently the pirates had indicated or had perhaps threatened the lives at some point of those four hostages. before they were killed. the u.s. military officials say that all 15 of those pirates have either been killed or captured themselves. over the past couple of days, military and an fbi negotiating team had been talking to the pirates, trying to convince them to release the hostages. again, the tragic news this morning that all four of those ho...

Beginning, military sources had told us that special operations forces had said that a rescue mission probably would not be successful in this case because there were so many pirates. we now learn there were 19 pirates. and only four hostages. unlike the situation two years ago where navy sharpshooters shot and killed their three pirate captors to save captain richard phillips. in this case, 19 was too many to handle. and they say they were taken totally by surprise when, during negotiations, one of the pirates actually got on deck of the yacht and fired a rocket propelled grenade at a nearby ...