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Abandoned ship before everyone else got off you can expect a prosecution. >> the whole idea of somebody abandoning ship is crazy. mark, what we have got here is we have a cruise ship, state of the art. $280 million. ten stories high. i mean the titanic was 100 years ago. how does this happen? >> i guess in a nut shell it just got too close to the shore and no one really knows why they did that. they were so close to the shore and they know that reef is there and i guess that is going to be the question that has to get sorted out. they do have a black box on the ships so they will be able to fi...

And french tourists, there were two french tourists killed in the incident, although the largest number of people onboard were italians they are absolutely furious about what happened. essentially about what happened in terms of the rescue. they said it was very poorly organized. it was total madness, total chaos which is why so many people did end up in the water. people not being able to go back to their rooms obviously, just coming up onshore with blankets and nothing more. in total, 4,229 people on this ship. now, finally, there are more than 100 americans who were on the ship. the u.s. em...

Burke from rome. >> what a dramatic scene last night. hundreds of people having to jump off the ship as the ship was sinking just off the tuscan coast in italy. there still are dozens of people unaccounted for. the ship's commander is being held for questioning. now, everyone thinks titanic when something like this happens. and from what happened, it was something like that. a reef ripped open the bottom of the ship, bringing in lots of water very quickly. the ship suddenly started listing and the evacuation began but it was a mess. people complaining about that. many of them having to jump in...

These. once they got in and they are trying to unhook the tenders themselves and they are banging on them, theyv4á%>hget e down and now if you could imagine, holding a tissue by a corner, you have 50 people in this fiber glass thing now you have utter chaos. now you are afraid you going to drop into the water and the cable going to break. manipulate their weight so we can level out until they could break the other cable. many people couldn't get their cables broken. once they got in they had to crawl out and get to another one. >> shannon: karen, it sounds terrifying like your worst possible ...

Burke from rome. >> what a dramatic scene last night. hundreds of people having to jump off the ship as the ship was sinking just off the tuscan coast in italy. there still are dozens of people unaccounted for. the ship's commander is being held for questioning. now, everyone thinks titanic when something like this happens. and from what happened, it was something like that. a reef ripped open the bottom of the ship, bringing in lots of water very quickly. the ship suddenly started listing and the evacuation began but it was a mess. people complaining about that. many of them having to jump in...