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Tonight's "shot," chilling new video of killer waves slamming into a cruise ship. thousands of passengers on the luxury liner. at least two people were killed. in a moment we're going to talk to sebastian junger, author of "perfect storm." who studied rogue waves. first what happened on the cruise ship. here's brianna keilar. >> reporter: terror from the sea. an enormous wave, at least 26 feet high washes across the deck of the louis cruise line ship with nearly 2,000 aboard. the moment of impact triggered chaos and fear as passengers ran for their lives. in all, three towering waves struck th...

>> tom colicchio. fascinating stuff. also online at ac360.com. including a taco deconstructed. every single ingredient traced back to its source. a leaked memo revealing the republican 2010 fund-raising strategy. nancy pelosi as carell la deville. and president obama as the joker. later, what happens when a big ship meets a very, very big wave. take a look. new video of a deadly moment. we'll be joined by sebastian younger, who wrote the book "the perfect storm," to talk about rogue waves. [ engine revving ]

Outpost. thanks for being with us. >> my pleasure. >> these weren't tsunami waves. what's a rogue wave? >> a tsunami is caused by an underwater earthquake. a rogue wave is a popular term. waves come in all different sizes. most of them are grouped in the middle as average size. once in a while you have exceptionally small ones, and exceptionally big one. a rogue wave is a wave that comes out of nowhere that's extraordinarily large and part of the bell curve waves are on in a storm. and it's called a rogue wave but really an exceptionally strong wave. >> there's a couple places in the world whe...

We're keeping them honest. if you'd had a hamburger in the last couple days you need to hear this story. we're joined by the director of "food inc.," the movie. and top chef's tom colicchio. a fund-raising document the republican party doesn't want to see. it calls top donors ego driven. as you see there, paints president obama as the joker. nancy pelosi as cruella de vil. who used the document? the guy who heads fund-raising for the entire republican party. the question is why. democratic strategist james carville seems gleeful about it. republican ed rowlands not so much. both men square o...

The form of white water and hits the boat, sets it back and can literal literally situation it, break it. >> if the boat is to the side of a breaking wave then it can be broken? >> that's right. a swell, it's no problem. so waves break. when waves break depends on their steepness. that's effected by a current. if waves are going into an oncoming current it shortens the wavelength, makes the wave steeper and starts to break. the rogue waves, not that there are more rogue waves there, there are more breaking waves in these areas. >> we also saw i guess it was a rogue wave or big waves in san fra...