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Welcome back to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. time for the world lead. no doubt been an agonizing 24 hours for two american sailors kidnapped by pirates off the african coast. it happened yesterday in the gulf of guinea about 40 miles outside nigeria, an area that's been considered a piracy hot spot over the past year. a u.s. official confirms that the ship captain and engineer were aboard an oil supply vessel when armed men stormed the boat and took them hostage. joining us with the very latest on this situation is cnn pentagon correspondent barbara starr. have we learned any new information a...

Out of 5.5 million residents half are obese. "usa today" a new surgical knife has the ability to help surgeons detect cancerous tissue without sending it to the lab. the knife uses molecules to analyze if the tissue is cancerous or healthy. the "l.a. times" the trial of the ship captain is underway in italy. the ship ran aground in january 2012. there were 4,000 passengers aboard, 32 of whom were killed. the captain is accused of manslaughter. washington times a new study from the smithsonian magazine. the research doesn't explain why

Moment were terrible, 68-mile-an-hour wind. 26-foot waves. but david dyche has navigated rough seas before. >> things deteriorated further. to the point where we weren't able to handle the vessel. it was so windy. >> he has been a ship captain all his life. i have hope. as i said, hope is our lifeline. >> reporter: officials in new zealand say it is possible the crew lost communication and drifted off course or that they are now on life boats. but air force search planes have scoured the seas, and so far, nothing. dan harris, abc news, new york. >> wow. no distress call. >> no sdes call, no gp...

The out fit making a mockery of a situation where people are suffering and children starving. he has no place doing this and how did he get approved to go over there? >> i don't know, greg, at one point he tweeted about meeting sly from daniel style. don't think he realized he was in north korea. >> he is now part of the state department so maybe he can get some answers on benghazi. he dressed almost like a human version of north korea, irrelevant and uncool and raises the question, what happens when you were once cool you head the nose rings and the tattoos, and then you're over 50, you end u...

Rebels on the front line. >> this is a ship by the name of victory carrying weapons that are found in libya. >> he is a middle east and terrorism expert for fox news. >> the ship came that way, all the way up to extend it in turkey. s. >> now the information available there were weapons. a lot of weapons. >> it included surface to air antiaircraft missiles like these. rpgs. russian designed man portable air defense systems known as man-pad. the ship captain told "times of london" "i can only talk about the medicine and humanitarian aid for rebels." there was a report about fight for the weapon...