美国有线新闻 CNN 2014-04-21

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It's a heartbreaking scene here just outside Jindo, auditorium² on the southwest tip of South Korea. This is really the staging area for where the rescued have come earlier this morning, but now where the parents of those who are still missing are congregated³ desperately⁴ waiting for any news of their children. 

 

There is a list behind me, which is basically of the people who have been rescued and the names of the hospitals if they have been taken to hospital. We are seeing families arrive in a desperate state looking through those names pouring over the list and breaking down when they see that their child's name is not on that list. Now we know that the majority of the passengers on the ships were high school students, they were on their way to Jeju Island, just size of South Korea, but hundred kilometers south. It's a tourist area, they were on a full day field trip. We know at this point almost 300 people are still missing.  

 

Now as you can see, darkness has fallen and of course with it hopes are falling as well of finding many more survivors⁵. We do know that the searching rescue operation is still very much under way. Helicopters are trying to see if anyone is in the water, we know that navy divers⁶ have been trying to get inside the sunken ship throughout the day. It's unclear whether or not they were able to. We know they were having difficulty because of strong currents. There's also a USS Navy ship from the US Seventh Fleet trying to lend their hand as well. A desperate situation as the search continues for those who are still missing. But of course these waters are cold of South Korea, and we are hearing from the coast guard that the expectation of survival really is no more than two hours. 

 

Paula Hancocks, CNN, Jindo, South Korea.

 

Next story today concerns the Middle Eastern nation of Yemen. It's not just what it shows that troubles the Central Intelligence Agency and the Pentagon. It's whom it shows.

 

This is believed to be the largest gathering⁷ of terrorists in years. They are affiliated⁸ with al Qaeda, the terrorists groups responsible for the September 11, 2001 attacks in the United States. And they are meeting out in the open, blatantly⁹ risking a possible strike by a US drone. In the video, the group's leader acknowledges this risk and calls on terrorists to attack America again. Experts say the CIA and the US military either didn't know about the meeting or they couldn't get a drone there in time to attack. But after its recent appearance on militant¹⁰ islamist websites, US officials are analyzing¹¹ everything.

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