Of course, the ferry disaster is raising questions about safety and while some managed to save
themselves by jumping off the ship, others chose or were told to stay right on board.
And Rachelle's been working on that story and she's back with that.
And John, it took two hours for this ferry to sink, two hours.
In that time, passengers, as you said, were being told to stay put, that they should not
try to get off the ship.
This is amateur cell phone video taken on the ship as it sank.
Experts have their life vests on but are staying in place.
That's because an announcement is telling them don't move because it's more dangerous
if you move.
Some survivors say listening to that announcement and following its directions could have cost
them missing 300 passengers their lives.
Ken Peterson, a maritime security and safety consultant, says the captain had told passengers
to stay put while he tried to stabilize the sinking ship and that there may have been
confusion regarding the evacuation.
After 30 minutes of effort to stabilize the vessel, she eventually listed to five degrees,
at which point one of the deck officers recommended to the captain that he order the evacuation
of all of the passengers.
And a transcript of the ship to shore communication shows the captain gave the abandoned ship
order a half hour after a South Korean transportation official had told the captain to prepare to
evacuate the ship.
Peterson also says international safety procedures for ferries have changed over the past few
decades, but new rules on briefing passengers at the start of a voyage won't go into effect
until 2015.
We're not sure whether or not there was any briefing given whatsoever in as much as it
was only a 14 hour cruise from Incheon to Zizhou.
And while these passengers, most of them students on a field trip, stayed put, there are unconfirmed
reports that the captain and the crew were the first off the ship.
The captain, wearing a gray hoodie, apologized to victims' families Thursday as he sat in
the South Korean Coast Guard office.
If anyone is still alive inside the ship, survivors say they may be in two places in
the ferries' middle decks, the game room and the restaurant.
The biggest problem now that they're facing is cold.
The water is some 10 degrees Celsius, and the likelihood is that anyone that is in the
water is going to be suffering from cold injuries at this point.
And there were no lifeboats on the vessel, just life rafts, and those need to be deployed
manually by the crew.
There were enough for everyone on the ship, that would be 46, but only two, John, two were
actually deployed.
Got a lot of kids on that boat, too.
All right, Michelle, thank you.
Big Mike is what friends and family called him, a burly, good-natured young man with
an easy smile.
Any problems that would be going on, or any situation, there wasn't nothing that he couldn't
solve.
They'd bring people back together.
Yes.
He's a good boy.
He didn't deserve none of this.
Brown had dreams of becoming a rapper and was on his way to college.
The 18-year-old was supposed to start classes this week.
We don't bother nobody.
My son just turned 18 and graduated from high school.
We don't bother nobody.
This family has never said that Mike Brown Jr. was a perfect kid.
I anticipate that you may see, as Attorney Parks stated, other images or other photographs
or depictions that don't paint him in the most complimentary light.
The family says surveillance video released today that appears to show Brown robbing a
convenience store doesn't tell the whole story.
They accuse Ferguson police of character assassination.
Brown was unarmed when he was shot and killed Saturday afternoon by Ferguson police officer
Darren Wilson.
Police say there was a scuffle after Wilson told Brown and a friend to get out of the
street.
Piaget Crenshaw says she saw the final shots from her balcony and took this cell phone
video.
He's running this way.
He turns his body towards this way, hands in the air being compliant.
He gives shot in his face and chest.
It wasn't long after those shots were fired that long simmering tensions between police
and African American residents boiled over in this small St. Louis suburb.
Relatives say violence is the last thing Brown would have wanted.
It should be no violence coming from this.
Mike might want it and don't allow it to happen.
Brown's mother says her son was visiting his grandmother on his way back from the store
when his life came to a sudden violent end on a weekend afternoon.
You're not God, you don't decide when you're going to take somebody from her.
That was mine, that belongs to me.
U.S. officials say ISIL is among the best funded armed groups in the world, among its
top revenue streams from mid June until the coalition airstrikes started in August.
ISIL took in about $1 million a day in oil revenues and while the U.S. insists it won't
pay ransoms because they say it leads to more kidnappings, other countries, companies and
individuals do pay.
ISIL has taken in about $20 million in ransoms this year.
Other ISIL sources of revenue, according to the administration, looting banks, crops and
selling antiquities on the black market, selling girls and women as slaves, individual donors
from Gulf states and social media fundraising with the group raking in money online.
Officials say about 15,000 foreigners have joined the fighters.
Many pay their own way, traveling through Turkey and onto Syria and Iraq, but others
rely on ISIL to pay the fare, an expensive proposition.
David Cohen is the administration's point man on stopping the flow of ISIL funding.
ISIL can use some of the funds it has essentially to pay for the fighters to come into the area,
which is one of the reasons also that we are focused on keeping ISIL out of the international
financial system.
There's plenty of money coming in, says Cohen.
It's how much is going out.
ISIL has high overhead.
As ISIL forces gain ground, they have to hold it and pay for everyday services.
The Iraqi government spent about $2 billion a year to keep the lights on in places like
Mosul.
Those bills are now being paid by ISIL, and that, says Cohen, is putting a strain on its
finances.
More than a million Muslims are gathered today near the holy city of Mecca.
It is the first day of the annual Muslim pilgrimage, but this year, thousands of people
from Africa will not be making the Hajj.
They've been told to stay home because of the Ebola outbreak.
Jonathan Betz has more.
Yeah, David.
Saudi officials are so concerned about Ebola reaching their country.
Pilgrims from West Africa have been told they are not welcome.
At the holy pilgrimage known as Hajj, there's a notable addition this year to the traditional
white robes, face masks.
That's why I'm preventing, I'm also afraid for this Ebola.
Ebola has many worried, as two million Muslims arrive in Mecca, Islam's holiest site.
For five days, they live in tight quarters inside a sprawling tent city, where medical
staff and volunteers have been dispatched.
They're working hard on trying to put all the precaution and to prevent the spread of
Ebola.
In fact, Saudi Arabia took the unusual step this year of banning pilgrims from the Ebola
hot zone of Sierra Leone, Guinea and Liberia.
It'll exclude about 7,400 Muslims.
But people from Nigeria, where the disease has also been found, are still allowed more
than 100,000 so far.
At Nigeria's airports, workers say they're screening all passengers.
It's not just Ebola that's a concern, but also MERS, a respiratory illness that has
killed hundreds in Saudi Arabia since 2012.
Saudi hospitals are bracing for possible outbreaks, setting up isolation wards and following guidelines
issued by the World Health Organization.
We are taking this extra precaution because we would like to have a safe hajj.
In August, there were reports that Saudi man was infected with Ebola, but the government
later said his test came back negative and Saudi health officials say so far there have
been no confirmed cases of Ebola in Saudi Arabia.
There's a young woman in Iran who's been in prison since June.
Her crime?
She tried to go watch a man's volleyball game.
The case has sparked international outrage.
Jonathan Betz is here with more.
John Ganshe Govami lives in London, but was visiting family in Iran for a few months.
Suddenly though, she was arrested.
Her life apparently threatened, and now her family is fighting for her freedom.
For almost three months, Ganshe Govami has been in Iran's notorious Evin prison, half
of that in solitary confinement, arrested for trying to go to a men's volleyball game
in Iran, a violation of the country's ban on women attending some sporting events.
She was only trying to watch a volleyball match, and she's been in prison for three
months.
Her brother insists the arrest is a big misunderstanding, and that his sister thought
the laws had changed.
The general feeling was that the whole issue was almost resolved, and women could get into
the stadium without any troubles on that day, but unfortunately my sister got arrested.
She's only 25-year-old.
Since, her supporters have been pushing to free the 25-year-old British Iranian citizen.
Protesters interrupted a New York forum with the Iranian president this week.
And the British prime minister reportedly raised her case during a historic meeting
with Iran's president.
Govami was born in Iran, but lived in London for years, earning a law degree.
She's now been charged with propaganda against the regime, and has had little contact with
her family.
Activists say she's among hundreds of political prisoners in Iran.
In May, seven young Iranians were arrested for recording themselves dancing to an American
pop song, and a Washington Post reporter and his wife have been held in Iran for months.
The government has released little information about their cases.
Under our law, something like dual citizenship is not accepted to this day.
These persons who were detained are subject to the same law, too.
But Iranian officials have varying interpretations of their own laws.
The country has been pulled between moderate and more conservative leaders, struggling
over what's acceptable and what's not.
So her family hopes international pressure will convince Iran's leaders to free her.
Otherwise, her brother, John Wary, she could be sentenced to years in prison.
Alright.
That's Jonathan, thank you.
