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cnn news 2012-01-24

AZUZ: First up, authorities are questioning the captain of an Italian cruise ship that wrecked last Friday. The captain was under house arrest yesterday. He may be accused of abandoning ship. The captain says the rock that the ship hit was uncharted. And on his map, it was just marked as water.

AZUZ (voice-over): This is infrared video of the crash when it happened. It was taken by the Italian coast guard. You can see the ship on its side and the passengers lining up to get off the boat.

Here, you can see rescue workers pulling up alongside the ship. Other workers are already climbing up the hull. And this is the gash that the rock caused when the ship hit it. Once they make their way onto the ship, emergency crews, like the ones you see here, are searching all over for passengers.

As of Tuesday afternoon, nearly two dozen people were still reported missing. And look at this. We want you to watch right over the top of the ship. Rescue workers are setting off explosions so they can get better access to search the interior.

Yesterday they found five bodies, bringing the number of people known to have died in the crash to 11. Officials are investigating the specific details, but we know some information about how this all started. Michael Holmes is going to break it down for us.

Michael, what do you have?

MICHAEL HOLMES, cnn REPORTER: All right, let`s take a closer look at how and where this all happened. The Costa Concordia was heading north near Giglio Island. You can see it there. Now let`s have a look at the normal route that this boat normally takes. This happens dozens of times a year. This is the normal course, heading north.

But you can see here, this is where it changes course. This happened about 9:15 pm on Friday night. It`s not just any old detour, either. This is a four-kilometer detour to take a closer pass to the island, presumably to get a better view of the island. It`s quite stunning at night, apparently. Let`s zoom in now on the new course as it approaches Giglio.

You can see here, the vessel strikes a reef right there. And at about 9:30 pm local time, this is just a few hundred meters off the coast. The captain continues on, a 15-meter gash in the hull. And the -- and the power is out. Taking on water, at some point, he decides that he`s going to turn toward shore and gets in closer.

And you can see that`s when the listing begins, as he turns towards land. The ship, coming to its rest on its side, and that`s where it ended up, just meters away from the lighthouse at the entrance to Giglio Harbor.

AZUZ: Our website is cnnstudentnews.com. It`s where you can go to get the latest details on this story. This is going to keep developing as rescue workers keep going. So cnnstudentnews.com is also where you can watch a report by Brian Todd about how ship captains train for emergencies. It`s all in the "Spotlight" section at cnnstudentnews.com.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Today`s Shoutout goes to Coach Howell`s classes at Brook land-Cayce High School in Cayce, South Carolina. What country is home to Mount Kilimanjaro. You know what to do.

Is it Argentina, Botswana, Nepal or Tanzania? You`ve got three seconds, go.

You`ll find Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. The mountain is the highest peak in all of Africa. That`s your answer, and that`s your Shoutout.

AZUZ: And that means Kyle Maynard had quite the view. He climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro and reached the top on Sunday. Not the first person to do that, but he is the first quadruple amputee to make it up the mountain without any assistance.

AZUZ (voice-over): Maynard was born with a condition called congenital amputation. His arms stop at the elbows and his legs end near his knees. This is file footage of him, training for the Kilimanjaro climb last year.

We featured Kyle Maynard on our show before. He`s a motivational speaker and he has told reporters that he hoped his efforts would show other people no challenge is too big.

AZUZ: Following up now on a story out of Alaska, fuel is flowing into Nome. We reported last week on the first-ever attempt to deliver fuel to the city through the sea ice. A Coast Guard icebreaker was helping guide a Russian tanker ship into Nome.

AZUZ (voice-over): More than a million gallons of fuel started flowing in on Monday evening. The tanker couldn`t go all the way into the harbor. It`s anchored out in the sea. And the fuel is being pumped through 1,200 yards of hoses.

Officials considered flying fuel into Nome, but it would have taken more than 300 flights.