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GIGLIO, Italy ? Coast guard divers searching the submerged part of the Costa Concordia on Sunday found the bodies of two elderly men still in their life jackets, authorities said, raising to five the death toll after the luxury cruise liner ran aground and tipped over off the Tuscan coast.
Divers scouring the bowels of the ship in the murky, cold sea discovered the bodies at the emergency gathering point near the restaurant where passengers were dining when the ship carrying more than 4,200 people hit a reef or rock near the island of Giglio, Coast Guard Cmdr. Cosimo Nicastro said.
The discovery reduced to 15 the number of people still unaccounted for after an Italian who worked in cabin service was pulled from the wreckage Sunday and a South Korean couple on their honeymoon were rescued late Saturday in the unsubmerged part of the liner when a team of rescuers heard their screams.
"We are still searching" for any bodies, "but (also) in the hope that there might have been an air pocket" to allow the survival of others, Nicastro told Sky TG24 TV dockside.
Authorities are holding the Italian captain for investigation of suspected manslaughter and abandoning his ship among other possible charges. According to the Italian navigation code, a captain who abandons a ship in danger can face up to 12 years in prison. A coast guard official said Sunday officers exhorted Francesco Schettino to return to his ship as panicked passengers desperately fled the cruise liner.
The chaotic evacuation has added to the difficulty in tracking down survivors ? with six of those unaccounted for crew members and the others passengers. Two of the unaccounted for passengers are American, the U.S. Embassy in Rome said.
In the first hours after the accident late Friday night, three bodies were found in the waters near the ship. The victims discovered Sunday were two elderly men who were wearing life vests, said Coast Guard Cmdr. Francesco Paolillo.
"The divers had to remove the life vests to get the bodies out," he said, because they could have floated away. Their nationalities were not immediately released.
The divers' search through the ship, which is lying on its side with a huge gash, was already dangerous because of the risk the vessel could suddenly move and sink into waters over a nearby lower sea bed.
Their safety was increasingly threatened by floating objects in the belly of the 290-meter (nearly 1,000) foot long liner, as well as muck drastically reducing visibility, Nicastro said.
"There are tents, mattresses, other objects moving which can get tangled in the divers' equipment," Nicastro said. Officials were going to huddle soon to see how long the underwater search could safely continue, he said.
Divers say they are using a kind of long cord they hook near the point of entrance and unroll as they work, so they can find their way out when finished.
Prosecutor Francesco Verusio confirmed reports that prosecutors are investigating allegations the cruise liner's captain, Francesco Schettino, abandoned the stricken liner before all the passengers had escaped.
Asked Sunday by Sky TG24 about the accusations, Grosseto prosecutor Francesco Verusio replied, "unfortunately, I must confirm that circumstance."
Paolillo said the captain was spotted on land during the evacuation. Officers had urged him to return to his ship and honor his duty to stay aboard until everyone else was safely off the vessel, but Schettino ignored them, he said.
"We did our duty," Paolillo told The Associated Press.
A French couple who boarded the Concordia in Marseille, Ophelie Gondelle and David Du Pays of Marseille, told the AP they saw the captain in a lifeboat, covered by a blanket, well before all the passengers were off the ship. They insisted on telling a reporter what they saw, so incensed that ? according to them ? the captain had abandoned the ship before everyone had been evacuated.
"The commander left before and was on the dock before everyone was off," said Gondelle, 28, a French military officer.
"Normally the commander should leave at the end," said Du Pays, a police officer who said he helped an injured passenger to a rescue boat. "I did what I could."
Schettino has said the ship hit rocks that weren't marked on his nautical charts, and that he did all he could to save lives.
"We were navigating approximately 300 meters (yards) from the rocks," he told Mediaset television. "There shouldn't have been such a rock."
He insisted he didn't leave the liner before all passengers were off, saying "we were the last ones to leave the ship." That clearly wasn't the case as the finding of the three survivors aboard Saturday night and Sunday showed.
Coast guard spokesman Capt. Filippo Marini told Sky Italia TV that Coast Guard divers have recovered the so-called "black box" with the recording of the navigational details from a compartment now under water.
A Dutch firm has been called in to help extract the fuel from the Concordia's tanks before any leaks into the area's pristine waters. No leaks have so far been reported.
While ship owner Costa has insisted it was following the same route it takes every week between the Italian ports of Civitavecchia and Savona, residents on the island of Giglio said they had never seen the Costa come so close to the Le Scole reefs and rocks that jut from Giglio's eastern side.
"This was too close, too close," said Italo Arienti, a 54-year-old sailor who has worked on the Maregigilo ferry service that runs between the island and the mainland for more than a decade. A now-retired Costa commander used to occasionally do "fly-bys" on the route, nearing a bit and sounding the siren in a special salute for his hometown, he said. Such a fly-by was staged last August, but there was no incident, he said.
He said the cruise ship always stayed more than five to six nautical miles offshore, well beyond the reach of the "Le Scole" reefs, popular with scuba divers.
The terrifying escape from the luxury liner, which was on a weeklong Mediterranean cruise, was straight out of a scene from "Titanic." Many passengers complained the crew didn't give them good directions on how to evacuate and once the emergency became clear, delayed lowering the lifeboats until the ship was listing too heavily for many to be released.
Several other passengers said crew members told passengers for 45 minutes that there was a simple "technical problem" that had caused the lights to go off.
Amateur footage taken aboard the ship showed the situation immediately after it ran aground, as an announcement in various languages tells passengers the liner is having electrical problems and "the situation is under control." When a man asks a crew member in Spanish why he is wearing a life vest, the crew member doesn't answer and continues on his way.
Other video shows people crowded together in life jackets, apparently calm and waiting to disembark the ship. A third video taken from a lifeboat, shows mostly darkness as people shout and scream in panic.
Passengers said they had never participated in an evacuation drill, although one had been scheduled for Saturday. The cruise began on Jan. 7.
Costa Crociera SpA, which is owned by the U.S.-based cruise giant Carnival Corp., defended the actions of its crew and said it was cooperating with the investigation. Carnival Corp. issued a statement expressing sympathy that didn't address the allegations of delayed evacuation.
Some 300 of the crew members were Filipinos and three of them were injured, the Philippine Department of Foreign Affairs said.
The captain has insisted that the reef was not marked, but locals said the stretch of sea is not difficult to maneuver. Anello Fiorentino, captain of a ferry that runs between Giglio and the mainland, said he makes the crossing every day without encountering problems.
"Yes, if you get near the coast there are reefs, but this is a stretch of sea where all the ships can safely pass," he said.
Islanders on Giglio opened up their homes and businesses to accommodate the sudden rush of survivors. Rossana Bafigi, who runs a newsstand, said she was really moved by the reaction of the passengers.
She showed a note left by one Italian family that said, "We want to repay you for the disturbance. Please call us, we took milk and biscuits for the children. Claudia."
At Mass on Sunday morning in Giglio's main church, which opened its doors to the evacuees Friday night, altar boys and girls brought up to the altar a life vest, a rope, a rescue helmet, a plastic tarp and some bread.
Don Lorenzo, the parish priest, told the faithful that he wanted to make this admittedly "different" offering to God as a memory of what had transpired.
He said each one carried powerful symbolic meaning for what happened on Friday night: the bread that multiplied to feed the survivors, the rope that pulled people to safety, the life vest and helmet that protected them, and the plastic tarp that kept cold bodies warm. "Our community, our island will never be the same," he told the few dozen islanders gathered for Mass.
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Frances D'Emilio contributed to this story from Rome.
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Angelina Jolie didn't take home any trophies, but she was instantly a winner at the Golden Globes in Los Angeles, thanks to her one-shoulder Atelier Versace gown.
The shoulder-baring piece showcased the mother of six's many tattoos.
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WASHINGTON -- A quote inscribed in stone on the new Martin Luther King memorial will likely be changed after complaints it didn't accurately reflect the civil rights leader's words.
The King memorial opened in August with the quote: "I was a drum major for justice, peace and righteousness."
The phrase is modified from a speech King began by saying, "Yes, if you want to say that I was a drum major, say that I was a drum major for justice ... "
Poet Maya Angelou said the truncated version made King sound like "an arrogant twit."
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>>> on the campaign trail, the extraordinary battle over mitt romney 's tenure of the private equity firm bain capital continues. ron mott is with us from columbia, south carolina , tonight. good evening.
>> reporter: hey, brian, good evening to you. political push came to shove today here in south carolina about what many considered to be mitt romney 's achilles' heel, whether he put profits ahead of people when he ran a powerful capital venture firm. the sniping as ceo of bain capital .
>> when mitt romney came to town.
>> reporter: dramatized in a 27-minute documentary and tv ads, as well as by two opponents, sparked an intense fire fight within the republican party , with one candidate effectively declaring a cease-fire, while another stays on the offensive against the front-runner.
>> are you attacking bain or asking questions?
>> i'm asking questions. i'm shocked how defensive they are.
>> reporter: today former speaker newt gingrich didn't retreat, expressing surprise at the criticism aimed at him for questioning one of his party's position pro-capitalism.
>> there is counterpressure among the elite about raising questions. the american people have the right to know, and people who run for high office have an obligation to be transparent.
>> the vulture capitalists.
>> reporter: texas governor rick perry who designed bain as vulture capitalists dropped the term from his speeches.
>> free market capitalism in the state of texas has created over a million jobs. we understand how capitalism needs to work.
>> reporter: as the race moved to south carolina this week, whispers about romney's business past became full-blown attacks.
>> newt and perry blew it.
>> reporter: prompting prominent conservative voices from rush limbaugh to donors to push back hard.
>> i think any time a job is lost is a tragedy, for the family, for the individual that loses the job it's devastating.
>> reporter: jon huntsman and rick santorum were critical about dismissals about bain . huntsman went a step further with romney's pink slip comment.
>> when you have a candidate who talks about his enjoyment of firing people. who talks about pink slips . makes comments that seem to be so detached from the problems that americans are facing today, that makes you pretty much unelectable.
>> reporter: when confronted today by radio talk show host laura engram, rick perry said if this is a fatal flaw it's better to talk about it in january when he is the candidate than in september when he could be the nominee against president obama .
>> ron mott in south carolina ,
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WASHINGTON ? The Navy says that in separate incidents in and near the Persian Gulf, Iranian military speedboats approached a U.S. Navy ship and a U.S Coast Guard cutter.
The incidents last Friday involved no hostile action and are regarded by U.S. defense officials as minor and not unusual acts of harassment.
In each case, three Iranian speedboats ? each apparently armed with a single mounted gun ? sped toward the U.S. ships before breaking away. No shots were fired.
The incidents happened in a period of rising U.S.-Iranian tensions over access to the Gulf and navigation through the Strait of Hormuz.
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Qualcomm sponsors $10 million prize for medical breakthrough
The most indispensable tool in the doctor's bags of "Bones" McCoy, Beverly Crusher, and the rest of Star Trek's famous chief medical officers, the tricorder, has amazed TV audiences with its futuristic ability to diagnose ailments by simply scanning patients. This technology may seem far-fetched, but Qualcomm has made a move to ensure it becomes a reality sooner rather than later.During CES, the company announced its sponsorship of the Qualcomm Tricorder X Prize, which will award $10 million to the individual or team that is able to produce a working facsimile of the classic sci-fi device. The X Prize Foundation rocketed to fame in 1996 when it offered a $10 million prize for commercial space flight, later won by Mojave Aerospace Ventures, eventually giving birth to Virgin Galactic.
In order to win the Tricorder X Prize, a device must meet certain criteria, such as weighing less than five pounds and having the ability to diagnose a set of 15 diseases. In addition, the device must be able to measure basic vital signs, such as pulse and blood pressure, and be accessible via the internet. It's not required that the device have a screen, and the use of external sensors is allowed.
The ultimate goal of this competition is to produce an affordable device that can be used by consumers, in their own homes, to diagnose common ailments and determine if they need to see a doctor for a more thorough checkup. It's something the X Prize Foundation states is "sorely needed," given that "even average levels of service, efficiency, affordability, accessibility, and satisfaction remain out of reach for many whom the [health care] system was intended to help."
Ten teams will be chosen from the qualifying round of the competition, set for 2014, and will advance to the final round in 2015. That's nearly 200 years sooner than the Starship Enterprise's fictional five-year voyage under the command of Captain Kirk.
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The debate has raged all day - how will Anthony Johnson's weight snafu affect his fight against Vitor Belfort? The pulse in the betting world is that Johnson is in big trouble at UFC 142 in Rio de Janeiro.
[Don't miss the action: Watch UFC 142 live on Y! Sports]
Belfort's number has jumped 40 cents since it was announced Johnson couldn't make the 186-pound weight limit at middleweight. He actually stepped on the scales yesterday in Rio de Janeiro at 197 pounds. A stipulation was also put in place that Johnson couldn't replenish his body beyond 205 pounds for another weigh-in earlier today.
If you liked Aldo early in the week at minus-220, you missed your chance. There's been heavy fight day steam on Aldo pushing him to minus-275.
Listen to Yahoo! Sports Kevin Iole, Adam Hill from the Las Vegas-Review Journal give out picks for the top fights on the card during last night's "MMA Insiders" show on ESPN1100/98.9 FM in Las Vegas.
UFC 142 betting odds:
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Chad Mendes (+225) vs. Jose Aldo (-275)
Vitor Belfort (-140) vs. Anthony Johnson (+110)
?????Carlo Prater (+425) vs. Erick Silva (-550)
Terry Etim (+245) vs. Edson Barboza (+290)
Mike Massenzio (+415) vs. Rousimar Palhares (-525)
Sam Stout (+105) vs. Thiago Tavares (-125)
Michihiro Omigawa (+180) vs. Yuri Alcantara (-220)
Gabriel Gonzaga (-120) vs.Edinaldo Oliveira (+100)
Antonio Carvalho (-190) vs. Felipe Arantes (+165)
Ricardo Funch (+380) vs. Mike Pyle (-475)
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