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alfonso van marsh, cbs news. >> the costa concordia's owners say the ship is scheduled to be floated away to a scrap yard next year. the captain is on trial for manslaughter and he insists that he is not the only one responsible. >>> marvin gaye iii is suffering from kidney failure and he's looking for a donated organ. the son of the late singer marvin gaye announced he's been receiving dialysis for three years while trying to find a suitable kidney transplant. he says he is sharing his condition to raise awareness of the challenges that blacks and hispanics face in finding healthy organ donors. >>> well, before you make weekend plans, you might want to hear howard's forecast. >> and see how team u.s.a. came from behind to sail into the history books in the i'm terry mcauliffe, candidate for governor, and i sponsored this ad. for 30 years i've worked as an obgyn, my job is to protect the health of women. so i'm particularly offended by ken cuccinelli. cuccinelli wants to make all abortion illegal ... ... even in cases of rape and incest. ... even to protect a woman's health. i want a

by the end of the day, they want to roll the costa concordia back upright. well, now, to do that, they will do it one inch at a time because they want to avoid any breakage in the hull of the ship which has been put under a lot of stress and putting pressure. if that happens, of course, the toxic soup of organic and chemical substances are still inside the concordia may pour into the water, creating an environmental disaster. but engineers are saying that all the precautions are being put in place so that the most expensive and complex salvage operation in maritime history would be affected. richard? >> an amazing feat under way there. >>> the u secretary-general say it would be an atrocious violation of international law if a u.n. report released today confirms the use of chemical weapons in syria. the u.n. mission was to determine whether the weapons were, in fact, used in an august 21st attack but not who was responsible. secretary of state john kerry has already said there's evidence the syrian government used sarin gas against its own people. this morni

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. >> stahl: the "costa concordia" is a resting carcass sitting precariously on two underwater mountain peaks, the swimming pools and jacuzzis where passengers sunbathed and sipped cocktails, now empty and askew. and below, ghostly vestiges of the contents litter the floor on what italian authorities have designated an official crime scene. 30 people died, two are still missing. so, how are they going to raise it? that's our story tonight. >> gupta: it all started in 2004 when sal khan was working as a hedge fund analyst in boston and his cousin nadia, a seventh grader in new orleans, was struggling with algebra. he agreed to tutor her remotely, and wound up posting lessons on youtube. but then an odd thing happened-- total strangers started using them, too. >> just like we talked about consumer surplus, this is a producer surplus. >> innovation never comes from the established institutions. it's always a graduate student or a crazy person or somebody with a great vision. sal was that person in education. in my view, he built a platform that could completely change education in america.

this is the "costa concordia." 20 months ago it sunk. there was an investigation, the captain was shouted to get back on board. now they're trying to lift it. what happens if they fail? it could break apart. there is he aa huge moxic issue in the waters. we'll take you through all of it. >>> the brain-eating parasite has been found in another community's water supply. the people there are being told that it's safe to drink. it just can't go up their ♪ nose. are they serious? we'll break this down for you today. >>> first up this hour, coming this hour in colorado, sunrise, daylight could help rescue crews get to the hundreds of people who desperately need their help to escape the epic flooding. amazing pictures of the rescues happening over the weekend. the national guard says there hasn't been an air lift like this since hurricane katrina back in 2005. more than 2,100 people rescued so far. more than 1,200 people are still unaccounted for this morning, at least 1,500 homes destroyed, more than 17,000 others damaged. cnn's george howel

capsized the "costa concordia" is upright this morning. time-lapsed video shows the 19 hours of unprecedented salvage work. marine engineers used a system of cables, pulleys and weights as well as gravity to right the 1,000-foot long ship. it weighs 115,000 tons. next, the "costa concordia" will be repaired and moved. mark phillips is on giglio island, italy, with the very latest. good morning, mark. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. and what a difference a day makes. this is the "costa concordia," as you say, right side up. it took a monumental engineering effort, taking 20 months of planning and 19 hours of extreme effort on the part of a pulley system. and, of course, all of the people controlling it that finally got her upright. up don't have to look too hard at it to see the kind of ordeal that she's been through. the right or starboard side of the ship shows the evidence of the parts that were under water. it's all covered in a thick kind of scum. it's rusted, it's dented from where it was lying on the reef beside the island. at

what you're seeing is the costa concordia cruise ship. remember that story january 13th of 2012, this cruise ship ran aground. it's been there ever since. it's been an eyesore for the italian people. raising this ship almost seemed impossible. how are they going to get this giant chunk of trash out of the ocean? this time lapse from the discovery channel shows the righting of this ship and it's just the beginning of the process of getting this ship out of there. many salvage companies cut the ship up and remove it piece by piece but that would have been an environmental disaster. dr. burke tells us how this worked. dr. burke, explain what a monumental task it is to raise a ship like this and get it out in one piece. >> it's a huge task. no within had done it for a ship this size in the past. it required hundreds of people, massive amounts of equipment and months and months of detailed calculations. this is an unbelievable achievement. >> i hear that one of the big concerns was everything inside the ship was still in there. can you talk ab

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the average price today, $3.51 a gallon. >>> the costa concordia is now up right. italian authorities will begin searching for the two people who died when the vessel capsized last year. >> reporter: it took all of the day and most of the night, but after a tense 19 hours the costa concordia was back up right. though still lying low in the water. the cruise ship was wrestled off the rocks now resting on a specially built underwater platform exposing the full extent of the damage for the first time. it looks like a housing block hit by an earthquake. >> the damage that you see is actually the weight modeling itself around the rock. that damage happened in february, march of last year. we expected it to be hard for tear it off. but it came off quite nicely. >> reporter: the residents gave the engineers a hero's welcome. they've lived in the shadow of this wreck for over 20 months. >> i was overjoyed. it's unbelievable the amount of work employed in such an extraordinary operation. >> i'm happy they pulled it up right. i'll be happier once they move it out of here. >>

you're looking at pictures of the costa concordia. as you can see there you can clearly see from the 19-hour operation was declared a success. and engineers work through the night to complete one of the most difficult and expensive wrecks recovery projects ever performed. and that is the ship now. it capsized in january 2012. and a reminder you can always go to our website. that provides food to millions of americans. i can't understand why the republican leadership wants to balance the budget on the back of the work poor. >> a person must make less than $931 a month in order to receive more than $200. a family of four, they get around $660 for month. federal benefits are sometimes too lean to keep a family fed. >> do you have a lot of pickups this morning? >> jessica kogan runs food for others, a northern virginia food bank. >> in the last couple of months we've seen the demand for our services get even higher than the past year which was already quite high. our numbers went way up during the height of the recession and they came dow

costa concordia is hoisted back upright. it took quite a day to get the ship off the sea bed, where it's been since it ran aground off italy's coast in 2012. matthew chance was there for the entire operation and has much more on what's ahead. >> reporter: these are the very first images of the costa concordia, now upright after an unprecedented operation to lift the crippled cruiseliner from its side. salvage crews worked through the night to hoist the 114,000 ton vessel 20 months after it ran aground off the italian coast, killing 32 people. the new images reveal the severe damage. half the ship is mangled, a huge bend where it slammed against the rocks. >> it was a perfect operation, i would say. >> reporter: the operation took 19 hours in total. team of engineers monitored every move as the ship emerged from the sea inch by inch. onlookers could measure the progress made by the line of excuse me embedded in the water logged concordia's side. the operation effort took much longer than expected, first delayed when a violent

engineers happy with their progress as they slowly lift the costa concordia from its rocky resting place. >>> war crime aimed and counter vengs of international law. that's how secretary o seark gen ki-moon has characterized, chemical weapons were used on a relative large scale, also said serin gas was used. james, we have this report and we've heard from the u.n. secretary general. tell us more what is in the report and what ban ki-moon has to say. >> it's a very testify words from ban ki-moon today talking about this report, a very detailed report into what happened on the 21st of august. saying that serin was used but it was delivered by surface to surface rockets that landed in the algutha area. what ban ki-moon said was a war crime. >> the mission has provided the world with an impartial and independent account. the results are overwhelming. and indisputable. 85% of the blood samples tested positive for serin. a majority of the environmental samples conformed the -- confirmed the use of serin. a majority of the rocket or rocket fragments recovered were found to be carrying serin. th

until shortly before sunrise, the costa concordia was finally up right. this is now the view from the island. a floating palace, where once honeymoons and birthdays were celebrated. today, a twisted reminder of the 32 people who died. we saw someone's suitcase, we think. some curtains. and the bridge where the captain made his fateful decision. the first thing this morning, we found the salvage master, exhausted. >> i think everyone is very pleased. it was a good challenge, and .t's not over yet at least it is as we planned it. >> this operation still has a long way to go. a believe there are two more bodies inside the ship, and want to recover those. they will put massive flotation tanks on the damaged sides of the ship. it will not be until next spring that they can bring her up from the depths until her away. >> relatives of the two missing arrived here, hoping they will be found. will now concordia finally give up all her secrets. matthew price, bbc news. >> if you take a look on our website, you will see that time lapse video. iraq say the car bombin

the amazing time lapse of the costa concordia 20 months after it ran aground. the damaged ship is hoisted up right. prince harry prepares his journey to the south pole by sleeping in a freezer. welcome to our viewers on public television and around the globe. the u.s. navy ordered a review of security and military bases after 12 people were shot dead at the navy yard here in washington, d.c. the gun man was a former sailor her work as a defense contractor as ailor who worked defense contractor. how was someone with his background given access to what was meant to be a secure site? the defense secretary honored the 12 victims, all civilian workers of the naval hq. the police presence is still heavy. they are still looking for answers. >> we had officers who heroically went into a building, witnessing multiple casualties, and continued to pursue and engage a gunman who was determined to kill as many people as possible. werely essential personnel allowed inside today. the 24 hours earlier, aaron alexis had entered, mass murder in his mind on his passes in order. -

want costa concordia is upright now. the captain says now we can examine this vessel for the technical problems for the machinery, the equipment failures that also led to this wreck. do you buy that? >> no. i don't buy it but i do buy what he's trying to do. he's entitled. if there's a possibility of examining that ship and that will help in his defense, he's entitled to have it done. the problem is, examining that ship now is going to take months, maybe even years. that will delay this trial for indefinitely. what i think he's trying to do here is position himself to say, hey, prosecutors, guess what? once the judge says that i can examine that ship, you'll never see the light of day in that courtroom until that's done. why don't you offer me the deal that i've been trying to get from you? like the same deal that they offered the five other crew members who aren't going to see the inside of a jail cell. jon: but the five other people might not even do time and the captain is looking at a couple of decades in jail. >> is

. >>> in italy, a complicated salvage operation on the wreck of the costa concordia is expected to begin tomorrow. that luxury cruiseliner crashed into rocks in january, last year, killing 32 people. the ship's captain is also facing manslaughter charges. nbc's michelle kosinski is there in italy for us. good day to you. we are all trying to fathom what is going to happen tomorrow. can you explain what type of operation this is? >> reporter: i know. it's hard to believe that it's still sitting here, right? it'll be two years in january. at the same time, it is hard to believe that this is really starting tomorrow. what they're going to do is roll the ship up from being on its

david mattingly. >>> our fourth story "outfront," the lost victims of the costa concordia. one official calling it a miracle because human remains have been found in the cruise ship that capsized off the coast of italy january of last year. the crash killed 30 people. two others have been missing and presumed dead. until now. >> reporter: the human remains found in the hull of the costa concordia ship today won't be identified until sometime in the next couple of weeks themselves need to do crucial dna testing to feigned out if the bones they found belong to either of the two victims, whose bodies have not been recovered. that's a 50-year-old woman from sicily and a 33-year-old man who was on the ship from india. the discovery of these remains, obviously, will give closures to the families but also give the salvage operators a chance to start the next phase of their operation. they do not have access to the ship until and unless the remanls of the last two victims are found. after that they can move to the next step which is preparing for the reflotation of the costa concor

crews are trying to upright the "costa concordia." how they plan to right the ship that's been grounded for months. >>> courageous climb. a man saves himself after falling into a deep crevasse. the mistake he made. the final message he recorded for his family. >>> and extreme athlete. no ropes. no nets. the free climb that will take your breath away. >>> and a good monday morning. we begin with the devastating flooding in colorado. >> the rain is still falling in the flood-ravaged rocky mountain foothills. we're getting a unique perspective on the disaster. they're using a boulder company's drone to survey the damage. >> the cameras capturing amazing video, showing rivers so high, they're almost touching the bottom of bridges. it's giving rescuers a sense of the destruction they're dealing with. >> here are the latest numbers. at least five people confirmed dead. more than 1200 unaccounted for. nearly 12,000 evacuated. 19,000 homes damaged or destroyed. >> reporter: the flooding is spreading across parts of 15 counties. stretching alm

in terms of time, the "costa concordia" has been aground for almost two years. today, it's on the move. we'll have a live report from italy. >>> and we know there's been some huge turnover on "saturday night live." seth meyers sticking around for awhile but who will be replacing him on weekend update. just don't talk to her at a party. this is "way too early." ♪ >>> good morning, everybody. brian shactman, monday, september the 16th. hope you had a good weekend. a little later in sports, pretty shocking lopsided win in the nfl last night. probably when you were sleeping and a great send-off of mariano rivera by his most hated rival

. >> the raising of the costa concordia is finally underway. the cruise ship went down off the coast of italy, killing 32 people. crews are trying to get the wreckage back upright. >> it's part of what's called america's suicide belt. what's being done to help people living in remote areas of montana get access to desperately needed mental health care. >> we begin this morning in colorado, where massive flooding has displaced more than 11,000 people. now, nearly 1200 residents are still unaccounted for. rains stalled rescue efforts on sunday, as helicopters were grounded, and other missions dealt with mud slides and flash floods. president obama ordered federal disaster aid for tin counties, including boulder, el paso and larmier. many communities of underwater. the flooding swallowed cars, destroyed roadways and cut off access toshiest. elizabeth vazquez walked seven miles to find trapped relatives. >> just trying to get to may mom, my sister, my family to show them that i am there. i felt so helpless over here. so help less. they're without w

if the colossal "costa concordia" doesn't break apart. abc news, giglio, italy. >> there were 4,000 passengers on that boat. it's also an amazing feat that they got so many off of the boat safely. >> yes. >> two of them passed away. they are hoping to recover their bodies which they still haven't been able to do. >> a lot of heros in the rescue mission. of course the captain has been set up as somebody who blew it on this one and didn't act well afterwards and that is winding its way through the legal system. but this salvage operation is incredible. $800 million and they had one chance to get it right and they did. >> right. for perspective here, 32 people passed away. two never found. and you heard her say this is twice the size of the "titanic." it was 950-feet long. >> 100,000 tons. >> amazing. by the way, they are hoping it doesn't break apart because they were able to finally right it and there are belongings on there. >> they say everybody will be getting their bags back. >> at least try to get their stuff back, whatever is left of

this is the "costa concordia." you remember that this crashed almost two years ago in january of 2012. and now crews there, engineers working to right the ship. it started after midnight. this project is expected to take about 12 hours if you can believe it. so we give you a live look. we're monitoring their progress. it's 5:41. >>> just in to the newsroom the head of a u.n. commission investigating war crimes in syria says 14 suspected chemical weapons attacks were carried out. he is still awaiting evidence from a separate team to figure huet is responsible for the attacks. tracie potts is live with the latest. good morning. >> reporter: good morning. that separate report is due out today from the united nations inspectors looking into what happened just last month in syria. this is the report that was supposed to tell us the what but not necessarily the who in terms of who is responsible. however, we've learned that it apparently does point a finger to some degree at the syrian government, suggesting that the art

. >>> aumentan las expectativas por las labores de expoertos que tratan de enderecar el crucero costa concordia en italia, veremos las sorpresas que puede guardar el agua bendita y reacciones por beatificación del catolico argentino conocido como el "cura gaucho", regresamos con esto y más . ♪. este domingo en al punto todo sobre siria, por qué hay que atacar, para mandar un mensaje mundial que el uso de armas químicas no es aceptable, por qué no hay que atacar . >>> dos guerras a la misma vez es un desastre, tres es una locura . >>> el senador dice que la guerra no está muerta . >>> vamos a seguir con nuestros esfuerzos para que lo amigos de la cámara de representantes logren algo . >>> una entrevista con manuel . >>> fui un ina ♪. >>> el buque costa concordia, que cayó en italia está previsto que se levante del lguar el lunes, los buzos inyectaron 18 mil toneladas de cemento en la sueprficie para evitar su ruptura, la tarea de remover el gigante barco lo harán trabajadores de una firma estadounidense e italiana, una banda de piratas ciberneticos que tomaron un cmoputad

y en der centro el barco crucero costa concordia, que habÍa en >>> los fuerzas por mantener vivo el tema de la reforma migratoria han llevado a grupos de abl vistas Órgano zarlg varios eventos entre el 28 de septiembre y 8 de octubre convocan 3 grandes movilizaciones, lo que ha generado criticas, sobre lo que algunos perciben como falta de coordinaciÓn y salvador durÁn nos tiene mÁs. >>> si se puede, si se puede. los activistas en pro de la reforma migratorio. y despuÉs de que convirtiÓ en prioridad, la crisis en syria. y por eso, esta coaliciÓn, llevara su activismo a las calles de los angeles. este fin de semana, en una marcha multitudinar multitudinaria. >>> recuerden que cuando el primer aÑo que se in ttentÓ ten reforma migratoria sucediÓ lo del 911. esperemos que no sea un pretexto que para no exista una reforma migratoria para los mexicanos y todos los latinos hermanos. >>> al mismo tiempo hay otras actividades mplaneadas mÁs marchas nacionales que se llevaran a ccabo en octubre, da impresiÓn que hay division en la comunidad este activista lo niega. >>> y nosotros creem

. >>> divers find human remains in the wreckage of the ship wrecked costa concordia. search teams have been looking for two passengers missing since the crash. >> reporter: italian divers may have found the two missing passengers from the costa concordia cruise ship disaster. authorities say dna testing will confirm whether the bodies of an indian man and italian woman. divers say they found the remains near the center of the ship where they were last scene alive. friends say the woman was celebrating her 50th birthday. the man was a waiter who gave his life jacket to another passenger. 4,000 passenger costa concordia sank off the italian island in january 2012. 32 people died including two americans. for 20 months the ship was stuck on its side. last week an international team successfully turned the 114,000 ton ship upright in the largest salvage operation ever. experts plan to go inside the costa concordia to bring out ship's computers to determine why backup generators failed after the crash. >> captain is still on trial for manslaughter and insists his not the on

. >>> tonight something we 've never seen before is happening in the sea off italy where the costa concordia sat shipwrecked for 19 months. this was the scene after the ship capsized, each tiny dot a passenger. 32 people lost their lives. now that giant cruise ship is coming into focus again. abc's lama hasan has all the latest tonight. >> reporter: 952 feet long and weighing more than 100,000 tons, about the same as ten eiffel towers, they began the epic challenge of lifting the epic costa concordia from its watery grave. we've been watching them slowly raise this hulk of a ship which weighs at least 100,000 tons and we're beginning to see results. you can just make out a line of rust that goes around the ship's hull where it's been under water. more than twice the size of the titanic, recovering this cruise ship is an unprecedented feat. never has a ship this big been raised. from the reef where it crashed it must be tilted upright, using massive chains before it can be tugged back to ports. workers have one chance to get this right and the stakes are high. leave the ship behind and it cou

. >> off the coast of italy a massive salvage underway after "costa concordia" capsized. >> thank you for joining us. mike nicco has a look at the forecast. we have live doppler 7 hd. it is very dry. but there is mist and drizzle along the coast spilling into the peninsula. that is the only place i have heard of it. drizzle around the bay and the next 12 hours 60 degrees outside and 66 and sunshine by noon. breezy conditions this afternoon. back in the mid-60's by 7:00 so grab a coat. the day planner, is milder this morning with temperatures off a couple of degrees and 58 and sunshine by noon and 74. topping out in the low 80's below average. comfortable at low-to-mid 70's by 7:00. cloudy by noon and sunshine this afternoon hang out in the mid-60's and dropping to 60 by 7:00. we have a report of very heavy traffic westbound along 24 because of a power outage in the central area of the tunnel. that is causing heavy backup through orinda. we have power out. we have foggy conditions. make sure you have low beams, not the high beams. you need to slow down. there are heavy conditions. it w

a team of 500 will start to upright the costa concordia. how it will be salvaged is the president of mammoth salvage america. good to have you with us. >> good afternoon. >> how do you even begin the process? >> yeah, it's a very complex process. and there's a lot of engineering in advance. i think the people who are doing this, they started with this about two years ago. and it's a lot of preparation and engineering and during the project, you run into all kinds of new information. and you have to adjust to that, to come up to the point as we are today. >> we talked about a crew of over 500. how costly is this effort? >> yeah, that's an interesting -- the way this is set up that's still very unpredictable to estimate. in the beginning they were talking about numbers ranging from 200 million, 300 million, founder million. what i -- 400 million. i read estimates up to 1.1 billion, i read in the media 1.9 billion was taken into account for the wreck removal operation. >> why did this process take so long? >> the thing is of course, cruise shi

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the "costa concordia" is now sitting on her bottom not lying on her side. there's still the minor manner of floating the wreck out of here but there was quite a party on the water at 4:00 this morning when they declared job done. a new dawn over the island of giglio and the "costa concordia" right side up finally. but what a struggle it was to get her this way. and nick sloane the man of the hour, 19 hours, actually. that's how long this job took. he's the salvage master who said it could be done when many others said it couldn't. and he still had his priorities straight. >> i need to get some sleep. and maybe a barbecue. >> reporter: time-lapse shows this to be a more straightforward operation than really it was. from the next six to eight hours the ship's movement was almost imperceptible. as darkness fell gravity started to take over and up she came. daylight revealed a ghost ship on which 32 people died on that january night last year. the remains of two of them may still be inside. a line of sea scum clearly shows what part of her had laid under water.

. >> it was one of the most expensive rescue recovery projects ever performed, but the costa concordia was pulled up right, taking 19 hours. our correspondent in italy told us a while ago that people came out to cheer as the costa concordia came up about 4:00 this morning. >> finally up right, the cruiser liner laid flat on the seabed. getting a vertical took 19 hours. teams worked through the night until dawn tuesday. when the job was done, a local bar for a beer. thing bank we are obviously very satisfied with how things have worked out. we are satisfied that despite the complexity of the procedure it took place with incredible precision. >> the damage to the vessel is massive. the starboard hull crushed. >> the weight, molding itself around the rocks. we expected it to be harder to get it off. >> 500 engineers, 26 nationalities in all worked on the salvage project for more than a year. the ghost ship is due to be towed away next spring. the salvage operation is the most complex ever expected -- six hundred million euros and rising. >> the big story today the shooting in washington,

the "costa concordia" capsized in january of last year. engineers say it took three hours to get the hull to move after work began to remove it this morning. it took 6,000 tons of force before it detached. 32 people died when the ship capsized in jap of last year. the manslaughter trial of the captain resumed later this month. >> in paris secretary of state john kerry is briefing the united states closest allies and working out details on ending syria's chemical weapons program. the country and russian officials reached an ambitious agreement over the weekend calling for an inventory of syria's chemical weapons program in a week and the program eradicated by next year. john kerry spoke with reporters after meeting with top officials from france, britain, turkey, and saudi arabia. >> if air sad fails to comply with the temperatures of this frame, would, make no mistake, we are all agreed and that includes russia, that there will be consequences. >> the u.n. teach will brief the u.n. security council on the report from were withs inspectors

work begins this morning to pulp the shipwrecked costa concordia out of the water off the coast of it la. the -- italy. the operation was delayed because of weather in the area. they'll work to raise it from the seabed virticly doctor vertically to get it out of the water. it crashed in january of 2012. 32 people were killed and the bodies of two victims were never found. outrage in north carolina and florida after a man is shot and killed by a police officer. o >> 24-year-old jonathan farrelll was killed saturday morning. police say i wrecked his car and went to a house for help but frightened the homeowner to call police. came and told him to stop and he didn't stop and they shot him. >> he had his life taken no reason at all. a >> what happened to him it's sad. he was a valued part of the football team.fo >> he was a former florida a&m football player. police say he was not armed at the time and the officer that shot him used excessive force. that officer has been charged with voluntary manslaughter. >> another tough loss for the redskins. some fans are disappointed. >> i can't ima

costa concordia is now up right. it took 19 hours to complete. the massive ship capsized when it hit off the west coast of italy last year. 32 people were killed. i'm morgan radford. thank you for joining us. those are the headlines. >> an america tonight special report. the d.c. naval yard shooting. just a short distance from the nation'nation's capitol, gun fid a frantic search for answer he. and in our special coverage a look at the gunman and also ahead reopening the debate. >> we are confronting another mass shooting. >> another mass killing and what america will do to stop i.t. from happening again. -- to stop it from happening again. >> hello and welcome to this special edition of america tonight. scene of the d.c. navy yard shooting. already tonight the capitol is taking its respects to the 12 victims, the 13th was the shooter. it is a shores distance away from the scene of the -- short distance away from the scene of the attack. and under caution everyone even children were kept inside out of risk of harm. as many of the 3,000 workers on

live pictures of the costa concordia is now upride. the salvage operation began and took 19 hours. 32 people were killed when the cruise ship ran aground off the coast of italy last year. two of the victims were never found. the massive ship capsized after a grannic rock tore a 50 meter hole in the ship's hole. >>> americans can soon see their food stamp subsidies cut. slashing by $4 billion a year and will call for stricter work requirements for the recipients. one in four americans use the food stamps and the cost has doubled in the past five years. those are the headlines in the next hour. america knit is up next at al jazeera. you can always get your headlines at aljazeera.com and i'll see you tomorrow here at 8:00 eastern. just a short distance from the nation'nation's capitol, gun fid a frantic search for answer he. and in our special coverage a look at the gunman and also ahead reopening the debate. >> we are confronting another mass shooting. >> another mass killing and what america will do to stop i.t. from happening again. --

the "costa concordia" ran aground off the italian coast in january of last year killing 32 people. the captain is on trial with charges of manslaughter calling the shipwreck and abandoningship. >> pittsburg is adopting a ban on plastic bags giving approval banning groceries and other retailers from giving customers single use plastic bags. it does not apply to restaurants or protective bags for meat and produce. customers would pay a fee for paper bags. if the council formalizes the vote it would take effect january 15. the wind were blowing out katie marzullo's hair. >> you need a jacket and a kite today. it is windy. >> make sure you put a scarf on to keep the hair safe. we will look at some of the gusts. at sfo we are expensing up to 31 miles per hour and, also, speaking of sfo we have a low ceiling in terms of cloud layers so that is causing 55-minute delay at the airport. for arrivals, you could see your incoming passengers on the later side. we have gusts in the north bay, reaching 24 miles per hour, 17 miles per hour in novato and as we move inland, 21 miles per hour is goin

the captain of the costa concordia is in court today. prosecutors say the captain steered the luxury liner into the rocky coast and then abandoned the ship while 5,000 were still on board. the captain denies the allegations. co-face up to 20 years in prison. >>> and the emmy goes to? we'll tell you right after the break. >> earlier a thick black smoke seen pouring out of the mall in kenya where 60 people were killed by armed rebels over the weekend. kenyan officials are blaming the smoke on al-shabab fighters burning mattresses inside. kenyan military went inside determined to take it back and free any hostages. >>> president obama on his way to new york for a series of meetings. at the u.n. general assembly. iran president hassan rouhani is expected to be there as well. >>> government has until octob october 1st toadied th to avoida government shutdown. >>> proving that dogs and cats can get along. and in this case they see each other as family. >> good morning, everyone. hi, welcome here to the dallas zoo wild encounter. now for those

last year, 32 people were killed when the costa concordia ran aground. two bodies are still inside the wreckage. you are looking live at a picture of the ship in italy where a team of engineers is now trying to stand the massive vessel upright. just a few minutes ago, the team announced they were able to separate the capsized ship from the reef and no bodies were found. aljazeera is there to tell us how that team is lifting the ship. >> 114,000 tons and the length of three football fields moving the costa concordia is an immense task. it has to be done in one piece. right now, the ship is resting on rock, head in place by computer controlled steel cables. workers built a platform underneath to hold the ship's weight when they roll it upright. they've attached metal floatation tanks to the hull which will fill with water, the steel cables will tighten and the ship slowly pulled upright helped by the weight of the tanks. this delicate operation will take 12 hours and involvify hundred workers. they have just one chance to retate the ship as there is no pla