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>>now to italy and the investigation into the deadly cruise ship disaster. a sixth body was found in the wreckage overnight as new details emerged over what may have been critical errors by the ship's captain. nbc's michelle kosinski is in porto santo stefano, italy. good morning.>> reporter: from the beginning questions surrounded the captain. he was arrested, under investigation. now his employer said he made an unauthorized deviation in the ship's course bringing it too close to shore, then made mistakes handle it. investigators say he himself was on shore while passengers were still scrambling to get off the ship. this was friday night. the latest rescue from on board was yesterday.>> reporter: people screaming. just after, passengers experienced a loud rumble, a shake, tilting and then a reassuring announcement.>>people were passing out, getting nervous, having chest pains. i was having chest pains. [Read the full article] Beginning Jan. 23, major Chinese New Year celebrations will be held in Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and many other cities around the world, including these five U.S. cities."My cousin and my niece are still among the missing... someone said they were airlifted out but there are no traces...please let me know if you've seen them!" wrote Sabrina Ottaviani on a Facebook forum, above a photo of her relatives.The special Facebook page dedicated to the Costa Concordia was created after a British dancer who worked on the cruise liner used the social network to urge people to pray for her before she was rescued."My name is Rose, it's Friday 13th and I'm one of the last survivors still onboard the sinking cruise liner off the coast of Italy," she wrote above a photo of herself stuck in the dark on the ship before she was airlifted to safety.Divers have been combing the 114,500-ton vessel for 16 people who are still unaccounted for. [Read the full article] Beginning Jan. 23, major Chinese New Year celebrations will be held in Hong Kong, Singapore, Sydney and many other cities around the world, including these five U.S. cities.If they operate in accordance with industry safety standards, the companies probably have little to fear - except fear itself.But that is where people like Gamble come in. Gut reactions and worries among people considering a vacation at sea, after the disaster off Italy, pose a big potential hit to the annual earnings of cruise ship operators, analysts say.Monday marked her 40th birthday as well, she said, as her maiden voyage on a cruise ship where gambling at sea is one of the main attractions.Gamble was the only passenger interviewed to use the "s" word - scared - as she and hundreds of others prepared to set off on Monday on a ship operated by Miami-based Carnival Corp. [Read the full article] 
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