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Sewol Official Death Toll Stands At 108, 194 Still Missing; Manchester United Fires Manager; Leading Women: Kathy Bloomgarden; Impact Your World; Not Impossible Founder Mick Ebeling; Geneva Deal DOA In Eastern Ukraine
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RALITSA VASSILEVA, HOST: Hello, everybody. I'm Ralitsa Vassileva at the CNN Center. Welcome to News Stream where news and technology meet.
Manchester United fire manager David Moyes after less than a year on the job.
Joe Biden says the U.S. will support Ukraine and will not recognize Russia's control over Crimea.
And how one man makes a living by filming fast cars and putting that footage on YouTube.
One year ago Manchester United were preparing to replace their manager for the first time in 27 years. Now they're getting ready to do it again. A few hours ago, one of the world's biggest football clubs sacked manager David Moyes. He took over when Sir Alex Ferguson retired in May. It gave Moyes control of the reigning Premier League champions, a team that had won the league 13 times in just 21 years, but under Moyes United have fallen.
The club has endured a string of embarrassing defeats. And the misery was always evident on the face of David Moyes.
It's hard to pinpoint just what was the lowest point. There was February's surprise defeat to Greek champion's Olympiakos. Maybe it was just a month later when United were crushed at home 3-0 by their biggest rivals Liverpool.
But for Moyes, his final defeat probably hurt the most. On Sunday, Moyes took United to take on his old club Everton. Manchester United were beaten 2-0 and the club he left now sits above them in the Premier League table, a feat Moyes was never able to achieve at Everton.
Ryan Riggs will temporarily take charge of the team until Manchester United can find a new manager. Let's get more now from CNN's Alex Thomas. He's joining me live from London.
So Alex, did David Moyes deserve to go?
ALEX THOMAS, CNN SPORTS CORRESPONDENT: I think he did in terms of those results. You look at all those shocking results you put up on the big grid screen there, Ralitsa, and you can see that so many teams have come to Manchester United's famous Old Trafford ground and won for the first time in decades.
Suddenly, the impregnable team that Sir Alex Ferguson had built up over more than a quarter of a century, this the best ever coach of Manchester United's history and British football history replaced by a man with a far less illustrious record on a six year contract with a view to continuity, to rebuilding the team again under a new manager. The club had forgotten what it was like to bring in a new team coach. But the results have not been good enough.
So on that basis alone, he did deserve to go.
However, I personally feel the blame can not be laid solely at his door. When Moyes came in last summer, there was also a new chief executive at Manchester United. He's been called the executive vice chairman. He was the former marketing chief Ed Woodward. And so you got a man at the top of Manchester United the business finding his feet at the same time as David Moyes, a new man finding his feet as the first team coach. And together, they didn't bring in the new players needed to refresh what was starting to become a squad with a few holes in it, not quite the sort of team that can match Manchester United's impressive record in recent years. And so they have failed. And they've suffered their worst season in more than two decades.
VASSILEVA: Alex, some also point to his style, Moyes style. It just didn't take in Manchester United.
THOMAS: It's hard to know what's going on behind the scenes, Ret (ph), so we have to rely on some anecdotal evidence and leaks and reports and whispers. But if you put yourself in the shoes of all the star players at Manchester United. They're in their dressing room. Who is going to be their new boss? Think of any of you at home in your companies, in your businesses, it doesn't matter if it's a football team or not, who do you want to come in as your new boss? Someone famous, someone inspirational, someone you've always wanted to work for, or someone like David Moyes with a solid reputation, but certainly someone who was in charge of a small smaller club, with the greatness of respect to Everton his previous employers. And I think it seems a lot of the big names in the Manchester United dressing room weren't inspired enough by Moyes, by his training methods, by his man management.
And when you lose the will of the squad and they're not willing to play for him the way they had certainly given their heart and sole to Sir Alex Ferguson on the pitch, he left with a huge, huge problem. The American owners of Manchester United, the Glazers, want to pour hundreds of millions of dollars into revamping the first team roster, as you say, in American sports. And do they trust Moyes to do it? Well, the answer now is no. He's gone. And who is going to be the man entrusted with rebuilding such a famous club now?
VASSILEVA: And that was my next question, who is going to take the running permanently?
THOMAS: It's a very difficult one to answer, Ralitsa. It's already the one that everyone is asking, football fans not just of Manchester United, but because they're such a famous team fans of other clubs are all asking and speculating as to who it might be.
You look at the leading managers in Europe right now, Pep Guardiola at Bayren Munich, Carlo Ancellotti at Real Madrid, Laurent Blanc at Paris Saint Germain, Jose Mourinho at Chelsea, the sort of names that have had great seasons already with new clubs has to be said, many of them, they are all committed to their current sides pretty much. Maybe Jose Mourinho could commit a major U-turn and leave Chelsea for another English Premier League club in Manchester United.
Louis van Gaal has been mentioned, but the Dutchman is in charge of his national team going to the World Cup in Brazil. So he has to focus on that until mid-July at the very least and then he'd be coming to Manchester United with barely a month before the transfer window closes and they'd be in the same situation as 12 months ago, leaving it too late to bring in new players.
So all sorts of unanswered questions. I don't think Manchester United have lost Moyes at a good time. There's no obvious candidate to replace him.
One of the other leading candidate, Jurgen Klopp, who is the manager Borussia Dortmund, has publicly said today I'm not going to take the job.
VASSILEVA: Alex Thomas live from London. Thank you.
Turning now to the ferry disaster off the coast of South Korea. Six days after the boat tilted sharply and began to sink, divers have recovered 108 bodies from the sunken ship. Two boys on the surface of the water marked the location of the submerged ferry. Teams are trying to gain access to the boat's cafeteria where they believe they may find many victims. There's still 194 people missing.
As the victim's bodies are brought to the shore, the company that operated the ferry, Sewol, has posted an apology on its website. It, quote, begs for forgiveness from victim's families. Our correspondent Nic Robertson will join us from Jindo South Korea a little bit later in this hour with a live report.
In the Southern Indian Ocean, the hunt continues for Malaysia Airlines flight 370. The Bluefin-21 underwater probe is on its tenth journey to the ocean floor. It has scanned about two-thirds of its intended search area, but has not yet found any sign of wreckage. Progress is also slow above water. Today's air search for possible debris was suspended due to bad weather. The plane went missing March 8 with 239 people onboard.
In Beijing, many passengers' families are furious after Malaysian officials postponed a planned meeting for a second straight day. For more on this, Ivan Watson is joining me live from CNN Beijing.
So, Ivan, why the delay?
IVAN WATSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: You know, I don't really have a complete explanation for that. The Malaysian authorities, the Malaysian government have made pledges. They've promised to bring teams, high level officials on numerous occasions to meet with Chinese families, the families of the 153 Chinese nationals that were aboard this missing flight.
And then at the last minute again and again those meetings are delayed or postponed for a number of different reasons. For example, last week there was supposed to be a video conference between Chinese family members and Malaysian officials in Kuala Lumpur and there was a technical error and the video conference was a failure.
And the Chinese families were livid. They all marched out en masse. Monday was a scene of really heartbreaking and sometimes very insulting addresses and speeches from these Chinese families to the deputy chief of mission of the Malaysian embassy here in Beijing.
Take a listen to this really heartbreaking address, statement that was made by the father of one of the passengers who was aboard that missing plane. Take a listen.
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UNIDENTIFIED MALE (through translator): We don't know at this point whether they are alive or dead, because you haven't given us any direct proof of where they actually are. We want all the fact.
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WATSON: Ralitsa, on Monday the Malaysia diplomat who was addressing this conference room full of perhaps 100 of these relatives of passengers. He pleaded over and over again, very emotionally, just wait, in 24 hours there will be a fresh team from Malaysia who will meet with you and will answer some of their questions.
Well, it's been 24 hours. The Malaysian government said their deputy foreign minister would be coming to Beijing. Nobody has met as far as we know with these Chinese families yet. And so you can imagine kind of the frustration. These Chinese families almost pulling their hair out, quite literally, in anger and frustration -- Ralitsa.
VASSILEVA: And it's a very troubled relationship. They've given so much misinformation, retractions, now these delays. How are they coping with all of this?
WATSON: Not well. I mean, really not well.
What you have had and that I've been witnessing for the past week is kind of a daily briefing with these Chinese families who have been accommodated by Malaysian airlines for more than a month now, more than 40 days at a number of Beijing hotels. Every day they troupe out at 3:00 in the afternoon. They meet in this windowless conference room and they wait for some Malaysian official to come out.
The Malaysian officials who come out rarely are authorized to really answer any serious questions about the investigation into the missing plane, into the search operation as well. And instead these furious Chinese families, many of whom still believe that their loved ones are still alive, the low ranking Malaysian officials really become lightning rods for their anger at the lack of information, for the lack of transparency.
It's a bizarre psychodrama that has played out day after day where you have sometimes these Chinese relatives begging, weeping, sobbing and in some cases cursing, hurling expletives at the Malaysian officials.
On Tuesday, no Malaysian official showed up. A Chinese pilot came up to try to answer some technical questions.
It is a very unhealthy relationship. And it has really bred real suspicion and disbelief on the part of the Chinese families, many of whom don't even believe that the search operation is going on in the right points, the right place in the Indian Ocean. They seem to want to do the calculations themselves. They're asking for the data points from the Malaysian authorities. They want to figure out where that plane may have actually gone down more than a month ago -- Ralitsa.
VASSILEVA: Ivan Watson in Beijing, thank you.
Coming up on News Stream, Kiev says these photos were taken in different places, but there's one common link, a mysterious bearded man. The government in Kiev says he is proof of Russian involvement in eastern Ukraine.
And later, a teenage boy says he traveled to Hawaii in the wheel well of a plane. We'll tell you how he may have managed to sneak in there in the first place.
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VASSILEVA: The U.S. vice president has pledged his country's allegiance to Ukraine's interim leaders. At a news conference in Kiev a short time ago, Joe Biden said Ukraine is and must remain one nation. He condemned Russia's annexation of Crimea, saying the U.S. and the world would never accept it. Biden accused Russia of stirring up tensions in eastern Ukraine and he had a list of things he wanted to see Moscow take on.
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BIDEN: To get pro-Russian separatists to vacate buildings and checkpoints, accept amnesty, and address their grievances politically, to get out on the record calling for the release of all illegally occupied buildings, that's not a hard thing to do, and to send senior Russian officials to work with the OSCE in the east.
These are commitments made. They should be fulfilled.
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VASSILEVA: Well, the Russian government has repeatedly denied having anything to do with the unrest in Ukraine's east. But now Ukrainian officials say they have proof that undercover Russian troops are in the region. CNN senior international correspondent Arwa Damon on that.
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ARWA DAMON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: These photos obtained by CNN show men in green uniforms, supposedly operating in eastern Ukraine. Images Ukrainian officials say proves organized Russian activity in the region.
Example, this bearded man is said to have been photographed in Kramatorsk and Slovyansk in Eastern Ukraine. The Ukrainians say he's been seen before, working for the Russians in 2008 in the Republic of Georgia, wearing an elite Russian special forces patch. They are part of a dossier compiled by the Ukrainian government and endorsed by the U.S. administration.
CNN's first encounter with the bearded man is Slovyansk more than a week ago, but CNN can't confirm the authenticity of the images. Some are poor quality.
But CNN has been given exclusive access to other evidence Ukraine says it has.
VITALIY NAIDA, SENIOR OFFICER, UKRAINIAN INTELLIGENCE SERVICE: You can see the video of Gryenko (ph) being arrested by alpha team right now. He was in this motel in the room.
DAMON: Vitaliy Naida, a senior officer with Ukraine's counter- intelligence services says Vichesog Gryenko (ph) was arrested in eastern Ukraine in March. And according to his ID is a Russian military officer.
In his possession, Naida says, all the components of a homemade bomb.
NAIDA: This is the wrapped explosive.
DAMON: Plus detonators, bolts and screws and a map marking the locations of military and administrative installations in the Ukraine.
The Ukrainians say the Russian involvement in the east is widespread.
NAIDA: We were speaking about dozens of Russian special forces, Russian military and their agents.
DAMON: CNN teams have heard Russian accents among the men in green, as they are known. Well armed and uniformed groups who have appeared in towns like Slovyansk and Kramatorsk (ph).
One told us he had come up from Simferapol in Crimea.
But CNN has not seen any evidence that these men are operating under orders from the Kremlin. Russia's foreign minister scoffed at the accusations saying that Kiev and its patrons, the U.S. and the EU, are trying to blame his country for everything.
SERGEY LAVROV, RUSSIAN FOREIGN MINISTER (through translator): They are saying that the proof of Russian interference is the existence in the conflict area of the great amount of Russian weapons. This is hilarious, because there are no other weapons.
DAMON: Slovyansk's self-declared mayor, a former military man himself, says the explanation is simple: he put out an appeal to his old comrades.
"So when I called on my friends, practically all of whom are ex- military, they came to our rescue," he says, "not only from Russia but also from Belarus, Kazakhstan and Moldova." But on Monday insisted there are no active-duty Russian soldiers in the town.
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DAMON: And Arwa is joining us now live from the city of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine.
So, Arwa, as we see your piece there on alleged Russian involvement, the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has just talked to leaders in Kiev, is his visit having any resonance there where you are in eastern Ukraine?
DAMON: Ralitsa, the people here are hardly listening to anything the United States has to say. And when it comes to whatever negotiations may have transpired in Geneva, the pro-Russian protest leaders here tell us that they weren't a part of those negotiations and therefore do not consider them to be binding.
We're in front of the main administrative building here in Donetsk. And as you can see from the barricades behind me, people have no indention of going absolutely anywhere. The Russian flag is flying. It's quite clear whose allegiances the people here lies with at this point in time, who they feel more comfortable relating to at this stage. And they say that they have absolutely no intention of going anywhere whatsoever, Ralitsa.
VASSILEVA: And so what's your feel? Is the Geneva deal dead where you are?
DAMON: Well, it seems as if, when it comes to the situation here the Geneva deal was never really alive. We've seen individuals with the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe that has been tasked with trying to negotiate the surrender of these various buildings traveling around meeting with leaders. Those meetings as of yet have been inconclusive. The pro-Russian protest leaders, the people who occupy these buildings tell us that they frankly do not consider themselves to be illegal, that it's the government in Kiev that is illegitimate, that needs step down. So we're at a point in all of this that both sides fairly hardened in their positions, both sides refusing to back down with the population growing increasingly anxious about what the future is going to hold.
VASSILEVA: Arwa Damon in Donetsk eastern Ukraine, thank you very much.
Still to come on our show, there's a new brand of celebrity on the rise, but they aren't on the silver screen or the small screen, they're rising to fame on a less conventional platform and making money doing it. We'll explain after the break.
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VASSILEVA: The world of entertainment has changed dramatically in the last few years. The screen stars of today aren't just from film or from television, they're gaining fame on the web. Jim Boulden shows us how people are making a living from posting their video.
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JIM BOULDEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Fast cars on cramped streets. It may be hard for these rare super cars to get a head of steam on London's streets, but they still grab the attention. As a teenager, Paul Wallace decided to post videos of these cars.
PAUL WALLACE, DIRECTOR, SUPERCAR SCENE LIMITED: At the age of 15, I literally -- I just uploaded it to YouTube and showed my friends, and so it's really sort of gone on from there. And people are obviously searching to find that sort of stuff.
BOULDEN: There are now some 700 videos and more than 58,000 subscribers to his YouTube channel, Supercars of London.
WALLACE: I think from day one, there was an instant sort of attraction to seeing these cars on the road, because normally, they'd seen them in magazines and on TV shows, like "Top Gear." So, it was sort of -- I was bringing them to life sort of thing. And within sort of a few months, there was 1,000 views on one video.
BOULDEN: Through Google AdSense, Paul now gets a cut of every ad that runs ahead of his videos. He says he's now making $2500 a month.
WALLACE: I think it was when I really put a business plan to Google, when I applied for the Google AdSense partnership, me and my friend at the time, we wrote a business plan and sort of told them how much money and time we were going to be investing.
BOULDEN: Paul still goes into central London most weekends seeking out a rare auto, leaving behind his own Audi R8 sports car, recently bought with his YouTube earnings.
WALLACE: A lot of people would think now that I've got a Supercar, that's it. I still go to London by train and film these Supercars with all of my friends that I've met over the past five years. I'd like to think that I'm sort of a mini business entrepreneur.
BOULDEN: These cars normally ply the streets of the Gulf states.
WALLACE: As the summer comes in and I'm there more, you do meet a lot of Arabs and they're all very friendly and very polite, and some of them even study at university now and become good friends.
ROBBIE METTA, PROPERTY DEVELOPER: They love it, so taking them up and down here...
WALLACE: They're quite excited by being in a Ferrari.
METTA: They like to video it and put it on Instagram, start following, and everyone kind of just meets up for the weekend. I think it's quite good.
BOULDEN: Paul also handles the social media for a high-end auto repair company in Watford outside London, mixing his passion with business sense.
WALLACE: I found something very early on, and I was lucky enough to find something that I enjoy doing very early on, and it just so happens that it earns money. I always had an ambition, I wanted to own a Lamborghini by 25. So, an Audi R8 at 23 is a step there.
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BOULDEN: So, he's got two years and lot more uploading to reach his goal of perhaps filming his own Lamborghini on the streets of London.
Jim Boulden, CNN, Watford, England.
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VASSILEVA: Doing what you love and making money from it, couldn't get better than that.
Still to come here on News Stream, Washington stands firmly with Kiev. That's the message that the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden has been driving home as he meets with Ukraine's top leaders.
And divers search a sunken ferry off the coast of South Korea as the death toll from the tragedy rises. We'll bring you the latest after the break. Stay with us.
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VASSILEVA: Hello, everybody. I'm Ralitsa Vassileva at the CNN Center. You're watching CNN News Stream. And these are your world headlines this hour.
Manchester United have fired manager David Moyes after less than a year on the job. The reigning Premier League champions currently sit in seventh place and have missed out on qualifying for next season's Champion's League. Ryan Giggs will take over as manager until the end of the season.
108 people have been confirmed dead in the ferry disaster off South Korea as divers continue to search the sunken ferry. 194 people are still missing. Two more crew members were arrested today on top of the captain and six other crew members already facing charges in the accident.
The search for Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 continues in the southern Indian Ocean. The Bluefin-21 underwater probe is on its 10th mission to the ocean floor. It has scanned about two-thirds of its intended search area but has not yet found any sign of wreckage.
U.S. Vice President Joe Biden says, quote, "Ukraine is and must remain one country." He was speaking at a news conference in Kiev with Ukraine's prime minister. Biden condemned Russia's annexation of Crimea and he called on Moscow to convince pro-Russian militants in eastern Ukraine to leave the government buildings they've occupied.
But the occupation continues in about a dozen towns and cities. European officials met pro-Russian leaders in Slovyansk on Monday, but no breakthroughs were reported. Separatists in Donetsk have made it clear they have no intention of moving, unless the government in Kiev also vacates public buildings.
And late Monday, residents in Kramatorsk said armed men wearing masks seized a police station there.
CNN's Fred Pleitgen is joining us now from the Ukrainian capital Kiev. Fred, as we see no end to the escalation of this crisis, the U.S. Vice President Joe Biden is visiting. What are the messages we are hearing out of Kiev?
FRED PLEITGEN, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Yeah, it certainly is a very difficult diplomatic environment that the U.S. vice president has traveled into. His core message was that the United States stands at the side of the new Ukrainian government and especially on the side of the Ukrainian people.
Now he had some very strong words for the Russian Federation and its conduct over the past couple of months. I want to listen in to just one of the things that the vice president said in a press conference together with Ukraine's prime minister.
VASSILEVA: Fred, we apologize we couldn't hear Joe Biden's words. We had some technical difficulties. But basically he was pledging support to the authorities, to the interim government in Kiev, calling also on Russia to implement the Geneva deal, right?
PLEITGEN: Yes, absolutely. He was saying that -- to just paraphrase him, he said that no country has the right to just grab a piece of land out of another nation. And certainly he took the Russian Federation to task on that.
Now of course the Ukrainians would want to hear what exactly the U.S. has to offer to try and show that support for Ukraine. The vice president announced that the U.S. would give additional financial aid to the government especially to help implement political reforms here in this country.
One of the things that he touched on again and again in that press conference is he said that the revolution here in this country is something that the U.S. commends. It also commends the government for the measures that it's taken so far.
But he also says that the government has to fight the corruption that is still rampant both in the political as well as the economic system here in this country.
The other big issue also, Ralitsa, was energy security for Ukraine. This is something where the U.S. says it already has technical experts on the ground here to help Ukraine become less dependent on Russian gas, because that, of course, is something that's a major tool that the Russians are using to put pressure on the Ukrainian government.
So there were a lot of warm words for the Ukrainian government, a lot of harsh words for the Russians. But also some very real initiatives announced by the vice president today in this press conference Ralitsa.
VASSILEVA: And also a lot of calls for Ukraine to stay united. But what we're seeing in the east shows what a huge challenge that's going to be.
PLEITGEN: Certainly one that's very high on the agenda again.
What we saw over the Easter holiday is that the Ukrainian government called for a unilateral truce to halt a military operation that it launched there last week.
Today the government announced that that military operation is back on. They call that an anti-terror operation. And another thing that they announced a little less than an hour ago is they said that they believe that some of upheaval in the east was facilitated by the fact that some of the security forces, especially some of the police who were there, were too passive in dealing with those pro-Russian protesters and therefore they've announced that they are going to allow militias by regular people to form.
They say that there are former military and former police officers at the helm of these militias. These militias have the right to bear arms and they are supposed to reimplement security. So that's certainly something that is viewed as a major step, but we'll have to wait and see the coming days how that plays out on the ground there.
But certainly it seems as though at this point in time the Ukrainian government has said it's attempted to deescalate the situation, but they are now going to go back to launching their anti-terror operation, or what they call their anti-terror operation in the east, if in fact those pro- Russian protesters don't vacate those buildings in the very near future, Ralitsa.
VASSILEVA: Fred Pleitgen, live in Kiev, Ukraine. Thank you very much.
Well, South Korea's defense ministry says North Korea has stepped up activity at its main nuclear test site. Officials decline to specify what kind of activities are taking place, but they raise the possibility that Pyongyang may be preparing to carry out a fourth underground blast at the Punggye-ri nuclear test site.
This report comes just days before U.S. President Barack Obama is set to visit Seoul.
And now we return to one of our top stories, the South Korea ferry disaster. CNN senior international correspondent Nic Robertson is in Jindo, South Korea with the latest developments.
We've heard of new arrests today. The search continues.
NIC ROBERTSON, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: That's right, Ralitsa, 108 bodies recovered from the ship now, 194 people still missing, very grim scenes at the harbor site today as marine police vessel after marine police vessel brought bodies to the harbor site. They were transferred to a small white tented mortuary set up on the harbor side. And ambulances reversing up one, two, three, four ambulances at a time reversing up. They had a very solemn, somber process as stretcher bearers carried the bodies out one body per ambulance.
And as those ambulances pulled away, more replaced them. And it really gave you a sense that the pace of recovery has increased.
This is still a rescue mission. the divers had been searching the ship today on the third and fourth levels. The fourth level at the back of the ship, they say, is a cabin area where they believe that some of the students may have been. That's the rooms -- the cabins that they were allocated.
And on the third floor they've been going into an area they describe as a lounge area where there was some entertainment facilities. They say that it's very -- visibility is difficult, they have to move objects out of their way as they go.
Where they want to get to on that third level is a cafeteria area where they say they believe a lot of the students were congregated as well.
But at the moment, that is separated from the lounge by a wall so they're contemplating now do they break that wall down, get through it in some way, how do they get through to that cafeteria area -- Ralitsa.
VASSILEVA: And Nic, are there hopes that they could still find some survivors?
ROBERTSON: There are, because this is still called a rescue mission. And that -- for that reason, there's -- they're continuing putting all the focus and effort of the divers into this rescue process rather than investigating what happened to the ship, rather than trying to deal with this small oil spill that's coming out from the ship's engines.
What they're hoping is that somehow some people may have survived in air pockets inside the ship. That's what they're hoping and they're searching for those air pockets. But so far there's been no indication at all that there may have been people still living inside the ship, but they continue pressing ahead, Ralitsa.
VASSILEVA: And Nic, as you were speaking we were showing video just gives us an idea of the conditions in which the divers have to work. You can barely see anything. Tell us a little bit more about the challenges.
ROBERTSON: The challenges today slightly improved, because the sea was a little calmer and those strong currents that exist in that area were a little slow today.
However, the visibility hasn't improved. What you see in this video is a rope. This is a rope, one of six, that go from the surface attach to the ship. Now the divers follows these ropes down through the murky waters until they go inside the ship. And then really they've got to feel their way, as we understand, by ropes and by hand to get to the locations that they want to get to inside the ship. There's debris in there that they physically have to move, all the sorts of things that were lying around inside the ship, those have now moved with the waters and the currents inside there.
So again one diver came out and he said he couldn't even see his hand in front of his face. So that gives you just some idea.
One diver we heard about today, a navy diver, he's being treated aboard a navy -- Korean navy medical ship here with suspected partial paralysis. That's what they're investigating. So that does speak to the difficulty of the conditions that the divers are working in and the extremes that they're going to in this rescue efforts there Ralitsa.
VASSILEVA: Nic Robertson in Jindo, South Korea, thank you very much.
Well, officials in San Jose, California say that they will not press charges against the 16-year-old stowaway who hitched a ride to Hawaii on a Boeing 767. It's believed that the boy traveled in the plane's wheel well and incredibly survived the five hour journey in sub-zero temperatures. Brian Todd tells us more.
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BRIAN TODD, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The ground crew noticed him wandering the tarmac in Maui disoriented. FBI special agent Tom Simon says this 16- year-old boy claimed to have ridden to Maui in the wheelwell of a Hawaiian Airlines 767 all the way from San Jose, California. The spokeswoman in San Jose says.
UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: He's a very lucky boy today.
TODD: Officials have reviewed surveillance video and say the teenager was seen hopping the fence at the San Jose airport and walking across the tarmac towards the Hawaiian airlines plane. The Maui airport has footage of him crawling out of a wheelwell. We went into the wheelwell of a 707. Smaller than the 767's wheel bay but this security expert Rofi Ron was able to show us how he could have wedged in. TODD: In the wheelwell the center area here could be key, right ?
ROFI RON, CEO, NASS: With the setup here in the 707, this area here is probably the best location for him at this time, because that is where the space between the wheels would later on be positioned, and that ensures that there would be slightly, enough space for him to survive. Then he can improve his position once the gear is in.
TODD: Experts say if he did successfully stow away, it's almost miraculous. The wheelwells are passenger jets aren't heated or pressurized. They say at a cruising altitude of 30,000 to 35,000 feet, the cold air could have killed him.
MICHAEL KAY, CNN AVIATION EXPERT: At that height, temperatures around minus 45 to minus 55 degrees c. To put that into perspective. Skin freezes almost instantaneously at around minus 44 degrees c.
TODD: A loss of oxygen at that altitude could have killed him unless his metabolism slowed enough nod to need oxygen. The lack of security in San Jose is being questioned in this case. Rofi Ron says the boy took advantage of a gap in the system.
RON: Right now many of our airports are not protecting the perimeter well enough to prevent an incident like this one.
TODD: The airport spokeswoman in San Jose says that facility exceeds all security requirements, and has an excellent track record. The TSA is assisting the airport in its investigation.
If this young man pulled this off he would have beaten pretty long odds. According to the FAA since 1947, 105 people have attempted to stow away in wheelwells are planes all over the world and 80 of them have died.
Brian Todd, CNN, Chattily, Virginia.
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VASSILEVA: Well, coming up next Boston Strong, that was the motto that tens of thousands of spectators and runners proved true yesterday. We'll bring you more on the iconic marathon one year on from last year's deadly bombings.
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VASSILEVA: Trust and integrity tops the list when it comes to building success in the workplace, that advice from top public relations executive Kathy Bloomgarden. On this week's Leading Women, the CEO of Ruder Finn shares some lessons on getting ahead and staying there. Nina Dos Santos sat down with her for a chat.
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NINA DOS SANTOS, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: As chief executive of a PR firm that's represented big business and even the Vatican, Kathy Bloomgarden has her pulse on a wide range of development. Bloomgarden's father had a big influence on her career path. He co-founded Ruder Finn where she started freelancing while still in college.
Can you give me an idea of the kind of household that you grew up in?
KATHY BLOOMGARDEN, CEO, RUDER FINN: I grew up in a household where I was the oldest of four children and my mom stayed at home. so it was very much focused on constant studying, though, I must say.
SANTOS: What did you want to be when you grew up?
BLOOMGARDEN: Well, I was always fascinated by languages. So I wanted to be a global person. I was able to become fluent in French pretty quickly. And that sort of sent me on a journey for thinking about how I could really understand different societies and cultures and really be able to communicate with people and live, you know, locally in many different settings.
SANTOS: And she went on to do just that. Bloomgarden speaks several languages, a plus when it comes to handling high level PR across the globe.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: They have a full sitcom on Hulu like Parks and Rec that kind of style of TV show.
SANTOS: She says integrity and trust are core values in the workplace. In 2007 she wrote a book about this called "Trust: The Secret Weapon of Effective Business Leaders."
How is that message being received? And are there any examples of how that can be incorporated into your own company?
BLOOMGARDEN: You can see many, many CEOs are really harmed by the lack of trust. And that it's really important for people to show who they are, to talk about their values and to do things that really make a definite contribution apart from their own business objectives.
And we really in our agency we really try hard to help people get to that point.
SANTOS: For the mother of three, there's also the company legacy to consider.
If we look at the future generation of your company, both your daughter and son are working for the business. Would you like to see your daughter as another woman take on the mantle of the family firm?
BLOOMGARDEN: You know, I'm going to leave that to them, because I don't want to put too much pressure on their shoulders. My son is in the digital area and my daughter is in the more value oriented, purpose driven area of communications. And so it's something that they're developing. And I think they're successful define what they want to do in the future.
SANTOS: She also has important lessons on success.
BLOOMGARDEN: Believe you can do anything you want to do is really the key for me. And don't be afraid. Take risks, be really bold in your thinking, close your eyes and dream about what you want to achieve and then just go and do it. And never think that you've made it, always think what are my going to do tomorrow to make sure that I'm still staying, you know, in a strong position? What's next?
SANTOS: Some good advice there.
Log on to our website to read more about Bloomgarden and other inspiring women such as African talk show queen Mosunmola Abudu. Find out how Abudu became known as the Oprah of Africa. That's all on CNN.com/leadingwomen.
Still ahead on our show, we'll show you the city of Boston's resilient spirit as the marathon runs again one year after a terror attack strikes the race.
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VASSILEVA: An emotional day in Boston on Monday as the city held its first marathon since last year's bombings. Amid increased security, spectators cheered on some 36,000 competitors. Kenya's Rita Jeptoo set a record in the women's run. She finished the 42 kilometer course in just under 2:19:00 minutes for her second straight victory, her third overall.
In the men's race, an American won for the first time since 1983. Meb Keflezighi paid tribute to the victims of last year's attack by writing their names on his runner's bib.
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MEB KEFLEZIGHI, 2014 BOSTON MARATHON WINNER: This is beyond running, this is for the people, for the Boston Strong. And we're resilient as the runners, we want to give it back, we want to change what happened last year. And last year was known to be the bomb (inaudible) and this year an American winning it and (inaudible) just beyond words.
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VASSILEVA: Quite an inspiration there.
Let's turn now to the weather. There's been some heavy rain in eastern Europe including Romania. And Mari Ramos is at the world weather center with more details on that -- Mari.
MARI RAMOS, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Hey, Ralitsa.
Yeah, this is an area of course you know very well across eastern Europe. And this time of year as we head into the spring we really begin to see that rainfall picking up quite a bit. Over the winter months they didn't really have a much snow as they normally do, so this rain overall is beneficial we just don't want to get it all at once and cause flooding like these pictures.
Take a look at these images right over here.
Do we have the video there? There you see it.
Again, it seems like every year we see a similar story with the spring flooding that happens across these areas. The rain comes down very heavily and widespread flooding occurs like you see in this cemetery right there pretty deep water. And it takes awhile for the water in these relatively flat lands to eventually drain out into the larger rivers.
Now we haven't seen any significant river flooding yet, at least in none of the major rivers. But definitely some of those smaller tributaries are starting to fill up very, very quickly. They had to evacuate some people from some of the smaller towns.
But even in some of the big cities -- for example in Bucharest, they had in the last 48 hours they had 40 millimeters of rain. You've got to think about it this way, in the entire month of April they get 46 millimeters of rain. So they had almost an entire month's worth of rain in just a period of two days.
Fortunately the rain is easing up across this area, just some scattered showers over the next couple of days as we look at the bit picture over here. You still see that flow of moisture coming in off the Mediterranean. The rain will remain across Athens and then back over towards southern parts of Italy and North Africa.
Scattered showers for everybody else.
And it really feels like temperature wise anyway that we went from winter right straight up into summer again, because we're seeing some pretty warm temperatures across this region, like notice in Moscow we have 23 against an average of 13 for this time of year. Minsk, similar situation. Warsaw, you guys are baking right now at 19. You're supposed to be closer to 14. I know a lot of you aren't complaining just yet about the warm temperatures.
Berlin, it feels like you didn't even have a winter at all, because you've had warmer than average conditions throughout pretty much the entire winter. And now as we head into spring it really looks like that trend is continuing.
Now, right now we're still looking at some rather warm conditions. Moscow 21, Berlin 20, Warsaw also at 21, 15 in London and 18 in Paris.
As we look over to the south, a similar situation. We have a little bit more cloud cover in Madrid, for example, so you guys are only at about 16 degrees.
As I was telling you, those warm temperatures are likely to continue here across the east, at least for the next three days as you see there in Warsaw warming up to 23 by tomorrow, wow. And in Budapest closer to 24 by Thursday. So definitely some warm weather.
Now if wherever you are, if you can, go outside, take a selfie, it's global selfie for Earth Day for NASA. And send it out to them Ralitsa. We're going to be doing that in just a little while. I encourage you guys to do it too.
VASSILEVA: OK, I'm going after the show. Post that selfie. I love selfies.
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VASSILEVA: Thank you, Mari.
Well, as part of our impact your world series, CNN sat down with one CEO who was crowdsourcing experts to bring in affordable high tech products to communities that need them the most. Katie Walmsley has more on that.
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KATIE WALMSLEY, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Mick Eberling doesn't like the word impossible so much so that he started a foundation to prove that in his opinion there's no such thing.
MICK EBELING, FOUNDER, NOT IMPOSSIBLE LABS: I can't stand the concept of no.
WALMSLEY: What's unique about Not Impossible is they're crowdsourcing approach to problem solving.
What is crowdsourcing? And how does it work for you?
EBELING: We will reach out to specialists, but we'll also just reach out to generalists or people that we think are going to be able to bring something to the table. The people who have these expertise and who have these skills, they're doing this anyway. So for them, it's just a reapplication of their knowledge and their passion.
WALMSLEY: Where there's a need, Not Impossible teams create or adapt a technology to find an affordable solution. One of their first projects helped paralyze graffiti artist Tempt One.
EBELING: He was struck with ALS, so he has been laying in the same bed for now over 10, 12 years.
We created an ocular recognition device called the iWriter. It allowed him to draw. So that kind of really gave him his expression and his love and his art back.
WALMSLEY: More recently, Not Impossible found an affordable way to print 3D limbs for a boy in the Sudan. Project Daniel has gone on to help many more.
EBELING: Typically a prosthetic can cost on the low end $10,000 on up to $100,000. Our device, you're looking at around $100.
The really crucial part of what we did over there was to actually show Daniel as well as the community, the village that he lived in, how to build them themselves.
WALMSLEY: So anyone can find any of your designs online and the instructions, they can build it themselves?
EBELING: Ultimately everything we make will be online and open source. We will say here is the ingredients, pick up these parts, order exactly this, order that and this is -- we'll make a how to video so that we can teach them how to do it, but they can make it themselves.
Our kind of mantra is help one, help many.
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VASSILEVA: That is truly empowering. And that is News Stream, I'm Ralitsa Vassileva. But don't go away, the news continues here on CNN. World Business Today is coming up next. Stay tuned.
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