>>> good evening. tonight a thorry mod everyone cruise ship outfitted with state-of-the-art navigation ls on its side just off the coast of italy after runningnto rock jetting out of the tersor centuries. one of the boulders in fact, is now iedded in the side of the hull. it wasn awful heroing night on the water. a scramble fhe lifeboats as it tipped to one side some knotted together bed sheets . some passengers were forced to jump. thankfully it was close to shore. in plain english , the costa concordia shouldn't have been anywhere near the rocks. while some didn't makit, some are still missg, a lot of passengers are very lucky to be alive and onry land. of t 4,20 souls on board,ix are dead, 29 still missing. that number includes two americans. we have this story covered from italy tonight. before we get to nbc's harry ith, we begin tonight with michelle kaczyni. michelle , od evening.
>> reporter: good evening, brian. rescue efforts have been relentless and dangerous. now we know according to the company what caused this saster was human error . thecaptain's decision to go off course, bring the ship closer to shore. now, there is desperate hope that any of the more two dozen still ssing might yet be found alive. rescuers fighting their way while there's time to fd people who might still be trapped deep within the costa concordia today battled weather, had to pull back as the half half sunk behemoth under water.
>> to start and we are losing the trek.
>> among the missing , american retirees jerry and barbara hyle from minnesota their family said they coopete wait for their dream mediterranean cruise and trapped on board for a day and a half. the bouer still lodged in the concordia's ripped hull, the ship lying on a rocky bed mor than 100 feet deep, at an angle, in danger of sliding. and a state of emergency declared over wries that half be aking. gallons of fuel could still emerging video shows how a vation three hours in evolved into a desperate push to escape.
>> people are passing out. ople are getting nervous. people are having chest pains . i was having che pains. i was having anxiety because i don't know how to swim.
>> infrared video shows people inching down the exposed hull in the dark. today, costa cruise has kuld this the result of human error . blaming the captain f making an unautrized decision to steer off course closer to an island. he's also under suspicion o abandoni ship while passengers still scrambled forheir lives. the company said this course chan may have all been for show.
>> he wanted to show the ship and to nearby thi island and so he decided tchange the course of the ship.
>> the captain has defended his action claiming navigational char showed a clear route. locals say it's not uncommon to make a display close to land, sounding horns, delighting tourists. this video of the concordia on a previous run sws just that. today, this time, the picture shows only disaster on an enormous scale. you know, brian, we have heard repeated scathing aounts from paengers about the evaation procedure. but today the company defended the crew saying that ship rled quickly,endering half the lifeboats useless. and commended them forelping to get more than 4,000 people off safely in two hours's me.
>> nbc's michelle kaczynski, thanks, starting
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