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A combination photo shows a South Korean couple after they were rescued from the Costa Concordia.
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By msnbc.com staff and wires
Updated at 6:50 a.m. ET:
The U.S. Embassy in Rome issues a statement revising the number of Americans estimated on board the Costa Concordia to 125 from 126.
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A Korean couple on their honeymoon were taken off the ship early on Sunday.? A third person, reportedly a crew member, was being removed late Sunday morning, according to Sky News.
Updated at 5:50 a.m. ET:
Reuters reports that teams are painstakingly checking thousands of rooms on the Costa Concordia for the nearly 40 people still missing after the huge vessels foundered and keeled over with more than 4,000 n board, killing at least three and injuring 70.
A Korean couple on their honeymoon were taken off the ship early on Sunday.? A third person, reportedly a crew member, was being removed late Sunday morning.
Reuters adds:
The task is akin to searching a small town - but one tilted on its side, and largely in darkness and submerged in freezing water. Scores of divers were taking part.
Just after dawn on Sunday, a team made voice contact with a third survivor still on board the ship. "We are doing the impossible to reach this person," coastguard spokesman Luciano Nicastro told Italian television.
After midnight, rescue workers had found the two South Koreans still alive in a cabin, after locating them from several decks above, and brought them ashore, looking dazed but unharmed.
The captain of the luxury 114,500-tonne ship, Francesco Schettino, was under arrest and accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship, Italian police said.
Updated at 5:43 a.m. ET:
Sky News is reporting that a rescue team has placed a third survivor on a stretcher and are in the process of removing him from the ship.
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Updated at 5:20 a.m. ET:
?A third survivor was located inside the overturned Costa Concordia cruise ship off the western coast of Italy, a spokesman for Italian firefighters told The Associated Press on Sunday.
Rescuers had spoken to the person inside the ship but the survivor had not yet been removed, Luca Cari told the AP.
Published at 4:45 a.m. ET:?
Rescue crews circling the wreckage of a cruise ship that ran aground off the Tuscan coast have heard sounds from within the ship, Britain's Sky News reported on Sunday.
Sources said that fire department crews had heard sounds from deck 3, Sky reported. A few dozen people remained unaccounted for.
Crews in dinghies were seen Sunday morning touching the hull with their hands. They were near the site of the 160-foot-long gash where water flooded in and caused the ship to fall on its side.Coast guard officials have said divers will try to enter the belly of the ship in case anyone is still inside Italian news reports quoting local officials say some 40 people remain unaccounted for out of the 4,200 passengers and crew. Three people are confirmed dead.
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Msnbc.com staff and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
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