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There are still only 14 survivors of Monday's cruise ship disaster in China's Yangtze River. Rescue teams have now cut holes through parts of the overturned ship's hull, but they've found no more survivors from the ship that carried more than 450 people.

Cutting into the Eastern Star's hull is part of a desperate effort to find people who might have lived through the capsizing — which officials believe may have trapped air pockets in the ship's interior. But the move also brings risk, as it could release air that's been providing the ship with buoyancy.

From Jianli in Central China, NPR's Frank Langfitt reports:

 says that the Three Gorges Dam, which is up-river from the wreck, has cut its flow of water "by more than half, from 17,200 cubic meters per second to just 7,000 cubic meters."  Copyright 2019 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.

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Rescue teams have cut holes through parts of the overturned ship's hull, but they've found no more survivors from the ship that carried more than 450 people.

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