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Upwards of 50 feet. Visibility zero. Those are challenging conditions to survived. Reporter 33 crew members were on board the ship when it lost power in violent waters as hurricane walking joaquin churned thursday. Keith was never afraid of anything. He may not have trusted everyone, but he was not afraid and still is not afraid. Reporter maryellen shark was his eighth grade math teacher. In my heart, i believe if there is anything that we will see keith, it is because he thinks differently. Reporter the family that runs bog hollow farm is where he raises three kids with his wife. There are no words. Reporter crews found one of al faris lifeboats badly damaged. Thousands of miles away, hope abounds. They will make it. Reporter the outlook is most certainly bleak. The coast guard did recover one body inside a survival see that belonged to the ship. The ship itself is 3 miles underwater. Julie loncich. We have developing news in south carolina, the worst flooding they have seen. President obama has declared a major disaster. Reporter at least 12 people have died, 500 roads and bridges shut down because of flooding. Despite all that water, 40,000 people can drink from the tap tonight. Catastrophic images from the National Guard over the state capital of columbia. This dam, one of nine that have breached. There have been dozens of aerial rescues throughout the city including this woman and her child in charleston. More than 150 people have been plucked from flooded homes and stranded cars. This 18 wheeler can be seen slogging through massive floodwaters. Cemeteries have been uprooted caskets floating downstream. Dismisses have been demolished. It is heartbreaking. All the time spent with my family. Reporter with floodwaters still high, residents were returning by canoe. Here is my house. How high was the water . Probably about 25 feet. It came up to the banisters up their. Reporter another neighbor had 20 feet of water. He rescued a family of four stranded in their attic after facebook. They had 3 feet of air left. Reporter south carolinas governors telling people to stay home or at least say off the roads. South carolina got all that rain without hurricane walking joaquin making landfall. This probably wouldve happened even without a hurricane. This is a look back at the overall set up. What drew in that moisture. It is really an area you see away from joaquin that came in going. It stayed in place for a couple rainfall. Some of these towns ended up weekend. 72 total hours. Reaching up towards wilmington north carolina. Mount pleasant cost 27 inches of rain , 26 is 27 inches of rain. That all fell in a weekend. New at 11, we now know who the pilot was who died in midair on a boston bound flight. Were learning more about the copilot as well get to school and make sure that plane landed safely jim smith has the story from logan airport. A medical emergency. Reporter crews on the runway in syracuse responding to an emergency. A pilot on a phoenix to boston flight passing away in the middle of the trip. The plane forced to land in upstate new york. At first, passengers were only told the pilot was sick. The Flight Attendant come on and told us to fasten seatbelts. Her voice was quivering. So i knew it was way beyond an illness. Reporter people took photos and shot videos of the emergency operation. The pilot has been identified as Michael Johnston of you top. Is what utah. His wife says he likely died of a heart attack. They put tarps up so we could not see anything. The cops evacuated everybody. When we got on our flight here, four hours later, they notified us passed away. Accrue came on board and flew that plane onto logan airport. Passengers accrediting are crediting the copilot with keeping his cool. The airline needs to be commended. Whatever happened in the cockpit, none of us will know, but that copilot did a great job. He handled all of our lives in his hands at that point. Reporter that pilots wife says she has been told her husband likely died of an apparent heart attack. She also says he had a double bypass operation nine years ago and since then has been required to get a complete physical every six months to make sure as well enough to fly. Jim smith, wbz news. This developing news from washington, former mbta head will not join the ntsb. Scott was nominated in july and was in charge last winter when service was delayed or canceled. Scott apparently asked the white house to withdraw her tonight, what may have set off the shooter in oregon. The 26yearold man who gunned down on people left a manifesto ranting about not having a others thought he was crazy. This was an emotional day for students. Teachers and staff at Umpqua Community college with backto school today but not the classes, because those are canceled all week and went for counseling. President obama will travel to oregon friday to meet with the families. Hillary clinton made an emotional appeal for tougher guncontrol laws as she was campaigning in new hampshire. The democratic candidate held a town hall expanding vowing to expand background checks. She says the time to act is now. This epidemic of gun violence knows no boundaries, knows no limits of any kind. How many people have to die before we actually act . Before we come together as a nation . Here is a look at where other candidates stand. Bernie sanders supports banning assault weapons and closing the gun show loophole. Republican Carly Fiorina opposes that man. Donald trump doesnt want anymore limits on guns. He says all legislation should after a Train Derailment in vermont. Amtrak says Falling Rocks took out the train callers cars. Reporter the ntsb is headed to the area tie. The governor says this is simply a freak of nature. A view from above shows the true devastation, a chain twisted and derailed, mangled and on its side. We saw a bump. Reporter 98 passengers and four crew numbers were on the clock train when Officials Say it hit rock on the tracks. We swerved to the left and then right. We all went,. Oh uhoh. Really fast. Five or 10 seconds and it was done. We saw the car in front of us hours ended up on its side. Reporter 17 were injured, but amazingly, thats all. As governor, i joined vermont in expressing relief that no one has died. Reporter the governor says this was just a terrible accident. There is no believe there is any wrongdoing reporter there doesnt appear to be negligence, but officials will still investigate. No word on how long the tracks will be closed. Kate merrill, wbz news. We have that update to bring you tonight. Cian mcdonnelllynch cava four yearold from island with a rare disease, has passed away. He came to boston hoping for a double lung transplant. The hospital could not perform the surgery. The family said, our little boy is with the angels now. He fought so hard. Heaven is lucky to have him. You can learn more you can learn more cbsboston. Com. You will want to know about this before you make texas. The unwanted visitor on the prowl in a local neighborhood. Local tourism officials promoting boston as a wintertime death okay. But must be candid about it. Our state is spending millions encouraging people to buy electric cars. But a lot of that money is going to waste. The results of an investigation a few minutes. A woman from salford Suffolk County has been diagnosed with west nile virus. She is in the hospital. She is in her 90s and likely constructed contracted the virus. An unwelcome visitor is prowling the streets of lawrence. Several residents have reported this coyote. Someone posted this picture to twitter. Animal control is warning people to keep their pets indoors and cover their trash cans. General mills is pulling nearly 2,000,000 boxes of cheerios and honey nut cheerios because they are mislabeled glutenfree. Wheat flour was added by mistake. People with celiac disease cannot digest we flour, so that can be serious. For information about which website go to our website cbsboston. Com. Concern about flour in food brings us to our number of the night. 22 million americans have celiac disease or gluten sensitivity. Celiac disease is more serious and runs in families. People with this condition feel bloated and tired often. We got a break from gloomy weather today which led to amaze sunsets. Bring this on. We wont more of this. Some gorgeous color out there. We have dozens of photos. Kathleen, great weather watcher, sent this in burlington. It looks like halloween she was out there. Jeff had no filter on this. Look at the texture in the sky. This one might take the cake. Look in boston. Matt sent this one in. Cotton candy clouds breaking through. It doesnt get much better. The only complaint, maybe those sunsets are a little too early. I appreciate the photos, because i cannot watch the sunsets anymore. By november 1, here is the good news. We fall back on halloween night. You get an extra hour of sleep on halloween night. We are starting to see clearing to the east. Looking 80s in cape cod, that is joaquin about 450 miles south of nantucket. If you are surfing tomorrow, be careful of the recurrent. Down to 39 in cheating keen already. A little bit milder for the cape in the islands, the last a clear out. You definitely want to jacket at the bus stop. You might see your breath in the morning. A little more sunshine, warmer temperatures tomorrow afternoon. Today was the first day we had 60 in boston this month. 60s towards lunchtime. Finally, brighter day. For the afternoon, sunset coming little earlier are still. 6 17. Less wind tomorrow, light northerly trees. 70 for much of metrowest and towards the merrimack valley. 71 in fitchburg tomorrow. Rest of the week is quiet, not much happening. A cold front wednesday, just a few clouds, a reinforcing shot of cooler air thursday. Our only chance for rain is friday. The area of High Pressure moves out. This front might have enough moisture to give us a rumble of thunder or two mixed in. Temperatures are in a tight average range for october. The chilly essays will be thursday and saturday for the weekend. Here is your sevenday. Friday, showers. Other than that, seasonal temperatures, good outdoor weather. Thank you, eric. The state is spending millions of dollars encouraging us to buy electric cars. We discovered a lot of that money is going to ways. Ryan has the story. Reporter feeling up with electricity instead of gas. About 35 a month. Reporter joe is hitting a lot buying his new electracard. I was averaging 300 give or take gas prices, thats a 90 savings. Helping the environment is a benefit, but he is also happy with his rebates from the government. That is 10,000 immediately off the top. Orr big subsidies to get electric cars on the road. Judith johnson is the commissioner of energy resources. Orr we see an opportunity here. Orr what do you see the someone who says lets spend it somewhere else we if you look makes up 40 . Reporter the state has met 4 million since 2010 in rebates to electric car buyers another 5. 4 million went to subsidizing charging stations. The Baker Administration is committing 20 million for electric vehicle programs. You believe this will catch on . The cost of these vehicles is coming down. Coupled with rebate, we do see these are catching on. Reporter thats not what the it found. We observed a state subsidized charge station for 10 hours. One car pulled in for a charge. I have never seen the average family is not going to take advantage of these rebates because electric cars are not practical. They are for wealthy people to drive to cocktail parties where they can amuse themselves while by mentioning they came arent based on reality. Reporter electric car sales have stalled. Cars that rely on electricity only make up about 3 of cars on the road. That is the lower share in the past were known years. Possible causes four years. Possible causes, problems like charged on the road. Industry and its support future reporter commissioner johnson says the programs are not funded with taxpayer dollars but mostly tax and finds from large polluters. For the i think are trying cats, wbz news. Popular onside online Fantasy Sports site accused of insider bostonbased draft kings are defending the integrity of their business tonight. The New York Times reports an employee inadvertently released insider information. That employee won 350,000 at a rival site. The two companies have temporarily banned employees for playing at other sites. The patriots were off this week, but its a good time to get some rest. The bye week is over. The patriots are gearing up for the dallas cowboys. There is no more downtime. The patriots played 13 straight weeks football. Ryan when dell has not played in a game this season due to an undisclosed illness. He was he is 100 yet asked if he was 100 yet. As far as what percentage i am in, youll have to of asked the coach about that. Coach belichick loves that. Join us for behindthescenes stuff you cannot see anywhere else. The patriots cowboys kickoff the postgames side show. The bruins open up their season thursday night against winnipeg and they may have to do it without their capt. The bruins open up their season thursday night against winnipeg and they may have to do it without their capt. It is retroactive which means a player could be activated at any time. The red sox finish up their season yesterday in cleveland. Today, the clubhouse attendants were busy cleaning out the players lockers. Bc Football Team lost at duke on saturday. They gave up only three field goals, but the offense only scored one touchdown. Okay . , but i dont think anyone is taking it. They have had their moments of good things and bad things. I hope is, quite honestly that one of them makes it a non decision. And were just not there yet. Troy fluty is getting pretty close. Thats sports for now. Mornings. Wonderful, crazy mornings. We figure you probably dont have time to wait on hold. Were hard at work, building new apps like this one that lets you choose a time for us to call you. So instead of waiting on hold, well call you when things are just as wonderful. [phone rings] but a little less crazy. Were doing everything we can to give you the best experience possible. Because we should fit into your life. The Greater Boston Convention Bureau means well with this new video trying to more meetings and tourists here in the winter, but no snow in the footage . Not plausible and not necessary. If youre going to get hit with it, why not flaunt it . When boston face the one tom once inalifetime winter last week, we didnt miss a beat. Yes we did. But we dont need to tout room service to get visitors. Boston says bring it on. Yes, bring on the snowstorms so we can build Snow Mountains for skiing thrills. Skiing not your thing . Get down on our curbside aerobics classes going on all winter. Grab a shovel and join the fun. Or just let yourself get swept up in one of our impromptu street music festivals. I hear naum orr one starting now. There is outdoor swimming and hot springs with the water temperature is 72 even on new years day. Its spectator sports . Fenway will be close, but you can get into the spirit of it. Commuter marathon. Especially in winter time. We are verily a winter paradise. I hope every business planner conference planner around the country sees this and comes ahead, bring your wallet. It is a strength. This winter. It is fun. Delusion the Treasure Hunt the luge and are we going yet fewer