at this point it is looking like the longer it sits, the benefit of that is it is going to weaken because it is using that energy over the bahamas, eating all that up. we have a where it tracks it as heads up the coast but three or four-days out that could be more dividend. we will have to wait more difficult. we will have to wait and see. even 24-hour it is keeps changing over and over. five-days ago, it was a direct hit on palm beach. adam, we will check back with you for the next hurricane update. may day, may day, may day! i can t breathe. a mayday call and a voice of
get out in the dinghy? those are some of the questions up to date to be answered by the sheriff s office and the coast guard. we still have a slight bit of hope that there could be survivors, and we are going to continue to search. right now, you have to balance that optimism with some realism that the longer the search goes on, the possibility of finding survivors decreases. when the best time is to actually either float the vessel and attempt to recover anyone who may be inside or to try to make their recovery while it is still on the ocean floor. conception to it took off, america s galapagos because of the species. relatively warm. mayday call from the crew. the conception is on fire and a
search at this point they don t believe there are any nor survivors. 34 people presumed dead. in a moment i will speak exclusively with the lead investigator for ntsb on this case. but first fox news correspondent william la jeunesse updating us live in santa barbara tonight. good evening, william. martha, there is still a lot we don t know. how did the fire start? why did it spread so quickly? was toxicology done on the crew? and did they use any of those fire extinguishers the coast guard says was aboard before abandoning ship? we also have new video from you from the coast guard. this is from a helicopter early the morning of the fire. this was shot around 6:50 in the morning, three hours after that mayday call. also coming up an interview with the couple that was asleep anchored nearby when the crew began banging on their boat looking for help. fully engulfed from bough to stern, i mean, and flames probably 30 feet high. it was totally gone.
california. more on that horrific scene, that boat explosion on a weekend diving excursion. authorities before the cameras just a short time ago. that explosion and fire right in the middle of the night. passengers were sleeping below deck. the crew injured, but they survived. we hear their desperate calls for help right here tonight. a massive search for the 34 missing. family members arriving at the coast guard station, desperate and waiting for news on their loved ones. tonight, what authorities have just revealed. and we have also learned that there were at least three groups onboard celebrating birthdays. abc s will carr leading us off from california. reporter: tonight, the death toll jumping. eight people now dead after a charter boat with 39 onboard exploded in the pacific ocean. mayday, mayday, mayday. i can t breathe. reporter: the first mayday call came at roughly 3:15 in the morning with the boat on fire. all 34 passengers on board were sleeping below deck. the coast
residents here in this community. they know the potential damage that could come from a hurricane. so we re starting to see some of the boarding up and the sandbagging. not like what we saw the preparations that we saw in florida last week, but, you know, today is the last real full day before the storm heads this direction, guys. all right. kathy park live for us in south carolina. thanks, kathy. thanks, kathy. let s get to another story we have been following in california. at least eight people have been killed and authorities fear the death toll could be as high as 34 after a diving boat caught fire yesterday morning off the coast of california. officials say the 75-commercial foot vessel called the conception was, quote, fully engulfed in flames when the u.s. coast guard required a mayd coast guard received a mayday call at 3:30 in the morning. five crew members jumped off the ship into an inflatable boat and were rescued by a nearby vessel.