Live, from the cbs bay area studios, this is kpix5 news. Progress tonight in the mission to rescue a sick child stranded with her family in a sailboat in the pacific. But theres still a long way to go. The boat is hundreds of miles from san lucas. Rescuers are now on board treating the baby. Kpix5s betty yu is live at Moffett Federal Airfield where crews are ready to help at a moments notice. Betty . Reporter thats right liz. The airmen here are monitoring every move. They are in constant communication with the rescuers and the family aboard the sailboat. The kaufmans are doing okay and they are asleep. The Air National Guard is keeping close watch on a complex rescue mission off the coast of mexico from the command center. A team of medics left Moffett Federal Airfield thursday and parachuted into the pacific motion to save baby lyra. The oneyearold was seriously ill aboard the rebel heart. This is Youtube Video of the san diego family last year. I according to their blog, eric kaufma
Axelrod good evening. Im jim axelrod. And this is the western edition of the broadcast. From the beginning of the mystery of malaysia air flight 370, search crews have been in a race against time. The black box produces a ping for an average of 30 days after a plane goes down, and now on day 29, Chinese State media report a chinese ship in the southern indian ocean hearing a signal that is the same frequency as what would be put out by the planes data recorders. But as seth doane reports, no one is confirming this is the signal and there have been a number of false alarms so far. Reporter this chinese ship, a haixun 01, in the eastern part of the search zone, when the crew reportedly detected the signal. Searchers also found some white debris about 55 miles from where they received the ping, but an australian official says they cannot confirm that the signals or the debris are connected to the missing jet. Search crews are using pinger locaters from the u. S. And britain, but neither h
Theres good news tonight about the soldiers wounded this week at fort hood. 10 have been released from the hospital and returned to duty. The six still being treated are all improving. Three who were in Critical Condition have been upgraded to fair. Late today, the army announced a Memorial Service next wednesday for the three who died. Sergeant first class Daniel Ferguson of tampa, florida. Sergeant timothy, owens of effingham, illinois. And Staff Sergeant Carlos Lazaney of puerto rico. As for what drove specialist ivan lopez to kill them before taking his own life, the army today was downplaying any Mental Health issues. We have two reports. First, anna werner at fort hood. Anna. Reporter scott, ivan lopez had complained to military doctors that he had suffered a traumatic brain injury in combat. Late today, Lieutenant General mark milley told us that so far investigators havent found anything to back that up. So far, we have not discovered any specific dramatic event, wounds receive
Beginning to take effect along the coastline of the carolinas and virginia. National guard troops are being mobilized in those states and theyre bracing for what could be the most powerful storm to hit the region in decades. The danger is not just the brutal winds from the storm along the coast but also the potential of devastating storm surges and flooding far beyond the coastline. This morning on cnn, we heard from a Hurricane Hunter who flew near the swirling mass of Hurricane Florence. His take, as bad as it looks now, this storm could get even worse. What i can tell you is that all of the conditions that are necessary for a hurricane to continue to intensify are present. Were seeing very little wind shear up here at this altitude. The instruments we dropped showed a very favorable environment surrounding the storm. Its going to be traversing water temperatures that are around 85 degrees fahrenheit. So theres nothing to prevent this storm from continuing to intensify. Cnn teams are
Im Andrea Mitchell in washington. With the new details of the storm barreling towards the atlantic coast, florence is a category 4 hurricane, and the latest update from the National Hurricane center says it is on a collision course with the carolinas. So far the governors in north and South Carolina and virginia and maryland all declaring states of emergency. A massive evacuation is under way. More than 1 million residents and tourists are expected to flee the coastal areas ahead of a powerful storm surge anticipated over the next few days. This is still a very dangerous storm. We must take it very seriously. The weatherman here and others are all predicting that this is a unpredictable storm. We must be vigilant. We are in a very deadly and important game of chess with hurricane florence. Joining me now is msnbcs Marianna Atencio along the North Carolina coast, and msnbc michelle grossman, and michelle, first to you, and looking at the storm track, and what are we preparing to, and th