member on a cargo ship el faro opens up on the tragedy at sea. mariette white one of 34 on board. her proud but grieving mother speaks out. jim? jim: mary just got back from jacksonville, florida, where her and other relatives have been awaiting news. now is her family plans a memorial, she remembers her daughter who loved life on the open water. she would call me from port. this is a great cruise. i wish you were here. jim: those calls reminder of how much her daughter lived for life on the sea, but he came to a whole two weeks ago when she and 32 others were lost when the el faro went down in the atlantic. i had no warning. i got a call one morning saying that the el faro had gone down, and they did not expect the dna survivors. jim: the question remained was why. i believed if there was any way they could ve prevented it, they would have, but the captain chose to ship out in that tropical storm. jim: are you mad at that captain for making the decision to go out to s
our jim lokay has the exclusive interview. she would call me from port and say, this is a great cruise! wish you were here. jim: those calls reminded mary shevory how much her daughter, mariette wright, lived for life on the sea. but it came to a halt two weeks ago, when she and 32 others were presumably lost, when the el faro went down in choppy atlantic waters stirred up by hurricane joaquin. i had no warning. i got a call one morning that the el faro went missing, and had gone down, and their weren t there weren t any survivors. jim: and as the days grew longer, the hope that maybe someone pulled through grew dimmer. and the question that remained was, why? i believe, if there was any way they could have prevented it, they would have. but the captain chose to ship out in that tropical storm. jim: are you mad at that captain for making that decision to go i have been out in a dozen hurricanes. just a tropical storm, and we can make it. jim: she is preparing a se
if you do, you need to take advantage of it. it is going to be absolutely beautiful today. really, really nice. sunshine and temperatures going to be above our average which is 63 for this time of year. average low is 48. notice in boston, we re 52 right now but it is quite a bit cooler in the suburbs. as chilly as 38 in norwood right now. notice worcester is 52. we ve got the mid 40 s bedford to fitchburg. nashua 46 degrees if you re heading out the door this morning. a little patch or two of fog especially out in the western half of the state. not a big issue out there. you can see vis ibilityd around keene is running about a half a mile. otherwise above any fog skies are clear. we are going to enjoy tons of sunshine today as high pressure to our south gives us a mild southwesterly wind flow. so temperatures come up quickly this morning under lots of sunshine. notice by 9:00 a.m. we re in the upper 50 s, close to 60 degrees. by lunchtime, it s close to 70. we ll sneak up in
cindy: good to see you. welcome back. randy: thank you. got back to perfect weather. cindy: you did. olessa: he timed it right, didn t he? cindy: the past few days have been really nice. hopefully you get to enjoy today because it will be nicer. you ll notice how dark it is. have you noticed our sunrises? they keep getting later and later. the sunrise is at 6:5. by the end of the month on halloween, the sun is up at 7:16. then we turn the clocks back o halloween night. by november 1, that sunday the sun will be up an hour earlier at 6:17. a sign of the times for sure. cool this morning. outside the city, you can see there are a lot of 40 s showing up on the north shore. beverly is at 47. boston 52. worcester is 49. notice we dipped into the upper 0 s around norwood. lower 50 s this morning on cape cod. a can couple of patches of fog this morning. these are few and far between. they will burn off pretty quickly. you may encounter a touch of fog here and there this morning. abo
watching fox 25 news at 10:00. speaking out about a global tragedy in the loss of a daughter. hi everyone i m blair miller. i m elizabeth hopkins. fox 25 has been following the el faro story since the time it first went missing a week ago. new tonight fox 25 s malini basu spoke with the mother of a lost sailor. malini? reporter: elizabeth and blair, we re actually where marriott wright loves to come here. tonight we spoke to her mother who tells fox 25 this is a feeling she s going through. she feel like she swallowed a large piece of flat rock it and landed right here on her chest and it s not going to move and it s covering it. we were so full of hope. we were ultra reporter: mary shivery is trying to come to terms with i know the ship sank. reporter: she was only 51-year-old years old working on the el faro. you loved the sea, you said you were married to the sea, and the sea took her bride. reporter: tonight in jacksonville, a vigil for all of the crew