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she has a baby. that baby will never see his mom. reporter: the coast guard and mexican navy spent 31 hours searching but couldn t find her. passengers say they saw search boats being lowered after the alarm sounded. they went out on the balcony and looked and saw immediately they were throwing life preservers out. probably about 30 minutes later after that, they lowered a life raft. reporter: experts say overboard incidents aren t as rare as you might think. in 2018, there were 25 people overboard. in 2019, there were 29 people overboard. a 2010 law requires overboard systems that you see here that uses infrared cameras when something falls off the ship, but there s been little to no regulatory enforcement. carnival cruises aren t saying whether such a system was in place, but they said, our thoughts are with the woman s family and our care team is ....
this morning, communications commission has worked with the cellular providers to initiate their cooperative framework agreement. that agreement allows customers with one provider to go to another provider if that provider is down. so, it allows customers to use roaming access carriers that are up and running. and that means you should be able to get a signal, no matter who your carrier was or is. the main thing i want to make clear to all of you is we re providing any help that you re going to need. let s go 30 miles west of new orleans. search boats and helicopters are out there trying to rescue people trapped in their homes. cnn s ed lavandera is there for us. ed, what are you seeing? reporter: alisyn, we ve been here on highway 51 in laplace, ....
0 get him to the island and as long as there s communication, we ll be able to communicate with him and see what s going on there. but it s very hard to not have any word from that island and the people on it since that time. in lafite, the water was very high. our first responders, the sheriff, firefighters, louisiana national guard, some coast guard are there doing search and rescue. they re having to get boats in and out. we are sheltering those people at a playground and then i believe the state is going to coordinate, governor, for a pickup and move them out to alexandria is my understanding. and then of course our systems are down. we have no electricity, no communication. our water systems are down. we re losing pressure. we had to do a boil water advisory. our sewer system, as you know, is based on electricity, so we re going to start having back-ups there, so that s going to be a hygiene problem, and we re encouraging residents who are out of the area to stay out because we do ....
Voters, but courting billionaires. the big question what will the rich guys and gals giving these huge sums expect from the candidate who wins? that s it for the lead. i m jake tapper. i m turnic it over to brianna keilar in for wolf blitzer in the situation room. i m jake tapper. \s they find isis is as strong as ever, suggesting little progress against the terror group, even as the president authorized new air strikes that may draw the u.s. deeper into a conflict. search expands as investigators try to find the search for a plane wing, searchers are looking for other debris that may have washed ashore. we ll take you aboard one of search boats. airliners at risk after close calls, homeland security warnings that terrorists could use drones. could flights be targeted. ....
Class trip, teenagers. divers can barely see their own hand in front of their face, are the ones who are trying to battle the strong currents and get down there, desperately trying to find someone alive. back on the surface, radio tripts are now coming out, providing an account in the tragedy. seven crew members arrested, including the captain. kyung lah, you re where the search is happening. i know a lot of search boats are around you, cranes trying to lift that boat. what progress are they making, if any? reporter: well, let s give you a look of what it actually does look like right now. this is a 24-hour operation, and just scan the horizon here, erin, and you can see that there are dozens upon dozens of boats. you mentioned the crane, there it is, there are all kinds of search vessels here, and that s the focus, this area right to the center that you re looking at. this is where the sunken ferry, ....