substandard it was immediately fixed. they re just a very good reputation in the industry. certain things that may change, certain codes because those beds were so close together, they were three on top of each other. they had numerous people in a very small place even if it wasn t a fire evacuating would be very difficult. julie: thank you very much. we appreciate you coming on. nice meeting you. let s send it back to bill. bill: amazing story in california. more to be told on that. thank you very much. back live in florida now. very soon over the coming 12 to 18 hours the major focus for dorian, it will shift to the north and be on georgia, south carolina, north carolina. north carolina was hit by florence in the last year and wilmington became this bathtub surrounded by floodwaters for hundreds of miles. is that the fate again today? we ll take you there live in a
11:00. but as you can imagine a lot of people are upset with the early evacuation because it gave them very limited time to get their belongings or boats out of the water. you can see some of the boats making their way under the draw bridge now. there is a boat ramp on the other side. we spoke to a gentleman who told me he has taken 70 boats out over the last 48 hours or so. he charges $30 per foot to extract the boats and get them to dry land. the bridge the ender pro pry tors. what are you most afraid of? the surge. we can weather the wind. if we can keep the surge off of us being more than six feet keeping it out of the restaurant and all we ll be fine. if it keeps falling apart i feel pretty good about it. we ve been through worse. i want to point out that you can see some concrete pilings
julie: new revelations in the massive college admissions scandal. lawyers for miami developer robert van grilo, one of the nearly three dozen parents accused of fraud claim they have data that proves usc gave preferentialal students whose families made generous donations, spreadsheets and emails showing students tagged as v.i.p. and special interest candidates. the university response. his filing appears to be part of a legal and public relations strategy to divert attention away from the criminal fraud for which he has been indicted by a federal grand jury. i am 100% confident that our investigators will determine the cause of this fire, why it
we know this fire engulfed and turned into a raging inferno within seconds. the boat recently passed inspection and was up to code. does it make it harder to sue the owner? not really. two ways to sue them under common law negligence, duty, breach of duty and damages. and then there is a statutory negligence where people violate those statutes. you have to remember that was in february that they found everything up to code. they required smoke detectors in the bunk room, fire suppressant systems in the engine room. fire extinguishers throughout and the two forms of egress. they said in february it was all in check. a lot happens in that time period and were those ways of egress actually open or were they blocked in some manner other than the fire? julie: i want to highlight the fact where this fire
occurred, how it occurred and what is needed to prevent it from happening again. julie: the ntsb has a team of 16 investigators on the scene of monday s deadly california boat fire. and a key question they will try to answer will be why no one below deck was able to escape. marie napoli is a trial attorney with experience in maritime law and joins me on set. we know the fire was fast spreading. forensics teams have concluded two reasons why the fire spread so quickly. nonetheless the crew members escaped and passengers didn t stand a chance. do you see many lawsuits? i see many lawsuits coming down the pike on this one. i think the passengers and the crew have lawsuits against not only the boat, but the boat owners and anyone else that was