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Small camera battery being charged overnight while everybody is asleep has a short and thats what starts the fire? >> the other focus was the boat itself. was it a fire trap and design and layout fraud besides passing inspection. designed and built to specks by the current and former owner. the emergency hatch was inadequate and poorly designed and fire blocked both exits. negative finding could support a claim of liability. >> there is a distinction between the crew and passengers. the crewmen ...

Smoke alarm and the boat did not have a night watchman so this boat is nearly identical to the one, a crewmember telling investigators he went to bed at 2:00 at 2:00 am in the top area behind the wheel house. they cant get in through the top, the back or the front. they also said passengers were trapped in the bunkhouse beneath. >> they went to the double doors of the galley to try to get in but it was enveloped in flames. at that point, due to heat, flames and smoke the crew had to jump from th...

Have a night watchman, as code requires. this is nearly identical to the boat that sank. according to a crew member telling investigators come he went to bed at 2:00 a.m. in the top area behind the wheelhouse. an hour later, they noticed flames. they cant get into the top of that, the back, or the front. they also said the passengers were trapped beneath and couldnt get out onto the second deck. >> they had went to the double doors of the galley to try and get in, but it was engulfed in flames. ...

Coast guard required the ship owner to have this roaming watchman. and thats to avoid ha happened here complicate with the inability of people to escape. >> in addition to this key detail, the ntsb inspected a similar boat owned by the same company and so she was, quote, taken aback by the size and location of that emergency hatch where presumably these passengers, if they had woken up could have made their way out of. and, two, that the smoke alarms were not connected through the boat. >> exact...

Were now hearing the harrowing tale told by the surviving crew members. one tells the ntsb he was sleeping on the boats main deck, heard a loud noise and realized the galley was engulfed by a massive fire. the crew tells investigators they then desperately tried to get to the 34 sleeping passengers below deck. >> could not get into the double doors, because it was overcome by flames. they then went to the front of the vessel and tried to fete in get into the windows. at some point, because of he...

Where lifeboats were, fire hoses, and it helped us understand the layout of the existing vessel that is still to be recovered. that helped quite a bit. heather: no way for the people in their bunkbeds to escape other than going up the one staircase. >> the staircase and an emergency hatch in the back of the bunk room. there is a ladder on the side of 3 bunks and on the top bunk you would have to crawl into a hatch and open a wooden door. both exits end up in the galley. heather: thanks for joini...

>> we want to see what happened so we can try to prevent this from happening again. >> reporter: after interviewing the five surviving crew members, the coast guard and ntsb boarded "the vision," examining the layout of its sleeping quarters similar to "the conception," investigators finding it difficult to escape through the emergency hatch. >> i did have concerns about passenger egress >> not enough or not big enough >> my concerns were whether the passengers could get out. >> reporter: after ...

Authorities now say the stairs and the emergency hatch blocked by the fire. after yet another deadly mass shooting in america, tonight, the major decision by walmart. they will stop selling ammunition for handguns and bullets that can be used in assault weapons. the nra tonight calling it shameful. two major rescues, the truck driver pulled alive from a burning tanker veering off a 40-foot overpass. and the bus crash. firefighters pulling school children out through the windows. and olympi...

Five members of the same family. and word that the emergency hatch and the stairs where passengers were sleeping were blocked by the fire. abcs will carr is in santa barbara tonight. >> reporter: tonight, families worst fears confirmed. all 34 people trapped in that burning dive boat are now presumed dead. this new coast guard video shows the smoldering ship as it sinks. >> as of 9:40 a.m. this morning, coast guard has suspended search efforts pending further development. it is never an easy dec...

Yesterdays meeting was very amicable, i thought. the president was calm and well-reasoned. i believe -- my take away was that this is a president that feels this is a high priority for the country. its a humanitarian, and its also one that is for the safety and security of the american people. addressing everything from opioids to disease to national security, as well as legal immigration, which has been muddled up in this whole process. >> harris: are you in the camp, or not, of saying, "look, ...