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Plotted a route to san juan, puerto rico, after determining that weather conditions were favorable enough despite hurricane joaquin churning all around and some point it lost propulsion, listing and then taking on water a. team of the national transportation safety board in jacksonville and launched an investigation into the accident and where we find correspondent mark potter. mark, talk about the challenges of this investigation, especially knowing the clock is ticking and really, you know, ha...

The ship had lost propulsion, was taking on water but the crew reportedly was pumping it successful. the coast guard said the reports of the vessel listing knowing that it had taken on water. what could have been done at that point for these 33 crew members to assure their chances of abandoning ship and surviving? >> as you know, francis, conditions at sea can change markedly in literally a matter of mrntinutes. i know people tend to think thats impossible, a huge ship like that, 800 feet long s...

Of the eye where the conditions were not lad. one man confirmed dead on long island. he died when the roof was blown off his house. it will cost tens of millions of dollars to rebuild after the storm. coast guard rescuers said they found a member of a crew that was aboard this ship. more than 30 people are still missing and rescuers are searching for any possible survivors. take a look at the big wall. the ship left jacksonville, florida down through the bahamas. at this point they ran into th...

Just for the night. 33 people were on board that ship including 28 americans. the crew made a mayday call and said the ship was listing before losing contact enroute from florida to puerto rico. hurricane joaquin is moving out of the area which raises some hope that the ship will be found. the captain is the coast guards seventh district chief of response. thank you so much, captain, for talking to us. >> youre welcome. >> tell us whens going on right now on the search. >> so right now we stoppe...

That it may have been listing to and fro, whats the possibility of this happening? >> they were clearly having problems. the ship was listing 15 degrees, they reported that back before they lost communications. the crew had lost water. they were trying to troubleshoot this loss of propulsion. basically they still had ste steering but without forward motion you cant do much to avoid a hurricane. we know the waves were upwards of 50 feet as the eye of joaquin was passing by. very rough conditions....

You can see the water going into several businesses. a bidding blocked by the trees is listing from the power of the water. awnings knocked over. weve even seen furniture just fly by in that water. weve seen a table, garbage cans, theyre gone in a few seconds so the water is misleading when you look at it. you dont know the speed of it until you see debris go by so quickly. >> and what are residents telling you? >> residents are mixed. theres those whose homes are affected. theyre getting out, t...

The ship is not designed to do that. and we do have some of the vessel that is you are talking about self-righting and come back up. but in this situation, we are not using those type of ships and certainly a container vessel is not built to do this. >> it did take on water when it was last heard from? they remedied that situation an you explained to me some of the water intake through the hatches and talking 20 to 30-foot seas at the time the ship was last heard from. 100-mile-per-hour winds an...

>> all right. im sure you heard that they may have been in the eye of joaquin. >> yes, yes. thats correct. >> okay. when you heard about the possibility of, you know, that -- the ship listing and, you know, taking on water, are you concerned about whether or not they would be able to be upright again or whether the listing would continue? . >> at the time, i was told that the captain called and said they had a flooding leak on the ship, but they fixed it. then they reported an area of where they...

>> all right. im sure you heard that they may have been in the eye of joaquin. >> yes, yes. thats correct. >> okay. when you heard about the possibility of, you know, that -- the ship listing and, you know, taking on water, are you concerned about whether or not they would be able to be upright again or whether the listing would continue? . >> at the time, i was told that the captain called and said they had a flooding leak on the ship, but they fixed it. then they reported an area of where they...

>> all right. im sure you heard that they may have been in the eye of joaquin. >> yes, yes. thats correct. >> okay. when you heard about the possibility of, you know, that -- the ship listing and, you know, taking on water, are you concerned about whether or not they would be able to be upright again or whether the listing would continue? . >> at the time, i was told that the captain called and said they had a flooding leak on the ship, but they fixed it. then they reported an area of where they...