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Excruciating and gut wrenching for me personally. >> msnbcs adam riess joins us live from jupiter, florida. and adam we can only guess how difficult this is for the family as weve seen most of the parents talking openly about how confident they were about the skill set of these young teens being in on the open water. but explain how the search is going to be winding down. >> weve got about six more hours of daylight thomas then they will end this saefshearch. a painful and excruciating decision ...

Call off a search. a somber day for the families of the missing boys. this is all about survivability. the chances the two boys could have survived in the dangerous waters of the atlantic ocean for a week off the coast of florida, south carolina, georgia, they have been searching. we last saw the boys a week ago today gassing up their 19-foot boat as they headed out. this has been an exhaustive thorough search for the coast guard. off the coast of florida, south carolina, georgia. today, they we...

Adam reese is live in jupiter, florida with more were expecting to hear from the coast guard on this news conference. we talked about how long someone could survive at sea, even under the best of circumstances, and now its been a week since the boys set sail from their destination. >> reporter: youre exactly right, tamron its all about survivability. the chances they could survive for an entire week out in the very dangerous waters of the atlantic ocean, we expect the coast guard to make an anno...

Much. were also getting breaking news out of florida. in just two hours, the coast guard will update on the search for the two teens missing since last week and they may be announcing an end to that search. austin stefanos and perry cohen cohens boat was found last week and theyve been searching for the boys since. what can we expect to hear today? >> reporter: they expect to announce a specific time of when theyll end the search. certainly a terribly agonizing decision for them but its all ab...

South carolina georgia, florida, look out in the atlantic ocean to see if they see anything related to the boys. last night, there was a fund-raiser to raise money for gas, for private boats and private planes to go out there and search for the boys. the coast guard continuing with their search off the coast of georgia, the coast of savannah, georgia. theyve had 53 searches 46,000 miles. theyve got a c-130 in the other, cutters in the water. the family staying together, hoping beyond all odds th...

Process now. theres a lot of factors to consider. it is not as simple as looking at a table that determines survivability. its more complicated than that and it should be. like you said we are talking two young kids here. we want to find them desperately. but, we know we are rapidly approaching that point where we might have to suspend. >> captain, have you spoken to the families of the boys in the past 12 to 24 hours? >> yes, we have. we started talking to them earlier in the week. in fact i am...

Square miles all the way from central florida to charleston south carolina. >> we know that some of the tables are starting to see youre getting to the top end of the survivability, i want to emphasize thats not the only thing we take into account. >> reporter: what might have helped find the young boys an emergency position indicating radio beacon. its a device that the coast guard requires on commercial her vessels. it actually sends out a signal where you are and its really quite ingenius. wh...

Crushability and the fact that nobody would use them is not a reason to not have a safety measure. but the danger is if there is an abrupt stop and i appreciate what other guests said but as you can see in this there clearly was an abrupt stop and we dont know if all the fatalities were from the front car but we hear stories from other passengers that were launched ahead and caused injuries themselves. people become projectiles, theres no questions about that. is it enforceable? no, those are cu...

The front of the train as where the events started. >> peter, the second car looks charred. its absolutely gone. there is nothing left. it doesnt even resemble a train car. what do you suppose happened to that car? >> you cant tell. obviously it was some sort of a fire but it raises a broader point, carol, which is the survivability of the passengers inside the cars. these are 30 to 40-year-old railcars and there has been tremendous advances in the design of railcars since then and the center in...

Entering work zones. and they also want to look at survivability of the cars and crumple zones. a lot of things the ntsb will be looking at besides just what caused this crash. >> because obviously their concerns are going to be the integrity of the system overall. when you look at this the way the tracks are mangled, the way that these cars are twisted and blown apart and part of that bridge went right through the cars like nothing, does that indicate the intensity of which, you know this momen...