And their families. How america is breaking its promise to those who serve and sacrifice. But first, its a grim reminder of the power of hurricanes. Officials in the bahamas are bringing in more body bags, as search and rescue teams continue to dig through the rubble looking for survivors and victims of Hurricane Dorian. The storm devastated the northern islands, laying waste to entire neighborhoods, leaving tens of thousands of people homeless and wondering what is next. The death toll stands at 30 right now. That number, though, is expected to go much higher with hundreds and possibly even thousands still missing. One of the missing is 5yearold air adrian fairington jr. He was swept away in the storm surge. He saw fins circling in the floodwater so he put his young son on the roof and tried to keep him safe. A gust of wind blou the boy off the roof into the murky water and the last thing he heard was his son yelling daddy. I still see my son getting dragged across. Id want him to understand that i love him and i tried everything possibly as a human to save him from a natural disaster. Anastasia lewis is a native of freeport on grand bahama island which was so hard hit. You were actually in the United States during the storm. Your family was there. They lost nearly everything. Two of your cousins were missing. I understand that youve located one of them. What are you hearing from your family, and tell us about that. This cousin has been located alive. Yes, thank god. Thank you so much for having me. Good afternoon, everybody. We were looking for my cousin, allison, and she was out there. They found her alive. But there are so many other family members who are still just missing. My husband is from east end, grand bahama, and there are so many people that are just still missing. Its horrific, its horrific. What was the process like trying to contact them . How long did it take . Did you have to go through multiple people . How did that work . We have two phone systems there in the bahamas. Both all family members have different carriers, but i was able to keep in contact all the way through, thank god for that, until there was no difficulty. Im getting reports every second. So i was able to keep in contact with everybody, so theyre updating me. And did they did your family have the feeling that they were adequately warned by the local government about what to expect, that this storm might not just roll over the bahamas, that it could sit on top of the bahamas for days . There was, i dont think, anyone would have been able to prepare for this storm adequately. It is unimaginable. There is no way we would have been able some persons would have been able to survive because the storm sat there too long. It was just too long. So the length of time was the purpose and the reason why, you know, we have this major damage. But im here in atlanta and my goal is to help as many bahamians as possible. My efforts here in atlanta is going to assist a lot of the churches, because thats where a lot of people had to run for shelter. The churches. The churches, the people are in the churches. So thats and you say youre going to help. You say this is your duty. Oh, yes, i have to. To help the people of the bahamas. What are the urgent needs . What are they telling you . Everything. They need every single thing. They need food, water, clothing, generators, baby supplies, everything you can think of they are going to need. This is going to be a longterm project. Homes, cars, businesses lost. We have a whole lot of work to do. So im going to be here on the ground in atlanta. My first set of shipments and trailers are going to my home church, which is jubilee cathedral, one of the largest churches there on grand bahama. Thats where were going. The people are in need and i am going to do everything that i can to assist. And my company is allowing me to be here as long as i need to to help the people of the bahamas. On saturday im going to start my first food drive. Im going to post everything on facebook so people can follow me. We just have a lot of work to do, so all hands needs to be on deck just to get our people back to where we are going to rebuild paradise. And we are so happy to have you on to talk about it. This is a nation of islands in need. Anastasia lewis, we really appreciate you coming on to talk about it. Thank you so much. Thank you for having me. Hurricane dorian is making landfall today in the outer banks of north carolina. Cape hatteras taking a direct hit as what is now a category 1 storm makes its way north. Hundreds of thousands of people are without power as the result of high winds, flooding, even tornados, and hundreds more could be trapped. Benny lax lives in the outer panics. Hes on ocracoke island. Benny, youre there. Tell us about the situation youre facing. Well, it was just tremendous wind at first and then the rain started pounding on the windows. And i thought most of it was over. As i looked outside, there was this wave of water that was coming it was like 3 feet high and it was a surge from the sound. And it filled the road. And as a matter of fact, tons of debris, many homes here underwater. Some had as much as 4 and 5 feet inside their house. Im actually fortunate that the water just missed coming in the house here. But our neighbors were out trying to help each other because some of them have lost quite a bit. Nothing like what happened in the bahamas. No, nothing like that, but you did make this determination that you were going to stay. At what point did you look at the forecast and say i think im going to stay instead of leave . Well, we were watching the forecast. Obviously all of our eyes have been on that. And it looked like it was going ashore in myrtle beach. And my aunt didnt want to leave. She said well be fine. And we stayed. And had we known this was going to happen, we wouldnt have been here. You would have left . Pretty sure. We would have left, yeah. And we watched it. I was watching on the weather, and we saw it make that turn toward Morehead City and i felt at that point we were going to be in for a lot of flooding. Unfortunately, we are. Shes out here working now. Benny, weve just gotten word that your county is going to be evacuating people by air. What are you what do you need at this point in time . What do your neighbors need . Are you able to get out . No. Those that were able to get their vehicles to higher ground, i believe those vehicles were spared. Its just very limited space here as far as parking. Everything is right at a very low level. Like my vehicle was actually completely under water. The only thing from the door handles down was underwater. I imagine its the same for a lot of people. So how do you get out . Have you contacted authorities . What are you going to do . Well, for now im going to do what i can with my aunt, try to clean up. I believe they said the coast guard, National Guard was going to be coming. And if they do, well do the best we can to get off the island at that point. All right, benny. Thank you so much for talking to us and showing us what youre dealing with there on ocracoke island. We appreciate it. Well be thinking of you as you do your best there to clean up and still to stay safe. Still some terrible conditions there. We have some duisturbing news. A mechanic for American Airlines was going sabotage a plane with 150 people onboard. Also just in, officials revealing new information about that deadly dive boat fire as crew members tell investigators what happened right before they jumped off. And children living on one u. S. Military base wont get a desperately needed new school because the money is now being used for the border wall. 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The number one recommended brand in north america. In just a few minutes, an American Airlines mechanic accused of trying to sabotage a plane that had 150 people onboard is due to appear in federal court. He tried to disable the aircrafts Navigation System before takeoff at Miami International airport. We have cnn aviation and government regulation correspondent rene marsh here with us. Luckily the pilots caught this issue but it was just before takeoff, right . Yeah. Its very scary. What happened . Lets set the scene. This plane is actually on the runway. Its traveling down the runway. You have 150 people onboard. And then an error message. The pilots realize that something is wrong. Fast forward to once this plane is back in the hangar, theyre able to figure out that someone tampered with a critical component on the plane. Without getting too in the weeds, essentially this is a part of the planes navigational system that gives pilots critical data, like how fast theyre going. A pilot needs to know how fast that theyre traveling. So that was disabled. What they found was this Airline Mechanic with American Airlines stuffed a piece of styrofoam in one of the tubes that essentially made receiving those readings impossible. This turned out well, but this is a serious offense here. And this is someone that is considered a trusted individual. A mechanic on the airline. And if the story isnt crazy enough, the reason that he gave authorities. He said that he wanted to do this because he didnt want to cause harm, he wanted to delay the flight because he was hoping that he would have to then have to fix the issue and he would get overtime. We should mention that American Airlines and the mechanics union, they have been in this bitter dispute over a new labor contract. So he wanted to get overtime and that was why he did this. That is nuts that that is would be a way to do that. So just to be clear, this plane was traveling down the runway. It was. It was right it had already been cleared for takeoff and was beginning its takeoff. Passengers onboard, crew on board, they are ready to go. Miami International Airport is actually a hub for the airline. These pilots, they saw the error message, they realized something was wrong, and they aborted that takeoff. But had this plane gone up in the air, we know that planes have a lot of redundancy systems. However, this would have created an issue for pilots in that there would be critical information about the altitude, about the speed of the plane that they perhaps would not have been able to easily receive, and thats a problem. That is unbelievable. Thank you so much for that report, rene marsh. New details in that horrific boat fire that killed 35 people in california, as we are hearing from the surviving crew members who say they did everything they could to help passengers caught in this deadly inferno, but they just were not able to. Plus, mexico is not paying for the border wall. 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Five crew members, including the captain, were found alive and they are now talking to investigators about what happened before they jumped off the boat to save their own lives. According to ntsb investigators, the crew says they tried to save the passengers sleeping below deck but the flames blocked the escape routes. Lets talk now to longtime diver dale scheckler. You were originally planning to be on this boat the night of the fire. You ended up not going. You know someone who was on the boat and died, someone you had been diving with, and you know the skipper of the boat who survived. First off, i am so sorry as you have been watching all of these developments and mourning the loss of your friends in this tightknit diving community. Can you tell us, first, why you decided you werent going on this trip and how you feel now knowing what happened . I very much wanted to be on the trip. I ended up having a hip replacement, and then the hip replacement went bad. Then i had to have a secondary surgery, so i had to cancel all my trip plans. So you had to cancel all your trip plans. You were very disappointed. Youve been on this boat many, many times, right . Several times. Probably at least a hundred. At least a hundred. So tell us a little bit about the boat and how surprised you were that this happened to the conception. Well, the boat was meticulously maintained. It was staffed with the most professional crew. It was run by an excellent operation. The owner was superb in his professionalism. I cant say enough good things about the operation. It was i always very much enjoyed being onboard the boat, by the customer service, by what they had to offer. The food was really good, ill tell you that. The diving was excellent too. And the safety, tell us about the safety. What kind of what kind of instructions if you were on this boat would you be given by the crew, and did they ever run through what to do if there was some sort of evacuation when people were asleep and in what was really the bottom level of the boat where you had all of these bunks . They did a full safety review. They told you where the life vests and the flotation equipment was. They told you where the firefighting equipment was, the fire extinguishers. They told you where the emergency oxygen was available in case there was a diving accident. The briefing was very well done, very thorough. And escape routes . No, they did not cover that. So they didnt cover when youve been on and you said maybe a hundred times from various points in the boat, just to be clear you have the bridge on top, then you had more of like the common area where you would dine on the middle level and then the bottom level is bunks. Right. So they did not review what to do in the case of it seems like a lot of this had to do if there was an emergency when everyone was on really out in the open on the ship, right . Yes. But it was very well labeled. Several points through the bunk room, emergency exit this direction, emergency exit that direction. They had emergency lighting down below. So it was very clear. So you know the skipper, who survived. Yes. And these crew members are saying they did everything they could. You know, when you hear that, what do you think . What a superb crew they are. I know that captain jerry would have gone to every bit of possible effort he could. If you listen to the recording, he was he was choking to death in what he was trying to convey in his mayday signal. From what i understand, at least two of the crew members tried to get back onboard to save people, to access the firefighting equipment. I know they would have gone to every possible effort to save the people onboard. Whats on your mind as youre dealing now, days after this has happened. You were supposed to be on the boat and in the end an injury prevented you from going on this trip. What are you thinking when you consider all of these people who were on this trip. And these are these are people who are very this is a very dedicated group of divers there in the california area. We were talking about that off camera. Theres a specific type of diving in california, and its, you know, certain people are interested in it and maybe a lot of people arent, but these folks, they loved doing it. This was a huge hobby for them. Whats on your mind now as you think about what should have been such a wonderful, wonderful weekend turning out like this . Well, like you said, it was well, what youve got is youve got a large amount of divers, a fairly large amount of divers, the diving community. I think i heard once that 20 of the United States are certified divers. But theres a subset of people that love california diving, that love diving the chilly waters of california for what it has to offer. The underwater kelp forest, the abundant marine life. I once heard it said that the Channel Islands are known as the galapagos of america in terms of their diversity. So its like a subset. When you go onboard these liverboard boats, you get to know everybody very well. Especially after several days of diving, you share experiences, you share photographs. You get to know each other very well. Youll play cards together. So theres a certain amount of bonding that takes place. We