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carolina. there is news this morning apparently about midnight last night a call came in to 911 there about damage to the triangle motor inn out on wilmington highway. and apparently they had to rest rescue 62 people includinincluding pets. basketball size found in one of the rooms and cinder blocks threatening damage to the structure. the problem was at that point there were hurricane force winds and apparently some of the first responders had to force themselves into the room to try to get people out. janice: good lesson from this is we do concentrate on the category a lot. i'm guilty of that as well. you know, we had a major category 4 in the atlantic. it's a 1 now and because we don't see those 3, 4s and 5s, we get complacent. but this will cause catastrophic damage regardless. pete: what i'm also struck by is the slowness and size.
they did that using remotely operated vehicle. in this case. curv 21. that was deployed yesterday afternoon from the apache and it is right now above the ocean floor at the wreck. what they will do with this. they have used it to verify it is the el faro. but what they will do next, looking for a basketball size piece of equipment known as the viage data recorder or black box on the ship. that has the last 12 or 24 hours of voice recordings from the bridge and important readouts stored. after it is recovered. the black box will give investigators a very chlor picture of what happened in the hours and minutes before the el faro went down. >> captain swoeny, can you tell us more about the see- called
the size of a basketball. may i publish this to the jury? >> what is the number. >> 80. >> state exhibit 80 you may publish. >> do you see a basketball-size stain there? >> the photograph speaks for itself. >> overruled. >> do you see a basketball taken there. >> i see a few stains. nothing necessarily the size of a basketball, no. >> do you see white powder of some sort? >> objection. the photograph speaks for itself. >> overruled. >> i do and that's not way would reference that it was referring to, a white powder is a lot different than a stain.
charis maand why he is there now . billion in the bank when he starts his campaign and 20 people leaning up on the demolition derby over a year and half period and come out broke and bleeding. barack obama will be the beneficencary of the elections next week. i am convinced that the republicans will take the house . i think they will take the senate as well >> you do? >> i know dick morris and i may be the only two people who think that and believe it. i reserve the right to be wrong. why either way it is a tunce tunce of a election process. i don't see any energy for the democrats, there is leathy and energy on the republicans and independents. republicans will vote next tuesday. if there is a 100 miles per hour wind and basketball size hail. they are going to the polls.
charis maand why he is there now . billion in the bank when he starts his campaign and 20 people leaning up on the demolition derby over a year and half period and come out broke and bleeding. barack obama will be the beneficencary of the elections next week. i am convinced that the republicans will take the house . i think they will take the senate as well >> you do? >> i know dick morris and i may be the only two people who think that and believe it. i reserve the right to be wrong. why either way it is a tunce tunce of a election process. i don't see any energy for the democrats, there is leathy and energy on the republicans and independents. republicans will vote next tuesday. if there is a 100 miles per hour wind and basketball size hail. they are going to the polls.
charis maand why he is there now . billion in the bank when he starts his campaign and 20 people leaning up on the demolition derby over a year and half period and come out broke and bleeding. barack obama will be the beneficencary of the elections next week. i am convinced that the republicans will take the house . i think they will take the senate as well >> you do? >> i know dick morris and i may be the only two people who think that and believe it. i reserve the right to be wrong. why either way it is a tunce tunce of a election process. i don't see any energy for the democrats, there is leathy and energy on the republicans and independents. republicans will vote next tuesday. if there is a 100 miles per hour wind and basketball size hail. they are going to the polls.
jane: everybody wants to know, did this land somewhere? >> we have got no reports of an impact at all. you know, 99.9% of the time the meteors that come into the atmosphere burn up on entry, that's what we see on the trail of a shooting star -- they're generally not this large. but the size of this one could be golfball size to basketball size. jon: is it possible it was a piece of space junk? i mean, you're thinking it probably was a meteor? >> that's why i say probably. it could possibly have been a piece of space junk. it's just kind of hard to tell at this point. but this sort of thing happens on occasion, so most likely a meteor but until some more analysis of the trail is done, we can't be sure. john: so all those good folks who saw it around 10:15 last night, it wasn't e.t. phoning home? >> pretty sure. jane: pretty sure, pretty sure? >> pretty darn sure. you want to narrow it down but,