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It extends for all of the afternoon through tonight for florence, through myrtle beach and wilmington tonight. >> watching the boards for us, thank you very much. right now, we want to turn to another breaking news story we continue to follow and that's the search for the crew members aboard a cargo ship that disappeared after sail boog the path of hurricane joaquin. this shows the brutal conditions that the ship would have encountered about the time it went missing. see that rainbow of color with the force of that storm. it's the last-known position right along the outer bands of joaquin. m...

391 containers. so had a lot of top side height to it where the winds and waves could hit it. had 294 trailers and automobiles below deck. so it was heavy, it was weighted down. we also know that the vessel had a list to it meaning it was leaning over about 15 degrees because they had some water intrusion earlier. that just increases the danger of the situation that they were in to be able to survive that type of condition. >> what are the ocean depths in this area and the rurncurrents, they pushing north? >> the depth where we believe the vessel sank is 15,000 feet. so very deep. right now ba...

Would have had to abandon ship during a category 4 hurricane. it's made the search and rescue conditions difficult. >> if there's any silver linings, at least it's warm water so the chance of survival is increased because of that. he said scientifically, you know, survival rate, four to five days. we're right on that border. >> they have two debris fields to look at which gives them some direction. >> thank you for that update. coming up, more bad news in the southeast. the death toll mounting after floodwaters have ravaged the area. we'll get an update from nick valencia live on the ground ...

Our hearts go out to any family members. nothing so far, what's the latest on the investigation? >> absolute agony, the only comfort they have is the fact the coast guard said they are not gufing up on this search and rescue mission. they are going to continue through the night. they have a number of vessels on site. there are also commercial vessels out there. they have located two different debris fields. that's where they concentrate the search at this point. what they are doing instead of looking for the ship, which they believe sank, is to try to spot survivors in the water looking for an...

About what happened. but until their physical remains it's hard to accept your loved one is gone. this is one step closer and with all air disasters, one of the most common threads is the amount of time it takes to understand what happened. so all information so helpful but on the flip side this is also very difficult for the families because this does resonate with them but their loved ones could be gone and holding on to hope is what got them through this point. it brings us back to day one when we saw the debris in the ocean with flight 800 and seeing the debris fields with so many other ai...