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I mean, people pay money to go on this dive trip. it's not a prison. it's a dive boat. it's fun. steve: right. >> so the passenger berth room is so of in the bottom of the boat there are two ways in and out there. is a big giant staircase that goes down from the front of the salon and also an escape hatch at the aft portion of it and pop up on the first deck open to the dive deck on the back. so there is no doors. there isn't even a door you could lock if you wanted to. so it's completely open. steve: and the suggestion out of the west coast this morning is that perhaps that staircase that wen...

Bahamas, sir. >> president trump: the other investigations, interviews, if problem is we don't know how you will, with crew members, hard south carolina and boat yesterday and today we're told. north carolina, georgia to an of course, the ntsb is here extent, could be -- to a big trying to figure out what extent, we don't know yet. happened. i want to show you something. we don't know that hurricane is you see this boat behind me? turning, i guess. admiral, would you legacy this is a near carbon copy of something about that? the boat that sunk. >> certainly, mr. president. okay? it's critical....

Newsroom with the very latest.t i can't -- 34 people, no chance of escaping. , no chance of rescue. tell us about it. >> the five crewmembers that survive got off the boat because they were stationed on the deck and not below it when the fire broke out at 3:00 a.m. monday morning. the captain put out a mayday call and all the crewmembers went to a nearby boat for help but it was too late. these are pictures of the bunk room, and a diver has been on the vessel dozens of times said the sleeping area is comfortable, but tight however with bunk beds stacked next to one another on the lowest deck c...

>> the other focus will be on the limited escape routes. there is a memorial to the victims placed on the dock where the -- for the victims ages 17 to 60s including a family of five. the sheriff said, however, that those victims were literally trapped by the fire and could not get out. >> appearing as though the people below deck were trapped and unable to exit the vessel. that does appear to be exactly what happened. that there was a stairwell to get down the main entry way up and down and there was an escape hatch and it would appear as though both of those were blocked by fire. >> the count...

The direction at the wrong time, many people could be in danger. brooke. >> just the smallest shift as jennifer gray was talking about could be absolute devastation up and down that coastline. miguel, thank you in vero beach. we'll get you back to the storm in just a moment. how about this, just hours after several reported birthday celebrations a fire turned the boat "conception" into a death wrap. now as many as 40 are feared dead. the sheriff explains why it's likely people could not escape. >> there was a stairwell to get down the main entryway up and down. and there was an escape hatch,...