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now, murphy. her husband, lee, was on that boat. what did you find out? what did you first hear about what happened to them? >> lee called me sunday night around 10:00. um, that was the first he'd gotten to a hotel room after, i guess the boat went over at 2:30 in the morning sunday morning, and this was sunday evening, pm, that he called. jon: all right. so, obviously, he was safe at that point. >> yes. jon: but this is an annual trip that these, a bunch of friends get together and do, i take it? >> well, no. there's one gentleman that organizes a fishing trip. so he has friends, friends of friends, people who have just heard about it. um, they do this every year, um, some years lee goes, some years he doesn't. he, um, this is the first year that lee went, they actually went onboard. in the past they would go and stay in a motel on shore. jon: when a rogue wave, and i
the waters were warm. jon: now, your husband is still in mexico. is that for medical treatment or just to -- >> i don't know. no, they're all there, but i don't know what the reason. i think mainly because he has friends that are missing. jon: yeah. and those are six people, as i understand it, still missing. >> well, we are friends with two. i don't know who else is missing. i only know of two, and they've been friends for 38 years. jon: well, and the hope is that they found something, as your husband found that life raft, they are moping that those -- hoping that those people found something they could cling to. the waters are pretty warm. they could still be okay. >> and i'm told there are a lot of very little islands there, places where they could have somehow got to -- so that's what everyone's hoping for. i mean, it's devastating. jon: murphy ikegami whose husband was on that boat, and he is safe again, thank you. >> you're welcome.