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Rip currents. the water is calm but you don't know what is going on underneath the surface. >> i remember when sam champion went into a rip current and he got sucked right out. even though he was taught what to do he still couldn't -- it is so hard and you're panicked and taken farther and farther. >> are you supposed to swim parallel? >> you are not supposed to swim. let it take you because it will spiral out and then try. obviously, fighting it is not futile but exhausts your oxygen. >> total counter intuitive to what you are used to. baltimore's police chief is forced out by the city's ma...

Warrant. funeral services will be held for the young woman killed on a san francisco pier allegedly by an undocumented immigrant. 32-year-old cate steinley will be laid to rest today. and terrifying moments for a family nearly swept away by a rip current off nantucket. erin johns is holding on to a camera when a current catches her. her father tries to help when he tries to help his wife in the same rip current. as you can see, lifeguards and beach goers rushed to bring them both back to safety. look at that. they are now safely onshore. we are told derek's oxygen levels were so low he onl...

Astoning 20,000 miles and katherine, 13,679 miles. in all, 53 great white sharks tagged and transmitting. so far, no discernible pattern. >> we're getting a sense of the scope at least of their movement. they're far more dynamic than we thought. >> reporter: from the coast off nantucket south to miami beach and into the gulf of mexico we now know great whites are frequently yards from the beach. a few charitable trust study says an estimated 100 million sharks are killed each year by commercial fisheries. at that rate 1/3 of all the 500 shark species are threatened with extinction, including s...

Situation, many passengers on that airplane are not afforded the protections of the montreal convention. >> you mentioned that. help us you know be in the shoes, if you can, of some of these family members. we now know seven bodies have been recovered. take me back to what that identification process was like for your family since that's where we are. >> one thing to be aware of is each crash is different. in our case the airplane hit the water traveling close to the speed of sound. everything shattered. and what records could be recovered took many many months from 60 miles off nantucket. nts...

Gulf of thailand were very low. but pilot suicide as we talked about in that egyptair disaster off nantucket in the late 90s, that was shortly into the flight, correct? the malaysia airlines flight if the information is accurate, it went on for hours well off course. d's that li does that line up with the theory of suicide? >> if you look back at the egyptair 990 story, there was a lot of recriminations that were focused on the family of the first officer who was implicated by the ntsb on a suicide mission. of course the e judicigyptians all. we're not saying this is what happened, but the pos...