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Rainfall deficit going into this. i mean it just shows you this much rain, no river basins can handle this. 15 inches in myrtle beach. a third of your annual rainfall. and in columbia about a quarter of your annual rainfall. columbia the worst of that was that it came so quickly saturday night into sunday morning. today s forecast, really night throughout much of the country. beautiful fall weather. a lot of people think the leaves are late this year, great lakes, northern new england, it was dry, it was warm in september. now they re starting to turn quickly. all right. thanks for a nice fall foliage. thank you. tragic news from the caribbean. the body of a crew member from a missing cargo ship was found wearing a survival suit yesterday. also found, a badly damaged lifeboat with no signs of life on board. the el faroe went missing on thursday after colliding with hurricane joaquin near the bahamas. the coast guard now believes it sunk to the bottom of the ocean. we just change ou ....
Winds. let s listen to now they say the focus is on recovery mode. you just change our search planning efforts. we are still looking for survivors or any signs of life any signs of that vessel. you heard the coast guard the search continues. live from miami beach the families are still hopeful. it is now 19 minutes after the top of the hour. the new tragedy on the high school football field. a social media firestorm. meryl streep s photo shoot. does she make suffrage seem l s worse than slavery? we report, you decide. ....
Aircraft. we flew it very high, up at 27,000 feet altitude so we could scan a very wide area. we ve covered 70,000 square nautical miles yesterday, looking for the el faro, so based on all of that, for our search planning efforts, we are assuming that the vessel has sank. we believe it sank in the last known position that we recorded on thursday. so, what that means, though, we just change our search-planning efforts. we are still looking for survivors or any signs of life, any signs of that vessel. we are still doing that. so, the search for survivors continues. yesterday, because of those favorable search conditions, we were able to see a lot of material that was at sea. a lot of things that came from a container ship, of that size. so, we know we recovered the el faro s life ring. we also recovered a life boat ....
Came from this ship or another ship that lost a lot of debris or sank and lost the container ships. two debris feels near crooked island. and that from that position is where the coast guard now believes the ship sunk because that s where it gave that. 20 a.m. distress call about taking on water. the coast guard still optimistic though that the experienced mariners onboard the ship have a super strong will to survive. so what that means, though, we just change our search planning efforts. we are still looking for survivors. or any signs of life, any signs of that ves he will. if the crew members did get in the lot of boats, you re trying to drop in that water with 140 mile an hour winds. 40 to 50 foot tall waves and very tough situation. gretchen? phil keating reporting from ....
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 based on our search planning efforts, we think the vessel or survivors could potentially drift to the north. and that s how i ve described those debris fields. one is near the last known position but another one is 60 miles to the north of that. that validates when we find all these things it validates our search efforts and we could really hone in on where survivors might be. ....