Every day charter boats for sight seeing, whale watching, fishing and diving leave from harbors in L.A., Ventura and Santa Barbara counties...........they go about their business, show people a good time and return to safely to port.

That was not the case for the Conception, a 75-foot commercial diving boat that erupted in flames overnight Sunday, while it was anchored just off of Santa Cruz Island in the middle of a 3-day diving trip.  Today the Coast Guard called off its rescue mission for passengers on the Conception who have not been found after the boat sank with 34 people still on board.........what will likely be a long and painful investigation into the accident begins........and we'll go in depth on a horrible tragedy off the Southern California coast. 

Hurricane Dorian has taken what meteorologists are calling one of the strangest storm tracks they've ever seen, after the monster storm camped out over the Bahamas for a day and devastated the islands.  Where will it go next?

Bad news for hundreds of thousands of California homeowners who live in fire-prone areas, and just in time for our notorious fall fire weather season:  fire insurance policies are being canceled at high rates............so where do you turn for insurance if you live in the brush-covered foothills?

And a most unusual case of a teenager, who spent most of his life eating mostly junk food, and then lost his vision..........he's now a case study in the long term impacts of eating less nutritious foods.

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