00:02One person is dead and three others missing after a boat cabin cruiser carrying about 20 people capsized and sank
00:09near Alcatraz Island in San Francisco Bay.
00:13The emergency call came in just after 3.30 Tuesday afternoon with the boat about 600 yards from Alcatraz.
00:19By the time rescue crews arrived, the vessel was almost completely underwater with some passengers clinging to the outside and
00:27others trapped inside, banging on submerged windows as the water closed in.
00:32It was complete chaos when we showed up. People were hanging on to the side of the boat and when
00:38we had drove past the boat, I could see people that were below the water line inside the boat where
00:44the windows were covered by water and they were banging on the windows trying to break them, but they couldn't
00:49get up.
00:49It was a wild scene to pull up to that.
00:52Rescuers pulled 16 people from the water. Three of the injured went to the hospital and were expected to be
00:58released last night.
00:59Those rescuers also brought a severely injured man to shore and performed CPR, but sadly he was dead.
01:06Fire Chief Dean Crispin says most of the passengers appear to have been family members taking part in a memorial
01:12service.
01:13The emergency was initially reported as a boat fire, but officials say they have found no evidence of one.
01:19The Coast Guard and local authorities are continuing to search for the three missing people using divers, helicopters and boats.
01:29The Coast Guard and local authorities were committed to the hospital area.
01:29The Los Angeles Times is a two-year-old man.
