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Storm Capsizes Boats During Regatta In Alabama

NPR
Published April 27, 2015 at 12:33 PM EDT
A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter flies over natural gas rigs in the waters of Mobile Bay off Dauphin Island, Ala., Sunday. Coast Guard crews are searching for five people missing in the water after a powerful storm capsized several sailboats participating in a regatta near Mobile Bay. (G.M. Andrews/AP)
A U.S. Coast Guard helicopter flies over natural gas rigs in the waters of Mobile Bay off Dauphin Island, Ala., Sunday. Coast Guard crews are searching for five people missing in the water after a powerful storm capsized several sailboats participating in a regatta near Mobile Bay. (G.M. Andrews/AP)

Four people are missing and two are dead after a strong storm swept into the Mobile Bay during the Dauphin Island Regatta on Saturday.

Here & Now’s Robin Young speaks with Michael Dumas, reporter for The Press-Register in Mobile, Ala. after the tragic incident.

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