Navy rescues family with sick baby from sailboat off Mexican coast

Monday, April 7, 2014

SAN DIEGO -- U.S. sailors rescued an American family with an ill 1-year-old from a sailboat that broke down hundreds of miles off the Mexican coast -- boarding them Sunday onto a San Diego-bound Navy ship so the girl could get medical treatment.

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