FOUR DELRAY WPBF 25 NEWS AT FIVE STARTS RIGHT NOW. WPBF 25 NEWS AT FIVE STARTS WITH BREAKING NEWS. AND WE BEGIN WITH THAT BREAKING NEWS OUT OF STUART. TWO SWIMMERS ARE DEAD AFTER BEING PULLED FROM THE OCEAN. GOOD EVENING. I'M TIFFANY KENNEY I'M FELICIA RODRIGUEZ. THANK YOU FOR JOINING US HERE AT FIVE. WE KNOW TWO OTHER SWIMMERS WERE ABLE TO MAKE IT OUT OF THE WATER AND WERE NOT HURT. ARI HYDE IS LIVE FOR US AT STUART BEACH. AND ARI, YOU JUST SPOKE WITH OFFICIALS. WHAT CAN YOU TELL US? WELL, THE MARTIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE JUST CONFIRMED FOR US THE TWO VICTIMS HERE BOTH DID DIE AT THE HOSPITAL. AND THEY SAY WHILE THIS INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING, IT'S PRETTY CLEAR WHAT HAPPENED. I MEAN, TAKE A LOOK AT THE OCEAN, RIGHT NOW. IT'S A LITTLE BIT ROUGHER THAN WE NORMALLY SEE IT HERE. AND THEY SAY IT'S PRETTY CLEAR THAT THESE TWO PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT FROM AROUND HERE, THEY HAVE NOT RELEASED THEIR NAMES YET, BUT THEY SAY THEY ARE BOTH FROM PENNSYLVANIA. AND THEY SAY THAT THESE TWO PPEOT EXPECTING HOW ROUGH THE CURRENT IS HERE. AND HOW THEY WERE NOT EXPECTING THE RIP CURRENTS AS WELL. AND THAT'S PROBABLY WHAT CAUSED THEIR DEATH. LOOK AHEAD NOW AND SHOW YOU SOME PHOTOGRAPHS FROM EARLIER TODAY AT THE SCENE. THESE WERE GIVEN TO US BY THE MARTIN COUNTY SHERIFF'S OFFICE. THEY TELL ME THAT JUST AFTER 1:00, THAT'S WHEN THE PHONE CALL STARTED COMING IN, BOTH TO THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE AND TO MARTIN COUNTY FIRE RESCUE PEOPLE SAYING THERE WERE PEOPLE IN THE WATER THAT WERE STRUGGLING TO GET OUT. THE FIRE RESCUE GOT HERE FIRST. THEY WERE ABLE TO FIND A FEMALE IN THE WATER PRETTY QUICKLY. IT TOOK THEM A LITTLE WHILE, BUT THEY EVENTUALLY WERE ABLE TO FIND THE MALE AS WELL. THEY GOT THEM BOTH OUT OF THE WATER. THEY STARTED PERFORMING LIFESAVING MEASURES, TOOK THEM TO A LOCAL HOSPITAL, BUT AGAIN, THEY BOTH EVENTUALLY DIED AT THE HOSPITAL, ACCORDING TO THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE. THEY SAY THAT THESE TWO PEOPLE WENT INTO THE WATER. THEY ARE BOYFRIEND AND GIRLFRIEND. THEY IMMEDIATELY STARTED STRUGGLING WITH THE RIP CURRENT. ONE OF THEIR CHILDREN WAS TRYING TO SCREAM AT THEM, TELL THEM TO SWIM PARALLEL TO THE SHORE, TRYING TO GIVE THEM INSTRUCTIONS. BUT THEY SAY THE TWO PEOPLE WERE IN PANIC MODE AND WERE NOT ABLE TO FOLLOW THE INSTRUCTIONS. AND ALMOST IMMEDIATELY THEY WENT UNDER AGAIN. THOSE TWO NAMES HAVE NOT BEEN RELEASED YET, BUT AGAIN, THEY ARE FROM PENNSYLVANIA. THEY WERE HERE ON VACATION, ACCORDING TO THE SHERIFF'S OFFICE. RIGHT NOW, AGAIN, THEIR INVESTIGATION IS ONGOING, BUT THEY SAY THEY ARE TREATING THIS AS JUST A TRAGIC ACCIDENT. THAT IS THE VERY
