This undated image shows Eric and Charlotte Kaufman with their daughters, Lyra, 1, and Cora, 3. (Sariah English / AP Photo / )
SAN DIEGO - A U.S. Navy warship has reached a crippled sailboat hundreds of miles off the Mexican coast and was preparing to rescue a sick 1-year-old girl.
Coast Guard Petty Officer Barry Bena says the ship will wait until around dawn Sunday before starting to transfer the child from the 36-foot boat to the ship.
The sailboat with two parents and their two young children aboard was on a cruise around the world when they sent a satellite ping for help about the ailing child. Aboard the boat are the girl's parents, Eric and Charlotte Kaufman, and their 3-year-old daughter, Cora. They had been at sea about two weeks when the younger child, Lyra, became sick.
A family member says she had developed a fever and a rash covering most of her body and wasn't responding to medications.
Four California Air National Guard rescuers parachuted to reach the vessel, and the team stabilized the girl and pointed the sailboat toward Mexico.
Now the U.S. Navy warship USS Vandegrift is on scene to complete the rescue mission.
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