At least three people are dead with a handful of survivors reported after a boat washed ashore Monday morning in southern California. At least nine people are still missing.

A small boat believed to be carrying migrants capsized early Monday off San Diego's coast and left three people dead and four injured, while U.S. Coast Guard crews were searching for seven others, officials said.

Prosecutors said authorities were able to locate eight of the nine migrants missing from the boat that capsized near San Diego on May 5.