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Boss, is on that crippled cruise ship. first of all petty officer metcalf, the ship is in no danger of sinking. there was an engine room fire. but the vessel is certainly sea worthy, right? >> yes, that is correct. the vessel is sea worthy. right now, it does have its critical systems, it has all its navigational equipment, radar, radio, has internal lighting, as well as sewage and running water. jon: it's got some critical systems, but what about comfort systems, like air conditioning? it doesn't sound like those are working. >> no, its just auxillary generators that are able to power those r...

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Probably not soon enough. the ship pulling into port last night. it took about four hours or everyone to disembark. look at them, many too tired to talk, many kissing the ground as well, describing a journey that included overflowing toilets, food shortages, foul odors and a lot of fear of course. some saying the lower floors were flooded with sewage after an engine room fire knocked out power and plumbing on sunday turning on what was supposed to be a to sunny mexico into bate of an inch turns test. jon: jonathan serrie live for us in mobile, alabama. hour the passengers doing. >> reporter: s...

Texas. some of the buses are arriving there. these are someone00 buses that carnival cruise lines chartered to bring passengers from the port here in mobile, alabama to that original port where they departed from in galveston, texas. other passengers will be leaving aboard charter jets, some 20 charter jets from new orleans. company officials say they are going to pay for all of the travel expenses involved with getting each passenger home. carnival also says it will give each passenger a full refund for this cruise, credit towards a future cruise, and $500 in cash. bill? bill: mean time that ...

Better service? you won't believe who's actually paying less, though. we hate to break the bad news for -- to you. jon: tug boats are hauling a stranded cruise ship back to the united states, an engine room fire cripples the carnival slender, leaving that ship at -- and its 4500 passengers and crew adrift at sea. a week long cruise along the love boat route to the mexican rivera. instead of gourmet dinners, they are getting things like spam, flown in. a passenger who left before the fire, stunned by the news. >> this really came as a shock that it was dead in the water that it was stranded and...