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John's wife is on the cruise, he and his eight-year-old son is waiting for them at the port and john's wife is joining us on board the ship. julie, can you see the port from where you are, julie. >> we can, we can. >> and how good is that feeling to be able to see it. >> i tell you. >> sour-- >> mobile's the most beautiful city i've ever seen in my li life. >> greta: john, how about for you, what's it been like the last five days, have you talked to your wife and heard what the conditions are like. >> i've not spoken with her until monday this afternoon, i can't explain how happy i was to hear...

I was thinking, you know, maybe 12, 18 hours we're talking about. i had no idea the situation was going to become this bad. >> greta: what -- i assume that your boyfriend gave your number in case of emergency and that's why you got the robo call? >> yes, that's right. >> greta: did you talk to him on sunday? >> i did. the first phone call i received from him was very brief. it was probably about a minute and very kind of, you know, garbled where you know, i could hear every fourth or fifth word, but you don't want to necessarily interrupt to say i can't understand you, you kind of just want to...

Be for them to disembark. even under the best of circumstances, which obviously, this is not. so, we've been told that the entire process of getting everyone off the ship could take four to five hours. >> greta: well, it certainly looks exciting, it's a huge ship and to remind our viewers, 900 feet long, 14 stories tall and come into a port it's never docked in before. and got a bunch, 4,200 people on there, passenger and crew. obviously very excited about finally getting to shore, but not under their own power. nicole, thank you and a news conference is expected within two minutes, we are goi...

Motor coach-wise to galveston or on their way to the hotels. >> greta: and the passengers reach land, as you noted it's not over for them. their harrowing journey continues although they'll be on dry land. and from wfbn is there and she's in mobile with that part of the story. tell me sort of the plan. i know there are a hundred buses, but what is the plan? >> well, greta, this is the way we understand it. carnival is basically giving these passengers an option. they can either get on buses and be taken either to galveston, which is where they all started or they can be taken to new orleans wh...

Of happy families here in mobile and quite shortly there will be many other happy families around the country. >> greta: but not one passenger off the ship in the 15 minutes it's been docked? >> yeah, we haven't seen any passengers get off yet. just crew members going back and forth. some crew members taking wheelchairs up to the ship so we can only assume that the sick or elderly passengers will be the first to disembark from this ship. >> greta: i understand that the ship-- they've already made announcements this ship will be out of service for several weeks and obviously need to fix whateve...