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Lights went off. all of the dishes fell and the lights went on again and they made an announcement saying it was a minor technical difficulty to remain calm and that everything was okay. and then within minutes it turned into total chaos. and, yeah, we went from saying everything was okay to an alarm going off and an announcement being said that we needed to abort the ship. >> vanessa, you are watching a show on the ship and then all of a sudden the lights go out. how long from the time the lights go out until somebody actually comes in and assists you in getting off the boat? >> actually we w...

Jeanne italian authorities have taken the captain of the ship in custty. question hes remain. caucuses caused the ship to run aground and what recourse is left for those passengers? michael winkleman, maritime attorney, joey jackson an attorney with us often and mark murphy a travel expert. all right, gentlemen. thanks for being with us. joey, the captain is in custody. might he face criminal charges? >> without question. you have people dead here people injured here and people who are missed. is wanted is accountability. as a result there will be a thorough investigation. in the investigation...

Boat tipped sideways and fell and swung and everybody screaming. >> in the end, swept oh remember before we jumped off. one of the crew members telling us we need to stay on and that is when mark was saying we don't need to stay on because it was sinking so fast and where we were standing was actually underwater right now so we needed to get off right then. that is when about 100 or 150 people started swimming. >> vanessa rosales was on the cruise with her mother celebrating their birthdays. they junes me now on the -- she joins me now on the phone. vanessa. >> hello. >> judge jeanine: i can't...

And french tourists, there were two french tourists killed in the incident, although the largest number of people onboard were italians they are absolutely furious about what happened. essentially about what happened in terms of the rescue. they said it was very poorly organized. it was total madness, total chaos which is why so many people did end up in the water. people not being able to go back to their rooms obviously, just coming up onshore with blankets and nothing more. in total, 4,229 people on this ship. now, finally, there are more than 100 americans who were on the ship. the u.s. em...

All of the reefs are and how close you can be to shore or how close not. there is a black box and they will be getth answers from that clearly pretty soon. >> judge jeanine: passengers who have spoken to us they seem to be furious with the fact that the evacuation was not orderly. there were no clear directions. people were falling. >> reporter: complaints about what happened when the evacuation actually started. really people are furious. germans, french, a good number of americans as well. lots of witnesses talking about what happened. they basically said it was total confusion. it was a tot...