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Heading back to port early. royal caribbean telling abc news 277 people suffered an episode of gastrointestinal illness onboard the oasis of the seas. the cdc now investigating, as sick passengers like abby perrin and her mother say it came on suddenly. >> in the middle of the night, we both started feeling like we had food poisoning. so we had fevers and were throwing up. they're recommending everyone who's sick to stay in their room. >> reporter: on sunday, about 9,000 guests and crew departed port canaveral on the scheduled seven-day caribbean cruise. by tuesday night, passengers reportedly...

17 was considerably above average. of those, six ended up being major hurricanes. the ones that usually kill the people and do the most damage. on average we usually have two major hurricanes. here are the numbers. estimated number of deaths and this should go up once we get all the reporting in, especially from puerto rico with all the devastation there. the costliest hurricane season ever. beating 2005. estimated 203 billion. that number continues to grow. i mentioned 2005 was the worst in my career. money wise, it was 159 billion in damage that was done in that year. this year is costlier, ...

In the air for the ability to see where the need is because on the ground many of the roads are impassible. our thanks to barbara starr. big challenges. we're getting reporting in, pam brown has been helping me out this morning with it. 50,000 people have no power. and that's going to be difficult to restore in part because of the weather. you have open gas lines. you have live downed power wires which make it difficult for search and rescue. and as the storm front continues to move through this area and lightning touches down, they have to slow their efforts because safety has to be the prior...

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