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fans. racked up nearly 7,000 online fans. today, february 16, 2013. captions paid for by nbc-universal television good morning, everyone. welcome to today on a saturday. i m lester holt. i m erica hill. boy, the little pig that could. i think it s adorable. yeah. we ve got the little guy with wheels because he, obviously, can t his back legs don t work. yeah. i don t think anybody will want bacon after seeing this cute guy. i certainly don t. we ll have that coming up. we ll meet him. this morning, we re learning more about what happened aboard the carnival cruise ship. very little of it is good. passengers are waking up glad to be back on solid ground. the conditions on that ship horrible. coming up, a look at what rights you have as a passenger when you re on a cruise. also, the big cleanup has begun now in russia after a space rock exploded there on friday. it happened the same day a different asteroid hit earth. could the two be related? we ll ....
seeking damages. she accuses carnival cruise lines of negligence and fraud and says that she was injured as a result of the unseaworthy, unsafe, unsanitary, and generally despicable conditions in aboard the triumph. a spokesperson says the company has not seen the lawsuit and cannot comment. meantime, the triumph has been moved to a shipyard in mobile, where extensive repairs and cleanup begin as the official incident investigation also begins. because the ship is registered in the bahamas and the event occurred in international waters, the bahamian authority is the lead investigator. both the u.s. coast guard and the national transportation safety board, the ntsb, are heavily involved, interviewing passengers and crew, trying to determine why the fire broke out and how it was handled and ultimately trying to prevent something like this from ever happening again. lester? thanks. the ordeal on the carnival triumph was difficult for everyone on board. for some, ....
thanks for joining us on this busy morning. coming up monday, quvenzhane walis and alison brie, mary bono mack and connie mack. meanwhile cnn newsroom with carol costello begins right now. happening now in the newsroom. don t like this. meteor shower breaking overnight, amazing pictures out of russia. hundreds are injured as fragments of the meteor slam into earth. plus it was kind of crazy. tired but ready to get on a bus and go get a shower, be in a place where the toilet flushes. i just really want a bed. reporter: sweet home alabama, back on land, the cruise from hell finally over for thousands of weary vacationers. also, charged. prosecutors arguing the so-called blade runner olympian committed pre-meditated murder, reportedly shooting his girlfriend four times through a bathroom door. plus this. don t you just love it? love what? tiffany s. reporter: it s breakfast at tiffa tiffany s not breakfast at costco. the discount warehou ....
marches, ribbons, bucket challenges, whatever it takes to raise awareness. well, that is how many americans die of suicide every year. and in the wake of the robin williams suicide, there are fears that the toll may go even higher because of copycat. does talking about robin williams s death raise awareness or create copycats? there is an answer to that question, and our experts will share it with us tonight. we have to get to breaking news. first off tear gas being fired in ferguson, missouri in another night of protests over the shooting of michael brown, an unarmed teenager gunned down by a police officer. on the scene now, jan, what are you witnessing there? hi, don. well, when we arrived at the gas station we have seen in previous nights, this one that got burned down during sunday night s unrest. and when we arrived there, it looked to be about 100 people protesting, blocking the street. and the police were announcing over a loudspeaker on a mega phone that ....
talking about george papadakolas. you can look at the photographs with high meetings. do we have that photograph? i have to tell you, in criminology, mike barnical, you look at these things to see who is in power, man, the attorney general on one side, the president of the united states who is going to be the president, obviously, and right in the middle. boom. the man of the moment. there he is, right there. papadopoulos. the story of the day good morning, everyone, it s tuesday, october 31st. it s a scary day for a lot of people, happy halloween, with us, we have veteran columnist and msnbc contributor, mike barnicle. are you skard in. i m frightened to death. freaked out, boo! national security analyst and former chief of staff at the cia and department of defense jeremy bash and in walk, white house reporter for usa today heidi pryzbila. good morning to you all. i want to start with this, it s really interesting, we have been hearing from critics of ....