this is world news now, with john muller and diana perez. good morning, everybody. back to work time, huh? sure is. tuesday. hmm. yeah, well, what are you going to do? let s begin this half hour with a nightmare, another one aboard a cruise ship. listen to this thousands of people forced to bring their luxury vacation to an abrupt end. this time frightened passengers had to scramble out of their beds after fire broke out on a royal caribbean cruise ship. abc s matt gutman has the latest. reporter: in the middle of the night, passengers aboard the royal caribbean grandeur of the seas, startled awake, told to put on life jackets. not a drill. not a joke. everyone was freaking out. reporter: the ship with 2,200 passengers on board left baltimore friday for the bahamas when the fire broke out engulfing a dining/bar area. danielle miller was on the ship along with her friend, katie coleman, describing the scene at the muster stations, the fear
passengers on board left baltimore friday for the bahamas when a fire engulfed a dining and bar area. passenger danielle miller, the woman on the right, says it was a frightening scene. there was a light sparking and catching on fi ad started lowering down the life boats. so, we were just in a panic. there were people crying. like we were both just shaking. and we were like, i can t believe this is actually happening. we thought wef1 oeam. lost power. there anjur lost power. there anjur wasn pea standing on the deck for five hours, before being allowed to return to their cabins. shoulder to shoulder. a couple people fainted. people were throwing up. reporter: how seriously is royal caribbean treating this incident? the president of the company has already flown don an mlreene flown don an because of the fire, royal caribbean has decided to cancel the remainder of the trip. arranging flights back to
perfect creation. i knew that. we will begin this half hour with another unplanned adventure on the high seas. this time, a terrifying ordeal for thousand of cruise ship passengers. again. a fire erupts through the stern of a royal caribbean cruise ship in the middle of the night. passengers forced out of their beds. abc s john schifrin has the latest. good morning, john. reporter: john, diana. good morning. yet another black eye for the cruise ship industry. good news here no one was injured. but this is not exactly how cruise passengers pect theiren in our life jackets reporter: woken up in the middle of the night, told to put on life jackets because of this, a fire that broke out on board royal caribbean s grandeur of the seas not a drill. not a joke. everyone is freaking out. reporter: the ship with 2,200
announcer: from abc news, this is world news now, with john muller and diana perez. good morning, everybody. back to work time, huh? sure is. tuesday. hmm. yeah, well, what are you going to do? let s begin this half hour with a nightmare, another one aboard a cruise ship. listen to this thousands of people forced to bring their luxury vacation to an abrupt end. this time frightened passengers had to scramble out of their beds after fire broke out on a royal caribbean cruise ship. abc s matt gutman has the latest. reporter: in the middle of the night, passengers aboard the royal caribbean grandeur of the seas, startled awake, told to put on life jackets. not a drill. not a joke. we are freaking out. reporter: the ship with 2,200 passengers on board left baltimore friday for the bahamas when the fire broke out engulfing a dining/bar area. danielle miller was on the ship along with her friend, katie coleman, describing the scene at the muster stations, the fear n
passengers are accounted for and that it will compensate and fly home all of those passengers. matt gutman, abc news, miami. an oregon teenager accused of plotting to blow up his high school heads to court today as his classmates head back to class. 17-year-old grant acord will be charged as an adult. police say they found six homemade bombs hidden under his bedroom floorboards. other students say the high school junior had been talking about making bombs before his arrest and allegedly wanted someone to film this attack. a memorial service has been planned for the mother of the gunman behind the newtown, connecticut, school gun massacre. nancy lanza was murdered by her son, killed before adam lanza opened fire at sandy hook elementary school, killing 26. children and staff members. the service in new hampshire where she grew up. family members wanted to wait six months out of respect to victims. incoming rutgers university athletic director julie hermann will keep her job despit