alabama with the latest. reporter: hi, greta, it looks like we re approaching the moment that everybody was waiting for. originally the ship was due in in the early afternoon and now it looks like it s going to arrive sometime between 9:30 and 10:30 central time. he so, quite possibly within this hour, we re going to see the ship dock here at the alabama cruise terminal where i am right now. once it docks, once it s finally tied up, 15 minutes to 30 minutes will go by before the first passenger gets off. and officials tell us it could take four to five hours for all 3,000 plus passengers to disembark from the ship because of those power issues. there s only one elevator that s operational. here at the passenger cruise terminal there are blankets, food, drinks, cell phones inside the passenger terminal. to keep people comfortable as they await their buses. some 100 buses have been chartered to take the passengers, some of them back to their original ports in galveston and ho
0 towards mobile bay, but it delayed it by about an hour. so, really, a difficult and cumbersome process with many bumps along the way, greta. all right, no power on this ship and these people want to i mean, they re exhausted and they ve been living in hell for five days. their families waiting four or five hours to get off that ship for many of them. tell me, obviously, any idea how many floors there are of cabins? a lots of people have to do a lot of walking in one direction. yeah, and in fact. my producer just handed me a note the ship is about one mile out and in fact, if you re at the top of the terminal you can actually get a glimpse of the ship, an indication that this is the beginning of the end. but greta to give you an idea of the conditions on board this ship, we ve seen photographs from the deck where people were had actually set up tents because when the power went out without the air conditioning, it was very uncomfortable in the lower arrival. do you see any gathe