Schiavocampo. 4200 passengers are hoping to set foot on dry land this morning after a disaster at sea. Carnivals triumph cruise liner lost power on sunday, causing it to become stranded with little food and even few you are working bathrooms. Nbcs jay gray is live in alabama where the ship is set to dock. Jay, good morning. Reporter good morning to you, mara. Yeah, passengers have described it as a difficult and disgusting trip, one that should end this afternoon has the ship is pulled into the cruise terminal here. A third tugboat joined the slow tow pulling the crippled cruise liner toward this dock at the port of mobile. Weve been doing a lost work to try to activate the terminal again. Weve been doing a lot of logistic security to make this experience not be one thats cumbersome for the passengers. Reporter more than 3,000 passengers who suffered through the fire on sunday suffered through lack of air conditioning and bathrooms. Worst part is the bathrooms. Theres no water. You can
Performance. That charge brought strong denials from armstrong at the time. Hes got no proof. Its his word versus ours. Reporter but in 2011, another teammate, tyler hamilon, told 60 minutes armstrong did used banned substances, including the blood doping agent e. P. O. He took what we call all took. Really no difference between Lance Armstrong and, say the majority of the team. There was e. P. O. , there was testosterone. And i did see a transfusion, a blood transfusion. Reporter last month armstrong admitted the doping in an interview with oprah winfrey. I view this situation as one big lie that i repeated a lot of times. Reporter despite the admission, armstrongs lawyer says the lawsuit is without merit. In a statement, attorney Robert Luskin claimed the Postal Service actually profited from armstrongs victories. Reporter armstrong and his attorneys tried to keep the government out of the case by offering a multimillion Dollar Settlement but the Justice Department turned down that d
An interview with oprah winfrey. I view this situation as one big lie that i repeated a lot of times. Reporter despite the admission, armstrongs lawyer says the lawsuit is without merit. In a statement, attorney Robert Luskin claimed the Postal Service actually profited from armstrongs victories. Reporter armstrong and his attorneys tried to keep the government out of the case by offering a multimilliondollar settlement but the Justice Department turned down that deal, demanding the disgraced cyclist pay a higher price. If the government wins, scott, floyd landis could get to a fourth of the total damages. Pelley almost 25 million. Bob, thank you very much. This is a big turnabout for the government. It was a year ago the Justice Department dropped a criminal investigation of armstrong. The evidence against him now first came out in secret testimony in that criminal case. But the department of justice dropped the case without explanation before a grand jury even had a chance to vote on
Many of Lance Armstrongs victories were painted red, white, and blue. His team sponsor was the u. S. Postal service and, in the late 1990s, the agency could hardly believe its luck, that it had put its money on a man who became arguably the greatest endurance athlete of all time. Well, today color the pofl service embarrassed. The u. S. Justice department announced this afternoon that it will join a civil lawsuit that claims armstrong defrauded the federal government. Heres bob orr. Reporter the lawsuit as Lance Armstrong broke his sponsorship contract with the u. S. Postal service by using performanceenhancing drugs while winning multiple Tour De France titles. The Postal Service paid at least 31 million to sponsor armstrongs cycling team and now the Justice Department wants that money back and could seek total damages approaching 100 million. The lawsuit, first filed by armstrongs former teammate floyd landis in 2010, claims the team knowingly caused the United States Postal Service
Stomach knots up, you just want to keel over in the fetal position and go, why, why now . Reporter karen is waiting in mobile to pick up her 10yearold daughter who is on the ship with her exhusband. And im going to hold like like ive never held her before. Reporter and if all goes as planned that embrace will come sometime this afternoon. Along with family members, medical teams will also be waiting to help any passengers or crew members who may need some care coming off that ship. Live in mobile, jay gray, richard, back to you now. Jay gray, thank you so much. We hope for a quick landing through for them. Police in california say the manhunt for the copkiller is over. The fire at a cabin where Christopher Dorner was holed up was not intentional but the result of a tear gas canister. The coroner is working to identify remains found inside. Now just before the deadly standoff when dorner is believed to have taken hostages, a married couple now saying he tied them up and put pillow cases