Good to meet you too. Good evening. As we come on the air, the 4,200 people stuck in that stranded cruise ship are finally scanning the horizon for land and sending pictures from their vacation nightmare. Passengers crowding to see a chopper overheads as the ship krouls along as mile per hour, slower than you can walk. A tent city on deck, made out of sheets because of the conditions in the rooms below. Long lines for food, passengers huddled in bath robes. There are also some concerns about stress and passenger health. Abcs matt gutman starts us off with whats happening right now, matt . Reporter from a boat in the mobile bay, moments ago, we learned one of the passengers aboard the ship suffered a stroke and had to be medevacked. Check out the tug boats, trying to nudge that ship ideas a quarter mile channel. Veering either way and it could ground. Tonight theyre doing that in the dark. Reporter tonight, with the lame colossus finally within sight of land, we get our first look insid
How are you doing . Nice to meet you. Good to meet you too. Good evening. As we come on the air, the 4,200 people stuck in that stranded cruise ship are finally scanning the horizon for land and sending pictures from their vacation nightmare. Passengers crowding to see a chopper overheads as the ship krouls along as mile per hour, slower than you can walk. A tent city on deck, made out of sheets because of the conditions in the rooms below. Long lines for food, passengers huddled in bath robes. There are also some concerns about stress and passenger health. Abcs matt gutman starts us off with whats happening right now, matt . Reporter from a boat in the mobile bay, moments ago, we learned one of the passengers aboard the ship suffered a stroke and had to be medevacked. Check out the tug boats, trying to nudge that 900foot ship ideas a quarter mile channel. Veering either way and it could ground. Tonight theyre doing that in the dark. Reporter tonight, with the lame colossus finally wit
After that aspect of it. Pulled in extra resources because of the nature and able to find this woman. And place her under arrest. Police are not saying how she was identified. But the victims house he shared with his wife and elderly son is surrounded by security cameras. Its a wonderful family and his wife is a very active shes an older person too but works like a weaver. Puts the rest of us to shame. Its a huge loss and we cant imagine why anybody would do that to joe. They called him joe. Everyone knew him as joe. As for the woman arrested, shes being held without bond. Not implicated herself but they also say the car she was stopped in is being processes for possible evidence. All right. Thank you for the update. Developing right now. More than 4,000 passengers and crew are still stuck on this Carnival Cruise ship engine room fire cut the power. Passengers are getting cell service. Were getting a better idea of conditions. Buckets of sewage in the hallways. Stench. People forced to
Large asteroid came close to the planet. News4s tom sherwood at the smithsonian. How soon this could happen again. Reporter a meteor slammed into earth inside russia with a sonic boom injuring hundreds. Almost the same day, a large asteroid narrowly misses earth, passing just 17,000 miles away. Just a near miss in galactic terms. Now that sounds like a long ways, but keep in mind, thats less than onetenth of the distance to the moon. Reporter the two extraordinary incidents from space have smithsonian scientists enthralled about the chances for new materials to study. Smithsonian Natural History scientist tim mccoy. Its very exciting. It is a great thing to be able to see one of these events. Two big things like this making news and making people aware of the kinds of things were doing just dont happen very often. Reporter mccoy showed news4 labs inside the smithsonian war more than 35,000 meteorite pieces are kept. These pieces are 4. 5 billion years old. And mccoy answered a question
Checkered with towels and bedding. Some unfurling white banners. Right there, above the lettering carnival triumph. Those dressed for the tropics, huddling in bath robes and blankets against the cold. The ship has been tugging 350 miles from the gulf of mexico at a pace about as fast as you can walk. Until . I think the tug line might have broken. Carnivals Terry Thornton said today the companys doing all it can. There is no way we can actually speed up the process to get the ship alongside sooner. Reporter misery tempered by joy today. Choppered in generators, charging cellphones. The voices of loved ones, finally in range. And remember mary . She said, mommy, im afraid i wont ever get to see you again. Reporter so worried about her daughter. Today they spoke. It was amazing. The things that she saw and the things we talked about, those things were really happening. Why . Why were they not prepared . Reporter we tried to take that question to carnivals chief marketing officer instead