were able to turn their phones on and get reception that way, but otherwise, they had no service from monday till now. greta: is your sister someone who has gone on cruises before or the first time and is she ever going to do it again. fortunately, it s the first and last. greta: are you sure it s the last? not going to give it a try again. she s the not going to get on a plane now, and tried to get mer on the plane home, but where is she going, buses going to she will not get on that bus either. she s actually, a lot of people getting rental cars and she s one of them and as a matter of fact, she s not taking the coach. she s staying somewhere in the area and taking a vehicle and heading home tomorrow. greta: is that because she s terrified or just
think he made it very clear they all are very sorry for it and they re trying to take care of us and they re i think they re doing a good job and i appreciate his personal concern for the passengers. we didn t really see we heard, you know, three, four, maybe five safety calls for medics and we know that some of them were not serious, so we didn t really see a lot of any medical issues like they were saying. greta: bob, your thought about the apology and do you know of any serious medical issues? did you hear or see any? personally, we heard about a couple of people who fell and possibly broke legs. in terms of the ceo s apology, i m happy to accept it, and it it shows that carnival really does care about our experience here and i appreciate it, personally. greta: bob, we have a shot of the ship or just had a
specifically. greta: i don t understand why it s so dark, don t they have generator for the light inside the ship? i understand separate from the engines? why isn t it lit up? we understand that the helicopter that brought supplies and provisions yesterday dropped a big aga generator as it it passed by and maybe they re using that, but there s been, since the initial incident there s been plenty of light through the emergency lighting. not on the lower deck perhaps and the big problem down there is more ventilation than lighting. and, but i don t know why there s more light, but plenty of light on the ship right now. i would think there would be some sort of redundancy. i don t understand why there wasn t a backup lighting, why it was so dark for so many people. well, in the hallways, there was always lights. it s in the oh, okay. it s in the specific cabin. in our cabin, there was no lighting, it was black, black
largest cruise ship ever to dock here at the alabama cruise terminal or anywhere in the city of mobile. this is a first. greta: jonathan, you know, i know we re going to hear horrible stories in the next few days about you know, people really suffered and people are hurt and broke legs, things that we haven t heard so far, but it must have been exciting for you to be there to see this giant ship come in with the few lights it had and people singing and cheering and people waiting for it? oh, absolutely. and the cheers were on both sides. there were folks up hanging from the balconies waving towels and some of them had glow sticks waving around cheering from the ship and then you had their friends and family on the ground cheering back. and very exciting to see, obviously, they re going to be a there are already a lot
and neon lights in the hallway and corridors are on, but in the state rooms it s completely dark. we ve been hearing the folks on board cheering, even before we could see the ship. we could hear them cheering and they were waving towels or bed sheets, and many of them have been writing down messages on the sheets because it s dark, we re unable to see what they say, but they re clearly, extremely eager to get off the ship and as soon as this started to come in, family members started to go they are here in greater numbers, and running across the street to make sure that they could get here. and it s right in front of us. greta: i don t know if people realize how magnificent it is to even dock one of these huge ships, that s only a 400 foot wide channel and the ship itself is 116 feet wide. they ve got tug boats, and this is not its home port so this has actually been quite a docking. have they secured the lights and gotten that far and