Less competition, fewer choices. Will it mean higher ticket prices for everyone who flies . Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. Tonight the Carnival Cruise line vessel triumph with 4,200 souls on board is slowly making its way into port in mobile, alabama. And for those poor souls on board, conditions are miserable. They have dealt with sewage, foot shortages and no circulating air. People are hungry and dirty and even when the vessel reaches the dock, it wont be over. It will take hours to disembark. And the process they are hoping passengers take easily. The company will take all it has to keep it orderly. Heres what else happened today. When the ship got within range of shore, the pictures and the stories started appearing on the web. Social media will now tell this story with scenes like this. Sleeping on deck, the bivowack area on the top deck. The struggle to charge cell phones in the b
The crippled cruise ship triumph limped towards mobile slower and later than expected, dragged along by four tug boats. Hours into the operation, a tow rope from one of the four tugs snapped. Another exhaustive setback for passengers. For their waiting families, more frustration. Its not a good scenario, but tell us the damn truth for what you know. We havent heard anything truthful yet, to my knowledge. Reporter as the ship crept closer to port, passengers desperation became visible. Signs made from bed sheets read s. O. S. And help us. On board, donna gutsman told us, there is much confusion. Very little has been right on time, or on point. So were having a hard time. Reporter gutzman took these photos showing the improvised tent city earlier this week, where passengers slept on the sun deck after the power went out. Soaked hallways and the plastic bags used in place of toilets. Theres sewer on the floors. Theres peeing and pooping in buckets and putting the bags outside our door. Re
Less competition, fewer choices. Will it mean higher ticket prices for everyone who flies . Nightly news begins now. From nbc news World Headquarters in new york, this is nbc nightly news with brian williams. Good evening. Tonight the Carnival Cruise line vessel triumph with 4,200 souls on board is slowly making its way into port in mobile, alabama. And for those poor souls on board, conditions are miserable. They have dealt with sewage, Food Shortages and no circulating air. People are hungry and dirty and even when the vessel reaches the dock, it wont be over. It will take hours to disembark. And the process they are hoping passengers take easily. The company will take all it has to keep it orderly. Heres what else happened today. When the ship got within range of shore, the pictures and the stories started appearing on the web. Social media will now tell this story with scenes like this. Sleeping on deck, the bivouack area on the top deck. The struggle to charge cell phones in the b