seat in front of me. everybody was on the back of the boat. people lined up on the stairs and they were thrown forward. people were standing in stands areas around the bar area. those people got thrown around a. lot of them got badly hurt. brian: wow. now investigators are trying to figure out why it happened. joining us now live from pier 11, peter johnson, jr. we know they gave the captain a blood test. how did that come out? it appears that he was not under the influence of alcohol. drug test will go take some time. however, new york city has been the site of some of the greatest ferry disasters in american history. the general slocum disasser in 1890, 1200 people died. we know in 2003 on the staten island ferry, 11 people died. this brings into sharp focus the safety of ferries in america. about 200 million people use ferries to go back and forth to work in the united states and