-- held hostage by the accused cop killer christopher dorner. >> put our hands behind our back and tied our hands. >> they say they thought they were going to die. >> he went to the bathroom and came back with a couple of washcloths and stuck one in each of our mouths. >> tonight, moments of terror and how this couple survived. >> shepard: first from fox this thursday night, they say they have had to wait in line for cold food. use plastic bags as bathrooms. endure day in the dark and the heat without airconditioning, and for thousands of people on board that carnival cruise ship triumph relief is still many hours away. new photographs just in from passengers show the conditions on board that thing. you can see they have built a tent city outside some have been sleeping there. we have seen images of raw sewage in the halls. one described the experience as being like katrina in the dome. engine fire on sunday knocked out the ship's power and propulsion it was stuck in the gulf of mexico. no way to move at all. tug boats have been towing it back to land very slowly. about fast you can walk. speeds of sometimes just a mile an hour or so. now it's up to six miles per hour they tell us this afternoon another set back when one of the tow lines broke. eventually they replaced it but very slow going. the tugs are bringing that ship into port in mobile, alabama, passed off an island into mobile bay and eventually to the port of mobile. those waiting for passengers to arrive say they are hearing of all of conditions on board. >> she texted this morning at 4:30 said the rooms smelled like outhouse. no airconditioning, and no restroom for three and a half days. >> shepard: executive with carnival says the crews line is doing the best it can under the circumstances. >> we have delivered additional provisions to the carnal triumph. that happened last night. the ship is in excellent shape now and will be fully provisioned to provide all the food services for the guests certainly by the time the ship docks this evening. >> shepard: that's great. everything will be great by the time the ship reaches port eventually. jonathan on fox. just getting the people off this thing, jonathan is going to take hours. >> it's going to be an ordeal with the loss of power, the ship has only one functioning elevator. by and large, most of the passengers are going to have to use the stairwell. those who need help will get help from carnival crew members. most carrying their own luggage down the stairwell. listen to this. >> our best estimate right now, once the ship ties up. qui estimate it will take four to five hours to complete getting the guests off the ship. it will take us some time but we do have a good plan in place and we have a lot of people in place. >> the latest estimates from the ship arriving at this crews terminal sometime between 9:30 and half past midnight central time. so it's going to be a very late night for thousands of carnival cruise ship passengers, shep. >> shepard: many hours after that obviously before they get them all off there and then it is not over o. >> that's right. a few of them have family and friends meeting them in mobile. most of those passengers, more than 3,000 passengers on that ship total, most of them will be boarding tour buses taking them either to their home ports in texas or some going to new orleans to overnight and board charter flights. so this is homecoming process that is going to go well into friday. shep? >> shepard: all right i jonathan serrie, go back to him as events warrant. get to ed buck who took the crews with fiance to celebrate their fourth celebration together. what a celebration. there he is here is a picture of ed with one of those biohazard bags some passengers have used as makeshift toilets. he joins us live now from the ship. ed, how are you holding up? >> we are holding up pretty well. they are doing the best they can. we're glad to see some land and hope to port soon. i heard part of your report. that's the part we are not all thrilled about is trying to get off the ship with our bags. >> that's not going to be easy, ed. you sent some pictures in. i wanted to show viewers ones of cots is this your sleeping arrangement we are looking at here? where is that? >> no. these are different decks. there are some that are on the outside deck. kind of a tent city situation. because the sun was hot. and then a lot of the interior -- what you want to call it outside decks that near where the life boats are. >> shepard: looking at phone chargers. couple places on the whole ship for thousands of people to charge their phones. >> that's the truth. those are charging parties. think of it as a hurricane party. that's where everybody is hanging out to charge their batteries. that's all we can do. and i'm, in fact, running low on battery myself. but, you know, i have got a give kudos to the crew. they are doing a great job. but, yeah. this has been a pretty rough trip. >> shepard: tent cities up on the deck there one person called these refugee camps. refugees from the bowles of the ship. >> that's the deal. first four floors everyone is upstairs. now. it was very difficult with the sewage smells and the lack of light and air for the airconditioning. >> shepard: my understanding down in the ship pitch black. describe the smells, et cetera. >> you know, it smells like old rank water stale air. no air is blowing through. you know, there was some sewage spillage and everybody, of course, is using the biobags, although the crew picks them up very quickly as you put them outside. you just can't function without a flashlight down stairs. so everybody on the lower floors has had to come upstairs that's just the way it is. >> shepard: i hear once you finally got off there 3:00 or 4:00 in the morning the crews line is going to give you money, refund and a free ticket to do it again. are you excited? >> i am excited. i think it's very good of them to do that. >> shepard: you will kousagen? >> oh, i would absolutely kousagen. in fact, i would probably crucial on carnival just because the crew made such a valiant here. >> shepard: that's the attitude. i will tell you. what ed buck, who are you here with. >> here with my fiancee. and we thought we were getting away for a little four day jaunt. >> shepard: ed buck one of the passengers still on there. good luck in mobile. >> thanks a lot. we appreciate it. >> he would monitoring the progress of this cruise ship it is creeping along. it will pass dolphin island and stay to the right, of course, red, right, return the wind is going to cause some problems for them right now blowing at 6 to 7 miles per hour. it's a tight squeeze in there with the tug boats why will monitor it throughout the night and inside fox report there is a lot of news today though that has escaped some. olympic hero who made history is now accused of shooting his girlfriend dead early on local reports indicated this may have been some sort of accident. tonight police say that it did not come from them. track star oscar pristorious was the first double amputee ever to run in the olympic games. you remember he became a breakout star last summer in london. he was everywhere. his prosthetic legs earned him the nickname blade runner. he shot his girlfriend not once but four times in his own home. that girlfriend, a successful model, you see her here. she was one of the fhm sexiest women in all the world. not once but two years running. she was also a law school grad who championed women's rights. in fact, she was set to speak at a school just hours before she died. also in her final hour, she tweeted about valentine's day asking what do you have up your sleeve for your love tomorrow? little did she know he? today cops took pristorious for questioning. his head covered as photographers snapped away. now police are shooting down early reports that this -- that he may have mistaken his girlfriend for a burglar they also say it's not his latest run in with the law. police say they have been to this house before. >> domestic case in 2009. accused of assaulting 2009 slamming her leg in the door after she refused to leave a peamplet he ended up spending the night in jail. the charges were later dropped. pistorius has made no secret for his love for guns. he has a pistol by his bed machine gun near his window. recently grabbed a gun and ran down stairs when his home alarm went off looking for intruder but there was no intruder. the crime rate in south africa is very high. journalists there say pistorius lives in a virtual fortress. listen. >> one of the most secure ones of the estates there is probably about 40 or 50 homes and electric fencing and high walls surrounding it with a security and 24 hour security guarding the place. oscar pistorius' home is situated in one of those complexes. >> we should note that neighbors did hear screaming and yelling inside pistorius' house before the shooting. >> she a super star model he he a super star athlete with a nike contract. they can't think much about this. >> if you look at his official web site there is this nike ad it is way too close to the subject at hand. it shows him as you can see there kind of going off the starting blocks of a race. look at the caption "i amount bullet in the chamber." the ad has now been taken down. other billboards in and around south after infantry can a towns also featuring pistorius also being removed. his hearing is set for tomorrow. prosecutors are already making it very clear that they do not buy this whole team or theory that this was a case of mistaken identity because they say they will protest him being set free on bail. we should get some reasoning as to exactly why they are protesting that some time during the hearing tomorrow afternoon, shep. >> shepard: wow, trace gallagher live for us. thank you very much. some breaking news coming. in the hostage that fugitive excops held in california now breaking their silence about their terrifying ordeal. >> and he he came in like with a cord and tied it around. >> put a pill will he case over our head first. >> shepard: here is the breaking news. medical examiners have released results of the autopsy of the charred remains found in that burned out cabin. we have results and they are next. plus, we're tracking, of course, the stricken cruise ship limping toward port in lower alabama. continuing coverage ahead on the east coast news from the journalists of fox news on this thursday fox report. scalpel. clamp. glitter. 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>> oh, yes. as soon as i saw him. >> yes. >> he talked to us trying to calm us down and saying very frequently he would not kill us. >> he had some plastic ties, great big tie wrappers on and he put our hands behind our back and tied our hands. made us get up and walk in the back bedroom back there first he had us lay on the bed and crossed our feet. then he changed his mind and have me lay on the floor lay flat and cross my feet. he bound us with the plastic ties and then he pulled the hands real tight so you couldn't move and cut my circulation off. cut my circulation off immediately. did her. did the same thing. >> did you think he was going to kill you then? >> not. when he had me laying on the ground yes, i really did. i thought he has changed his mind. he was just trying to calm us down get us in here and do this. >> shepard: cop killer is tieing you up. can you imagine? he said dorner stuck washcloths into their mouths to keep them quiet and put pillowcases over their head. then dorner escaped in their nissan. they were able to get a cell phone and call 911. that call actually alerted police of dorner's presence. and led to that final standoff at the cabin where he died. if not for them, who knows? adam housley at big bear lake again tonight. any other information that report confirming dorner's identity? >> obviously they used dental records, shepard. the report we heard earlier today might come out as a split report. sheriff can release the whole thing at one time or give a preliminary finding and then a full report later on. we heard some rumors earlier in the day from authorities that they might release a name precisely because so many people have been saying online that christopher dorner might have escaped or people here in town were worried that have been a possibility, of course. he eliminated that with the name recognition. using dental records. we do expect though, shepard, a larger report soon that will tell you the cause of death. cops believe he shot himself as that cabin was fully engulfed in flames, shepard. >> shepard: new activity i'm told at that burned out cabin. >> yeah. in fact three tow trucks have gone in along with a bomb squad. the thought is is or we're told that two of those cars, a car jacked nissan taken from here where i'm located as well as that white truck that he carjacked, those two will be toed out to the forensic lab for further investigation. of course, the bomb squad has to go through and make sure there is no live ammunition that might endanger anybody. we're not sure what that third vehicle is potentially one ever the patrol cars that may have been shot up. shepard? >> shepard: adam housley at big bear lake. news from capitol hill chuck hagel the president says he is sure he is confident. chuck hagel should be confirmed. wait until you see what happened this afternoon. some tough and perhaps unprecedented road blocks have just gone up on the way to the cabinet. we'll have the breaking news and the fallout coming up from washington and miss america is moving, again. not the person but the pageant. leaving las vegas after six years in sin city. so miss america, where are you going? now we know. that's coming up. dentures are very different to real teeth. they're about 10 times softer and may have surface pores where bacteria can multiply. polident kills 99.99% of odor causing bacteria and helps dissolve stains. that's why i recommend polident. 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