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This needs to change. carnival says it s doing everything it can. a day before the breakdown on the dream, the company announced it was, quote, conducting a comprehensive review of its entire fleet. friday afternoon, dream passengers began arriving back in orlando not just okay but happy. how the cruise line took care of thm. i would do it again next week if i could. reporter: it may not have been a dream vacation, but a couple extra days in st. maarten, not so bad. john zarrella, cnn, miami. st. maarten makes it better. i know. right? i wouldn t mind be stranded there. cnn newsroom continues with fredricka. just a little wrinkle in their plans. didn t expect on getting on a plane. exactly. they re happy. have a great day. you, too. something folks rarely see on a saturday, court in session. and it involve ls a fairly disturbing case involving two ....
the law was passed in january as part of governor cuomo s gun control strategy. it s one of the strictest gun laws in the nation. jamie: thank you so much. see you in the morning. kelly: we are hearing from passengers that stranded on on st. maarten. many people are now back home and they were flown to orlando international iawt after a diesel generator shut down elevates on board the ship. passengers say it was nothing like the conditions on board the carnival triumph when an engine fire disabled toilets last month. we had a slighted disruption in elevator service. a slight disruption in the flushing of tioh. it wasn t a problem. it was a very short time period. ....
the crew was great. i mean, they were toilets backed up and we did have food, water, air and the room was cleaned every day. you know, the thing is, if this is the worst that could happen i m having a great moment and go carnival. uma: there you have it. those are the passengers from the carnival cruise ship dream . the ship experienced problems with an on board generator while docked at st. maarten. and fortunately, that sounded nothing like the experience of triumph who spent days drifting in the gulf of mexico without power and without toilets. the president said he didn t feel the debt was a crisis. and he didn t plan on focusing on balancing the budget instead we need to raise more revenue from taxpayers. ....
With alex witt. another carnival cruise, another problem for the world s largest cruise company. in just one month, four ships hit with one setback right after another leaving some passengers fed up and frustrated. nbc s gabe gutierrez is live in miami with the details of the latest pr nightmare here. what s going on? good morning, alex. we re here in orlando where we ve been speaking with passengers about their experience aboard carnival s dream and while this has been a rough month from a pr standpoint for carnival, many of those passengers are saying that the cruise line handled this incident pretty well. they had been stranded in st. maarten since wednesday. and because of a broken backup generator. and again, most are in good spirits, saying that carnival did everything it could to make this a pleasant experience. there were some who were frustrated, though, with the situation. there have been problems with an elevator that stopped elevators that stopped working as well as ....