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    Trace Gallagher reports from Los Angeles

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-- more than 4000 people are stuck on a cruise ship that is dead in the water.

The Coast Guard took this picture of the carnival triumph stranded in the Gulf of Mexico.

A fire in the engine room knocked out the ship's power folks onboard have been calling home telling relatives they have limited access to food and the bathrooms.

The large cruise liner was headed from Galveston Texas when it was stranded about a 150 miles north of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula Trace Gallagher -- us.

How long until they ship is back in portraits.

Well -- says that the ship should be back in -- Mexico's sometime bill late Wednesday afternoon the tugboats have arrived at the ship now they just need to hook up until lines the start that slow crawled ashore like you know 56 miles per hour.

Drive does have a little bit of electricity for things like hot copy and some food but.

No running water no air conditioning very few bathrooms no cell service.

Earlier another carnival ship pulled up alongside and some were able to make calls one man says his wife is not happens.

Shows confidence -- certain they have no power.

They have no running water they have no way to use -- evaporated.

They did put a dialysis patient on -- that other carnival cruise ship that patient will be taken to closing bell for treatment this same thing happened just a couple years ago did not -- It did that was the carnival ship splendor and it was stranded off the coast to San Diego about a 130 miles again another fire in the engine room that time it took three days for the ship to get to shore.

And it was during heat wave again no air conditioning no ice no running water no bathrooms.

And spam sandwiches.

Here's a passenger after finally getting off.

The fact that the whole system is shut down electricity power that he imagined 3000 people how to use the bathroom and nothing inside me.

Mommy got pretty bad.

Those passengers as well as the passengers now stuck could see all get refunds it even a rain check if they choose to cruise again.

Bill more spam.

Thank you Trace.

Trace Gallagher from the West Coast.

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