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Crippled cruise ship to be towed into port Thursday

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    Jonathan Serrie reports from Mobile, Alabama

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Home -- carnival triumph has been anything but.

Adrift in the Gulf of Mexico since Sunday when there was a fire in the engine room.

It left this ship with a very little power or running water passengers.

Say it's just downright disgust on board.

Set to arrive in Mobile, Alabama in a couple hours from now.

We cannot wait Jonathan Serrie joins us five things like terminal -- mobile so what do we know about the conditions we've been learning.

About just how gross it's been on the ship for the past several days Jonathan what do we know now.

Seattle in fact we're getting an earful from family members a handful of them already gathered outside the cruise terminal here.

In Mobile, Alabama some of them communicating by text message other getting others getting cell phone calls one woman says she heard from her daughter on board the ship this morning.

Saying that they had water but it was discolored it was brownish in color -- the food was cold and that they had no access to toilets.

Another family member just received a text message from a passenger.

Saying it smells like an -- house.

About these conditions carnival CEO has been apologetic listen.

I mean sure you.

That no one here from -- is happy about the conditions on board the ship.

And we obviously you're very very sorry about what's taking place there's an -- that question.

The conditions on board the ship are very challenging.

-- once they disembark carnivals giving passengers the option to either overnight at hotels in New Orleans.

And then -- -- whose Houston tomorrow or board buses directly to Galveston.

And Houston Texas today bill and Martha.

But questions -- -- about what rights these passengers have in this situation to sort of fight back after it's all over.

Did you know that's a very good question and we spoke with the maritime lawyer who says -- the with the way these tickets are written if you read the fine print.

That these passengers really had very few right now carnival is going to reimburse them.

For the full cost of this cruise give them credit towards a future cruise and in addition to that give them 500 dollars but this is something that -- doing.

As a business decision not because it's under any obligation.

We spoke with this maritime -- an attorney who says -- cruise lines -- very little US regulation because.

They are incorporated in small foreign countries and their ships -- foreign flags for example the triumph.

Is registered in the Bahamas let's.

These foreign flagged.

Cruise ships operated by foreign incorporated.

Companies that are essentially.

Registering their operations overseas to avoid US taxes.

But who comes to their rescue when you have a ship like this that loses propulsion on the high seas.

The US Coast Guard and who pays the US Coast Guard we all do as taxpayers.

And that lawyer says he hopes that after all of the deaths from dust from this incident settles that there'll be a congressional -- -- To prevent future incidents like this he says they happen all too often in the cruise industry -- Martha.

And the fine print gets every time but no doubt anybody who gets on a ship to cross a body of water knows that there is some risk involved.

In that so Jonathan we'll see how it works out thank you very much -- -- -- -- -- -- -- out there.

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