adam goldstein creates his successful company just weeks after graduating college and a former apple marketing adviser now wants to work for you. all that and ben par makes a spectacle of himself. a reporter's -- from cnet and john schwartz of "usa today" this week. >>> good morning, everyone. the company is hiring 14 good paying jobs are open according to the website. one of several up and coming san francisco start-ups, which would not be here if it weren't for immigrant founders. in this case, founders willing to walk part of the journey to america. cheyenne walked across the border of iran and turkey and straight to a u.s. embassy to get a visa. he and a classmate from tehran ended up in america where they started of all thing, an online datinging service with that peculiar name, zoosk. he figured in america, two os in a company name were a sign of success. just like at yahoo! and google. these days, he's dealing with lots of os, zeros that ul find on a balance sheet. thanks for being with us this morning, joined by john and ben, who i should make it a sign is wearing google glas

this morning, it was rerouted to freeport for evaluation and royal caribbean's ceo adam goldstein isdy surveying the damage. the national transportation safety board and the coast guard will investigate. >> erin joins me now. so what's next? how did passengers get back home? >> reporter: well, anderson, the cruise line actually is going to be flying all of those passengers back here to baltimore in the morning and on top of that, they will get a full refund for this particular cruise and they will get a voucher for their next cruise on that same cruise line. >> so it seems like they learned a lesson from the mistakes of the past with other lines, that they reacted very quickly to this. >> reporter: they did, and i talked to a couple of people who follow the cruise ship industry very closely and they said royal caribbean did a good job. on top of this, royal caribbean has canceled the next voyage of that same ship and the passengers on that trip which was scheduled to leave on may 31st are getting a full refund for that trip as well, and they will get a voucher for half off yet anothe

it was rerouted to the bahamas and adam goldstein, ceo, surveyed the damage.safety board and coast guard will investigate. now, royal caribbean is giving a full refund to all passengers, as well as a voucher for another free cruise, john and christine, i don't know if you have ever read tina fey's 2011 book "bossy pants." i have. she talked about a cruise ship fire on the cruise she took for her honeymoon. and a pretty funny chapter. she will never take another cruiseship after a cruise ship fire, not sure i would want to take one either. >> some passengers may go ahead and take the freebie. i am with you. i might pass. >> thank you for being with us. >>> an american wife and mother accused of smuggling pot in mexico may find out today if she will go throw. the woman arrested last week as she and her husband, gary, returning by bus from a family funeral. the officials say they found marijuana under her bus seat. maldonado says she was innocent, and a mexican official says she was framed. we asked her husband why someone would set them up? >> it's all about giv

when royal caribbean had this mishap, president adam goldstein was on the ship of the he handled it likehe was there. he was hugging people, he was shaking hand. between you and i and however many people are watching we all know the president is not actually fixing the situation but knowing that they are there and that they are managing it makes us feel like, okay, we're in this together. melissa: yeah. because it is going to be physically uncomfortable no matter what. you're there. you're dealing with conditions. you don't want to think of him at home in his bathrobe and slippers with his comforter having his coffee, doing thinks thing while you the paying cuutomer are out there suffering. no, i hear you. go ahead. >> but i was going to say if he is there and has sweat stains on his suit, i'm here to make this happen. i'm sorry it happened but now we're going to fix it and i have got skin in the game. that is the key. top down. melissa: how do you deal with problem that, so we keep showing picture after picture of just the latest disaster in the cruise industry and that's all i think ab

but the ceo of royal caribbean adam goldstein did go to the cruise ship this afternoon to survey damage that the fire broke out some time around 2:30 a.m. and it raged for about two hours. it was a terrifying experience for people onboard. one of those passengers, danielle miller, spoke to cnn earlier today about what that was like. >> our room attendant was pounding on our door. i opened the door and just see people running around and yelling at us to get our lifejackets on and run as fast as we can. we probably ran up to that deck faster than we ever ran before. we were terrified. and a lot of people were just crying and freaking out. >> now aside from some faptiint and vomiting and fear, no one was injured. so that's the good news, brooke. >> all right. i appreciate the silver lining here, erin mcpike. let me ask you this. if i'm on that cruise ship and if i want to continue cruising, i'm going to want a little refund from royal caribbean. >> absolutely. and so royal caribbean did issue a statement this afternoon. they told passengers what they were going to do for them and what they

this morning, it was rerouted to freeport for evaluation and royal caribbean's ceo adam goldstein islready surveying the damage. the national transportation safety board and the coast guard will investigate. >> erin joins me now. so what's next? how did passengers get back home? >> reporter: well, anderson, the cruise line actually is going to be flying all of those passengers back here to baltimore in the morning and on top of that, they will get a full refund for this particular cruise and they will get a voucher for their next cruise on that same cruise line. >> so it seems like they learned a lesson from the mistakes of the past with other lines, that they reacted very quickly to this. >> reporter: they did, and i talked to a couple of people who follow the cruise ship industry very closely and they said royal caribbean did a good job. on top of this, royal caribbean has canceled the next voyage of that same ship and the passengers on that trip which was scheduled to leave on may 31st are getting a full refund for that trip as well, and they will get a voucher for half off yet an

adam goldstein creates his successful company just weeks after graduating college and a former appleor you. all that and ben par makes a spectacle of himself. a reporter's -- from cnet and john schwartz of "usa today" this week. >>> good morning, everyone. the company is hiring 14 good paying jobs are open according to the website. one of several up

i came upon a great column by adam goldstein who is an advocate for students in rape situations in thek time. pop quiz. what major felony should be investigated and adjudicated by amateurs in secret without subpoena powers, a right to representation orfully kind of due process controls? did you say rape? if so you probably work in university student affairs where mock justice systems have been pretending to adjudicate sexual assault cases for decades. it's time for that to stop. i don't understand this let's keep it in the family mentality. i do. it is protective and self-preservationist. both of the college and military. but this is doing no one any justice. it is time to end this practice of keeping these things inside the family. >> absolutely. you've been such a great advocate on that particular issue. and i want to point out that this isn't just a women's issue. by the number, because there are more men in the military. but by the numbers, there are more men sexually assaulted in the military than women. so this is a problem that affects everyone. straight ahead, budget wars being

thing we can tell you, even though we don't know yet what started that fire, royal caribbean ceo adam goldstein made it to the ship yesterday to begin inspecting damage. and national transportation safety board and coast guard launched teams yesterday to get to the ship and investigate what happened. carol. >> will the passengers be compensated in any way? >> reporter: they certainly will. theme g they'll get a full refund for this particular cruise. cut short. left on friday, weren't supposed to come back until this coming friday, but yet, their vacation cut short and get to come here to rainy baltimore, but on top of this whole refund, they will also get a voucher for another free cruise if they want to put themselves through it again, but the same ship was supposed to go on another voyage on may 31st, and vacationers scheduled to go on that can't get on the damaged ship, so they get a full refund as well and half off a future cruise too. carol. >> it's raining hard, i'll let you get out of the weather. thank you, so much. raining hard. >>> it's less than two weeks until george zimmerman goes

also, the royal caribbean ceo adam goldstein has already been to the ship to inspect some of the damagethank you for that. >>> people in moore, oklahoma -- people in moore, oklahoma, who lost everything in last week's deadly tornado today are searching for anything worth salvaging from the rubble of what used to be their homes. some 12,000 houses were either damaged or destroyed, so meaning up is going to take a long time. our nick valencia is in moore, where he's been speaking with residents as they begin the daunting task of trying to pick up the pieces. nick? >> reporter: hey, joe. yeah, for so many people their lives are going to be divided by what happened before the storm and how are they going to carry on afterwards. this community is used to this sort of thing. we're going to talk to two people who were pretty prepared for what happened. this is j.t. and his wife kelly. tell me where you were during the storm. >> as the storms came in, we had been sheltering in an inside closet, watching the weather all day, and we knew there was severe weather, we didn't know where it would go.

it was rerouted on monday to freeport for evaluation, and royal caribbean's ceo adam goldstein alreadyortation safety board, and the coast guard, will investigate. now, even though their vacations were cut short, royal caribbean is giving all of the passengers a full refund on this cruise, and a voucher for another free cruise in the future. christine? >> all right, erin, thanks. we're going to speak with two passengers who were on board that ship at 7:00 a.m. hour of "starting point." we'll find out if that deal sounds good enough to them. >> interested to see that. now the latest developments on a story that has gripped us all. the dramatic escape and rescue of three women in cleveland from the home of their alleged kidnapper ariel castro. the women tasted freedom three weeks ago after spending years essentially in prison right under their neighbor's noses. this morning they're about to get financial help. pamela brown joins us now live from cleveland. pamela, tell us what's happening right now. >> well, john, just a few weeks after the arrest of ariel castro, neighbors of the accuse

. >> director goldstein, members of the board, adam dan water from the office of he economic work force and development. the project director to speak on the issue of delegated authority. we've been working closely with our partners down at the port. i have susan reynolds, the director of real estate for the port, remains the balance of my time. i want to impress upon you how the board of appeals accepting this appeal is in the public interest. the port commission could establish an appellant process for hearing this, but no such appellate process does exist. ~ this body typically hears appeals at place of entertainment permits and has relevant expertise in terms of transportation, noise, neighborhood impacts and other concerns to adjudicate that. and all parties at the table from the appel apt be to the mayor's office to the port to the entertainment commission have requested that this body be the adjudicatory body for this issue. with that general overview i'd like to invite susan reynolds from the port to specifically discuss the port's delegation of that authority to the entertainme