took them out and started fighting my way through the crowd back to joan and alanna.ple were just grabbing at the life jackets trying to pull them out of my hands. luckily i was holding them like a football that they could not get them away. i got them to joan, and first to alanna and then one to joan, and then a woman tried to pull the life jacket away from joan and actually tore it in half. so i gave her mine, and then i don't even remember where i found another one. and so we all three had the equipment we needed. >> joan, what was your memory of exactly what happened at that time and were there moments of heroism from other passengers or really just a panic and some horrible moments like people trying to grab your life jacket off your body? >> well, there was panic. every time the lights went out, people would start screaming and there was utter chaos. as far as heroism, i have to commend my daughter. she saw one little girl with a life vest that was literally as big as she, and alanna who had a smaller life vest, you know, took hers and gave it to the little girl

took them out and started fighting my way through the crowd back to joan and alanna. people were just grabbing at the life jackets trying to pull them out of my hands. luckily i was holding them like a football that they could not get them away. i got them to joan, and first to alanna and then one to joan, and then a woman tried to pull the life jacket away from joan and actually tore it in half. so i gave her mine, and then i don't even remember where i found another one. and so we all three had the equipment we needed. >> joan, what was your memory of exactly what happened at that time and were there moments of heroism from other passengers or really just a panic and some horrible moments like people trying to grab your life jacket off your body? >> well, there was panic. every time the lights went out, people would start screaming and there was utter chaos. as far as heroism, i have to commend my daughter. she saw one little girl with a life vest that was literally as big as she, and alanna who had a smaller life vest, you know, took hers and gave it to the little

. >> [ speaking mandarin ] >> ...patrick, thomas, and alanna learned to speak mandarin chinese. >> sister moria focused on learning sign language instead. what makes this unusual is that they started learning these languages before they were even in kindergarten. >> i was told that most kids entering kindergarten couldn't write everybody's name in the house, couldn't tie their shoes, couldn't read, and didn't have an understanding of two other languages. and i didn't know that. i thought that they had to have these skills to go into kindergarten. >> by the time they reached high school, the crowley quads had a high profile in their hometown of wylie, texas. >> sit! >> in addition to service projects like training guide dogs, they've racked up a slew of accomplishments in academics, athletics, art, music, and scouting. >> ♪ time grabs you by the wrist... ♪ >> but they made history when they became the first set of quadruplets to be admitted to the american mensa. that's an organization for super-smart people. >> the only standard for being extended an offer of membership is to achieve a sc

alanna lesli miller. officer say she would give a walmart cashier fake money in exchange for walmart reloadable money cards. if you have any information on this crime, please call culpepper police. >>> prosecutors say a man suspected in several home invasions in montgomery and prince george's counties has admitted to committing the crimes. in a hearing yesterday, prosecutors said ray admitted to a detective he invaded homes in montgomery and prince george's county. police say he bound six victims at a home in temple hills including a child and sexually assaulted one person. police say just days earlier, he also tied up a family in bethesda and sexually assaulted their cleaning lady. officers found and arrested ray in north carolina over the weekend. >>> the civil trial of a former frederick county sheriff's deputy is underway in baltimore. the trial comes after the november 2007 death of 20-year- old gerald gray. gray's parents claim former deputy rudy used excessive force when he fired a stun gun to subd

. >> brian his wife joan and daughter alanna described the chaos in what had been the elegant dining room. >> people were falling waiters were tripping glasses were breaking. people were screaming. >> the vessel was mortally wounded. the hull gougeed by a gigantic rock. to find out what it must have been right we got access to a ship simulator outside baltimore maryland. eric is the director of training. >> i am getting too close i am hard star bird. i feel the vessel lifting a little bit. >> beginning to lift a bit. >> we are keeling over now. we have hit bottom. what has happened? >> we are actually running up on the beach or the ground whatever is underneath us there. we are actually running across that right now. >> we have to abandon ship? >> now the cat cast fee has happened for whatever reason. now it's about managing the disaster. >> that's right. that's right. >> back to concordia. it's 9:45 p.m. three minutes after an alarm sounds electricity fails and the ship goes dark. >> they told you that it was an electrical problem? >> yeah, something with the generators and everythi