pit's on its way back to new pjersey in morning after phurricane-force winds and 30 to p40-not waves prevented it from pmaking it to its final pdestination of the bahamas. p>> cabinets slamming open. p>> reporter: passengers used pcell phones to capture scenes pthat looked like they were right pout of the "titanic." pmassive waves slammed it as it pcarolina coast not long after pleaving new jersey over the pweekend. pthe captain ordering the 4500 assengers and 1600 crew members phours. p>> the amount that things were pshifting around our room was a plittle frightening. p>> reporter: four passengers psuffered minor injuries, now psome on board blame the captain. p>> i'm really concerned about pthe captain's judgment in this psituation. pi really resent the fact that he ut 6,000 people's lives at risk ptaking us into a storm that was redicted. p>> reporter: royal caribbean papologized to passengers in a pstatement monday adding "while pthe weather was unpleasant, the ptimes. pwe thank the captain and crew pfor guiding the ship safely back pto better weather." pthe cruise line is promis

going home to new pjersey today to think things pover and decide about the future pof his campaign. phe says he made many new friends pon the campaign trail in new phampshire and that he has no pregrets. phe said he hopes to make a pdecision by this afternoon. psean: the candidates have been pextremely breezy -- busy and so phas scott spradley. s talk about the huge pmargins of victory. olls are saying that sanders pand trump were going to win, but pwhat do you make about the huge pmargins? pscott: it was a little bit of a pat the same time, this sends a pstrong message to washington and pthe establishment in both arties, that they had better plisten up and make changes or pthe voters are probably going to pcontinue this path. psean: does that seem to be the pmessage coming out of the rimary? pscott:: i think so. pthere is a huge level of pfrustration and cynicism. plook at donald trump' s message. pthere is not a great deal of pdetail. pit is not about the issues or panyone issue. pit is about somebody else and ptaking a whole new direction and pthat is an important message. psean:

pthe ship should be back in new pjersey tomorrow. proyal caribbean offered assengers full refunds, half poff a future cruise and gave pfull internet access and a pcomplimentary cocktail hour as i psaw that vodka bottle go flying poff. p>>dave: i can only imagine. p>>laura: my goodness. pi know. pand you were saying that it's pamazing that as big as these pcruise ships are, dave, how it pwas still rocking them. p>>dave: there you go. pthe ocean is a lot bigger plus pthat was a huge storm on the peast coast. pthat was a massive storm. pwe're sitting here this morning pin the upper 40s in citrus pcounty, about 50 degrees for pleesburg to brooksville and 52 pout on the tampa international. pon the surface you look. pit's not bad, right? pit's close to where you should pbe for this time of year. p but the front just came through pa couple of hours ago so we're pnot done cooling off yet and pwe've got this very, very brisk pnorthwest wind as well. plook what that does to ptemperatures in the panhandle pand across i-10. p42 from granzville

panthem of the sea set out to new pjersey. phe spoke to passengers on board. p>> i think that's a safe place. p>> in new jersey they're hoping pfor smooth sailing this time. p>> we went through last week. pwe can get through everything. p>> the royal caribbean vessel pwas headed to the bahamas where pthey encountered a terrific pstorm off the carolinas. phurricane strength wind gusts at p75 miles per hour and waves pnearly 40 feet high so preturning. p>> everything in the bathroom pwas on the floor, toiletries and pmy god. pfirst thing comes to mind is i'm pthis is it. p>> crew was walking around non pstop cleaning up debris, glass, pbringing water, food. p>>reporter: nobody was seriously phurt. pthe 10-year-old ship returned to ort late wednesday night. p>> they did a great job. p>>reporter: the coast guard pinspects every ship before it pheads out to sea. pcrews had to repair the repulse psystem damaged for the storm pbefore giving it the all clear pthis weekend. p>> the ships have come back. p>> people should give credit to pthe captain and should give pcred

their cabins wow plook at that ship is head to ort can and a half reel set psail from cape liberty new pjersey. pso here's the some pictures panother passenger sent us. pa big plant or knocked over but proyal caribbean says the ship is psafe. panother photo shows the wind pspeed 66 knots. pthat's equivalent to about 75 pmiles per hour. pand one more video to show you pjust how rough it is watch the pbottle and so today can fly pacross this table. pthere they go. pso passengers have been given pcomplimentary access to mini pbars not that you'd want to pdrink in this kind of a weather pconditions have calmed down now. pso this is a big storm system pthat creates huge waves you saw pfrom massachusetts all way to pflorida coastline meteorologist pnasty weather. pwouldn't want to be stuck on pthat trip i'd have to say. phave calmed dune simply because pthisser moving away from center pof this storm as they move pfurther and further to the psouth. pyou look at the big wide view phere, you can see that very pstrong area of low pressure, pthis area developed off our east pcoast over the weekend. pit i

pwhy else would you go to new pjersey? pcertainly not for vacation. pthank goodness we have them. pnot really. pthey kept going. poff the turnover. pthe throwdown, ohio state up by p12. pthen williams would score off pturnover. phe put it down. pbuckeyes win it 79-69. pthey figured bring in a bunch of pbig trucks. pit is monster jam time. pthe fans were allowed to get up. pother than letting them dry. pa good time had by all. pthat looks awesome. p>> you set me up. p>> come on. p>> if you are taking scooby doo pout tonight, the truck, not the pdog, it will be cold. pwe are worried about the lake peffect snow bands, that can make pthings slippery. pthe salt and the salt brine pdoesn't do much. ptake it slow. pyou'll see sunshine but another pcold day before we start warming pup. p>> it is combed everywhere. p>> now you are going to make me pgo there. p>> thank you for watching ptonight. pan editorial is coming up next. pwe continue after the debate and pwe are on at 9:00. phave a great night. psee you then, good night. p>> dear fellow ohioans. pfor relative new comers to our pbeaut

proyal caribbean's "anthem of the pseas" pulled into port in new pjersey last night. pthe 6,000 people on board psuffered through a strong storm pwhich the captain claimed was pmore powerful than he expected. assengers said they feared for ptheir lives. pone of them even calling for pdrastic action. p>> that guy should be thrown in pjail right now. p>> royal caribbean is backing pthe captain's actions and psays it has already pmade changes to its storm pavoidance systems. pfederal transportation officials pare considering an investigation p>>> overnight, the u.s. polympic committee prevealed that it will hire two pinfectious disease pspecialists to advise potential polympians worried about the zika poutbreak in brazil, this after phigh-profile athletes like hope psolo expressed concerns about pgoing to the summer games and a ptop doctor tells lawmakers on pcapitol hill it could be the psummer of 2017 at the earliest pbefore a vaccine is developed. p>>> a new study finds that rates pof dementia among white pamericans going down. presearchers say the change is pmost lik

psean: a frightening scene in new pjersey, where homes were pevacuated after manhole covers pexploded. perin: a rat on a leash. pthe important job these rodents phave been tasked with. pkevin: thunderstorms pulling paway with thunderstorms to the pwest -- going from rain to snow. pkevin: a jump into the 50' s near p60 degrees in southern parts of pthe state. ortsmouth at a record high at p58. pthe old record is 55. pwe' re looking for more showers. peven though we were in the 30' s pto lower 40' pwill jump in to the 50' s. pwe will look ahead to when we pstart cooling off, coming up. psean: republican presidential pcandidates are gearing up for panother debate in texas. pthen, their focus turns to super ptuesday. paccording to real clear olitics, donald trump is pleading in 10 of the 11 states pthat are holding republican rimaries and caucuses on super ptuesday. ptexas is the exception, where pted cruz is leading. pif traub sweeps super tuesday, pother candidates will have a psteep climb to the nomination. p>> he is certainly very close to pbeing in a position where he pcannot be stop

proad trip starts tonight as the plightning play against the new pjersey devils up in new jersey. pbruins sunday on boston, maple pleafs monday and they end the proad trip next thursday in pottawa. pthe buccaneers still haven't pcontract. pthey have two options before pmarch 9. pthe franchise tag to keep him. pmartin made $2 million last year pwhile pitch second in rushing behind padrian peterson of the vikings. pfoam fan fest for the rays. layers and coaches will meet pfield. pyou can buy game tickets while pyou're there. p>>russell: thank you. pcoming up, where hollywood plegends are born. pthe oscars. pa look at who may win this psunday night. p>>laura: former sports pillustrated swimsuit model pcheryl tiegs stirs up pcontroversy. pwhy she thinks there's something pwrong with this year's cover pgirl. pback with a look p>>dave: good friday morning. pit's 7:44. pfriends over in hudson beach pcamera, pretty, huh? pnot too bad, either, as we get pthrough a little patch of clouds pthat move through there. pthe only thing is, it's still pgoing to be a bit brisk today pand the caution

supposed pto be a relaxing vacation, pand instead, the thousands psailing royal caribbean from new pjersey to the bahamas this pweekend came away with these ictures, saying it looked like pa hurricane. p>> the amount of things were pshifting around our room was a plittle frightening. p>> reporter: families recorded pthe giant crashing waves on pfurniture went flying and glass pshattered. pthe captain ordered 4,500 assengers and 1,600 crew pmembers to stay in their rooms pfor hours. pfour people were hurt. pbut not badly. ete aloupis, still onboard ptonight, blames the captain. p>> i really resent the fact that phe put 6,000 people's lives at prisk, taking us into a storm pthat was predicted. p>> reporter: as early as pwednesday, the forecast was for p30-foot waves and near phurricane-force winds. pin a statement today, royal pcaribbean apologized to assengers and turned the ship pback to new jersey. pdue to weather forecasted for pthe next few days. ptonight, the cruiseline is romising passengers a full prefund and more, but their pvacations are ruined. pdavid? p>> steve, thank you. p>>> w

pchristie is back home in new pjersey. pfamily-sized variety pack of pklondike bars hiding in his pfreezer right now. pto get a sense of how -- p[ cheers and applause ] pthank you. phere's a map of the election presults from last night. pyou see trump won the areas in pred. pkasich is the blue. psquare. pand jeb bush is curled up in the photel position underneath. pjeb spent a lot of money to pfinish fourth in new hampshire. pthe bush campaign, i sa reports pthey spent $1,200 per vote. pthe truth is that only worked pout to be $6,000. pfor that much money, he could phave sent every one of his psupporters an ipad and a pair of plube baton plubitons. phe's already pulled out all the pstops. pthe only thing left to do now is pstop. pmeanwhile, donald trump right pnow is on cloud nine, which he powns by the way, he bought it ptrump won new hampshire by a phuge margin are he did articularly well among voters plooking for a candidate who pvoters who don't at all care pwhat it is, is. pthis is the scene at trump pheadquarters last night. psupport they need -- pwatch him go. pbecause he really enj

pfire crews in northern new pjersey continue to battle an out pof control fire this morning. plook at those images. pflames have consumed two pbuildings at an industrial park pin hillsborough. pfire officials say no residents pnow. eople are asked to keep their pwindows closed due to the thick, pblack smoke in the air which can pbe seen for miles. pfour people are recovering this pmorning after a man attacked pthem with a machete. p>>russell: investigators are ptrying to figure out what pit happened in a mediterranean prestaurant in columbus last pnight. olice say the man came inside, ptalked to the employee and preturned an hour later with a pmachete. phe started going down the road pattacking people as he went. phe led police on a chase and olice say they tried to use a pstun gun on him but when he plunged at them with the machete pand another knife, they had to pshoot. pthe man was killed. pfour people were taken to the phospital. pthey're expected to be okay. p>>laura: bill cosby's wife will phave to testify in a defamation plawsuit against her husband. pa judge in massac

pcruise ship that was damaged by pa major atlantic storm earlier pthis month is headed back to new pjersey. panother storm and a nr orovirus poutbreak cut the cruise ship. pearlier this month they pencountered 30 feet wave and phurricane force winds. psaturday the passengers on the platest cruise was told the ship pwas heading back because of a pstorm off cape hatteras. p6:21. pall his bags are packed and he's pready to go. pscott kelly is coming home. p>>russell: do you think he has a plot of bags? pcoming up, we're going to give pyou a look how he's passed the ptime. pand what do you do when a pig pcuddles with a dog? erhaps it's the cutest 20 pseconds of your day. pclicks. p>> a lot of gun for the money. p>> a tampa gun maker tells us pwhat is triggering record sales pin the rifle industry and why pbuyers are looking at his new pgun some people don't like to share their wifi, but at bright house networks, login to one of our hotspots and get your code for free wifi at over 50,000 bright house wifi hotspots. its free for 30 days. (music playing) i feel pretty (west side story) not every

pnot the case for thousands of pcruise ship passengers in new pjersey. p>>laura: we're just glad they pmade it back. pwalter allen has the story. p>>walter: the ship pulled into ort last night and the assengers could not get off the pboat fast enough. pmany got sick when the anthem of pthe sea went through a major pstorm on sunday. pit was like a hurricane winds of pmore than 100 miles an hour. pwaves up to 30 feet high. pthey did have some damage on pboard. pthe ship was on a seven-day pcruise to the bahamas with 4500 assengers on board. pthey never made it there. pfour people got hurt but pthankfully nothing serious. psome of the passengers blame the pcaptain for sailing into the pstorm while others say he did phis best to avoid a disaster. p>> how can you be angry? pyou're in the middle of nowhere pand i don't think they knew what pto do. pi thought we were going to die. pyou know, i just -- you know, pyou hear horror stories but you pnever really live them until pyou're actually in the psituation. p>>walter: inspectors will assess pthe damage today.

psuzanne: earlier in the day, new pjersey governor' s christie spoke pto a crowd in dover. p>> i have been pushed, shoved, pknocked down and got back up. pthat is what you want not only pin a candidate for president, pbut a president. at someone pready for the tough moments to pcome. psuzanne: he urged voters to take pa look at a candidate' s pexperience, not just the polls. p>> the top three people in our olls are two first-term psenator' s who never anything in psits in a make a leave pconference room in new york city pand stares into a camera and pfires people. psuzanne: governor kasich' s pmilestone town hall is set to pget underway at 6:00 and word phas it three-time super bowl pchamp and former patriots player pwill be making a guest pappearance. psuzanne roantree, wmur news 9. pjennifer: that is it for now, pbut coming up him a we will have pmore about voter turnout. pjosh: we are teaming up with abc pnews for the final republican pdebate. pdon' t forget about that. pit gets underway here at st. panselm college tomorrow night at p8:00. pspecial coverage kicks off at

pit has been tracked to new pjersey for example. pso, yes, we have to to be pconcerned. pwe have to be vigilant. phaving a very strong public phealth component here. pbeing able to track the people pwho may have brought it in. pbeing it i believe spray or for pa mitigate the mosquitos around pthat person. pand also, for people to be peducated so if they travel to pthat area come back here or pexposed to realize, realize only pabout 20 percent of individuals pwho get this virus even know pthey have it. pso they could be bringing it pback to us. pso that's why when they come pback they have to be careful pavoid mosquitos and try not to ass it on to someone else. pi think tough part is i mean you pcan do what you can as a reventative measure. pyou can use spray. pbut a lot of times you don't peven know if you've been bitten. pobviously the most obvious pcases, just weeks ago the resident said there should not pbe concern over this outbreak psomething has changed clearly. pwhat do you think has changed? p>> you know i think it was nih, pdoctor had said that because we pdon't

p>>laura: the anthem should parrive in the home port in new pjersey about 9:00 tonight but it pwas supposed to get there about p6:00 this morning. pspokesperson for royal caribbean psaid the captain slowed the ship pdown to give passengers a psmoother ride. p>>russell: so what are your prights when something like this phappens? pit's all laid out when you buy pyour ticket. psomething called a ticket pcontract. proyal caribbean, something more pthan 6,000 words. pit tells you that they can pcancel, advance, postpone or pdeviate the plan at any time and pthey will not be held liable. pthat means no refund. p>>laura: taiwan, an instructor reying on students faces a new pcharge. p8-year-old says that kim pmolested her last year. pthis follows similar allegations pby two other students. pinvestigators are concerned pthere may be more victims out pthere, too. pthey're asking anyone with pinformation to contact them. pkim worked as an instructor of ptae kwon do in seminole. p>>russell: sarasota police parrested four teens in pconnection with 40 car pburglaries. pit took place in a span of 24 phour

pit was the same year a new pjersey man checked out a book pfrom the library and he would pnot return it for 71 years. phe was 13 when he checked out p"football through the years." phe got sick and then forgot pabout it for another seven pdecades. phis wife died in december. pwhile his daughter was helping phem clean out the keepsakes, she pfound the book. pshe told him to call the plibrary. phe didn't want to. p>> he said, you know, you're a plittle late with this book. pi said, don't tell anybody pbecause i don't want to go to pjail. p>> first i heard is that he was pconcerned he would go to jail pwhich he would not. pi can assure him. p>>russell: 1944 the library pcharged a two cent per day fine pfor overdue books. pthat would add up to more than p$500. pthese days the line rather caps pthey have told mr. ryan he can pkeep the book for free. pthey just want to see it. p"football through the years." pisn't that funny? p>>laura: all right. pso the big story this morning, papart from the iowa caucus presults is the fog. pdave and vanessa are fixing to pget you out the door safely. p>>

pjosh einiger, bayonne, new pjersey. p>> royal caribbean offering them pa discount on their next cruise. pthink that guy's going? pi don't think so. phigh drama playing out 1800 pmiles south of hawaii where the p42-person crew of the american peagle had to abandon ship pbecause of a fire. pthe coast guard sent a plane to pthe area to assess the psituation. pthe american eagle's crew pevacuated on to six small boats pto await rescue. pno injuries reported. p>> extreme winter weather is pbeing blamed for several serious pincidents along an ohio pinterstate. pdozens of cars, trucks and semis pwere involved in yesterday's pseries of chain reaction pcrashes. pnearly 20 people were injured. pthree of them critically. pinterstate 90 was closed in both pdirections northeast of pcleveland for hours. pcleveland area this morning. pit made for slick driving pconditions across that region pyesterday. pmore of the same is expected. plake-effect snow likely for the pnext couple of days. pthe first day of spring, by the pway, folks is

on that proyal caribbean cruise ship pswept up in hurricane-force pwinds making its way back to new pjersey right now as the captain pexplains for the first time how pthe storm caught the whole crew poff guard. pabc's linsey davis is on the pscene in bayonne, new jersey. pgood morning, linsey. p>> reporter: good morning, to pyou, robin. pmany meteorologists are saying pthere is no way that storm pshould have caught anyone by psurprise. pthe captain of "anthem of the pseas" has more than 20 years' pexperience but said he never saw panything like it. pafter battling destructive p30-foot waves and phurricane-force winds, the pcaptain of the "anthem of the pseas" is speaking out defending phis actions to set sail saying phe didn't realize the magnitude. p>> the whole thing was not pbigger than this and was up here pand just exploded. p>> reporter: in a video assengers' state rooms captain pclaus anderson who ordered peveryone to stay in their rooms pfor eight hours during sunday's pstorm says he's never pexperienced anything like it. p>> honestly, i have not seen low ressure that was not foreca

pjersey devil. palways been an awesome contrary pto accounts colonial not stupid. pfind out what's in store as psleepy hollow airs friday on pfox. pin new york, julie banderas, fox pnews. p>>> we're expecting statement pfrom president obama about the peconomy. pwhen3 fox 13 investigates claims that state leaders are crushing the working poor.. pfox 13 investigates claims it pstate leaders around crushing pthe work working poor they fall pbehind this their cart payments pand lose their drivers licenses pa punishment. pmany times there are debts are pinfractions often have little or pnothing to do with driving pour chief investigator craig atrick found out why. p>> this is a bird sally is four pyears old and love her book of pfairy tales. phe just kissed her. pand her parents love her. pcelebrating is important. peverybody's happy. pmore than anything they want to pmake her happy and nine-year-old pson and their new son they are pexpecting next month. p>> we just skipped a page. pand an agreed to a pay around p$5,000 around small claims pcourt. pi put in half payments from pthere i lost my job. p>> with no job, he fell behind pon his paym