now the government's attempt to change those laws is sparking riots in the streets. we'll explain. it is sunday, may 27th. good morning. i'm randy kay. so glad you're with us. it is shaping up to be a pretty ugly holiday weekend in parts of the southeast, and you can blame beryl. subtropical storm beryl is set to dump several inches of rain along the coast today. already we're seeing warnings and beach closures off taibi island in georgia, 20 people had to be rescued because of potentially deadly rip currents. let's bring in meteorologist bonnie schneider. bring us up to day date on where these warnings stand and good morning to you. >> good morning, randi. rip kurntsz very dangerous. sometimes you is see them, but sometimes you can't. even if you're in that surf zone so close to the shoreline, you are at risk by being picked up by a rip current, so never swim where there's no lifeguard. here's a look at subtropical beryl. a subtropical storm means we have characteristics that are tropical and characteristics that sht. the main thing to note about this storm is it will be a rainmaker and have strong winds. right now you can see the movement is right now we have at gusts at 65 miles per hour. the winds are at 50 miles an hour. overall -- let's zoom in here and take a look at the satellite perspective of what we're looking at. you can see that the storm is starting to get better organized as it works its way through. it's all the way from savannah to northern and central florida. you will see winds of 39 miles an hour when the storm comes on shore, and that's likely to be sometime tonight. in the meantime, most of the rain isn't quite hitting the region just yet, but we're starting to get those spiral bands, randi, and that's my concern into the evening. the rain will come in in advance of it, of course. we do have to worry about the surf with the track of the system. you can see that it's moving kind of looping back up, and it will be impacting this coastal area not just for sunday, but for monday as well. >> how far inlantd do you think that folks will be affected? >> i think pretty far inland because right now we're monitoring dangerous swimming conditions for the region, but also rain coming in. look how far inland it does come in. i-75 area in georgia. some of the heaviest rain stretches across two-thirds of the eastern part of the panhandle of florida. if you are driving on i-10, even if you are pretty far away from the coastline, you will feel the impacts of beryl. >> what about at the airports? >> right now we don't have any airport delays. of course, it's still early, but i'm anticipating delays. certainly if you are flying to somewhere like charleston, south carolina, or jacksonville. it's such i busy travel weekend, and miami is facing storms as well as orlando, and denver and minneapolis also facing wind and some nasty weather, so today is a worse day than yesterday smack in the middle of the holiday weekend. >> not very good timing. all right. bonnie, thank you very much. we'll check back with you throughout the morning as well. now from home to abroad. two americans being detained right now in tokyo. they were taken in for questioning after a woman was found dead in one of the men's hotel rooms. cnn's keyan law joining us from tokyo with new details. good morning to you. do we know much more about who this woman is and how she died? >> we're getting many, many more details coming out from the police throughout the weekend. we've learned she's nikola furlong, 23 years he'lled. she's attending college about 60 miles north of tokyo. according to the tokyo metropolitan police, she died by suffocation by compression. it's essentially strangulation. what the police tell us is that they have arrested two american men. both of them are in the music industry. a 19-year-old musician. he is considered a minor because adulthood is 20 years here in -- 20 years old here in japan. and the other is a dancer, 23-year-old james blackstone. the u.s. state department confirmed the two americans have been arrested, but wouldn't go any further than that. according to a news agency, though, we're getting new details from them. furlong and a friend attended a mickey minaj concert when they were approached by the two americans. they all went to dinner after the concert and ended up in a hotel in an area that's known after hours as a party and drinking area. tokyo police confirmed to cnn this at the hotel a guest complained of a loud noise in the early morning hours of thursday morning. when hotel workers got to the hotel room, they found nikola dead in the room with a 19-year-old american. police have arrested the two men. they arrested them for fondling the other woman in a taxi, presumably they're trying to gather enough evidence to charge these two men for the actual crime itself. concerned perhaps they may be a flight risk, but this is an investigation that is certainly unfolding at a high pace this weekend. >> it certainly sounds that way. once again, it sounds like she did go willingly with them and a friend, had dinner afterwards, and then her body was discovered. thank you very much for those new details. we'll continue to check back in with you. to syria now and a massacre blamed on government forces may have also killed any chance for peace in the country. united nations observers say at least 85 people were killed in the town. as many as 32 of them were children. members of the opposition forces now say they are ready to retaliate and say the u.n.-backed peace plan is dead. here's the head of the u.n. observer mission. >> we have 85 corpses, and the tragedy is elevated by the fact that 34 of the dead were children under the age of 10, and also women. the circumstances that led to these tragic killings are still unclear. >> the syrian government says regional and western enemies, such as the u.s., are responseible for the massacre. a spokesman for the free syrian army, the leading voice of the anti-government opposition, says it's time for u.n. allies to launch air strikes against the syrian military. nato says that four soldiers were killed in separate attacks in southern afghanistan, but all of the deaths were caused by roadside bombs. the international security force hasn't released the nationalities of the soldiers. now we go to the international space station. the astronaut said it had that new car smell still inside. the dragon carried more than 1,000 pounds of supplies to the space station. the space mission is the first fully commercial flight to the station. and back here in the states, newport beach, california, wants president obama to pay up. how much? how about $35,000? that's how much the city manager says extra police cost when the president was there in february. he was in newport beach for a campaign breakfast. the city says it wouldn't have billed the president if it was an official event, but a campaign event is fair game. a historic battleship is making its final voyage. the uss iowa set sail from richmond and passed under the golden gate bridge. its destination? los angeles where it will become an international museum. the iowa saw world war ii and took president roosevelt across the atlantic for his 1943 meeting with winston churchill and joseph stalin. here's a rundown of some of the stories we're working on this morning. a new jersey emergency couple says texting led to a head on collision with a distracted driver. now they're suing that driver and the person who sent him the text message. and on this memorial day weekend, i'll speak with a man whose father died in vietnam and now works to help others coping with the same loss. plus, a false accusation of rape put brian bank in jail, but now he is ae free man. his accuser admits she made it all up. hear his incredible story. then he is a singing and songwriting legend, and he serenaded me. my conversation with super star neil diamond. ♪ [ slap! ] [ slap! slap! slap! slap! ] [ male announcer ] your favorite foods fighting you? 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>> that's not really what he said. he said -- yes, he said some of that, but he was going to feed them and everything else. >> you think it's okay if he feeds them? >> i'm not saying if it's okay one way or the other, but i'm saying that is his opinion. >> he is probably the most compassionate man that i have ever known. i don't know. he just has a big heart for people. takes a real firm stance on the bible and what it says about different things, whether i like it or not or whether anybody else likes it or not. he stands for the bible. >> being gay and lesbian or whatever, homosexual is wrong according to the bible. it's wrong. >> even if you believe that, though, his words that they should be put in an electrified fence, don't you think that's a little dramatic and a little scary? >> his point and reasoning was to see if they reproduce. like it is, adam, eve -- >> there are a lot of heterosexual couples that don't reproduce either. >> adam and eve. that's what's in the very beginning. adam and eve. not adam and steve. >> why put adam and steve in an electrified jail? isn't that just mean? that's not what the bible -- that's not what god wants for man to be mean to their fellow man. >> he is not saying that to be mean. like i just said -- >> if that's -- if that's not mean, what is? >> you need to lay off my pastor. >> pastor worley is more than aware that his sermons go on the worldwide web, so he expected he would talk to us and defend what he had to say, but we could see two possible reasons for him not talking to us. one, he doesn't have the guts to talk to us, or, two, doesn't really care what we think. >> that was our gary tuckman. keep it here on cnn. i'll take a closer look at the intersection of christianity and culture when i speak with author and writer jonathan merit. that's coming up at 8:30 eastern time this morning. other church news. this time at the pap aal scene. the vatican says it may ask italy to handle the case against the pope's butler. he is are accused of leak says letters and personal documents to itsian journalists. he is seen here riding with pope benedict in the popemobile. senior vatican analyst john allen has been covering the breach and says the scope could widen. >> reporter: apparently this material involved significant stats of highly confidential vatican documents, while along with very sophisticated reproduction devices that would have been necessary to reproduce the photostats that got passed on to this journalist. this is the great guessing game in sort of vaticanology at the moment is what might have motivated the accused mole to have leaked these documents, and added to that is the question of whether or not he acted on his own or whether there would be other potentially more senior figures sort of behind the scenes who have not yet been identified who perhaps put him up to it. >> the vatican has not denied the authenticity of the documents, but instead says the breach of privacy is a criminal act. a california family's foreclosure nightmare comes to an end with a little help from one of the country's biggest banks. plus, a couple severely injured by a texting driver. now they want the girl sending the text message to pay too. we'll tell you what the judge says. 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how do you get the word out there and help people find out what happened? >> the beauty of our organization is that it was formed at the advent of the internet age, and so the internet, social media have been a wonderful help. older organizations that gold star sons and daughters from world war ii or korea didn't have that benefit to get them started and we did, so that was really the tool that helped us become so instant in connecting with members across the country. >> and what about the sons and daughters who have lost loved ones in iraq and afghanistan? do you have a message for them, or some advice for them as well? >> we do. our members are actively involved with them. many of the, this weekend there's a good camp taking place outside washington where a number of other members share their life experiences and provide emotional support to them. we're middle-aged now, and those young children are going to grow up, like we have, and this life-long journey has lots of questions, and we can help answer some of them. >> and i understand that you're going to the white house tomorrow for a special memorial breakfast at the white house with the president. what will you say to him? >> well, i'm not sure that i'll get a chance to actually -- >> if you had a chance. >> but it's a great honor for us. the gold star family's breakfast has taken place memorial day for a number of years. i'm not sure where it started, but it's an honor for us to be included with the gold star mothers and gold star wives. you know, the president issued a probleming clamation about the 50th an versionry of the war. he, like us, is 50 years old. many of our members are in our late 40s or early 50s, and it's ironic that he would be issuing that proclamation helping us launch this multi-year commemoration of the war when he shares the same life history. he was born in the early 1960s and lived through the 11960s, and he is the same age that we are. >> i have to ask because a lot of people on a holiday weekend like this, memorial day weekend, or veterans day, whatever it might be, a lot of folks think of it as an extra day off, but it's a lot more than that, isn't it? tell us why it is so important to remember. >> well, i think it's the greatness of america. when you think about all that's going on, we're so busy. there's so many issues that distract us from a rough economy, high unemployment, angst across the country for so many reasons, but we will take a three-day weekend and remember those who gave their lives so we can be free, and to me it really sums up the greatness. we'll be distracted, sure. people will have barbecues and things like that, but if for just a moment they remember those who gave their lives in any one of the wars, then they have done their responsibility over memorial day weekend. >> tony cordero, well said. once again, the name of your group, sons and daughters in touch. the website, by the way, is sdit.org. you can check it out there as well. tony, thank you. >> thank you. courting the veteran vote. president obama has now made it a campaign priority. we'll show you how he is trying to sell himself and tell whether vets are buying. thanks for babysitting the kids, brittany. so how much do we owe you? 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out of the water. on this memorial day weekend vice president joe biden is thanking west point's graduating cadets. in yesterday's commencement address biden said the wars in iraq and afghanistan may be ending, but the u.s. still faces plenty of challenges ahead, and he called the cadets members of the 9/11 generation. >> most of you were in elementary school in 2001 when your nation was attacked. old enough to remember, perhaps, but young enough that that tragic day need not have shaped your lives, but for so many of you it did just that. as you and your predecessors came of age, 2,800,000 of you were moved to join our military. >> biden also said the united states relationship with rising economic super power china will help shape the 21st century. >> his campaign has made it a priority to chippewa at a traditionally republican voting block. cnn white house correspondent dan lothian reports. >> reporter: president obama rarely misses an opportunity to talk about the help he is offering to military veterans and his families. >> we serve our veterans the way they served us. >> it's about policy and politics. his re-election campaign is actively courting veterans who have traditionally supported republicans, launching a grassroots effort. veterans and military families for obama. >> it's door to door, person to person, grocery store to grocery store, letting people know the president's record as it relates to veterans. >> reporter: in 2008 president obama lost the veteran vote to senator john mccain 55% to 45%, but the demographics are shifting, and democrats sense an opportunity. a recent reuters-ipsos poll shows mr. obama with a 44% to 37% lead among this group over likely opponent mitt romney. team obama is looking for voters like josh present is, a recent graduate of george washington university law school who served with the army in iraq. he is a proud veteran and a loyal republican. >> the first presidential election i could vote in was 2004, and i voted for president bush. >> for the first time he is looking to both the right and the left. he likes former massachusetts governor mitt romney. yet, president obama's foreign policy has gotten his attention. >> he has impressed me with the way he led the drawdown in iraq and in afghanistan as well. >> reporter: the killing of osama bin laden has also won over some former critics. that's the sales pitch democrats are making. republicans say this outreach is honorable, but they're skeptical of an election year appeal to veterans. >> they deserve, you know, support every day of the year, but not just when it's convenient. >> taking nothing for granted, former veterans affairs secretary in the bush administration is pitching mitt romney to veterans and their families. >> we'll be doing our work as aggressively as we possibly can to make sure that the veterans understand who governor romney is and will cast their vote for him. >> republicans are using proposed defense budget cuts and concerns about america's military strength to raise doubts about the president's policies. on the military times website one veteran posted "i simply can't vote for a president who advocates deep military cuts to those who gave so much to our nation." another wrote, "this is one president that i could never endorse." >> prentice has a job lined up. he is one of the lucky one because the unemployment rate among veterans is at 9.2%, well above the national average, but it could be a factor on election day, and republicans say it could hurt the president. dan lothian, cnn, the white house. >> be sure to stay with cnn. we'll keep you up to speed on all the latest political news. we've been following this story of a young athlete jailed for a rape that never happened. this weekend i had a chance to speak with brian bairnksz who shared his amazing journey to freedom. wait until you hear what he says about his accuser. let's get the wheels turning. use our strength & stability to open new 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[ male announcer ] solutionism. the new optimism. welcome back. a gifted young athlete in california has his dreams derailed when he is accused of a rape that never occurred. ten years later his accuser reconnects with him on facebook and recants her story. now exonerated, brian banks looked back at the pain of his time in jail and of the weight that he carried as a falsely accused man. and he is looking ahead at the life of complete freedom he thought he would never know. he joined me to talk about the day the truth set him free. >> i will never forget that moment. it's the best day of my life. just a lot of mixed emotions. it was happiness to reflecting on everything that's happened and that i have been through to get to this point and just overwhelmed with just all the love and support. >> i have a few questions for you, but, first, i want to ask brian. this woman apparently, she finds you on facebook and sends you a message, rate? that's how this all started to unravel. what did she say? >> well, she in a message said she was hoping that buyingons could be bigons, and she was immature at the time, but very much mature now. >> and can you take us through -- you were able to record her, right? brian was able to record her somehow. tell us how that came to be. >> yeah. i mean, the crazy thing is brian's life is taken away by the testimony of this woman. he loses his football dreams, at least for then. now he is going to make a comeback and i'm hoping to see him many the nfl. then his life was taken away by this woman, and she facebooks him and says let's get together, let's talk, wants to be friends with him, and it's just crazy. so once that statement was made and she said that they never had sex. in fact, she lost her virginity years later, that this incident never happened, then all of a sudden now we've got some evidence to come back in and get his case reopened, but without that, brian would have basically been serving a life sentence as a sex offender and brian, you know, had an ankle monitor. i have been carrying it around for the past couple of days since we cut it off. he has had to wear this for the past five years, and he lifts weights every day, but he is always telling me, you know, this is the heaviest weight he lifts because it marks him as a convicted sex offender. he is on the sex offender registry les. he couldn't get work. when the background checks came back he was a sex offender, and without that statement, that would have been for the rest of his life. >> this accuser, she was awarded $1.5 million a payment from a civil suit against the long beach schools where this allegedly happened. why did she -- why did she lie? did she say, brian? >> i never got a clear reason why she lied. i really couldn't say. >> and justin, is she going to have to pay that money back? >> well, that's the crazy part of this case. i mean, imagine from brian's perspective. first, he gets accused wrongfully and ends up in prison and then he is sitting in prison and finding out that his accuser gets a $1.5 million settlement for a lie. you know, fortunately for us, our job is done here. my job was to give this guy's freedom back. >> brian, i know that i'm sure this is all about looking forward for you now. you don't really want to look backward, i'm sure, but are you angry with your accuser? >> no, not at all. you know, i've had those moments where i was very angry and very bitter. this is around the time that i first received the six-year sentence in prison, but, you know, it was at that time that i realized that, you know, regardless of the situation that i'm in, it was more important how i controlled myself while in those situations, and i just saw it better for me, my health, and my future to look forward and try to be the best person i could be regardless of what i'm going through. >> now that you are a free man, though, tell me about the nfl. i know you are working out. we've seen video of you lifting your weights. are you planning on the nfl being your future? snoo most definitely. been working real hard at it, and i'm just waiting on that call. it's just been -- it's been a journey and, you know, i love to stick by a saying. good things come to those who hustle while they wait, so i've been praying for this day and freedom and i tell god that upon my freedom, if you bless me with opportunity to play for the nfl, i'll for sure meet you halfway. i'm ready. >> is there a certain team you want to give a shout out to? >> for sure. shout out to the team that feels i deserve the opportunity. let's play some football. >> i think that would include just about every team given your perseverance and what you have been through. i love the sweat shirt, by the way. exonerate. just in case the folks at home haven't been able to get a close look at that. very nice. nice to have you on the program. brian banks, justin brooks. brian, enjoy your freedom, and we will continue to watch your nfl career. something tells me we'll see brian on the field real soon. a six-hour work day, that's something we could all get used to, and that's exactly what people in bolivia are fighting to keep. they've taken to the streets for massive protests. how does a six-hour day stack up to what we're used to right here in the u.s.? we'll tell you. also, a dog lover's delight. we'll bring you the tale of this cute little four-legged pup that ran an entire bicycle race across tibet. boy, he must be tired. imagine if it was illegal for you to work more than six hours a day. sounds pretty nice, right? well, up until now that's been case for doctors and medical students in bolivia. the government is trying to change that and, well, let me show you what's going on there now as a result. take a look at this. yes, those are the doctors and students studying to be doctors rioting in the streets. they don't want the change, and, yes, they are making it known. let's talk about this with nadia now. why does the government want to change this to begin with? >> bolivian doctors up until this point -- these are doctors in the public sector. they've only had to work six hours, and that's been an enforcement for 40 years. for the first time the government has come along and said, no, we are extending that to an eight-hour work day. >> oh, no. >> i know. they are protesting. i will tell you that just yesterday the doctors have been victorious and morales is rescinding the decree and it looks like they'll be going back to a six-hour work day to be reviewed in july. >> can you imagine this happening in this country? i mean, a six-hour work day does sound pretty nice, but how does it compare around the world? >> when you think about work days, what would you think would be the most? you would probably think japan, right? it's not japan. it's mexico. mexico -- >> really? >> isn't that interesting? i found that astounding. it has 9.9 hour average work days. japan is only second with around mine hours, and the u.s. is around seventh with 8.3 hours, and the last is belgium with the average of seven hours a day. >> i wonder who they polled in the u.s. because i think i put in a lot more than 8.3 hours on average. >> you have the holiday weekend. let's talk about how vacations prepare. are we about the same as the rest of the world? >> america has the reputation as the no vacation nation. isn't that prudent? >> we really do. apparently americans generally have around only ten vacation days and then eight for a marshall holiday. now, that's much less than the u.k. which has around 28 days, and then france and greece, the average of 25 days. what i found particularly interesting is some surveys say that americans don't take their full leave. >> that's true. that's true. >> do you, randi? >> i try to, but the great folks at cnn, our wonderful managers, they always say take your vacation because they want you fresh and ready, and that's a good thing. >> i know you are taking some vacation. >> i am taking a short few days, yes. >> we are going to miss you. >> i'll be back. don't worry. just a few days. >> i'm -- >> are you taking a bit of proper vacation? >> yes. as we're supposed to do. >> exactly. let's change the reputation of america from the no vacation nation to the vacation nation. >> let's do it. thanks. there will be plenty of road trip stories this holiday weekend, but none quite like this one. a stray and hungry dog was fed and befriended by a bicycle racer in tibet. i can't get enough of this little guy. go. the dog started following her newly adopted friend and eventually covered more than 1,000 miles along with a group of cyclists on a mountain course no less. now she's in the back of a basket. the bikers say the pup kept their spirits up along wait. you know she must be exhausted. she had to go in the back of that little basket. look at her go. whoa. back at home the nation is marking memorial day weekend. we'll show you how the country is paying tribute to the men and women who keep us safe and how some families who lost loved ones to war are finding solis at sea. ♪ the only time i've ever had a break is when i was on maternity leave. i have retired from doing this one thing that i loved. now, i'm going to be able to have the time to explore something different. it's like another chapter. today is gonna be an important day for us. you ready? 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