marijuana, but she says she s innocent. we ll speak with her husband live here on cnn. plus we re monitoring a fast-spreading wildfire in california. a thousand acres up in flames. thousands forced to flee. we will have the latest out of santa barbara county. good morning, i m christine romans. i m john berman. it s tuesday, may 28th, welcome to starting point. happening right now, 2200 angry, frustrated passengers stranded in the bahamas waiting to be flown back to baltimore after a near disaster at sea. their cruise ship royal caribbean s grandeur of the seas caught fire yesterday after the coast of freeport. one vacationer called it the most terrifying day of her life. erin mcpike is live from baltimore international airport with the latest. good morning, erin. good morning, john. those passengers will show up here starting in about four hours, and they will continue on through tomorrow on chartered flights from the bahamas. that s, of course, after many were up all nigh
you didn t know what was happening. we have never had anything like this before. everybody is safe and everybody in the neighborhood is fine, that is all that matters. heather: national weather service confirming one tornado near baltimore international airport and investigating reports of several other tornado touchdowns. maria molina is live in the fox weather center. good to see you. received 200 reports of severe weather from parts of the midwest into the mid-atlantic, 17 of those were of tornadoes. we re going to continue to see those confirmed. the storm system, not doing so much severe weather in the form of hail, damaging winds or tornadoes but more in the form of flooding. we are seeing that rain coming down in parts of new england. it s been coming down since early this morning, inches of rain in parts of new hampshire and southern portions of maine. there is concern for flooding