out. the breakdown. what it means for you and your family. is economic recovery stalling? cnn newsroom starts right now. take a nice deep breath. made it to friday. i m christi paul in for carol cost tello. many of you under a flash flood warning right now as tropical storm andrea moves up the eastern coast. this is from tiype tybee island. the white caps rolling in in savannah. and emergency officials are warning residents, winds could be so strong, people in mobile homes need to consider relocating. and nick valencia in wrightsville beach, north carolina. okay, so, nick, how have you seen the storm evolve over the last couple of hours?
passport, ammunition, state tv saying this is all a part of foreign fueled insurgency fighting. they suggest terrorists from outside are coming to syria to ferment this particular unrest. we don t know much more from syrian state tv apart from that. we know from the grounds mother saying she converted to the islamic faith about three to five years ago. it appears to have not spoken to her grandmother for about six to eight months. we don t know how she became to be inside sirria. and her mother related a trip to dubai which appears to have ended slightly more quickly t. real mystery here is how she ended up to be there. a whole variety of reason, carol, to how many foreigners have ended up on the syrian battlefields. the government is somehow now using her? reporter: that tends to be what the syrian state tv does when it comes across instances like this, seizing upon this one example as a suggestion they re
it s curious in this week, where so many other nations are accused of that, this one particular american female that the syrian state chooses to tout as an example of foreign influence here, carol. nick patton walsh, live this morning. still ahead in the newsroom, a fire sale at the city s museum. they are seriously thinking of selling degas, rembrandt, and van gogh to raise billions of dollars. we learned a lot of us have known someone who s lived well into their 90s. and that s a great thing. but even though we re living longer, one thing that hasn t changed much is the official retirement age. the question is how do you make sure you have the money you need to enjoy all of these years.
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and her husband gary board the bus in which you can clearly see that they only had two small blankets, two bottles of water and her purse. no drugs, no other packages and so the defense attorney was trying to show with this video that it was impossible for the maldonados to smuggle drugs onto the bus. it was a very powerful moment and it was perhaps the defining moment, carol. now was out of the prison last night. once she crossed the border, one of the first questions she got asked, what would you ever go back to mexico? she still has family there, family whom she loves very much and this is what she had to say. i love mexico. my family is still there. so mexico is not mexico. it s a few people who, you know,