good morning. it s 4:00 on the west coast. let s get straight to it. we start with what s shaping up to be a pretty ugly holiday weekend in parts of the southeast, and you can blame it all on beryl. subtropical storm beryl is set to dump several inches of rain along the florida, south carolina coast today. already we re seeing warnings and some beach lowerses off tibi island off georgia. at least 20 people had to be rescued because of potentially deadly rip currents. let s bring in bonnie schneider. good morning, once again to you. bring us up-to-date on beryl and the warnings. right now we are still watching subtropical storm beryl this time getting closer to shore than we were yesterday. a little more organization. the winds are intense. they re at 50 miles per hour. the storm has picked up strength and sfooed speed in the past 24 hours. it will impact land. you can see the watches and warning posted all the way from savannah down through areas north of orlando and flor
hit just hours from now. we ll have a live report. and later, an incredible story about a girl who survived the horrors of war to become an icon of hope. new york times columnist nick kristof explains. good morning, everyone. i m randi kaye. a lot to tell you about this morning. but first we start with the arrest of those two american men in japan. police picked them up after the body of an irish exchange student was found in one of their hotel rooms. i m joined on the telephone from tokyo. what can you tell us about this woman? we re looking at a picture of her. she is the victim in this case. tell us how she died. reporter: well, we know her name is nicola furlong. she was studying in japan and she had just recently celebrated her 21st birthday. what tokyo police are telling us is she died by something called suffocation by cervical compression, and that does sound like it s strangulation. kyoto news agency is reporting that she and a friend went to a nicki minaj to
celebrated her 21st birthday. what tokyo police are telling us is she died by suffocation by cervical compression, and that does sound like it s strangulation. the kyoto news agency said she and a friend went to a concert, where she was approached by two americans. she and her friend ended up with these men at a hotel in a party area here in tokyo. the police confirm that she was hours later found dead in the hotel room. and that in that hotel room was one of these americans. and at this point, the police say that they are trying to figure out how these two men fit in with this woman s death. furlong s death has rattled her small community back in ireland. she celebrated her 21st birthday party last december and was looking forward to finishing her course in tokyo, which would have been the last days of july. so she was literally, according to text messages, to come home. she was looking forward to going to the concert. which she was looking forward very much so to. the
i m dr. sanjay gupta. thanks for joining us. hello, everyone. you re in the cnn newsroom. i m fredricka whitfield. outrage over a civilian massacre in syria is spilling out on to the streets. this was the scene in several cities today, of people so angry over the killing of 85 people in the town of hula, they risked retribution to turn out in force. video of some of 34 children killed in hula has surface ed online. children, some under the age of 10, some with missing limbs and severe head wounds. the u.n. security council is meeting on the crisis right now. cnn s mohammed jamjoom is following this story for us from beirut, lebanon. so mohammed, cnn can t confirm the authenticity of the video. what do we know about what happened in this village? reporter: fredricka, opposition activists tell us horrifying tales about what happened on friday in the town of hula. they say that, first, mortars were raining down on town. that the syrian government was with shelling the town