as she said, they re doing fine. patrick oppmann, cnn havana. just terrific reporting from patrick. it really is incredible. thank you for that. 32 minutes past the hour. new developments this morning about a frightening scene on a college campus in texas. a stabbing rampage. the suspect under arrest. 20-year-old dylan quick is accused of injuring 14 people in yesterday s attack. there he is. officials say quick told investigators that he planned the assault and that he had fantasized about stabbing people to death since he was in elementary school. cnn s ed lavandera is live in cypress, texas. good morning to you, ed. good morning, zoraida. students are hoping that things get back to normal here today on the campus of lone star college, where the buildings will reopen as normal. but yesterday was far from normal, as a student, as you mentioned, went on this rampage and thanks to three students in particular, it was all brought to a close quickly.
pretty soon and we should learn more over the next 24 to 48 hours as the grandparents have said that they will make themselves and the two boys, chase and cole, available to talk about the last week, and their terrible ordeal. john? victor, we re wondering here, how do you explain to a 2-year-old and 4-year-old what s gone on? it s got to be so difficult. victor blackwell live for us in tampa. as victor said, it was cnn s patrick oppmann who first found the family in havana. he s in havana for us this morning. this is how we started our search for joshua and sharyn hakken. right now we re heading out to the marina hemingway, one of the larger marinas in cuba, where a lot of foreigners go to keep their boats here and where they stay when they re coming to cuba. to get past the marina security it helps to keep your camera out of view. the guards soon tell me to leave. we re being bothered now by the security they re asking us to leave. [ speaking spanish ]
we re outside the marina hemingway where there s a lot more security than when we were here earlier. then we were just able to drive in and immediately start looking for the hakkens boat. we went back up in this area here and there are lots of boats from the united states but none that match the description we ve gotten from police. we re going to the last boat slip that we saw the salt. it really stood out because it was a much smaller boat, and as soon as we got there and started filming i saw josh hakken get out of the boat. he asked me who i was. i said i was an american reporter. he confirmed who he was and immediately got back in the boat. cuban authorities came out immediately, some of them packing pistols and told us that we needed to leave. but we were able to convince them before they kicked us out to allow me to go up without a camera and speak to josh hakken. they let us go up to the boat and he wouldn t speak to me but his wife confirmed to us that both their sons are w
grandparents who were very grateful for the prayers they received from the community and around the country. also from the work of the local, state, federal, and cuban authorities, and this was a real quandary. a difficulty for many of the people trying to work out this relationship of extradition between the u.s. and the cuban officials, but the fbi said yesterday that this was not as difficult as some might have expected. listen. in talking to the state department and our coordination, you know, the u.s. officials with the government of cuba very supportive and cooperative with all of our requests to make sure we got the family back safely. reporter: and rare praise from the u.s. for cuban officials, this from the u.s. intersection in havana. we would like to express our appreciation to cuban authorities for the extensive cooperation to resolve this dangerous situation quickly.
romans, we begin this morning with an extraordinary sight in cuba. thousands of ordinary cubans taking to the streets demanding more food, medicine and relief in the midst of a pandemic driven economic crash there. white house officials have expressed support. patrick oppmann has the latest from havana. thousands of protesters took to the streets here in havana and across cuba on sunday demanding change. this is something that almost never happens here that people engage in antigovernment protests. the government does not permit it, usually they re shut down very, very quickly, and many people are just too afraid to openly criticize the government. on sunday it was a very different picture as thousands of people did just that. they said they were sick of energy shortages and empty store shelves, many complained about the government s coronavirus response. the economy here has been deeply, deeply damaged. the economy was already ailing before the pandemic. now with more than a year wi