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
their sailboat at a havana cuba marina let s get the latest from patrick hoffman. patrick, you approached this couple, you spoke to them. how did they react at first? reporter: you know, for fugitives, they didn t seem to be taking great pains to hide their identities, joshua hakken was on the boat, they fled from florida. the son cole playing on the deck of the ship. let s go to sound from yesterday, right after cnn discovered the hakkens hiding out in ha vana we re outside the marina hemingway, a lot more security than when we were here earlier. we drove, looked for the hakken s boat. back up in the area here and dozens of boats from the united states, none that matched the description from the united states. the last boat, we saw the salty, a much smaller boat and really beaten up. as soon as we got there, started
0 to speak. communicate with the north and prepare the south. that s it for our special report. i m wolf blitzer in washington. the news continues next on cnn. they are back in the united states. new this morning, two boys abducted by sailboat and taken to cuba returned a short time ago, now in florida. a sick fantasy turned to brutal reality. new information on the suspect in a mass stabbing attack at a texas college. and the united states and the world waiting, with north korea expected to launch a ballistic missile. do we have a breakthrough on background checks, folks? we re just hours away from a bipartisan senate announcement on gun control in america. good morning to you. thanks for being with us this morning. welcome to early start. i m zoraida sambolin. and i m john berman. empanada day. he s already had five. could be a rough one. news overnight. the end of a kidnapping drama that turned into a man hunt and ended under the shadow of the cold war. the parents
0 this breaking news this morning. the parents accused of abducting their two young sons and sailing to cuba, they are back in florida this morning and they are under arrest. josh and sharyn hakken and their two boys were spotted yesterday at a havana marina by a cnn reporter. cnn s victor blackwell is live in tampa this morning where the boys have been reunited with their grandparents. good morning, victor. good morning, john. those parents are in jail here in hillsboro county in florida. they face state charges, joshua hakken, the father, faces a federal count of flight to avoid prosecution. but we know now from the fbi and the local sheriff s office that what happened was the state department initially received the information that the hakkens had moved to cuba. had moved by boat to cuba and were there at the marina. it was cnn s patrick oppmann in havana who confirmed it. saw the boys. saw the boat. and actually spoke with joshua and sharyn hakken there. in havana. and after that