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,
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 shoulders and certainly what it means for the future of this island. now, we know what the next two weeks will bring which is a period of official mourning when you have an event like this in cuba. bars and restaurants are closed. children are prohibited to sing in school sometimes. here, we ll see massive rallies in the home of cuba, in havana, where he grew up. and his ashes, as it s said that fidel castro will be cremated this morning. and then across the island, of course, then, supporters came out along the streets and highways to welcome him, as his young charismatic revolutionary was driven to havana. now, a man so controversial, so