our eyes are on the skies, and this peculiar sunday night mystery. hi, everybody, it s 10:00 in the east. glad you re with us. i m alina cho sitting in for don lemon tonight, and we begin with the bad weather bearing down on the southeast. tropical storm beryl fast approaching hurricane strength and near landfall. you can see the palm trees struggling against the waves. waves onshore. this is jekyll island. flooding obviously a big concern, and beaches all along the southeast coast are posting warnings about the dangers of rip currents. for the past 24 hours, lifeguards and emts have been working overtime rescuing those who have ignored the warnings. our jacqui jeras is watching it all for us. a couple of questions. number one, pretty close to hurricane strength, right? yeah. and how close are we to landfa landfall? we re close. landfall not so important with this storm. it s a big storm, and there s going to be very widespread impacts. there you see the rain which ha
this peculiar sunday night mystery. hi, everybody, glad you re with us. i m alina cho sitting in for don lemon tonight. and we begin with the bad weather bearing down on the southeast. tropical storm beryl fast approaching hurricane strength and nearing landfall. you can see the palm trees struggling against the wind earlier today, waves surging onshore. this is jekyll island, georgia, you re looking at. flooding obviously a big concern, and beaches all along the southeast coast are posting warnings about the dangers much rip currents. for the past 24 hours, lifeguards and emts hav who have ignored the warnings. our jacqui jeras watching it all for us. so, jacqui, a couple of questions. number one, pretty close to hurricane strength, right? yeah. and, also, how close are we to landfall? we re close. just within an hour or two potentially of landfall, but landfall not necessarily so important with this storm because it s a big storm and there are going to be very wides
our eyes are on the skies, and this peculiar sunday night mystery. hi, everybody, it s 10:00 in the east. glad you re with us. i m alina cho sitting in for don lemon tonight, and we begin with the bad weather bearing down on the southeast. tropical storm beryl fast approaching hurricane strength and near landfall. you can see the palm trees struggling against the waves. the wind earlier today. waves surging onshore. this is jekyll island, georgia you re looking at flooding obviously a big concern, and beaches all along the southeast coast are posting warnings about the dangers of rip currents. for the past 24 hours, lifeguards and emts have been working overtime rescuing those who have ignored the warnings. our jacqui jeras is watching it all for us. so, jacqui, a couple of questions. number one, pretty close to hurricane strength, right? yeah. and, also, how close are we to landfall? we re close. potentially an hour or so but landfall not so important with this storm
president obama today paid tribute to america s war dead, laying a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns, he then spoke at the vietnam veteran s memorial on the 50th anniversary of their bloody conflict. and milt romney led a tribute at the veteran s memorial center in san diego. it was a somber break from the election campaign, but politics has a way of seeping into one of the most somber occasions, dan lothian is standing by, but first let s go to cnn s dana bash. and a slight political undertone to the ceremonies there in san diego. they were putting wreaths out at these ceremonies, but at the same time both men gave some speeches that might have had some politics mixed in there as well. from mitt romney, the lines that you re so familiar with, following him around, the ones really directly following the president. but you didn t have to read too much between the lines to hear his campaign pitch. reporter: a solemn moment in san diego, marking memorial day. reporter: