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
women this memorial day. the president laid a wreath at the tomb of the unknowns and he speaks later this hour at the vietnam veterans memorial. romney taking part in a tribute at the veterans museum and memorial center in san diego. senator john mccain is also appearing with him. i want to bring in dana bash who has more on this live. we expect to hear from mitt romney at this event that s getting under way. what do we think the message is going to be today? reporter: well, according to romney aides, suzanne, he s going to focus as much as he can on the whole concept of the fallen soldiers and people who are still living but veterans of wars that have happened in recent years and long, long ago. and the message, according to a romney aide, is to make sure that going forward we continue to protect the liberties and freedoms that they fought for. so it s not an overt political statement, but certainly there are tinges of politics in there making very clear that he believes t