now the government's attempt to change those laws is sparking riots in the streets. we'll explain. it is sunday, may 27th. good morning. i'm randy kay. so glad you're with us. it is shaping up to be a pretty ugly holiday weekend in parts of the southeast, and you can blame beryl. subtropical storm beryl is set to dump several inches of rain along the coast today. already we're seeing warnings and beach closures off taibi island in georgia, 20 people had to be rescued because of potentially deadly rip currents. let's bring in meteorologist bonnie schneider. bring us up to day date on where these warnings stand and good morning to you. >> good morning, randi. rip kurntsz very dangerous. sometimes you is see them, but sometimes you can't. even if you're in that surf zone so close to the shoreline, you are at risk by being picked up by a rip current, so never swim where there's no lifeguard. here's a look at subtropical beryl. a subtropical storm means we have characteristics that are tropical and characteristics that sht. the main thing to note about this storm is it will be a rainmaker and have strong winds. right now you can see the movement is right now we have at gusts at 65 miles per hour. the winds are at 50 miles an hour. overall -- let's zoom in here and take a look at the satellite perspective of what we're looking at. you can see that the storm is starting to get better organized as it works its way through. it's all the way from savannah to northern and central florida. you will see winds of 39 miles an hour when the storm comes on shore, and that's likely to be sometime tonight. in the meantime, most of the rain isn't quite hitting the region just yet, but we're starting to get those spiral bands, randi, and that's my concern into the evening. the rain will come in in advance of it, of course. we do have to worry about the surf with the track of the system. you can see that it's moving kind of looping back up, and it will be impacting this coastal area not just for sunday, but for monday as well. >> how far inlantd do you think that folks will be affected? >> i think pretty far inland because right now we're monitoring dangerous swimming conditions for the region, but also rain coming in. look how far inland it does come in. i-75 area in georgia. some of the heaviest rain stretches across two-thirds of the eastern part of the panhandle of florida. if you are driving on i-10, even if you are pretty far away from the coastline, you will feel the impacts of beryl. >> what about at the airports? >> right now we don't have any airport delays. of course, it's still early, but i'm anticipating delays. certainly if you are flying to somewhere like charleston, south carolina, or jacksonville. it's such i busy travel weekend, and miami is facing storms as well as orlando, and denver and minneapolis also facing wind and some nasty weather, so today is a worse day than yesterday smack in the middle of the holiday weekend. >> not very good timing. all right. bonnie, thank you very much. we'll check back with you throughout the morning as well. now from home to abroad. two americans being detained right now in tokyo. they were taken in for questioning after a woman was found dead in one of the men's hotel rooms. cnn's keyan law joining us from tokyo with new details. good morning to you. do we know much more about who this woman is and how she died? >> we're getting many, many more details coming out from the police throughout the weekend. we've learned she's nikola furlong, 23 years he'lled. she's attending college about 60 miles north of tokyo. according to the tokyo metropolitan police, she died by suffocation by compression. it's essentially strangulation. what the police tell us is that they have arrested two american men. both of them are in the music industry. a 19-year-old musician. he is considered a minor because adulthood is 20 years here in -- 20 years old here in japan. and the other is a dancer, 23-year-old james blackstone. the u.s. state department confirmed the two americans have been arrested, but wouldn't go any further than that. according to a news agency, though, we're getting new details from them. furlong and a friend attended a mickey minaj concert when they were approached by the two americans. they all went to dinner after the concert and ended up in a hotel in an area that's known after hours as a party and drinking area. tokyo police confirmed to cnn this at the hotel a guest complained of a loud noise in the early morning hours of thursday morning. when hotel workers got to the hotel room, they found nikola dead in the room with a 19-year-old american. police have arrested the two men. they arrested them for fondling the other woman in a taxi, presumably they're trying to gather enough evidence to charge these two men for the actual crime itself. concerned perhaps they may be a flight risk, but this is an investigation that is certainly unfolding at a high pace this weekend. >> it certainly sounds that way. once again, it sounds like she did go willingly with them and a friend, had dinner afterwards, and then her body was discovered. thank you very much for those new details. we'll continue to check back in with you. to syria now and a massacre blamed on government forces may have also killed any chance for peace in the country. united nations observers say at least 85 people were killed in the town. as many as 32 of them were children. members of the opposition forces now say they are ready to retaliate and say the u.n.-backed peace plan is dead. here's the head of the u.n. observer mission. >> we have 85 corpses, and the tragedy is elevated by the fact that 34 of the dead were children under the age of 10, and also women. the circumstances that led to these tragic killings are still unclear. >> the syrian government says regional and western enemies, such as the u.s., are responseible for the massacre. a spokesman for the free syrian army, the leading voice of the anti-government opposition, says it's time for u.n. allies to launch air strikes against the syrian military. nato says that four soldiers were killed in separate attacks in southern afghanistan, but all of the deaths were caused by roadside bombs. the international security force hasn't released the nationalities of the soldiers. now we go to the international space station. the astronaut said it had that new car smell still inside. the dragon carried more than 1,000 pounds of supplies to the space station. the space mission is the first fully commercial flight to the station. and back here in the states, newport beach, california, wants president obama to pay up. how much? how about $35,000? that's how much the city manager says extra police cost when the president was there in february. he was in newport beach for a campaign breakfast. the city says it wouldn't have billed the president if it was an official event, but a campaign event is fair game. a historic battleship is making its final voyage. the uss iowa set sail from richmond and passed under the golden gate bridge. its destination? los angeles where it will become an international museum. the iowa saw world war ii and took president roosevelt across the atlantic for his 1943 meeting with winston churchill and joseph stalin. here's a rundown of some of the stories we're working on this morning. a new jersey emergency couple says texting led to a head on collision with a distracted driver. now they're suing that driver and the person who sent him the text message. and on this memorial day weekend, i'll speak with a man whose father died in vietnam and now works to help others coping with the same loss. plus, a false accusation of rape put brian bank in jail, but now he is ae free man. his accuser admits she made it all up. hear his incredible story. then he is a singing and songwriting legend, and he serenaded me. my conversation with super star neil diamond. ♪ [ slap! ] [ slap! slap! slap! slap! ] [ male announcer ] your favorite foods fighting you? 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>> that's not really what he said. he said -- yes, he said some of that, but he was going to feed them and everything else. >> you think it's okay if he feeds them? >> i'm not saying if it's okay one way or the other, but i'm saying that is his opinion. >> he is probably the most compassionate man that i have ever known. i don't know. he just has a big heart for people. takes a real firm stance on the bible and what it says about different things, whether i like it or not or whether anybody else likes it or not. he stands for the bible. >> being gay and lesbian or whatever, homosexual is wrong according to the bible. it's wrong. >> even if you believe that, though, his words that they should be put in an electrified fence, don't you think that's a little dramatic and a little scary? >> his point and reasoning was to see if they reproduce. like it is, adam, eve -- >> there are a lot of heterosexual couples that don't reproduce either. >> adam and eve. that's what's in the very beginning. adam and eve. not adam and steve. >> why put adam and steve in an electrified jail? isn't that just mean? that's not what the bible -- that's not what god wants for man to be mean to their fellow man. >> he is not saying that to be mean. like i just said -- >> if that's -- if that's not mean, what is? >> you need to lay off my pastor. >> pastor worley is more than aware that his sermons go on the worldwide web, so he expected he would talk to us and defend what he had to say, but we could see two possible reasons for him not talking to us. one, he doesn't have the guts to talk to us, or, two, doesn't really care what we think. >> that was our gary tuckman. keep it here on cnn. i'll take a closer look at the intersection of christianity and culture when i speak with author and writer jonathan merit. that's coming up at 8:30 eastern time this morning. other church news. this time at the pap aal scene. the vatican says it may ask italy to handle the case against the pope's butler. he is are accused of leak says letters and personal documents to itsian journalists. he is seen here riding with pope benedict in the popemobile. senior vatican analyst john allen has been covering the breach and says the scope could widen. >> reporter: apparently this material involved significant stats of highly confidential vatican documents, while along with very sophisticated reproduction devices that would have been necessary to reproduce the photostats that got passed on to this journalist. this is the great guessing game in sort of vaticanology at the moment is what might have motivated the accused mole to have leaked these documents, and added to that is the question of whether or not he acted on his own or whether there would be other potentially more senior figures sort of behind the scenes who have not yet been identified who perhaps put him up to it. >> the vatican has not denied the authenticity of the documents, but instead says the breach of privacy is a criminal act. a california family's foreclosure nightmare comes to an end with a little help from one of the country's biggest banks. plus, a couple severely injured by a texting driver. now they want the girl sending the text message to pay too. we'll tell you what the judge says. 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how do you get the word out there and help people find out what happened? >> the beauty of our organization is that it was formed at the advent of the internet age, and so the internet, social media have been a wonderful help. older organizations that gold star sons and daughters from world war ii or korea didn't have that benefit to get them started and we did, so that was really the tool that helped us become so instant in connecting with members across the country. >> and what about the sons and daughters who have lost loved ones in iraq and afghanistan? do you have a message for them, or