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-- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning our "starting point" today, tropical storm beryl washing away holiday plans in northern florida and georgia. it made landfall overnight with drenching rains and driving winds. the hurricane force winds have died down a bit but the beryl will be a super soaker as they call it. rob marciano is tracking the storm at the severe weather center, good morning. >> not usual to have one but two tropical storms into the month of may, not even into the beginning of hurricane season yesterday. 70-mile-an-hour winds last night at one point, thi...

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 falle...

veteran's memorial. rene is standing by. >> reporter: good morning. we are here at the u.s. marine corps war memorial. we have been here all morning. it's a stunning memorial to see in person. we have seen parents bringing their children here, and we have seen veterans themselves here, just taking a moment, a moment of silence to remember or remember those who have fallen and who have died for our country, and this memorial is right outside of arlington national cemetery, and we spoke to a couple of people today where they were headed from here and headed over to the cemetery for tod...

Megyn: the farther you drive the deeper you'll have to dig into your wallet to get there. gas prices continuing their rapid climb nationwide and some economists fear they could slam the brakes on any economic recovery. nationwide, the average now up to 3.77 a gallon, according to aaa, up 7 cents in one week. we've been following prices closely in cincinnati, ohio, just as one bellwether, right now drivers in that city paying 3.72 a gallon. that's an increase of 8 cents per gallon over the last week when that same gas cost you 3.64. new questions today about the man just tapped to help shape ...

$3.64 a gallon, up ten cents in a week. new details today on the accidental burning of qurans in afghanistan. u.s. military investigators reportedly have concluded that five soldiers were involved, in again what was an accidental burning. the holy books had been removed from a library because detainees in afghanistan had written extremists messages in them and then they were accidentally disposed of with the trash and burned, which is not all right under islamic religion. the accidental pwurpbgs sparked riotburnings sparked riots and led to six u.s. troops and 30 in afghanistan. yesterday we i...