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Tropical storm rina, the storm is moving just west of cozumel with winds that diminished to 60 miles per hour. 10,000 tourists abandoned resorts around cancun and the rivera maya when rina was expected to still be a hurricane. it is now expected to weaken more as it passes over the yucatan peninsula. good news there. the storm is weakening. >> could have been worse. here is your friday forecast, everybody. thunderstorms from new orleans to montgomery, knoxville, charleston, west virginia. chilly rain around atlanta. for your flight back home today the showers from orlando to miami. chilly, wet...

you may not be surprised to hear who's behind it, peta, people for the ethical treatment of animals. it blows the whistle on unethical treatment of animals anytime it can. they are denied freedom, peta, claims and everything else that is natural and important to them while kept in small, concrete tanks and reduced to performing stupid tricks. the 13th amendment prohibits slavery and these orcas are, by definition, slaves. seaworld, of course, couldn't disagree more. i want to reed you its statement to cnn. this effort to extend the 13th amendment's solemn protections beyond human bei...

However, you can imagine how terrifying it must have been for the folk s on board the plane. >> i was texting my sister to make sure she told my kids i loved them. >> it was in back of me to the left. i did hear it. it sounded like a shot and a lot of air decompressing. it was quick and scary. >> reporter: now, southwest has dealt with this before. a football-sized hole basically opened up on a flight back in 2009 in charleston, west virginia. the cause of that, it turned out, was metal fatigue. the exterior of the plane, the metal was compromised. in that case, there were no injuries. in this...

A three to four-foot hole opened in the roof. many of the passengers thought they were doomed. the pilot managed to land that plane safely at a military base in yuma. ted rowlands is there for us. ted, this is some scary stuff. you were telling me last hour, you just don't hear about things like this happening. >> reporter: yeah, no, t.j. it's very rare. the only real case that you might be able to look to that was similar was at an aloha flight back in 1988 where a large section of the skin of aircraft came of you and in that incident there was a flight attendant that got sukd out of the airc...

Nice meeting you. no, really, thanks. shawn says that's ryan seacrest of "american idol." i said, okay. nice to meet you. and he said to me, now, sweltering airport. the air conditioning wasn't working. lines are backed up. he says, anything i can do for you. i said, yeah, carry my bags. >> so i'm carrying his louis viutton bags. looks like we were on holiday together. you said to me on the flight back, have you been a guest on the show? i said, no. i carried your bags. oh, yeah. come on the show the next week. i did and then in the second commercial break, he said, i want you to guest host th...