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Winds for the last hour or so. But this is the first of some of the rain bands that we have just started to get. We may lose actually our signal. But well just keep on going as long as we can. I want to go to Patrick Oppmann who is stand big in cuba. Patrick, what is the situation there . Well, along the northern coast here in florida, weve been feeling rain bands as well as squalls coming in. It has been knocking out the power here for the last several hours. We only have lights up because we have a generator. No one else in this small town along the cuban coast where we are appears to have o...

In Damascus, a dance studio helps Syrians cope with the dire political and economic situation caused by the 11-year war. Instructor Adnan Mohammed sees dancing as a welcome form of release.

Some Syrian young people are learning that dance is a healing release from their many war-related worries. For an hour each week, they study Latin dance at a school in Damascus. Recently, the group stepped energetically to the sounds of salsa music.

DAMASCUS, Syria (AP) — One, two, three, stop. Five, six, seven, stop: A group of young Syrian men and women step, sway and twirl to the backdrop of salsa music, dancing their worries away. For an hour a week in a Damascus studio, their instructor Adnan Mohammed, 42, teaches a class the basics of Latin dancing, helping his students forget the troubles of war — if even briefly.

Adnan Mohammed teaches Latin dance for an hour a week in a Damascus studio, helping his students forget the troubles of war — if even briefly