>> i'm definitely going to change some things for sure. it really opens your eyes when you hear a report like that. we talked to independent experts who said this as well, what they found there didn't surprise them. to stay healthy has more power now. the best thing you can do is wash your hands and do it a lot. if you don't have access to soap and water, use hand sanitizer. also, try to clean up that break room. that wraps things up for sgmd today. you can follow me at cnn.com/sanjay or on twitter @sanjayguptacnn. time to get a check of your top stories in the cnn "newsroom." >> from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, this is cnn "sunday morning." two american men are being questioned in the murder of an irish student in tokyo. now, an international investigation is under way. plus, planning to hit the beach this holiday weekend? might want to have a plan "b." part of the country is bracing for a tropical storm that could

hit just hours from now. we'll have a live report. and later, an incredible story about a girl who survived the horrors of war to become an icon of hope. "new york times" columnist nick kristof explains. good morning, everyone. i'm randi kaye. a lot to tell you about this morning. but first we start with the arrest of those two american men in japan. police picked them up after the body of an irish exchange student was found in one of their hotel rooms. i'm joined on the telephone from tokyo. what can you tell us about this woman? we're looking at a picture of her. she is the victim in this case. tell us how she died. >> reporter: well, we know her name is nicola furlong. she was studying in japan and she had just recently celebrated her 21st birthday.

what tokyo police are telling us is she died by something called suffocation by cervical compression, and that does sound like it's strangulation. kyoto news agency is reporting that she and a friend went to a nicki minaj tokyo. she and her friend ended up with these men at a hotel in a party area here in tokyo. the police confirm that she was hours later found dead in the hotel room and that in that hotel room was one of these americans and at this point the police say they are trying to figure out how these two men fit in with this woman's death. >> and do we know anything more about who these two men are? >> we do know they are american. the susmth state department does confirm that two americans, that these men have been arrested. they would not release their names, but the tokyo police say that they are both entertainers. there is a 19-year-old. he is a musician, he's a minor under japanese law. and a 23-year-old dancer named

james blackstone. we don't know if they are part of the nicki minaj concert group or if they were simply attending, but we know at that concert is where they met. >> and they have been arrested. have they brought any charges against them yet? >> reporter: and this is where it really does get a little tricky. what the police tell us is that, yes, they have arrested them, but not for the -- any connection, direct connection, to the death. they are holding these men for fondling her friend in the back of a taxi. now, presumably that's so they can fully investigate this because one of the men was found in the same room with the woman when she died and that they perhaps are concerned they may be a flight risk and they're just trying to figure out again how these men fit in with this woman's death. >> thank you very much. her death has rattled her small

community in ireland. joining me on the phone is her pastor father jim fitzpatrick. tell me first how her parents are doing? >> it's devastated the local area because the parish to which she belongs is very small, rural in which there are ont 300 or 400 families in the total. so i mean all of these 300 or 400 families would know each other quite well. when something of any nature happens it has a huge impact, the death of a young person especially. everybody knows and everybody is in some way involved or concerned. and when it happens in tragic circumstances and so far away from long, it has a double impact on people, you know. >> what was nicola like? >> she was an outgoing, bubbly sort of girl. very well liked. she celebrated her 21st birthday party last december and was really looking forward to being

finished, her course in tokyo, which would have been the last days of july. so she was according to text messages ready to come home. in recent days even she was looking forward to going to the concert but she was also looking forward very much so to getting back to her local community. >> can you tell us when the last time her parents had spoken with her was? >> my understanding is they had spoken with her on the same day as this nicki minaj concert took place. obviously given the time differen difference, they had last contact at the crucial moments. >> and what does the family plan to do in terms of getting answers? are they in touch with investigators or authorities there in tokyo? >> well, my understanding is that the irish embassy are looking after all of that, and they are keeping the family very much updated with any developments that are ongoing. >> how long had she been there?

>> she was there since last october. it was part of an exchange with dublin university. >> and i'm curious how this is impacting the community there. this is a small town, as you said, so i'm sure everybody there as you were talking about is aware of this. what will you do to help the community get through this? >> about all we can do is try to be there for them in whatever way we can, and i know that's the underwhelming wish of everyone is to be as supportive as they can possibly be in a very, very difficult situation, and the wish of everyone is to be whatever support or encouragement they can be to everyone involved. >> how is her sister doing? i understand she had posted just i believe that day or recently some pictures of nicola on her facebook page. how is she holding up? >> she's holding up okay. you seem to know more about her facebook page than i do because

some of your reporters have already mentioned to me you had been on the facebook page already. when there's only two sisters, they're obviously very close siblings, and that's an important thing in all of this as well. they are very close and, as i say, the community is small. so something like this impacts grae greatly on all involved, and most especially andrea, her sister. >> we're so very sorry for your loss. father jim fitzpatrick, thank you very much for your time this morning. >> no problem. thank you. back here at home it's a holiday weekend. tomorrow is memorial day, and you're looking at live pictures of the u.s. marine corps war memorial in arlington. there are several special events planned in the nation's capital and around the country to remember our fallen soldiers. president obama will honor those soldiers at an event at arlingtoncemetery tomorrow. volunteers placed more than 260,000 american flags on the

graves in arlington in prerption for memorial day. to syria 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 of hula. as many as 32 of them were children. members of the opposition fortioforces say they are ready to retaliate and say the u.n.-backed peace plan is dead. here is the head of the u.n. observer mission. >> we have through our observers counted 85 corpses, and the tragedy is elevated by the fact that 34 of the dead were children under the age of 10, and 7 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 responsible for the massacre. a spokesman for the free syrian army, the leading voice of the

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i'm tweeting away here so if you want to keep me company, feel free to send me a tweet. it is shaping up to be a pretty nasty holiday weekend in parts of the southeast. so let's bring in meteorologist bonnie schneider. she's keeping an eye on it for us. bring us up to date on beryl. >> beryl is going to make landfall sometime later tonight or even early monday somewhere along the southeast coast. let's look at subtropical storm beryl. you can see much more organization today than yesterday. maximum winds are still at 50 miles per hour, and the storm is now moving to the west-southwest at 10 miles per hour. so the movement is a little bit more fast than it was before, but we are going to see it slow down as it gets closer to the coast. so we have right now tropical storm warnings in effect from south carolina all the way down to brevard county in florida. it's quite an extensive area that could see winds of 39 miles per hour or stronger. we're likely to see the rain come in and the winds pick up as

well. we're also monitoring not only the bands of rain but the threat for heavy surf, and that's going to be a concern as we go into the afternoon today and so many people are headed to the beach. we had some concerns with rip currents yesterday. more of that will be likely today as you can see the landfall looks like somewhere in the coastal areas of florida or georgia. the cone of uncertainty is pretty far and wide. this storm affects a large area inland. it will bring heavy rain, possibly 3 to 6 inches on the high side, 1 inch on the low side. you can see our forecast precipitation model shows some of the heaviest rain to the west of jacksonville, florida, along i-10. many of you are still driving to travel for today for this hol dye weekend. you may be dodging heavy rain and strong winds in that region. dangerous swimming conditions. you know, rip currents are a huge concern. i know the surfers are all excited to get out there and hit the waves, but please know rip currents can always see them and they're very dangerous. never swim on a beach that doesn't have a lifeguard. that could be very dangerous. let's talk about the rest of the country. we still have a threat for severe storms, but this time

it's right in the center of the nation. cities like minneapolis, you will be impacted by strong thunderstorms later today. also a big story today is the heat. the temperatures are soaring today, and we're going to be facing some temperatures into the 90s across parts of the midsouth and even right here in atlanta. airport delays are something we're watching. this is a concern for travelers for today. also florida, a lot of thunderstorms across the state. be careful if your driving or expect airport delays if you're flying. >> all right, bonnie. thank you very much. appreciate that. a decade of civil war ravaged the west african nation of sierra leone in the '90s, but one little girl not only survived the tragedy that killed her mother and grandmother, she has now recreated her life right here in the u.s. with the help of her adoptive parents and she's thriving. i spoke with "new york times" columnist nick kristof about the amazing story of mumuna. you write in your column this week about the atrocities of years past in sierra leone in

west africa, but in doing so somehow you make us smile with one of the most uplifting story that is i have read in a long time about a little girl who was once the symbol of such atrocities. tell me first what happened to her there. >> well, this girl was -- she had had her arm amputated on the right side just below the shoulder, and she was photographed all over the world. these images of this 2-year-old girl as a victim of this militia in sierra leone that was going around killing people and most famously amputating people's arms and feet. for me it was really a reminder of the power of images to fight atrocities and the power of that narrative. >> her grandmother and mother both tried to save her but as you write they were both shot right in front of her. it was her brother who was just 11 at the time that got her to safety. >> they had a good upper class lifestyle in the capital of sierra leone, about you then her father fled. her mother and grandmother hid her with her in a mosque nearby,

and by some accounts it was this girl crying that led the fighters to look inside that mosque for people, and when they entered, the grandmother tried to run away holding this little girl in her arms. these fighters opened fire. they shot the grandmother dead. some of the bullets hit the girl on her side, and they also shattered her arm. her mother ran toward her to try to rescue her injured daughter, and the militia fired on the mother and mortally wounded her. it was her 11-year-old brother who scooped up this girl, scooped up his 2-year-old sister, and carried her across town to a hospital, but there were so many people needing help that it was three days before a doctor could see her, and at that point they needed to amputate her arm. they couldn't save it. >> so how did she end up in the united states? >> she came to the attention of the rotary foundation, which brought her and a group of other

amputees to the united states for medical treatment. when she was here they thought it would really be very difficult to send her back, and they began to look for an adoptive family, and there is this family in washington, d.c., the woman, kelly mcshane, had been a peace corps volunteer in sierra leone, spoke the language, creole, and they already had a daughter and a son, and they thought, boy, they could use one more member of the family, and so they adopted this girl. >> and so you mentioned she's a basketball star now with one arm. how is she doing? >> she's amazingly well-adjusted, and she -- you know, i sort of was asking to what extent not having an arm slowed her down, and she let me know in no uncertain terms that she can do absolutely anything that a person with two arms can do with the sole exception, she

allowed, of maybe monkey bars. >> wow, her attitude, just even reading your column, it's so refreshing. it really comes through. she does believe she can do anything. and really considering what she's been through, it's an incredible attitude to have, isn't it? >> yeah. i mean, to me there's really an object lesson here in that you have this girl who was a symbol of the hup man capacity for evi and now the person who had been presiding over those atrocities in sierra leone, charles taylor, is now convicted by an international court. sierra leone has moved on and mumuna has moved on, and she seems to me a symbol of the extraordinary human capacity of resilience. >> my thanks, of course, as always to nick kristof who addsm she is viewed as an icon in

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good sunday morning, everyone. checking stories cross count now. it is the diamond anniversary for one of the nation's most iconic symbols, the golden gate bridge, celebrating its 75th birthday. family events, music, fireworks, and an appearance by the "uss minim nimitz" will help mark the celebration. more than 2 billion vehicles have crossed the bridge since it opened in 1937. you know it's memorial day weekend when the rolling thunder rolls into the nation's capitol

in a tribute to p.o.w.s and m.i.a.s. bikers will wave flags and rev their engines for troops. the parents of bowe bergdahl, a p.o.w. in afghanistan, are expected to lead the way in a vintage model t. ft. hood has kicked off their week-long celebration to honor vets. in washington state ft. lewis soldiers enjoyed a day of celebration and remembrance. families were reunited on this memorial day weekend. cnn affiliate komo covered the homecoming. ♪ >> reporter: marching in, it's the first time most of these soldiers and their loved ones have seen each other in a whole year. >> first thing you do is look for your family. >> reporter: that moment can be overwhelming. >> it was more emotional than i thought it was going to be. >> reporter: no longer separated

by a war so far very far away, you want the embrace to last forever. >> like a smile over your entire body. >> i feel complete. i feel like i can relax again and i feel like i can finally be happy. >> reporter: major joseph holland had no idea he'd be posing for a family reunion picture. >> it was so amazing. i didn't know anybody was going to be here. i just thought it would be my wife and family. and to see my extended family here was amazing. >> reporter: it was supposed to be a surprise for sergeant first class johnny moore's two boys, but kids can be pretty intuitive. did you know dad was coming home? >> yes. >> oh, you knew? >> reporter: nobody mentioned this until i did, but the fact that this homecoming falls on memorial day weekend is not lost on these soldiers. >> it reminds me of those that went before us, those that sacrificed so that we can be here so that we can come home. and that's why memorial day is special to us. >> and once again that was mark

miller for cnn affiliate komo reporting. remembering our fallen heroes this memorial day. we'll talk with one man who has turned his search for his father's remains into an inspiration for others. and an organization dedicated to preserving their memories.

this weekend we remember those who have fallen in battle, but i want to take a moment to talk about vietnam. last week president obama issued a proclamation asking americans to remember the war. he declared may 28th, tomorrow, as the start of the commemoration of the 50th anniversary of the vietnam war saying we reflect with solemn

referen reference upon the valor of a veneration that served. tony cordero lost his father in vietnam in 1965. he's dedicated himself to honoring his father's memory and to helping other gold star children do the same. thank you, tony, for joining us this morning. >> thanks for having me. >> first, tell us a little bit about your dad. >> he was typical soldier from the vietnam era. he graduated from loyola university in los angeles, was an rotc student, was a hispanic officer in the air force in the late '50s and early '60s which was unique and was the navigator in a b-57 which was lost on the vietnam border. >> you founded the sons and daughters in touch. tell me a little bit about it. >> in the late '80s many of us were growing up, young adults,

and wondered were we the only ones who had lost our fathers in the war? we formed this national coalition that became sons and daughters in touch and now we have members from every corner of the country. our dads served in every branch and literally every rank in the military during the war, and we were one of the standard bearers with the gold star families organizations. >> and i would imagine that a lot of you are still having trouble finding out what really happened to your fathers in vietnam. >> correct. a number of our members still are searching for answers to the fate of their father. they're listed as missing, and the joint p.o.w./m.i.a. accounting command in honolulu is searching for those answers, but our members still are asking those questions. >> and you can catch that entire interview and more later today. just check out my "newsroom" blog. go to cnn.com/randi, and there you can find the stories and the

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in the u.s. the tsa is easing security screening for older flyers. passengers 75 years and older won't have to take their shoes, belts, and jackets off when they go through security checkpoints at new york airports. the modified security measures were test run at chicago, denver, orlando, and portland, oregon, airports. they're being rolled out across the country through the summer. it's one of the most watched events in the world. the euro vision song contest is the multinational talent contest that's viewed by around 125 million people. this year's winner comes from sweden. ♪ >> that's her right there. her name is loreen. she follows in the footsteps of past winners like abba and

celine dion. that group we showed you earlier, those were singing grannies from russia, and they actually finished second. time now for today's "faces of faith." you may have heard about the north carolina pastor who called for the elimination of all gays and lesbians, but it wasn't just his plan that got eyes popping, it was also how he wanted to do it. listen to this. >> build a great big, large fence, 50 or 100 mile long, put all the lesbians in there, fly over and drop some food. do the same thing with the queers and the homosexuals, and have that fence electrified so they can't get out. feed them and you know what? in a few years they'll die out. >> that pastor's name is charles

who areall lall lallreally. he's a preacher. >> he would give you the shirt off his back. he would do anything he could for you. >> he said in church he wants to put gay people behind electric fences and have them all die out. what do you think about that? >> well, 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, and you know -- >> but you're saying it's okay if you feed them? >> i'm not saying it's okay one way or the other. i'm saying that is his. . >> probably the most compassionate man i have ever kno known. i don't know. he's got a big heart for people. >> joining me now to talk more about this, faith and culture writer jonathan merit, the author of "a faith of our own: following jesus beyond the

culture wars." jo jonathan, good morning to you. there's the issue of preaching politics at the pulpit as well. we'll get to more on that in a moment. but i want to ask you your reaction to his comments? >> when i hear those comments on there, i can't hear what his congregant calls compassion at all, but when i hear his comments or the other north carolina pastor who advocating for physically abusing limp wristed children, a host of words come to my mind, inappropriate, inexcusable, ignorant. but the word that sticks out is unchristian. if you take this clip you just showed and put it up next the teachings and ministry of jesus christ you find in the new testame testament, there's a chasm that i can't find a bridge long enough to cross that di divide. >> several commentators say he's on the fringe, he's not representative of the mainstream. do you think that that's the

case? >> well, i think in one case that is right because i think he is probably out of step with most christians in america, but in another sense that's very untrue when you think about mainstream christian leaders. there's still a faction among christian leaders of hateful and even homophobic individuals in america. you take a person like judge roy moore in alabama, you remember he was famous a few years ago for the ten commandments debacle in that state. he's toured in mainstream christian churches all across this country and is on record as saying that homosexuality is an abhorrent crime, a detestable crime against nature that should be punishable by law. you take a person like david barton who has been making his rounds on the mainstream media outlets recently. he's got a book out now with one of the largest evangelical publishers in the united states with thomas nelson. he says that homosexuality should be regulated and even compares it to things like salt and cigarettes and transfats and

points to thomas jefferson who he claims, and i can find this nowhere on the internet or in any books, but says he authored a bill that would punish sodomy by castration. so i think that it's time that the mainstream christians who are out of step with this guy stop listening to the leaders who are in step with them. >> let's talk about this notion of loving the sinners but hating the sin. because for worley at least we hear a lot more hating, not much of the love. is this whole thing really just a facade? >> i don't know that i can judge his heart. i don't know that i can say it's a facade or that there's some sort of loaded motive. i can only take him at his word. what i do think is that we do a lot more hating as christians in america than we do loving anyone, so that can be frustrating. especially when it comes to this conversation. i believe i'm a part of a new generation of christians who say enough is enough and we are increasingly intolerant of this kind of hate speech, which i think doesn't reflect very

accurately on the message that jesus promoted. >> i want to talk to you more about what you just mentioned, but let's play one more snippet from the sermon that pastor worley gave where he starts talking specifically politics and president obama. listen. >> i'll tell you right now if somebody said who are you going to vote for? i ain't going to vote for a baby killer and a homosexual lover! >> i mean, you listen to this, this clearly violates the church's tax exempt status. it's mixing politics and religion. what do you think should happen here? >> well, randi, get ready, because in the fall when pulpit freedom sunday campaign comes around, we're going to be having lots of conversations about this. church pastors will come out in droves. this is a real problem. what a lot of peep don't know, it's not just a problem on the right. it's a problem on the left. a 2010 study showed that 44% of conservative evangelical pastors say they publicly endorsed a candidate. but what's interesting is 40% of

more liberal mainline pastors say they did the same thing. so both sides in america are actually guilty of reducing their congregations to a voting bloc of using their pulpits as platforms for partisan politicking, and it is time that we in america decide that the church should not be used this way, that this is an abuse of our sacred calling. >> you wrote in your book quite a bit about this new generation of christians and you mentioned it here. what is the goal of the new generation? >> there is a new generation that's coming of age in america and they are engaging the public square differently. they're still theologically orthodox and pill pli involved in the public square. they're engaging differently with a broader agenda, more civilly and less partisan. this is a good thing. because the christian church in america is in serious trouble. church attendance is declining or in some denominations is

failing to keep up with population growth. the christian movement in america is exerting less influence over the public square and even the broader culture than it was even a decade ago. part of the reason for this is many sociologists have shown is because the church has become so partisan that it is literally turning away nonbelievers in record numbers. >> so do you believe that the new generation can really redefine or take back christianity? >> i don't know that any generation is ever going to get it right. if we could, maybe we would have gotten it done in the last 2,000 years of christian history, but i do think this generation now has an opportunity that perhaps no generation before it has had in quite the same way to show not just america, but to show the world that following jesus is not hateful, it's not judgmental, it's not hypocritical, but following jesus transforms a person into being more loving and more compassionate and if we can do that, i think we will finally show the world that this thing we call the gospel of jesus

christ really is good news. >> jonathan, great to have you on again. >> my pleasure. >> nice to see you. enjoy your sunday. for more stories on faith, check out our widely popular belief blog at cnn.com/belief. the obama campaign is putting mitt romney's time at bain capital front and center, but could that strategy backfire? still to come, a rundown of the week's political news with "state of the union" host candy crowley. but first, a very good morning to new york city. a great shot there. columbus circle, right on the edge of central park south. glad you're watching cnn "sunday morning."

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we are loving our music this morning. let's go to washington now. cnn's "state of the union" coming up at the top of the hour. host candy crowley joining us. good morning to you. >> morning. >> for the past seven days the presidential race has turned into this battle of bain capital. it seems the democrats and republicans taking sides. what do you think? is bain resonating with the voters? >> bain is not really about bain, this fight, it's about who is mitt romney. it is part of the obama re-elect struggle to portray mitt romney as, you know, this is a guy that actually doesn't care about the economy in so far as the other 99% are concerned. this is about -- he's wealthy, he's greedy, he had this job

where middle class people lost their jobs but he made a big profit. this is the time in the campaign where mitt romney needs to define himself lest your opponents do it for you. this is their attempt by the romney re-elect campaign to fill out the balanks that people hav about who is mitt romney before romney can get to it. i think that's why you see romney responding with let's talk about the economy, because what the romney folks want to do is keep the focus on the economy. they think that's their winning formula. 24/7 all about the economy. what the obama people are trying to do is to knock him off that stride and to say to the american people, he actually doesn't get you, he doesn't understand you, this is what he's all about. so it's not so much about bain per se as about who is mitt romney. >> right. and so will the backlash do you think from the democrats over the obama campaign strategy then force them to change course

here? >> i don't think so. i mean, i think they will change course in due course in the sense that they have a plan that they lay out. i think you will hear from the obama campaign a little bit more about mitt romney, what did he do in massachusetts? he was governor of massachusetts. well, let's look at his record. i think they have a plan that will unfold throughout the summer. i know they do, that goes at various aspects of mitt romney's resume. they wanted to get at bain capital first simply because of the strength that romney shows in the poll numbers when you ask people what do you think of who could best handle the economy? it's pretty much tied, and if this election is going to be about the economy, what the obama team decided they had to do was to undercut what they saw as romney's fiercest argument, which is, hey, i know business, i was a businessman, i can fix this economy. >> given that it's memorial day weekend, sandy, i know you're

issuing your veterans' report card. what issues are you looking at? >> veterans' benefits from the va, soldiers who are no longer able to serve in the military because of injuries of one sort or another but are still kind of caught in the bureaucracy of getting out, and, of course, we're looking at health care for veterans coming home. >> all very important issues certainly for veterans. candy, thank you very much. nice to see you. >> thanks. a look at the week ahead next. diarrhea, gas or bloating? get ahead of it! one phillips' colon health probiotic cap a day helps defend against digestive issues with three strains of good bacteria. hit me! [ female announcer ] live the regular life. phillips'.

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primary. also on tuesday, by the way, the u.s. nuns will meet in washington, d.c. this is the most influential group of catholic nuns. they will begin a week-long meeting in washington, and on the agenda is the vatican's recent designatures cision to a bishop to keep the nuns in line with the church's teachings. on saturday, here we go, okay, just dunn want to ploesn't want. we're expecting a verdict against hosni mubarak. mubarak has denied the charges. one week from today we have the diamond jubilee. royal watchers will ring in a historic occasion as britain's queen elizabeth marks 60 years on the throne. the diamond jubilee celebration kicks off with a special flotilla on the river thames and cnn will bring you the whoale event. meet one of the queen's

closest friends, margaret roads. cnn's nick glass makes the introduction. >> reporter: the photographs on the side table tell their own story. marg are the chods is, aret rho royally connected. >> we go to the same church in the park here on sunday, and if she's very busy she comes in and has a drink after church. it sort of keeps up the relationship. >> gin and tonic or what? >> gin. >> reporter: she is the queen's first cousin and her childhood companion. it was a friendship that resulted in much high jinx. this is how she remembers ve day in 1945. >> a wonderful moment. they were out in the crowds with everybody and we all surged up

to trafalgar square and everybody was kissing everybody and putting policemen's helmets on their heads. it was that sort of thing and it went on for four nights running. we came back to buckingham palace and yelled for the queen and king to come out on the balcony. >> including -- >> including their two daughters yelling which was first time they had ever seen the balcony from down below. it was a magical moment in a way, you know. >> reporter: she was a bridesmaid at princess elizabeth's wedding. a framed photograph hangs in her house in windsor and she speaks highly of the groom that day. >> that was nick glass reporting. we'll be right back. [ male announcer ] knowing your customers

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