Good morning everybody.
Glad to have you with us. Here it is.
8:00 AM quite a special day with a
huge homecoming that's happening.
I'm not at your Rockport
and I'm Evan Irani who wanna start
off with the check of the forecast.
A lot of those military families
are out in North Island.
They are anxiously awaiting their loved
ones and as we start off the morning,
temperatures are mostly in the upper
70s and low 80s this afternoon.
At least that's where your highs are.
We are looking live right now
out at the USS Abraham Lincoln.
How about this?
A clearer start to the morning.
Beautiful, beautiful.
As Neda you were mentioning earlier,
all those military members lined up there.
Yeah, I mean thousands of people as you know,
these carriers are huge.
You can see that here with
this live shot right now.
So it's coming in to the San Diego Bay,
right there through downtown Coronado.
You'll get a view of this
anywhere along the Embarcadero,
which is where our photographers
as well giving you this live look.
The San Diego Webcam is also out showing
this and look all those tiny kind of
dots that you see on the top deck.
Those are sailors dressed up in uniform.
The looting San Diego as they
come into our beautiful city.
It is so great to see such a
patriotic moment when these
carriers come in through the Bay.
I mean, it's a beautiful day which obviously
adds to the just beauty about all of this.
But the fact that there are now thousands
of families who get to see their loved ones,
kids who get to see their parents,
that's so exciting.
Husbands and wives,
of course waiting for this moment as
yeah, now you were mentioning the
other day some of these military
members haven't seen their kids.
Some of them you know their their wives.
Gave birth while they were out deployed,
so seven months since
they've seen their families.
CBS 8 Dana Marie Mcnichol
is live at Nas North Island.
She is getting a closer look I Dana Marie.
Hi Evan, Annetta you just mentioned
how many of those sailors haven't
seen their families in seven months
and I have Adeline here and little
Louie and he was actually born during
this deployment so this must be such
an incredible day and a reunion
it is. We've been looking forward to this
for months and it was definitely hard
giving birth to him while he was gone.
It was. One of the hardest
experiences I've ever gone through,
but we're just so excited to have
him home safe and I can't wait
for him to get off that ship.
And I know it's not been fun for him.
I'm just. That reunion's
gonna be one of the most.
Exciting moments and the biggest relief
that I felt in a long time knowing he's safe
and you have another one on your back.
You have two. Look at you Mama,
you're amazing and I know that this this
journey of hasn't been easy for you.
What are the?
What's the most exciting thing
you're looking forward to?
I know you're actually here on the
pier because mothers who had a child
born during deployment get a little
bit of extra space and time to say hi. I
think I'm most excited for the
moment he gets to. Meet my youngest.
Also get to see how much our oldest
has grown because before he left he
was barely saying Mama and now he's
talking in almost full sentences so
him getting to see how much both of
our boys have grown since he left
is definitely the most excited,
exciting moment for me.
Because it would.
Yeah and Adeline. What was
the communication like while being
deployed for those seven months
for the beginning of it it was
just emails like we only had.
Well, probably about six months in and
then the last couple months they had Wi-Fi,
so he was able to call every
day over Wi-Fi and it was.
It was a huge relief because
I knew he was safe every day.
But before that it was one or
two emails a week if that.
So it was. It was hard.
No, not knowing where he was at,
but it was definitely a lot easier
towards the end when they had Wi-Fi
and we see them coming in right now.
So many of them saluting on that ship.
What I just have the chills.
I can't even imagine what you're feeling.
And and what so many other
mothers are feeling,
so we'll send it back into the studio.
But thank you so much for your service,
your husband, service of to you
know so much sacrifice that
happens here and we're going to
be looking forward to seeing that
reunion and bye bye bye Baby Louie.
Ohh Dana Marie, look at that
live shot right now. OHS
is awesome these this is literally
a special San Diego moments that
we get to experience live on the
air as this is about to dock.
I mean any moment now it'll be here
and I cannot imagine for that mother to
give birth without her husband with her.
So for him to be able to see his
family again is so exciting and
hopefully we'll be able to see
that reunion of that family.
That would be amazing.