Missing Girl's Brother to Vatican: Open Up
COSTELLO: 42 minutes past the hour. Checking our top stories now -- live pictures from Jekyll Island where tropical storm Beryl is pounding the southeast coast of Georgia. Farther south in Jacksonville, Florida, a dozen flights had to be canceled at the airport because of some minor damage there. So far up to three inches of rain have fallen in some areas and about 15,000 remain without power. To Michigan's upper peninsula, where there is some progress to report on the so-called Duck Lake fire, but not much. Containment still stands at 48 percent. The cruise say they've bulldozed lines that should keep the fire from growing. So far more than 22,000 acres have burned. Let's head out to National Arlington Cemetery in Virginia. This is the U.S. Army Band. It's playing at the ampitheater there and you can see all the people there waiting for the President to come out. He will be out in about -- we're thinking about 15 minutes to lay a wreath at the Tomb of the Unknowns. When the President and the First Lady does that, of course, we will have it for you live. Now to Italy, where a 30-year-old mystery may soon be solved. 15-year-old Emmanuela Orlandi (ph) disappeared in 1983. Since then, her case has instigated conspiracy theories blaming everyone from the Mafia to the Vatican, including a top Vatican exorcist official who claims the teenager was kidnapped for sexual reasons. Earlier this month Italian authorities opened the crypt of a mob boss, buried at a church owned by the Vatican. And what they found was shocking -- dozens of boxes containing remains that did not belong to that mob figure. Those remains are now being tested for a possible match to Orlandi. Now, her family is urging the Vatican to open a serious investigation. CNN's Barbie Nadeau is live in Rome. This just doesn't even sound real.</s>BARBIE NADEAU, ROME BUREAU CHIEF, "NEWSWEEK" AND "THE DAILY BEAST": No, it's a very complicated case. That's definitely -- there's no question about that. You know, the mobster, the member of the Italian criminal gang was buried in the church in 1997, for reasons nobody really is clear about. There are allegations that perhaps his family gave a huge sum of money to the Church, to the Vatican to ensure that he was buried in this protected place so that his tomb wouldn't be desecrated if they weren't in a public cemeteries and things like that. But the family of Emmanuela Orlandi believes that there is something more to it. They want answers. They believe that the Vatican is holding back information, and that they know a lot more than they have been forthcoming with at this point.</s>COSTELLO: Why hasn't the Vatican agreed to get more involved?</s>NADEAU: Well, because they don't have to. You know, the Vatican is a own sovereign nation -- is its own city state. It's basically what happens there stays there. They don't have to be accountable to everyone else. There are only about 220 people who live inside the Vatican; only a handful of those people are non-clerical people. And you know, usually they can take matters into their own hands. They have their own criminal justice system. They have their own judges. They have their own method of dealing with things. So until now, they have not had to be very transparent with these things. There is so much pressure though outside of Italy -- outside of the Vatican City within Italy because this case is really underscores that difference in that wall between the Vatican and the country. And, you know, for 30 years people have wanted to know the answer, and it's really getting, I would say gaining steam now. They are really making progress in terms of getting the Vatican to agree to open the tomb, in terms of listening to the family members and things like that. There was a demonstration this Sunday, the brother of the missing girl marched with a number of followers to St. Peter's square, carrying signs of the girl hoping that The Pope would make a reference to her. Of course, he could see those signs from his window when he gave his Sunday blessing. He did not say a word about the young girl.</s>COSTELLO: When will the DNA test come back?</s>NADEAU: Well, we're expecting, you know, the next week to 10 days that there should be some information coming out of those tests. They were able to determine that many of those bones were ancient, were very old. They had been buried perhaps in a previous era in that crypt. But some of the bones were recent. Some of the bones -- and those are the ones that were retested so see if they are matched to Emmanuela Orland, and of course, who are they if they are not hers? Whose bones are they is another question they want to know the answer to.</s>COSTELLO: Barbie Nadeau reporting live from Rome this morning. Back in the United States, we are breathing a little easier at the bump. We are not at the $4 gas range analysts expected by now, but why? We'll break it down for you.