Iranian Family Arrive in Canada After Months in Russia.
COLLINS: Want to show you some more tape we have just gotten in here. Apparently, there was a man overboard from a Carnival cruise line after eight hours of sort of flailing around in the water, if you will, he was rescued. This is coast guard video, well actually this is our affiliate WFOR shooting video of the coast guard rescue. He was airlifted to a hospital. Not quite sure of his condition, but we do know this: 24- years-old and according to witnesses he apparently ran through a cabin window on a Carnival cruise line ship and fell into the water. Nobody knows if the window was actually open or not at the time. Witnesses also say, surprise, he was intoxicated. So, it is very good that he is at least out of the water for now and on his way to the hospital. This happened at Port Canaveral, just east of Orlando.</s>HARRIS: Stranded at the airport for 10 months? A family fleeing Iran had a long stopover in Moscow before finally arriving at their new home. CTV reporter Shannon Paterson has the story.</s>SHANNON PATERSON, CTV REPORTER: Tearful family reunions are not unusual at the airport, but this one played out like a Hollywood movie. Zahra Kamalfar's journey to Vancouver began two years ago when she and her two children fled Iran.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: She was lashed and she was in prison and she was persecuted and she fled the country.</s>PATERSON: The family hoped to make its way to Canada as refugees but was detained in Russia and spent ten months living in limbo in the Moscow airport just like Tom Hanks' character in "The Terminal." Eventually, they were granted refugee status by the United Nations. And today, friends and family in Vancouver waited anxiously for their arrival. But at YVR, the family was detained again.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Zahra was smoking on the plane. She was not aware of any rule or regulation on the plane or at airports -- regulation. So, they are stopping her for a while.</s>PATERSON: Eventually the family was released and reunited with Zahra's brother, who hadn't seen his sister in 13 years.</s>ZAHRA KAMALFAR, IRANIAN REFUGEE: Thank you. Thank you so much, Canada, so very much, and people, Canada.</s>ANNA KAMALFAR, IRANIAN REFUGEE: Now I see trees now, I can see again a sky, moon, stars.</s>PATERSON: Overcome by emotion, Zahra collapsed on her way out of the airport. She was overcome again when she stepped onto Canadian soil for the first time, an emotional end to a long ordeal and for this family the beginning of a new life. Shannon Paterson, CTV News.</s>COLLINS: Well, you already know to catch us weekday mornings from 9:00 a.m. until noon Eastern, but hey, you can actually take us with you anywhere you go. The grocery store, fill up your gas tank, on a vacation. Right on your iPod. CNN NEWSROOM podcast available 24/7 on your iPod.</s>HARRIS: I tell you it's the March Madness, winter weather, time travel and knots in the northeast. We will tell you who's flying, and who's grounding their planes. Delayed in the NEWSROOM.