Tragedy Striking A Young Couple In New York; Biden Apologizes
BERMAN: Welcome back to EARLY START, everyone. Tragedy striking a young couple here in New York. They were expecting a baby and they were on their way to the hospital because the mom to be was not feeling well. But on the way, their cab was broadsided by another car and both parents were killed. Now, miraculously, doctors were able to deliver the expectant mother's baby boy. At this moment, police are still searching for the occupants of the other car. CNN's Susan Candiotti has more.</s>SUSAN CANDIOTTI, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): An Hasidic community in mourning. An emotional funeral held on a Brooklyn Street outside a synagogue as the caskets of two young parents to be are remembered, so is their miracle baby boy, delivered three months shy of his due date. Doctors quickly performing a C-section after a hit and run crash that killed his parents.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: It's terrible. Sad. One year, not even married a year. You know, they're going in for the happiest time to have a baby. That's what happens. Terrible.</s>CANDIOTTI: Razie Glowber (ph) and her husband, Nathan, both 21, were heading by cab to a hospital around midnight Saturday.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Suddenly, she just wasn't feeling well. Just they wanted to check it out.</s>CANDIOTTI: They never made it. This is what the cab looks like after police say a hit-and-run driver smacked into the passenger side of the cab at an intersection. The roof is now sheered-off. Investigators say the driver of a light-colored BMW and a passenger took off on foot, the front of that vehicle smashed.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The message to the driver used to be in my younger years was give yourself up before we find you.</s>CANDIOTTI: The baby's mother was dead on arrival at a hospital, but doctors saved her son. At his parents funeral, friends and family said the mother to be worked. Her husband studied the Torah, and both were looking forward to starting a family.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: We just lost a beautiful couple. Two wonderful people, always with a smile on their face, always trying to help.</s>CANDIOTTI (on-camera): Now, help is pouring in for their new baby boy who will be raised by two sets of grandparents. Susan Candiotti, CNN, New York.</s>BERMAN: Really, such a tragedy. Now, their driver of the cab was taken to the hospital and later released after doctors determined that he was not seriously hurt. Pedro Dela Cruz told reporters he is lucky to be alive.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: The only thing I can remember is when somebody was on the side of me, passenger side, telling me don't worry, don't worry, the ambulance is on the way. That's the only thing I remember.</s>BERMAN: Dela Cruz described the young couple in his cab as nice people. He says he feels just awful about what happened to them.</s>SAMBOLIN: That is a terrible story. Forty-four minutes past the hour. Joe Biden apologizing Sunday for something that he didn't do. The vice president joining hundreds of marchers in Selma, Alabama, to commemorate Bloody Sunday. That is a day in 1965 when civil rights activists were attacked by state police. They were marching to pressure Congress to pass the voting rights bill, and Biden says he should have been there.</s>JOE BIDEN, VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES: I was involved in my state in a small way, which was still fighting the lingering vestiges of Jim Crow. But I regret, and although it's not part of what I'm supposed to say, apologize that it took me 48 years to get here. I should have been here. I should have been here.</s>SAMBOLIN: Biden marched Sunday with Georgia Congressman John Lewis who was among those beaten by police 48 years ago.</s>BERMAN: Right now, the cardinals who will vote on the next Pope are meeting at the Vatican. We're going to go live to Rome coming up.</s>SAMBOLIN: Plus, Keith Olbermann reportedly plotting a return to his TV sports routes.</s>BERMAN: Oh, that should be interesting.