Hero & Rescued Baby Reunited 18 Years Later
CAROL COSTELLO, CNN ANCHOR: Taking a look at some other top stories this morning at 29 minutes past. He's overseeing the military for two presidents but starting in October, former Defense Secretary Robert Gates will take over as President of the Boy Scouts of America; this, during a time of declining membership in that organization and a debate over policies toward gay people. About his new role, Gates says quote "I believe every boy deserves an opportunity to experience what scouting offers." Shocking new developments in the case of a California woman who says she was kidnapped at 15 and then forced to marry her alleged abductor and have his baby. The suspect's lawyer claims the victim is making it all up saying she went along willingly and only turned to police now because she wants a divorce. Now, a story about a hero who made his mark and a reunion 18 years in the making. In 1995, a baby was abandoned after birth. A woman anonymously calling 911 to report she left a baby in a cemetery in freezing temperatures. Well Charlie Heflin was a volunteer firefighter at the time who actually went to that cemetery and found the infant and saved her life. Well that little girl Skyler James is now all grown up. She just graduated from high school. At her graduation last weekend, Heflin reunited for the first time with the little baby he rescued.</s>CHARLIE HEFLIN, RESCUED SKYLER JAMES IN 1995: Oh it was so exhilarating -- just a whirlwind of emotions. I handed her off to the paramedics 18 years ago and I haven't been able to see her since. And just to know that she was so close to me and so local and has done so much with her life is just incredible.</s>COSTELLO: It is incredible. What a great graduation gift for her actually a great gift for both of them. Still to come in the NEWSROOM, a rabbi, a sheikh and a Pope travels to the Holy Land. It's not the start of a joke but it is the start of a big controversy. We'll talk about it next.