Harsher Prison Term for Millennium Bomber; Hurricane Sandy Pounds Jamaica; U.S. Marine Meets Daughter
BLITZER: Lisa's back. She's monitoring some of the other top stories in THE SITUATION ROOM right now. Including a harsher prison sentence -- excuse me, for the so-called millennium bomber. Lisa, what's going on?</s>LISA SYLVESTER, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Wolf, Ahmed Resam was resentenced today by a U.S. appeals court. The court found that his original 22- year prison term was too lenient and added 15 years to his sentence for plotting to set off explosives at Los Angeles International Airport. Federal prosecutors appeal the first sentence complaining that Resam went back on a deal to help them prosecute other suspected militants. And Hurricane Sandy is pounding Jamaica and drawing a bead on Cuba. The Category 1 storm is packing maximum sustained winds of 80 miles per hour. Both Jamaica and Cuba are under hurricane warnings and the Bahamas are under a tropical storm warning. Sandy is forecast to miss the United States entirely. And we all know this. Our men and women in uniform make unimaginable sacrifices when they serve overseas. There are those missed anniversaries, those first days of school and time that they never can get back. Ashley Porter, from our affiliate WTSP reports on a Marine's homecoming that was more special than usual.</s>ASHLEY PORTER, WTSP REPORTER (voice-over): Through the crowd of suitcases and passengers.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What time is it?</s>PORTER: You see the smiles and the signs of a family.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's overwhelming.</s>PORTER: Waiting for their Marine to come home.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: It's not easy, but when you really love somebody, it's worth it.</s>PORTER: During each of her husband's four deployments, Dana has done this wait. But her daughter, 4-month-old Sofia, never has.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Are you excited to meet daddy?</s>PORTER: This will be Sophia's first time ever meeting her dad. Contract and communications field specialist, Fernando Chuva.</s>UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: She already has teeth.</s>PORTER: When she was born, he was already in Afghanistan.</s>DANA CHUVA, WIFE OF U.S. MARINE: When we were in the hospital we videotaped that and sent it to him. As far as Skyping, I think he maybe has Skyped with her three or four times. The internet's not very good over there. It's very difficult.</s>PORTER: Sofia looks and acts like her dad, which has made the wait easier for her mom.</s>DANA CHUVA: I feel like now I have a part of him home.</s>PORTER: And she's about to have all of him here.</s>UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hi, baby. My Lord, look at her go.</s>PORTER: As fellow passengers stop to take it in.</s>FERNANDO CHUVA, U.S. MARINE CORPS: The feeling is just a sigh of relief. No words to express it. I was just so happy, Jesus.</s>SYLVESTER: It's stories like that that make you want to tear up. That was Ashley Porter from our affiliate WTSP. He will have two weeks of diaper changing duty in Tampa before returning to Afghanistan, but he expects to be home for good by Christmas time. Everybody loves a story like that, that father seeing his little girl, very cute little baby by the way for the first time.</s>BLITZER: Still have 60,000 or 70,000 U.S. troops in Afghanistan. A lot of them will be there not just 2013, but in 2014 as well under this current schedule. Two years they're suppose today stay there and then all of them will be out.</s>SYLVESTER: And we all know it's a sacrifice for the families. That's the thing to keep in mind, Wolf, a real human sacrifice there.</s>BLITZER: Lisa, thank you. Hillary Clinton comes out firing. We're going to hear her reaction to those newly revealed e-mails about the attack that killed the United States ambassador to Libya and three other Americans.