Social media eases worries for migrants, families

SAN PEDRO SULA, Honduras - There was cake at little Brithani Lizeth's third birthday party, and also tears.

Though her grandmother and aunt tried to make their simple cinder block home festive, the little girl could not be consoled. She missed her parents.

Orbelina Orellana and Elmer Alberto Cardona were hundreds of miles and two countries away in a small town in southern Mexico, making their way toward the United States with thousands of others in a desperate caravan, leaving their loved ones behind.