COSTELLO: And good morning. I'm Carol Costello. Thank you so much for joining me. New this morning, freed journalist Jason Rezaian appears in public for the first time since being released from Iran. Last hour, Rezaian appeared with his wife and mother and his brother outside the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Rezaian of course was imprisoned in Iran and part of that prisoner swap. Let's get right to CNN's Phil Black; he's at the medical center to tell us more. Hi, Phil.</s>PHIL BLACK, CNN INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDNET: Hi, Carol. It was, I think you'd have to say, a somber Jason Rezaian that walked out of the hospital building just behind me. He wasn't joyous, perhaps a little pensive, thoughtful. We had been warned in advance that he didn't want to talk publicly just yet, wouldn't be taking any questions, but he stood there flanked by his family, who I think it' fair to say were pretty much beaming, really. His brother, Ali, wife, Yegi (ph), and mother, Mary. This was the core team of people who had fought so hard, so publicly, so long to secure his release. They're obviously very happy to have him here. While he, on the other hand, well, he's got a long road ahead of him. He released a written statement at around the same time that he walked out. He talked about being very thankful at all the efforts.
Freed Journalist Jason Rezaian Appears in Public.