Irishwoman made legal in US... 90 years after arriving

An elderly Irishwoman is finally a legal resident of the US, nearly 90 years after she arrived on a boat from Ireland.

Irishwoman made legal in US... 90 years after arriving

Now Josephine Stout, whose life has been pockmarked by tragedy, including the violent deaths of two of her children, is waiting to become a citizen.

Stout, 90, was just a year and a half old when she left Ireland with her parents in 1923.

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