offering a quicker, better service places like threads and tiktok tx post seem to be winning the race. interesting. great to hearfrom post seem to be winning the race. interesting. great to hear from you as always. thank you for coming on the program. let s talk about two movies that got the world s attention at the box office this past weekend. barbie and 0ppenheimer delivered the strongest opening weekend at the box office this year. the barbenheimer phenomenon. there was a huge marketing blitz from toymaker mattel and warner bros, the barbie film was always expected to do well. globally its estimated to have made around $337 million during its opening weekend. in north america, barbie made $155 million alone, which makes it the fourth highest grossing film debut ever in north america. it s only behind two instalments of the avengers franchise and a star wars film. 0ppenheimer also delivered, it made $174 million worldwide,
oppenheimer also delivered, it made $174 million dollars worldwide, which was much higher than expected. live now to yasmine kandil, a film critic. thank you forjoining us on news today. let s start with barbie, no spoilers because i have more state, but what did you think of the movie? i love to barbie, i think it s a special movie considering it comes from an ip, special movie considering it comes from an if, it could easily have been a money grab kind of felt but it has a lots of heart and soul, and that s down to the director. what that s down to the director. what about oppenheimer, that s down to the director. what about oppenheimer, do - that s down to the director. what about oppenheimer, do you think it is done to better partly because it came out at the same time as barbie? funnily enough, when it was first announced that they had the same opening day, lots of people thought it would interfere with each other but if anything the social media phenomenon around it has lifted
billionaires. 2020 democrats were guilty of using it to influence elections. according to the new york times 15 of the most politically active nonprofits that benefit the left spent more than $1.5 billion in 2020. compare that to the 900 million spent by the top 15 nonprofits spending on republican causes. it is not just the democratic party as a whole. president biden gobbled up dark money donations in 2020 way more than former president trump s campaign did. according to open secrets biden s presidential bid drew more than $174 million in support from anonymous donors. six times more than what trump raised from dark money in 2020. the house proposal cracks down on nonprofits directly funding election boards, a response to zucker bucks that gushed millions of dollars to election boards in 2020 which republicans say funded ballot drop boxes in overwhelmingly democratic areas.
challenge for the biden administration. do you think there s any truth to that? i don t. let s first just reflect on what we just discussed. our legislature saw fit to carve out 450 million of the states 1.8 billion of american rescue plan funds received, carved out specifically to assist cities and counties and matching monies with the cities and counties. in fact the city of jackson, the county in which the city is located received a combined 86 $87 million. when you combine that with the states and matching figures to put you up to about $174 million of which half comes from the state. so i m not sure why they would make such an assertion. we do not see this as a republican or democrat issue or a black or white issue. these are our fellow mississippians. we care for them. we are disturbed by the problems they are experiencing in this
combat sexual misconduct and violence watson s first game back will be in houston against his former team the texans lester okay, jesse kirsch, thank you. the historic drought that has ravaged much of the west is now parching the northeast. the government agency that monitors climate says drought is affecting 174 million americans. here s gabe gutierrez. reporter: these are not images from the desert southwest they re from massachusetts. the new weekly drought monitor out today shows that more of the northeast is now under extreme drought conditions i m kind of worried because my house also, the grass is dead. reporter: nearly all of new jersey, connecticut, and new hampshire are also in varying levels of drought. dairy farms in vermont are struggling to feed their livestock. new york s rockland county is declaring a stage-two water emergency, instituting mandatory restrictions starting today you can only water lawns on certain days here. restaurants can t serve water unless