diehl wins massachusetts governor. worst nightmare. and i m here to stop. tracking the tropics, we are watching hurricane earl. good news not a direct impact. we will see rip current. getting a hair cut a couple seats away from me. i still love you i have plenty of reasons why i do brian: can t get over that hair cut. i will focus on the beach. hard to focus. why are you getting a hair cut at a match like that? steve: he needed one. 67 acres of beach, recreational area of the town nahant, massachusetts. kids are back at school. so they will be there this afternoon at 3:00 when school is over. new york city, don t expect any snow days this year because they stopped them thanks to the advent of zoom, you don t have to miss schooling. ainsley: right, exactly. brian: you should be able to go to the beach or zoom it in. phone your teacher listen i m at new hadn t beach in massachusetts so great i m not coming in today mrs. johnson. i will be watching you.
hello again, everyone. thank you so much for joining me. i m fredricka whitfield. destruction everywhere, that s how one survivor describes the aftermath of a powerful 6.8 magnitude earthquake that struck morocco friday, killing more than 1,000 people. it was the strongest to hit the area in over a century. rescuers are now struggling to access the hardest-hit areas after roads were damaged and we re seeing images of patients waiting outside hospitals, residents have been sleeping on the streets, fearing for the intense aftershocks. i want to bring in cnn senior international correspondent ben wedeman for more. these first few hours, you mentioned the first 72 hours are critical in trying to locate survivors. what are you learning about the kind of rescue efforts that actually can happen, given so many roads and thoroughfares are impassable? keep in mind that the epicenter of this earthquake which happened at 11:15 friday evening local time was 45 miles southwest of marrake
to hit the area in over a century. the epicenter in the high atlas mountains near marrakesh is a yunesco world heritage site. equipment and manpower are limited in this region. patients are waiting outside hospitals, and residents are sleeping on the streets, fearing intense aftershocks. more than 700 people are in critical condition. officials believe the death toll will steadily rise. i want to bring in ben wedeman for more on all this. ben, you ve been to the area. set the scene for our viewers, what the topography is like, who lives there, why it s a tourist attraction and how an effarthque of this magnitude is cause so much damage. this earthquake happened just a few minutes after 11:00 p.m. friday evening. from the video we ve seen of cctv for instance, there was a small jolt followed by this massive earthquake. you see buildings just collapse in one cctv video. a block of buildings just falls into the street, sending tens of thousands of people sleeping outside last
largest auto worker unions called general motors offer to avoid a potentially devastating strike. what this standoff could mean for the entire economy ahead. and deeper than the empire it state building is tall, well over times two, that s how far below the earth this american caver is now trapped, after he fell ill underground on saturday. details on the urgent evident now to save him. we are following these major developing stories and many more, all coming in right here to cnn news central. soon, president biden departs for india for a critical g-20 summit with world leaders, but back here at home, he is facing a tough crowd. new cnn polling shows the president s numbers are essentially down across the board. numbers on his handling of the economy, his age, his job approval, all of them sinking. right now, just 39% approval of biden s job as president. that s down 41% in july. we re covering all angles and implications of this story. with us, congressional corresponde
rolling blackouts are very possible due to a heat wave. california narrowly avoided widespread outages yesterday but tens of thousands still lost power due to the extreme condition. governor gavin newsom also urging californians to turn their thermostats up to 38 degrees and avoid using major appliances. happening in america. to the massachusetts primary. trump endorsed candidate geoff diehl wins the republican nomination for governor. the former state representative defeating chris doughty and now setting his sights on november. diehl will now face mara heely who won the democratic primary in a landslide. american tennis star coco gauff is eliminated from the u.s. open quarter final following to carolina gatgarcia of straight . losing cool after coming up short in a five set battle.