good morning and thank you so much for spending some of your july 4th holiday with us. it is 10:00 eastern. i m ana cabrera reporting for two hours this morning. as we come on the air and some of you wake up on independence day, americans are confronting once again a uniquely american crisis, gun violence. a deadly night in america, with a pair of shootings. one claiming the life of five people in philadelphia, the very city where the u.s. constitution was drafted. another at a celebration in fort worth, texas, killing at least three people there. what we re learning about both shootings. also right now, severe weather impacting millions from intense storms in the midwest and the east coast to nearly triple digit temps out west putting july 4th celebrations literally up in the air. it would be great if it was the fourth. but it is the whole month, the whole year, we live in the best country in the world. and watch the water. two teens attacked ten mil apart in new york wh
local authorities there. but the economic impact i do think we have to underscore here is it is definitely about agriculture in florida, and the construction, hospitality sectors, industries where immigrants make up the vast majority of workers and we should point out, florida has a widespread labor shortage and unemployment is very low. just under 3% in earlier months this year. and so that could actually be an economic problem that blows back on governor desantis here. this is part of a larger pattern in terms of positioning himself as this standard bearer. the new standard bearer for conservatives taking more and more extreme positions. certainly on immigration which we know will be a hot button topic in the upcoming election, but also in terms of antilgbtq bills, also on abortion laws. we saw him sign the most restrictive abortion law we have seen there. six-week ban, which is much more conservative than where most of the country is. so, absolutely, ana, this is with an eye toward