National world war ii memorial this is half an hour. Were missing my name is alex kerr shaw, im a member of the board of directors of the friends of the National World war ii memorial. I have written several books about world war ii including one called the longest winter, which is about the battle of the bulge and americas most decorated platoon from world war ii. It is my great honor to serve today, as your master ceremonies. Thank you all for joining us on this chilly, Beautiful Day as we mark the 75th anniversary of the battle of the bulge. The largest and bloodiest single battle fought by the United States in world war ii. In fact, the largest fought in the u. S. Of its entire history. Friends of the National World war ii memorial was a small Non Profit Organization Whose Mission is to honor and preserve the National Memory of world war ii and to create the next greatest generation of tomorrow. This morning ceremony is part of the Friends National world war ii memorial fouryear wo
Wall street still trying to get a read on the situation, on the first trading day of summer which is today. Okay. We are off session highs at this very moment. The s p 500, though, any gain is a record close. It would be the second record close in a row. The dow is up 45 points at 26,798. The nasdaq hanging on by just a thread. Actually, its lower. Nasdaq down 11 points. Plus, its unique but successful, direct listing of slack for the next Silicon Valley unicorn, airbnb, wework could follow. And the banks getting a checkup in about 90 minutes. Raymond james ceo is here exclusively to tell us if hes stressing about the stress test. We are less than an hour to the closing bell on wall street. The end of a pretty good week for the stock market. Lots of news this week. Im Lauren Simonetti in for liz claman. Lets start the countdown. Lauren we need the show you these images from earlier today. Firefighters are still on the scene of a fire at the Largest Oil Refinery on the east coast. After
Hi everyone and thanks so much for joining me this afternoon. Im in dc and we are following two Major International stories this afternoon. The first of them out of israel or the us and jordan have conducted more humanitarian aid drops into gaza. And the first equipment to build a Temporary Port In Gaza for aid is now in route to that region. Were going to get to more on that in just a moment. Again, in haiti, where the us military has evacuated Nonessential Personnel from the us embassy in portauprince. The Airlift Operation was ordered as the Gang Violence in that Island Nation worsens. Gang leaders are now threatening civil war if the Prime Minister does not leave office. And now at is under a State Of Emergency until april 3, cnn chief National Security correspondent Alex Marquardt is joining us by phone and cnns Patrick Oppmann is live from cuba with the latest details. Alex, lets start first with you. Tell us more about this evacuation well jessica significant concern growing abo
World. Im rosemary church. Just ahead on cnn news room, a legal case involving former President Donald Trump is once again headed to court in the coming hours. We will look at which mara lago employee is caught up in it. And how donald trump is reportedly paying for his mounting legal costs. The hottest month on record is finally comeing to a close. We will look at where there is relief in sight from the blistering temperatures baking much of the United States. And dozens were killed and many more wounded after a suspected Suicide Bombing in pakistan. Well go live for the latest. Live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. Good to have you with us, well, the coming hours, well see a little known employee of Donald Trump In Federal Court as part of the criminal case against the former president and republican candidate for his alleged mishandling of classified documents. Carlos deolivere is a Property Manager at maralago accused of making false statements with the f
You a free book to answer questions you may have call now and well come to you 808 to one 4,000 on the trail. Former President Trumps camp pain taking a swing through the midwest is he knocks President Biden over immigration, but biden thinks hes found trumps weak spot. How democrats think the issue of Abortion Chen could help them flip states. They havent one in years and Deadly Strike on aid workers from World Central Kitchen and gaza. Joseon dress famous chef and found under of the nonprofit says, israel is guilty of indiscriminate killing as israel admits to hitting innocent people and us officials call for an impartial investigation. The will it be enough to quell criticism of america for supporting israel has its airstrikes have killed so many civilians and right now 75 million americans are there are a Severe Weather threat. A big part of the country under Tornado Watches as we track a major storm, one of the strongest so far this year, your forecast is on away were following th