at 6:30. i want to pull in darrell. he came up here from florida. it s his first time in washington, d.c., for the fourth of july. how would you describe the atmosphere today in washington? i d say it s very patriotic. nobody seems to be one side or the other, everybody is for america. why did you decide to make the trek up here? it s a long way. my daughter decided that she wanted to come to washington, d.c., so this is our summer vacation. we picked the fourth because of the celebration. that s awesome. thank you so much. really appreciate it. we should note he was here in washington for president trump s inauguration as well so he s back. there are folks from across the country who are here from florida, california, colorado, ohio, you name it, there s a lot of folks here. all the way from florida. thank you so much, we appreciate it. i want to bring in at-large member of the council of the district of columbia robert white. robert, this is your city.
there s any problems, any injuries. all the apparatus us here, the rescue teams are all ready to assist in whatever way is needed. and yes, you know, look, we get earthquakes all the time as you heard from our fabulous meteorologist there. we get them all the time. they re usually small enough you actually don t even feel it. we have 1.1, 3.2s where you re not even sure something happened. you re not sure if that was an earthquake or somebody dropping something up above us. this one was unmistakable. it went on for quite a few seconds and so you knew this was a fairly big one because of the length and time and strength. stick with me. i m bringing in tom seder again. tom, you ve been saying it s been hard to get in touch with
certainly not fair to the residents of the district of columbia who are footing and bill and still owed over $7 million from trump s inauguration. tell me what part of tonight you will be participating in. i will be with my family away from the national mall, as most d.c. residents are. yep. not watching the fireworks. hoping that we are all really enjoying family an remembering what this holiday is about. it s one of our rare opportunities across partisan lines, across the country to come together, celebrate our nation, the progress that we ve made and understanding that we have further to go. we know the mall can be a little bit of a mess. a lot of us in d.c. do tend to celebrate away from it. thank you so much, we appreciate it. you can catch the july 4th celebration as well as the president s tonight on cnn. his speech is expected to begin at 6:30. we do have some breaking news now. a moderate earthquake has just rattled los angeles. i want to get to sara sidner,
america then? no. do you agree? i did not oppose bussing in america. what i opposed is bussing ordered by the department of education. that s what i opposed. i was part of the second class to integrate berkeley, california, public schools. because your city council made that decision. that s where the federal government must step in. so now their campaigns are going at it, yes, on twitter. biden s campaign manager tweeting it s disappointing that senator harris chose to distort vice president biden s position since now she is trying to tie herself into knots not to answer the very question she posed to him. he called bussing an asinine concept. come on, y all are better than this. if we re cheri picking quotes on twitter, what about this one
officials who have been reluctant to parade out the military equipment that you ve seen during this event. of course, the other thing that people are paying close attention to. and they have not revealed what kind of a price too long they re explain. they re going to diverse 2.5 million. they re going to do that to help cover a fraction of what the event is going to cost. no one denying. one note about tonight s salute to america, cnn will carry the event live. the white house has explicitly said this is not a campaign rally but we want you, the viewers, to see it and decide for yourself. one thing the white house cannot control is the weather