fireworks shows. final preparations are underway across the country before americans line up to see the displays. julie: will the weather forecast cooperate? heavy rain across the central u.s. putting the region at risk for severe thunderstorms and putting a potential damper on festivities. team coverage starts now. fox weather will nunley is live in nashville with a sneak peak at one of the largest fireworks displays in the country. christina coleman is live at the beach in santa monica, california. hello. yeah, we re here at the beach. thousands will gather here today to celebrate our country s birthday. so many people getting together for the holiday weekend. take a look at this. a glimpse of cool military activities. in hawaii the crowd is rallied with a free fall parachute demonstration. camera footage captured from the helmet shows them in the sky after they jumped from a blackhawk helicopter. how cool is that? thousands grabbed a picnic blanket to enjoy fireworks o
america reports. already, more than 150 cancellations and 1700 delays today as folks are trying to get back home. the national flightmare has been causing major chaos at airports close to a week now. bill: pete buttigieg, the transportation secretary claims everything is back to normal but bad weather could slow things down even more, especially in parts of the plains and the midwest, gillian. gillian: right to jonathan serrie now, he joins us from atlanta s heartsfield jackson airport. how are the lines there looking this hour? hi there, gillian, as you can see behind me, long lines outside the main tsa checkpoint but they are moving along rapidly. much of the activity is taking place on the concourse as passengers transit from aircraft to other aircraft. what s going on nationally, according to the tracking service flight aware, more than 1700 flights into or out of the u.s. have already been delayed today, and more than 150 have been canceled. those numbers are exp
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
palestinian refugee camp. matt bradley caught in the firefight last night. good day, everyone. i m andrea mitchell in washington. we begin our second hour of andrea mitchell reports with the gun violence epidemic in our country. according to the gun violence archive, there were 17 mass shootings in 15 states over the long july 4th weekend. leaving 18 people dead and more than 100 others injured. it brings the annual tally to 351 this year on track to surpass previous records. right now in el paso, texas, sentencing is underway in one of the deadliest mass shootings in u.s. history, the 2019 walmart shooting, where the shooter pleaded guilty to federal murder and hate crime charges for targeting hispanic migrants. family members of his 23 victims are making impact statements in court later today. the gunman is likely to be sentenced to 90 consecutive life sentences. in philadelphia, a 40-year-old man has been charged with five counts of murder after allegedly opening fire
following this hour. extreme heat and storms threatening holiday celebrations from california to the east coast as more than 1,000 flight delays frustrate travelers trying to reach friends and family by the fourth of july. also this hour, vladimir putin looking to strengthen ties with china after the public embarrassment of last week s armed rebellion as president zelenskyy argues the pace of ukraine s counteroffensive is not meeting its hopes. more troops occupying the west bank as president netanyahu faces criticism from the united nations. we begin this hour with what s become a record setting run-up to independence day. from busy skies to hectic highways, nearly 51 million americans are expected to travel for july 4th. friday broke records as the single busiest day in tsa history. extreme weather could slow everything down with millions under severe weather alerts an concerns over strong thunderstorms in the mid-atlantic states and portions of the northern great pla