the earth. a lot of contemporary events and threats we can say from nuclear annihilation to political conflicts like the cuban missile crisis. somehow wind up being reflected in the adventures on the island. with all the turmoil and everything going on in the world then, it was an escape for everybody and it made you happy. i would like a world without strife, universal harmony and goodwill where the spirit of br brotherhood eninriches. it taught a lesson. seven completely different people raised differently. different values really trying to get along and we did. gillagin for a guy always doing dumb things, when you do something smart, it s beautiful. announcer: history of the sitcom brought to you by
they re able to get ahead of the power outages that are there, start to restore them. the big concern is and always has been the amount of rain we re going to see. not just in the new york city area. northern new jersey which could see 14 inches but extending up and to the north and northeast as the system only moving 9 miles per hour, puts on its breaks and makes that dog leg to the right. so it s not over with, but at least good news with not seeing the number of power outages that were expected with the winds. surges over with. rain is going to go on for a while. it s a deadly situation in the cities. many of them in the northeast corridor. yeah. tom, a lot of communities are getting soaked right now. that is something we absolutely have to stay on top of. tom, thank you so much. a quick programming note. sitcoms are the ultimate comedy comfort food. what sitcoms offer escape from and to offer a lot about the state of mind and the sitcom itself. here s a preview of the history
of the sitcom . it was on the cutting edge of escapism for an american audience that was hungry for it. the communist rulers of east berlin reinforced their barricades. in the early and mid 60s, there s so much turmoil in terms of the civil rights movement, in terms of vietnam. there s a real crisis of identity. and there is a pattern in american entertainment of when things get really serious, we got to get silly. a brand new episode of history of the sitcom airs tonight at 9:00 on cnn. operation warp speed was a big part of trump s administration. when the former president encouraged his followers to get vaccinated this weekend, boos rang out. find out what happened after that. you re live in the cnn news room.
be sure to watch the history of the sitcom tomorrow night on cnn. beautiful thing about the sitcom, it has provided so much joy in times of uncertainty. there s a lot of pressure in the 1960s. this notion of new products and everything being new, this kind of brave new world. everything s about the future and modernizing. yes, it s all bright and shiny and you get cars that look like spaceships. but then it s a scary thing, what does the future hold. air force general curtis lemay suggested that we bomb north vietnam vac into the stone age. history of the sitcom is tomorrow 9:00 p.m. here on cnn. thank you so much for sharing part of your morning with us, smerconish is up next. don t go anywhere. we ll see you again in one hour.
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