waves of latinos came to america s heartland and they worked in its factories, farms, and service industries and they turned chicagoland into chicagolandia. so i m here to find out what kind of impact decades of latinx influence have had on the windy city. and i m gonna have some amazing food, because you know that happens a lot on this show. it s right here in my contract. feed john. [tracks clacking] [upbeat horn-driven music] - [trills] [upbeat music] - i m here on chicago s west side in la villita, or little village, where there s one of the largest mexican american communities in the midwest. the mexicans who settled here came looking for work and ended up creating the second-biggest economy in chicago right here on 26th street, the mexican magnificent mile. with over hundreds of shops, i needed a local guide, so i m meeting up with hollywood legend and chicago native, michael peña. you might have seen him in his breakout role in crash. - you talking about
americans and book your first cleaning today for just $19 this situation room with wolf blitzer. week nine to six point cnn you are in the cnn newsroom. hi, everyone. i m jessica dean and washington and we start with breaking news. as severe weather threatens more than 70 million people. this memorial day weekend, intense tornadoes baseball-sized hail, and hurricane-force winds, all threatening parts of texas, oklahoma, and kansas take a look at this storm chaser video in oklahoma city. you see blue sky overhead, but they are also driving straight into that gray sky as well. it s very ominous looking cnn meteorologist elisa rafah joining us now, and at least it looks like those tornadoes are starting to spin up and it typically happens are a lot of times when the sun s starts to go down yeah, the sun is what we need to fuel the atmosphere to create these intents and strong thunderstorms. and it s been doing that all de the atmosphere has been cooking all day. that s w
has officially finished. the defense only called two witnesses. and yesterday, rested their case. former president trump did not testify in his own defense despite telling the press multiple times he wanted to. you testify in your trial. yeah, i would testify absolutely. it s a scam. it s a scam. are you going to testify? yes. will you testify? no he won t stop. he the gag is not to testify. do you plan to testify in court? i probably so. i would like to. i mean i think so. i mean, there s a story of his life, who shocked me can nobody s shocked. it is a guy who said of course i am going to testify, you knew he was not going to testify for a couple reasons. one, he is just a walking perjury machine. seriously? you got a new ice cream machine that you say makes ice cream. the mcreamy by ninja. and creamy, yeah, well, he is a ninja perjury machine right? you stand in front of it for a couple seconds. i will never look at the creamy the same way. it cr
slowed the prosecution and asked trump friendly questions about potential problems with prosecuting a president. if you listened to that argument or read about it, you may have noticed it almost sounded like that kind of trial was a futile project. while up the east coast and actual trial of an actual former president was going forward and the republic did not crumble. it is a contrast that hangs over all of this in america and what we are going to get into tonight in this first week of the new york trial. it seems to undercut the suppose it concern of the trump appointed justices that hypothetically, someday, somehow, in the future trials of presidents are a very bad thing, when they are actually already happening. the first week of this trial shows not only that it is possible, but also gave us the first evidence backed, in court, binding version of the d.a.s story and we put together a brisk ride through what we are learning. the prosecution in donald trump s hush money
was this? this happens daily across stores, even with all those measures that you ve got to see an door, we re still impacted at this level local and state law enforcement, as well as these national retailers do you want more intelligence sharing so they are all backing a proposed federal bill called the combating organized retail crime act. that would establish an intelligence sharing hub. but this federal bill, which does have bipartisan the port is stalled in congress qing law, cnn, los angeles in a store at settlement that could change the landscape of college sports forever. it is hugely complicated, but the main thing is that athletes are about to get get paid directly by the school s the massive implications and this could be the busiest travel weekend in decades, frankly, you probably should have left already but if you haven t, what you need to know to have any chance of getting where you re going and then breaking overnight a new sexual assault lawsuit has been