hello again, thanks for being with us. it s 11:00 a.m. eastern, i m ana cabrera reporting from new york with this special second hour on this federal holiday, and we are following breaking news this morning. america s secretary of state holding a high pressure meeting with china s president xi. did that one-on-one do anything to settle the simmering tensions between our two countries. extreme weather, millions remain under threat, even as communities reel from the aftermath of devastating tornados also ahead, a terrifying close call at one of the busiest airports in the country, a passenger capturing the video of this plane s wing almost hitting another plane on the runway. and later, celebrating juneteenth, we ll take you to galveston, texas, known as the birthplace of this federal holiday commemorating the end of slavery here in america. but first the breaking news out of china where u.s. secretary of state antony blinken met just a couple of hours ago with pres
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after the emancipation proclamation our reporter traveled to galveston where the fight for equality is going on isn try and a half later and the latest front is gentrifiication i went down to the descendents who celebrate the ye earliest juneteenth celebrations they are fighting to hold on to their communities. i went to galveston to learn more check it out reporter: you re here on the southwest corner of 22nd and strang where the juneteenth store began. reporter: it s been 157 years since the very first juneteenth celebration. here on the island of galveston in texas where the last of america s enslaved back people were finally freed sam collins is the co-chair of the juneteenth legacy project. we are at the colored church
my view, this is something like the irs scandal for president obama, people can feel it. they can imagine and they can feel if it doesn t affect them, they can imagine it affecting them. of course there were the callous e-mails in the midst of this. i worked for the paper who covered the story and the port authority. a century ago? maybe half a isn try. it s been a patronage haven. it was old-fashioned newspaper digging. the bergen record gets the commendation of the year for the story. they started in september covering the traffic jam at which point chris christie had this to say, it s not that big a deal just because the press runs around and writes about it both here and nationally. i know why that is and so do you. he said that as recently as december. december, that s right. in between all of this the port authority chief stonewalled, first he said he was going to say something, then he said he with aent going to say something, wouldn t address it. christie blamed th