Journal we speak with the hills reid wilson author on the coronavirus pandemic. Afterwards we discussed key campaign 2020 with cook political reports Jessica Taylor. Journal is next. Host good morning on this monday, may 18. States across the country are reopening economies and lifting restrictions on activities like going to parks, golfing, dining out, shopping, and going to the gym. This is happening while the u. S. Has seen over 1. 4 million cases and nearly 90,000 deaths. We want to talk to all of you about reopening where you live. Do you support or oppose the idea . If you support it . , 2027488000, if you are 2027488001. Ning, at can also text us 2027488003. New york times put together an interactive map that shows states that are reopening in blue on your screen. Those with regional openings are in yellow. Light blue means they are reopening soon. , solid yellow, i should say, are still shutdown. Regional openings have these lines through them a little difficult to see on your
start around 12 30 eastern, they re going to go up and pears from split tees holds one and 10. all right. thank you so much. longoria continues her culinary adventure in a waka the new episode of the cnn original series. eva longoria, searching for mexico airs tonight at nine on cnn. the next hour of cnn this morning starts right now. good morning to you. welcome to cnn this morning. it s sunday. april 9th. i m victor blackwell walker. thank you. so much for spending a part of your easter morning with us. happy easter. if you celebrate. i ve got my easter egg hunt ready? i got the easter baskets ready? because the easter bunny came last night . so the kids are all excited for their goodies and ready to go only goody that i had, um, i picked up the kettle corn peeps . i saw that. yeah. did you really eat that? bit people head off, and that s all i had. yahoo commentary on the kettle corn peeps that good alright here is what we are watching this morning a weekend of religious c
cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin the hour with two dueling lawsuits and two separate states, putting the national spotlight back on the issue of abortion rights. in texas. a federal judge has ruled that the fda is more than two decades old approval of the drug wordpress stone should be halted . this is one of the most trusted and widely used drugs for medication abortions. the court did pause the ruling for one week so that an appeal which is already underway can be filed . president biden vowed late friday night that he will fight the ruling in texas. meantime in washington state, a federal judge moved to protect access to that very same. abortion medication across 17 democratic led states and the district of columbia. cnn s rosa flores is in houston forest. rosa walk us through both the judge s order and how we got here. this is a very big story down in texas, where you are. you know, it absolutely is. and this judge judge matthews has merrick really did
counsel investigating donald trump could finally get testimony from former vice president mike pence. that could be incredibly significant. you know, it s a month of pushback, and now pence, it appears, is going to finally testifying. the special counsel s investigation into trump and his actions on january. six. a spokesman for the former vice president says he will not appeal a judge s ruling in order that he must appear before the grand jury that s investigating the insurrection and trump s efforts to overturn the election. that means pence could testify about the one on one conversations he had with trump leading up to that day, including what we know is a heated phone call that happened the morning of the riot when pence, refused trump s efforts to get him to try to block the certification of president biden s win, plus a cnn exclusive this morning as cnn sources are telling cnn that former national security officials have testified that trump was repeatedly warned he di
On christmas day, you have a chance to just take a break and relax with the ones you love. Thank you, santa. Except for me. Because i have to work that day. Funny, i do too. Oh, yes, it is a sun day. I was thinking no, im off that day. Late show host stephen colbert, santa played by good man. Well show you colberts with the attempt to write the worse Christmas Carol of all time. Speaking of good stuff. Justin, snow moving out. Rain moved out . Right. Cold will move in later this week. So yes. Trying to give you the benefit of the doubt. Trying to be nice. No, no. This will be great, best day of the week probably going to be today, typical for mid december, not much happening. We had some clouds over the region, temperatures in the 40s, thats average for this time of year. Then things go downhill by thursday, friday, unless you like the cold, love it, like the forecast. Not much happening center city right now, little cool, 36 at the airport, west wind 7 miles per hour, does feel like 3