course, happy father s day to all the fathers out there and happy juneteenth. hi, arthel. arthel: happy father s day to you, eric, happy juneteenth to everyone. i m arthel neville. two other big stories we are watching this hour. president biden under mounting pressure to act as american families struggle with high prices on everything from gas to groceries, top white house economic adviser on fox news sunday trying to put the best face on it. look, we get it, when you drive up to the pump and you see prices, it creates uncertainty and real economic hardship but at the same time it is important as americans that we recognize the unique strengths in the economy. the president has made clear fighting inflation and bringing down prices is top priority. arthel: agents at the border border tell us they are understaffed as migrants keep flooding around the clock. live team coverage right now bill melugin in devaldo, texas but first jonathan in jackson international airport in atl
course, happy father s day to all the fathers out there and happy juneteenth. hi, arthel. arthel: happy father s day to you, eric, happy juneteenth to everyone. i m arthel neville. two other big stories we are watching this hour. president biden under mounting pressure to act as american families struggle with high prices on everything from gas to groceries, top white house economic adviser on fox news sunday trying to put the best face on it. look, we get it, when you drive up to the pump and you see prices, it creates uncertainty and real economic hardship but at the same time it is important as americans that we recognize the unique strengths in the economy. the president has made clear fighting inflation and bringing down prices is top priority. arthel: agents at the border border tell us they are understaffed as migrants keep flooding around the clock. live team coverage right now bill melugin in devaldo, texas
features old faithful, that will open on wednesday but the northern loop that will still stay close we are told for the whole season. you can take a look at the pictures and see the damage on this video. look at that. the floods just destroying a house as well as other buildings, forcing more than 10,000 people to evacuate the area. officials say 3 inches of rain with all snow melt that caused the 1 in a thousand years type of event. we will learn more about the one in a thousand years event recently and thankfully it s partially reopening. arthel. arthel: celebrations are being held across the country for juneteenth, a day that commemorates the day of slavery in the united states. opal lee was key, key player in the fight to make it a federal holiday earning well-deserved holiday as grandmother of juneteenth. message to young people today is up next.
understand. the two agree when people do the right thing momentum builds quickly and they are working together to do their part. both say juneteenth is the day all americans should celebrate because slavery is an evil. eric: such a deeply meaningful an important commemoration. lauren, thank you. arthel. arthel: eric and lauren, for more on the celebrations let s bring in the extraordinary woman known as the godmother of juneteenth, ms. opal lee, retired teacher, counselor who paveed the way to make juneteenth a federalized holiday. ms. lee, it s a pleasure to have you. when you were working tirelessly and fiercely to get juneteenth declared as federal holiday, what fueled your fire, why did you believe this had to be a national holiday? well, first, i m going to tell you that they say i m the
grandmother of juneteenth not the godmother and i met a dr. ronald myers and he was a musician all into one and dr. meyers was passionate about juneteenth being a national holiday and i think some of it rolled off on me because i too believe that it should be and it is a national holiday. arthel: yes, yes, it is, you were right. thank you for correcting me. i do realize that you were the grandmother of juneteenth. i slipped up there. as i ve heard you say, ms. lee, that this is not a black holiday, it s an american holiday and as we stop to celebrate juneteenth as a nation, what would you like us all to reflect on? what would you like us all to