Right here, its apocalyptic. I mean looking at that and were going to hear, i know you had on your show people on the ground there my show also going to talk to some of the residents who are climbing out of this with kids, trying to juggle that with schools being closed, figuring out a place to live, where to get water, food. It is an ongoing crisis for these people, and were going to continue to shine a spotlight jim, thanks so much. Ill take it from here you bet. And good morning, everyone. You are live in the Cnn Newsroom. Im Pamela Brown in washington, and we begin this hour with exclusive new video Into Cnn that will give you more perspective on the scope and the scale of the catastrophe in the southeast and what people are dealing with right now in this very moment. You are looking at the wounds of asheville, North Carolina one of the cities that Helene Hit the hardest. Take a look here. This is the river arts district, just more than a week ago. It was a vibrant, beautiful area
Thanks for taking my question, you added a sentence into the statement about the course of the economy depends on the path of the virus is this do you feel this idea or view is not widely enough understood do you feel you had warned back in may that too early reopening or cautious reopening might harm the economy do you feel that message is not heard and some of these reopenings took place perhaps sooner than they should have i think we feel that it might be the most central fact or the most central driver of the economy is the virus were seeing that again. You saw that during the lockdown when we got cases way down you saw the economy reopening. You saw spending go up and hiring go up now that the cases have spiked again. Again, the early data, highfrequency data suggests that theres a slower pace of growth at least for now. We dont know how deep or how long that will be. Its such an important sentence, we just decided that it needed to be in our post meeting statement. Its so fundame
Well see a little bit of heating to start with. That will accelerate. Trenton and northeast philadelphia have been down to zero visibility. Wrightstown still at zero visibility. Millville is improving, along with well, dover and wilmington Still Holding at onemile visibility. A foggy start this morning for the next couple of hours. Theres a chance well see more showers. You see some to the northwest. Thunderstorms are most likely this afternoon. Right now, 60 in the Lehigh Valley and new jersey. The suburbs, 57 degrees. A breeze at three Miles Per Hour. Well watch the temperatures climb. Snienl finally at noontime sunshine finally at noontime for king of prussia. Sunshine breaking through for the entire area. Upper 70s this afternoon, warming to 78 degrees for new jersey. Even a nice warmup at the shore, too. 72. There is that chance of an isolated shower and thunderstorm this afternoon. Ill show when you those are most likely when i come back with your hourbyhour forecast. First, jess
There. Cant you anything in San Francisco. It might be like that later on tonight. Alex savidge is in. Sal is out. Having a great day off. Independence day filled with so many traditions from the fireworks to the parades. One of my favorites. I love the pancake breakfast. You take the children down to a local fire house. I wish i could join them today. Favorite traditions for today. All about family. We get together for a pot luck. I love the sparklers and i love to cook. Any celebration that involves barbecue is a good one for me. I was off yesterday, food poisoning. We have been talking about that all morning. Kevin durant is celebrating because he has decided to stay with the Golden State Warriors after taking a pay cut. He has agreed to a two year deal which is 9 million less than the max he could is signed to stay with the warriors. By doing so, it allows golden state to keep iguodala and livingston. Keep the bench in tact. 9 million. I know they make a lot of money. A lot of peop
How important he was to our country, for africanamericans, for those who wanted to go to law school africanamericans who wanted to go to law school, i was a part of that generation who looked up to him, believed in him, who was inspired by him. That i too someday could go to law school and i could someday become a lawyer. There is a whole generation of people just like me who have gone on to do that because of the bravery and the courage of Thurgood Marshall. So tonight, we are here gathered here this evening and i have view this really has the intersection of history and the future. What to i mean by that . The intersection of history and the future . Well, we are in Lincoln Theater. In this theater, this was the only place where black folks could come and get entertained in a theater because they couldnt go downtown. They would come right here. And this theater was nearly demolished. Almost tore it down. And we saved it, renovated it and it is now one of the jewels of the city of col