as union soldiers spread paving the way for them to mayor, to vote, to vote and to worship and decide their own destiny. the civil war officially ended in april 1865, but in a small community of gavelston island, texas, enslaved slaves were owe believious to their reality, two and a half years after the signing of the emancipation proclamation when a u.s. general informed the last enslaved black people in america that freedom had finally comp the people erupted in joy. that joy became the catalyst for juneteenth. in 2021 juneteenth became an official federal holiday. now recognized across the united states as a day of national celebration. juneteenth is a reminder. it is a reminder of what black people in america have been through and what black people have overcome. it is a commemoration of our resilience. our ingenuity, and most importantly our capacity for joy. our joy is worthy of celebration, and on this day we remember that our freedom must be honored, nurtured and pr
the friday before juneteenth, clocked in as the most popular air travel day of 2022. and all of this as inflation hits a 40-year high. let s start with the travel troubles facing so many americans right now. in los angeles international airport, already today more than 770 flights cancelled. and still, there might be more this holiday weekend. why? yeah. it s because a lot of people are flying first of all. tsa saying they screened about 2.5 million people on friday. that s the highest number they ve seen since the sunday after thanksgiving. and then the problem is that the airlines just can t keep up. of course, part of the reason why so many are flying this weekend is because it s a lock summer weekend. a lot of people have off monday for juneteenth, and of course, it also coincides with father s day. and then these airlines just not keeping up for a number of reasons. one, being weather problems. delays and cancellations. there s also staff shortages and infrastructure c
we have a stronger and better position to tackle inflation than almost any other country around the world. what juneteenth does it channels a way for america to talk about slavery and to talk about it without and tim dags and anguish to honor slaves who have never been honored. i m pamela brown in washington. you are live in the cnn newsroom. happy father s day to all the dads out there. and we begin tonight with new cnn reporting. u.s. intel is warning of another potential russian plot to interfere with the 2022 midterms. homeland and national security officials say they are worried kremlin meddling like hacking into smaller and more local election authorities in this country and creating disinformation campaigns could have a significant impact on the november elections. so this is not new, isaac, the idea of meddling in the elections. we know similar campaigns were used during the 2016 election and after that as well. what has changed with the threats since then?
State Hillary Clinton stood her ground in the questioning of the benghazi attack. Her answers, her tone, her expressions all under the microscope because as much as it is secretary clinton testifying before the house benghazi committee, it is president ial candidate clinton who stands the most to lose in a testy and politicallycharged showdown that has continued into the evening. Andrea mitchell is covering it for us tonight. Reporter it was supposed to be about benghazi, but soon dissolved into bickering. I dont care if you sent it by morse code, carrier pigeon, smoke signals, what is relevant is that he was sending information to the secretary of state. Will the gentleman yield . I would be happy to. Make sure the entire record is correct. That is exactly what i want to do. Reporter while they argued, the star witness tried to stay above the fray unlike in 2013. What difference at this point does it make . Reporter this time Hillary Clinton was poised, practiced, putdowns. I wrote a
Candidiates. To replace retiring mayor, buck clark. Here are the results for mayor of waterloo. The top voter getter is mayor protem, quentin hart, followed by former mayor, tim hurley. Those two, hart and hurley, will face off in the Runoff Election on december 1. Hart got 33point 7 per cent of the vote. Hurley with 26 percent. A clear cut winner needed to have 50 percent of the vote. No one came cloloe to that. Followed by leah morrison,,,and frank magsaman. Lets go live right now to kwwl reporter, nikki, newbrough, outside the Black Hawk County courthouse, with the latest on the results for waterloo mayor. This is what we expeeted. With f fve strong candidates, a Runoff Election will happen in decemeber. Both quentin hart and Tim Hurley Hart says it was exciting to see so many come out to vote. He says if he gets the mayor seat, he wants safer streets, and that includes building that trust between Law Enforcement and the community. As for tim hurley he says although he wanted to wra