Carrie fisher . Well, i mean, some dude living in a desert. [ laughter ] in his home and trying to [ indiscernible ] reporter george lucas the creator of the series himself released a Statement Today saying, quote, carrie and i have been friends most of our adult lives. She was extremely smart, a talented actress, writer and comedienne with a very colorful personality that everyone loved. In star wars, she was our great and powerful princess, feisty, wise and full of hope in a role that was more difficult than most people might think. She will be missed by all. And judging by the response from the folks we have seen here today, this makeshift memorial, that will certainly be the case. In the presidio, emily turner, kpix 5. Fisher was best known for star wars. Her movie career started in the mid70s. She was still a teenager in 1975 when she starred along side Warren Beatty in shampoo. Years later george lucas cast her as Princess Leia in the star wars franchise. She also had a small par
36 states now entering the weekend with sharp increases in about the comparison to the last big holiday in america, the numbers are still all the more startling. The week of memorial day people getting together and the majority of the country was Holding Steady or declining. Now just 14 states. Here is dr. Anthony fauci. I think its pretty obvious how we are not going in the right direction. Right now if you look at the number of cases it is quite disturbing. We are setting records practically every day of new cases in the numbers that are reported. That clearly is not the right direction. Texas and florida just two of the states shattering the single day records. Dr. Deborah birx is making this plea to floridians whether theyre showing symptoms or not. If you have participated in a large gathering in the last four weeks we ask all of you to come forward and be tested. Because the level of asymptomatic spread. We are asking for everyone under 40 that you were in a gathering please go a
In my life. Well be dissecting that tornado you see there in ha hattiesbu hattiesburg, mississippi, at 10 00 p. M. Eastern ahead of us. We want to get you to our next program. Ill see you back here in an hour. Jake tapper reports an American Hero the uncommon valor of Clint Romesha begins right now. October 3rd, 2009. A storm of bullets, rockets, grenades and mortars rain down among a remote outpost in eastern afghanistan. Deep in a valley. The taliban had found a perfect target. Combat outpost keating. One of the most vulnerable American Military outposts in afghanistan. Studied by the enemy since it was set up three years before. As seen in the talibans own video. Time and again since the post was created in 2006, its defenses were tested by the taliban. But on that october morning in 2009, the enemy staged its fiercest attack yet. The high ground and their vastly superior numbers gave the taliban a huge advantage. Eight americans would be killed in a battle that lasted from dawn til
Coming out of the prayer breakfast. Mr. Sacorides what do you think . It is fine and good to talk about Common Ground on the occasion of the National Prayer breakfast but its also important to talk about how the fact that in this country, were for equality, thats what our Founding Fathers were all about, thats one of our founding principles and why everybody in the country has to be treated equally. Its taken us a while to get to some of that from our Founding Fathers, thats a topic for another day. Were out of time, watching the National Prayer breakfast expecting to hear from president obama, thats going to be happening any moment now. Want to get to cnn newsroom with Carol Costello, beginnins right now. Happening now in the newsroom, weekend whiteout the northeast about to get pounded by a monster snowstorm. Some spots could get two feet of snow. People are talking is this the blizzard of 78 . America exposure or exploitation. First snl then the bowl, now the movies . The wound is w
Tom petty. Neil young. Reporter it was that con thaekz led these stars to appear in the documentary. Stevie nicks, neil young, tom petty. These are people i dont hang out with every day. I would send them anmail and sahi, my name is dave. Im making a movie. Everybody wanted to be in the studio represented. At that rorter despite its grand history, even at its peak stars like Rick Springfield knew sound city was not a glamorous space. We thought there were cockroaches in the wall. It was pretty filthy, that was part of the charm. Reporter ultimately the technology that made the studio special became out of date. When you came to work, it was a tape based studio. You knew what you were getting. Reporter the analog sound city became a casualty of a digital age. Like many things, theres no bookstore, theres no music store, and theres no sound city. Reporter groll salvaged the recording console to use in his own studio, ultimately he says the moving and the album are a celebration of musica