good morning, everyone. welcome to cnn this morning. i m a.m. a.m. a.m. ra walker. all eyes on the sky as this chinese sky balloon just continueses drifting. where it s expected to go and why the white house has not yet ruled out shooting it down. and a brutals blast of dangerously cold air is sweeping across the northeast right now. in some places it will feel like 50 to 60 degrees below 0. where we re seeing the cold air and tell you when it s going to start to warm up. plus police in new jersey searching for the person who murdered a local councilwoman outside of her home. what local officials are saying about that case. plus the usda rolling out new changes for school lunches. the proposes they are changing, just ahead on cnn this morning. welcome to the weekend. saturday, february 4th, we reesht you joining us for a lot of you out there, it is freezing cold outside, yobd beyond treezing cold. we re going to get to that in a moment. we start with this balloo
For this island. Sugar, spices, gold, just a few of the perks the spanish enjoyed for over 400 years. That is, until the u. S. Was happy to help, you know, liberate the island from the spanish and make it a u. S. Commonwealth. That means puerto rico is neither an independent country nor an official state. And its people dont have a vote in the u. S. Congress or in president ial elections. Despite all of that, Puerto Ricans are unstoppable. And their Cultural Impact on the u. S. And the world . Massive. To really get to the bottom of how puerto rico has not only survived but thrived requires an understanding of the cultural history of the island. So thats what were going to do now. And in case youre new to this show, thats like our whole mo here. [upbeat latintinged music] [upbeat latintinged music] music has become the love language between the u. S. And puerto rico. From the time of the tainos to the Enslaved Africans who were brought here later on to modern day, music has been an out
i m visiting a place that does happiness as well as anywhere on earth. for a decade now, iceland ranks as one of the top five countries on the world happiness report. the united states has never cracked the top ten. a lot of people hear this and wonder, iceland? as in that island country floating in the north atlantic, submerged in near-total darkness and tongue-numbing cold? [wind howling] yes, that iceland. but how the hell do you measure happiness? it s complicated, but each year, hundreds of thousands of people around the world rate the quality of their lives on a scale from one to ten. okay, so it s not really that complicated. is there any truth to this so-called science of happiness? well, i intend to find out. i m here in iceland s capital of reykjavík
[wind howling] i m meeting with community advocate javier de jesus martínez, architect and entrepreneur, who is determined to revive ponce to its former grandeur. - many buildings were damaged, primarily because of the hurricanes. some of the buildings that were hit were hit again, in this case by the earthquake. - ah. - it was double damaged. - right. - and there s a whole process of reconstruction going on right now. - really? to restore all these buildings? - yes. well - are you going to be able to do them all? - yes, it they depends. the ones that are on the public realm, there s things that are already back into into construction. but the process of reconstructing a city or region, you have to consider the emotional, the cultural, the identity of a place in order to rebuild it. if you are not considering those, you will have a ghost town. i love cities. i grew up in cities. i traveled cities.
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