from the cnn center in atlanta, georgia, this is cnn saturday morning. happy fourth of july to you all. i m t.j. and what do we have here? good morning, t.j. i m in for betty this weekend. happy fourth to you. thank you for starting your holiday weekend with us bright and early. we have a lot of news going on. we appreciate you being here. you ll get to know brooke a lot this morning. we have something to talk about in north korea. we thought this might happen and low and behold it has. we re talking about seven missiles now is the total we are hearing that north korea has test-fired, the latest we got about an hour ago. many of you when you went to bed we thought there were with just two missiles test-fired. now within the past hour it s gone up to seven. these missiles have a range of about 310 miles we believe. the south is calling the launches a provocative act. we ll tufrn to our reporter in south korea. what message are they trying to send on the fourth of july?
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