This week. Thank you for getting up Way Too Early with us this morning. Dont go anywhere, Morning Joe starts now. You had such love at the rally, they were there for one reason. The rigged election. They felt the election was rigged. Thats why they were there. They were peaceful people, they were great people. The crowd was unbelievable. And i mention the word love, the love in the air ive never seen anything like it. Former President Trump speaking yesterday with Fox News, continuing to frame what happened on January 6th in a far different light than reality. As we know, he directed many of those socalled great people the great people that were beating Police Officers with american flags, that our troops had fought to defend for 240 years. They used that american flag to bludgeon, nearly to death, Police Officers. Right. And he told them to go to the capitol and get tougher on congress, to stop the certification. He told them and, of course, Don Junior said something about, were comin
States, canada, and around the world. Im Kim Brunhuber. This is Cnn Newsroom. We are just a few hours away from what could be the next step in the future of space tourism. Richard branson, the Billionaire Founder of Virgin Galactic hopes to make history. He and five other crew members are getting ready to take a short suborbital flight. Hell be the first billionaire to travel into space on a vehicle, he helped fund. Even his fellow billionaire, jeff bezos, is wishing branson and his team well, as the Amazon Founder prepares for his own, cosmic date with destiny on his own rocket, later this month. Now, be sure to tune into cnns live coverage of the flight, which is scheduled to take off at 9 00 a. M. , eastern time. Bransons flight will be a first for tycoons who want to open up Space Travel to paying customers. Rachel crane has more on that. Reporter the countdown is on. And in just hours, entrepreneur Richard Branson hopes to become the first person to ride a selffunded rocket into s
But we are going to begin with the latest on charlottesville. We are there removing those confederate relics. Its been a Long Time Coming you might say according to the Charlottesville City councilman michael payne. The statues were at the center of the rallies that took place four years ago or in 2017 and of course resulted in the death and the injuries of many people there in charlottesville. These are the live pictures that were getting in right now from charlottesville. We were told that the removal will happen sometime within our hours and of course now were starting to see some heavy equipment pulling through into the downtown area. Its actually two different monuments that will be removed, lindsey, one of them is of robert e. Lee thats been there nearly 100 years, the other one is of Stonewall Jackson. And this was all approved by the City Council and was fought all the way up to the supreme court. That is why this is happening today. We are going to bring in right now Council M
And thousands fleeing across the border in africa, seeking refuge from an erupting volcano. It is sunday, may 23rd, thank you so much for waking up with us. Christi, always great to see you. And you as well. Lets get into these conversations this morning. As u. S. Officials are pushing to get more people vaccinated, theres another state thats reached a critical milestone this morning. According to cdc data, Rhode Island is now the 8th State to have administered at least one Vaccine Dose to 70 of its adult population. This is a prime achievement as the country is really trying to reach Herd Immunity as you know. Yeah, the news comes amid an unprecedented surge of covid cases in southeast asia. India now surpassing 26 1 2 Million cases, with more than 3,000 covid deaths a day for the past month. There is some good news, though, a new scientific report shows that two doses of either the Oxford Astrazeneca or the Pfizer Vaccines are quote highly effective against the new variant that was f
Meghan and harry welcome a new baby. Her name ahead. Vaccine holdout, why some people in underserved communities still arent getting shots. Hollywood is proJecting a Movie Comeback on the big screen. Will audiences ever return . And later, gamechanger, a Sneaker Entrepreneur works to empower his community. This is the Cbs Weekend News, from New York, heres Jericka Duncan. Duncan good evening. Spring is sizzling. From the midwest to the northeast millions of americans have spent the weekend trying to keep cool. Several Temperature Records have been broken. In the south severe storms have also swamped the Gulf Coast, while Fire Scorches parts of the west. Cbs Tom Hanson is in New York and has more on the Nations Weather extremes. Tom, good evening. Reporter good evening, Jericka. As you can see behind me Bryant Park is very busy with New Yorkers trying to beat the heat. Today temperatures hit 92 degrees and Just to give context that is 40 degrees higher than Just one week ago. Throughout