All the tourists have returned doing what they do walking slowly down the Sidewalk Right in front of you even though some of the seats are wet the subway is still packed and i know new York Citys coming back good Morning And Welcome to Morning Joe. It is tuesday, september 14th. And i think Jimmy Fallon has really captured new York City. Oh, yeah. No doubt, willie. So first of all, i like Bill De Blasio. Come on p. I love Bill De Blasio. Sorry. And the jets, the Punch Line is always, willie, and, of course, a line lifted there from marty scorsese. Its a great special on netflix. Pretend its a city. Just walk around and pretend its a city like people actually go to work here. Love that it is. Listen, there is moisture on the seats in the subway. I can report. Theres strange smells emanating from those platforms. Its really happening. Its really coming back. Late Summer Humidity brings up some of those scents and reminds you of the greatness of new York City. Cant wait. Were coming next
Scrapped earlier this year. Right now the situation is Out Of Control. Sons of a fallen firefighter are honoring their heroic fathers sacrifice. It means so much to be able follow exactly in that Foot Step and be able to work under the same roof that he worked. Brian great. I love the ferris wheel. A lot of bulbs on there light it up now. Later it will not be lit up. Monday to tuesday after Labor Day, how many people are still on it. Ainsley still going. Look at this 6 00 in the morning. Brian i dont know how long the lines are. Staff steve i dont think very long at all. I dont think it opens until 9 00 o. 10 00 this morning. They might have turned on the lights for us. Ainsley maybe. We appreciate it. Steve welcome, its fall. Just like that, boom. Ainsley i know. No more white, right . We Cant Wear white after Labor Day. My grandmother said that the fashion police. Brian you cant go to a restaurant wearing white or vaccine card. Two new things. Ainsley fake news, brian. Steve its fash
Than half of americas new infections. And later, the battle over history. Schools and teachers under pressure over how much context to give students when teaching about americas past. Good to have you with us. Millions of people along the u. S. Gulf coast are bracing for impact this hour as tropical Storm Elsa barrels toward florida. Elsa briefly strengthened to a Hurricane Late Tuesday but has since lost a little bit of its punch. Still 33 counties are under a state of emergency. The storm is expected to make landfall in the coming hours along floridas northern gulf coast. Before that, elsa has been battering southwest florida. This was the scene on Marco Island tuesday as the storm skirted up the coast. Our Meteorologist Tyler Mauldin is tracking the storm and joins us now. Tropical Storm Elsa no longer a hurricane. It had a brief little flareup where It Restrengthened into a category one hurricane around the evening hours on tuesday. But it has since weakened. However, on the east s
Im kim brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom. We begin with a short flight to space but a Big Leap for tycoons who want to turn the great beyond into a tourist destination. In less than four hours, billionaire Richard Branson is set to take off in a Space Plane built by his company Virgin Galactic. Well, if he succeeds, he will be the first businessman to do so in a spacecraft, whose development he funded. A short time ago, he tweeted this Mission Statement for his upcoming flight. My Mission Statement is to turn the dream of Space Travel into a reality. For my grandchildren, for your grandchildren, for everyone. So, how does branson feel before potentially making history . Well, he opened up to cnns rachel crane. Reporter the countdown is on, and in just hours, entrepreneur Richard Branson hopes to become the first person to ride a selffunded rocket into suborbital space. Astronaut 001, Richard Branson. Reporter a Launch Nearlytwo decades in the making. Tell me, how do you feel . Um, well,