these are some of the nonperishables they are starting to distribute. it s a massive warehouse. they started distributing about a million pounds of food every day. already 2 hnt 4 million pounds have been donated just since wednesday through friday. but at this point they re looking for cash donations because they can make money go so much farther than donating water or canned goods. they re trying to get these two agencies that will then distribute them to the ground level, to the people in need. the need is great. thousands upon thousands of people in need of this kiepd of assistance, dara. that ll do it for me. i m dara brown. we re awaiting reaction from the white house to this claim of a north korea hydrogen bomb test. is the president choosing his reaction carefully? we ll bring you updates throughout the morning and
recovery centers in new york and new jersey and eight in connecticut. families are at wit s end trying to create normalcy for their kids. that s where they came up with camp sandy. they have been in place for today as carnival day. it is call would camp sandy. a bus driver picked up 32 kids and their parents and brought them to gateway academy in staten island. it is fun. they shared their story and arts and crafts and zoomba and burn off their energy and take nonperishables from a distribution center. these kids are hero to me. what they have gone through i couldn t go through this time of year. many parents are expressing concerns to politicians in a new door town hall meeting. we go to home openers and fem a. home opener s insurance
offered me $150 what can i do with that. fema ain t doing nothing. denied. denied. evacuees say this time of entertainment and fellowship is much needed. i am happy and you could see it in their eyes and they want to come back and they know better. in this distribution center is exive and partners can pick up nonperishables. what are they happening out. meals ready to eat and diapers and baby formula and even tools. the distribution center and camp is only what is going on in gate way academy. they have transformed sunday school classroom in dorm rooms and housed 250 volunteers in the northeast since super storm sandep hit. thank you very much. good to see you. and the sailors who graced her halls served our nation
citizens where the president took part in a naturalization ceremony for members of the military, and homeland secretary janet napolitano swore them in, and tonight there will be a celebration on the north lawn at the white house. and no power. that is the extremely uncomfortable position that people find themselves in after weekend storms knocked out power from il toile the nation s capital, and the most outages five days after the storms hit, west virginia. 5,000 homes are without air conditioning in the middle of a brutal heat wave. cnn s brian todd is there. fredricka, temperatures are spiking here in west virginia where it is to get up to 95, and well on the way to that right now. power is out for roughly one quarter to a third of the customers in west virginia, but some people in the more rural areas won t get it until the weekend and a key reason for that is right behind me, and this scene played out all throughout west virginia and downed trees are a huge problem f
dealing with no food. we re live on the ground to find out what s being done. and a state lawmaker accidentally undermining her party and her principles with the press of a button. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. first to a dramatic moment on the campaign trail. the presumptive republican presidential nominee, mitt romney, firmly stating his position on the u.s. supreme court s historic ruling up hodding obama care and directly contradicting what his top campaign advisor said earlier in the week. our senior congressional correspondent, dana bash, is covering romney in new hampshire on this july 4th. she caught up with him earlier in the day. how did that go, dana? reporter: very interesting answer. remember, it was a revolt against taxes imposed by the king of england that spurred this day we re celebrating today, independence day. so perhaps it is fitting that whether or not the health care mandate is a tax was the question of the day here on the camp