joe: another beautiful performance by the u.s. air force heritage of america band. they do this all morning, brightening our day with patriotic tunes and beautiful music. rachel: thanks for joining us. we begin with a fox news alert. protests continue in france for a fifth straight night after the shooting death of a teenager last week. joe: the team was laid to rest yesterday. will: 700 arrests were made according to officials, the violence reaching of the home of a french mayor who says they rammed a flaming car into his house injuring his wife and one of his small children. rachel: french president emmanuel macron pulling out of a visit to germany. joe: he was seen at an elton john concert when the violence had several locations in paris. will: there s a need to understand what is happening in france. there is a sense under the surface the reminds us of 2020 and we hope is not some type of foreshadowing into something that could happen in america. the reason, france has
friday marked the single busiest day in the skies ever. add in 34 million at risk of severe weather and we have a potential recipe for a travel disaster. we have your forecast and when you may want to steer clear of the roads. plus, a weekend of gun violence in america, at a nightclub in kansas and a block party in baltimore, injuring dozens and claiming two lives. what we re learning about these mass shootings. later, the ride of a lifetime that no one asked for. the scary moment at an amusement park that should give everyone pause. it makes me second-guess guesting on a roller coaster now. let s begin with what you need to know as you get ready for your independence day celebrations. sizzling temperatures and severe storms in the forecast while americans set travel records not seen since before the pandemic. aaa projecting nearly 51 million people will travel 50 miles or more from home as a storm system moves down over the carolinas and 36 million people under heat
o er the ramparts we watched were so gallantly streaming. if and the rockets red glare, the bombs bursting in ai- gave proof through the night that our flag was still there. o, say does that star-spangled banner yet wave o er the land of the free and the home of the brave. if will: that was an absolutely beautiful rendition of the national anthem performed by the u.s. air force heritage of america band. they ll be with us all morning long. we have some serious news to turn to this sunday morning, we start with a fox news alert. of at least two people are dead and 28 injured including 3 critically after a shooting in south baltimore overnight. city s mayor spoke early this morning. this was reckless, cowardly act that happened here and that has permanently altered many lives and cost 2 people their lives. and i want those who are responsible to hear me and hear me very clearly, we will not stop until we find you. rachel: hundreds of people were were report
politicsnation. today from essence festival in new orleans. tonight s lead, justice not served. less than a week after the nation marked the first anniversary of roe s reversal, our conservative majority supreme court handed down a series of regressive decisions. collectively ruling against young and vulnerable people in a diversifying nation. on affirmative action, decades of transformative tools for underrepresented, specifically black kids seeking a higher education. the court left them to their own devices. on president biden s plan to apply a modest relief to suffering student borrowers, the court ruled that the administration had overstepped its bounds. and on lgbtq rights, the court insisted that the right to deny business on religious grounds can be protected as freedom of speech. president biden yesterday after days of responding to these judicial attacks on social progress, laid the blame for this week s decision at the feet of conservative lawmakers and the justice
should follow california on this issue. kyung lah, cnn, los angeles. hey there. thank you so much for joining me on this july 4th holiday weekend. i m safra sidner. we begin with controversial supreme court rulings that will have a broad impact across the country. the nation s highest court started off this week by gutting affirmative action in college admissions. by a 6-3 vote, the supreme court ruled that colleges and universities can no longer take race into consideration as a basis for admission. the conservative court dropped two more landmark rulings on friday. in one case the court said with a christian web designer in colorado who refuses to create websites to celebrate same-sex weddings out of her first amendment rights. the court also blocked president biden s student loan forgiveness plan. the plan aimed to forgive up to $20,000 in relief tole the millions of americans. in response, president biden is laying out a new plan to help those struggling with their loan