Star spangled spectacle. Today we come together as one nation with this very special salute to america. The president celebrates Independence Day with a military show of force. Speaking of thousands on the national mall, the reaction this morning heading into the Holiday Weekend. Those stories, plus, in the weeds. A surprising problem popping up on beaches this summer. Never forget. New revelations that amazons alexa can record and store conversations forever. But there is something you can do to get your privacy back. And coco motion. Cori gauff is taking wimbledon and the world by storm, and we got the chance to speak to her proud parents today, july 5th, 2019. Announcer from nbc news, this is today with Savannah Guthrie and hoda kotb, live from studio 1a in rockefeller plaza. Welcome to today. Thank you for joining us on this friday morning. Im peter alexander, alongside sheinelle jones, filling in for our friends savannah and hoda on this post july 4th friday morning. We have some
atlanta with the fulton county judge saying it s imminent. plus, more details on the victims of the mass shootings in california. i m hallie jackson in washington along with monica alba near the white house. garrett haake is live for us on capitol hill and chuck rosenberg is joining us. so, good afternoon to all three of you. let s start with the news we re getting in the last hour about, quoting here, small number of classified documents found at mike pence s home in indiana. according to letters that the former vp s legal team sent to the national archives. comes as we speak at the white house, president biden is huddling with top democrats as he s dealing with some documents drama of his own and the white house not saying much about either of the revelations. now playing out at the same time. i m not going to comment on any ongoing criminal investigation. that s for the department of justice to decide. i would refer you to the white house counsel and anything related t
ease the nationwide baby formula shortage that s left parents scrambling to feed their kids. the white house and private companies say they are now working to get more of that formula into the hands of parents. yeah. throughout the pandemic you know stores struggled to keep shelves stocked with a lot of popular brands, but this recall in february and then continued supply issues had really pushed parents to the breaking point. manufacturers say it may be weeks, potentially even months before supply is at full capacity again. let s take you now to delaware, where president biden is spending the weekend. and we find cnn s white house reporter jasmine wright there. jasmine, the biden administration has gotten criticism of its handling of the shortage. how is the president addressing this issue? reporter: well, boris, the white house has taken a number of steps in days, but still it comes as questions continue to mount as to why the white house didn t take more action, at l
polo sandoval is in new york and naddio romero is live in atlanta. so let s check in with shimon prokupecz. what are you seeing? reporter: yeah, so thousands out here now, fredricka. as they listen to some of the speakers. that are taking the stage here, local politician and other folks from planned parenthood. speaking to the crowd and getting them fired up. and then look apr this crowd here as you see signs everywhere here for many of the people who have come here from all across the country. places like seattle, and other parts of west coast and people who drove here from baltimore, and from new york city. all wanting to be here to fight, they say, as they begin what they say a new phase in this fight. they are saying that they are fighting for abortion access, the concern being that many people who can t afford, who are living in poverty, this will effect them the most. and so many of them out here today fighting, voicing their opinion after the leaked draft opinion. as
failures, and the surgeon general of the united states declaring gun violence a public health crisis. this move, one of the strikes longest tools his office has. the surgeon general is our guest and a family is desperate for answers this morning after a woman disappears while attending we ll go retreat in bahamas. new details on the search i m kate bolduan, this era signer and john berman, this is cnn news central he might as two days to cnn s historic debate and the countdown right now is entering a cripple a window with president biden hunkered down at camp david and facing a flurry of new advice are new reporting this morning, it binds outside biden s campaign are urging him to not talk about his own first-term policies on the debate stage, but instead focus on going after former president donald trump today, a new attack ad from biden s team he was taking direct aim at trump s economic plans. also this morning, the only person who has ever debated both men is sharing he