welcome to the whole story. i m anderson cooper. tonight, we take you into a world that few people get to see up close. the world of superyachts. private boats, some of them longer than a football field. they can cost hundreds of millions of dollars and it seems there are plenty of buyers. since the pandemic, more people than ever are building and buying them. business is reportedly booming. they ve become status symbols they ve become status symbols for the soup rer rich and striking symbols of inequality. their impact on the environment and the oceans is a topic of debat. the u.s. has seized some superyachts of russia s elite and now, your tax dollars are being spent to keep them in tiptop shape. cnn s s alisyn camerotota takes inside this world of superyachts. and her first stop, the monaco yacht show. this is monaco. land of the ultra wealthy.y. anand dotting g the harboror li crcrown jewelsls are some e of woworld s largrgest superyryach. bonjour. that s no
support. i m michael smerconish in philadelphia. monday america celebrates the third ever federal holiday of juneteenth, commemorating the emancipation of enslaved african americans. as we do, the consensus among legal scholars is the supreme court will soon be ending affirmative action, at least in the context of college admissions. does that mean it achieved its purpose or we re abandoning the underlying premise? a pair of cases have been argued. we ll soon know the results. one involves harvard, the other the university of north carolina. the conventional wisdom is that race-conscious admissions will end. currently race is permitted to be a factor, meaning one factor among many to be considered as schools seek to create a diverse student body. kwoet quote teas, however, are unconstitutional. that s the bottom line after the supreme court has taken up several cases involve ing affirmative action over time. justice sandra day o connor wrote we expect 25 years from now the us
story . i m anderson cooper. last week at tokyo s haneda airport, a jal airbus collided with a smaller aircraft. five crew members on the coast guard plane died. but amazingly, all 379 people on the airbus survived. they were safely evacuated before the plane was engulfed in flames. investigation into what happened is still under way. it got us thinking about that miraculous story of survival that happened 15 years ago this month. us airways flight 1549 took off from new york s laguardia airport heading to charlotte, north carolina. there were 150 passengers onboard and 5 crew members, including the pilot, captain chesley sully sullenberger. it should have been a quick two-hour flight. but soon after takeoff the plane collided with a flock of geese. both engines went out and the plane headed down. captain sullenberger acted quickly, heading towards the hudson river for an emergency landing. his decisiveness saved the lives of all 159 people onboard. but this potential trage
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