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respiratory symptoms. and jofficials are advising you to put your masks back on to protect you from the smoke. and derek van dam is joining us from the cnn weather whycenter. yesterday the fire alarms went off at school because of the smoke. how will it be today? you ve heard the term you wait a couple minutes and the weather changes. this was literally a 15 minute time lapse and you can see the smoke that inundated new york city, the skyscrapers just becoming a martian landscape. social media was lighting up. it was incredible to see but also very dangerous. and yet another day of the smoke and haze across many of the many populated areas of the east coast. and in new york we still have haze and smoke present, but it is not as bad as it was last night. majority of the thickest has drifted further south. so washington, philadelphia, baltimore, those areas will wake up to almost choking-like air and hazardous air really as this smoke continues to settle in. that stretc ....
u.s.-mexico border looking for asylum in the united states. breaking, the biden administration officially out with new rules for travelers from china. we re live at the white house with the details developing as we speak. i m hallie jackson in washington. joining me now is msnbc correspondent shomari stone at bwi airport, mike memoli is with the president in saint kroi in the virgin islands. some people have canceled vacation plans altogether. what are the airlines saying. talk us through that piece of it. reporter: right now people are trying to get answers. they re understandably frustrated and they re waiting in line here this line has grown over the last hour and they re trying to get more answers right over there. people can rebook their flights if it was within 30 days of the original travel date. people can also go on the southwest website and try and get a refund. i tell you, that s just not the problem with all the cancellations. look over here. look at a ....
when there s life and light and love. and that if we can just get to the light and life and love, 51% of the time, then we are having a good day. and we are having a good era. don t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. and i think that america is a marvelous example of a human community that gets so much wrong but which knows intuitively that if you do the right thing, everybody benefits. and we have to see each other as neighbors and not as enemies. do not despair, do not give up, in the words of churchill, never, never, never give up. try john meacham, as always, thank you for being with us. i hope you and your family are having a great fourth of july weekend. that was joe s conversation with john meacham ahead of this july 4th holiday. erin o hearn picks up the coverage right now. good money. morning, john. don t go far. no holiday starting yet. good morning to you at home and welcome to msnbc s live coverage on this monday, july 4th. we begin with the lat ....
pause in the war. yesterday, hamas released 24 hostages while israel released 39 palestinian prisoners. and new video is showing dramatic reunions on friday, like nine year old ohad wound or. his mom grandmother ruth e. coming face to face with their loved ones after being held captive. relatives are saying that the former abductees are doing as well as can be expected. what is a good shape for a nine year old after being in some prison cell for nine months? the way i see is, the doctor said that they are exactly where they should be, under the circumstances, okay? so, we have to give them time, of course. but we are optimistic, a lot of love and a lot of patients, you know? recuperating and coming to terms with the new reality that has happened. indeed. well, the ron asher and her daughters, aviv and roz, they were also released and reunited with their loved ones, while relatives of the am still being held or questioning widespread global protests in support of p ....
So people are getting creative, finding ways to go see their f favorite tours and like packing nine people into a hotel room. necessary luxuries and people are finding ways to make it happen. and memorial day weekend was a major test for airlines with travel levels returning back to 2019 levels. what does that show you? does it show you that airlines and airports are ready and that the travel numbers are the new normal? we know that the travel numbers are the new normal. what we always are fearful of is a crazy summer storm, those can be unpredictable. but airlines are saying that they have recovered from some of the mishaps that we saw last sum every over the holidays. they have upped their staffing. so hopefully given the great test we slohouldn t have too mu ....