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>> we judy, chitty chitty bang, bang anywhere we don't bang, bang, bang bang, bang so fine and. >> if, you've ever been to a disney theme park you couldn't miss one of his most iconic tunes of all time thank you to read sherman for all of these great childhood memories. he was 95 cnn breaking news hello again, everyone. >> thank you so much for joining me on fredricka whitfield and we're following breaking news on this memorial
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day weekend right now, more than 100 million people are at risk of severe weather as deadly and destructive storms. sweep across the central us these new threats come just hours after powerful storms killed at least 13 people across the south overnight, at least four of those killed were children homes were obliterated. 18 wheelers flipped over and power lines knocked out coming back to visualization right now for the first time, knowing that i was just here and it's all destroyed. >> it it's mind-blowing. >> i'm still trying to process it. it's shock this everything you had worked so hard for all these years is don cnn's ed. lavandera is in valley view, texas and meteorologist, at elisa rafah is tracking the storms from the weather center. so ed, let's begin with you. i mean, bad. i mean terrible damage behind you. how are people doing? >> trying to capture the magnitude of the devastation that we're finding here
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invalid the texas, which is just north of the dallas, fort worth area this is the rural area we're tornado really touched down here just moments before it come, came into this rural community. >> you can see here on the landscape, just the amount of devastation, 12345 homeless back over in this area here a little bit closer you can see the intensity massive trees ripped apart, homes, shattered as well as power lines down all over the place through here. >> and the resonance that we've talked to said they could feel the pressure dropping and that was how they knew the darkness that the storm was getting closer and closer. >> this family over here, the garcia family had a homemade storm shelter that they built in in a backyard, large shed area i were five people huddled together as the storm blew through here. they all survive, but the sheriff hearing cook county, texas tells us that in this area this subdivision on this rule park, just south of the town of valley view, seven
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people were killed. and of those seven victims here in the valley view area, four of them were children under the age of 18. we have confirmed the ages of two of the victims, which was two years old and five years old. so simply devastating news that these families and these residents here near the town of valley view are putting picking a pieces up with their lives and having to deal with this on this memorial day weekend, there was also a gasoline station, just a few miles from where we're at where the walls collapsed people had to be rescued and pulled out of that rubble. we understand that nobody was killed there, but just simply devastating, an intense seems that we're seeing all through this community is this storm, fredricka rip through here just before 11:00 central time last night, and you can imagine that horror and the fear that comes with these large tornadoes. intense tornadoes striking in the darkness. you don't really, you can hear it, but you don't know exactly where it's coming from. and that's what so many
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of these people that we've talked to find so terrifying it is, it is absolutely incredible. i mean, you certainly seeing more debris then structures of their in valley view, texas. ed lavandera. thank you so much. elisa rafah, these stores are coming with more frequency. they seem to be more powerful. and then what's around the corner yeah, it continues is bigger through the day today, the midwest ohio valleys continuing with the storms here is right where ad was some of those tornado tracks the uc just north of dallas, some of those hard-hit areas, then another one that stretches from oklahoma straight through northern arkansas. >> we also know a lot of damage and rodgers and bentonville, arkansas at least twice 25 tornado reports. a lot of damage to sift through today for the national weather service. here's a look at what's happening right now. we have a couple of severe thunderstorm watches in the yellow that go through the afternoon and evening until about eight or 9:00 eastern time. we have a tornado watch that goes until 3:00 and includes nashville, parts of
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kentucky i was just reading an update from the storm prediction center, this area right here, southeast missouri, that boot heel, there's not much going on there yet, but the skies are clear, the atmosphere is cooking, they are going to issue a tornado watch for this area and they're saying that the possibility of tornadoes there and they could be strong. so something that we'll have to watch out for. but again, this is the water still we have right now. the wine is storms when it is that bendy almost when you see that bend in there, that's where you find damaging wind gusts, 60 to 70 miles per hour. also see that pink box that's a tornado warning because along this line you can still get the spin ups of tornadoes, just imbedded in the line of damaging winds. that's pushing with force. we have had severe thunderstorm warnings in effect for nashville. they're now going just south and east of the city, also with that update from the storm prediction center, they said because of their fear of some strong tornadoes in the boot heel area of missouri, they're going to upgrade that to a moderate risk level, four out of five. so
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waiting for that update as well, but the risk again just stretches all the way up to the great lakes for continued damaging winds, a couple of tornadoes and large hail to the size of ping pong balls by tomorrow, all of this goes to the east coast. we've got places like dc, richmond, charlotte, atlanta, oil included as the storms continued to fire up, all of this growth to come with some heavy rain. so flood watches are in effect through through monday morning as well. >> so here's a look. the line continues to organize and fire up, see some of the kind of discrete cells in the boot heel that's where you can find some of those stronger tornadoes. the line continues to dive its way south and east through tennessee. you'll have some storms knocking on your door in atlanta in the morning, and then they can continue to fire up as we go into the afternoon and cook that atmosphere just wildly actin more than 900 tornadoes reported so far this year, friday and seemingly non-stop, non-stop. >> all right. at least rafah. thanks so much. thor tornado that hit claire moore, oklahoma overnight, it was at least in the ef2 according to the
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initial findings of the national weather service, i want to bring in now storm chaser, bryan em finger, he was in clear more overnight. now you're back in arkansas, so tell us about what you witnessed and experienced yeah. >> it's memorial day weekend and the tornado pass through claire moore and on the east side of claire more, there's a casino in next to the casino. there's a koh camp ground and it was just a horrific scene pulling in their the tornado went right through the camp ground these are not not structures that are meant to survive it really a tornado eight all luckily there is some sort of shelter there. i've been told, but some people it's like 11:00 when the tornado came through that part of the oklahoma. and so there were people in trapped. there was the police and the fireball we're just frantically calling for help because they could not get some of these people out. they seem to be this trapped. i
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don't know the amount of injuries. i know there are quite a few and that you're ethene almost 20 and several life-threatening injuries. and i believe there was a couple of fatalities in that area, but it was just a horrible scene with a packed camp ground for morrill day weekend and after you left claire moore you then traveled to arkansas. what did you see along the way yeah. >> arkansas is home and first i went through dictator and they actually had two tornadoes, one on the west side of town and one on the south side of town. the west side of town, there were homes that literally were just ripped into on the south side of town. there was businesses that were just demolished and then the tornado. this is the same storm that produced the tornado and clear more than three to cater. and then it went right through one of the more populated towns in arkansas, rogers, arkansas, and right through almost down to their downtown area of numerous businesses there was a walmart supercenter and other major businesses in that area, lots of homes lost their roofs. i saw so much roof damage in
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that area again, this was like at 1:00 in the morning. so i believe one person was was fatally injured there and other injuries. just a horrible scene in the middle of the night you mentioned the one set of people who had kind of a storm shelter like structure is it your feeling that most people are prepared in that manner to have something like that? >> it's yours puppet you can be in the middle of the night. there was obviously a lot of talk about the severity of the potential of the severity of these storms coming in but again, it's in the middle of the night if it wasn't for that storm shelter, i know if there would have been more fatalities, but in oklahoma, not surprise, you know, that they're going to have a safe place to go to for such a large campground. i mean, there must have been like 50 rvs and campers in that area. and i probably thought ten or 15 at the very least that were basically just blown over or
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destroyed where you couldn't until, you know what that used to be. so i believe we always say this, but it could have been a lot worse personally than that part of oklahoma even though there were a lot of travelers, i believe that a lot of people were aware of what was coming. >> all right. brian em thing or glad you're ok. and i know people are very appreciative. you capturing the images that they could see in many cases they didn't see it, but they could hear it and they could feel it. appreciate it. >> all right. and this breaking news, another turbulence incident. the second one, this week, 12 people were injured on a qatar airways flight from doha to dublin after the plane was rocked by turbulence over turkey, the flight landed safely in dublin and eight people were taken to the hospital, joining me right now as former faa safety inspector and cnn safety analyst, david sushi. david good to see you. boy, it seems like this too is happening with some frequency and not just turbulence that is
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uncomfortable two people, but in juries yeah, yeah, pra these are qualified as severe turbulence and those are the ones we're hearing about mostly right now. i looking for and i haven't found any empirical data that would tell me that there's been an increase due to global warming or anything else at this point. >> however, there was a study in 2020 21 that said that we are going to see more and more du, to global warming. we're going to see more and more of the severe turbulence and it certainly appears that that's what we're witnessing now. >> my goodness, qatar airways says they're conducting an internal investigation. what will they be zeroing in on? >> well, there's a couple of things. one is if the pilots flew into whether and i don't think whether it's involved in this one. it was involved in the singapore airlines a few days ago. however, in this one, it looks like it's clear air turbulence. so those are the kinds of things they're looking for. is it something that could have been avoided? another thing they'll look at is if they did know it was going
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ahead. in other words, if if a flight had gone through the same area before, did the pilots reach out and say, have you had any trouble with this or did rabies pilots report any turbulence ahead of time? so the first be looking to see if there's anything the pilot could have done if there isn't, then what they'll be doing is making recommendations for some new technology that's coming out that will really tell us what's going on in this clear-air turbulence because isn't the case. and on most flights, most airplanes, they're there are instruments that will indicate certain levels of turbulence because i think a lot of people can recall being on a plane and hearing the pilots say that we're about to encounter some turbulence or rough air. so keep your seat belts on. but there are conditions in which there is no notice that they could prepare passengers four yeah, they certainly are none at this point that tell them exactly what's going on with clear-air turbulence. now when you get that notice in the
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cockpit or from the cockpit that tells you a we are going to be experiencing some turbulence that's usually found out or discovered by the pilot in two ways. one is, as i mentioned, the pilots that flu through that area before said we've got some turbulence in this area be cautious, you can throttle back or you can avoid the area altogether, go a little higher or a little lower to avoid it. so that's, that information. the other thing they can look at it sometimes it's just impossible to avoid going through some kind of weather front that's coming through. and so there'll be aware of that by their instruments. and i'll be able to see those weather fronts the challenges when they can't see it at all. and that's the new technology that i'm referring to a minute ago. is these ultrasonic or emphasis on iq? microphones that can sense the movement of the air and actually tell whether or not there's going to be clear turbulence or not wow, extraordinary. >> all right. david, susie? yes. thanks so much for being with us. appreciate it.
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say eight rock hits were fired from rafah in southern gaza, and that a number of projectiles were intercepted. rafah has been the focus of israeli military operations in recent weeks and israel has threatened an all-out assault if hostages being held in gaza are not returned. and then just a short time ago, a journalist working for cnn learned from medics at the scene that at least four people were killed in an israeli airstrike in jabalya in northern gaza. cnn's paula hancocks is following the developments for us. uh, paula, that's a lot there oh what do you know well, we are seeing some significant strikes in gaza at this point, as you mentioned there in jabalya, at least for killed according to medics, this was when a residential building was struck. >> there we also know that we have just heard from the israeli military chief of staff
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for daniel hagari. he was speaking about rafah, pointing out that hamas has been using refer to launch these rockets against israeli territory. there, there were eight earlier on we know that there were no casualties, no injuries reported it does, of course, raised the question once again about more than seven months into this war, how far along israel has even got in its its stated goal of trying to do destroy hamas. and we also do have reports of air strikes in a rafah as well. we are trying to get information on that for you at this point, but it shows that this really is israel's focus at this point. this area along the border with egypt, where we have seen many displaced palestinians at one point, there were more than 1
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million that was sheltering in that area, about 800,000 of them at this point have moved after having a forced evacuations from the israeli military, very dire conditions. we are hearing from humanitarian aid groups. in that particular region. but at this point, we are having reports of airstrikes in that area as well, and we will give you more information as soon as we get it. right. okay. >> then our paula as for those rockets launched at tel aviv, do we know if any of them hit their targets? >> while we understand that a number were intercepted, this is what we're hearing from the israeli military and we did see images as well of sirens and, and people running for shelters and also some shrapnel in the aftermath in hertz cilia in central israel. but it does begs the question, how hamas is still able to fire these
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rockets now certainly we're not seeing anything like the number of missiles being fired into israel that we did at the beginning of this war. but there is going to be a concern as to why this is still possible, there have been increased criticism from the biden administration from others as well, when it comes to the military strategy that israel is employing at this point, saying that there does need to be a political plan for the day after as well so that they are not constantly fighting against hamas, for example, some of the areas including jabalya, which we just mentioned the israeli military had claimed had been cleared of hamas, but now they are back in that area and we are seeing significant air strikes there and fighting between israeli troops and hamas as hamas, according to the military, has managed to regroup and reassemble itself in that area. so this is really
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f. >> kennedy jr. was eliminated from contention for the libertarian nomination during a vote. and it comes after a surprise move earlier today when kennedy was put up for consideration as a nominee to represent the party in 2024. he received support from 19 delicate or just two 2% of the delegates. meanwhile, former president donald trump, who also received a handful of votes as a write-in candidate, got a hostile reception in the nation's capital, less light as he spoke at the libertarian national convention. >> as crooked joe biden i will be a true friend to libertarians in the white house we want lipid chariot votes because you stand for what we stand for. and don't ways to vote. >> now, i think you jude nominate me or at least vote for me, and we should win together all right. some of the
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attendees even used rubber chickens to heckle trump. it was one of his shortest two beaches of the campaign season lasting just over 30 minutes. i'm joined now by ron brown, steen. he has a cnn senior political analysts and a senior editor for the atlantic. ron great to see you fred. okay, so ouch for both trump and rfk jr. at the libertarian convention and i guess you know, trump perhaps tina trump likely knew that he wasn't going to be hugely well-received at the convention and may have thought that perhaps it was a long-shot to four the bronx support. >> when he showed up last week. so what is this all about really, i mean, is this a photo op to use later to say, look, you know, the appearances of me. i'm reaching out to people
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or is he? trump genuinely trying to grow support well, that's talking about the libertarians first. >> i mean, obviously we are a very closely divided country and i think what you see from trump, at least from him, is like, you know, every piece that he can bring into the fold on kind of broadly speaking, the right would help him for rfk jr. obviously, libertarian nomination would have met tremendously expanded valid access. i mean, i think cnn reported there on the ballot and over three dozen states these only in about six or seven. but what we saw at this convention and in this first round of voting is that it's really really hard for anyone coming from outside of the libertarian circle to really be acceptable to the voters. and that inside of that kind of universe, i mean, libertarians are pretty particular bunch trump, alienates them with his support for government
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restrictions on personal behavior. you would think kennedy would be a pretty good fit given his vaccine conspiracy theories and opposition to a vaccine mandates. but his environmentalism, many activism on that front puts them off. their, their impact in 2016 was real. they got a much smaller share of the vote in 2020. they're probably on track for that again in 2020 for so how might they lean? i mean, are there any indicators by who they are eliminating well, i mean, i think they're going to take a pure libertarian, which is why they did in 20202016. >> of course, they got the former governor of new mexico, gary johnson. he got a bigger vote. he was kind of an escape valve for young people and hurt hillary clinton in that way. i think the general sense among the research that was done was that when their vote declined from 60% to 20 most of those voters and moved away from the libertarians, move toward biden, hard to imagine that really happening again given
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biden's support for activist government and lot of ways, particularly on environmental issues. >> and kind directing investment through industrial policy. >> but trump isn't a great fit either with his abortion views and as tara views, i suspect that previously libertarian voters are probably going to scatter mostly among third-party options, including rfk jr. even though he didn't get much of a reception, right. >> okay. all right. so there was that this weekend, but it also is a very sad weekend, you know, a marking the moments including uvalde school massacre two years ago, george floyd's killing by the hands of police four years ago. >> and you write in the atlantic about the latter under a trump leadership, the reversal of police related reforms that very much impact latino and black audiences that the same audiences that trump is trying to appeal to. >> and as recently as last week it or trying to court there in
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the bronx, you right. the magnitude of trump's plans on policing and crime has drawn little attention. you're arguing that it should be front and center. >> yeah. >> i mean, you know, this is true on many fronts. i mean, we really haven't been we haven't seen much of a debate, certainly not in the republican primaries. and it really hasn't fully developed in the general election about what trump is thinking about for a second term. and on policing, he is thinking, he is proposing, if you look at the campaign videos that he puts up on his website a pretty radical shift in federal policy on policing. he wants to require require local police department to implement stop and frisk and other hardline policies as a condition of receiving federal law enforcement grants. as president, he virtually shut off all federal civil rights investigations into bias, allege bias in policing and
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local communities and this time he is saying he wants to have the federal government investigate the reform oriented district attorneys who are pressing for changes in policing practices at the local level. he isn't says he will consider ascending in the national guard into high prime cities over the objections of local officials and in fact, i said one of his biggest regrets of his first term's is that he deferred to local officials who asked him not to do that. now there's an audience in part for some of these proposals. obviously there's enormous concern about crime even though it is down from its peak and the pandemic and most of the key measures but i don't think that voters have a full handle on this and it really is indicative of that broader point you made, which is that if you compare where trump is now to where it wasn't 2020, he is stronger, more because he is improving among non-white voters than among white voters. that's where his gaze or biden's erosion from 2020 has been concentrated. but if you
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look at areas like his proposals on policing, which all experts i talked to agreed would mean more arrests of younger black and latino men or is proposals on mass deportation or ending birthright citizenship? it's not clear whether he can sustain those gains all the way to the finish line once if and when voters in those communities learn more about what he has in mind in a second term, you've done a lot of homework, lot of research on this and the article is enlightening in the atlantic. ron brown, steen thank you so much thanks for having me all right, and this could indeed be a consequential week for donald trump closing arguments in his criminal hush money trial are expected to begin tuesday and the case could be in the hands of the jury this week after six weeks of testimony, we could soon find out if trump becomes the first former us president to be convicted of a crime, he faces 34 felony counts. in this historic trial. i'm joined now by michael zelda and he has a
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former federal prosecutor, michael great to see you hi fred okay. so you shared with us before as a trial attorney, you might write your closing arguments, closing statements first, before you even question or grill witnesses and then go back and kind of reshape the closing. so if you were prosecuting this case, how might you structure this closing? >> i think my theme and i like closing arguments that have recurring themes is does it make sense that donald trump wouldn't, as my chorus does it make sense that donald trump wouldn't have known that michael cohen was receiving hush money repayments from michael from weisselberg when he was writing $35,000 checks once a month would it make sense that donald trump wouldn't have wanted to suppress the story in the aftermath of access hollywood, when all is polling told him that was the possible death knell of his campaign. would it make sense? and on and on
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taking the evidence out of the case? putting into that theme and asking the jury to use their common sense in relationship to what we learned about donald trump you've gotta deal with michael cohen a little bit but the reality is that michael cohen's testimony in large measure was corroborated. and then when it wasn't corroborated, it was really superfluous to the main part of what the process fusion needs to argue to obtain a conviction so you're saying whether it be defense or prosecutor attorneys really need to challenge the jurors to kind of connect the dots. >> i mean, these jurors were real note takers do you think most of them have already made up their minds or might they be greatly influenced by those closing statements my experience says are two-fold. >> one, as a trial lawyer, i always felt that my closing arguments were important to help the jury put the whole thing to remember. they've been in trial for a long time, 20
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plus days. now they've been off for five days. i think the closing argument in this case will be particularly important to bring it all back. home so that they can understand the narrative that you're producing also, i found that as a juror, i was on to juries in my life, and i found that the foreperson of the jury played an important role in organizing the collective thoughts of the jury will be interesting to see how that works out in this case. especially when you have two lawyers on that jury right? right. might one of them be the foreperson? all right. michael zeldin. thank you so much for your insight. appreciate it's gonna be an incredibly busy week for sure see if read and we're also following up on this breaking news as the palestine red crescent society says, there are a large number of casualties following a new israeli strike on displaced person's tense cnn's paula hancocks is back with us for the very latest and we're talking about in the rafah area
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yes, fred, this is the northwestern area of rafah. >> it is not one of the areas where the israeli military has issued those evacuation orders. it's likely an area where people have evacuated two. so this is a tent city, this is where displaced people are sheltering at this point, the teller salton camp. now we've heard from civil defense in gaza, they believe 50 5-0 are dead or injured. we do not have a clear breakdown of how many have been killed at this point of fluid situation. but the palestinian emergency committee and refer saying that they believe dozens have been killed at this point. now, as i say, this is an area where there are many makeshift shelters, there are tents. we have seen images on social media of people desperately trying to put out flames as a large fire has broken out. now we know that many of the casualties and the injured are being taken to hospitals in the area. it is
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unfortunately, that's the death toll is expected to rise at this point. and we understand this area is near the united nations headquarters in rafah itself. and as i say, it is not an area that has been told to be evacuated it is an area that many would have believed to have been safer than east of rafah where the israeli military is operating significantly now we have reached out to the idf asking the israeli military for details of what exactly happened in this air strike. we are waiting for a response, fred all right. >> let us know when you now. thank you so much. paula hancocks, we'll be right back russia's we're trying to spy on us. >> we were spying on them i'm sorry, frank this is. >> a war, but secret war, secrets and spies, a nuclear
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theater that you mentioned, investigators say that at about 6:00 p.m. and individual who is eventually detained, walked into that amc theater without a ticket and then stabbed for young females their their ages ranging from nine to 17. fortunately, their injuries not life-threatening, but certainly just the emotional trauma of it all there at this point, police calling this an unprovoked attack shortly after that, as you can see, a map here, police believed that that same suspect and made his way to play plymouth where he stabbed to individuals, a man and a woman in their 20s at a mcdonald's. also, those two people sustained a non-life-threatenin g injuries and are expected to recover. >> he then police then tracked him down. >> there was a police chase and that is when that individual crashes vehicle he was attained it expects but expected to face charges, friend and finally, police in deep dive, deep river, connecticut investigated disturbance found and individual dead at that location. they said that their suspect was arrested in massachusetts but stopped short
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right. >> tomorrow is memorial day. and as americans enjoy this extended weekend, it's most important to acknowledge the purpose of this holiday weekend, memorial day originally honored military personnel who died in the civil war and now honore those who died in any war while serving for the united states for more perspective, i'm joined now by lisa jenkins president of the georgia chapter of american goldstar mothers. lisa, good to see you. explain to us what this holiday means for you and what it means to be a gold family thank you so much for having me free frederick this holiday is a holiday that is reserved for those who never made it out of the uniform it is a solemn day four honore,
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and honoring those those who never made it out of the uniform, as well as the families that have been left behind what it means to be a gold star family. mother is it is very difficult. >> it's it's a difficult journey for any mother who has to bury her child it is it is quite a journey, but i have mated my my part of my legacy to embrace the goals are are mary community and bring education and put eyes on the gold community not only do you lead this organization, but you also lead an entire family of service members. i mean, you have six children. what you talked about this being a journey. you know, i mean, three of whom are currently
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serving in the army your identical sons are both veterans. your middle child specialist, frederick jenkins, the third tragically passed away in 2015, a while on active duty. i mean, your journey is unique, and extraordinary what do you want people to know about how they can continue to honore americans are honore service members and particularly for those who perhaps cannot identify with what it is to be in a military family. what do you convey to them? well, as think the way that you honor active duty veterans and goldstar service members is to acknowledge that they are here, they are serving some of them the transition from the military is very
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difficult, very challenging. >> we have service members that are serving they have challenges and they are there organizations and groups out there that do bring attention to some of the issues that our service members encounter my my support is has always been the military because my husband and i we've been married for 35 years and he's also a veteran so that's been a large part of my family's bint a large part of our lives so i'm very passionate about the military community as a whole my my my passion runs deep for the goldstar community because we're not seeing a lot of times on memorial day, you'll get something in your email or you'll see something about supporting veterans or but you
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don't see very much about the families of the fault so i'm very passionate about pudding eyes and our community and making americans aware that we're here. >> it's a journey is memorial day every day for us every day while lisa jenkins, we've seen your passion. >> we honor you your family, and all members of the armed services. and of course, we salute america's entire family of men and women who serve. thank you so much. >> thank you. >> and thank you for joining me today. and this memorial day weekend, i'm fredricka whitfield, the newsroom with jessica dean starts right after this in one of the most active 22 seasons, you can't control a tornado. what kinds of interventions can we design? go
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