is can he do the job he is running for? four-and-a-half years from now, is he mentally fit to actually do that job? and i think that's the question a lot of democrats are asking. it's like, well, it's not just about can he win, it's like what happens if he does win? a year from now, two years from now. and we'll he start missing stuff. will you have to step down and there's more to being president than not being donald trump all right unfortunately, megan, you have been in the hotseat. i'll show i'm gonna give you a break joey chestnut lance. thank you. i'm sorry that you are more part of the furniture. come back for veepstakes like i said, when your opponents like vallejo don't get in the way all right. >> i do want to leave you with this today. reigning champion hot dog eating champion, joey chestnut may have lost let's to seat at the nathan's fourth of july hot dog eating contest on new york's coney island. but it appears to have only fed the competitive eaters appetite chest not still planning to down hot dogs. he's just going be doing it against soldiers at the four-plus army base in texas despite the change of

venue, there is still a gastro-intestinal challenge. chestnut says he is hoping to out eat the winner of the nathan's contest in half the time i guess we'll see who cuts the mustard. all right thanks very much. your panel. thanks for you to all of you for joining us on this fourth of july holiday. i am casing. don't go anywhere. sandi new central starts right now quote, i'm not leaving president biden, defined as calls grow for him and his reelection bid new interviews out moments ago with the president as he fights to save his campaign and hurricane beryl wright now hitting the cayman islands with powerful winds, storm surge, and huge waves. it already battered jamaica, southern coast. cnn is on the ground live in jamaica with a firm good morning. look at the damage and it's independence

de here in the u.s. it will be the hottest on record for many cities will show you where south and camerota federica whitfield this morning, sarah kate, and john are off. this is cnn news central happening now, an independence day in american life if no other, as the current leader of the land of the free, seek to gain independence from a reelection nightmare in a brand new taped radio interview, president biden, again digging in against calls for him to step aside is there any reason for the american people to be concerned no, i had a bad debate but 90 minutes on stage does not erase what i've done for three-and-a-half years, proud of the record, and we there's

gotta keep moving and new this morning, biden is enjoying a strong backing from several democratic governors after their critical meeting waltz of minnesota saying this he is fit for office. the governors have his back and from california's newsome quote, he's all in and so am i but is the top house democrat all in sources tell cnn leader hakeem jeffries did not share his current assessment of biden's future on a call last night, this as two sitting house democrats are now calling for biden to step aside, as well as one of his biggest campaign donors netflix, co-founder reed hastings. let's get right to cnn's arlette saenz outside the white house arlette, how is the president viewing the next few days while, fred president biden is really engaging in a public and private reassurance can campaign to try to convince american voters and his own allies that he is staying in

this race and up for a second term. >> president acknowledged to one key ally that's the next few days in his campaign will be critical in part of the president's focus going forward will be in taking his message directly to the american voters, sitting down for a major interview with abc news tomorrow, as well as traveling to battlegrounds, states like wisconsin and pennsylvania in the coming days, the president started some of that outreach to voters, a taping, a pair of interviews with two black radio hosts that started airing this morning. and in one of those interviews that aired this morning, and the philadelphia area, the president argued that voters should look at his entire record and not just the 90 minutes on that debate stage. he also tried to speak and very stark terms about what a second trump presidency could mean especially when it relates to the supreme court. here's a snippet of that 14 minute interview. the president conducted since the most important election because the next president and united

states, by the way, it's going to be two point at least two more justice four year period, maybe more. >> imagine what that does is supreme court now the president last night hosted a meeting with about 20 governors, some attending in-person and some virtually where he tried to reassure these top democrats about his candidacy. >> but it also gave them a chance to take a stock of biden and whether he is up for a second term several well democratic governors came out here at the white house to publicly express their support for president biden, maryland governor wes moore noted that there were very honest and frank conversations in that in that meeting. but at the same time, there are some deep reservations among democrats at on capitol hill about the path forward for biden in this race. now, the president is sending fourth of july here at the white house, where he will huddle and meet with his family. vice president kamala harris will also be on hand for these fourth of july festivities. of course, this is

a day to celebrate the nation's independence, independence at a time when biden really has framed this campaign as a battle for the soul of the nation and a fight to make sure that democracy is preserved. of course, president biden himself is now in a fight for his own reelection campaign right? indeed, arlette saenz. thank you so much. of course, cnn will be speaking with that wmur d host andrea lawful sanders later on. this morning also this morning, we're learning exactly what donald trump thinks of president biden's debate performance in a secretly recorded video obtained by the daily beast trump is heard calling the president, quote, an old broken down pile of crap trump also loved insults at vice president kamala harris, cnn, steve contorno is joining me right now with more and all this. so steve, how is donald trump handling all of these questions to relink surrounding the president and his future for it, for the most part, he's been remarkably quiet. i ever

since the debate he held that one rally and an immediate aftermath in virginia, but he has not held one since he's had very limited media appearances. there's been not a lot of nuggets being dropped about his potential vp announcements which we thought could come as soon as this week. obviously that's not the case anymore. and he gave his staff off for fourth of july holiday look, they're happy to keep the spotlight on joe biden and the democratic hand-wringing for as long as possible up until their convention in a week from now. and what's interesting is that this is a scenario aerial. they have somewhat predicted, if not anticipated, for quite some time, they've, for more than a year that donald trump and other republicans have been suggesting that biden wouldn't last through this presidential cycle. now, whether that was just rhetoric or something that they thought could actually happen. now we're nearing this moment where that is more of a possible ability to than perhaps ever before. and yet they're also sort of scrambling to figure out what comes next i talked to one

republican pollster who said, you'd rather go with the devil, you know, and the devil. you don't know. but they did put out a statement yesterday for the first time, starting to attack some of the other candidates that are in consideration. they wrote quote joe biden is week failed dishonest and not fit for the white house. every one of them them being the potential other considerations has lied about joe biden's cognitive state and supported his disastrous policies over the past four years, especially cackling copilot kamala harris so there's where they're at right now, fred all right. >> so you've contour now. thank you so much. allison. >> okay. fred, let's bring in cnn senior political analyst mark for us in mark great to see you. so this morning. there's this new radio interview. and of course there was last night's meeting with the democratic governors. is there any evidence? did this all helps move the needle with the public and helps president biden salvage his campaign well, right now, i mean, there's no evidence that we can see other than the question

is, have they done it too late right now allison clearly, we're seeing the president go on this offensive but again, this debate has been seven days old right now in the criticism has been that the president and his advisers did not forcibly get out there right away, try to, try to nip this in the bud and unfortunately, that's what they're dealing with right now. >> but i got to tell you if if i was a betting man, i think the money is on that he actually steps aside because i just don't know how this this cascade of criticism that he's getting from within his own party stops so mortgage, you know, there's two current democratic lawmakers now. >> they're going public saying that they think that president biden should step aside. one of biden's biggest campaign megadonors, whose net flicks co-founder reed hastings, he wrote an email to the new york times saying that biden needs to drop out. there's also this new cnn poll of polls. it finds a trump has a five-point lead over biden. so what other data

when the president says he's waiting for the data, what other data is he waiting for? >> so essentially, yes, his question because i was talking to a democratic lobbyists who is known for writing fairly big checks in town. two democratic candidates. and i pose that question to could the money people come out in tel joe biden step aside and he laughed at me and said no, he goes, of course, that could be a little bit of pressure but what you're really going to look for is the small dollar donors which are now fueling these campaigns and the small-dollar donors are going to be at fourth of july parades today. they're going to see their members of congress back home this weekend because this is a very visible weekend, of course, for members of congress to go back home. that's the data points you're going to get when constituents two and start going up to say, you know, members of congress and really start asking them, is he okay? is he okay now, should he be on the ticket? do you feel good about it? they start to feel that pressure then that's when the data point i do believe that the biden white house is most concerned about so cnn has new

reporting that behind the scenes a succession plan is being talked about, but the biden camp dismisses that. so here's congressman james clyburn talking about the path forward you can actually fashion the process is already in place to make it a minute primary. and i would support that. absolutely i paint the kamala harris with a quitter so very well in that kind of a process. but then it would be fair to everybody so all of the other governors who may be interested. and there are some that i would be interested to hear from as well because if she were to be the nominee, read need to have a running mate so is that how it would work? mark is is it the easiest if there were a succession plan is it the easiest for kamala harris? in other words, would anybody else be able to get the money and get the backing other

than the vice president? >> well, they may get the backing, but they're not gonna get the money. and they're not going to get very much of the backing. so let's just, let's just put this on the table in very simple terms, you have the first african african-american woman who has achieved this incredibly high office and she is one step away from the presidency. i don't know other democratic party can go out and say we want to grab a governor from pennsylvania or michigan, or even california where she's from, gavin newsom and say, we're going to have them jump over kamala harris, somebody who has run for president already, somebody who has been in the white house and has been in situations for all the criticism she is taken. she clearly understands the job. i just don't understand how the democratic party could leap frog her, but jim clyburn did something very interesting there. he's the one basically that planted the flag because there had been so much pushback about kamala harris from the get-go saying, could she really defeat donald trump? when people started to come out, there's some concern over the weekend this past weekend, we

saw jim clyburn come out, plant the flag. basically, it basically say hey, we should have a primary, but i'm backing kamala harris and that means the party should all right. >> well, mark, as you know, things are changing by the hour, so thank you very much for giving us a status report here at this hour. all right. flooding and power outages in jamaica this morning as hurricane beryl lashes the caribbean a look at the latest track plus a ninth lawsuit is filed against sean diddy combs. what the latest accuser alleges took place during his famous all white party in the hamptons cnn sits down with the boeing whistleblower, who raised concerns about bad parts being used on passenger glands 50,000 parts. that's what we countered at the time. it seems like a heck of a lot. >> it's a heck of a lot indeed, what does that say to you? >> well, that says it puts be people's lives at risk cnn

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from a jamaica as capital of kingston. so raphael you wrote out the storm yesterday. what did you experience? gantz and what have you heard from people there yeah, i've read good morning. >> it was one of the most powerful hurricanes that i've ever seen. beryl hammered the island with torrential rain, and devastating winds and just take a look at what, what's behind me. fred. this is a boat that was push by the strong winds from across the bay. aid made it crashed against the old pier here in the downtown area in kingston, the capital of jamaica. and it finally ended up sinking after several hours. have been pounded by the wind and the jamaican prime minister says that this is his country is only beginning what he called the second phase of this disaster and the relief efforts. he also said that about 500 people were displaced by the hurricane and are now in

shelters. he'll said that there has been damaged it's two infrastructure and coastal areas, so we can talk a lot about what we have seen as well, which is down power lines and trees also debris across the island. a uc what happened to the boat right there and the prime minister says that in any case his country is prepared to face the challenges ahead. at this is what he had to say where no entering into this second phase of this disaster, which is know the actual response so we have seen that there are some persons who have been dislocated on our knowing shelters. >> we have been told about some areas that have been affected by storm surges, which would have damaged coastal infrastructure and fed i also had an opportunity to talk to

donald macleod. she's a former state representative in georgia, and she spoke for many people when she expressed their concerns and the sadness he has about what happened to jamaica i'm going to cry because this is a place that was born. and it's been nine years since i've been back and jamaica is beloved around the world and so for me right now, it's very emotional and so we're just praying that we can get through this beryl is now pounding pounding the cayman islands. >> it's going to go on to mexico and then become a threat four parts of texas in the next few days, fred back to you. >> all right. well, they tracking barrel. i thank you so much. rafael romo. appreciate that all right. still ahead. bad parts on bad parts that are used, hearts on passenger planes. what the boeing

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was forced out of his job for bringing up major safety issues like that. cnn's pete montane explains how commercial flights may have taken off with bad parts if everett washington as a boeing company town, then merle meyers was accompany man a 30 year veteran of boeing. >> meyer says his job as a quality control manager put his kids through college, be bad. it's a family tradition. his late mother was a boeing inspector, able to unilaterally decide if a new airplane just off the factory line was fit to flights, what would she think about what is happening at boeing? she'd be absolutely livid. meyer's new allegations detailed an elaborate off the practice centering on parts deemed not safe to put in new airplanes he is the latest whistleblower to come forward with claims of quality control lapses at boeing. this is his first tv interview inspired by the january 5 door plug blowout on an alaska airlines 737 max

nine spray painted red, bad parts deemed not up to boeing standards are taken from boeing everett plant and sent to its scrap facility and auburn. but then one day in 2015, meyer says a crate, a bad parts or improperly sent back from auburn to boeing's everett factory. myers alleges the practice continued for years, tallying that more than 50,000 parts escaped boeing quality control. 50,000 parts. that's what we countered at the time. it seems like a heck of a lot. it's a heck of a lot indeed, what does that say to you? well, that says it puts people's lives at risk, not just passengers, but flight crews and a lot of these are flight critical parts that made it back into the production system. company emails show myers repeatedly flagged the issue to boeing's corporate investigations team, pointing out what he says, we're repeat violations of boeing's safety rules, but myers insists

investigators routinely failed to enforce those rules in a 2022 email, he wrote that boeing investigators ignored eyewitness observations and the hard work done to ensure the safety of future passengers and crew. why would they do this to schedule? yes, schedule to get points out the door to make money? yeah. >> myers believes he was forced out of boeing last year and is concerned there are still problems at the company. i think they need to punish. they need to fire people that blatantly violate the process and endanger the flying public. it's a huge problem. and a core, a core requirement of a quality system is to keep bad parts and good parts apart in a statement, boeing says it encourages employees to speak up and that to ensure the

safety quality, and conformance of our products, we investigate all allegations of improper behavior, such as unauthorized movement of parts or ms handling of documents we then work diligently to address them and make improvements. meyer says he is coming forward now because of the pride he has in boeing, he goes so far as to call it a wonderful company. one, he says has been going astray and is in desperate need of change but you have to care leadership has to care to do that. but if you can't even keep parts segregated from good parts, what else aren't you doing, right? the mystery here is that we do not have an exact accounting of where these parts are. they range from the superficial like fasteners to the critical wing flaps used for landing if these parts weren't returned to the scrap yard are whistleblowers worried that they ended up on new planes delivered to airlines and other customers in the last decade or so, how big a deal is that also hard to know since we

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on cnn.com and max the impact of the supreme court's ruling on presidential immunity is still reverberating. >> we're learning this morning the doll trump plans to use the historic decision to attack the the evidence against him in all four of his criminal cases. one source says trump's lawyers believe the ruling could have the biggest impact on his mar-a-lago classified documents, case cnn's katelyn polantz has more from washington right now. so caitlin, what are you learning well, allison, there's always been this expectation that trump's team would use this immunity opinion to attack the cases and the indictments broadly but what they will also be able to do and what is now expected affected from what we're hearing from sources is that they're going to try and cut out the details that these cases have if they were to go to trial. >> this is a focus around the evidence in the cases because there are things like in the

mar-a-lago case in florida that is so largely about things that took place after the presidency alleged obstruction, having documents in mar-a-lago and unsecured locations that were national security and should have been protected. and yet his attorneys are going to be arguing to the judge and already have told the judge that they want to cut out things like when trump have documents taken out of the white house at the very at last hours of his presidency so looking at the evidence is going to be something that is going to continue on in these cases as they move forward. now that the supreme court has decided and it's going to ricochets in all four of those cases. also, allison, everybody is looking at this opinion. it's not just donald trump's team. people like mark meadows and jeffrey clark who are co-defendants of his down in georgia. they to see possible help potentially for them. they're fighting, they're charges there. in other ways, other types of immunity for

federal employees. they've been losing that battle in the courts. mark meadows though, is expected to go to the supreme court just later this month when he has a deadline upcoming for another appeal. and the general idea from the sources i've heard from is that it might not explicitly help them now that the supreme court has defined presidential unity. but hey, it couldn't hurt allison. >> oh, my gosh, it has not simplified things. caitlin is what i'm picking up. thank you very much for it. all right. allison, president biden vowing he will see this race through to the end and his team declaring he will absolutely not withdraw from the ticket despite growing fears there's among democrats that he will hurt their chances in down ballot races, joining us right now, republican strategist joseph pinion and more gillespie, founder of blew steck strategies and former press advisor to john painter when he was house speaker. good to see both of you our tamara, you first i mean, a few things here. a lot of things. that are

happening right now simultaneously biden and his supporters, including those democratic governors outside the white house, trying to salvage his reelection path. and then two democratic congress members saying out loud, biden should step aside plus the contingency plan. if not biden, then his vice president. so let's focus on the latter. kamala harris says, she's proud to be his running mate. how viable is this momentum for harris now, when for much of the past three years there was criticism, if not uneasiness, that she was a liability it to me as really late in the game to be even having this conversation because quite frankly, there has been so much criticism against kamala harris. >> she was the borders are but really the border is a big weakness with biden harris administration. so i wonder why they didn't listen to dean phillips when he told them it's time to pass the torch. they shouldn't have been as a surprising as it seems to be the democrats. and i think they're very late in the game

to be having this conversation and at this point, biden is being supported by his family telling him to run and at the end of the day, that's not really where things should be coming from. it should be coming from the american people who have largely now express, they don't one either trump or biden and his race. i think if you're looking at the polls and if you're team biden in order to stand up and preserve your legacy and salvage anything you should see this as an opportunity to bow out because that's preserving your legacy, that's putting america first. so i would hearken back to that idea of what does it mean to be a public servant putting into the public interests ahead of your own except of course more or the white house. and of course even president biden all or saying, let the voters decide that's when you will be able to gauge what the american people want because that's far we've heard from a lot of democratic elected official. so joseph to you, massachusetts representative seth moulton, saying this, i have grave concerns about his ability to

defeat donald trump when your current strategy isn't working, it's rarely the right decision to double down president biden is not going to get younger quoting him also reportedly a draft letter now is floating on capitol hill that lawmakers may sign pressing biden to step down. so joseph even if biden is defiant, digging in his heels, how does he endure or survive this kind of tidal wave? >> well, look, there are a few factors here. number one, i believe the congressman's own words belied the truth. this is not about doing what is right for the american people. this is about a democratic party that has dug themselves a grave and now we're looking for an escape hatch. and so yes it was quite clear to everyone that joe biden had not only lost a step, but lost his footing on the global stage, it was quite clear when we had robert hur with a big billboard telling the american people that it was his opinion, the department of

justice is opinion, that he was not fit to stand trial. he was not every single person was mentally last three years with grave concerns about the empty stairs, the falling up the stairs, he tumbling down the stairs. we take no pleasure in saying these things. it is just a reality for demanded is our commander in chief. and so i think republicans are going to do everything humanly possible to keep joe biden on the ballot, to tell the american people the democrats have effectively perpetuated a aaron psaki fever dream on the republic of fraud on this republic by trying to tell you that this man was fitter than he was. are you looking in places like wisconsin where he asked you possibly either not be alive to be off the ballot, places like georgia were yesterday, demonstrate the ears on fit mentally to be off the ballot. so these are all going to be very intricate steps that democrats is going to have to go through. and republicans are going to push back firmly on all of those. >> so perhaps more, this is a little window into biden strategy. he was on a

philadelphia radio station on the source with andrea lawful sandi. she's gonna be on cnn later on this morning. biden is trying to put more attention on his opponent, trump. listen to what he said he talks about black jobs you just. >> talked down to people. he has no respect to shameful common. it's not surprising it's a guy, as i said, question george flores, humanity lead the birth against president obama, accused the central park five, they should be in jail so maura biden is underscoring. trump is no advocate of black voters. do you expect biden will try to do this more to perhaps upstage the criticism that he's facing. >> this is mark tactic to go after and point out all of the things that trump has said. and done you know, i think that debate showed us that really the biggest issue here is trust

i don't think you can trust things that donald trump has said. i don't think you can trust that he is going to advocate for the interests of the american people. i think he's kidding for himself, but putting himself in a position to give him stuff out of jail on the flipside? i don't think he could trust that joe biden is equipped to handle this job. he's already been failing to do so and we saw on the debate stage, he really wasn't all there. and so trust now is completely eroded to the american people because this was blatant as to joe's point, this was obvious, this was coming a long time coming into office at an older age. they're both going to be oxygen ariane, should they be in the white house for the next four years? either whoever it is and so this is where the democratic party can hit trump for a lot of things. whether republican party has just as much to go after the flip side again, i've long said, i don't see how these choices being good for the american people moving forward. but for democratic party, if they really believe and the polls are showing that they are so far behind that there's opportunity here. they should be capitalizing on it by

moving past joe biden all right. we'll leave it there for now. thank you so much more, gillespie joe, opinion. great to see you both. allison. >> okay. fred right now, voters are at the polls in the uk where the fate of the ruling conservative party is on the line, 650 seats in the house of commons are up for grabs. and whichever party wins will determine who become i'm just prime minister. the incumbent pm, rishi sunak, voted this morning. he's the one who called for this surprise snap vote months earlier than necessary cnn international correspondent, nada bashir joins us now from london. it's not explain how significant this election is. we'll look, this could be a game changer off to 14 years of conservative party rule. here in the united kingdom opinion paul suggests that the conservative party could suffer major losses. would the labour party, the current opposition party sweeping in? how often more a

decade now of course, there are many key issues at the forefront of voters minds. this is the first time that voters have gone to the pulses 2019 at when boris johnson was elected prime minister the leader of the concepts 40 since then, we've seen many leadership changes, many new prime ministers and a sense of instability within the government, within parliament. many of course concerned the chaos that we've seen on the police scene, but also concerned that would the state of the economy, the cost of living crisis here in the united kingdom. and of course, there's also foreign policy concerns at stake. this is section taking place at a time when the uk has diplomatically been very much involved in the war in ukraine, as well as, of course, the ongoing war in gaza serwer, number of key issues of course, for voters heading to the polls today, polls open at around 7:00 a.m. local time. they will stay open until 10:00 p.m. or 5:00 p.m. eastern time. it is at that point that the counting begins. now voters of course, are voting for their member of parliament. there are 650 constituencies. they are

voting for their local representatives for each of these parties not voting directly for the prime minister. and what these parties are looking for, what these party leaders are looking for it's for their policies to secure a majority. that crucial 326 figure and above all, be seeing those counts coming in constituency by constituency overnight into the early hours of friday morning. we of course, expect to see exit polls throughout the night coming in, giving us a steer of where this year's election is. heading. those official results set to be announced on friday. of course, it is crucial for that party does win to secure a majority, to be able to form a government and for the prime minister to take office. this is an could potentially be a big game changer for the country. many will be staying up overnight to watch those vote counts come in to see who the next prime minister will be. okay, not a share. thank you very much for all of that. >> new details this morning of

a nice lawsuit filed against sean diddy combs by a former adult film actor and high temperatures and a water boil advisory could make for a very uncomfortable fourth of july in washington, dc it's almost sharp week, but this year it's sharks that are in danger. >> many shark species facing extinction overfishing is the biggest cause, but pollution is also a major threat dive against debris is trying to fix that in today's impact your world i begins to bri, is a citizen science monitoring program were scuba divers can remove marine debris that they find on the seafloor as diverse, we can quickly see what is not actually supposed to belong underwater from plastic to metal, to all sorts of things that we may find underneath the waves. as plastic enters the marine environment, it breaks down over the course of time so when small organisms eat that starts

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risks to most people remains low. allison this morning, a new study is linking the popular weight loss and diabetes drugs would go v and ozempic to an increased risk of a rare form of blindness cnn's jacqueline howard joins us with all the details. >> jacqueline, this is alarming it is, but there's no need to panic, allison because this study shows there might be this association between the drugs semaglutide and this rare form of blindness. >> it's caused by restricted blood flow to the optic nerve, a type of eye stroke but it's so rare. allison in the general population, only about up to ten out of every 100,000 people have been diagnosed with this condition. the reason why researchers are turning attention to this though, is because in their study, they did find that patients with diabetes who had been prescribed semaglutide appear to be about four times more likely to be diagnosed with this condition compared with people who had diabetes. and

we're not prescribed these drugs and people who are overweight or who had obesity and use these drugs appear to be about seven times more likely. but again, alison, it's an association. the researchers say we need to take a closer look at what exactly actually is happening here for sure. >> understood. and i mean ten people is still tend to many, but thank you very much for alerting us exactly to all of that. okay. jacqueline howard, thank you. bread. >> all right. today, independence day celebrations aren't just happening here at home. us service members at bases around the world are enjoying the festivities as well. cnn's mike valerio is at camp humphreys and south korea. it's the largest overseas us military base. so mike how are folks celebrating well, you know for the fireworks says senate here. >> so it's like we're back home, we're actually 40 miles i always the away from the center of seoul, south korea. you would never know. >> because looking at anybody here, this is great. this is,

as you mentioned, fredricka, biggest us military base outside of the united states. we've got not one, not two, more than 40,000 people here are connected to the u.s. department of defense. and you don't fred, for so many families? we're on their first deployment here, we're having new kids, you know, they miss home or their babies may not have had a fourth of july experience ever in their lives. so we've just wrapped up fireworks here. we had an amazing concert about two hours go, you know where 30 18 hours ahead of the east coast of the united states. so starting to wrap up here. but we had hoover sink, which i don't know where you were in 2003. but who was sync the single of the summer? it was pretty much the anthem of my freshman year split or spring fling. the reason they've played it here, we spoke to the lead singer douglas bob. here's what he had to save, about play in the middle of south korea. listen to what he told us there's a lot of just gratitude and

everybody seems so thankful and appreciative both ways, you know, and it's something that you can't replicate, just going to play a show. >> he, you know, at a, at a theater somewhere it's really cool. i look forward to it. it does. i can feel it for sure so it's been an amazing experience and absolutely incredible experience. >> we have our star, star spangled sprinkle, red, white, and blue cupcakes that i will be this is the last one will be finishing as soon as our live shot is over, we all looked out here tremendously, fred, because we had monsoonal rains over the korean peninsula for the past i would say week or so, the weather cooperated. we had an amazing fireworks display and worth noting, the tapestry of our american experience was on full display really, that was the center of attention no conversation about politics back home is very refreshing. i think that people here, fred, have such a steadiness of purpose furthering the security mission the korean peninsula and east

asia at-large, the region. so we're focused on that today. and what it means to be an american. it was certainly refreshing a great experience here and beyond contact south korea, camp humphreys, fred, back to you, love that. of course the focus on fun and freedom. so there's a lot of movement behind you and i'm just curious, it seems like they're kinda moving toward a certain direction or they just kinda circling around what is happening behind you so the fireworks ended and everybody lives over there. >> this was prime fireworks, real estate. so this is where everybody was gathering. there's maybe one more concept behind the camera. so that's the mass migration of people okay, that's the action. i love it lots of fun, happy 4th to you, mike valerio. thank you so much. and to all the troops in february there. all right. all right. okay. the new arabs, cnn news central begins right now