debate. we'll take you there. your "ne good morning and welcome to "new day." it's thursday, july 3rd, 6:00 in the east. chris is off today. we're going to begin with, you saw right there, we have to begin with breaking news. arthur, look at the track right now. it is now the first hurricane of the season heading for north carolina's outer banks bringing 75-mile-an-hour winds with it. people on hatteras island are being told they must evacuate, and since it's such a popular vacation spot, especially heading into the fourth of july holiday, local officials there are not taking any chances. they are ordering people to leave during daylight hours before conditions deteriorate. we're tracking this hurricane's every move with you and let's start with meteorologist indra petersons at kill devil hills on the outer banks. indra? >> reporter: good morning, yes.

right now we do know arthur has strengthened to a category 1 hurricane, steady winds at 75 miles per hour, moving to the north at 9 miles per hour. where is it right now? 113 miles off the coast of charleston, south carolina. you can actually see the outer bands already starting to make their way to shore so they are starting to see that rain. let's talk about what is expected to happen. arthur is expected to strengthen to likely 85 miles per hour. today passing by south carolina. then there is the potential here on the outer banks, right where i'm standing, that we could see the greatest impact tonight into the early hours of tomorrow morning as a category 1 hurricane with 85-mile-per-hour winds. then it's spill expected to curve off to the north, start to make its way south as it makes its way offshore, south major cities like new york and d.c. it could intersect again. if you look at far western track, we could see another intersection aren't cape rod by friday evening, fourth of july during the evening hours and

makes its way north and possibly intersects again as a remnant low around halifax on saturday. taking a look here behind me, you can actually see. remember, still very far south. beautiful this morning. seeing almost flat conditions, a couple of clouds in the sky, but we know it's not going to stay this way for long. in north carolina's outer banks cars lined up to top off at the pump. >> this storm is taking a trajectory that we're just kind of worried about. >> reporter: mandatory evacuations beginning early this morning as arthur strengthiens becoming a hurricane, threatening the holiday weekend for parts of the east coast. >> move, get out, but even if you don't move, then stay away from the water as much as possible. >> 25 soundies now under a state of emergency. massive wind gusts turning water so dangerous two ship captains were ordered to dock and abandon their charter boats along the shore. >> get a big storm surge that can easily bust through any part of these outer banks, you know, without much of a problem.

>> and arthur won't stop there, heading up the east coast. the storm is looming over some of the biggest independence day fireworks display. ocean city maryland postponing their fourth of july fireworks while bostonians will enjoy their festivities a day early. >> it's not optimal. we wish it were, but we've got to deal with in. >> and in d.c. the electric company says it's closely monitoring arthur which could produce strong damaging wind gusts, large hail and frequent lightning, possibly delaying the iconic national mall fireworks to saturday. but on wednesday the sun was still shining in north carolina and the beaches were full of vacationers who say their patriotic partying on the shore will go on. >> we'll ride it out and see what happens. >> reporter: looks like hurricane warnings are already in effect from looks like surf city all the way down through dock. hatteras island had mandatory evacuations starting at 5:00 this morning. what is expected? some heavy rainfall? 3 to 5 inches of rain in the

south carolina area and north carolina, could see about 2 to 4 inches. remember, we could have the potential here for a direct impact so we'll have to include storm surge. add about another 2 to 3 feet of water in addition to that heavy rainfall. also it's likely to make name pact right during high tide so that's going to be a big concern on people's minds as well. a lot to think about, and especially when irene happened here just in 2011. highway 12 broke in two places, fresh on everyone's mind is whether or not we're going have the potential, again, to see that break again. back to you guys. >> all right, indra. thanks so much and let's hope that people heed those warnings. as you said, the last hurricane very much in people's minds. much of north carolina's coast, as you saw there, is under a hurricane warning now bracing for arthur's imminent arrival. ahead now to wrightsville beach, 230 miles south of where indra was looking. they are talking storm surges, rip currents. it could potentially be a real mess there. >> reporter: yeah, michaela, it

really could. this is the calm before the storm, but conditions here will get worse, as the day progresses. we're expecting high winds and lots of rain and very rough surf, and the big concern in this area today is really those rip currents. we did talk to the mayor. he said there will be extra people here all day making sure if anybody gets caught in a rip current it a they take them out. bottom line, nobody should really in this water while the conditions are expected the way they are going to get here. >> kate? >> alina, thank you very much. watching on that front for us. if you're traveling to the fourth you probably won't be immune to arthur's ripple effect. the storm is expected to cause flight delays and cancellations, and, of course, when it starts one place it happens really across the country. couple that with another powerful storm system that's coming in from the west, and you have a recipe for travel nightmares. all of this after a wild night of violent storms slamming the northeast. just check out these spectacular

lightning in new york city. beautiful from a very far distance, we can say. jason carroll is looking at all the travel headaches that could be ahead. he's at new york's laguardia airport. jason, how is it looking from inside at the moment? >> well, first, i heard you talking about that lightning, yeah, from really far away it looks good, but definitely not up close. out here, things are looking actually not too bad. look at the flight board over there. most of the flights seem to be leaving on time, a few residual delays and cancellations out here. not too bad today. yesterday, that was a much different story. a spectacular show from mother knoch, lightning hitting the empire state building and new york city high rises. drenching rain from severe storms pummeled new york state, causing flash flooding inland and washing away roads. heavy wind brought a tree crashing down on the roof of this home. severe weather causing temporary delays and cancellations at all

three of new york city's airports wednesday afternoon. >> i'm much happier to be traveling today as opposed to tomorrow. tomorrow is going to be insane. >> it's the same storm system that wreaked havoc across the midwest, grounding planes and knocking out power lines. in chicago on tuesday traffic into and out of o'hair international airport brought to a near stand still, actually not standing, some passengers got out and walked to the airport to make their flights. >> i've been walk begun 20 minutes. >> aaa predicts it will be one of the busiest travel weekend in the past seven year, all this as hurricane arthur continues to push up the east coast. heavy rain expected to remain mostly offshore, encouraging news to mists. aaa expects 41 million to drive 50 miles or more this weekend, up nearly 2%, the last fourth of july and almost 14% more than this year's memorial day weekend. >> probably 80% of those traveling out on the road, pack

your patience. >> reporter: not just roads that will be packed. an estimated 8% of americans will travel by rail and bus this holiday weekend. so, again, for most travelers, at least passengers here at laguardia airport, checked some of the other airports as well, newark and jfk as well. most of the flights seem to be leaving on time. got an e-mail from our don lemon who said he's trying to get to chicago. he's stuck, can't get out, but he's in the minority on this one. most of the people seem to be getting to where they need to go on time today. kate, michaela. >> i'm sure don will find some things to do there. this is the thing. people do need to be aware things could change today as this storm moves north. jason, thanks so much for that report. adding to the weather woes, security is getting beefed up on some flights that are headed for the united states. the department of homeland security is asking airports in europe and the middle east to tighten safety measures in

response to concerns that terrorists are developing explosives that could escape airport detection. we'll bring in our pamela brown live in washington with more. what can we expect? >> reporter: here's what we've learned. dhs is working with specific airports overseas to step up security measures in response to new intelligence like terror groups like al qaeda in the arabian peninsula, trying to build new kind of bombs to get past screening procedures, bombs with less explosive residue and metallic component. passengers overseas mostly coming from europe and the middle east could notice the changes over the next several days. this is happening very soon, and according to one dhs official we spoke with, there will be additional inspection of shoes and electronics, additional explosive trace detection machines and in some cases another set of screenings at boarding gates as well as more random checks of passengers, among other security measures, and important to note though that this will not impact any

domestic flights and it has nothing to do with the fourth of july weekend, according to officials we've been speaking with. pamela and kate. >> when you travel overseas often times each country has different procedures for their screening. how is the tsa going to manage implementing those measures overseas because you are dealing with different nations? >> that's right. tsa doesn't screen at foreign airports, but what tsa can do is say you cannot fly into the u.s. unless you put these new security measures into place. so we've learned that tsa is working with these specific airports overseas, with the carriers and with the foreign governments to make sure that these new security measures are in place, and if they are not in place, and we know that tsa has personnel over there monitoring these changes going into effect, if they are not in place, then, again, they can say you can't fly no the u.s. then. >> coming into the united states you won't see these changes being affected if you're flying domestically.

>> correct. >> pamela brown, thanks so much for that. more undocumented immigrants could be arriving in the southern california town of marietta tomorrow, and some people there fear it could get uglier than what we saw earlier this week. dozens of angry protesters shouting go home, among other chants. met three buses of undocumented immigrants from central america transferred from honestly overwhelmed border facilities in texas. the buses couldn't get by and ended up having to go to another town. last night the protests continued at a heated town hall. kyung law has more. >> reporter: even before the marietta town hall began, debate exploded in the waiting crowd. >> i live over here in america. >> your kids are going to get sick. don't you guys understand that! >> back up, back up now!

>> reporter: inside the packed auditorium, cheers drowned out any opposition to the city's stand against the federal government's busing in undocumented immigrants. >> go back home! >> reporter: on tuesday a wall of protesters blocked the entrance to the marietta border patrol station. three buses carried 140 undocumented immigrants from central america. many of them women and children. they are part of an influx of migrants cramming facilities in texas, many of them unaccompanied children. a total of 60,000 to 80,000 children without parents are expected to cross illegally this year. the federal government coping by shipping them to smaller towns like marietta, but marietta's protesters -- >> usa! usa! >> reporter: -- firsted these buses to turn around. this town hall underscored marietta still does not want them.

>> this is an invasion. why is the national guard not out there stopping them from coming in? [ applause ] >> this is admittedly a nationwide problem and little old marietta has taken the lead in getting change. >> reporter: in a week that's shown the uglier side of the immigration debate. >> am i being detained? am i being detained? >> reporter: the small town braces for the next wave of buses, the next which could happen as soon as the fourth of july. kyung law, cnn, marietta. >> let's get over to christine romans now. >> it's the ladies shift. >> celebrating the nation and the founding fathers with women. a colorado woman accused of trying to help isis fighters wage jihad in iraq and syria. court documents reveal 19-year-old shannon maureen conley was arrested at the denver airport back in denver.

she was attempting to meet someone she met on the internet, marry him and join unwith the terrorist group. she remains in federal custody. prosecutors will lay out their case today against justin ross harris, the father charged with murder after his toddler died in a hot car. police say both harris and his wife leannea searched the internet for leaving kids in hot cars. police have questioned and found a person of interest on the weekend shooting on bourbon street. just be odin has been arrested on unrelated charges. authorities are looking for another person in that case. ten people shot in a busy part of the fresh quarter early sunday morning one of them died wednesday. and from one secretary of defense to another. chuck hagel putting in a call to goal keeper tim howard thanking

him for defending the united states at the world cup. hagel told him with a little training he could become the real secretary of defense. hagel was referring to a white house wikipedia update that has the superstar goalie listed as america's secretary of defense for at least a hot minute. >> he was. >> able to get a screen grab of it. >> who has more tattoos? >> i'm sure that would be tim howard. >> you never know what's lingering under the blazer. >> he's not done. going to come home, relax, hang with his family and get more tattoos and be himself. >> always part of the calculation. >> talk to the kids, get some tattoos and figure out what's next. >> chill out. >> very kind of secretary hagel to do that, wasn't it. coming up next on "new day," we'll be talking about the jobs numbers in a bit but also this. a new cycle of violence between israelis and palestinians fueled by the kidnappings and deaths of three israeli teens and the possible revenge killing of a palestinian boy. what can be done to stop it.

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overnight the israeli military carried out air strikes against gaza in smons response to rockets fired into israel. the tension escalating in the region after clashes broke out following the deaths of a palestinian teenager in east jerusalem. police are investigating the death. palestinians say though the boy was murdered in retaliation for the killings of three israeli teens in the west bank. let's bring in a former legal adviser to palestinian president mahmoud abbas and form legal woman and spokeswoman for the plo, palestine liberation organization. great to see you. thanks for coming in. >> thank you, thank you, kate. >> of course. i mean, violence, you know this better than anybody. violence between israelis and palestinians, this unfortunately is not new, but you do wonder when you see those pictures of those boys' faces, those four young boys, when and why did it

get to a point that killing innocent teenagers was part of this? the big problem, kate, is nobody is really looking at the root causes of the violence, and this isn't violence for the sake of violence. unfortunately, it comes within a political context which is 47 years of the denial of freedom of palestinians. when it came to this latest attack on this young boy whose body was torched, it was not only fact of the denial of freedom but the fact that the israeli government went out of its way to incite israelis to violence. it was everything from the israeli prime minister calling for revenge, to israeli ministers also calling for blood, and so it's unsurprising -- >> but at the same time, diana, they were all calling for no one to take the law into their own hands. the prime minister has called for calm, secretary of state john kerry has called for calm. everyone -- they have condemned

this violence on these teenagers. there's no excuse for the killing of teenagers in response to violence that's been going on for 40 years. >> absolutely, and this is why in terms of how this scenario has played out, you can't on the one hand call for revenge and then on the other hand say that you don't condone violence. the big problem is that when it came to these -- these three israelis that there -- there were calls by palestinians for an investigation to actually look into what was happening. palestinians were also investigating themselves independent of the israelis what had happened to these three israelis and yet what the israeli response was to simply impose collective punishment on palestinians, whether it was through the bombing of the gaza strip, raiding of palestinian areas and killing 11 palestinians, so the problem is that unless we get to the root causes of it, which is the denial of freedom, then we're going to continue to see this spiral out of control.

>> israel -- i had the israeli ambassador to the united states on just a couple days ago. those attacks, those air strikes on gaza you're talking about, those were in response to rockets coming from gaza into israel. i mean, this goes back and forth, back and forth over and over again. i don't think anyone wants to hear more political speak. i think we just need to have a conversation about at this moment do you believe that the palestinian authority is investigating the death. three israeli boys? do you believe that hamas is behind it? >> well, kate, i know for a fact that the palestinians have been investigating this for quite some time, since the initial allegations came out. the big problem is that when it comes to the israelis, all that they have done throughout this collective punishment, and while you talk about air strikes on gaza, this is not something that is new. this isn't coming in response to rockets. the siege has been on gaza for several years now, including bombs that are being dropped on

gaza, but going back to what's happened in the west bank and specifically with respect to these individuals, the palestinian president came out very quickly and said that he condemned it. called for an investigation, and instead of the israelis going into an investigation they simply carried out measures of collective punishment. for example, one of the suspects in the kidnap and then murder, his house was blown up by the israeli authorities. this is without charge, without trial and without a conviction, so these are the types of measures that are going to lead to more and more violence. and unless we address the denial of freedom and the basic human rights that entitled to, unfortunately, this is going to continue to spiral out of control. >> i know that you believe that the death of the palestinian teenager in east jerusalem was a revenge killing. do you also then believe just assuredly that hamas is behind the killings of the three israeli teenagers in the west ba

bank? >> woe simply don't know at this point. all we've heard is allegations but there's been no evidence or proof to backup those allegations. that is why we've been calling for an allegation and while an investigation is ongoing the idea of collective punishment is not something that we should be condoning or applauding. >> diana, how bad is this going to get, because at the moment it doesn't seem like anyone is heeding the calls of calm coming from -- coming from senior leadership in israel and in the west bank. do you believe that this is only going to get worse? are we looking at the beginnings of a recipe of another intifada? how bad is this going to get? is this the spark that's going to light something horrible? >> well, it just may be. one of the big problems is that we've been witnessing a period of violence against palestinians for quite some time. even during the period of negotiations where secretary

kerry was involved. israeli forces killed over 56 palestinians and demolished over 126 homes. so the -- the recipe for disaster is there. all that it takes is a little bit of a spark, and i'm afraid that what we saw yesterday may just be that spark. the real question is who is out there now to protect palestinians from this ongoing destruction, the ongoing harm, and unless we have some clear international intervention to make sure that palestinians are protected, then i think that we're going to continue to see this spiral out of control? >> you do not accept as enough what you're hearing coming from president obama and secretary of state john kerry so far? >> no. while the statements are very good and very positive that they are calling for restraint, it's not just a question of restraint and calm, but it's a question of getting to the underlying causes, and as i've mentioned, you can't have an army running rampant in the west bank, carrying out measures of

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you saw right there we're following breaking news. arthur is now a hurricane. a category one hurricane bringing with it dangerous 75-mile-an-hour winds. arthur is headed straight for north carolina's outer banks, and that's where we find our indra petersons. indra, it's kind of the proverbial calm before the storm. looks beautiful there, but we know what is coming. >> michaela, you nailed it. this is one of those eerie days where i think about years ago, before technology, people here would have no clue a storm was brewing. the seas generally calm, maybe a couple clouds in the sky, but we do have technology and we know arthur is a category 1 hurricane, 113 miles off the coast of charleston, south carolina. if you actually look at the radar you can see the outer bands already making their impact, and it's expected to move north at 9 miles per hour now is its movement so overnight in through tomorrow morning, here on the outer banks, we do have the threat for landfall. that's the concern here. then, directly after that, it's expected to quickly make its way off towards the northeast,

staying south of the area but if you look at the farthest western portion of the track we could see an impact friday evening. continues off to the north by saturday. likely to hit halifax as a remnant low. so much to consider. there's always warnings out here. we're talking from dodge city or surf city. warnings in effect and mandatory evacuations in place here in the outer banks out towards hatteras island. now, let's talk about what's expected. you're talking about 2 to 4 inches of rain right where there's the impact. remember, it's supposed to have the impact right during high tide so we'll have to add additional water including a storm surge of 2 to 4 feet and waves, 10 to 20-foot waves out here. it's beautiful but know it won't stay this way for long. >> exactly right. indra, thanks so much. we'll get back to you as soon as possible. >> right now we're looking at jobs. in two hours the june jobs report will be released by the labor department. coming out a day earlier than normal, why, the independence

day holiday and looks to be a promising one. let's get over to christine romans for the latest. what are you expecting? >> expecting it could be a strong report, 200,000 jobs added, unemployment rate holding steady at 6.3%, and it's so interesting when you look here at trend you can see. we've had several months now with about 200,000 jobs created. want to see that continue. even though things were pretty rough in the winter, economy really slowed down we think the jobs market is saying things are stronger and strengthening into the spring and summer. trend on the unemployment rate, it's been falling and falling, now the lowest since 2008 at 6.3%. you might see the unemployment rate tick up in the months ahead as more people are now hearing that the economy is getting a little bit better and trying to come into the labor market. it could tick up a little bit but the numbers will continue to decline. here's what the numbers look like since the recession and big financial crisis. jobless rate really spiked in

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this is costing us out of our pockets, use the word illegal. they came across here illegally >> if i break the law, you're going to come down on me real quick, and yet you are not following the law. you are breaking the law. >> can you see it right there. anger at a town hall last night. residents of marietta, california, protesting the transfer of detained migrants from overwhelmed texas facilities. that dramatic scene really played out after another dramatic scene, flag-waving protesters turning away buses full of detained migrants, mostly women and children from

reaching a federal processing center. discussed this and the political ramifications with margaret hoover, republican consultant and john avlon, cnn political editor and editor-in-chief of "daily beast" and here in the title as well, best looking couple in television. >> thanks, guys. >> let me play one more sound bite. mayor of marietta, i think really capturing the frustration of what officials down there, what everyone is dealing with down there in meritia. take a listen to this. >> immigration happens every day in marietta. we have a border patrol office right here in marietta. we're not protesting that. what we're protesting is the product of a broken system that finally reach the doorsteps of our community. >> that coming from the mayor, a town hall filled with furious people. got people stopping border patrol from doing their job, trying to get these buses through. >> yeah. >> is this a boiling point? what is going on? >> look, we're hitting the height of summer, and frankly when the heat rises, the local

passions tend to rise, one of the reasons why we see town halls hijacked. first of all, it's important to recognize that concern about illegal migration and porous border does not oppose to opposition to immigration. at the same time we have a history in this country of people waving flags and protesting immigrants, and when that happens it's usually been a bad chapter in the history. a flashpoint moment right now and a real important conflict. >> with all due respect. >> well, thank you. >> there is something very, very seriously wrong going on at the border. it's almost like the floodgates came loose. something is happening in central america and el salvador and guatemala whereby coyotes and drug cartels are taking advantage of impoverished people telling them if they send their children to the united states their children will become citizens. the floodgates are off and our immigration border patrol system doesn't have the capacity to deal with it, and that's why it's at the point. it's not like this is the normal trickle of immigration across

our porous border. there is something quite unusual happening here that we simply aren't dealing with, and it is very -- i don't think it's an overstatement to call this a humanitarian crisis. are you finding decomposed bodies of children crossing the border, and you're only able to sort of track down their parents because they have written the phone number of a relative in chicago inside their belt. >> where is the anger to be directed toward? that's the question, because right now they are angry at the buses trying to get to the processing facilities. >> right. >> but the officials, they are lawmakers. people in washington, their representatives who represent their districts, they are not doing anything about immigration. >> there is a fix here. there is a solution. >> good. i'm ready for the breaking news banner right now. >> we have laws that deal with how to handle children that have crossed the border from come from a contiguous border, within 48 hours, call their parents and find the relative in the home country and send them back. if they are not from a contiguous country there's an

entirely different set of protocols you have to follow and that's what's plugging up the system because we don't have the resources to deal with finding lawyers for all of them. >> the president is proposing changing that rule. >> right. >> and we should. >> asking for $2 billion of emergency money and pushing forward with nexttive order. is that enough? >> no. it's not sufficient but it's necessary. >> why aren't we doing this by unanimous consent? >> congress is generally opposed to anything that president obama backs, as we've seen, but those steps are absolutely necessary to stemming the tide what. needs to be done is comprehensive immigration reform. >> do you believe, john. >> that's not going to happen. >> why not? >> congress has failed us. you are absolutely right. congress has failed us and we should expect better but you and i both know immigration reform is dead until there's another president or another congress. >> i don't buy that. >> why isn't it a humanitarian crisis? >> it is. >> that should motivate them to

bring about comprehensive immigration reform. dead kids in a desert aren't going to make them work together, what is? >> the answer is, unfortunately, when the republicans feel like they have a new president or there's real political pressure. this is a moment of real conflict that should cause people to actually pass legislation but we see politics overriding humanitarian concern, politics overriding problem-solving every day. the real tragedy here is the fact that people demagogue illegal immigration and refuse to do anything about it because of hyper partisan politics in washington. that's got to stop. >> because you can't get it through by getting -- going back to your corners. cannot push comprehensive immigration reform by sticking with your side. >> correct. >> did the eric cantor loss? >> absolutely. >> hurt this even more. >> it sent a message that terrified everybody in the face of the tea party and republicans. >> lindsey graham stuck his neck out and he's doing okay.

>> the reality is house members are more scared of the tea party coalition. >> reality check, we're halfway down the field with this because of the courage of a bipartisan coalition in the senate. if the house could -- summon up its courage and stop being so terrified and pass some sort of bill we could get this done. >> there needs to be a way to have political cover. when anything big gets done, i remember being on capitol hill they provided the political cover for these guys to be able to vote for it. when you have president obama out every speech saying so me, if you're not going to do something, i'll do it, a potent political message for sure, but doesn't that also hurt the chances of really getting something done? >> it does. i think he's doing it because he knows it's over. if you notice, in his speeches -- in his speeches over the last six months he steered clear of immigration, he wasn't saying send me a bill, send me a bill. he did it because the house said we actually think we can get it done, give us speech because if you touch this it will become

way too polarized and there's a call between boehner and the president. >> will this get people out to the polls for the mid terms. >> the politics of this hearse republicans. >> 55,000 latinos become citizens every day. do you think they are registering to be republicans, heck no? >> you're looking at the long-term gain. >> republicans, any lawmaker cannot long look at the long term. they need to survive the mid terms. >> the politicians can stoke these fears to turn into voter turnout in the mid-term election. every member of congress, you know, if they are not officially off work until the election, it only feels that way. >> well. >> you're looking at the cultural conflicts spilling out into american streets. if you're really concerned about this issue, use this as an impetus to pass a bill, pass a bill now. if that's a constructive way to confront this crisis. otherwise frankly it's justifiedlijustified li fiddling while rome burns.

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welcome back to "new day." the u.s. is increasing security on flights that are heading to the middle east. the change is sparked but concerns that terrorists are developing new types of explosives, ones that are harder to detect during that airport screening. we want to bring in our safety analyst here at cnn, a former faa safety inspector. a very important thing to have you with us. a pleasure to see you. first off, how concerned are you? >> good morning, michaela. it's important to temper the concerns about this particular report. >> okay. >> because this is not a specific thing that's been found or some specific plot that's been disclosed. >> right. >> it's a general increase this technology so what's going on here is just a response to that? >> what tipped them off about this new technology that is being developed? >> well, they have been looking at this quite a lot, actually

since 2009, when the -- when the al qaeda or what is it, the al qaeda group that had put together the underwear bomber, if you remember that one, where they were trying to capture someone who had put a different kind of bomb on his body, so there is technology that was out there that was undetectable and because of that they have really been focused on that. >> focused on flights coming into the states starting in europe in the middle east. what kind of changes, if we're international travelers, what kind of changes will we see? what procedures will change? >> well, mostly what will happen is it will be a tightening of security from europe back into the united states, and that tightening of security would involve more gate checks, if they will pull you out of line and say, hey, we need to look at you, and they will do more of our famous pat-downs, the things that we love to have as pat-downs, but there will be more of that. they will be looking at your shoes particularly. they will be looking at quite a few of the -- any of the electronics, anything you bring on board will have a much more

close look at those before they get put on the aircraft. >> those changes won't be affecting flyers domestically at domestic airports. >> why is there, why is there not that concern for us here stateside? >> well, i think the united states with their security, we've upped our security to a higher standard than most around the world, so what we need to make sure of is that the security at that level is accomplished before those people get into the united states. >> fair enough. >> because once they are in the united states and on those airplanes, then it's a different scenario. >> here's my question for you, and i know you have a sense of this, too, because you spend a lot of your time traveling around the globe. every country has different procedures, even here in the western hemisphere. if you're traveling from canada to the u.s., from mexico to the u.s., you see different procedures by their airport screeners. how do we in the united states control the methodology of those procedures overseas? >> that's a really good question, michaela, and it's not a simple answer, but to put it

as simply as possible, the united states controls our airspace, so in order to fly in that airspace you have to have approval, and that approval comes from transportation security administration, homeland security, and it also comes from the federal aviation administration, and those countries that fly into the u.s. are approved to do so. if they attempt to enter the u.s. without approval, they can be turned around and even sometimes defendable. >> so they work well with one another. >> they really do, and there's a very extensive agreement. with the faa, i worked on a lot of these agreements and they go beyond air control. they go into the certification of the airplane, the way it's built and designed and ways it's engineered so it's not just a simple fact. it really is important to work together, and they have done that over the years very well. >> since we got you out of bed so early in november i want to take you to a couple other stories we're fog. had a couple of frightening incidents in the air in the past week.

we saw a chute, one of those, you know, rescue chutes eject inside the plane mid-flight and yesterday quantus airplane, a flood, looking like a river floating down the aisleway. give us an idea, you know, people are going to wonder is our maintenance lacking. are pieces falling apart? are things slipping through the cracks? what's your assessment of these two stories? >> well, these airplanes have had some issues. those particular two issues, let's take the emergency slide first. that thing sliding and popping inside is really a very dangerous situation. >> sure it is. >> remember in a'shanae, it nearly killed the flight attendant trying to escape with the pilot not been quick responding and grabbing the ax and exploding the slide interior. something that the ntsb has been talking to the faa about for a long time.

they have been focused mostly on when the airplane crashes the slides don't deploy properly but now there's a much greater and more direct concern to me is that it explodes inside which could easily have trapped or killed someone inside that airplane. >> the quantus one a concern as you've got all sorts of electronics that run under the plane, and that could have been very, very dangerous. smartly that pilot said let's just turn back. only an hour out of los angeles. thanks for joining us. gave us such insight on several issues regarding aviation today. >> thanks, michaela. have a good day. >> you, too, and a great 4th, we should mention that. over to you. >> following a lot of news this morning, including now hurricane arthur. let's get to t. >> you don't plan on a hurricane over the fourth of july. >> it will be busy. people should anticipate that making their plans. >> the streets of jerusalem with

seething with anger and grief on both sides. >> murder is murder is murder, and the police will get to the bottom of this. >> when she first showed up, she stood out. >> conley told investigators she needed to go overseas to be trained in jihad, a disturbing hit and run caught on sglid when i turned around, there was a lady coming full speed. >> good morning and welcome back to "new day." chris is off this morning. we're going to begin with breaking news. arthur now a hurricane. take a look at this ominous storm. it's gaining strength and now packing 15-mile-an-hour wind and heading straight towards north carolina's outer banks. a mandatory evacuation order has been put in place for hatteras island, and since it's a popular vacation spot especially right now, especially over the fourth of july holiday. local officials are ordering people to leave during the day before conditions deteriorate tonight. we'll be tracking the

hurricane's every move for you. let's begin with indra petersons on kill devil hills on the outer banks. indra? >> reporter: beautiful this mornings kate. wish it could stay that way for the holiday weekend. we know arthur is a hurricane and continues to strengthens. continues 135 miles off the coast of charleston, south carolina. warnings are already in effect for the outer banks. hurricane warnings in effect there. mandatory evacuations are in place. as far as the track. well, again, into this evening and through tomorrow morning, the closest it's likely to make impact is right here on the outer banks for the overnight hours and quickly catches up with the jet stream, makes its way towards the northeast staying south of the region, but if you look at the farthest western portion of the track there is a threat right towards cape cod. that would be the fourth of july evening hours. then it continues off to the northeast, looking for the impact in halifax by saturday as a remnant low. a lot of rain expected to come

this way. 3 to 5 inches possible in through the carolinas. one side of the equation. you still have the storm surge so another 2 to 4 feet of water is expected, and its impact will be right during high tide so you have even more rain expected there. as far as the surf, talking about 25-foot waves surrounding arthur currently. by the time it makes its way closer to the coastline, talking about 15 to 20-foot waves impacting the region right here so so much to be thinking about, especially when you look at a beautiful day like this. you know things will be changing rather quickly. >> very deceiving, beautiful sight behind you. thanks so much. hurricane arthur may be the main weather event but parts of the northeast are already recovering from a violent night of storms. will be at these spectacular lightning strikes in new york city from last night. really beautiful. the rough weather though is expected to cause flight delays and cancellations across the country. couple it with another powerful storm system that's coming in from the west, my goodness, clearly a recipe for travel

nightmares. jason carroll is live at laguardia airport with much more. hopefully quiet yet this, jason. what are you expecting? >> reporter: actually things not looking too badly. i think a lot of people will be able to relate to this. take a look right down here where you see the security area, i've been through laguardia many, many times on a lot of holidays. actually never seen it this clear, if you take a look. you can see it's pretty smooth sailing through laguardia right now. actually we've done a check of all the area airports, newark, jfk as well. all of them right now looking at very little delays. some residual cancellations from yesterday, but things seem to be moving along pretty well. all of this is because of that cold front that you mentioned that moved through the tri-state area last night. want you to take a look at some of the picture. one thing we've already seen, the empire state building, being struck by lightning several times, really amazing to see that happening out here last night as a lot of people in the city saw that happening. also flash flooding in the tri-state areas was reported in new york state and -- and parts

of new jersey as well. again, all of this because of that cold front that had moved through here causing and wreaking havoc throughout areas such as chicago and indiana, throughout the midwest. again, we saw some residual delays here today. yesterday at the airport. there were several delays, especially people trying to get into and out of chicago, but for right here, right now here in the city, things looking not too bad so far. kate? >> all right, jason, thanks so much. >> all right. let's bring in our fema director craig fugate. he joins us to talk about preparations for the storms. thanks so much for joining us, mr. fugate. big question. we ready? >> well, we're getting ready, but what's important today is people heed the evacuation orders. now this the evacuation orders are in effect along the outer banks, it's time to go. even if conditions don't look that bad yet. as you said, the hurricane is coming that way so we really want people to heed the evacuation orders while we work with the state to get ready for

whatever happens. >> yeah, that's the problem when people look outside their door right now and they think it's not a big deal. we know because of technology what's brewing. what are your biggest concerns now as arthur moves up the coast. >> well, it's really going to be, does it pass over the outer bakes banks or to the west of there or east of there? that will tell us the damage. the focus right now is getting people to evacuate. the more people that evacuate makes it a lot easier to go in there and clean up afterwards. not doing a lot of search and rescue operations and hopefully with this storm we don't have loss of life, but that depends on people heeding those evacuation orders and staying out of water and taking steps to get ready. >> that's a point to underline. heed those evacuation orders. talk to us what the folks on the ground are doing. well versed, and if you live along that coast you'll see some extreme storms. what kind of preparations are they taking? >> well, you know, get the boats

secure and pick up everything that could get blown around. board up or shutter up your windows. people do this, you know, they are used to that there. the governor of north carolina has already got his teams in place. he's moved some swift water rescue teams in case that's needed, but we hope people will take time and get ready. if you're in the evacuation zone, evacuation. again, this storm does not have to cause loss of life if people get ready now. >> flooding and flash flooding in particular is a real concern. talk more about that and other readiness that fema is preparing. >> well, again, we work closely with the state so a lot of these efforts are the state. the governor has called out parts of the national guard. he's got teams ready to go. it's going to depend upon how much storm surge and how much rain we get so everywhere along the carolina coast, as well as the inland areas along the bays are getting ready for the storm. so, you know, we prepare for the eventials of the storm but the

most important step now is get red if you're in the evacuation zone, evacuate now. don't wait until 11:00 and see if the forecast is any better. you will run out of time. >> right. here's a challenge for you. as we mentioned, we talked about folks that live there very well familiar with all of the changes of living along the atlantic coast. you've got a variable here you can't necessarily control. you got the fourth of july. all sorts of visitors from away saying, hey, we want to go spend the weekend at the coast, at the shore. they are not familiar necessarily with evacuation precautions and odds, et cetera. what is your message to them? are you wanting them to make alternative plans on higher ground inland? >> well, again, if you're in the outer banks, those officials are the best place to get that information. in an area with an evacuation order, obviously won't go there today. depending upon the impacts, not that bad, maybe you can salvage the weekend but it's much better to wait and make sure before you get out there and get stuck in trafnlg for the rest of the coast where it's watch and see

some areas, again, i think the message will be heed evacuation orders, if required, but more importantly be careful on the coast along surf conditions. we know a lot of surfers look at this as an opportunity to get out there and make sure you know what you're doing and heeding the orders to stay out of water. dangerous surf conditions and, unfortunately, that can also result in loss of life. >> it's tempting but better to be safe than sorry. >> final thought for you. pretty early to be facing a hurricane. are you concerned about the upcoming season? >> we take them one storm at a time like we said at the beginning of the year. we get ready for all the storms, not just what the seasonal forecast is, and, again, arthur is the first one up. we don't know how many up. brownsville, texas all the way up to maine. craig fugate, glad to hear fema is prepared. thanks so much for joining us. and a happy 4th to him. coming up we'll talk more about preparing for the storm with

north carolina governor pat mccrory. >> let's turn now to an american woman in custody accused of trying to help isis, the terror group fighting in iraq and syria. the fbi arrested 19-year-old shannon conley of colorado back in april as she was about to leave the country. cnn's pamela brown is in washington with much more of the details. she was arrested just as she was trying to board the flight even. >> yeah, that's right. in fact, we're learning several new details from that recently unsealed criminal complaint, kate. we've learned from that complaint that this woman, this 19-year-old woman in denver, shannon conley, was on a mission to wage jihad and wanted to travel overseas to fight with isis. in fact, the fbi said that they spent months trying to dissuade her before finally arresting her in the airport as she was trying to board a flight to turkey. a colorado teenager arrested and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to

terrorists. 19-year-old shannon maureen conley taken into custody by the fbi as she attempted to board a plane to turkey at the denver international airport in april. her goal, authorities say, to unite with the radical islamist group isis in syria and mayor' jihadist she met on the internet. according to a newly unsealed criminal complaint conley discussed her radical beliefs with federal agents over the course of an eight-month investigation, referring to u.s. military bases as targets and telling investigators that she thought she could plan an attack on u.s. soil but could not carry it out because she lacked the means and opportunity. ignoring warnings that aiding terrorists would result in her arrest conley told investigators she needed to go overseas to be trained in jihad. the teenager became the subject of an fbi investigation after a pastor who feared she was planning an attack at a local church reported when he saw as suspicious activity to police. >> she became more -- a little

bit more hostile and then eventually we came to her and said, listen, it's just probably better that you not come back. >> according to court documents conley told investigators that she hates the people at the church, asserting that they think i'm a terrorist, i'll give them something to think i am. according to the complaint agents recovered material about jihad and al qaeda from her house. in addition to dvds of an wear al awlaki, the american militant killed in a drone strike in 2011. the teenager joins a growing list of americans who have been detained for attempting to join terrorist organizations abroad. and in the criminal complaint, conley even received military training in an effort to train jihadists overseas about u.s. military tactics, according to authorities. she's charged with attempting to provide material support to terrorists. michaela and kate. >> an unusual story there. pamela brown, thank you for that. appreciate it. let's turn to christine romans who is here with some of today's other top stories.

good morning. >> good morning again, ladies. the u.s. embassy in uganda is warning there's a specific threat to attack the airport in kampala today. an unknown terrorist group has planned the attack on the antibi international airport tonight. they are asking travellers to preview their flight plans in light of this information. theugandan police have increase ed security. prosecutors today in court will lay out their case against justin ross harris. harris and his wife leanna used their computers to research deaths inside vehicles. he's facing child cruelty and murder charges. today officials will see --

governor rick perry wants president obama to come see the problem personally. more undocumented ingramts a eee being transferred to california tomorrow. tuesday they were met with very angry protests from residents. police in fresno, california, looking for these two would-be robbers after a failed jewelry store stickup. one pulls a gun on the clerk while the other tries -- falls trying to vault over the counter. they fled the scene empty-handed with the store's owner appeared with a loaded shotgun. police are offering up to $1,000 for information that helps capture these bumbling would-be robbers. still with a gun, a very serious situation. >> glad nobody got hurt. >> absolutely, absolutely. >> and i mean the store owners. >> yeah. >> he probably has a mark on his face. >> dumb robbers.

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death on revenge for the killing of three israeli teens in the west bank. israel blames hamas for those murders. let's bring in fareed zakaria, editor at large for "time" magazine to discuss. we've been talking about this. the violence and tension between israelis and palestinians is nothing new at all. when did it get to the point that killing innocent teenagers is part of this? >> unfortunately, of course, there is a long history of terrorism as you know. palestinians regard it as a resistance to what they see as an illegitimate occupation. israelis regard it as terrorism. what i think is new here which is very troubling is that people are using the new tools of technology, social media, and you're beginning to see radical fringe elements are able to organize, galvanize, show support and after the horrific murder of these three israelis

you see israeli right wing extremist groups go on to facebook and, you know, basically say let's kill arabs. the airplane side, palestinian side, similar kinds of ensite president. it's as if we think these technologies will make everybody get on and get along, and instead what's happening is it's creating a poison within the body politics of both sides and it will be very difficult to walk this down because it's out there now. >> a great point. prime minister netanyahu, he's called for calm. i mean, both sides are calling for calm on this, but i get the sense that they are trying to get a handle, trying to keep a lid on it, but can they? especially when you talk about now you have the social media element. >> this is the thing we've discovered about all the social media. the costs of organization as it were have dropped dramatically

so while governments can say we will monitor rallies. we will monitor things like that, what do you do about a facebook group that gets 35,000 likes within a few hours. and the problem here is that it creates an atmosphere in which these politicians have to deal. the end point for the palestinian process is simple, everybody knows, it a two-state solution. we know roughly what the contours of that state would be. the problem getting there involves a lot of painful concessions on both sides, so when you have these kinds of event, makes the israelis much less willing to make concessions and the palestinians much less willing to make concessions, and even though it does, in some ways, it's a few people, individual tragedies, but it sets back the cause of peace dramatically. >> and doesn't it just take that

spash to ignite something once again. we had diana buttu on earlier, the former adviser to the plo, and she believes that this is going to spiral out of control again. >> i would say it's unlikely only because there's such an inbalance of power, to put it bluntly. the israelis have such complete military forced dominance. the wall has brought down the incidence of terrorism by 99%. when you'll see is these individual acts, horrific and in a sad way because there is less of the other kind of normal. >> i know. >> hate to use that word. protests or terrorism. you'll see the more gruesome and more horrific and more spectacular one shot, once in a reilly while. it's what we all worry about with regard to this stuff. like there's no escape valve or no hope for people so that you see this and then you see some retaliation, some kind of revenge killing. the israeli justice minister

livni has been very, very strong saying if this is a revenge kill. that's illegal. it's terrorism. it has to be punished. israel is a state of laws, and we need something like that on the other side, the ability to not have vigilante violence rule the day. >> how does this play into the instability, the broader instability in the region in syria, especially iraq? what's happened over the past -- just this week in iraq has been really astonishing, a parliament completely incapable of getting its act together and violence continuing. >> at the end of the day the only way you'll get a palestinian state is if the israelis feel comfortable and secure enough to allow one to be created. >> that surely isn't right now. >> this this atmosphere iraq is collapsing. syria is burning. fears about what is going to help to lebanon.

israelis feel understandably insecure. >> what do you make of what's going on in iraq this week i? mean, you have the line coming from the obama administration that you need to form this coalition unity government before you can get any more, any real u.s. military support though we're seeing more military head over there. we've seen the first attempt at that fail in spectacular fashion. >> the line that the obama administration is urging is correct. at the end of the day this prime minister is not going to do it. he's not the guy who can do it. he's the guy who sent out arrest warrants for politicians and reneged on -- >> he's the guy with the majority coalition seats? >> a lot of majority coalition members could defect. the last time around he wasn't in the majority and helped to

february aigle with the help of the united states to present a coalition. presents himself at a strong man that can govern iraq. it's clear, he's creed an insurrection of rebellion and brought al qaeda into iraq. the united states is correct to say if you don't do that, you don't get substantive american help. because remember, kate, he has 650,000 men under arms, nuri al maliki. >> a huge defense budget. >> a defense budget of $17 billion. he's got the firepower and men he nodes. what he doesn't have is the right political environment. >> so you've got the statement and a position coming from the obama administration in iraq, right? is there something more in israel between israelis and palestinians that the united states should or can do? it seems that what we've heard from secretary kerry and president obama so far is what we often here, the two sides need to come together. is it too dangerous for them to step in the middle of this?

>> you now, right now probably it is, but i think there's always been people who felt that maybe what the united states could do in the israeli-palestinian situation at some point is say, look, we all know what the end point is going to be, and we're going to present a plan, an american plan to end the occupation and create a palestinian state. here's what it's going to look like. here are the parameters. why don't you guys get together and discuss these final modalities, final, you know, points, of how would you do the land swaps so that israel can keep its major settlements? how would you carve out a space in the east jerusalem area so that the arabs can feel that they have a capital there, but, you know, put it all out on the table. say we're not going to spend three years negotiating this. know what it looks like. why don't you do it for six months. i don't know that either side is ready for it now but at least it creates -- >> the problem in the israeli palestinian case say there's no light at the end of the tunnel. there's light at the end of the

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welcome back. hope you're having a good morning so far. back to christine romans for a look at today's top stories. >> unless you're trying to grill out in north carolina, arthur is now a hurricane and setting its sights on the outer banks. hurricane warnings extended to the border. a fourth of july tradition isn't taking any chances. the boston pops fourth of july spectacular will happen today instead of tomorrow because of concerns over bad weather. we're learning more this morning about a 19-year-old colorado woman now in federal custody for allegedly trying to join isis. just released court documents reveal shannon conley was arrested back in april. she was charged with conspiracy to provide support to terrorists. conley was about to board an overseas flight and told agents

she planned to marry an isis member she met on the internet. new talks to curb iran's nuclear program are under way this morning. the u.s. and allies are in vienna to work out a deal that would reduce sanctions in iran in exchange for limits on its nuclear program. they have less than three weeks to break a deadlock that halted negotiations back in may. in a new youtube video iran's foreign minister said if talks fail americans will be to blame, not iran. now if you're ever serving former nfl star warren sapp in a restaurant be careful how you address him. sapp took exception to a waitress referring to him and his friends as boys. in turn sapp stiffed the server on the tip and $69 bill. fessed up after a picture of the receipt went viral. . the waitress denies the claim that they received horrible

service. >> a tip is voluntary. >> it is voluntary. >> that's a good point, very good point. >> but waiters and waitresses rely on those. they don't get paid enough. >> that's true. >> coming up next, on "new day," let's get back to washington with "inside politics" and john king. hey, there. >> kate, michaela, christine, a very busy day. let's get right to it. molly ball of "the atlantic" and maggie haberman of "politico." a special hearing will be held down on the border to talk about what should be done, especially about the influx of children in recent weeks and months being sent up from central american countries. rick perry says the president should come visit. >> if the president of the united states is real serious about securing the border we can show him how to do that but i haven't even had a phone call from this president. if he doesn't go to the border it's a real reflection of his lack of concern of what's really going throne. >> you have some serious policy

decisions that have to be made about what to do with the children, how to get more resources down there to make sure they are getting the right health care and being processed and the president says most are going home. we'll find a relative and send them home. the politics like that get in the way of rational policy here? >> there's a very strong chance of that. the white house seems very uncertain about exactly what to do about this. it's a massive, massive problem. rick per, as you know, is running for president so this is a very easy thing for him to get in front of. i think a lot of what you hear is going to have very little bearing on what actually ends up happening. >> if the president, molly, if he's largely in agreement with his republican critics on so many other parts of the immigration debate, the president, thinks, know, you can't get to the border. he'll send them back. why can't they agree on this, appropriate more money and set new rules and a lot of communities where they are overwhelmed at the border and protests in communities. don't bring them into our community, put them into a temporary facility. why can't they figure thisport

out. take care of the kids, send them home if you decide to send them home and debate the other issues. >> this is an issue with a lot of other paradoxes and things that don't make sense. there's a majority in the house of representatives that has wanted immigration reform to pass and yet it can't happen just because of the dynamics within the house republican caucus. this is another issue where the president sunday a lot of pressure from both his right and his left, people like rick perry saying, you know, see this shows that he hasn't been effective, and on the other side immigration advocates really feeling like the administration is being too tough on these kids as they come in and that obama hasn't gone far enough in terms of the executive actions that he could be taking. he's going to announce more executive actions, he has said. he'll go to texas but hasn't announced whether he'll go to the bothered. a lot yet to be seen on this issue. >> rick perry trying to get ahead of his rivals and get the president to come down to the border, the president and rick perry together, we'll see. 50th anniversary of the landmark

civil rights act. a lot of statements coming in in recent days. listen to rand paul here, the freshman senator from kentucky. home yesterday and he says he stands out among republicans when it comes to civil rights issues. >> i think you'll find nobody in congress doing more for minority rights than me right now. republican or democrat. >> now we have in recent months watched senator paul do a lot of outreach and says all the time republicans cannot be the white party or they will lose, but democrats say, wait a minute. how does this new rand paul mesh with this rand paul? >> i think it's a bad business decision to ever exclude anybody from your restaurant but at the same time i do believe in private ownership. >> that, mole, is four years ago when rand paul is saying if you're the private owner of a restaurant he might disagree with you thinks maybe you should have the right to be able to turn somebody away. >> obviously the fact that it's still being played on television shows he's yet to live it down and yet to expolice italy repudiate that position, even though obviously he's saying very favorable things about civil rights and about the civil

rights act now so this sort of illustrates the tough spot he's in trying to run as a libertarian while simultaneously appealing to a community that's generally very favorable to government in general so he definitely feels that he can go to the black community and show up and get some credit for that, but a lot of critics are then going to say, well, what about the poll tis we care about and voter i.d. which he said he was against and then walked back so a lot of pressure points where people are going to say what are you doing fours specifically, not just -- besides just being here. >> so he's got some navigation to do within his own party. >> as mole said, exactly right. laying dual tracks. he's dealing with the libertarian base and dealing with some fix work in terms of dealing with the black community. he has been having to do a lot of this. i don't think he's where he needs tonight. i think that he hopes that by the time that if he is a nominee or we're in the thick of a presidential campaign or a primary he will be closer to

that. he is, his statement about being the only person right now in congress doing as much for minority rights is maybe a bit of an overstatement but certainly is the only person you're seeing on the republican side who is doing this much of an effort. the last time we saw something approaching this was christie who did make some effort running in the gubernatorial election in 2013. he's been completely subsumed by events since then. >> completely subsumed by events. chris christie would not disagree with that statement. here's what we hear. mitt romney, might remember hip. he popped up yesterday in new hampshire. he says this is just a simple endorsement of a good friend scott brown. listen, mitt romney endorsing his former massachusetts colleague, now a new hampshire resident. >> well, i know that the president is not on the ballot this november, but the people of new hampshire have a chance to vote about what they about the president's agenda and they will do that by saying what they will say about the president's number one supporter, jeanne shaheen. >> mitt romney looked and it, rested and ready, right?

he says this is simple. scott brown is a good friend from massachusetts, served in the legislature when he was governor and running for senator in new hampshire, romney very popular in new hampshire, trying to help him out. a new poll out that says some people have buyers' remorse. i think some of the donors don't want to say no for an answer, want romney to run for a third time. when his own people are saying on the record, maybe he should do this again the governor says no, no, no. who are we to believe? >> i believe the governor. the second that the governor started saying maybe, maybe, maybe, a lot of donors would say, no, not so much. i think there's some level of post-2012 therapy. >> therapy. >> people who supported him. i think that there are a lot of romney -- actual romney people who love him, believe in him and think he should have won, but i don't think there is a big cry from donors overall to have him fill what is ultimately a void in the establishment side. >> hand how about voteers? >> there is a bit of that among

voters, a poll that said we'd be better off if romney had won the election. your ex always looks back after the break-up, and i think, you know, what a difference a couple of years makes, right? obviously things not going very well for obama right now so people think about what might have been, but i think romney is smart enough to realize that that's a dynamic. he's even used the dating metaphor, and he also -- but i think it's also a sign of how successfully romney has rehabilitated himself. he's been very careful about the way he's re--emerged, becoming an elder statesman. endorsements in the republican primaries have been very successful, within all their primaries, done a very good job of positioning himself after a loss where a lot of people blamed him in very personal terms. he's really come back within the republican party. >> and let's close. you have a piece in "the atlantic" about the fall-off from the hobby lobby decision. the supreme court said that obamacare had to carve out for a rigs-run business, if the owners of that business don't want to

provide certain contraceptive service and there's a question on gay rights. >> not coming from the religious right but the religious left, groups that are friendly with the white house and have worked with obama and they have said now what the court said what they said about the carve out for hobby lobby. the president will issue an executive order banning discrimination against gays and lesbians and religious groups say there needs to be a religious exemption in this order when it comes out so places like religious social service organizations can follow their beliefs. they are saying hobby lobby shows that the administration needs to be a little bit more sensitive to the prerogatives of religious groups. >> the first piece of the fallout this. will continue. meg, mole, thanks for coming in. as we get you back to no, just tweeted it out. find us on twitter. ladies back to you on this day. how is the weather? >> so far so good here. >> in this studio, it's a perfect 70 something degrees,

but when we leave that's a whole different story. hunker down, john king. >> my city moved up its fireworks. i guess they are worried. >> oh, yeah. they are concerned here, too. trying to figure out if we'll see anything from the sky tomorrow night. >> stay tuned, as we like to say. thanks, john. coming up next on "new day," arthur is now a hurricane and has its sights set on north carolina. north carolina's governor is joining us to talk about what's ahead. is his state prepared? also, we'll show you some absolutely shock pictures out of a texas gas station. a driver runs down two men and then speeds away. police have this surveillance video. hopefully it's going to lead them to the suspect. we'll find out.

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and welcome back. following breaking news. arthur now a hurricane and heading for north carolina. it's expected to hit tonight. the governor has declared a state of emergency and some mandatory evacuations are already in place. north carolina's coast is among those -- is among one of the hardest hit areas. that's what's to be expect the. the governor of north carolina pat mckrory is joining us now from raleigh. governor, thank you for your time. obviously a very busy day for you. >> it is. it is. this is a very serious time.

we're asking for mandatory evacuation in one of our counties and voluntary evacuation south of the outer banks. this is a very serious time. we don't want people to mess around with this hurricane, and for those who are a little further north, we want them to, you know, stay out of the water. this is no time to put your stupid hat on. don't get brave just because you see some good waves out there. stay out of the water and hatchet down and -- and make sure we don't have to come rescue you and put our emergency workers at jeopardy. >> governor, you offered that warning yesterday. so far what's your sense. are people heeding your warning and not putting their stupid hats on? >> at this point in time we feel pretty good. we've got a ferry going 24 hours right now. getting people off the island, and we have other people who are hatcheting down, and, you know, all we can do is trust, but we're not going to put our

emergency workers at risk that do not listen to our warnings at this point in time. >> as you mentioned, you have manned true evacuations in some places specifically, hatteras island, and then have you voluntary evacuations in other places. with that in mind, are you nervous that folks aren't going to take a cat 1 hurricane like this seriously? >> we are nervous because we do have examples of the past of hurricanes where people right before the hurricane comes decides to get into the ocean or don't take the warning to leave the islands, and -- and, again, they are putting other people's lives at jeopardy in not following the orders and directives of the local and state officials so we want everyone to be very careful. don't put other people's lives in jeopardy, and for those islands that do not have either mandatory or voluntary evacuation, we encourage them to stay out of water and also once the hurricane leaves, stay away from any downed power lines and

potential flooded roads on the sound side. we're also concerned a little bit inland, if the storm stalls, which we hope it doesn't, we want people to be extremely careful because usually where we have casualties is either right before a storm or right after a storm when people still feel too comfortable and are not list ming to the warnings of the public safety officials. >> what's your guidance? at what point today is it going to be no longer safe to be on the roads? what are you hearing? >> well, right now we are -- we've begun evacuation of dare county, the hatteras area. mandatory evacuations started at 5:00 a.m. this morning, and so we asked those people to leave that very tip of the outer banks at this point in time. do not risk your lives. get off that island. and in the okrakoke island area, that voluevacuation is mandator.

we're hoping this is a very fast-moving storm and doesn't stall over the north carolina area which has happened in the past. so take nothing for granted at this point in time and hopefully we'll have a safe fourth of july. >> the problem is, as you know, you just don't know until it happens if it's going to stall or not. that's the problem, and that's why you have to plan and prepare. i mean, this is early for a hurricane in the season, governor. what are you expecting for the rest of the season? >> this is a very early hurricane. you know, you never know. we've not had a major hurricane -- did not have one last year so this is a very early hurricane for us, so, you know, we're ready. we're prepared for everything. we've got search and rescue boats ready to go. we've got stations ready to inland, to help people throughout the eastern part of our state, and the main concern we actually have during this is

potential flooding inand it is another major issue, and then we just want people to stay out of water because the rip tides are very, very dangerous and somme some people don't recognize that until it's too late. do not put other poem's lives in jeopardy, especially the emergency operations workers. >> unfortunately, you are and do have to stay that over and over again to get that message out. governor, good luck today and through the weekend and hopefully you have a happy and safe fourth of july. >> thank you very much. appreciate it. >> of course. >> yeah, folks will say he's being glib by ewing the stupid hat, but people think it won't happen to me. >> he's trying to break through the noise and get into their heads. >> broke through the noise and hopefully people will hooetd warnings, for sure. all right. we're going to take a short break. >> next up on "new day," this is crazy video. two men are sent flying into the air and crashing on to the pavement. police are searching for that hit-and-run driver. that story is next.

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welcome back to "new day." really some shocking and upsetting video, a hit-and-run occurred in houston at a gas station. surveillance cameras caught this driver ramming into two men at the gas station and then sped off into the night. poppy harlow is here with more. i don't know how anybody could explain what happened there. >> i don't think you can explain it. it's unbelievable. we'll show you more of it. right now police are searching for the driver and hoping that this surveillance video that we're going to show you will help lead them to the culprit. a simple stop to get gas, an exchange of words, then this, a disturbing hit-and-run caught on

video. surveillance camera at this houston gas station captured the stunning moment when this driver plows into these men, knocking them to the ground, then takes off. police now on the hunt for the woman behind the wheel. >> when i turned around it was a lady coming full speed. >> it started when marcus chukuwuu and his boss stopped to fill up after work. woman driving this buick backed into the space next to theirs, coming so close they thought she might hit them. they warned her to be careful. he's like "don't kill me." then she was like "if i want to kill you, i'll shoot you, i won't run you over." >> frightened pi her comment and angry demeanor the 21-year-old walked away going inside the store to get change. he returned moments later when suddenly the woman slams into them and flees the scene. >> she took off, like hit us both and kept going. >> reporter: the two were rushed to the hospital, chukuwuu

suffered a bad back injury and his boss hit his head, both are expected to recover. they're hoping police will find the woman in the driver seat so she can be brought to justice you can't believe it until you see it. police say the woman is driving a silver or gray older model buick with a broken out back driver's side window. it appears from the surveillance video that she may have had a passenger with her in the front seat and you've got to think they could probably pause it and zoom in to get the license plate. why do that and then why flee? >> they may have other angles from other places nearby, businesses, too, can see the license. >> please don't be dumb enough to think there aren't surveillance cameras everywhere, especially gas stations. hopefully your motivation would be to stop just to help the human, if you've got yourself into that situation. >> upsetting to see that. >> they are going to be okay. >> thanks for that, hopefully she'll be caught. thanks, poppy. come up next on "new day," hurricane arthur getting ready

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turn back. we have the latest. your "new day" continues right now. >> announcer: this is "new day" with chris cuomo, kate bolduan and michaela pereira. >> good morning and welcome once again to "new day." it is thursday, july 3rd, 8:00 in the east. chris is off today. thanks for joining us. breaking news this morning, arthur is now a hurricane. look at this powerful storm, now packing 75-mile-an-hour winds, expected to get even stronger. north carolina's outer banks is going to be hit. now bracing for its arrival tonight, a mandatory evacuation order is in place for hatteras island, a popular fourth of july vacation spot of course. local officials urging people to leave before conditions deteriorate through the evening. let's beginning with meteorologist indra petersons who is on killdevil hills.

>> reporter: good morning, kate. it's amazing how quickly things can change from this morning. we didn't see any winds at all. now good 20-mile-per-hour winds and gusts higher, starting to feel the difference out here. as we know hurricane arthur is about 115 miles offshore of charleston, south carolina, continuing to strengthen. that is the concern, already starting to see some of those outer bands bringing the rain onshore there. now it's all about the waiting game as the most impacts will be felt right here on the outer banks here in north carolina. we're going to be watching this. likely the impact is overnight tonight through the early morning hours, tomorrow morning, on the fourth of july those early morning dawn hours we see the biggest impact. then it will head towards the northeast staying south of the northeast but if you look at the most western models we have the intersection towards cape cod. that will be friday evening and halifax on saturday. things are changing quickly. we're in store for a lot as we

head through this evening. in north carolina's outer banks cars lined up to top off at the pump. >> this storm is taking a trajectory we're worried about. >> reporter: mandatory evacuations begin early this morning as arthur strengthens, becoming a hurricane, threatening the holiday weekend for parts of the east coast. >> move, get out, but even if you don't move, then stay away from the water as much as possible. >> reporter: 25 counties now under a state of emergency. massive wind gusts turning water so dangerous, two ship captains were ordered to dock and abon on it their charter boats along the shore. >> it can easily bust through any part of the outer banks without much of a problem. >> reporter: arthur won't stop there, heading up the east coast, the storms looming over some of the biggest independence day fireworks displays. ocean city, maryland, postpoening their fourth of july fireworks. boss stonians will enjoy their festivities a day early. >> it's not optimal.

we wish it were but we've got to deal with this. >> reporter: in d.c. the electric company is closely monitoring arthur, which could produce strong, damaging wind gusts, large hail and frequent lightning, possibly delaying the national mall fireworks until saturday. on wednesday the sun was still shining in north carolina and the beaches full of vacationers who say their patriotic partying on the shore will go on. >> we'll ride it out and see what happens. >> reporter: as things continue to change pretty quickly out here, fresh on earn's minds on the outer banks is irene. back in 2011 the storm surge was so high it cut into highway 12 and broke it and intersected it in pla two-places. this is the first test since then with the new engineering to see whether or not that will hold and those evacuations are in place, expecting 15 to 20-foot waves. hopefully everything can withstand as the conditions continue to deteriorate right here. >> indra, folks won't soon

forget irene at all. she's been pointing out to us much of north carolina's coast up to the virginia border are under this hurricane warning. want to head further south, about 230 miles south of where indra is to wrightsville beach, where we find alina machado. i have noticed the winds are picking up and you're bracing yourself. you've got some weather there. >> reporter: yes, michaela, it's amazing what a difference about half an hour makes. we had the sun out, everything was gorgeous and all of a sudden there is a lot of wind, we're starting to see rain. the surf has really picked up. there were a bunch of people out here on the beach earlier today. they were enjoying the beauty and this beach is pretty much clear. this is what we are expecting here throughout the morning, throughout the day. this is just the beginning, and i want to show you something, there's barely anyone here, right? i want to pan over here. there's a guy out there, windsurfing, taking advantage of the rough surf.

not necessarily the best idea, though, because there is the danger for rip currents and other, there are other concerns here, so honestly, people here are being told to stay home, stay out of the water and just prepare and wait for are thundershower pass. michaela? >> alina machado thanks for that. that kite surfer wants to get out of that water as soon as he can. conditions will only go from bad to worse. we want to bring in rick nab, director of the national hurricane center and probably keeping the keenest eye on arthur. thank you for joining us. what can you tell us? give you an update about arthur? >> well, arthur is strengthening hurricane. it's not rapidly strengthening but it is on the upswing in intensity, we just issued a new swer immediate yat advisory, maximum sustained winds at 80 miles per hour. the main thing that people need to be doing in north carolina is whatever their local officials tell them to do because the

conditions will be deteriorating as the day goes on from south to north over the outer banks of north carolina. >> expecting this to make landfall and if so, where are you looking at that to be? >> it's not really critical whether or not the center actually crosses land with regards to whether or not impacts owe dur. we're going to get impacts with land and water. its eight not completely certain if the center will pass over land or not. the hurricane conditions are expected somewhere in the hurricane warning area, that will be mostly overnight tonight and we still have also the risk of some storm surge flooding of two to four feet and what are the local officials told folks to do in terms of evacuations or other prepareds instructions, you need to do it and not be focusing on whether or not the center is going to go right over you or not. hurricanes are not just a point on the map.

>> we know arthur has been categorized as a cat 1 hurricane. we talk about the concern for rip currents and flash flooding. what other things are you concerned about and want to alert people to? >> i'm glad you mentioned water because we know that in the past serl decades, water has taken more lives than wind has in land following united states tropical cyclones. the inland flooding due to heavy rain, the rip currents and waves and also the storm surge flooding. we could see two to four feet of water above normally dry ground, the graphic that we have on our website at hurricanes.gov, the new potential storm surge flooding graphic shows a number of spots that could get higher than three feet over normally dry ground. this is one of the hazards, not just the wind that people need to be contending with and one of the reasons why emergency managers should be telling folks to evacuate from hatteras island. >> you are the hurricane folks,

and you study their behavior. is it concerning to you that we're seeing a hurricane forming and is it telling about what we should expect? >> history teaches us that early season activity is not a really good predictor of peak of season activity and not at all unusual for a tropical storm or hurricane to form close to the southeastern united states in june or july. that's happened many times before, and this is another example of that, so whether or not this is going to be the last storm or hurricane to affect the united states this year, we don't know, but the season is very young. it's not unusual to have a june or july landfall and certaily not unusual to later have threatening storms or hurricanes in the peak of the season no matter what has happened. >> what things do you look for then? you say that the timing isn't necessarily the case, it's where it started to form more of an indicator? >> well, the early season

activity in june and july, as in the case of arthur, is not the kind of development process that we'll see in the deep tropics most likely during the peak of the hurricane season. this did not originate from a tropical wave that left africa, and that's where we're going to start to look farther south and east, way to the south and east of where arthur formed is where the peak of season activity tends to form, where most of the major hurricanes have their origination and what happens in the deep tropics and in the caribbean in the peak months of the hurricane season is what we're really going to be looking for to understand how the overall season evolves, but early season systems can form close to home, and arthur is another example of that. >> finally, rick, since we have you and know it's fourth of july, i'm sure you and your team have plans for this weekend and probably involves watching arthur. i'm curious what you would say to people about their plans for this holiday weekend. obviously local authorities are telling people to stay away from the shores. what other things would you advise people that maybe are

looking at having to alter their plans for the holiday weekend? >> well, first thing is to not tune out. don't presume that based on what you've seen with what the track shows or any information you've heard kind of in passing that that means that the location you're going to is not going to be affected. even far away from where the track of the hurricane is going to be, you can have dangerous waves and rip currents and what you want to do is call ahead to the place that you're thinking of going to make sure that it's going to be safe to do the things that you're planning to do, and depending on where you're going, the answer could be different, so there's no one answer for everyone. certainly the affects in north carolina are going to be different than the effects on the jersey shore or up in maine. you want to call ahead to the place you're going and follow what the local officials or the people running the hotels down there have to offer for you in terms of what they're expecting in that particular location, but plan safety into your holiday weekend no matter where it is you're going. >> absolutely. we can replace things, we can't

replace people. safe advice from noaa's national hurricane center and rick knabb. have a safe and happy fourth. i'm sure it will be a busy one for you >> thank you very much. you can expect to see some increased security for u.s.-bound flights particularly at airports in europe and the middle east. it's in response to reports of terror groups working to develop explosives that can't be detected by current airport screening methods. pamela brown is live in washington with the details. what are the changes people should be expecting? >> first i want to make it clear this has nothing to do with domestic flights over the fourth of july holiday weekend. this applies only to direct flights coming to the u.s. overseas. what dhs is doing is responding to new intelligence about terror groups like al qaeda and the arabian peninsula who have long tried to build new types of bombs to evade detection, bombs with less explosive residue and metallic components. they are working with the three

u.s. main carriers and specific airports overseas too put the new security measures in place, additional inspection of shoes and electronics, additional explosive traces in detection of machines, more patdowns of passengers and in some cases another set of screenings and more random checks, among other measures. dhs official i spoke to this morning telling me that screeners will be looking for something specific and passengers overseas at these specific airports may notice these changes over the next few days. kate and michaela? >> the panel as you well know, tsa doesn't have jurisdiction at airports overseas. how are they working with international airport officials to make sure that these measures are put into place and up to the standard that u.s. officials want? >> according to the dhs official i spoke with, there's tsa personnel overseas already and they're going to ensure by working with the airports and airlines that the new measures are put into place and if they're not up to the standard

that dhs is asking for, then tsa can say look, you can't fly to the u.s. until you put these measures into place, so it is able to do that, and it is currently working with these foreign governments, airports and airlines, to make this happen. >> pamela brown in washington, thanks so much. we'll talk to you soon. following breaking news on this front, the u.s. embassy in uganda is warning there is a specific threat to attack, threatening an attack on the airport in kampala today. intelligence sources say an unknown terrorist group planned the attack on entebbe international airport between the hours of 9:00 p.m. and 11:00 p.m. tonight, if you can believe on the specificity. officials are warning travelers to review flight plans in light of this new information. ugandan police drastically increased surveillance in the country in the wake of recent attacks by islamic insurgents. the violence raging in the middle east showing no signs of letting up.

israel launching air strikes at gaza overnight in response to rockets being fired into israel, all of this comes as the divide between israelis and palestinians deepens over a possible revenge killing of a palestinian teenager after the deadly abduction and killing of three israeli teens. atika shubert is live in jerusalem. what is the latest? >> reporter: we seem to have entered a sort of lull at the moment in jerusalem. we saw some of those protests, those angry flashes spreading from the shwafat neighborhood where we were yesterday into other parts of east jerusalem. fortunately it seems to have died down for now. we did see the air strikes overnight in gaza as well, hitting a number of hamas targets, and rockets launched from gaza into southern israel. one of them hitting a child care center. fortunately everybody was in a safe room there so nobody was hurt, but it's still scary

nonetheless. despite all this, israeli authorities say they are trying to deescalate the situation, saying they're trying to lessen the points of friction, both in the west bank and just be in gaza only defensively. we'll see whether or not that works. >> apparently the deescalation requires a certain amount of diplomacy as well. thank you so much for that. christine romans is keeping an eye on top stories of the day. >> good morning again. the georgia man whose son died after hours in a hot suv, he is due in court today. prosecutors will make their case that justin harris committed a crime. he has maintained his little boy's death was an accident. harris pleaded not guilty to murder and child cruelty charges but he's faced scrutiny over internet searches about deaths in hot cars. breaking news overnight from new orleans, police found and questioned a person of interest in the weekend shooting on with your bon street. the 20-year-old man has been arrested on unrelated charges. authorities are looking for another person in that case.

ten people were shot in a busy part of the french quarter early sunday morning. one of those people died wednesday. firefighters battling wildfires scattered across northern and central california. no injuries have been reported but two homes have burned. hundreds more evacuated in napa, lake counties. fire crews from as far as los angeles have been called to fight this blaze. the fire intensified in the afternoon. temperatures rose into the 90s, very low humidity. more of the same hot, dry weather is expected today. team usa may have been knocked out in the world cup but they received big praise from the fan-in-chief, president obama. the president called tim howard and clint dempsey to congratulate them and joked about their newly minted star status. >> clint, you were fantastic, and tim, i think, you know, i don't know how you're going to survive the mobs when you come back home, man. you're just like, you're going

to have to shave your beard so they don't know who you are. >> he also told them that they did great. they captured the hearts and imaginations of the whole country here. >> they really did. >> oh, yes. >> that is spot on. >> and i don't think it often happens that the president calls any kind of athlete, if they haven't won the actual event. >> that's true. very good point. all eyes on still on brazil. don't i go up on world cup fever. >> we're already looking at 2018. >> with the u.s. out, you're supporting brazil. >> i am, too. pick one, you have time to marinate on it. >> i will marinate. i have no idea. coming up next on "new day," a town outraged by the growing immigration crisis hosts a fiery meeting after flag-waving protesters forced busloads of undocumented immigrants to be rerouted. we'll have the latest on this very tense standoff coming up. how is the u.s. doing when

it comes to creating jobs? new employment numbers set to be released this morning. an interesting gap there. we'll dive into what it all means a head.

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anger continued at a heated town hall. kyung lah has much more on that. >> liberty and justice for all. >> reporter: even before the murietta town hall began debate began exploding in the crowd. >> your kids are going to get sick, don't you guys understand that? >> reporter: inside the packed auditorium, cheers drowned out any opposition to the city's stand against the federal government's bussing in of undocumented immigrants. on tuesday, a wall of protesters blocked the entrance to the marietta border patrol station. three buses carried 140 undocumented immigrants from central america, many of them women and children. they're part of an influx of migrants cramming facilities in texas. many of them unaccompanied

children, a total of 60,000 to 80,000 children without parents are expected to cross illegally this year. the federal government coping by shipping them to smaller towns like marietta, but marietta's protesters -- >> usa! usa! >> reporter: -- forced these buses to turn around. [ cheers and applause ] this town hall underscored marietta still does not want them. >> this is an invasion. why is the national guard not out there stopping them from coming in? [ cheers and applause ] >> this is admittedly a nationwide problem, and little old maurrieta has taken the lea in getting change. >> reporter: in a week that has shown the uglier side of the immigration debate. >> am i being detained? am i being detained? >> reporter: the small town embraces for the next wave of buses, the next which could happen as soon as the fourth of

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pick up, seeing winds coming out of the southwest 20 miles per hour. it's only going to get worse from here. arthur is continuing to strengthen, steady winds at 80 miles per hour, making its track to the north-northeast about nine miles per hour. the outer bands producing rain off of charleston, south carolina. good 1,500 miles or so offshore there. what is expect there had? it's going to continue to track to the north-northeasterly direction overnight tonight through tomorrow morning in the outer banks. that is the closest arthur is expected to get to the mainland. likely a direct impact there. so again that's those overnight hours expected about 85-mile-per-hour steady winds making it a category 1 hurricane. it's going to quickly exit off to the northeast. it will move faster to catch up with the jet stream but staying south of the northeast, but keep in mind if you look at the farthest western portion of that track, that cone, there is a chance you could feel impacts in cape cod, the evening of the fourth of july. by saturday it will become a

remnant low towards halifax. we know things will be changing quickly here. heavy rainstorm surge and 15, 20-foot waves are expected in this region. >> indra, as we said, you can move your plans maybe to saturday instead of grilling on friday, maybe move it to saturday, because saturday is shaping up to be a nice looking day. you stay safe out there, darling, okay? >> reporter: thank you. i'll park myself here. >> park yourself there. hurricane arthur may be the main weather event but parts of the northeast had to deal with a night of violent storms. check this out, quite a light show. nighttime lightning strikes in new york city hitting some of the high-rises. the rough weather is expected to cause flight delays, all sorts of cancellations across the country. couple that with another powerful storm system coming in from the west. folks, you have a recipe for travel nightmares. jason carroll is live in new york's laguardia airport. how are delays looking right now? >> reporter: let me just say it looks like so far new yorkers are weathering the storms pretty well. take a look at airport security

michaela. i know you're like me, in and out of the airports, a lot of you, ever seen security looking that clear, but that's the story here today. last night, though, it was a much different story. a spectacular show from mother nature, lightning hitting the empire state building and new york city high-rises, drenching rain from severe storms pummeled new york state causing flash flooding inland, washing away roads. heavy winds brought a tree crashing down on a roof of this home. severe weather causing temporary delays and cancellations at all three of new york city airports wednesday afternoon. >> i'm much happier to be traveling today as opposed to tomorrow. tomorrow is going to be insane. >> reporter: it's the same storm system that wreaked havoc across the midwest, grounding planes and knocking out power lines. in chicago on tuesday, traffic into and out of o'hare international airport brought to a near standstill, actually not standing, some passengers got out and walked to the airport to

make their flights. >> i've been walking about 20 minutes. >> reporter: aaa predicts it will be one of the busiest travel weekends in the past seven years, all this as hurricane arthur continues to push up the east coast. heavy rain expected to remain mostly offshore, encouraging news to motorists. aaa expects 41 million to drive 50 miles or more this weekend, up nearly 2%, almost 14% more than this year's memorial day weekend. >> if you're out on the road, pack your patience. >> reporter: and it's not just roads that will be packed. an estimated 8% of americans will travel by rail, and bus, this holiday weekend. and we're still expecting some thunderstorms to pop up sporadically throughout the area, so the best advice whether you're here in new york or possibly in chicago, kate, is to

call your carrier before you head out to the airport. kate? >> absolutely right. jason, thank you so much. breaking news at this hour, the labor department just releasing the june jobs report. let's bring in chief business correspondent christine romans. christine, this is one of those key economic indicators we're always looking at. >> it's strong, it's 288,000. it's much better than the expectation. 288,000 net new jobs created in the month of june. that's more than the economists had been expecting and shows you this trend, kate, of now several months of more than 200,000 jobs created, so that's a strengthening trend that you want to see continue. the unemployment rate also fell. the jobless rate fell to the lowest since i think september 2008. the forecast had been for 6.3%. instead we got 6.1% so that's a lower than expected unemployment rate. so that's the kind of trend you want to see and it shows us, kate, that we've been slowly, slowly healing from that bad recession. >> you said lowest since september 2000.

that was just before the big crisis. >> yes, that's absolutely right. you've been slowly coming down. one thing you'll hear economists see, people have been dropping out of the labor market for months. you have a labor force participation, that's a technical economic term but basically people believing the labor market. >> not even looking for jobs. >> they haven't been able to find their place. you want to see that start to improve. certainly numbers like this help that trend overall. this is what happened in the really worst part of the recession of the financial crisis, 10% unemployment and now you've got things slowly moving lower here. what we need to see is the quality of jobs added, with he added a lot over the past year the couple years the trend has been low-wage jobs, not mid and higher wage jobs. over the past couple of months i've seen some of the higher wage jobs coming back. >> 288,000 jobs added, hopefully we can get back to that number, that is highest, too. >> 288 will take us back here. 288,000 jobs createed will take us more than we've seen in at least a year. >> does this threaten to be a

blip or do you think this is showing real strength? >> takes a few months to make a trend but when you see this kind of a trend, that shows you that the economy is healing and it's what i've been hearing from ceos and recruiters. i've been hearing that there are talent wars in parts of the economy that are doing very well in sciences and technology and i.t., anything that has to do with silicon valley of course. you're also seeing this just slow general demand increasing to are a lot of business and they've been so to the bone for so long, they're finding they have to hire. >> fit this then into the broader context. you have strong numbers, a strong showing today for june's numbers but you also had recently weak gdp number coming out. >> very good point. >> you have the dow breaking records, knocking on 17,000 door. >> the recovery has been the worst, slowest recovery in 100 years. >> right. >> yet you have the stocks at record highs, half of americans

are invested in the stock market, so stocks are at record highs, investors have been rewarded. companies holding cash have been rewarded, employees haven't. you're finally starting to see employees coming into the mix here. it needs to be broader based, obviously, but these are strong numbers. they show an economy that's healing. >> just to remind everyone, 288,000 jobs added, 288,000 jobs added in the month of june, 6.1% unemployment, the lowest -- >> since 2008. >> that's your news for right now. thanks, christine. michaela? next up on "new day," whitwy bulger speaks out. cut! [bell rings] this...is jane. her long day on set starts with shoulder pain... ...and a choice take 6 tylenol in a day which is 2 aleve for... ...all day relief. hmm.

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all right, five things to know for your new day, here we go, number one it's arthur. arthur is now a hurricane, setting its sights on north carolina's outer banks tonight. the hurricane warning now extended to the north carolina/virginia borders. keep an eye on that. the u.s. empassy in uganda is warning there is a specific threat to attack the airport in kpala tonight between 9:00 and 11:00 p.m., this comes as increased security on u.s.-bound flights. new talks to curb iran's nuclear program have resumed this morning. the u.s. and its allies are in vienna to reduce sanctions against iran in exchange for

limits on its new nuclear program. the father aus couped of murder after his toddler died in a hot car will face a judge today to determine whether his case will indeed proceed. justin ross harris has been in jail without bond since his arrest. some members of congress are taking a trip to south texas, the homeland security committee will hold a field hearing about the crush of undocumented immigrants at the border, many of them children from central america. we do update those five things to know, be sure to go to newdaycnn.com for the latest. now to an american woman in custody accused of trying to help isis, the terror group, fighting in iraq and syria. the fbi arrested her. she's 19 years old, shannon conley from colorado, they arrested her back in april as she was trying to leave the country. pamela brown is in washington with more details. tell us more. >> reporter: we've learned from a recently unsealed criminal complaint that this 19-year-old denver woman, shannon connolly

was on a mission to wage jihad and wanted to travel overseas to fight with isis. the fbi says it spent months trying to dissuade her before arresting her as she tried to board a flight to turkey. colorado teenager arrested and charged with conspiracy to provide material support to terrorists. 19-year-old shannon maureen connolly taken into custody by the fbi, as she attempted to board a plane to turkey at the denver international airport in april. her goal, authorities say, to unite with the radical islamist group isis in syria, and marry a jihadist she met on the internet. according to a newly unsealed criminal complaint, connolly discussed her radical beliefs with federal agents over the course of an eight-month investigation, referring to u.s. military bases as targets and telling investigators that she thought she could plan an attack on u.s. soil but could not carry it out because she lacked the

means and opportunity, ignoring warning that aiding terrorists would result in her arrest connolly told investigators she needed to go overseas to be trained in jihad. the teenager became the subject of an fbi investigation after a passer who feared she was planning an attack at a local church reported suspicious activity to police. >> she became a little bit more hostile, then eventually we came in and said listen, it's just probably better that you not come back. >> reporter: according to court documents, connolly told investigators that she hates the people at the church, asserting "they think i'm a terrorist, i'll give them something to think i am." according to the complaint, agents recovered material about jihad and al qaeda from her house, in addition to dvds of anwar al awlaki, the american militant killed in a drone strike in yemen in 2011. the teenager joins a growing list of americans who have been detained for attempting to join terrorist organizations abroad. and in the criminal complaint, connolly even received military

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i'll kill you. i'll stab you and then i'll kill you and i'm like holy jesus. >> whitey killed my sister, took her teeth out. >> bulger asked if he wanted one in the head and shot him in the head. zple murdered people there, he buried people there and went to sleep there. >> chilling, that was a look at the new cnn film "whitey: united states of america versus james j. bulger." it looks at the trial of legendary gangster whitey bulger known as one of the most vicious and feared criminals who ruled over boston's underworld in the 1970s and '80s. it examines his relationship with law enforcement during his reign of crime. bull ger was captured in 2011 essentially living in plain sight after 16 years as a fugitive. he was found guilty of 11 murders and racketeering charges. the director and producer of the show joe berlinger joins us now. this is so much to dig into.

>> yes. >> there's a lot made of the story since it captured headlines and everyone's attention when he was arrested and then sentenced but there's books, movies. why did you decide to take a documentary approach to the story? >> bulger has been so mythologized over the book. johnny depp is doing a movie as we speak. everyone has their own spin on him and the truth has been somewhat elusive in my opinion so taking the present tense of last sum ear's trial and covering that trial and using that as an opportunity to separate the man from the myth. >> kind of his point of view. >> his point of view is included which some people have criticized but you have to show both sides of the story. i wanted to understand how is it that a guy could be at the top of boston's criminal empire for 25 years and not even so much as be stopped for a traffic ticket. i mean, he was allowed to kill, and that's the question, why. what service was he performing that allowed him to, you know, the authorities to look the other way. >> it's really interesting,

because you take on a more difficult path in what you examine in your documentary, not looking at guilt or innocence on the 19 counts of murder, it's the drama that began to come out in the courtroom and the relationship with the fbi. >> look, it was a foregone conclusion that bulger was not emerging from that trial as a free man, and so i thought the trial should have been a much more open forum to allow the victims family members to understand how their loved ones were killed, and i think right from the start, the judge in this case before the trial even began made it very clear this was going to be a narrowly focused trial, for example, the biggest issue is bulger was not allowed to present his immunity claim. he claimed he was not an informant, which is the standard story. >> big bone of contention. >> big issue and just because bulger says is doesn't mean we should necessarily believe it. he claims he was given an

immunity deal because he was helping to protect the life of the then prosecutor in new england who was bringing down the italian mafia, and that prosecutor was scared that there was credible threats that he was going to be assassinated in a retaliatory strike by the italian mafia, and so bulger promised to protect him from that. there's a long story why, and in exchange, he was not prosecuted and that whole line of inquiry was not allowed to happen in the trial. we can say that's a ludicrous defense that he had a license to kill but it should have been allowed to be explored and that's what my documentary does. >> you point out he was so much more concerned about being seen as a rat than vicious murderer. >> exactly. that's the essential question. lot of people who have covered the story for a long time say that bulger's claims that he was not a rat and that he had been given a deal of immunity, this is simply an old criminal about to kind of pass into the metaphoric criminals hall of fame and he doesn't want to be known as a rat, which is the

worst thing that can happen in criminal culture and irish culture. irish revolutionaries over the years in their fight against the british lost a lot of people to turncoats, and informants, so being a rat in the irish culture and in criminal culture is the worst thing that could happen. >> which is a crazy notion for some people to get their heads around, facing two life prison sentences plus many other years in the charges for the murders that he was found guilty of. >> yes. >> there were others i'm sure he was accused of. >> although an 83-year-old guy getting two life sentences in my opinion he got away with murder. >> fair point. i find it interesting that you don't want this necessarily to be seen as a portrayal, but more a look at the system that allowed him to flourish. >> yes. >> you don't want to give away the story. we want people to go see the film. give us an idea of how you came away from this process looking at what happened there. >> well, when you hear all the different perspectives and when

you finally hear bulger, and this is the first time bulger has ever participated in any project. he's been the subject of wiretaps but never willingly participated in a film before, and by the way, this is no apology for whitey bulger. he's he a brutal, vicious killer who deserves to be behind bars but we do hear his side of the story and by delving into some of these questions, i think some of the conventional narrative that he was a valuable informant for the fbi in their fight against bringing down the it l italian mafia, some of the the story doesn't quite hold water. what i care about is truth for the victim's families because bulger should have been taken off the streets long before he was, and people got killed in the crossfire and i don't think the government should be in the business of deciding who should live and who should die. >> why is this story so captivating? because as we started this kfgs -- >> oh, yeah. >> -- it's well documented what he's done. so much, he's been covered over the years and the trial was

covered as well. >> it's an irresistible saga, a guy who rules over boston's criminal empire for 2025 years, doesn't get stopped as so much a traffic ticket, why. the other part is his younger brother, billy bulger made it to the very top of boston's political machine. he was the president of the massachusetts senate, later president of the university of massachusetts, and so you have two brothers from a south boston housing project, one becomes the most well-known criminal of modern times and the other begins a highly -- >> same parents -- >> yep -- highly important political figure in boston, massachusetts. >> you can catch "whitey" in theaters now. it will be on cnn later this year. the direct yoor, mr. berlinger, thank you for waking up with us. after losing both legs and an arm in afghanistan, a veteran

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♪ all right, we're going to do a little "today stuff" today ladies, it's good stuff double dose. you'll figure this out because you're clever girls, heroes welcome for u.s. army sergeant brian delberian on staten island. he lost both legs and an arm in an ied attack three years ago in afghanistan. it also took the life of his beth friend. things are looking up for delberian who was on hand for the groundbreaking of his future smart home, that was made possible by a group of veterans and home building charities and a generous $1 million donation from who? the new york jets. >> three years ago i got hit today, and i lost a couple of friends and you know, it's just like another rebirth.

>> another rebirth, thanks to chris's jets, the completed three-bedroom smart home, it is going to be outfitted with customized fixtures, an array of high-tech features, all controlled from an ipad. this is going to help him to regain some of that precious thing he lost in the line of duty, his independence. >> freedom is not there by accident. it's there because of our young men and women who serve. he's got a challenge going forward and hopefully the house is a little bit of an aid to him. >> more than just an aid, delberian says the gift will mean everything to him, a fantastic reminder, underscoring the importance of recognizing independence day, of thanking our vets. great to see all these charities and even the jets getting behind this. >> christine and i are thinking the same thing, good for woody johnson. >> we have a long road ahead of us. all of us as a community have to pull together. >> absolutely. >> make sure the sacrifices on

the battlefield. >> veterans are coming back with a different brand of injuries. have a great day, everybody. lot of news to cover. let's get you over to "the newsroom" with ana cabrera in for carol costello. >> hello, ladies. the ladies show today i like it. have a great day. "newsroom" starts now. -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com good morning, thanks for joining us. i'm ana cabrera. glad to have you with us. let's start with news just in on the strength of the economy, and moments ago we learned 288,000 jobs were added last month. now that pushes the unemployment rate down two notches to 6.1%. this is now the lowest unemployment rate we've seen since september of 2008. joining us to discuss, cnn chief business correspondent christine romans and alison kosik at the new york stock exchange. christine, we start with you. break down these numbers for us. how significant is this?