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for immigration legislation. it is an issue that's dividing communities. in jerusalem, clashes on the streets between palestinians and israeli forces. cnn is on the front lines. in nags head, north carolina, hurricane arthur moved on but flooding presents problems for residents. we'll have a live report. hi there, i'm brianna keilar, in today for wolf blitzer. this is the day that america celebrates its independence and its freedom. this july 4th takes on special means for some new u.s. citizens. at the white house today, president obama hosted a naturalization ceremony for members of the military who are already serving their country. the president says the ceremony is a reminder that america is a nation of immigrants. >> the basic idea of welcoming immigrants to our shores is central to our way of life. it is in our dna.

we believe our diversity, our differences, when joined together by a common set of ideals, makes us stronger. makes us more creative. makes us different. from all these different strands, we make something new here in america. and that's why, if we want to keep attracting the best and the brightest from beyond our shores, we're going to have to fix our immigration system, which is broken. >> athena jones joining us now from the white house. give us some of the highlights here. >> we're talking about 25 new citizens sworn in here, just a couple of hours ago. at the beginning of his remarks, the president says this is one of his favorite things to do. 15 of those new citizens are active duty service members from the army, the navy, the marines and the air force. there are also two veterans sworn in, a reservist and seven military spouses. they come from 15 countries and the president is, in his

remarks, praised them for volunteering, for offering to serve in the u.s. military, potentially sacrificing their lives, even though they weren't yet citizens. he said the fact there are so many people who want to come to america and come and be citizens here should give americans hopes. you heard that message, he said we should be -- the u.s. should be making it easier for the best and brightest to come to meramea and stay, not harder, and he said he's going to do everything he can to keep making our immigration smarter and more efficient, so those are some of the highlights. >> it's really, this is a very big week when it companies y c immigration reform. we know the whole concept of immigration reform, dead for this congress. president obama has made it clear this week he's going to go it alone. did he talk about any of that in his remark, today? >> not beyond saying that he's going to keep doing all that he can, what he was talking about there is those executive actions he announced on monday. not the executive actions themselves but the fact he'd

asked his team to come up with a series recommendations of steps he can take using his executive power without the help of congress. some of those things might be things like prioritizing who gets deported. that's something the administration has already been doing, but perhaps they can make more moves in that area. he can also do things like dispatch more border patrol agents and other resources to the border. and we know in the new money he's asked for from congress, $2 billion, part of that will go to what they're calling a sustained border search. so those are some of the kind of things he can do. one more interesting point of context, today's ceremony really he lights the power of executive action. it was an executive order signed by the president's predecessor, president george w. bush, back in july of 2002, that really set the stage for an event like this. that executive order made it possible to expedite the naturalization of undocumented immigrants who have been serving honorably in the armed forces.

an interesting bit of context as we look at this debate. >> certainly is interesting, athena jones at the white house, thank you. nowhere is the fight over illegal immigration more intense than in marietta, california. a small town that's really the epicenter of the national debate. residents are prepared for another possible showdown today. more buses carrying undocumented immigrants are due to arrive in southern california earlier this week, angry crowds forced three of those buses headed to marietta to turn around. national correspondent kyung lah is joining us live now from there. kyung, what's being done to try to prevent a repeat of what we saw on tuesday? >> well, what they're trying to do is cordon off everyone, so there's entryway into the border patrol office here in marietta. look right here. you can see these are protesters. these are both sides of the immigration debate. pro migrant rights and anti-immigration. you can see there's a sizable

police force trying to separate them from the press. and swing over this way, if you could. the reason why, if you look beyond the cameras, you can see the roadway is completely clear. the entry way into the office, the border patrol office, is clear, should the expected migrants today arrive. >> attention, usa border patrol -- >> reporter: a lone internet radio host and his side kick continue the protest. >> if they're bringing this in -- >> reporter: he and others promise they'll be out in force for an anticipated fourth of july arrival of more undocumented immigrants to this facility. a move dividing and polarizing this once quiet bedroom community in southern california. after this, a blockade by protesters, forcing three buses of 140 undocumented migrants from central america, many of them women and children, to leave. >> use the word "illegal" alien --

>> reporter: then a heated town hall, pitting resident against resident along cultural lines. mur yet that is this week's ground zero. >> i don't think we're prior pa prepared for this. >> reporter: what's driving these two sides? he runs a political company and never took a stand before, has gone from the bus protest to verbal sparring at the town hall and promises to keep the heat on. >> these people are so excited to be here and they look out the windows going, what's happening? >> reporter: you were blocking their way in? >> not because of them, because of standing firm, letting the officials know, this is not the right way to handle this. >> latinos are the ones who defend your country -- >> reporter: on the other side, this resident, better known for his partying mexican music, has suddenly become for the migrant rights side, a new hero.

after this protester spitness face and others slung visual and verbal slurs at him. >> [ bleep ] you [ bleep ] -- >> it was completely uncalleded for. we're here in a protest. in a protest, we act like adults. we're not here to fight. >> reporter: mirroring the national fight. both sides digging in and refusing to back down on this independence day. you're looking live now at this crowd. it's about 100 people. it's been fairly peaceful. only one person has been detained. doing the sides evoking what this country was built on. what the fourth of july means. it is a nation of immigrants that america rests its ideals on. the others saying this is also a country of laws. brianna. >> big debate going on and you're right in the middle of it, kyung lah, thank you. still to come, hurricane arthur clears out of north carolina and heads back out to sea as a weaker storm. we'll take you to outer banks for the latest there.

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years. a funeral was held today for a palestinian teen who may have been killed in retaliation for the deaths of three israeli teens. their bodies were found earlier this week. our atika shubert is joining us now from jerusalem. we've seen video of this. our ben wedeman was on the street during these clashes. he was injured. if you can first tell us how he is doing and what the scene looks like and what it has looked like in the last couple of hours. >> sure. the the good news is ben is doing fine. he's gone to the doctor. they've checked him out. he seems all right. but basically what happened is he was caught between israeli police and those palestinian youth that were throwing stones. israeli police have been using these sort of -- it's a kind of crowd control measure. it's sort of sponge and rubber covered bullet. and basically what happens is they fired it. it appeared to ricochet off something and bounced off his forehead, bleeding quite a bit.

fortunately, there were medics very close by. as you can imagine, hurt quite a bit and very scary experience. those clashes are still ongoing. ben is not the only one injured. at least 50 other people were injured in the ongoing clashes today. many of them, again, getting those kinds of rubber and pluftic bullets hitting them. and the clashes haven't stopped. they're continuing into the evening. we've seen this over the last couple of days, this pattern where clashes are happening in this one neighborhood. and then overnight, often spread out into a few other areas of jerusalem as well. so this is a very tense city, on edge. we have not seen this kind of violence for many years. >> and atika, we mentioned that today was the funeral for that palestinian teen. tell us about what that was like and how many people attended. >> well, hundreds of people attended. it really has become a focal point of the anger, frustration and of course for the family, the overwhelming grief of what

they feel has been a very unjust system. and particularly, the fact that this 16-year-old teenager, mohammad abu khedair, appeared to have been abducted right before morning prayers and an hour later his body was found burned and beaten. so badly burned his family had to come and give dna to identify him. as you can imagine this has become the focal point of the anger of the community there, and their feeling is, there is no question, they see this as a revenge attack for those three israeli teenagers that were killed. and this is of course the worst case scenario. and police say they are investigating. but even though they have cctv video of the attack that clearly shows them being forced into the car, still no leads, still no suspects that have been announced, brianna. >> that must be so frustrating, i would imagine, to his family and friends and people in that ghunt. one of the things i found fascinating is listening to some of the parents of the victims,

both the palestinian teen and the israeli teen. you -- teens, i should say. you actually spoke to the uncle of one of the israeli teenagers. what did he tell you? >> yes, i spoke to eshi frankel, the unk offal naftali frankel, one of the israeli teenagers abducted and murdered. and he had a message saying there should be no revenge attacks taken. his voice has been one of calm and appealing for peace. take a listen. >> we call and urge everyone to continue to show this restraint. any action should be carried out by our government, by the legal system. and we call out very clearly to anyone, refrain from revenge. this is not the spirit of our sons. this is not our spirit. our spirit is that of kindness, of togetherness, and, you know, the small people would called for revenge, this is very

different and diametrically opposed to what we believe in and what we call for. >> unfortunately, that call for reconciliation, for no acts of revenge, appears to have been shouted down by violence, br brianna. >> also striking as well, the father of the palestinian teen, would was buried today, is also calling for no blood shed. we're hearing that from both sides. it's surprising and fascinating and so much strength from those family members. want to go to iraq now. iraqi forces celebrating a victory in the city where aded m hussein was born. south of tikrit. officials say isis fighters fled the city. before it was isis gaining support from the citizens who were unhappy with their iraqi government. cnn's nick patton walsh is live. since isis declared a new islamic state in syria and iraq,

we've learned about isis leadership. what can you tell us? >> many say isis lack that kind of so-called figurehead like osama bin laden. but they do have a leader, abu baka al baldadi. his address what he refers to as his caliphate, no video as well. but that doesn't mean there aren't figures emerging within that sort of strange collection, often international, of jihadis that make up isis. one of them, in particular, appeared in many videos in syria but now in iraq, a man known as omar the chechen. isis has endless publicity videos but its leaders prefer to hide. spokesman abu mohammad al anai here reveal their plans but not his face. to the left is a different story, omar the chechen. distinctive, speaking russian, the closest thing isis has to a

public leader. has long ascent among global jihadis echoing the complexion patchwork of brutality behind the group's rise. a former soldier in the georgian army, he was briefly jailed on firearms offenses in 2010. jail, he reportedly said, turned him to jihad and he arrived in syria two years later, where he was quoted in an extremist newspaper expressing his shock at how liberal rebels allowed people smoking, shaving, instead of letting beards grow. they listened to songs, he said. i wondered where had i landed. it all seemed discouraging. soon his military experience earned respect. shown here in a regime base they helped overrun. >> he has lots of experience in his past as a former soldier. all of these things combined likely with the sort of ego on his behalf have sort of meant

that he has turned into this quite sub stab chul figure within the group. >> reporter: a movement that is death in battle, he grew as a figure through surviving. other fighters bickered yet he led this group to join isis, reportedly attracted to their plans for a caliphate. >> there have been many people who adopted the puritan values of groups like al qaeda and isis. and they're quite happy to accept that rather superficial simple message. which isis has. as long as they're given an opportunity to fight beyond the battlefield. >> reporter: here, mourning the death of their militant leader. his mother is said to have limited roots, which even so helped his rise to isis' field commander, perhaps too in iraq. isis have spread fast. thursday, activists saying they controlled an area of northeastern syria, five times

the size of lebanon. [ speaking foreign language ] a rise as jarring as how a former georgian soldier became the only public face of this earthquake of religious extremism the world is struggling to respond to. the chechen and others give you an idea of where many of the fighters behind isis come from. some with criminal backgrounds. some purely there to pursue what they see as religious motivation. it also gives you a bit of an idea as to where this movement may go. they've risen through iraq and syria through military prowess, often leading syria rebels in the early days, and now storming across many towns in iraq too. but that military prowess doesn't translate into the ability to hold on to territory or to win over the population, to provide them services,

utilities, the things that people need perhaps in the sunni part of iraq to remain desirous of having isis around them. that's of course something omar the chechen has no experience of. he's a lifetime fighter it seems in many ways. that's of course where many analysts say isis can fall down. can they introduce service, daily life, for the people who they purport to try to represent and govern in some areas. >> we're watching them struggle to do that. nick patton walsh, appreciate the report. now, first hobby lobby, now wheaton college. we'll tell you about a new supreme court ruling on obamacare and the mandate. just ahead, we have the latest on hurricane arthur's glancing blow along the hurricane coast. a cat 2. this thing packed a punch. we will tell you where it's headed next. defiance is in our bones. defiance never grows old. citracal maximum.

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of the virginia and maryland. it's headed northeast towards cape cod. for people spending the holiday at the beach, the really big threat here is rip currents that can easily drag a swimmer out to sea. at its peak, arthur packed winds of about 100 miles per hour. north carolina's governor says 44,000 homes and businesses are without power right now. so far, this is the good news, no deaths or serious injuries have been reported. our joe johns is in nags head, north carolina. what's it looking like there, joe? >> hey, brianna. safe to say, we dodged a bullet after just a crazy night on north carolina's outer banks. tremendous winds, difficult to stand up, and now look at it, the sun, starting to peek out, around 79 degrees. people hoping things are getting back to normal. it was an unusual morning here, needless to say, where i'm standing was covered with water earlier today at sunlight, but now its all receded and gone right back out into the sound.

we took a trip over there to the causeway. the road leading up to that causeway had all kinds of silt and debris over top of it. front loaders had to stop the traffic in order to get some of that stuff off the road. so the cars would have clear passage. back over here, near nag, head, taking a look right next to me, to my right, this is a restaurant here. this shows you one of the reasons they're able to survive so well. there was a lot of water that came in here overnight. nonetheless, they've cleaned up the place, they've done what they've had to do, and there's hope they're open for dinner later on this evening. hatteras, engineers are still assessing. they're saying as far as infrastructure goes, the roads, the bridge, they say it's not as bad as it was predicted. so that's good news for people over there who decided not to evacuate and good news for people who are trying to get in or out on this holiday weekend that otherwise would have been very busy so far except for that

storm, brianna. >> it sounds like a lot of people, 44,000 are without electricity this holiday weekend. do you have a sense if crews are able to get to those folks and restore their power? >> we certainly know that they're working on it and people around here have a lot of confidence in their power company. they think the power company in this area does a lot better job than some of those north of us and south of us as well. so we'll see. but there is certainly optimism that they're going to get the lights on as quickly as possible. >> there is optimism. some of those other ones will remain without being named, i think. it's good to hear people are faring well there. joe johns, thank you so much, in nags head, north carolina. now, cnn meteorologist ingrid petersons actually rode out the hurricane in kill devil hills on the outer banks. >> all right, brianna, kites are even flying, after all, it is the fourth of july. there are so many beachgoers

that came here for their vacation. they're happy to hear pretty much arthur has whipped out here. it's been moving fast, tracking 24 miles per hour, right out of the yeah but it still leaves one huge problem. it is going to be hot today. look at all the people lining the coast. what they're thinking is they're going to go ahead and go back into this ocean as soon as the sun breaks and that's the biggest concern we'll have from hear moving forward. that rip current danger is still incredibly high. what happened last night is we see all these waves that came all the way up high and now all that water is rushing all the way back out. but it can't go back out the same way it came in. so what happens is it looks for breaks in the sand bars and rushes even faster through those breaks. that's the strong rip current that is really going to be line the entire eastern seaboard we're concerned with. especially when it lines up with a whole day like this one. it feels a lot better, i'm finally dry this morning, the threat unfortunately is not over with just yet.

>> all right, ingra peterson, thank you. let's go to chad myers in the cnn weather center. that's the thing, people need to stay out of the waert. it looks like north carolina at this point lucky to folks there, they're going to have this july 4th weekend. but this thing still heading towards new england. >> it is still going to make a lot of rip current activity all the way from long island down the jersey shore, even down towards the delmarva. so not over for the points to the north. now that the wind is offshore in north carolina, it's much better. not the undertow or the rip currents you saw yesterday, which was really devastating. i know ingra saw the northern eye wall. she got the northern eye wall when she was trying to get up and get going this morning and then got eye right in the middle with no wind and then the back side of the eye wall, and this is what it looked like. here's reed wiseman. this is from the iss. great shot. i know we show you satellite pictures all the time but we don't always show you tweet

pictures from nasa right above the top of the cloud. here's what it looks like right now. i don't see a lot of rain getting back to baltimore and d.c. think you're clear. there could be one more band that still develops back here in the heat of the day, but for the most part, the rain is going to be massachusetts, new hampshire, back down to connecticut and even rhode island with a couple of flood warnings going on there. there should be at least a couple of inches of rain today. and i think we're probably really happy we got all those things done yesterday across the northeast, especially boston, because it's going to be a washout tonight. this storm is still moving away. still 90 miles an hour. soon to die, because the water here is not as warm as the water was down in north carolina. the gulf stream kind of makes a turn off to the east and now this is getting in much cooler water. a hurricane needs warm water to survive and it's lost that. >> and there's still this risk though, i was watching her as she spoke, there's -- did you see the little kid behind her kind of like going into the

waves a little bit, which, you know, just really almost unnerved me. this is still very dangerous for people. >> something else that's happened that people don't really understand, that on wednesday, the beach was nice and flat. now the beach isn't flat anymore. the beach is very tilted. right at the bottom of the ocean, where the shore meets the water you can go down two or three feet just in a couple of feet. where last week it was nice and flat, you could walk out 100 yards and still be flat. all that sand is now gone. it got scoured out last night. you think you're going to walk a couple feet in the ocean and you could be up in your chest and then if you get hit by a wave, it could take you out. it's not over yet certainly and not over at all from virginia northward. it's just starting. >> it's powerful stuff. all right, chad, thank you so much for the warning. still ahead, there are millions of people tha are on the roads this july 4th. they're putting extra stress on the nation's crumbling highways and bridges and federal money for these much needed repairs, it's quickly running out. up next, an illinois college gets a reprieve from providing

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wolf blitzer. the supreme court has given a chicago area college a temporary reprieve from having to cover birth control under obamacare. it's a very complicated case. this follows the high court ruling monday on the issue. the court said the government cannot force certain for-profit companies to provide some forms of birth control. this latest decision from the court is causing quite a divide between the men and the women on the bench. pamela brown, our justice correspondent, is here. this is really -- it's the men on one side and the women on the other. >> the women are really banning together with this latest move by the majority, the conservative justices on the court. in this 15-page dissent by justice sotomayor, she writes about her displeasure with the decision. it wasn't just a disappointing week for the obama administration but also these three justices over this hot-button issue of the contraception mandate. this is of course on the heels of monday's ruling that gave certain fore-profit companies the ability to opt it's of tout

mandate under religious views. now it rules that this certain college is exempt. wheaton college sued the obama administration. that is working its way through lower courts now. thursday's injushnction was a temporary measure. putting the enforcement on hold. justice sotomayor, joined by her colleagues, justices ginsburg and caring kagan, given this blg dissent. creating these administrative restrictions to the mandate and adding unnecessary costs and layers of bureaucracy. she says, it is not the business of this court to ensnare itself in the government's ministerial handling of its affairs in the manner it does here.

brianna, a sign that the fight over this employer mandate is far from over on this politically charged issue. >> there are certain companies and if they want to not provide access to this contraception, they have to provide a waiver. >> in fact, there's about 100 lawsuits in the pipeline right now contesting the contraception mandate, and that's a key point, in a lot of these lawsuits, these companies don't even want to sign the waiver form, they want their hands off of it. it's really interesting, when you look at the sharply worded dissents from ginsburg earlier in the week, sotomayor on this. >> 18 pages, right? >> it's real unusual, to put this in perspective, it's unusual for a justice to write a sharply worded dissent like this in an injunction, a temporary, you know, it's a one-page injunction given the college the ability to not have to do anything while their lawsuit is

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new york. the nathan's hot dog eating challenge. hot dog and romance go hand-in-hand. >> will you marry me? >> picnic food and engagements. he proposed to his longtime girlfriend, his fellow competitor. by the way, chestnut really took over the competition. he consumed 61 hot dogs in ten minutes. it was his eighth straight title. now pass the and actacids and t congr congrats. aaa says the average price is $3.67 a gallon and that is more on any july 4th since 2008 when prices topped $4. it's largely due to fears of a civil war in iraq and its effect on oil production.

despite the high gas prices, aaa says 41 million of you are expected to drive more than 50 miles from home this weekend. that's a 2% increase over last year. >> what many americans don't know is many roads and bridges are in desperate need of repair and it probably won't get better any time soon. rene marsh explains. >> reporter: this summer, millions of americans hitting the road will cross bridges and roadways in dire need of improvement and repairs. getting to your destination likely won't be easy. expect traffic jams because decades old bridges and roads weren't built to handle today's traffic. >> if this congress does not act by the end of the summer, the highway trust fund will run out. >> reporter: dubbed the transportation fiscal cliff, a federal fund used to repair america's crumbling infrastructure is just weeks away from going bankrupt. a potential crisis for commuters. considering the american society

of civil engineers gives u.s. infrastructure a d-plus. and 1 in 9 of the nation's bridges are structurally deficient. look no further than delaware for wahat the impact could look like. an emergency shutdown of the critical bridge. the problem, cracks and leaning support columns. old underground pipes breaking in cities across the country, causing major flooding. the president and transportation secretary anthony fox say failure to fund repairs and improvements will cost americans in more ways than one. >> how many jobses potentially at stake here? >> we're estimating 700,000 jobs at risk. >> reporter: in 2011, commuters wasted 2.9 billion gal bes of gas just sitting in traffic. costing the average consumer more than $800 per year according to one study. the highway trust fund gets revenue from an 18.4 cent per gallon gas tax.

but the tax has not increased to keep up with inflation since 1993. now, the clock is ticking. as congress debates how to prevent the fund from going broke next month. >> we need to be able to get those investments moved into filling gaps, reducing conjunction, lowering travel times. >> improving the ability of the american public to move around and for goods to move around. but that can only happen if congress acts. >> reporter: on tuesday, states all across the country received letters saying prepare for the worst, payments are about to slow down. what lawmakers cannot agree on is how to pay for our infrastructure. the ideas range from raising the gas tax to scaling back saturday mail delivery to offset the cost. rene marsh, cnn, washington. >> thanks, rene. coming up, one city has found a way to save a lot of green by changing the way they take out the trash. but up next, a new poll ranks the current occupant of the white house as the worst

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gehrig delivered an emotional farewell speech at yashnkee stadium. thousands of fans came to honor his legacy and also to encourage him in his battle with a.l.s., which is now known as lou gehrigs disease. president obama still has 2 1/2 years left in his term, but already he's been declared by many, i should say about 33% of folks in a poll, the worst president of the past 70 years. a new poll by the quinnipiac university. of course, they said the same thing about president bush when he was in office. let's bring in the host of cnn's "reliable sources" to talk about this. should you pay a lot of attention to something like this it because attitudes always change really to benefit a president years down the road? >> they sure do. that's why we devoted a whole segment to this on "reliable sources" because there's something misleading about all the headlines we saw this week

that just say obama, worse president. it would be more accurate to say many republicans think he's the worse president since world war ii. i saw a post that said americans vote obama worst press ident in seven years. i put some of the responsibility on the pollsters here, because they know when they put this poll out that it was going to get overexaggerated and manipulating. i got to put a lot of the responsibility on the press. i think this show a couple days ago did a good job. paul came on and said exactly what you did, which is bush was voted the exact same thing six or seven years ago. it really is on the press to make sure they cover these things in a way that puts it into context. >> people feel so strongly at this moment and things tend to fade over time. >> right, i don't think people are going to be talk at their fourth of july barbecues about this. if they want to talk about the heart of what's going or it's political polarization. so one of the things that i think is still kind of

percolating out there is this story about facebook. and i know you'll be devoting time to this. it's a social story by facebook without users being aware of it. people don't know about this. tell us about it and why as people are finding out they're getting so mad. >> yeah. i think what -- the connection between these two stories is the headlines can be so simplistic. you've got to go deeper, especially on this facebook story. the fact of the matter is, facebook is manipulating the news feed all of the time and all sorts of ways. the news i just saw, my news feed a few minutes ago, is based on a complicated algorithm of facebook decisions when they think i'm going to be interested in. are they manipulating people's emotions? you could say they are all of the time. this particular story that came out in the past week happened in 2012. and it was pretty clearly an experiment about people's emotions. maybe is doing in all sorts of ways all of the time. and i think that's kind of what we opt in for when we sign up for facebook. there is really no way to avoid

the experiments that facebook does. once you've signed up for it. >> so what is an example of this? let's say if i log on to facebook and i am looking at my feed, how might something have been manipulated? >> well, you know, they're going to try to pick stories that you're interested in, so you'll spend more time on facebook. i think they might prioritize positive stories, because those are heartwarming. those are a positive. you might stick around and read more of those. people's baby pictures, people's vacation pictures. stuff like that. you might say that's a very good thing for facebook to be doing. because it might lift everybody's spirits to see lots of pictures of those barbecues i mentioned today. but we should be aware when on facebook other social networking sites these feeds are algorithmically chosen and tests are going on all of the time to make the services more valuable to us. after all, the customers of facebook aren't really us. they're advertisers. that's who facebook is trying to please, more than anybody else. >> yeah, and it is interesting, too, in the advertising angle. when you look at positive

stories that's been shown, sometimes you kind of wonder, what about me? maybe -- maybe you want to buy something to fix that feeling. who knows? maybe that's part of the reason. >> absolutely. and advertising has worked that way for a long time. but facebook is so much better at it and so much more power, because they are monopolistic, no other social networking site even close to facebook. i'm glad there has been attention around this, but we should know it's going on all of the time. >> cool. thanks, brian. we'll be checking that out on sunday at 11:00 a.m. eastern, when you can catch reliable sources. thank you. >> thank you. up next, cleaning up the city of tomorrow and how a trash can is saving one city millions of dollars.

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plagued humans since we moved into cities. dealing with it is messy and expensive. america spends approximately $55 billion a year managing waste. but in philadelphia, a trash can is revolutionizing ways to manage it. cutting down on air pollution and potentially saving the city millions in the process. >> the concept was to marry solar technology, some wireless technology and some trash compaction. >> reporter: the big belly solar compacter crushes trash, allowing it to hold five times the amount of garbage. it sends an alert to a website indicating it needs to be emptied. that alert makes a big difference. >> the big belly, we have wire baskets. they were serviced 17 times per week. the installation of the big belly units have allowed us to now only service the big bellies four times a week, which is approximately a $1 million savings for the city of philadelphia. >> reporter: most of the savings has come from cutting the size

of collection crews. >> in philadelphia's case, they took a crew of 33 trash collection staff and reoriented it into approximately nine guys now collecting trash, and the rest of the guys have been working on the recycling effort. >> reporter: a single compacter can operate for an entire year on the energy it takes to drive a trash truck one mile. the city she would out a total of $4.7 million for the smart trash cans. >> when you're talking about spending 35 to $3900 on a receptacle, when you see the savings and reductions of crew cost, it will pay for itself win five years. >> reporter: major cities from new york to london are also using these smart trash cans. but the philly experiment is the largest. trash will always be part of our lives. but with smart technology, it doesn't have to be a total waste. >> it's july 4th so you'll be hearing the national anthem today and it is a tough song.

we know that. not everyone nails it, right? but we met a man who makes it his business to help people hit the high note. ♪ >> reporter: it's a song that can soar. or sink. ♪ >> reporter: enter michael dean. on a mission to save singers' egos and our ears. >> the worst part is that those performances are bad for everyone. they're bad for the singer and that are horrendous for the listeners. >> reporter: call it the how not to butcher the national anthem class. scores of pop stars, a list so exclusive it's kept secret, have come to him to prep for their national anthem performances and avoid humiliation by learning not only the technique of the song, but its meaning. the song has its hazards. a sprawling vocal range of an octave and a half, setting up

this crucial moment that, well -- ♪ >> reporter: usually crashes and burns. and the tricky lyrics written not in normal speech patterns, but in poetry. ♪ oh say can you see ♪ by the stars lining right >> and the rockets red glare. >> oh the ram parts we watched. >> reporter: dean says so many people forget the words because they don't understand them. ♪ so gallantly streaming >> if it's it's just a lot of nonsense words, the audience will receive it as nonsense words. so studying why this piece was originally written is very important for the singer to do. >> reporter: sadly, it seems these days the anticipation of a bad anthem is now the norm. >> a lot of people have told me when they listen to the national

anthem, and it goes reasonably well, the only feeling they feel is relief. they don't actually feel moved or changed or inspired. they're just relieved that it wasn't awful. >> reporter: cringe-worthy moments dean is working one note at a time to avoid. cnn, washington county. and "newsroom"with brooke baldwin starts right now. . brianna, thank you. great to be with you on this 4th of july. i'm brooke baldwin. thanks for being with me. we have to begin with this just bombshell after bombshell, really a blitzkrieg of bombshells against this father in georgia, justin ross harris. he is the father charged with murder, felony murder, after leaving his son in this hot car. and you saw this hearing unfold right around this time yesterday. it was his probablese