good morning, america. it's our second hour. holiday headache. airlines bracing for turbulence, canceling flights. could this be the busiest weekend for air travel? this as a record number of americans are expected to hit the roads. what to know before you head out the door. the cultural cost of war. over four months since the russian invasion, more than 150 ukrainian sites badly damaged. half of them religious buildings. the plans for rebuilding what's lost and protecting what's left. ♪ also this morning, kate and charlie gibson. their interview with the history making librarian of congress.

>> do you still get goosebumps when you walk in here? >> yes, every time. >> "gma" giving you a rare look at america's national treasures. ♪ what's wrong with being confident ♪ >> are you crying? >> play ball. >> there's no crying in baseball. >> "a league of their own" turning 30. >> i made it. i can stay. >> celebrating the all-star comedy and the real women who saved america's pastime. ♪ i'm gonna soak up the sun ♪ fire up your fourth of july weekend taking a bite from coast to coast. e foodies. and, ahoy, the disney "wish" making port. "gma's" magical week aboard the brand-new cruise ship as we say -- >> good morning, america. ♪ every time i feel lame i'm looking up ♪ good morning, america. on this fourth of july weekend as millions take to the skies and the roads over the holiday,

it has already been a bumpy ride for thousands of air travelers as airlines struggle with weather and high demand. >> it sure has. this morning thousands of delayed flights, hundreds of canceled flights. it's all caused travel case cross for many hoping to get away for the long weekend. >> now the tsa just announcing a record, nearly 2.5 million people screened friday, the largest number since the pandemic. abc's mola lenghi is at jfk airport in new york with the latest. good morning again, mola. >> reporter: hey, good morning, guys. if you're traveling -- anyone out there traveling by air this holiday weekend, just a little bit of advice, hope for the best, prepare for the worst as tens of thousands of passengers have already realized just this morning, hundreds of flight cancellations, thousands more delays and potentially all made worse by the continuing threat of severe weather. this morning, holiday air travel in full swing. airlines canceling more than 400 flights nationwide this morning.

that's after canceling nearly 600 flights and delaying almost 7,600 on friday. >> hope they are on time. no cancellations. >> reporter: one traveler in atlanta taking this video during a delay of more than seven hours, long lines and crowded terminals seen here in san francisco, orlando and seattle. >> rescheduled for 4:30 to get in at midnight so we have a long day at the airport. >> reporter: making matters worse, thunderstorms forcing ground stops at airports nationwide friday, and more interruptions could happen today. >> we've seen the chaos recently.ec eted it. >> reporter: the airline industry reeling from covid-related staffing shortages struggling to keep pace with the surging number of travelers. this week united airlines cut 50 daily flights from newark international airport. >> it's frustrating. and here's what's happening, demand has come roaring back sooner than expected. >> reporter: transportation secretary pete buttigieg talking with airlines to make sure they can reliably operate their summer schedules. >> since memorial day, we've

really pressed them to stress test their schedules and make sure that their flights that they can support at their current staffing levels. that's one of the measures we're hoping will make a difference. we expect airlines to live up to their end of the bargain. >> reporter: in a sign of soaring air travel demand, the tsa screened nearly 2.5 million people friday, the highest number since the pandemic. well, in addition to flying at prepandemic rates, it looks like people will be driving at rates we haven't seen, levels we haven't seen since about 2000. aaa expects 42 million people to hit the road this holiday weekend. that is despite, of course, the national average for a gallon of gasoline hovering around record levels, currently sitting at about $4.84 a gallon. aaa recommends if you are driving today, if you are planning on hitting the road, leave before noon or after 7:00 p.m. to give yourself the best shot. janai? >> all right. mola, thanks so much. this morning we want to send a

warm "gma" welcome to you. this is your first time on the show with us. it's tough working a holiday weekend, we know, but we are so thrilled to have you here with us. >> reporter: thanks, guys. i appreciate the warm welcome. this is how pumped i am to be a part of the abc news team. i was actually excited about waking up at 5:00 a.m. on a saturday on a holiday weekend just to be out here for this story. so that's how you know it's real. >> you have to say that on your first day, by the way. i know. we are thrilled to have you on the team. welcome aboard. all right. well, still coming up here in our "gma morning menu," the cultural cost of the war in ukraine. what the country has lost over the past four months and what's being done now to preserve what's left. also ahead here, adele making her return to the uk stage for the first time in five years. details from her much hyped hyde park performance. and later, feeding frenzy. what to know about the booming organic baby food industry. we'll be right back. back.

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oh, sorry. [ laughter ] >> she's like, yeah, yes. >> i pulled something in my back playing pickleball earlier this week. so it's feeling weird to sit down like this. welcome back to "gma." this is what getting old is like. >> we're live right now. kate and charlie gibson got a rare look inside the 834 miles of shelves at the library of congress. that's coming up. this is my second time like crying/laughing this morning because of these two. >> it's a holiday saturday. sometimes you got to let it out. yeah. yes, okay, we're going to get back on the rails and now to our cover story and the cultural cost of the war in ukraine taking an inside look at the destruction of a nation's art and architecture and the hopes to protect and rebuild. tom soufi burridge has that story. good morning again, to you, tom. >> reporter: good morning, janai. this church was probably hit by a missile. look up there. you can see where it flew in.

and look at the devastation it's caused inside the building. there's barely anything left. this church survived the second world war, but it's been wrecked by putin's invasion of ukraine. this morning, a breathtaking view down onto russia's senseless destruction of ukrainian treasures. putin's war leaving a gaping hole in the roof of this village church. more than 100 years of history here, part of the building now reduced to rubble. that video shot by a drone used to create this stunning 3d fly-through of the same badly damaged church documenting a possible war crime. and at another important cultural site, the same drone, architect sergei the pilot. >> it's all burned out. >> do you feel like you're losing a bit of your culture in this war? >> yeah, for sure. it's really devastating. >> reporter: sergei creating a

3d model of this building too hoping his visual maps will help reconstruct these buildings one day. this was a soviet-era building. it's hard to imagine a performance on stage with the audience packed in. unesco saying around 150 cultural sites have been hit across ukraine. ukrainian officials documenting it all. >> this is all being hidden. >> reporter: the war forcing art collector stella to move hundreds of valuable ukrainian art works into safe storage. more art in here. what are you protecting this art from? >> from war. from russian terror. if you will see all around our apartment, this is the art of ukraine. in ukraine we have a huge and very deep culture. that's why they destroyed culture because with culture the people can be human beings. >> reporter: and ukraine's food culture getting a boost. the art of making this national

dish borsch getting special protected status from the u.n. body unesco. >> we have the war, and we have front line where the soldiers are fighting for ukrainian independence, for ukrainian identity and this borsch is one of the biggest of ukraine identity. it's not just a dish. >> reporter: here at this restaurant served inside a cabbage. mm-mm. lovely and smoky. garnishes, special bread called pampoohka. enjoying a meal in ukraine is called -- [speaking foreign language] any victory means so much to the people in ukraine right now. and even amid all of the destruction inside this church, this morning, there are signs of hope. a large group of volunteers pitching up this morning to try and clear up some of the damage all around here. janai? >> signs of hope and, tom, just love that idea of rebuilding what's lost and protecting

what's left. all right. now over to whit. janai, now to firing up your fourth of july with a tour across america to the top destinations for foodies, and here to guide us through it is yelp trend expert tara lewis. tara, always great to see you. good morning to you. >> good to see you. >> so how did you end up picking the stops on the tour here? >> well, to determine this year's list of top foodie cities yelp took a look at the highest rated restaurants in different cities and basically used the reviews from out of towners to determine which cities would be the best destinations and limited the list to populations of 250,000 people or less to determine this year's top picks. >> so first we start out, we're going all the way to maui, an 11-hour flight, but it's worth it. riot? so for the foodies when they get there, what's the restaurant you recommend? >> our first destination is to the hawaiian islands and if you are planning a trip to the aloha state we definitely recommend you be on the lookout for dishes that incorporate kahlua pork, coconut shrimp or

mahi-mahi. in maui they're loving the fish tacos at down the hatch and another location they're loving the coconut shrimp at lava lava beach club. >> excellent. okay, i've been to maui. my in-laws are on oahu. so aloha to all my family out there. all good recommendations. let's bring it all the way back to the east coast. we're going to the outer banks now. what do you recommend there? >> yes, we're heading to a popular east coast vacation destination, kill hill, north carolina, kill devil hills, north carolina. well known for their beaches but also has a booming food scene especially for seafood lovers. if you're going to make the trip there, definitely check out seafood with a caribbean inspired flair like the jerk shrimp or the conch fritters at tortuga's lie. >> excellent. let's go inland now. boise, idaho, people don't realize there's a growing food scene over there. >> that's correct. boise is slowly becoming a culinary mecca. it has an array of james beard award nominated chefs and

lots of very innovative food concepts that are emerging, but visitors know boise for their fry sauce, which is a mixture between mayonnaise, ketchup and spices. a lot of restaurants like smoke and thyme right here make their own fry sauce in-house to enjoy a lot of flavor. >> love the fry sauce. for this next one we're going to my home state, california. san luis obispo, california, many call it slow cal down there but told the food scene is hopping. >> we're bringing it on home with our final destination to the central coast to san luis obispo. and yelpers are visiting and are really enjoying the bread bowls at mo's smoke house or at old slow barbecue. >> i'm looking at the pictures now, looking and liking it. thank you so much. we appreciate it. >> eva, over to you. >> thanks, whit. now to disney's "wish," the brand-new ship in disney's fleet has made port after her maiden voyage, and ike ejiochi has been sailing the high seas all week for "gma."

i've been dying to say this, ahoy, ike. >> reporter: ahoy, eva. yeah, that's right. we just docked right back here at port canaveral after a three-night trip aboard the disney "wish," a ship full of innovation and industry firsts. this morning, the disney "wish," disney cruise line's newest and biggest vessel returning from its christening voyage to the bahamas. this massive 1,100-foot cruise ship can hold up to 4,000 passengers. housed inside, over 1,200 staterooms. >> to go from this basic idea to the concept and see all the imagineers hard at work for all these years, and now to see it actually borne in front of our eyes getting ready for our first guest is a moment i won't forget. >> reporter: disney's ceo bob chapek says he's been involved in the development of the disney "wish" since 2015.

biggest franchises in disney like marvel, "star wars," and even a special "frozen" themed dinner. >> whoo-hoo. i am oaken and welcome to arendelle. are you here for the engagement party of queen anna and christof hosted by my very own party, party planning? follow me. >> reporter: one first, this four-bedroom tower suite allowing guests to enjoy their stay inside a ship's funnel. >> i had fun with my family. >> reporter: the voyage wouldn't have been complete without our ultimate cruise contest winners. these kids were fully entertained enjoying activities like the first ever attraction at sea, a "star wars" cargo bay filled with unearthly creatures, even the hero zone and the incrediblencredi-ges whwith a stop at castaway key,

island just for cruisers only. >> this is for disney cruise line guests only getting off this magnificent ship here, i mean, it is a paradise. >> reporter: and to top everything off, a fireworks show at sea. how about that? huh? those fireworks really lit up the night. now, after we leave the ship this morning, the crew on board are working to get her ready for her maiden voyage with vacation passengers returning to the high seas on july 14th. eva? >> ike, i'm going to jump in real quick because ike and i were talking over email. because i was supposed to go on the cruise. had a sick kid and, ike, you got the opportunity of a lifetime. was it everything you imagined it would be? >> i mean, it succeeded. it really surpasseev thought it was goi t you know, it really is geared towards kids, but there's so much for parents and adults to do on this thing, and i'm not going to lie to you. janai, i think i owe you a really big christmas gift for allowing me to come. know you're getting something in

the mail. >> amazing. i am glad you had a great time. >> first cruise ship ever. >> so awesome. >> looks like he had a lot of fun. let's get a check of the weather now with sam champion standing by in miami. hey, sam. >> hey. so the surprise tropical storm that is in the carolinas may be the headline of the day. even the national hurricane center didn't forecast this for yesterday. today it came out as a tropical storm as of about 5:00 this morning, so it developed as you slept. in savannah, right over savannah. so the tropical storm warnings go from myrtle beach all the way to nags head. this will be a wet and rainy and windy time along the coast. the good news most of the tough weather of the storm will stay offshore but there's still very heavy rain, and as you get into the carolinas, this heavy rain could cause some flooding here. we're expecting up to six inches of rain with what could be 30, abe even 40-mile-per-hour wind gusts with the storm. need to get you warned in on storms that will happen in the northeast and the mid-atlantic today. from washington, d.c., all the way throug

time for "pop news" and time for "pop news," and megan ryte is in bringing us the latest. >> good morning. we begin this morning with adele bringing down the house at her first hyde park performance in london. the singer opening up the show with "hello" for the 65,000 fans in attendance. now, this is adele's first public concert anywhere in five years, and she did not disappoint.

the singer telling the crowd, quote, i'm so happy to be here. adele also surprising fans by bringing the show to a halt when an audience member was in need of assistance. ♪ this is the end ♪ >> stop, stop, stop. security. i need security's help right in the middle there. can you see where they're all waving? can you see over there? can you get in there? >> a class act there. and while she didn't address her delayed vegas residency directly, she said, i know a lot of things have happened with this album. i know a lot of you feel let down, and i'm mortified. here's hoping we hear news on that soon. so i have to say that i was going gshow? >> i did. that's my story, and i'm sticking to it. now call it the summer of comeback for cameron diaz. the actress announcing she's coming out of her self-imposed retirement and will return to the big screen alongside jamie

foxx in a comedy aptly named "back in action." >> wow. >> and to help cameron out, jamie connected her with a friend who has a little experience coming out of retirement. >> i don't know how to do this. you know? >> i understand. listen, i got somebody on the line that can help you with this. >> is this tom brady? >> i was talking to jamie. he said, you needed tips on how to unretire. i'm relatively successful at unretiring. >> honestly, exactly what i needed. i feel excited. but i don't know how to do this. >> production on "back in action" is set to start later this year. i love her, and i'm excited about it. yes. ken con isving he ill has the the actor posting this video with his wife kyra sedgwick taking on the latest tiktok dance trend. kevin writing in the

figured we'd give it a spin. and while they may have killed that take, the dance didn't exactly go off without a hitch. kevin posting a follow-up photo of kyra icing her wrist writing, the aftermath of nailing a tiktok dance. see, that's why i don't tiktok. >> i don't know if they nailed that. >> did he drop her? what happened? how did that happen? >> let me investigate and i'll get back to you. >> he was a little wobbly in the knee but he got it done. all right. coming up -- thank you so much, megan. >> you're welcome. coming up, batter up. celebrating the 30th anniversary of "a league of their own" and the history behind the film. we'll be right back. ♪ they got the beat ♪ >> announcer: how do you celebrate ju well, how about waking up with chris. >> good morning, america. >> announcer: and hayden and vivica plus the two new bachelorettes dish and dogs, a new breed announced live on "gma" by the akc. what will it be? "gma" next week.

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well, hey, good morning, america. it's me, rosie o'donnell. so happy to be here on the 30th anniversary of "a league of their own's" release. i can't believe it was 30 years ago, it's half my lifetime. i had the privilege of working with penny marshall, tom hanks, geena davis, madonna. it was a time i will never ever forget, and people still love it. they stop me all the time and say, rosie, did dottie drop that ball on purpose? happy anniversary, "a league of their own." ♪ we are the champions ♪ welcome back to "gma" and the one and only rosie o'donnell who played doris in "a league of their own." the all-star comedy celebrating its 30th anniversary. >> i just love this movie. three decades on and there's still no crying in baseball.

no crying in baseball as an all new series based on the penny marshall masterpiece now gets ready to run the bases later this summer. >> all inspired by the real-life all-american girls professional baseball league including mabel glare who at the age of 95 is still breaking barriers coming out after nearly eight decades. >> and joining us now from the baseball hall of fame in cooperstown, new york, is curator john odell here to tell us all about the movie and the league's lasting legacy. thanks so much for being with us this morning. >> hey, my pleasure to be here. thanks for coming. >> so this movie is a work of fiction, but it is rooted in the truth. so what is the real story behind how this league got started? >> right, so during world war ii philip wrigley, the owner of the cubs, feared that baseball might be shut down because of the incredible demand on the need for men to go fighting, and one

of the solutions that he came up women's league that could sort of fill the void of -- for baseball when all the men were gone. of course, it turned out that didn't happen, but nevertheless, the women's league got started, the all-american girls professional baseball league as we call it today, and it lasted from 1943 to 1954, so that's 12 seasons. it was an amazing success and really something that people look back to, especially because of the movie, as a real high point in women's participation in baseball. >> and, john, tell us more about some of the true stories mixed into this. were they really recruiting women from farms? did the players actually have to go through etiquette classes? >> yes, those parts of the movie are actually true. they were recruiting women from farms. they went to -- there was a lot of women's softball that was being played in the midwest, and

philip wrigley was especially focused there. but they also had ads in newspapers telling women who might be interested in playing professional ball to contact this league, and then they called them all to chicago where they had these massive try-outs. and all of those elements are shown in the movie, and those are actually true. >> that is so cool, and so you're sitting there right now in the diamond dreams exhibit. is it true that there may not have been "a league of their own" without it? >> well, the movie and the exhibit have a really wonderful relationship with one another. we created the exhibit back in 1988. the senior curator at the time, ted spencer, heard about this story and realized that this demonstrated that women had real ownership in the game, and so nobody had ever treated the story of women in baseball with any kind of seriousness or sensitivity, and that's one of the things that we decided we wanted to do.

so in 1988 created the movie -- i'm sorry -- created the exhioua at the samea thinking about doing this movie. she also had heard about these women during world war ii playing baseball, and so she came to our exhibit opening in 1988 and from that gathered a lot of the emotion that you see in that movie and, if you remember, the movie is actually book ended by scenes about cooperstown. the entire movie is a flashback for dottie as she comes to cooperstown, and the end of the movie shows an exhibit, it wasn't the exact exhibit that we ultimately had here at cooperstown but shows the women coming to the exhibit. the emotions that they show in the movie are authentic from 1988. that is, the women were really extraordinarily passionate about getting back together again for the first time in decades after having been ignored for so long.

>> well, john, the movie is beloved, and the history and the legacy of the league, just so fascinating. thank you so much for joining us this morning and bringing us those inside details of the story. we appreciate it. >> my pleasure. >> all right. coming up here on "gma," a look inside the library of congress. we'll be right back. ♪ the greatest, the greatest ♪ ♪ the greatest, the greatest ♪ the minions are coming to ihop. with an all new menu you're going to love. ahhh! ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ excuse me! uh, sir, we just cleaned e ndows. enjoy the minions menu at ihop. for a limited time kids eat free! and catch minions: the rise of gru. only in theaters. ["only wanna be with you" by hootie & the blowfish]

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of c >> as a libraria okay, and they'rpaying me. [ laug >> reporter: it is the largest library in the world. it has 834 miles of shelving and >> reporter: but deep in its inner sanctum are precious pieces of history that few ever get to see. >> this is really one of my favorite places because -- >> because preserving this is critical to history. >> reporter: dr. hayden and her highly skilled conservation team showed us two of their most prized national treasures. >> we call this pinch me moments. >> yes. >> reporter: abraham lincoln's original documents, including his handwritten gettysburg address. dr. michelle krowl is the library's lincoln expert. >> it's on stationary in pen

then we think what happened, he took it to gettysburg with him, went on a tour of the battlefield and decided to change the ending and had a different piece of paper available, a pencil and then had to make an awkward bridge between the two down at the bottom. >> the nation shall have a new birth of freedom, a government of the people by the people for the people shall not perish from the earth, in pencil. >> reporter: and lincoln's typeset copy of his second inaugural address. >> essentially you can see lincoln made a script for himself. he's literally cut and pasted these sections probably to paste them to know where to stop for emphasis, and the ones that i love the most is down here because it's so deliberate. both parties deprecated war but one of them would make war rather than let the nation survive and the other would accept war rather than let it perish. >> all: and the war came. >> reporter: the library is digitizing documents like these so everyone can see them, but

the originals, well, the documents are so delicate they can only be exposed to light for brief moments. >> am i looking -- are these dark spots the adhesive? >> they are, and so he would have glued them. >> it is interesting, this paper obviously has been marred in some way, and how you would preserve something simply with pencil on a piece of this, no small task. >> that's why we're very fortunate that we have the experts in our preservation and conservation divisions who can give these materials that extra special treatment because of their increased iconic status. >> they're history detectives. >> that's incredible. >> something about charlie gibson reading an original draft of the gettysburg address, so cool. a great podcast. "the book case" with charlie and kate gibson is out. use the qr code to find their latest episode or you can download it for free wherever you listen to your podcasts. new episodes drop every thursday.

all right, time for a check of the weather. once again sam champion is out there for us, and it is a busy weekend in many places. >> it is, whit. you're right about that, and you're right about charlie. after working with him for years and years and years, he's the best guy ever. let's get you going on the tropical storm on the carolina coastline. this was a surprise overnight, and there's no way to say it wasn't because last night we were watching these storms develop off the coast right there in north carolina. this kind of from the myrtle beach area. look at the waterspout there, and then this thing moved onshore right around savannah, became a tropical storm. now it's throwing all this rain and wind up the carolina coastline. this goes all the way to nags head with rain that could be 6 inches of rain, maybe 30, 40-mile-per-hourh os pas care that's the weather arod yocact i

well, now to a booming baby food industry. parents of toddlers concerned about metals in food turning to organic options. take a look. mounting concerns in the baby food industry, parents taking notice. this coming after two critical congressional reports released in 2021 indicating heavy metals are appearing in many popular baby foods. the foods containing potentially dangerous levels of arsenic, lead, cadmium and mercury. >> heavy metals in baby food at a very high concentration can be unsafe for those little developing brains. but parents need to be realistic and realize that heavy metals ae all around us. we can limit how much our babies intake. >> reporter: several brands have already issued recalls of those potentially dangerous products and federal regulators are stepping in to ensure heavy metals don't exceed dangerous levels in baby food across the industry.

but one company is trying to goo tals in baby finheavy >> i started doing what most moms do, which is, you know, try to figure out how to feed my baby. >> reporter: what started off as a friendship between angela and evelyn grew to an entrepreneurship with one mission, changing the baby food industry. >> we really saw this as an opportunity to create a movement, to do more than just make food, but to really spark and inspire parents to create a healthier generation. >> reporter: yumi launched in 2017 producing organic baby food making sure their products ease that fear from parents about what they put into their baby's mouths. >> we thought that if you could create something that was certified clean, that had, you know, everything that you needed to know, you didn't have to do more research, you could trust in the brand and trust in that system to be healthier for your kid.

>> reporter: and dr. patel reminding parents on what to look for when choosing food products for your little one. >> choose a rice-free snack. instead of fruit juice, which no young kid should be having, sweet potatoes could be high in heavy metals so make sure you offer a variety of fruits and vegetables, especially dark leafy green ones. instead of teething biscuits offer a frozen banana. all these small choices can make a difference in the long run. >> and you know as parents, there's no rule book or manual that tells you whator shheaby food.many p yeah, inow l home. that's what a lot of people end up resorting to. it's cool for these two. it became a company for so many people to benefit. >> to make it easier for people. >> yeah. well, coming up, holiday homework. the biggest blockbusters to catch up on over the long weekend. we'll be right back. ♪ super bass ♪ ♪ super bass ♪

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welcome back to "gma." it's time for welcome back to "gma." it's time for -- [ air horn ] >> there it is. "binge this," and this long weekend we are hitting rewind on some of the biggest blockbusters you may have missed this summer. did you like that? >> d.j. khaled's in the house. another one. >> here with your holiday homework is "people" executive editor jeremy helligar. jeremy, it is so great to have you here. let's take the highway straight into the danger zone. what do you recommend first? >> of course, that's a reference to "top gun: maverick," which has shaped up to be the second movie of the year to cross the billion dollar mark. obviously the movie of the summer. here's a sequel that comes 36 years after the original, and it's tom cruise's biggest hit, and it's his most critically acclaimed movie ever. i mean, this is a movie that has wowed audiences, and it's wowed critics. so it's definitely a movie to see. >> the success of this movie is hard to do with any movie but especially a sequel. >> thion several

years ago. and it was delayed because of covid. so there was a lot of talk about how would it do once it came out because movies haven't really been performing well in the cinemas, but this movie has been a massive, massive hit. >> clearly people wanted to go back to the popcorn and cinema and the movies. another movie has audiences all shook up. i should have done the hips. [ laughter ] tell us about it. >> "elvis," which is the first movie to actually challenge "top gun" over the summer. now, this is a movie that's directed by baz luhrmann who did "romeo and juliet" and "moulin rouge." sewn so you know that it's going to be a spectacle. but the thing about this movie, it's as much about elvis as it is about colonel tom parker, who is played by tom hanks and the musical sequences are incredible because you have a

mix of the old music, and you have rap and modern sounds mixed in. so it's really a unique way of approaching a biopic. it's just an incredible movie. >> excellent. can't wait to check it out. all right. we're going to make the transition from the king to drag queens. what are we watching on the small screen? >> "rupaul's drag race all stars," the seventh season. and, of course, you know the drag is going to be great because these are all previous winners, but the thing that i love about this season are the guest judges and guest appearances. you have cameron diaz, naomi campbell, ronan farrow, vanna white, and this past week i watched an episode with speaker of the house nancy pelosi. >> really? >> just making this random appearance on rupaul's "drag race." so it's really an exciting season. >> a lot to tune in to this weekend. jeremy, thank you so much. you can pick up this week's issue of "people" on newsstands nationwide now and we'll be right back.

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"world news." see you back here tomorrow. >> abc 7 mornings. liz: starting off the weekend, the average gas prices in the major cities are down this last week. san francisco is at $6.35, $.11 lower. oakland down about $.12 to $6.32.

san jose is the least expensive gas now at $6.27. that's $.11 less than it was last week. happening today, the california department of fish and wildlife is offering free fishing. for today, july 2, anyone can fish without a fishing license. it's a great low-cost opportunity to give fishing a try if you knew to the sport. all regulations, fishing hours and stream closures do remain in effect this free fishing period. the next free day is september 3. let's get a check the forecast. lisa: a classic july 4 in the bay area. good deck of low clouds or temperatures are 63 degrees at marin county atop mount tam. 60 at san jose. a picture of our exploratorium camera with the streets have been where the streets have been wet. we are breezy this morning.

you can see the winds out towards the delta. that will keep going throughout the afternoon. with temperatures anywhere from 3 to 12 to 13 degrees below average, that keeps us mainly in the 60's and 70's today with winds over 25 miles per hour. a cool day. we will talk a cooler sunday. a slightly warmer holiday with all the details to come. liz: up next, the threat of fireworks danger in key cities across the bay area. how firefighters are responding. plus, are you about to hit the road for the fourth of july? a live look at the main highways to see how bad the traffic is or isn't. abc 7 news

announcer: building a better bay area, moving forward, finding solutions, this is abc 7 news. >> it is infuriating and it is sad. reggie: the fourth of july is supposed to be a fundraiser but instead it is fizzling their fireworks good morning. stolen by thieves. good morning. i'm liz kreutz. thanks for joining us. let's talk about the fourth of july holiday weekend and the weather. let's get over to meteorologist lisa argen. lisa: classic in the city with the mist and drizzle. we are brightening into the east bay around concord and clayton.

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