state, alabama a&m in tuskegee. the other part of that was i was going to take advantage of some money they would give us in order to go out of state to take those courses to keep us from going to the white schools. but i was going to become a lawyer, and this is the part i didn't tell them about. i told people i wanted to be a lawyer, but i didn't tell them what kind. i was going to finish law school, take the alabama bar exam, pass the bar exam, become a lawyer and destroy everything segregated i could find. that was my commitment as a youngster, an upper teenager in the cradle of the confederacy. my introduction of becoming a lawyer, and now i've been one for over 65 years. >> that's an extraordinary story, and obviously just the beginning of some of things we want to dig into today. you're in that law school, i think some of your fellow alumni are on this. you want to give a shout to your law school, where you attended? >> oh, yes. i attended what was then western reserve university in cleveland. it is now [inau

mobile, alabama then was the closest port city to selma, alabama, a port city back then meant bananas. bananas would come in via the port and end up wherever. bananas ended up throughout the united states. sam quickly learned that bananas have an inherent banana problem. what is the problem with bananas. they they rot right? they ripen too fast. they turn brown, they turn sticky. they turn to goo. right. gross and according to law, samson murray began picking up loose brown to ripe bananas along the docks of mobile, alabama, tossed off bananas, bananas that were worthless to the main purveyor, the main shippers of bananas into this pour into the port of mobile. he began picking up, collecting these bananas probably eating a few of them himself. and he sold them for cheaper then the market's yellow bananas, the fresh bananas. by the age of 21, samson, murray was specializing in the overripe banana trade. he had 100 grand, $100,000 in his bank account, or around $3.5 million today from selling overripe brown bananas. in 1903. he joined forces with the united fruit company, the united fr

its current name is pluto in alabama. its new name was chosen because of the birmingham mobil railway . it is now part of the southern rail network that passes through the middle of the city. but it still retains its african identity. according to these things i knew once again to search for the old house of a man named. i wonder how a person who has such memories under his pillow can sleep. this film was recorded in 1928 by a young writer and cultural scholar named rosanille, who is considered the first black woman filmmaker. can he worked in the whole area of ​​deep sauce and recorded the adventures of black people's dances and arts. he usually memorized the songs he came across and by voice. he reads them himself. he met kojo several times and carefully recounted his memories in his own dialect. he took the handwritten version of the stories that he had narrated in a book titled detention center. it was recorded that this book was supposed to be published in 1931, but it was shelved until it was published in 2018. well

its current name is plateau in alabama . they chose its new name because of the birmingham mobil railroad. now it is part of the southern rail network that passes through the middle of the city, but it still has its african identity. he has preserved according to these things that he knew. i am once again looking for the old house of a man named kojo . how can a person who has such memories under his pillow sleep? this film was recorded in 1928 by a young writer and cultural scholar named rosanil herdson. that first filmmaker

i live in alabama, my husband and i are raising our girls in alabama. i spent everyday of this campaign talking to voters. whether republican or democrats, they are realizing that the policies of the biden-harris figures administration have failed up. they have wrecked our economy, flung open our borders, made our communities less safe. this district does not want a far left progressive washington insider to maintain status quo. they want a tireless advocate will who fight to make their communities safer and more prosperous and i'm the candidate to do that. path to maintaining republican control runs through alabama's second congressional district. >> todd: your lace is one of the top 10 to watch because it is in newly drawn swing district. unclear how it will go. does kamala harris at the top help or hurt your opponent? final thoughts? >> i think kamala at the top of the ticket with far left progressive policy, being source of problem of where we are now and my opponent be ing part of that administration. he was a deputy to merrick garland and part of

i was actually stationed in alabama many times throughout my 23 years of military service.e time back then, but infertility would become one of the most heartbreaking struggles of my life and my miscarriage more painful than any wound i earned on the battlefield. so excuse me if i find it offensive when a bunch of politicians who never spent a day in medical school hint that those of us who needed the help of ivf to be moms should be behind bars rather than putting our babies to sleep in rocking chairs. >> this year parties have added new language to the platform indicating a stance against common ivf procedures. the republican party of ida will -- idaho says it opposes destruction of embryos and meanwhile a prominent antiabortion group students for life of america is pushing for increased regulation of ivf and currently working to create a legal rationale for fetal personhood and some forthcoming bills in congress and state legislatures. and now ivf like abortion is widely supported and sought out by tens of thousands of people each year and according to a pew research cen

as they remain uncertain about whether states will follow of alabama's lead.service back and i didn't know it at the time, back then, but infertility would become one of the most heartbreaking struggles of my life. my miscarriage, more painful than any wound i ever earned on the battlefield. so excuse me if i find it a bit offensive what a bunch of politicians who have never spent a day in med school hints that those of us who need the help of ivf to become mom should be sitting behind bars rather than lowing our babies to sleep in rocking chairs. >> >> indicating a stance against common procedures. republican party now says it opposes the destruction of human embryos. the north carolina gop already has a similar line in this platform. meanwhile, a prominent antiabortion -- students for life in america is pushing for increased regulation. it's currently working to create a rationale for fetal personhood in some forthcoming abortion -related bills, both in congress and in state legislatures. now, like abortion, it's widely supported and sought out by tens of th

tennessee, georgia, north carolina, mississippi, alabama. the south is not going to rise again, but i believe it can rise anew. we can build a new south that is multigenerational, rigid and economic justice, women's rights, lgbtq rights, that is the south we are fighting for here in tennessee. >> and the crowd would've gone wild, as i am. that would've been amazing. i'm grateful that you took the time to share that with our viewers tuning in. it was your first convention, representative. for all of us were watching at home, tell us how it was to be a part of this historic moment all week. >> yeah, it was my first convention, and as i walked on the convention store, it was a sacred space. i was thinking about shirley chisholm, 1972. thinking about jesse jackson, 1988. all those who led to this moment. and if ely excitement, i saw clips of the republican convention and it was so sad to see how much less energy that was. having michelle obama, who lifted up this new call, when they go low, we fight back. that is the new energy we fell from her

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it's not just happening in alabama.uisiana, ohio, virginia, officials trying the same thing. tell us more about your reporting? >> so many states have different processes, but what we saw in alabama was a particularly good example of it where essentially the secretary of state said since he didn't have a list of noncitizens in his state, he was going to flag every one with a noncitizen identification number, which as you said, everyone who is naturalized had that. it was part of the process to become naturalized. >> presumably it also says you are going through the proper process. just to have that number. >> and legal noncitizen, you know what i mean. this is the legal process that has to go through to naturalize and become a citizen. between a thousand and 4,000 people in alabama become naturalized. this is a routine process that doesn't make sense, it doesn't have correct data to apply to your voter rolls, and it adds extra burdens and violates federal law because it could be discriminatory, by making them show their

kills me to hear lynyrd skynyrd playing sweet home alabama. that's okay alabama gets its say. me now marc thiessen former speech writer to george w. bush. we had hidin' biden. >> yep >> laura: now we have duck and cover kamala. hyden and sliden biden and duck and cover kamala. she will try to get through this election cycle without giving a major interview through-to-a real journalist. >> oh, 100 percent. she is rising in the polls right now, it's a sugar high, because all it is that she is not an oxygen narn who has dementia. that's why people are excited about her. she is the least examined major party nominee probably in american history. she didn't make it through the primary, she didn't make it to iowa the first time around. she didn't go through a primary this time around which means she didn't have a debate where democrats attacked her record. she haunt done a single town hall tan questions have frorts. not a major interview and press conference. only going to do one debate. we all know one debate can ruin a presidential campaign. there great opportunity there for donal

it's friday night, its's alabama. >> keith urban held a free pop-up concert in a convenience store parking lot in alabama friday. the country star telling the crowd he was at the buc-ee's in athens about 100 miles from nashville last month when the idea came to him. hundreds of fans flocked to the show after being given just a few hours notice. >>> mike tyson and jake paul are back to promoting their big fight. the 58-year-old boxing champ and the 27-year-old youtuber-turned-fighter held a news conference in new york city yesterday. tyson telling reporters he's prepared to -- and ready to go after a health scare sidelined him in may. the fight which was originally scheduled for july will now take place in november. >>> caitlin clark breaking a rookie record as she helped the indiana fever to defeat the storm. clark scoring 23 and adding nine assists. that gives her the wnba rookie assist record with a total of 232 so far this season. the old record was 224. >>> coming up on "cbs mornings," tony dokoupil is in chicago

in february alabama supreme court ruled embryos created by ivf should be considered people.n interview friday jd vance defended mr. trump's pledge. >> is a ridiculous hypothetical. alabama, may be the most conservative state in the entire union, has protected access to fertility treatments. there is no state in the union, right-wing or left-wing, trying to ban access to fertility treatments. if alabama is protecting this stuff it is safe to say the whole country is. >> senator vance is donald trump's running mate. in her interview with cnn thursday vice president harris focused on issues like securing the u.s. border, fracking, and inflation. it was at democratic nominees of first interview since president biden withdrew from the race. sitting beside her minnesota governor tim walz said he was excited about her plans and addressed controversial comments made in the past. the gap is narrowing between the political rivals as the 2020 for presidential race picks up momentum. ms. harris is neck and neck with mr. trump at 49 percent due to increased support in some swing states.

assassinations of people like medgar evers, the assassination of the four children in birmingham, alabama, and really two young boys who were killed alongside the four girls, and then president kennedy's assassination in 1963 provides the context for the bill to be passed. host: professor, what would you say specifically change the lives of lack people at that time and that was signed into law? guest: i think the act is connected with social movements that are purses -- that are precipitating it. 1963 was a pivotal year in american history. we see the most of people in the most demonstrations for social justice, so there will be citizens, colons, and we remember birmingham, alabama in the spring of 1963 and dr. martin luther king's letter from birmingham jail, but there is really a protest happening in oakland, california, los angeles, new york, new jersey, st. louis, and that is i when john f. kennedy comes on national television on june 11, 1963, he said to the american people that there was a revolution happening, and it can be violent or peaceful, so when we think about the legislatio

>> tuscaloosa, alabama. >> steve: my son-in-law is from alabama.kids with cell phones in school? >> i don't mind them having cell phones, technology for education, leave your cell phone in your backpack and use your tablet. >> steve: doing a selfie, who you talking to on the phone? >> my husband. >> steve: what are you telling him? >> telling him i am meeting you and janice dean. >> steve: what do you think about phones in school? >> my daughter should answer that, she does not think it should be in school. >> steve: this is peter doocy's actual flip phone. i got to see who is in it. dana perino is coming up next in nine minutes. word on the street, people think it is good idea for kids not have have them, maybe they need them for safety? >> dana: i'm obsessed with this topic. by and large, 90% of adults say no, if teachers are asked to do that, parents have to back them up and talk about that on "the five." deep tease. thank you. mark zuckerberg tells congress biden-harris administration pressured meta to censor information. and harris and trump a

saying after the supreme court decision there that the alabama legislature to quickly the alabama such a conservative state what do you think? is it a ridiculous hypothetical you know i think the way we saw things play out and alabama, which is a deep red state, suggests that it's unlikely at least anytime in the near future the bigger question i have about trump's ivf proposal is just sort of how will it work? >> how would how would he pay for it? ivf is a very expensive procedure. it can cause tens of thousands of dollars and it's such a departure from traditional republican positions on these issues i mean, you remember how much pushback there was to the affordable care act two public funding for four even a public mandate for health care of any kind and particularly around the issue of contraception. you know, the affordable care act includes a contraceptive mandate requiring most insurance companies to provide birth control at lower no cost. and that was that was an idea that had a lot of pushback from social conservatives. there was litigation around that, and the trump administr

in 1975, the renovation of this military police campus at fort mcclellan, alabama, marked the end the core search for a permanent home and the beginning of a new for military police development. though mp training is still includes a few basics from the past, such as hand to hand skills. students at the military, police school now have available realistic facilities on a large scale. a modern, fully equipped m.p. headquarters with its own mock cell. a military court room. a traffic accident site. more mock confinement facilities facilities. and even a model enemy prisoner of war, internment camp. today, the history of the military police is about to move forward toward perhaps its most dynamic structure. new graduates, the corps have a much greater choice of opportunities than ever before and at the same time carry a greater responsibility. in recent years has been an increasing prevalence of violent public demonstrations. and at the same time a greater emphasis on the constitutional rights. the accused. even the nature warfare itself continues to change, and new members the corps can

congress in alabama. [cheers and applause] >> good evening, america, and hello, alabama.e airman. and it is the birthplace of the civil rights movement in montgomery, alabama. and of course, this district is home to mr. good trouble himself, congressman john lewis. my pathway to this was paved by a legacy of fighters, fighters that include my mother, an alabama state senator, and it also includes my father, my late father, who was also a state senator and civil rights lawyer who sued the klan into bankruptcy. all of america, all of us, o a debt to courageous freedom fighters both known and unknown, a debt that can never be repaid, but what we can do is ensure the work of those fighters who came before us continues and that our sacred right to vote is always protected. kamala harris gets it. she is working to protect our freedoms every single day, and that's why she will sign into law the john robert lewis voting rights act once it is introduced again by congresswoman carrie sewall. [cheers and applause] in america, a california poet named kendrick lamar reminded us that s

this morning, the first black mayor of a small town in alabama finally has the key to town hall. >> i'm very grateful for, you know, just getting getting inside of city hall and getting the keys and being able to do do this or the mayor, the mayor of new bern, patrick braxton, now allowed to take his rightful place in town hall more than three years after he was elected his predecessor, along with a group of white officials, refused to hand over the reins, claiming braxton's victory was invalid. >> they did not hold elections for 60 years. >> they claim that they held a special election in 2020, after mayor braxton decided to run and qualify and won. >> it seems like a slap in the face that you've been elected to do. the elected and someone else wants to get down and never, you know, deceive and pass, you know, pass everything over to you. >> despite legally winning the election, braxton was locked out of city hall and denied access to any official accounts. >> what you're doing is unjust. >> critics call it a small town coup and blatant racism. >> i feel that it's all about race, and i

killed me to hear sweet home alabama played. >> jesse: can you believe they played sweet home alabama at the dnc. when they showed the alabama flag i thought a lot of the people were going to lose it. no alabama flag at the dnc. >> laura: a lot of love and joy and sounded like a lot of hate last night. they get that bulging veins. >> jesse: hating trump gives them joy. that's what brings joy to the democrats. >> laura: is it hard for them when obama gets on stage, michelle, bernie sanders, they be electric personalities is, that a hard comparison for kamala to be on stage? >> jesse: i definitely wouldn't want to have to speak after those people. it's a big night and bernie, i'm really looking forward to bernie sanders, when bernie endorses kamala that's not the endorsement you want. >> laura: jesse, take it away my friend. >> jesse: thank you so much, laura, i really appreciate it. we expect kamala harris to get the nomination this hour but like everything else you see this week, it is phony as emma crotts nominated her weeks ago virtually after kicking biden out and rushed her in ass

how did he get from pleasant to the deep south and the tennessee alabama border? is deep south started on a raft being rode down the chippewa river from mount pleasant because there weren't very good roads and there were no rails back then, no rail connections. i think this whole picture, the kind of community from which samuel went to the front and the kind of community that ellen and the boys were left at home with. and this is a picture the river today, the regiment actually had been founded, formed august of 1861 for the entire war its enrollment was nearly 3000 soldiers, which is a very large number. but the recruitment and the growth of the regiment kept going during the war. it was not just a one time muster and then that was the end of the recruiting. so many soldiers were added to the regiment during the war. almost 280 almost 10% were discharged. disability and then another 10% roughly were casualties, either killed or wounded or missing and died of battle wounds or disease. and that's really the major factor. the first engineers and mechanics was diseas

he was alabama's governor during the birmingham sit-ins, where peaceful protesters were met with fire hoses and attack dogs. the bombing of the birmingham 16th street baptist church, which killed four little black girls, and the 1965 selma march, which devolved into what is known as bloody sunday. george wallace: don't worry about what the newspapers say about us. they call us extremists and want to say we are fascist. sara sidner: wallace spoke to this madison square garden crowd during his 1968 presidential bid. tim naftali: george wallace was fighting elites. wallace also rallied disaffected members of the working class. he fashioned himself a white populist. his appeal was always a racial appeal. sara sidner: but his 1972 campaign would be the turning point. speaker: well, gentlemen, the next president of the united states, the honorable george c. wallace. [cheering] douglas brinkley: he was shot in a shopping mall in maryland, and he became crippled to the point he could never walk again. george wallace, jr.: he always thought he might be shot. he always believed it would be a he

just in the state of alabama there were 62 tornadoes that hit that day. seems that every hour that passes today, the news out of the south just gets worse. kim klockow mcclain: after the alabama outbreak, there was kind of a renaissance in our field because we hadn't experienced an event that deeply catastrophic in so long. there were hundreds of fatalities, and we hadn't lost that many people in a tornado outbreak since 1974. storm chaser: oh my god. harold brooks: one of the silver linings of the april 27 outbreak was an understanding that we need to do a whole lot more work on social science with respect to forecasting. i describe myself as a tornado epidemiologist. it's really someone who tries to understand the circumstances that lead someone to be injured or die from something. what are the factors that explain fatalities, and what kinds of interventions can we design, whether in our communication system or structurally in our communities, to help mitigate that threat? among the things studied was the amount of time given to warn the public about to

john, first of all, yes, a court made that decision, alabama and like the next second, the alabama state legislature fix that problem and ensured women had access to these fertility treatments and all that i voted on john is for religious liberty. i don't want christian hospitals or christian charities to be forced to do something that they don't want to do. we have multiple republican measures that support fertility treatments, support ivf, but don't require christian hospitals or other religious organizations to violate their conscience. i think all of us except that we live in a big country with diversity of opinions. we want women to have access to this needed medical treatment we also want to make sure that christian organizations can live their conscience. i don't think there's any tension. there are any conflict and fundamentally, it's democrats who are trying to force people to do things against their will. that is a way to inflame this topic instead of solving the problems for young families, is it fair to say the details on ivf haven't been worked out yet, how either the govern

charter schools and the alabama accountability act. you accomplished that. thank you.ext, the next step now is to provide our parents, beginning with those most in need, education savings accounts, which will further us on our journey to become the most school-choice-finley state in the nation -- school-choice-friendly state in the nation. [applause] passing an education savings account bill that works for families and for alabamians is my number one legislative priority. i am proud to have an education -- the choose act. once we get this legislation across the finish line, we will prepare for the program to begin in 2025-2026 academic year. it's first two years will be helping families who might not otherwise have the option to afford to send their children to the school of their choice through these $7,000 education savings accounts. for the third year and beyond, all families will be eligible for the program. as additional families choose to participate in the program, and as our revenues increase, we can grow the program responsibly so that it can be fully universa

its current name is pluto in alabama. its new name was chosen because of the birmingham mobile railroad. it is now part of the southern rail network that passes through the middle of the city. but it still retains its african identity. given these things i knew, once again except. i talked about the old house of a man named kojo . how can a person who has such memories under his pillow sleep ? this film was recorded in 1928 by a young writer and cultural scholar named rosanil he became the first female filmmaker. it is also considered black. reza worked in the entire deep sauce region and recorded the adventures of black people's dances and traditions . he usually memorized the songs he came across and sang them in his own voice. he met kojo several times and carefully recounted his memories in his own dialect. the handwritten version of the stories that he had told himself was recorded in a book called detention center for slaves. this book was supposed to be published in 193 but it was put on the back burner until it wa

chris hansen caught three illegals in alabama trying to meet up with a 15-year-old girl for sex.s were waiting. >> be nice. she's my niece. i love her. okay? wait right there while i make sure she's ready. [speaking alternative language] >> do you speak english? [speaking alternative language] >> spanish? >> yeah. >> don't give me anything, please. the problem is that you broke the law as a grown man coming here to have sex with a child. that's against the law. you know that, right? it's wrong. you're very sorry now, but it's because you got caught. [speaking alternative language] >> jesse: that man and two others facing charges of child solicitation by computer, human trafficking, and travelling to meet a child for unlawful sex. all felonies. they're all being held without bond, and they could be deported. it shows you how pervasive the illegal immigration system is when they're showing up in alabama on your show. >> here we are embedded with sheriff mark moon of the blunt county sheriff's office and we catch five predators, adults seeking to sexually exploit teenage girls in tw

an inflatable slide launching into the air saturday during a sudden and severe storm in northern alabamahocked. i was not expecting -- because from where i was at, i think not see the bounce house. but when it came into the frame, it blew my mind. >> byron: their two inflatables they say staged to the ground, but it wasn't enough. >> i've had bounce houses for 30 years. they put stakes down and everything tied off. it was four, six stakes for both bouncy houses. >> byron: one of many weather-related incidents involving large inflatables, causing serious injury and death. >> a stwranlgic accident involving a bounce house, a 2-year-old child killed, another child hurt, when the bounce house was carried away by wind. >> byron: in california, a dust devil whipping this family's bounce house high into the sky. panicked adults and children in the pool scream. >> we had people in the jumper that were drying from the pool, and the baby was on there. so, imagine. it was very dangerous. >> byron: a university of georgia study found wind-related bounce house accidents injured 479 people and killed

we talked about king being chosen to pastor a church inur montgomery alabama because he was a moderate. he wasn't a. he did become a little more interested in direct action in the last couple of years of his life but he had been a figure for moderation someone who would work with both sides. so king is assassinated in april and it stunned the nation kennedy is assassinated in june. while king's is the precursor to arson and looting and violence in 100 american cities in 1968 after kennedys it was when the area and called the pet nomination. johnson had withdrawn from the race on television on march 31. yet given a speech that otherwise was about vietnam and at the very end of it yet a final couple of lines which he had been carrying around in his jacket pockets at the beginning of the year but didn't have the courage to use it. he was planning to use it at the end of the state of the union and had his final lines ready that i will not accept another term of office and the nomination of his party and 68. he had that ready to use at the end of the speech. he chickened out for various rea

alabama, how do you cast your votes?lewis voting rights protection act. she will fight for freedom and opportunity and build an economy that works for everyone. so from huntsville to mobile, from the historic civil rights cities of birmingham, montgomery, my hometown of selma, from the people who brought us the voting rights act and the civil rights act, the proud, great state of alabama proudly casts 56 votes for the first black woman president of the united states of america, kamala harris and vice president tim walz. >> alaska, how do you cast your votes? >> alaska's motto is march to the future and that is exactly where kamala harris and tim walz will take us. a future with an opportunity for everyone. as a teacher, a union member and a proud black woman, is my honor to cast alaska's 19 delegates for the next president of these united states, kamala harris! >> american samoa, how do you cast your votes? >> here in american samoa faith, service, and community are everything. that is why we cast 10 votes for our next p

you talked about how your grandparents were born and raised in alabama.- you said, quote, we don't need to go backwards, it seems like time keeps repeating itself. elaborate on that. f. how are these extreme decisions impacting black families like yours? >> well, what was actually brought up was the fact that in alabama they are restricting people from having abortions, as well as florida and also attacking ivf clinics and it is already bad for as many blacks that lived in alabama back in the day. you know my grandparents, just to survive and go to school the next day. it just made me feel like we are still fighting for something that was already done back in the days and we are still fighting for it now. fi no matter what my granddad and grandmother had to run together and now it is like me and my wife running together to get choice over their bodies again. >> all right, derick cook, thank you for your time and for sharing your story. i appreciate your advocacy and c an important reminder that men have a voice in the conversation as well. thank you so mu

others is a dutch other side is a woman -- on the others is a woman i have walked with in selma, alabamakamala harris spoke to me that day about unity and passing bills. all i ever heard from donald trump was how he could get an advantage. i see one candidate who wants to protect the right to vote while the other has tried to cook up 11,000 votes in georgia. i see a candidate who with joe biden brought leaders to the white house to confront violent hatred running against a man said neo-nazis in charlottesville were fine people. [boos] i see a candidate who has sought to reform and uphold the law and a man who wrongly assumed his mugshot appealed to black americans. i have worked with kamala harris. in every job she has had, she has consistently committed to making government work for those of us who have been disadvantaged. all donald trump has been inconsistent about is making himself richer and sewing division to get that done. this man sat right here in chicago a few weeks ago refusing to apologize for claims that migrants were taking black jobs. while in november -- well in november,

keith urban pumps up fans at an alabama gas station with an impromptu concert. it's monday, august 19th. "early today" starts right now. >>> good morning, i'm richard lui. vice president kamala harris takes center stage today as the democratic national convention kicks off in chicago. the dnc releasing its party platform overnight, which was approved before president biden dropped out of the race. the 90-page document emphasizes the party's top issues including the economy and strengthening democracy. going into this week's big event polls showing vice president harris gaining some ground on former president trump in key swing states. she and her running mate governor tim walz hit the road in their new campaign bus this weekend. crisscrossing battleground pennsylvania to try to build on that momentum. >> when you know what you stand for you know what to fight for. when you stand for working people you fight for working people. when you stand for freedom, whether it be to make decisions about your own body or love who you love, you fight for those things. when yo

a bounce house sent flying in alabama as bermuda cleans up from ernesto after the hurricane slammed into the island, the impact still felt on the eastern seaboard. high waves and dangerous rip currents. while a new heat dome grips the middle of the country. dozens sicked by heat at a colorado air show. meteorologist somara theodore standing by. >>> the race for the white house. vice president harris and governor walz appeal for votes in must-win pennsylvania. our new poll, what it shows about the dramatic shifts in this race, as tens of thousands of protesters get ready to descend on chicago and the democratic national convention. >>> overseas, secretary of state blinken arrives in israel. hoping to push that cease-fire deal over the finish line. tonight, we hear from the family of one of the hostages as they mark her birthday. tom soufi burridge from tel aviv. >>> ukrainian troops push further into russia blowing up another key bridge, and what president zelenskyy just said about why his forces entered russia. patrick reevedd from kyiv. >>> back here at home, the dramatic rescue of a fa