century, new england. and as with all great melodramas this one begins on a dark and stormy night. march 15th 1750 rain and snow fell in alternating torence on the small hamlet of canterbury, connecticut and mehetto bell smith lay dying. earlier that day a young woman named mary smith who was not related had served her a pancake laced with rats being or what we tomato as arsenic. almost immediately metabel, phil violently ill and died the following day and autopsy conducted by several local doctors revealed. what appeared to be foul play and so mary smith was remanded to the wyndham county jail to await trial for murder. indicted on the same day mary's alleged accomplice was none other than john smith. had a bell's husband of 10 years and the father of their four children. surviving court records, you'll feel few clues to the motive that led john smith to conspire with mary smith to murder his wife, but isaac backus the prominent leader of the new england separate baptist movement provided additional detai

but there is some evidence that at least new england is becoming more diverse, not just exclusively puritan. you may remember that we talked about that in the 1690s england started requiring massachusetts to tolerate other kinds of protestants. not just puritans, but now you have to tolerate quakers and baptists and other kinds of protestant groups. there are some intriguing pieces of evidence about rising at least access to sort of immorality and so forth. in the 1680s it looks like boston probably gets its first brothel. you know, the characteristic of colonial cities in london and so forth at the time. but puritan boston gets a brothel, a house of prostitution. this is horrifying to a lot of people. there occasionally are dancing classes in boston. so, you know, the puritans were not keen on dancing. especially between unmarried couples. you know, so there's, there are actually some pieces of evidence that you can look at and say, well, maybe this is becoming a sort of more diverse, non-puritan kind of society. you know, maybe there is something there to that jeremiahad kind of theme. pr

especially new england. new england, again, it is the easiest story to tell about the coming of the great awakening. because there is such a linear colonial story in new england of the puritan founding, the decline of puritanism, a sense of building religious crisis in the early 1700s, and the 17 thirties, forties, an outburst of new religious commitment as signaled in the great awakening. a lot of what i will talk about, the background of the great awakening, is tracing the story most specifically of colonial new england. which is the epicenter of the great awakening in america. but the other colonies are definitely affected. okay? why do they have a sense of religious crisis? well one reason you see here is a rise, apparently, in agreed, immorality. we talked about this. about the science people were falling away from their puritan commitment. the pastures are talking all the time about how people are consumed with business affairs, forgetting about their love for god. they are worried society is becoming

especially in new england. new england again is kind of the easiest story to tell about the comingd of the great awakening because there'sli suca linear colonial story in new england about the puritan founding, the e decline of puritanism. a sense of building religious crisis in the early 1700s. then in the 1730s and 40s, an outburst of new religious o commitment has signaled in the great awakening. the background to the great awakening is really tracing the storyme most specifically of colonial c new england which is the epicenter of the great awakening in america butus the other colonies were also greatly affected. why did they have a sense of religious crisis? well, one reason you see here is aab rise apparently in greed, immorality, we've already talked about this. the signs that people were falling away from their puritan commitment. thefa c pastors are talking all time aboutut how people were consumed with business affairs and are forgetting about their love for god. they're worried that society is becomi

it surged across new england during the 1740s. critics including english artist who was scandalous you see here, created this powerful work upon the passion of a weak women and youth permitted rude behavior. it lay elsewhere. the distinctive notion of conversion as an instantaneous intrusion of god's holy spirit, directly into the bodies. seventeenth century puritan minister had american metaphors to your sermon. both men and women possessed feminine stoles that need to be a spouse to christ. get ministers also understood the consummation of this metaphorical spiritual unit did not take place until christ's return and the day of judgment. more confident of instantaneous conversion experiences, winfield young by contrast demonstrated the holy spirit literally took possession and ravished their once sinful bodies. the people called new life the bridegroom had finally arrived to make them direct partakers of his love. in the case of consummating this heavenly union seductively invited sexually large descriptions of their conversions.

generations of imperial war between britain and the british colonies and france or spain ended new england the main issue is fighting against the forces of france coming out of canada or what they called new france. there is no national boundary there and if you think about england and france are fighting at the same time and where is the columnists and new englanders no natural barriers so the french had more native american allies than the british did. you would have attacks from the french on frontier villages and native american raids on frontier villages and sometimes when britain andhe france were technically at war you would have new england a new france fighting a low-level fictitious wars with one another. 1720 there's a war on the eve of the great awakening a war between new france in new england that has been inspired by it french catholic missionary operatingg in maine aunties telling the indians stick up for your rights against the english could don't let them take your land and they t have this war ad the new englanders commission a bounty against this priest in maine the cap

for the first time in 30 years new england is facing a direct hit by a hurricane. ted from new york's long island to southern new england as what is currently tropical storm henri playing roulette with the northeast coast. you've been watching for an update from the national hurricane center. what's the latest that you know? >> right, jake. the latest advisory, the 5:00 p.m. advisory just came out a few moments ago. and the update to that are the hurricane warnings that have been issued for portions of long island, connecticut, and rhode island. also the track has shifted a little bit farther to the west. we'll show you that up next. right now the winds are still at 70 miles per hour. this storm could strengthen into a hurricane some time tonight into tomorrow morning. this is the latest forecast track, and you can see it is going to race up to the north and then sort of bend back to the west. now the cone has inched just a little bit farther to the west. you can see new york city just on that western side of the cone. but there's still a lot of uncertainty accordin

>>> hurricane henri is barreling towards new york and new england. we'll tell you how communities are preparing for it. >>> cnn learns of one reason we may be seeing chaos like this at cable airport. those more fortunate are arriving at ramstein base in germany. >>> the united states records a surge in vaccines even as a prominent civil rights figure is counted among the latest cases. live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching us here in the united states, canada and all around the world. this is "cnn newsroom." >>> hurricane henri is closing in on the northeastern u.s. right now with landfall expected in the coming hours on either long island or southern new england. more than to 50 million people are under hurricane or tropical storm warnings and states of emergency have been declared in long island and connecticut. heavy rain are already pounded parts of the region. this is what it looked like in hoboken saturday night storm surge, coastal flooding and strong winds are expected in parts of the northeast. all right.

so now we're arriving and we start -- you can pick anywhere, but we pick the new england, obviously. that's where it all started. and just started going through here with some very key documents. norm, why don't you tell us about a few of these. >> sure. as you mentioned, cary, we're starting in new england, which is where the first colonies were settled. and the artifacts we have included here are basically land deeds or covenants or property ownership that has been granted to the con colonists from the king. pennsylvania, as we know, is a colony that was founded primarily to be religiously tolerant of the quakers of the baptists, the catholic and so all were welcome in this particular colony, which eventually as we know the state of pennsylvania. so these are the acts and the laws. again, granted landees given to the colonists showing their ownership. also basically they're also upon the acts and in the laws we're showing how they are using part of the bible to use as their legislation of how that colony would be founded. for instance, over here as we move forward, this is the mary

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landfall sunday afternoon and then drifting into new england. with all this, all the impacts are going to come in. strong storm surge up to five feet, rip currents, yes. heavy rainfall and certainly damaging winds. we could see rainfall up to ten inches well inland so at the very least inland will see flooding and this storm, david, is coming in quick. >> a major story as we head into the weekend. rob will be watching all weekend long, thank you. >>> we're going to turn now to the coronavirus pandemic. the u.s. recording its worst day in nearly seven months. nearly 158,000 new cases of covid in just the last 24 hours. and there is late reporting from "the new york times" tonight that the fda could be trying to give final approval to the pfizer vaccine as early as monday. abc's marcus moore from dallas tonight. >> reporter: tonight "the new york times" reporting the fda is working to try to give full approval to the pfizer covid vaccine as soon as monday but reporting that date could slide. authorities say full authorization is coming, and their

landfall on long island and new england as a category 1 late sunday. plowing through new england. in the next 36 to 48 hours which means tomorrow is your day to prepare. >> rob marciano, our thanks to you. whit and linsey here this >> moving forward. it's finding solutions. abc seven news. >> is no problem at all. i'm happy to share it and feel safer about it. anchor: starting today, san francisco has some of the strictest vaccine measures in the country. people have to prove they are vaccinated against covid-19 to participate in many indoor activities. good afternoon. thank you for joining us. you're watching abc seven news at 4:00 live. across california, vaccinations are trending up as the delta variant surges. new numbers from the state health department show more than 80,000 doses are being administered per day. that average jumped from this time last month. it was around 67,000 doses per day. 3.5 million californians nearly are partially vaccinated. that is people 12 and older who have received at least one dose more than 22 million californians are fully vaccinated. eight o

using william bradford's work on the plymouth plantation, he gave us the new england memorials. one of the first history books print in america. but within that, he included the actual mayflower compact as william bradford presented it in his notes, manuscripts of the plymouth plantation. king james bible. we know where that bible is located. and we also know that they also brought another bible which is known as the geneva bible. what's really powerful about this exhibit is this geneva bible actually belonged to william bradford, who was the second lieutenant governor of plymouth, but this bible is kind of interesting in its very controversial because of what it is. in 1560 the first edition of this text english puritans fled from england to geneva. while they were there because they were under protestant persecution, they produced what is known as the geneva bible because it was translated there. this is the very first english bible that would use the hebrew and the greek in its translation. it's also the first english bible to contain what is known as the typeset that we are

[music plays.] ♪ ♪ >>> more breaking news, a hurricane could be headed to new york and new england assunday. hurricane warnings are in effect for parts of long island, new york and southern new england as tropical storm henri makes its way north in the atlantic and gains strength. last time a hurricane made handfall in this region was hurricane bob in 1991. jennifer gray joins us from the weather center whachltz the latest on the storm? >> the 8:00 advisory came out and it is still a strong tropical storm. it could become a hurricane tonight or tomorrow night. new york city is in the forecast zone and the hurricane warnings have been issued for new england as well as parts of long island. here's the latest 70-mile-per-hour winds, gusts of 85. the storm is pooufing to the north at 7-miles-per-hour. it should pick up a little bit of forward speed over the next 24 hours, becoming a category 1 storm. could be a category 1 storm by the time it makes landfall. looks likely it's going to make landfall along long island or even portions of rhode island could see a portion of landfall as well.

the first two hit new england in decades.could bring heavy rain and up to 5 feet of storm surge, we are tracking the storm and we will bring the latest in minutes. >> first, the prices and afghanistan from bad to worse. the rest warning americans not to travel to the kabul airport because of potential security threats from islamic state terrorists reported thousands of people are still trying desperately to escape the country nearly a week after the taliban take over welcome to fox news live. >> heartfelt and neville are off today. the alert from security less than 24 hours after president biden pledged to get all americans home safely and to do whatever we can to illuminate afghan allies but still so many trying to escape the chaos continues. john her because money. >> we are going to try to save and orderly way making sure nobody gets hurt to the maximum extent possible so what you are seeing out of our state department colleagues is a prudent notification to make sure that whatever movement there is propagates from outside

on track to hit long island and new england. which haven't seen a hurricane in 30 years, tomorrow. coastal areas now evacuating the rush to board up and stock up lines for gas. empty store shelves. governors calling up the naonal guard. >> you should be prepared to deal with the possibility that you could lose power >> we have the latest on its path >>> new terror threats in afghanistan. americans told not to come to the airport. it's too dangerous, despite the president's promise yesterday to get everyone out mr. biden canceling his vacation today. and the dramatic report from outside the airport walls. >> at the front, people are just getting crushed. >>> schools shutdown one district cancelling school for two full weeks after a covid outbreak with no remote learning option parents across the country bracing for a chaotic school year >>> criminals going to extremes to steal your identity, even wearing masks to pretend they're you. they've already stolen hundreds of billions of dollars. >>> and the special visitors that comforted this grieving father and how he turned it into a gl

the remnants of tropical storm henri dumping more rain and it could trigger more flooding in new england, new york state and eastern pennsylvania. >> new details from the historic flooding disaster in tennessee. at least 21 people are dead after rain caused a creek to overflows it banks. seven month old twins were among the dead, swept out of the father's arms. the disaster unfolded 75 miles west of nashville. >> reporter: a desperate rescue operation. >> houses are washed away, knocked off foundations, totally gone. still people missing. a lot of cars are smashed up. >> reporter: 17 inches of rain fell in less than 24 hours, sending flooding racing through communities. these images showing a car buried in gravel as the sheriff looks for the vin number in hopes of identifying a body found nearby. rescuers expect the death toll will climb. >> i would expect given the number of fatalities we have seen so far we are going to see mostly recovery efforts at this point. >> reporter: the record amount of rain causing waterways to swell where one creek rose six feet in 60 seconds forming a wall

then, it starts to weaken as it does encounter the cooler waters offshore of new england but we do think that it could hold onto that status. it will be close -- close to, if not exactly, a category 1 hurricane when it comes ashore in new york. excuse me, the -- the surrounding area of long island to -- to connecticut. early on sunday. and probably, around noon on sunday. that's when we're looking at a landfall. then, it lingers come sunday, on into monday and tuesday. and any time you have a system that's just meandering, you know you are going to pick up a lot of rain in short order and that's what we are going to see. now, models are in really good agreement on this system, henri, makin making landfall up here in new england. if you will remember, over the last several days, some models were wanting to take it into new england. some were keeping it right offshore. but now, models are in really good agreement with an impact in long island going into connecticut. it doesn't take much in the way of rainfall in this area to cause flooding. couple of inches. maybe, three inches, you will g

but for other parts of new england, it's seemingly unending rain.enri arrived in force in rhode island, bringing high winds and rain to southern new england. water splashing onto roadways in martha's vineyard, winds whipping the trees. >> i'm asking you, rhode island, to stay home. >> reporter: rhode island's governor pleaded with people to stay indoors. >> this is not the time to go out and see the waves or downed trees. this is the time to stay home and stay safe. >> reporter: in new york, waves crashed on montauk beach, drawing a few brave souls to admire the view. >> watching the storm, i love it, chaos. >> reporter: last night, new york city saw one of its hardest downpours in history. and in new jersey, floodwaters engulfed whole neighborhoods. >> it's getting deep, and it's coming through. >> reporter: including kelly richards' helmeta home. >> it's upsetting, it's going to be a lot of damage for a lot of people. definitely. cars are under, basements are wet. it's not good. >> reporter: a swan rides the waves in old saper, connecticut, where

we'll be monitoring more of new england for the worst impact, not new york. we'll be here for you, fred, for the durations. >> i love the comparisons of the hallmarks. as we know, all of these storms so unpredictable. we have tom sater tracking this storm right now. what does it look like it has the potential to do? >> if you look at the infrared satellite imagery, it doesn't look very impressive. even though we look at the darker colors, the higher, colder cloud tops, there's still a lot of convective activity. you don't see the energy it's carrying with it. at 7:00 a.m. this morning, the national hurricane center weakened the storm down to a tropical storm. at 8:00 a.m., the hurricane warnings went away. chris also mentioned we have an interesting comparison of radars. more on that in a minute. here are the tropical storm warnings. they're going to remain in place. again, the direction means everything. the slower pace that is expected later tonight through the day tomorrow, it's going to mean a lot for a lot of rainfall. look at the winds. now, we still ha

the question is does new england need to brace for a hurricane? it is "way too early" for this. ♪♪ >>> good morning and welcome to "way too early," the show that's really hoping we don't have to pull out our umbrella this weekend. i'm alicia menendez on this friday, august 20th. we'll start with the news. >>> facing intense criticism over the exit from afghanistan, president biden will deliver remarks on the evacuation efforts. as of yesterday afternoon the u.s. had evacuated thousands of americans since saturday when the government began to collapse. nbc news correspondent kelly o'donnell has the latest. >> reporter: u.s. officials say another 6,000 people made it safely to the kabul airport awaiting evacuation. pressed repeatedly, officials at the departments of state and defense could not say how many americans still need to be rescued. >> i don't know with that level of detail. >> we're just not in a position to give a number right now. >> reporter: in an interview with abc, the president defended the evacuation mission despite chaos near the

we got very lucky, but on re isn't finished yet, as it slowly winds its way up the new england coastline, leaving a path of torrential rain, wreckage, and ruin. john hinder and al jazeera montague new york, saying in the u. s. at least 22 people have been killed off the record, breaking rain and flood gorgeous, surging and central tennessee. among those killed to topless, who reportedly sweat from their father's arms was cured. cruises, searching for dozen still missing the power outages, all hampering efforts, roads have been washed away and home joyed. major haitian gangs have offered a truth which a group hope will allow earthquake relief efforts to accelerate the death toll from the august 14th quake has risen to more than 2200. more than 340 people are still missing. tens of thousands of homes have been destroyed. desperate crowds continuing to scuffle as food still head on al jazeera flame, the taliban, and some of the women who have managed to escape from afghanistan. stories and guy launcher line can hold a good as festival, despite cope. 90 lockdown. ah hello. they were expectin

it could be the first hurricane to hit new england in about 30 years.the middle of the country. one of the only spots that wil see good weather it will be hot and humid down south and hot and dry out west with some of those dry thunderstorms possible across idaho. severe storms likely through the northern plains on sunday. we are looking at the potential for coastal flooding, wind, rain, it's all coming with this hurricane saturday into sunday for the northeast and eventually on up into new england >>> and it is 8:32. a spare the air alert remains in effect. look at this live cam in san jose. we have a mix of haze and smoke and marine layer on the coastline. temperatures, it is not getting too hot, comfortable in the 70s for a lot of the nins. we have mid-80s in interior valleys. smoke expected to linger through the rest of today, clearing out, moving east a little bit by saturday. >> and that's your latest weather. savannah >> dylan, thank you so much. >>> coming up next, a sweet treat live from london why folks in britain are sadly -- sudnly going wil

they're a new englander. all americans are from boston.lking about the habitants. who are the habitants? anybody pick that up? >> the french -- >> the french canadians. that's exactly right. the common people. the farmers. so those are the people who you don't know if they're going to help the americans or not. that's what everything was ultimately riding on. from that document, the baby journal, did you see any ways the french canadians helped americans? anybody see anything? this is question number two that i passed out. yeah? >> they protect the spies -- i have it written done in my notes. what i read was, there were three spies that stayed and there was a notice sent to have them removed and then the general that was supposed to remove them told a friend of his that they needed to get them out before -- >> okay. they aid american spies. anything else? >> they smuggled food and armorments. anybody else? some of them stand guard, some of them fight with the americans. not that many. did anybody see anything why the americans aren't welco

on the impact of henri here's nbc's kathy park. >> reporter: tropical storm henri tore through new england, downgraded from a category 1 hurricane but still packing a powerful punch after landfall. with heavy rains and damaging winds. >> oh, my god. >> as it blew through rhode island, it knocked out power to tens of thousands. >> i'm pleased to report the national grid has crews already out across the state working on restoration. >> reporter: president biden saying federal support is standing by. >> fema has already prepositioned resources in the region to speed our ability to respond. >> reporter: massive waves crashed the coastline, closing narragansett beach residents venturing out when it appeared the worst was over. >> we lost our power at home, so we came out to epijoy the waves here >> reporter: in connecticut more problems with power. at least 24,000 customers losing electricity. our kristen dahlgren is there. >> reporter: flooding is also an issue even as some places begin to breathe a sigh of relief. flash flooding could be a threat overnight, especially to the west of where we

henri is now a category 1 storm and could make landfall in southern new england or new york tomorrowerek van dam is in providence, rhode island. >> let's look at where the storm is right now. statistics show that sustained winds are 75 miles per hour, gusting up to 90 miles per hour. forward movement to the north/northeast is just about 14 miles per hour. we do anticipate the storm to make that little bit of a curve back towards the west which is why we're thinking landfall is going to happen over long island. timing wise, thinking right around lunchtime on sunday. it will continue to push farther inland before then going back out to the east over the open atlantic. one thing we did notice in the last advisory that started to tick up was the winds forecast with this. the red area here, about 74 to 110 mile per hour wind gusts. look at this purple area here, including montauk, we're talking 110 mile per hour wind gusts. the other areas, 40 to 60 mile per hour winds that's enough when you talk about the combination of winds and rain. along the east coast, from north carolina up to mass

but we pick new england, obviously, that's where it all started. and just started going through here with some very key documents. why don't you tell us about a few? these >> sure, as you mentioned, we're starting in new england where is where the first colonies resettled. and the artifacts that we have it included here are basically land deeds or components or property ownership that have been granted to the colonists from the king at that time period. we're looking at massachusetts, pennsylvania, we're looking at maryland, kate was talking about the religious toleration, or in toleration, if you, will in pennsylvania, as you, know was a colony that was founded primarily to be religiously tolerant. of the quakers, of the baptist, some of the catholics. so all we're welcome in this particular colony which would, eventually as we know, become the state of pennsylvania. so these are the acts and laws, and, again the -- showing their ownership. and it really shows, they sickly, upon the acts and the laws, showing their using part of the bible to use a

with more danger ahead from a storm just beginning its destruction in new england jennifer johnson, nbc news, washington >> to see where henri is headed at this hour, nbc meteorologist janessa webb, she's been tracking the storm all weekend for us she joins us now from montauk. that is on new york's long island janessa, good morning. >> reporter: hi. good morning we're seeing pretty calm conditions here. but that is not the case we are not done with this storm system as we're seeing rotation across new jersey into parts of philadelphia yes, it has been downgraded to a depression, but the impacts are still the same i do have flash flood watches across the northeast into southern new england, and then we will not be done with this tropical system until about tuesday afternoon. so we do have hurricane warnings that have expired, but still tropical alerts that still expand across this area. from portland, maine all the way down to point pleasant today is not the day for cleanup. we really won't be seeing that until tuesday. gusty winds still in the forecast at least 40 to 50 miles per hour

americans in the northeast that are getting ready for what could be the first hurricane to hit new england in 30 years. it's a tropical storm right now. warnings for that have been issued for new york city, connecticut, massachusetts. >> henri is expected to reach hurricane strength later today. it's likely to make landfall on new york's long island by midday sunday. let's get straight to the forecast and meteorologist allison chinchar live in the cnn weather center. allison, what's the latest? >> we have hurricane hunters out there. we'll get the next update in less than an hour. sustained winds 70 miles per hour gusting up to 85. we have not one but two hurricane hunter flights out investigating the storm trying to figure out what it's doing. the atmosphere that surrounds it, is it conducive for the strengthening, is it not? wind is measured at 66 miles an hour. the question is what is it going to do in the next 24 hours because 24 hours from now regardless if it's made landfall yet or not, you're going to start to see some of those big impacts for states such as massachusetts, connectic

the first hurricane to directly hit new england in 30 years, which is part of what is so significant here. >> this is an area that typically gets these kind of storms and several states have issued states of emergency ahead of the storm, which is expected to make landfall soon in southern new england. about 50 million people are under hurricane or tropical storm warnings and mandatory evacuations are already under way in some coastal areas and officials say the time to leave before conditions get worse is right now. >> you know, a lot of people don't like to leave, especially when the sun is still shining and that's certainly the time we want people to make the transition from their house to somewhere else out of the storm's path. >> now, heavy rains, strong winds could bring some widespread power outages. there's also dangerous storm surges and flash flooding that's expected as this storm moves in. our team of correspondents is really fanned out across the northeast and new england tracking the impacts of hurricane henri. we'll check in with them throughout the morning and you can s

50 million americans in the northeast are bracing for what could be the first hurricane to hit new england in more than 30 years. the outer bands of henri are already moving onshore. amtrak canceling train services between new york and boston. >> the storm has brought record-breaking rain to new york, central park, seeing nearly 4.5 inches last night, but the big concern this morning is the storm's strong winds which could cause major power outages across several states and dangerous storm surges on the coast. utility companies, in fact, from across the country have sent more than 12,000 crews to assist with pau power restorations there. listen to officials in connecticut. >> we have put out requests and they have been fulfilled for over 4,000 crews from around the country. i want to caution everybody to look out for their neighbor,. if they are elderly, senior citizens, check on them. prepare. batteries, water, enough food to get you through for a period of, say, three, four, five days. and we just ask all of our customers to be patient, that our workers are going to do everything they ca

. >>> hurricane warnings are posted for long island and southern new england at this hour, as tropicalrm henri gathering strength and approaches the coast. new york city is under a tropical storm warning. henri is expected to make land fall sunday as a category 1 hurricane. let's bring in cnn meteorologist tyler mauldin for the latest. tyler, it's hitting an area not used to seeing hurricanes? >> that's correct. it's been about three decades, if not longer, for some of those folks to experience direct landfall. the 5:00 update from the hurricane center, tropical storm henri is out in the western atlantic churning at 70 miles per hour. and moving to the northeast at 12 miles per hour. and on this track it does have new york city and new england in its sights. that's why we have a hurricane warning in effect for portions of long island and also portions of connecticut. you'll notice here that the entire state of connecticut is under some sort of warning, either tropical storm warning or hurricane warning, that's i insane. new york city, you're under a tropical storm warning at the moment

we got very lucky, but on re isn't finished yet, as it slowly winds its way up the new england coastline, leaving a path of torrential rain, wreckage, and ruin. john hinder and al jazeera montague, new york, stay in the u. s. at least 22 people have been killed out. reco, breaking rains in flood water, surging in central tennessee. among those killed the 2 toddlers who were reportedly swept from their father's arms rescue crews of searching for dozen still missing but power outages. humphrey efforts, roads have been washed away and homes have been destroyed. china has activated its emergency flood response is heavy, rains continue to bass, a civil region just one province, almost 900000 people are affected by the storms which cause much slides and have cut off highways. major haitian gangs have offered a truce, which aid groups hope will allow earthquake relief efforts to accelerate the death toll from the august 14th earthquake has risen to more than 2200. more than 340 people are still missing. tens of thousands of homes have been destroyed, desperate crowds, and continues to scuffle b

because they are new to england. but after the british conquered canada about 3000 american and english merchants settled in canada. and these people are called the old subjects. their traditional english. and it turns out the old subjects don't like the quebec act. because they don't like that there's no elected assembly, they don't like french law. so throughout the spring of 1775, americans are sending spies into canada and canada is sending spies out. saying the new subjects are indifferent. the old subjects would welcome an american invasion. and they believe there is going to be a support for innovation in canada. and they want canada, because if they could take canada they would get the british off their back basically off their back door. this right down champ lane like trump, lane that's why that's the entry port. that's why they have seized the americans tyke on the rogue. congress also believes, and this is an interesting idea, if they could take canada they would show parliament they were serious. maybe p

the first in new england in decades. fema administrator deanne criswell joins us live. >>> soaring hospitalizations. the steep jump nationwide, five states with icus more than 90% full. >> i do not know a hospital or a system in our entire region that is not in or near crisis. >> the new cities starting mask mandates. [ crowd chanting "unmask our kids" ] as the battle heats up again over masking in schools. >>> cooling off? signs of a slowdown in the red hot housing market. price increases slipping. what buyers and sellers need to know. >>> stepping down. mike richards calling it quits after being named "jeopardy!" host just last week. his comments on the departure, the job of replacing the late alex trebek now back to square one. >>> and from pitcher to broadcaster, little league legend mo'ne davis now finding success in the broadcast booth. the mlb game she'll be commentating on as she joins us live this morning. >>> hey, good morning, everybody, on a very busy saturday morning. we're following two major stories right

congregationalists in new england.k is very powerful of many different and quakers, in pennsylvania and delaware. angle is an especially in virginia and the carolinas rated then there going to be new, the shakers and the methodist and more baptist coming aboard. baptists are important in virginia. and madison befriends the baptist in particular. so that is a a lot of religious diversity that will initially is selling block party catholics in maryland, but america for strategic reasons think that you have to come together read the join or die. so much so that the first confederation that congress actually writes a letter to the crossing what you join us. we thought of war against you that the french and indian war and even though your catholic and we are protestants, french-speaking and we are english speaking, geo strategically, it's going to be useful for us to have you on board. so you don't stabbed him in the back to work on the rest on the coast. so the cinnamon ice letter. this is like any membership, you get this

flash flood watches now stretch all the way into new england. these brothers and their dog rescued today in jamesburg, new jersey, and these images from the belt parkway in new york. throughout the region at least 1,000 flight cancellations. we have team coverage beginning with janai norman in springfield, massachusetts. >> reporter: tonight, the first tropical storm to hit new england in 15 years crashing ashore. henri lashing parts of the northeast and new england with heavy rain and storm surge slamming into coastal rhode island. in narragansett, a wcvb camera capturing the wind knocking this man over. >> i tried to take cover behind there just to get some photos. and a gus must have just taken me out. >> reporter: officials urging everyone to stay home. >> if you venture out, you are not only putting your own life at risk, but you're endangering our first responders. >> reporter: we are on the highway headed towards western massachusetts just outside of springfield. that rain is coming down. we can feel the wind as we're driving on the highwa

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we got very lucky, but on re isn't finished yet, as it slowly winds its way up the new england coastline, leaving a path of torrential rain, wreckage, and ruin. john henry and al jazeera montague new york, while staying in the united states and at least 22 people have been killed after flooding in central tennessee. up to 17 inches of rain fell on saturday. that shattered a previous record. the rescue cruise is searching for dozens who are still missing, but power cancer hampering those efforts, roads to be washed away, and homes destroyed still to come here on al jazeera, new zealand prime minister. an answer is a strict to lockdown after a surgeon corona virus. ah hello there, things are going to get cooler across southern parts of europe over the next few days. but there's still going to be lots of dry conditions around them. plenty of sunshine, and that's true of the british isles. we are going to see sunshine coming through for much of the week. after that weather system swelled off for the ease. so the heavy falls are going to be across parts of germany and poland. we have got red

and that's what we're going to see across the northeast in new england. rom the national weather service in new york city that central park broke a record rainfall record yesterday. um, they picked up 4.45 inches of rain. the previous record which was from the late-19th century, so a longstanding record, was 4.19 inches. so this is already a record-setting rain event as the system pushes to the north. we are going to see more in the way of records being broken across the northeast in terms of rainfall. the save grace here is that -- um -- hurricanes, tropical systems, to be really strong, they want sea surface temperatures -- that's how warm the -- the ocean is. they want those temperatures to be like bathtub warm. 78 degrees fahrenheit or hotter. right offshore of new england, we've got temperatures that are, like, low-to-mid-70s. so that's going to help this system break down a little bit. and probably make landfall as a strong tropical storm. but it could be close to a category 1 hurricane so we continue to have these hurricane warnings hoisted for long

bishops have political power in england. and no new dioceses had been created for ewa long time so it would have been a very big act of lparliament to create a bishop for the colonies. it would have been anextreme extension of parliamentary authority . that was what happened and it wasn't going to happen partly because it would have been politically problematic in england and what upset established as the syrians would have been concerned about an extension of religious authority in that direction but the other thing is anglicans in the colonies did not want a bishop. southern anglicans were very certain wanted local control over their clergy and one of the main jobs of the bishop is to oversee a disciplined local church and the governor of maryland and virginia did not want some external control. they want to be able to select their own clergy so most of what becomes the us anglicans didn't want it either a political nonstarter . you get this tempest in a teapot and then it dissipates because when sort of more pressing issues of parli