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Good morning to you all. Welcome to cnn this morning. Im amara walker. And im victor black well. So good to be with you. Tropical Storm Warnings are in effect this morning as lee is downgraded from a hurricane to a post Tropical Cyclone. New england starting to feel the impact of the massive storm. Boston logan is experiencing a spike in Flight Cancellations. So far, 25 of flights leaving boston have been cancelled. Thats according to flight awe ware. Lee is not expected to make landfall, but co...

The space force has only been around a couple years, but its already a critical part of the american defense. my friend and colleague tom costello got an exclusive behind the scenes look. pretty cool assignment. what was it like? >> it was eye opening. i think a lot of us have, when they first rolled out space force, there was skepticism. the steve carell comedy on netflix may have painted this with a not so flattering look, but i spent days with these officers, and they are deadly serious. >> a...

And later this morning, fox sports michael strahan will be one of six people heading to space on a blue origin flight. strahans flight set to launch at 7:45 eastern time. the faa has cleared blue origin of safety allegations brought about by a whistleblower in september. later in the show we will have a flight from texas take off and have our expert space panel bringing you live coverage of the launch. those your headlines. yet another example if you are on the sports side with the cool kids you...

Jackets. another big problem that law enforcement hopes to avoid as we head into this weekend. >> boating safety is something that we really stress especially with the fourth of july weekend. the fourth of july celebration brings an increased amount of recreational traffic to the harbor, so it increases the number of possibilities of something happening. >> reporter: now, of course, this is such a great site. as you can see, so many tourists here at the statue of liberty. but as a result, were s...

Ever since humans first began traveling into space, enthusiasts have dreamed of exploring mars. and it is moving ever closer to reality thanks to the mars 2020 rover. afrntd and t and the mission could help pave the way of human exploration. and now we go out to the jet proce propulsion lab. and this is a cool assignment. what can you tell us about it? >> reporter: well, i can tell you that im standing in front of a replica of the curiosity. but lets go to the roverer.

Day long wasnt enough, theres a gourmet meal and warm drink waiting for us at this private cabin. the 11 others who joined me on this adventure clearly knew what they were doing. me, on the other hand, could have benefited from another day on the mountain. what a cool assignment for cnn, to say the least. back country skiing, as i mentioned before is anywhere outside the resort. of course you need deep snow to cover up that terrain. afternoon there are boulders, rocks, cliffs that benefit from s...

Think is true or is the right thing. it was fascinating to see them actually listening to one another and their willingness to accept the other persons opinion. >> cool assignment. thank you for bringing that to us. i appreciate that. before we end the show, we want to head back to garrett haake on capitol hill. we have an update on the vote in the house weve been talking about. garrett, its been gavelled. looks like this is moving on to the actual vote. >> reporter: remember how i said, dont ...

roulette. straight to washington we go to lizzie oleary. were talking gas prices. they jumped 3 cents a gallon from yesterday to a national average of 6 cents a gallon. why have they gone up? >> i wish i could give you the political sound bite the politicians want, but its just not that simple. the world is big. there are three things driving this, and that is essentially the price of oil thats influenced by iran and the middle east, supply and demand, you have a lot of people, certa...