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Now here's today's news, discerned differently.

More than 4 million people in Florida are under hurricane warnings as tropical storm

Elsa approaches landfall this morning.

The system became a Category 1 hurricane yesterday before weakening to a tropical storm early

today.

Millions of people are facing life-threatening storm surges, heavy winds, potential isolated tornadoes,

and heavy rains that could cause flooding up and down the Florida coast. Meanwhile, the search

for victims of the Surfside Florida building collapse reached its 14th day today. Eight more

deaths have been announced, bringing the death toll to three

dozen, with more than 100 people still unaccounted for. Former President Jimmy Carter and

his wife Rosalind have been married 75 years today, the longest marriage in presidential

history, from living in publicly subsidized housing

while running a peanut warehouse to becoming governor of Georgia and president of the United States,

theirs is a made-in-America story. Their anniversary is not the only auspicious event on this day.

On July 7, 1981, President Ronald Reagan nominated Sandra

Day O'Connor to be the first female Supreme Court justice in U.S. history. On this day,

five years earlier, female cadets enrolled at West Point for the first time. However, the storm in

Florida and the condominium tragedy remind us of

our finitude as Americans and as humans. The bodies of two young sisters pulled from the rubble

of the Florida condo building were buried in the same casket yesterday alongside their parents.

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