i'm george howell. "cnn newsroom" starts right now. 4:00 a.m. on the east coast, in italy, people are struggling with loss and sadness as they bury victims from the earthquake wednesday. they held a state funeral saturday which was also a national day of mourning. it reduced one town to rubble and badly damaged another. it is the human loss that is most painful in these communities. nearly 300 dead and many more are missing. atika shubert has more now on the service. >> reporter: a school gymnasium turned makeshift chapel fit for a state funeral. 35 coffins each with a bouquet of flowers and a picture of the person lost in italy's devastating earthquake. beside them, family members, many survivors themselves, their broken limbs in casts, faces bruised and bandaged, their eyes red and swollen from crying. italy's prime minister and president attended offering condolences to those who lost loved one, thanking those who pulled survivors from the rubble. a bishop led the service mentioning victims by name i

at a nuclear summit on friday, mr. obama said the republican presidential candidate doesn't know much about foreign policy or the world, for that matter. meanwhile, donald trump says he is not ruling out a third-party bid for the white house. it's not the first time the billionaire has said he's leaving the door open for an independent run. the front-runner says he wants to run as a republican but it depends upon how he is treated by the party's leaders at convention. >>> a construction company faces numerous charges, including attempted murder in connection with the collapse of an overpass in kolkata, india. at least 24 people died when a section of that bridge, which was under construction, crashed on thursday. an executive at the company denies any fault. >>> now to the migrant crisis in europe. police say that hundreds of migrants and refugees tore down part of a razor wire fence surrounding a building where they were being held on a greek island. they marched ten kilometers, that's about 6.2 miles, to a port to pr

by the name of mr. holes and mr. howells grand and became a fairly good novelist in america later. but this man was a quaker and he owned a state-of-the-art mail and wales, 80 employees. and he said to the president, mr. president, i like the idea that freedom expands to republic. i would like to bring my mail to virginia and start and help you become self-sufficient. and he said, but i know that you probably are not going to get many farm boys to work in the fact jury. so outside of what we can do. you have a lot of slaves. they are very talented young man and young women and we will ring them into the factory and a kind of internship. after they learned the skills necessary to make good cloth, they will be given their freedom, a transitional experiment. when i read this letter i said washington threw that out the coach window is no way that will sell in virginia. that not what he did. he said the letter, endorsed the plan, senate two the governor and said we had to think about kids. in the virginia government in 20 countries in 1990 that of representative road to freedom through

howells. he had a grandson who became a fairly good novelist in america later. this man was a quaker and he owned a state-of-the-art mill in wales, 80 employees in those days, and he said to the president, mr. president, i like the idea of the freedom and the expansiveness of the republic. i'd like to bring my mill to virginia and start and help you become self-sufficient. he said, but i know that you probably are not going to get many farm boys to come and work in the factories. i'll tell you what we can do. you have very talented young men and young women and we will bring them into the factory in a kind of internship. after they learn the skills necessary to make good cloth, they will be given their freedom. it will will be a transitional experiment. now when i read this letter i thought i bet washington just through this out the coach indo. that's not what he did. he took the letter, endorsed the plan, sent it sent it to the governor of virginia, a man by the name of beverly and said we ought to think about this. everyone in the virginia government in 1790 n