heat advisories are in place for more than 58 million americans. brittney griner s message to the white house. her letter to president biden, handwritten from a russian prison, terrified she might be there forever. and on this fourth of july, how freedom means something different to griner today. shark attack. a lifeguard playing the victim in a training drill is bitten by a shark. how he fought back. and, baseball for the social media generation it s driving fans bananas. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. garrett: good evening to our viewers in the west. thank you for joining us on this july fourth. i m major garrett, in for norah. tonight, at least six people killed and dozens more wounded in the nation s latest mass shooting. it targeted an independence day parade in suburban chicago. and some breaking news: the manhunt for the person of interest, 22-year-old robert e. cremo iii, is over. police say the gunman open
courage to do the right thing. and so, i wanted to bring you my daughter, my daughter is a two-time cancer survivor at nine years old. can you do it? would you like to go to disneyland today? okay, let s go to disneyland! oh, yeah! are you coming? i m coming to. she earned all these beads during her cancer treatment program. each bead represents something different. for example, red represents when she had black when she got booked with a needle, yellow for inpatient state, white for chemotherapy. this is what you earned the first month. i d like to share with you what she s earned over the last two times fighting cancer. a few of the photos, i just wanna fly through real quick. to some of them that we ve met, the women who are local, they kept with us last weekend. he s about to lose a second i. his little boy has leukemia. he s doing all right. we ve had several who passed away. we need you to step in and protect us, and protect our children, do the right thin
archie battersbee s parents apply to the european court of human rights to try to postpone the removal of his life support, which was due to begin today. a review has found former met police chief, dame cressida dick, may have breached professional standards during an investigation into the murder of the private detective daniel morgan. the delivery of ballots for the conservative leadership election is delayed, after the security agency gchq warned that cyber hackers could change people s votes. another hosepipe ban is on the way, after all the hot dry weather more than a million people will be affected in kent and sussex. hello, good afternoon, welcome to bbc news. foreign ministers from the g7 have said there is nojustification for what they called china s aggressive military drills in the taiwan strait. the exercises which are taking place over the next four days from tomorrow are in response to a visit to taiwan by the speaker of the us house of representatives
civil rights campaigners, who s died at the age of 93. good evening and welcome to bbc news. the european court of human rights has tonight refused an application by the parents of archie battersbee to postpone the removal of his life support, effectively ending the family s legal battle. doctors who say archie is brain stem dead were waiting for a decision from the court before beginning the withdrawal of his treatment. the 12 year old has been in a coma since an accident at his home in essex in april. let s go live now to the royal london hospital in east london, where archie has been receiving his life support treatment since april. charlotte gallacher is there. charlotte, can you bring us up to speed with these latest developments?- speed with these latest developments? speed with these latest develoments? , . , , speed with these latest develoments? , , . developments? this was the news that archie battersbee s developments? this was the news that archie battersbee