archives. despite the vast differences between president biden s case and donald trump s, attorney merrick garland made this announcement earlier this week. i m here today to be announced the appointment of roberts her as a special counsel, pursuing department of justice regulations governing such matters. this appointment underscores the departments commitment to both independents and accountability, in particularly sensitive manners. and to making decisions indisputably guided only by the facts in the law. joining me now is why our correspondent allie raffa. ali, will come in. thank you for starting us off this morning. what are you hearing from the white house this morning? cory, yeah. good morning. president biden is waking up in his bloomington home, where we now know that two of those three discoveries of classified materials were found just in the last month and this is, those discoveries and the timing of the white house acknowledgment of them now under intense
in paris, arkansas, some people still do not have power, following strong storm under ant warning. it was miserably hot. all ud down all night because it was too hot. i sweat so bad. the heat also building in the northeast, new york, philadelphia, and boston are expected to see a heat index around 100 degrees today. this is serious heat and we re really concerned about those, particularly with pre-existing respiratory conditions. heat is the number one cause of weather related deaths in the u.s. one heat expert says if you have air conditioning, stay inside. but if you don t if they don t, to have windows open with a fan. to cool off their extremities, their feet, their hands in cool ice baths. put cold towels on the back of their necks. and to check on their friends, family, and neighbors. and there is no relief in sight. around 275 million americans expecting to see a high above 90 degrees. and more than 60 million people are expected to see a high at o
many states will. at least half a dozen already are, as of yesterday. now the rule has been overturned, 26 states are certainly to ban abortion in the coming days and months according to the institute. it advocates for reproductive rights. they have so-called trigger bans on the books. they are laws designed to automatically ban abortion if roe were to be overturned. officials and seven of those states, missouri, south dakota, louisiana, kentucky, oklahoma, utah, and arkansas, have already activated these bands. chief justice john roberts was the only conservative justice that disagreed with the court s decision. he disagreed. he ruled in favor of upholding mississippi s 50-week abortion ban. roberts did not vote to overturn roe entirely. however, all three justices appointed by the now twice impeached president now voted to overturn. roe nancy pelosi singled him out in her remarks yesterday. take a listen. how about those justices coming before the senators and saying that
cnn s blake is in taipei. blake, let s start with you. how much of a surprise was this, is this congressional visit? well, alex, look, these kinds of visits happen from time to time. and we don t often hear about them until after the arrival, and in this case, while taiwan s ministry of foreign affairs say the visit was aannounced, it s the timing that s perhaps the biggest surprise, especially after china reacted so strongly against speaker pelosi s visit. that reaction involved nearly a week of live fire drills surrounding taiwan with war planes and military vessels and missiles that flew over the self-governed island for the first time. this is the second time this month a surprise delegation has made this trip to taiwan here. two weeks ago, house speaker nancy pelosi. this time, a delegation led by ed markey during their two day visit, taiwan s foreign ministry says the group of u.s. lawmakers is going to meet with the democratic island s president, foreign minister, an
investigation has found so far. cnn s senior justice correspondent, evan perez, is live from outside the district court. cnn congressional correspondent ryan nobles is on capitol hill. and cnn legal analyst elliot williams is also with us. evan, explain the indictment and what happens next for navarro. reporter: well, alison, we re expecting that peter navarro is going to appear before a judge in the coming minutes here at the courthouse in d.c. behind me. he s facing two counts. one for failing to turn over documents to the january 6th committee. and a second count for failing to appear before a deposition. now, navarro was referred by the committee, by congress for prosecution just a couple months ago, along with dan scavino, another trump adviser. this indictment is only against peter navarro because the justice department has been looking at this, and in the case of navarro they decided he simply has less protections for his status as an adviser to the former president.