podium place. stage fifteen was won by wout poels by more than two minutes. it was the dutchman s first tour de france stage victory. vingegaard and pogarcer crossed the line together after a brief battle on the final climb. the race resumes on tuesday after a rest day. ireland will have to do without their captain jonny sexton for all their world cup warm up matches after he was banned for misconduct. the fly half was given a 3 game ban for confrontational and aggressive behaviour towards match officials following his leinster side s european cup final defeat back in may. it means sexton can t play in the fixtures against italy, england and samoa, but he will be available for ireland s world cup opener against romania on the 9th september. sexton is planning to retire after this world cup. britain s wheelchair racer hannah cockroft has won a 14th world title continuing her dominance in the 800m.
police conducted a welfare check on suspended grisly star john murant after he posted a series of cryptic messages on social media. in four now deleted posts on his instagram morant wrote affectionate messages to his parents and daughter and concluded with a photo of himself being interviewed after a game that was simply captioned, bye. a spokesperson for the shelby county sheriff s office confirmed to the associated press that deputies checked on morant at his home saying the player is fine and is now taking a break from social media. morant was suspended from all team activities by the grizzlies earlier this month following a second video of him holding a gun streamed on instagram live. the first video cost morant an eight game ban back in march along with nearly $700,000 in salary. his current suspension is pending in league review. let s turn now to major league
myself. his current suspension by the grizzlies is pending a league review of the video in question. he served an eight game ban over similar in march. time now for the weather and let s go to meteorologist bill karins for the forecast. how s it looking out there? a little better than yesterday. we didn t have any tornadoes, but there was just a lot of thunderstorms with wind damage. in all we had over 121 reports and charlotte and also southern virginia and spotty weather in northern virginia. for today and this morning a lot of that is over with. and even the outer banks cleared out. interstate 55 we ve had pretty good storms on it, and those are drifting towards columbus. then this afternoon you ll need your umbrella in areas of the southeast, kind of your typical afternoon summer-like storms and a few of them could be severe. and montgomery, alabama, all the
good evening, everyone. great to have you with us. i m erica hill in tonight for alison camerata. welcome to cnn. tonight we have much more. on the biggest story of this night. the supreme court, of course, protecting access to a widely used abortion drug by freezing lower court rulings that restricted its usage. big victory for the biden administration. it is far from the end, though the ruling means the appeals process now will play out and it is almost guaranteed the case. will eventually land back before the justices. in the meantime, though, the fda approval of medford cristante stands as does current access plus turmoil in the nfl tonight, three players suspended indefinitely to others slapped with a six game ban. so what they do is the punishment fair. and it wouldn t be a friday night here without a news quiz. see, if you know more about what happened this week. they are distinguished panelists. here is my panel tonight. defense attorney mr maris. john avlon, our senior politic