to carry a gun. the justices this morning throwing out a new york law that required residents to prove they had a reason to carry a gun outside the home. the ruling was 6-3 with justice clarence thomas writing for the conservative majority. he said the special cause to carry a concealed handgun was a violation of the second amendment right to bear arms. we have more details on this dramatic decision. reporter: the immediate affect is to strike down this gun law in new york. it required people to show proper cause to get a license to carry a concealed handgun in public. it s now struck down similar laws in six other states will also be struck. more consequentially, this decision will also prompt challenges to all kinds of gun laws across the country. and that s because this decision is really changing the framework on how judges will evaluate gun laws moving forward, and this conservative court is saying for the first time that the constitution guarantees the right to carry
testify next week and the role the white house supreme court justice plaidyed in overturning the election. the key moment in the fight against coronavirus. the cdc set to vote on recommending vaccines for young children. . good morning, it s saturday, june 18th. we are grateful that you re starting your weekend with us. it s always a pleasure to be with you. good to see you, too, boris. let s talk about the new fears that we re learning about about the u.s. economy and it is headed towards a recession. friday marked the end of a rocky week after the federal reserve announced the largest interest rate hike in decades in an attempt to tame inflation. the dow down, the s&p slightly higher but still the worst week since 2020. we also learned that wages in the united states are climbing at their fastest rate since the mid 1980s, but inflation has climbed up so quickly that workers have been been handed a pay cut. america is in a stronger position than any other nation
the worst drought in 1200 years . it is scary to think we cannot do this because we know have water to do it. there is this assumption that it will always be there, still, it s always not there. they might have been captured by the russians they have been fighting. we expect they were from the tank shooting with a blast. he had this and this big burden on him to serve the people however he can. i want to see him back safely. i am jessica dean in washington. pamela house tonight off. you are in the cnn newsroom. we begin this hour with your wallet, and the beating it has taken in recent days, weeks and months. the s&p 500 ended its first week since march of 2020. that is when the pandemic hit. for a second straight day, the dow closed between 30,000. americans are filling the worst inflation now since 1981. consumer prices shot up by 8.6% ending in may. record gas prices and skyrocketing airline tickets are battering summer travel plans. just a few days ago, the federa
second hearing on the january 6th insurrection. the select committee has planned six more hearings this month to present itself preliminary f findings and they say their por they insist they will present evidence this month proving the deadly riot on january 6th was the culmination of an elaborate plan to overturn the election. since the first hearing on thursday, trump and his supporters have been pushing back among the emerging narrative. we have more on it from jessica snyder. it s now effectively a riot. reporter: tonight the impact being felt from the first hearing as they set the stage for what s to come. some republicans are looking to discredit the findings. while the former president is reacting to this stunning allegation. you were aware of the rioters chants, hang mike pence, the former president said maybe the fans have the right idea. trump responded i never said hang mike pence. it s a made up story or fake news. the committee s first hearing focused o
video of atrocities, including this surveillance video obtained by cnn which shows russian soldiers shooting two unarmed civilians as they walked away from an encounter on the outskirts of kyiv. prosecutors say they are investigating this as a war crime. nic robertson is in finland this morning. s sara, tell us more. this camera stayed on, showing this all the way through from beginning to end. it is incredibly disturbing to watch but what it reveals are russian soldiers shooting two men as they walk away. this is a stark example of a potential war crime perspetrate by russian forces, an example the world has not yet seen, russian soldiers shooting two civilians in the back. cnn obtained the surveillance video taken from this dealership video. russians tried and failed to shell their way to the capitol. the fight along this road was clearly fierce. but what happened outside this business was not a battle between soldiers or even soldiers and armed civilians. it was a cowa