Joe biden and Kamala Harris make their first appearance as the democratic ticket bashing the president and reaching out to democrats. And police dog outrage. A Salt Lake City officer is suspended for ordering his canine to attack a black man who says he was trying to obey. First, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This has been one of the most dangerous and erratic wildfires that ive covered in my entire career here. That fire sounded like a freight train. A huge brush fire erupting in Southern California prompting evacuations. The lake fire seems to be burning out of control. The inferno came dangerously close to Public Safety vehicles. Fire Officials Say they have been witnessing extreme fire behavior. The biden harris democratic ticket stepping into history. Harris criticized the administrations response to the coronavirus pandemic. The reason that an american dies of covid19 every 80 seconds. The president announced new steps, he says, will help schools reopen safel
results? and face-to-face with a killer. a professor describing his encounter with michigan state university gunman and the quick thinking that may have saved lives. plus, a major recall of tesla cars. the car discovered a problem with the self-driving feature. what you need to do if you happen to own one of these vehicles. welcome. we start with trump speaking about the unidentified object shot out of the sky. president biden says nothing suggests these objects are related to china s spy balloon program or that they were surveillance objects from any other country but we should note the u.s. has not yet been able to recover any of the debris from the three objects shot down over the weekend because of remote locations and severe weather. president biden also said he hopes to speak with chinese president xi jinping soon although we should also note attempts by top u.s. officials to speak to their chinese counterparts have been rebuffed in recent days. let s get straight to cn
coast of myrtle beach, south carolina, collecting the wreckage of the downed balloon. republicans are condemning president biden for failing to take action on the balloon sooner. let s get the latest on the balloon and today s recovery efforts, zachary cohen is here. zachary, what more are we learning about this balloon and, i guess, at some point, they need to pull it up out of the ocean and start examining it. i think at this early stage, u.s. officials are not buying the chinese government s explanation that it was a civilian aircraft. they have strongly indicated, defense officials and administration officials, strongly told us that this was used for spying and they believe it was used to try to collect data about sensitive u.s. military sites across the country. now, that raises an being question, though, and one that the biden administration is going to have to grapple with in the next few days. they know that was the intent of this balloon, why did they not shoot it
show the ukrainian people america s unwavering support. you can hear them there, those are the air raid sirens as the two presidents walked the capitol streets. they laid a wreath outside st. michael s monastery to honor fallen ukrainian soldiers. the one-year anniversary of russia s invasion is just days away. wearing tie with the colors of ukraine s flag, president biden pledged more aid and promised the u.s. will never abandon its allies. one year later, kyiv stands. and ukraine stands. democracy stands. the americas stand with you, and the world stands with you. it s worth fighting for for as long as it takes and that s how long we ll be with you, mr. president, for as long as it takes. cnn chief white house correspondent phil mattingly joins us from warsaw, poland, and alex marquardt is in kyiv. we have heard the president say time and time again the united states will be at ukraine s side for as long as it takes. it does make a huge difference to say that from was
boosted. let s get back over to the white house to get an update from cnn s jeremy diamond. jeremy, what is the latest you re hearing? reporter: we just received a letter from joe biden s physician, dr. kevin o connor, confirming the news that the white house put out, saying that joe biden has tested positive for covid. he writes that the president tested positive this morning as part of our routine screening program. he says he tested positive on an antigen test that was confirmed via pcr testing. he confirmed what we reported on air just last hour, which is that the president is experiencing mild symptoms, including runny nose, fatigue, with an occasional dry cough, which he said started yesterday evening. i spoke to dr. jha, the white house s coronavirus coordinator. he said the president last night went to bed feeling mostly fine but did not sleep well and tested positive this morning. dr. o connor, the president s physician, is writing here that the president is fully