she is sending a criminal referral to the irs and federal prosecutors in manhattan. just hours later, a federal appeals court gave trump a huge setback in his fight over classified government documents seized from mar-a-lago. that panel freed federal investigators to use those classified papers as a part of their pro. judge aileen can in, a trump appointee, they had blocked investigators from reviewing those documents until an outside judge could review them. on wednesday, the 11th circuit court of appeals said that can in abused her authority by demanding the documents be reviewed. two of the three of the appeals court judges are trump appointees. we are not done yet. also on wednesday, writer eugene tell said that she will sue trump under a new law that lets sexual assault victims file civil lawsuits no matter when the statute of limitations expire. carol said that trump raped her in a manhattan dressing room in the 1990s. caro has also filed a defamation suit against trump
the hours long standoff that followed. gun fire was exchanged. brennan: gas prices fall to the lowest in five months. errol barnett talks to drivers still feeling the pain. reporter: so you re encouraged by this but still i m looking for more improvement. brennan: c.d.c. s covid guidelines. more trantwo and a half years after the virus hit, the u.s. loosens restrictions. dr. job jon is here to make sense of it all. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. brennan: good evening, and thank you for joining us. i m margaret brennan in for norah. tonight, the department of justice is asking a federal court to unseal the warrant that the f.b.i. used to search the florida home of former president donald trump. agents were looking for classified documents that may have illegally been taken from the white house. we learned today that investigators first subpoenaed those records this spring. 15 boxes of presidential record
plan to assert the will, usurp the will of the american people and remain in power. it was an explosive prime time event. the house select committee held its eighth public hearing, laying out what former president trump did and did not do while a mob of his supporters storm the capitol on january 6th. good morning. and welcome to way too early. on this friday, july 22nd. i m jonathan lemire. thanks for being here. we have a lot to get to this morning. including president joe biden testing positive for covid. the president is said to be experiencing mild symptoms, we ll talk it a medical expert about this later in the show, and provide an update on the president s condition. but we begin with last night s dramatic january 6th hearing. we learned that as violence raged on capitol hill, former president trump sat cloistered in a private dining room watching as as the chaos unfolded. using never before seen evidence and testimony, the committee laid out the case that trump no
might s ancient sequoias as wildfires close in. i m standing right in front of the grizzly giant and we ve got a sprinkler system set up in front of it. i m pamela brown in washington. you re live in the cnn newsroom. we want to take you right now to mariposa, california as evacuations are under way as fires threaten the ancient sequoias. our nick watt has just arrived on the scene. nick, how serious is the season there, and what are they doing to protect these incredibly special trees? reporter: well, we just have heard that the fight is going in the right direction, but it is still a huge fight. the flames are within a mile or two of mariposa grove which is home to about 500 of these giant, beautiful, ancient sequoia freeze, so the way that they are trying to contain the fireworks the way they are trying to keep those trees safe, they have 360 personnel on the ground, including hot shot cruise who are digging trenches around mariposa grove, a kind of break to try to
space business. o donnell: cbs mark strassmann reports tonight on why artemis 1 failed to launch and when nasa will try again. and the end of an era. the greatest of all time, serena williams, takes center court at the u.s. open, and cbs jericka duncan is there. capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. top officials are beginning to assess whether intelligence was compromised as they reviewed the material seized from former president donald trump s mar-a-lago report. the justice department believes some of those documents includes intelligence gathering and information derived from clandestine human sources. those are among america s most closely held secrets. ands it comes as a federal judge is indicating she is open to appointing what s called a special master. that s a neutral party to examine those materials. the hearing on that is set for thursday. so this week is already proving to be a big one. there are signs tonight that it may be too lat