capitol under siege. also tonight, deadly heat across the globe and in america 100 million people under heat alerts in more than two dozen states. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room. tonight, president biden s covid diagnosis and what comes next. his top covid official the president himself sent out a brief video message about how he s doing, and let s go to jeff zeleny joining us from the white house. how is the president feeling tonight. wolf, officials tell me tonight that president biden is feeling quite well. he s been working remotely, if you will from the residence of the white house throughout the day making telephone calls holding meetings virtually and this comes, thof course, as the first time he s tested positive for covid-19 and he s in the first year and a half of his presidency trying to dodge this, and today he did test positive and he was just on his way to travelin
visit to jerusalem. let s watch. president biden: i was making a speech and i had a terrible headache. excuse me, a terrible headache, and sorry. i had a terrible headache. this was years ago. i did a very stupid thing. harris: so again, the president struggling a bit there. the white house doctors announced they do not believe his symptoms from covid began before yesterday. that was last friday what we showed you. just for perspective. and yesterday he traveled to massachusetts where he announced executive action on climate change. jacqui heinrich is live at the white house. jacqui, all of that recent travel and exposure and also questions about who got exposed to him now that the white house hopefully can answer questions when they talk with the nation live from the white house press briefing room coming up later. that s right. we ll hear from the press secretary and also the white house doctor this afternoon. we weren t slated to have a briefing today. the presiden
there are the military costs, the billions of dollars spent, the cities destroyed and the territories seized. the military, the lives lost, the refugees forced from their homes, the disruption to daily lives for ukrainians living in the shadow of putin s war, not to mention the spike in food and and energy costs beyond the theater of war, and these costs all continue to mount. this week, the u.s. pledged nearly $3 billion in additional security aid to ukraine. this comes as putin decreed in the size of the military as well. after half a year of war, what would it bring to bring this conflict to a close? i want to speak to john kirby now. admiral kirby, thank you for taking the time to be with us this morning. great to be with you, jim. first let s begin with the state of the war a half year in. the u.s. has given its biggest military package so far, and you increasingly hear from ukrainians not just about defending ground or defending territory, but we re seeing them atta
miles beyond it, further than any spacecraft intended to carry humans. cameras inside and outside orion will document the trip because this crew is unmanned but not unmannequined. a suited mannequin that will collect data on what future human crews might experience as nasa prepares for a lunar landing in 2025. we re sending mannequins into space. i suppose maybe that s been done before. none of this happens if the weather doesn t cooperate. i m sure nasa is on pins and needles about all of this. how is it looking for tomorrow? reporter: that s right, jim. when it comes to rocket launches everyone s eyes are on mother nature and right now nasa is saying that the conditions are 80% favorable for a launch tomorrow morning. the launch window opens at 8:33 a.m. eastern time and the countdown clock has already started, jim, so people are pretty optimistic this will take flight, the weather will not be the deciding factor but, also, a lot of folks are concerned about the fact that
being under police investigation himself. authorities now confirming a long history of calls from the home. also tonight, in the face of unrelenting pressure, prime minister boris johnson resigns. his own party and cabinet ministers leaving him no choice. the final scandal forcing him out of office. and what happens now. a rare look at some of the u.s. veterans on the ground in ukraine. an elite group of american volunteer medics operating near the front lines, preparing far for a top secret mission. newly released video shows the moments a baggage handler stole a plane from seattle s sea-tac airport. flying for several hours before crashing. what investigators are saying about how he did it and the mystery that remains. former minneapolis police officer derek chauvin sentenced to 21 years in prison for violating george floyd s civil rights. chauvin with a message to floyd s family. president biden awarding the nation s highest civilian honor to 17 americans. a wide