Believe im the best qualified to govern and i think im the best qualified to win in a Highstakes Press Conference, President Biden unapologetic in his decision just jin to seek a second term. The question did it change any minds among anxious democrats nervous about his decision to run for Reelection Holding Tonight because for me, the answer that is i just dont see that trajectory. I dont see the numbers and texas where Beryl Hit as a hurricane on monday more than 1 Million people are still without Electricity trinity, all those people without power there, Houston Temperatures backup feeling around 100 live, from london. This is Cnn Newsroom with Max Foster hello, a warm welcome to our viewers joining us Around The World. Im Max Foster. Its friday, july the 12th, 9 00 a. M. Here in london 4 00 a. M. In washington where the White House is praising Joe Bidens Nato Press Conference as a success, even as more democratic lawmakers call on him to end his campaign, mr. Biden answered questio
They ve lost one or even both parents, and they are now having to face a very uncertain future all alone. England s mayors urge the government to think again about making masks mandatory on public transport as 42,000 cases of coronavirus are recorded in a single day. And britney spears is back in court as her fight to end her father s conservatorship gathers pace. We start in south africa, where the number of people killed in the disorder that s gripped parts of the country has risen to 72. The country s now facing the biggest security challenge since president cyril ramaphosa became president in 2018. The catalyst was the arrest, last week, of former president jacob zuma. But it s gone beyond that now. We ll get onto to that in a bit. But first, take a look at these images. What you just saw there is a mother throwing her baby to safety from a burning building in durban. Rioters targeted shops on the ground floor there and then set the building on fire. The mother with her baby were
Administration leading up to the january 6 attack on the capitol. I m going to take you inside what we now know about this stunning 24day period between the electoral college vote and the january 6 certification of that vote. When our democracy, yes, was hanging on by a thread. I want to start on the day of the electoral college vote, december 14. That s when the deputy attorney general at the time, jeffrey rosen, gets an email from the white house with the subject line, from potus. Attached to the email are materials alleging that voter fraud in michigan, where trump lost, with talking points alleging a coverup there. That email hits rosen s in box right before the president announces that bill barr is out as attorney general and that rosen will now be the acting attorney general at doj. Bill barr leaves officially on december 23rd, putting rosen in charge of the department on that day. I want to go a few days later. Six day of him acting attorney general. He gets another email from t
i m poppy harlow, in for erin burnett. cnn learning 26 people have died from the severe winter weather that has hammered the lone star state, as officials brace for another night of below freezing temperatures. expected to push the water system to the brink. 14.9 million people across texas are being told to boil water, or they have no water at all. that s more than half of the state s population. they re also dealing with burst pipes and water treatment plants that are offline. officials say it could be days before we get the water back. people desperate to get water, military planes shipping water to hard-hit areas. and food is almost as scarce as water in some places. and the estimated financial toll is $18 billion from the deep freeze. that is equivalent to the damage from a major hurricane. and now, president biden says he s making plans to visit the hard-hit state. as texans wait for more than 400,000 doses of covid vaccine that were expected to already arrive this week
thanks, jonathan. i m jonathan capehart in for lawrence o donnell. tonight, day five. humanitarian crisis in texas. the good news, power s been restored to most of the state. the number of households without electricity is down from 4 million to around 100,000. but there s a new danger putting texans at risk, millions are now confronting a water crisis. 13 million texans don t have safe drinking water due to cracked pipes, frozen wells and water treatment plants that have been knocked off line. the people of texas are suffering because of decades of republican intransigence. republicans refuse to take action to weatherize water systems from the cold, and the texas tribune reports texas officials knew winter storms could leave the state s power grid vulnerable, but they left the choice to prepare for harsh weather up to the power companies, many of which opted against the costly upgrades. texas republicans are to blame for these failures, let s be clear, and democrats ar