path across this entire country. data from the cdc shows that more than half of the u.s. population lives in a county with high community transmission as we speak, and they predict we will soon see hospitalizations begin to increase as well. in los angeles county, there s a concern they re so concerned that they re talking about even reviving an indoor mask mandate within the next two weeks. cnn s camila bernal is at the santa monica pier with more. camila, how much have transmission rates actually increased in l.a. county? well, look, the county says they re seeing about 9,000 cases every single day, and the problem is that hospitalizations are increasing. they say that compared to last month they ve seen an 88% increase. so for every 100,000 people that are here, 10.5 more or less, are having to be hospitalized and that s what s concerning for them. so they say that if those numbers stay or increase over the next couple of weeks, what s going to happen is that everyone
but senior republicans including former vice president mike pence and mitch mcconnell welcome the ruling saying it s a victory for the unborn. fifty years of a legally enshrined right to abortion in the united states has been brought to an end after the country s supreme court decided to overturn its landmark ruling made in 1973. it means tens of millions of women across the us do not have their right to an abortion guaranteed by the constitution and individual us states are now legally entitled to ban the procedure. up to half of america s 50 states are expected to do so and 13 have already passed so called trigger laws which automatically outlaw abortion with the court s ruling. our north america editor sarah smith is at the supreme court for us now. this is a huge, historic moment for america. as they hear the news from the court, there isjubilation from anti abortionists. life won today! life won today, they chant, celebrating a victory after almost 50 yea
your vote, you can act. you can have the final word. this is not over. we went off the air at 10:00 a.m. on friday, and ten minutes later, this. this is an nbc news special report. . we have just received word of a decision in one of the most consequential cases before the supreme court in decades. the monumental ruling by the supreme court finally handed down more than a month after that unprecedented leak of a draft opinion suggesting the nation s highest court was poised to overturn the landmark 1973 roe v. wade case. the nation s highest court ruling 6-3 to uphold the mississippi abortion ban being challenged. chief justice john roberts supported that, but stopped short of overturning roe. that vote was 5-4, ending the constitutional protected right to abortion after nearly 50 years. the results follow decades after opponents of abortion made possible by three appointees to the high court by former presidential donald trump. the ruling reversed planned parenthoo
good evening to you ryan. once again. what do you learning about these top-end states testifying before the grand jury? don, i was good to be with you, this is a significant development. in terms of the department of justice s investigation into donald trump s election interference and how that led to what happened here on january 6th. both jacobs and marc short were really kind of the first big win this is that the january 6th flight committee were able to cooperate that right inside that war room of the white house, the west wing, the oval office, on the days leading up to january 6th. but their testimony revealed to the committee at that time with the intense pressure campaign that was put on by president mike pence is period of time. and the steps that pence did to resist that. it also really shed a light on things like the fake elector plot that was going on around the country. these are all things we didn t previously know until the committee was able to really crack
it cannot come at a more critical time. with more legal exposure for the twice impeached former president after cassidy hutchinson provided a smoking gun, starting with as she exposed in the clearest detail yet that the former president was aware of the threat of violence from his supporters on january 6. i was in the vicinity of a conversation where i overheard the president say something to the effect of, i don t fin care that they have weapons. they re not here to hurt me. take the fin mags away. let my people in. they can march to the capitol here. that s damning in light of the former president s speech to his armed followers. fight like hell. if you don t fight like hell, you are not going to have a country anymore. that kind of fight like hell, fight, fight, fight language was what the former president s lawyers said would be foolish to include. they were urging the speech writers to not include that language for legal concerns and also for the optics of wh