The rapid spread of the highly contagious Delta Variant now pushing the number of new covid cases to over 00100,000 cases a day. But the highest number of vaccinations were given today in a month. Also tonight, the investigation into embattled new York Governor Andrew Cuomo is expanding. Materials have been requested from the States Attorney General to determine whether the allegations of Sexual Misconduct lodged by multiple Women Amount to potential crimes. And president Joe Biden heralding the heroism of police officers, signing a bill to award the Gold Medal to Capitol Police and d. C. Police forces. The tragedy of that day deserves the truth above all else. We cannot allow history to be rewritten. We cannot allow the heroism of these officers to be forgotten. We have to understand what happened. The honest and unvarnished truth. We havto face it. I want to bring in now cnn white House Correspondent john harwood. John, good evening, thank you so much. Powerful words from President B
a woman armed with a rifle targets a houston mega church what we know, coming up. and just the second time a super bowl has gone into overtime. we ll have all the highlights live from allegiant stadium in las vegas. live from atlanta, this is d cnn newsroom with michael holmes. we begin in gaza where two hostages have been rescued during the special operation overnight from rafah. they are at a medical facility in israel where they re said to be in good condition. the red kescrescent society say rafah was targeted by dozens of airstrikes that killed dozens of people. tell us more about this operation and rescue and how it went down. reporter: yeah, there are two people freed. fernando marmen, who is 60 years old, and a 70-year-old. we just heard from the son-in-law saying that he s already visited with his father-in-law, that he is in bed, that he is sort of shocked by the situation but he s okay. that he s looking pale, understandable the son-in-law has said s been