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overdrive on the road to a massive infrastructure bill. olympic glory. the latest on team u.s.a., and allyson felix s golden finish. and later, wonderful wally. a home town honors a trailblazer as she shares her story of soaring into space. i m looking out the window, and i say, wow! there goes the ground! this is the cbs weekend news. from chicago, here s adriana diaz. diaz: good evening. we begin tonight with the significant setback in america s covid recovery. new daily infections have reached their highest levels in six months, returning to numbers we haven t seen since the past winter surge. take a look. new daily cases bottomed out in june at 11,000. now they number more than 100,000. several southern states are facing their largest outbreaks of the pandemic. the worst is in florida, which had more than 134,000 cases last week. the delta variant is fueling infections, especially among the unvaccinated nationwide. and now there s concern that one of the wor ....
department in the closing days of the previous administration. he said that he had this information from his own secret sources that said the chinese intelligence had a special thermometer that could use to alter vote totals. the answer, of course, is they don t. but he asked his superiors in the justice department, joeff rosen and richard donoghue, to get a special classified briefing from the director of national intelligence to check this out. he went over for the briefing at the turn of the year, and was told that the intelligence showed there was no evidence that there was foreign interference that altered the vote total. something we ve known. and he came away not convinced. he kept pushing this idea, and we know he helped try to orchestrate a coup in the justice department, try to get trump to fire rosen. we know trump didn t do that, but it shows you how close things came in those crucial days. it s it just everything, it grows more absurd by the day. cnn ....
women. his lawyers attacking an investigation by the state attorney general as flawed and biased just as one of governor cuomo s accusers files a criminal complaint against him. also tonight with the number of new covid-19 cases surging to nearly 100,000 per day, hundreds of thousands of bikers gathering for the giant sturgis motorcycle rally in south dakota, which experts fear will be a superspreader event. we re going to hear from some of the bikers just ahead. and new focus tonight on a trump ally at the doj pushing the big lie and trying to overturn the election by claiming, without evidence, hacking by chinese intelligence. i want to bring in now cnn s senior justice correspondent evan perez. evan, good evening to you. so we are hearing more each day about what trump ally jeffrey clark was doing within the doj to overturn the election. this latest development may be the most wild of all of them. it involves listen to this a bogus claim about special thermom ....
ought to be a robust bipartisan process. the senate is working through the weekend again and working closer to passing the sweeping infrastructure bill. house stands adjourned. texas democrats win a momentary victory, blocking passage of a restrictive new gop-led voting bill. this is a victory for texas voters, but we understand the fight continues. how republicans are planning to keep up the pressure on democrats and get the bills passed. i just don t know if we re going to have enough water to get to the end. extreme drought is plaguing the west, and it is leading to water restrictions. and hardships for farmers. the olympic spirit on full display at the tokyo games. newsroom starts now. good morning to you on this saturday, august 7th. i m christi paul. hey, boris. i m boris sanchez. you are live in the cnn newsroom, and we re grateful to have you. we start with some numbers that are deflating. the u.s. averaging more than 107,000 new covid-19 c ....
there s no turning back. whitaker: raid gone wrong: a chicago family sues police after officers kick in their door and hold them at gunpoint, even two young girls. so what did you do when you saw the gun? i was crying. whitaker: olympic home coming: fans celebrate a triumphant stateside return for team u.s.a.. and the ten-year-old who proves kindness is contagious. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. whitaker: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. norah is off tonight, i m bill whitaker. we re going to begin tonight in the west, which is getting ravaged by nearly 100 wildfires. overnight, the largest one in california, all but destroyed greenville, an historic gold rush town. buildings that had stood since the 1800s were leveled in hours, leaving an apocalyptic scene. in just three weeks, the so- called dixie fire has burned more than 500 square miles, an area larger ....