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focus on the loss of the justice and her enduring legacy. jedediah: overnight, hundreds gathered at the steps of the supreme court to mourn justice ginsburg. house speaker nancy pelosi has ordered flags to fly at half-staff at the u.s. capitol. shannon bream has more on her remarkable life and the legacy she leaves behind. i, ruth bader ginsburg, do solemnly swear. she might have seemed small in stature as the second woman to be nominated to the u.s. supreme court, ruth bader ginsburg was a trailblazer for women s rights and a champion for civil liberties. ginsburg was born ruth joan bader on march 15th, 1933. in a working class neighborhood in brooklyn, new york. the daughter of nathan and celia bay der. ginsburg s mother died when she was just 17, the day before she graduated from high school. it was one of the most trying times in my life. but i knew that she wanted me to study hard and get good grades and succeed in life. so, that s what i did. she finished ....
before pushing ahead to fill her seat. but in less than 24 hours since we learned of her death, cnn has been told president trump wants to announce a pick before the first presidential debate. that s just ten days from now. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell appears to be on the same page. vowing that trump s nominee will get a vote. but this just in. vulnerable gop senator, susan collins, now saying, wait a minute. the vacancy should be filled by whoever wins the presidential election. as senate democrats send an open letter to judiciary chairman, lindsey graham, making that same argument. let s go, right now, to capitol hill. our senior congressional correspondent, manu raju, is there. manu, tell us more about senator collins statement and what it could mean for the path forward. well, i could tell you this had been expected from the republican leadership. collins had signalled, first, for a couple of weeks that she was unlikely to get behind any effort to fill ....
appropriate. from, more than likely than, it will be a woman. the president also saying, once he makes his choice, he expects the confirmation process in the senate to move quickly. the senate minority leader mitch mcconnell vowing that the president s nominee would get a voe, but democrats will try to stop that. more tonight from manu raju. this decision ought to be made by the next president. that was senate majority leader mitch mcconnell they be, when president obama was president in 2016 with a vacancy on the supreme court. but times have changed, and so as the president. i would fill it. reporter: republican leaders are plotting a full-throated effort to fill justice ruth bader ginsburg s seat, with the election just 45 days away. trying to make the argument it s different now because republicans control both the white house and the senate. privately, mcconnell and trump speaking about potential nominees on friday night. and the gop leader in a message t ....
tributes to her just incredible life is, of course, as you may feel at this tense debate that is happening across the street on capitol hill. who should get to pick her successor. and when should that vote happen? so far at least one senator, republican senator, susan collins of maine is breaking with the party on voting on a nominee before the election. but leaders in the senate and the president say that the time is now. i totally disagree with her. we have an obligation. we won. and we have an obligation as the winners to pick who we want. that s not the next president. hopefully i ll be the next president. but we re here now. right now, we re here. cnn s rebecca buck is at the white house. rebecca, good morning to you. there is a new chant at the president s rally, we heard it last night, fill that seat. what do we know about the president s plans? reporter: that s right, victor. as you can see from that chant that we heard, the president s rally in fayettev ....
who paid the ultimate sacrifice. and in sport the slovenian todej pogacar is set to be crowned tour de france champion, after a dramatic turnaround. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world 7 do stay with us for the latest news and analysis from here and across the globe. the uk s health secretary, matt hancock has warned that the country faces a ‘tipping point‘ in the fight against the coronavirus, and that if people do not follow the rules, more serious measures will have to be imposed. fines of up to £10,000 are already planned to come into force in a week s time for people in england who fail to self isolate if they test positive for coronavirus or when told to by the test and trace service. in france, 13,500 new infections have been confirmed another daily record since the start of the outbreak there. the spike mirrors a rise in infections in many other parts of europe. more than 850,000 people living in and around spain s capit ....