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outbreaks. and in the nation s capitol, officials confirm that both a white house staffer and senior communications aide to speaker pelosi have also tested positive despite being fully vaccinated. pelosi s aide was diagnosed after coming in contact with members of the texas legislature last week. six of those members now with positive tests. later this hour, we ll talk to a member of that texas delegation about how the virus is impacting their stay in d.c. and we ll ask about the meeting with white house democratic meeting whip jim clyburn. and what now? after kevin mccarthy announces his picks for the january 6th committee, we ll talk to democratic senator alex poe dea about that and where the infrastructure talks stand. and the blue origin crew completing a historic space launch with aviation legend wally funk becoming the oldest person ever to travel to space. we had a great time. it was wonderful. i want to go again fast. so a lot to get to. we ll begin with t ....
space so the future generation can do incredible things in space. jeff bezos is scheduled to blast off into space in just a few hours. while his company has flown more than a dozen unmanned flights, this will be the first to carry passengers. next is what s next in the billionaire space race? it s way too early for this. good morning and welcome to way too early, the show that came up just short in the race for jeff bezos, but i see you, mike bloomberg. house minority leader kevin mccarthy has announced his picks for the charge of investigating the january 6th insurrection at the u.s. capitol. they include congressman jim banks of indiana, congressman jim jordan of ohio, rodney davis of illinois, kelly armstrong of north dakota, and troy nehls. mccarthy s choices will need to be approved. people who rejected it, who didn t reject it. mccarthy s choices will still need to be approved by house speaker nancy pelosi, but she s not signaled plans to turn any of ....
of floor on top of floor left very few void or pockets where somebody could theoretically survive. days of rubble fire. all that smoke. 8 days of rain followed by that searing south summer heat and ultimately just simply the length of time since the collapse. but the recovery effort is really picking up speed. 8 bodies recovered from the rubble yesterday. another 10 recovered overnight. these are the two highest numbered days for the recovery effort as sunday s implosion of the fragile remaining half of the building appears to have really helped the search teams on site with greater access. new video taken by miami-dade rescue shows the work with power saws, pick actions, sometimes on their knees, digging through the pulverized concrete see the pool deck suspected of playing a role in the collapse. total collapse. total collapse. everything has fallen down. impassable. my next door neighbors yelling help me, help me, get me out. impossible. that survivor steve rosen ....
mission isn t over yet. live from cnn headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching in the united states, canada and around the world. i m kim brunhuber. this is cnn newsroom. today marks the first new national holiday in the u.s. in nearly 40 years, with the stroke of his pen president joe biden on thursday made june 19th known as june tooept an official u.s. holiday formally recognizing the end of slavery. the measure sailed through congress this week with remarkable bipartisan ease but there is no such consensus on a bill to protect u.s. voting rights. voting rights advocate stacey abrams embraced proposed changes by democratic senator joe manchin to gain his support but it still faces a tough battle among senate republicans as cnn s ryan nobles explains. reporter: significant reforms to america s voting laws have been a key priority for democrats in this version of the u.s. congress and they do feel like they re making progress. the house has alrea ....
that space back. that battle just ahead. welcome to the lead. i m pamela brown in for jake tapper, and we start with our politics lead. new disturbing video from the january 6th insurrection released by the justice department showing a trump supporter taunting, stalking and then ultimately punching a police officer. there are several clips that we must warn you are disturbing and contain profanity. here s the first. we re patriots, too. we f ying disarm them and then we storm the fucking capitol. fuck you. so much hate in his eyes. this man gets in the face of officers yelling at them before slugging one of the officers. watch. you don t know what the fuck oau doing. no idea what you re doing. not one idea. don t talk to me, brother. don t you talk to me. the. get the f out of here. cnn s jessica schneider joins me now. those aren t the only videos, are they? cnn has fought for and won the release of three different sets of videos, videos shown in cour ....