Bill: for more on the intrigue let s go to chad pergram on the hill who begins a new week for us. Good morning. Good morning, bill. This is an optics nightmare for texas democrats. They came to d. C. To block the texas legislature from passing a voting bill. Five have tested positive for covid here in washington they tweeted a photo of themselves flying maskless with a case of beer to washington met with democratic lawmakers all week. The offices of senate majority leader chuck schumer and joe manchin said those members were not exposed. They met with vice president harris and she went to walter reed medical center sunday as a routine doctor s appointment. Concerns about where the nation stands with covid. This pandemic isn t over. We have to be cautious and we have to do everything we can to get people vaccinated. That stands as the single most effective pathway we have to keeping people safe, protecting their families and ending this pandemic. Many congressional democrats have charac
Authoritarian strong man working to consolidate control. Tomorrow, we re going to speak with a leading opposition figure in that country about her efforts to give power to the people. Be sure to join us for that. I m excited about it. That does it for us. Chris jansing picks up coverage right now. Hi there. I am chris jansing in for stephanie ruhle. It is monday, july 19th. We start with breaking news. Just days before the olympics set to kickoff in tokyo, a shocker for team usa. An alternate on u. S. Women s gymnastics team tested positive for covid. The team already in japan but the name of the athlete has not been revealed. It is just the latest setback for team usa after yesterday s announcement that tennis star coco goff tested positive too. She will not be able to compete. Back in this country, new covid cases fueled by the highly contagious delta variant are now rising in all 50 states. That s the first time we have seen that in six months. It is driven by cases among the unvacc
This is according to multiple officials involved with the covid origin s review that we have spoken with. This has been a team effort. To be clear, this does not mean they believe the virus was engineered in a lab or was intentionally released. But rather it could ve been studied in a lab and escaped accidently. Though. This is a dramatic shift from a year ago when democrats publicly downplayed the socalled lab leak theory. But it is important to note that the view that the lab leak theory is deeply credible is what some senior national security officials view from an intelligence standpoint. Most scientists who study coronaviruses and who have investigated the origins of the pandemic still say the evidence strongly supports a natural origin for the virus and that it s unlikely scientists were studying the virus in a lab and it leaked out. Scientists who have found strong genetic evidence the virus came from animals say they want more access to what china knows about the pandemic s beg
I m michael holmes. This is cnn newsroom. First to germany where the death toll has jumped to at least 81 in dangerous flash flooding in the western part of the country. In one district alone, 1300 people are assumed missing. Some regions receiving more than a month s worth of rain in just 24 hours. At least 12 people have died in belgium, meteorologists describing it as the heaviest rainfall in a century. Nina dos santos is tracking developments. Weeks and weeks of rain. What is the impact of the floods? reporter: that s right, michael, the impact as you see is loss of life, severe devastation to a number of buildings, infrastructure is being blown up. Across one part of the three stricken regions of germany, one of the most populous regions, we re seeing some of the telephone lines having been cut off, hundreds of thousands without power, indeed running water and basic supplies. It is a pretty dramatic situation and in one part of the vehicle stricken part of the country, authorities
Expertise. And tonight i ve got the former chief assistant district attorney daniel alonso who joined us before on the workings of this investigation and he s becoming an mvp here because he s really been in there with these manhattan grand juries. He knows every wrinkle about this and this does feel like the beginning of what will be a significant chapter of our coverage of the world of trump material. And i will say dan alonso has been also he s been absolutely irreplaceable. Irreplaceable. I ve learned more from him i ve heard more from state about prosecutions and how they work him and where the decision points are. And you can t really do that to learn the different loss systems and 50. States what s happened in new york state, that alonso has been clarifying in terms of what that office can do and how they approach their work. I mean, the way i watch tv during the day is i don t really watch it. It s there in the corner of my eye, and when someone like daniel alonso comes, anna g