Good Morning And Welcome to cnn this morning it is sunday, august 4. Im Danny Freeman in for victor blackwell. Danny, good to be with you again this morning. Good to be with you all. Im amara walker. Heres what were working on for you this morning. The final round, Vice President Kamala Harris is closing in on who will be her Running Mate on the democratic president ial ticket, Who Xi is meeting with today ahead of tuesdays reported reveal but we have to work hard to define her. I dont want to even define her. I just wanted to say who she is. Shes a horror show. Shell destroy our country and former President Donald Trump saying the quiet part out loud, his campaigns still trying to figure out how to define Vice President Kamala Harris and slow the momentum building around her and stay its an emergency are in effect in georgia and florida this morning ahead of a tropical storm expected to strike on the south east, wed all just Allison Chinchar is tracking the storm that could drop up to
People dead, with structures reduced to rubble, and questions about Americas Obligation to the devastated caribbean nation. But first, tonights lead, onto the next. Right now im waiting to see if any of the momentum from the president s big Policy Win on infrastructure will hold as he approaches a wall of challenges for his White House, because the u. S. Senate is going into Summer Recess having failed to take up voting Rights Legislation before the Break Due to republican sabotage. At the same time, the Texas Senate passed a very suppresssive legislation as democrats fled the state. While gop leadership, by which i mean Donald Trump, is pushing for more fraudulent audits of last years general Election Results, and to many state republicans, are happy to oblige. And a handful of gop governors, some with president ial aspirations, are making a play for trump voters by campaigning against medical guidance and local Mask Mandates, even as covid19 variants have exploded in their states. An
Advancing its space ambitions. Orni a school gets a new name honoring a beloved new name honoring a beloved teacher with a storied past. And later, modern masterpieces, the exhibit giving Vincent Van Gogh new life. Its a new way of experiencing art. This is the Cbs Weekend News. From chicago, heres Adriana Diaz. Diaz good evening. More death, destruction, and a e powerful show of force in the Middle East where the conflict in israel and the Palestinian Territories escalated today. A building in gaza containing the offices of foreign media, including the Associated Press and al jazeera, was destroyed by an israeli airstrike. Hamas responded with Rocket Attacks on israel. At least 10 israelis and 145 palestinians, including children on both sides, hav on both sides, have been killed since the fighting began this week. Cbs Imtiaz Tyab is there. Reporter as Air Raid sirens blared across israels largest city, our team ran to a Bomb Shelter in a nearby apartment block. Were just getting into
Stab another black girl with a knife. Congresswoman tlaib tweeted this. We cannot be a society that justifies the killing of a child. Tucker carlson says democrats don t seem to care that bryant was about to plunge a knife into another girl. Just because someone is getting stabbed doesn t mean you have to stop it. Racist. Children have been stabbing their friends forever. Get over it. Let kids be kids. Let them stab each other. Harris: a neighbor who caught this incident on his own security camera above his garage door telling me exclusively on the faulkner focus yesterday that he has no doubt the officer did what he felt like he needed to do. He only had seconds to respond. From my point of view watching this unfortunately the whole scenario put him in a bad spot regardless of what the situation was. He could have either not fired and the young lady in pink could have got stabbed in the neck or been fatally injured. Harris: joining me now former house oversight committee chair and fox
governor cuomo. george miles is a veteran struggling in a new york nursing home. we re going to talk to his daughter. she says the governor is not helping her father s situation. a story investigation into this. what happened exactly in the days and hours before the capitol hill riot? who knew what and when and what decisions did they make questioned. speaker pelosi called for a 9-11-style commission. lawmakers have some questions for her. first, a closer look today at how the pandemic is impacting the lives of americans in ways that we don t talk about very much. jennifer zelke joins me in moment. she s a tennessee mother of four, a year ago, she became one of the millions of women forced to leave their jobs and go back home. she s a full-time at-home mom. she s a teacher to her family as well. after surpassing men in 2020 in the labor force, women s labor force participation is now at a 33-year low. think about the ramifications for the country from all of that. rnc chair r