at easter service at one predominantly black church in detroit, the pastor there said he s wrapping a pro vaccine message in the language of faith. if god can use doctors for oncology and cancer, surely you can use doctors for covid-19. you must have your faith but also use the doctors. get the vaccination. the challenge now vaccinating americans faster than the variants can spread. on the one hand, you have the u.s. just surpassing an average of 3 million shots per day. it s extraordinary and more vaccine appointments are opening across the country every day. on the other hand, hospitalizations have been stubbornly stuck at about 40,000 for three weeks now, largely driven by the spread of the variant first detected in the uk. i believe that in some ways we re almost in a new pandemic. the only good news about this is that the current vaccines are effective against this particular variant. in a sense, this is a virus now 50 to 100% more transmissible or infectious than th
when you look at what we ve heard over the totality of this, prosecutors are now shifting from what happened on may 25th, to the training that derek chauvin had prior to us even getting to that date. what s note worthy is we have heard from multiple senior level officers that have testified from the minneapolis police department, many of them saying they do not believe that chauvin s actions should have happened the way they did. now that includes the current minneapolis police chief. reporter: the start of week two of testimony and the current minneapolis police chief takes the stand in the trial of derek chauvin, his former officer. do you have a belief as to when this restraint, a restraint on the ground that you viewed, should have stopped? once mr. floyd had stopped resisting and certainly once he was in distress and trying to verbalize that. to continue to apply that level of force to a person proned out, handcuffed behind their back, that that in no way, shape or
income families to pay no more than 7% of their income on child care for kids under five. it also provides paid family and medical leave. it would make two years of community college free and provide $200 billion for universal pre-k and extend or make permanent several key parts of democrats covid rescue plan including that expanded child tax credit, affordable tax subsidies. the presidents wants to finance this by hiking taxes on the wealthy in an economy that is working poorly for millions of americans. cnn s kaitlan collins has more from the white house. reporter: christine, we know that president biden has spent weeks preparing for this speech, going over it with his aides and his speech writers and policymakers, talk being what he really wants to be in this and what s important as he looks back and reflects on his first 100 days in office, that s that mile marker he s going to reach on thursday, but also looking at what he wants to do going forward. so that s really go
united states and all around the world. i m anna coren, live from hong kong. ahead from cnn newsroom, several mass shootings bar independent celebrations across the u.s.. witnesses mistake gunshots for fireworks. israel pulls its troops out of the west bank town of jenin. and now, the conflict moves to gaza. and japan s neighbors raise concerns after international regulators gave the greenlight to release tons of radioactive water of the fukushima nuclear power plant. the u.s. is reeling from multiple mass shootings that rattled cities across the country of the holiday weekend. several shootings have occurred in the past few days including tragic events in maryland, texas and pennsylvania. the july 4th holiday and the day after account for more mass shootings than any other days of the year. well that s according to a cnn analysis of data from the gun violence archives. in indianapolis, a 16-year-old girl was killed in a shooting during a block party. police say that so far t
watch cnn s fourth in america. it starts at 7:00 p.m. eastern, right here on cnn. thanks so much for joining inside politics. cnn s news central starts right now. gunfire interrupting holiday festivities, with dozens of victims across the country and children among the dead. as the nation marks 247 years of independence, we re also marking this tragic number of mass shootings. 345 so far this year, in just over six months. plus, new bloodshed in the middle east. the israeli military is extending an operation in the west bank for another day. new violence erupting as far away as tel aviv. what will it take for this stop? can it? and a new lawsuit on affirmative action. a civil rights group is trying to stop harvard from making it harder of sons and daughters of alumni to join the ivy league. we re following all of these stories coming in right here to cnn news central. on this fourth of july holiday, police are investigating two mass shootings in the span of 24 h