july 4th celebrations. what you need to know. severe weather alerts. storms and triple digits in place as heat advisories are in place for 50 million americans. brittney griner s message to the white house. her letter to president biden, handwritten from a russian prison, terrified she might be there forever and on this fourth of july, how freedom means something different to greiner today. shark attack, a lifeguard playing a victim in a training drill is bitten by a shark. schau he fought back. be able to for the social media generation, it s driving fans bananas. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. good evening, everyone. thank you for joining us on this july fourth, i m major garrett in for norah. tonight at least six killed and dozens more wounded in the nation s latest mass shooting, targeted an independence day parade in suburban chicago. police have just identified a person of interest, 22-year-old robert e.cremo
when there s life and light and love. and that if we can just get to the light and life and love, 51% of the time, then we are having a good day. and we are having a good era. don t let the perfect be the enemy of the good. and i think that america is a marvelous example of a human community that gets so much wrong but which knows intuitively that if you do the right thing, everybody benefits. and we have to see each other as neighbors and not as enemies. do not despair, do not give up, in the words of churchill, never, never, never give up. try john meacham, as always, thank you for being with us. i hope you and your family are having a great fourth of july weekend. that was joe s conversation with john meacham ahead of this july 4th holiday. erin o hearn picks up the coverage right now. good money. morning, john. don t go far. no holiday starting yet. good morning to you at home and welcome to msnbc s live coverage on this monday, july 4th. we begin with the latest fr
the president s response to the supreme court ruling on roe v wade, arguing he s not doing enough to protect abortion rights. and millions of americans have found traveling for the fourth to be less than a happy experience. thousands of flights delayed across the u.s. since saturday and nearly 1100 more today. of course, today is the last day of the holiday travel rush. millions of americans either heading home or getting ready to. it has been a rough ride for many. more than 11,000 flights in and out of the u.s. have been n 1,00 have en cancelled. reporter: here things are pretty smooth sailing today. as you can see behind me, i m at departures right now here at newark. this is a completely different story when you compare it to friday and through the weekend. right now this morning fewer than ten delays, just a couple of cancellations. across the country this morning, fewer than 1,000 delays. again, very different from the weekend with thousands of delays and hundreds o
around the world, i m john berman in highland, park, illinois, about 25 miles north of chicago. brianna keilar in new york this morning. behind me is the scene where now 24 hours ago six people were killed in a fourth of july parade. another 25 injured. and you can see the street behind me, it s a moment frozen in time. it was 10:15 a.m. where a shooter opened fire from a rooftop two blocks hence. but you can see the streets here littered with the beach chairs, towels, i see a frisbee, a beach ball, frozen in time, where people fled in every direction when they heard dozens of gunshots ring out from that roof. now, police say the shooter got to the roof from a back alley using a ladder, they called the shooting intentional, but random. now, eight hours after the shooting itself police did apprehend a person they re calling a person of interest. they also called this 22-year-old man a suspect. they got him after a short police chase. police got him on a road about five miles f
heat advisories are in place for more than 58 million americans. brittney griner s message to the white house. her letter to president biden, handwritten from a russian prison, terrified she might be there forever. and on this fourth of july, how freedom means something different to griner today. shark attack. a lifeguard playing the victim in a training drill is bitten by a shark. how he fought back. and, baseball for the social media generation it s driving fans bananas. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. garrett: good evening to our viewers in the west. thank you for joining us on this july fourth. i m major garrett, in for norah. tonight, at least six people killed and dozens more wounded in the nation s latest mass shooting. it targeted an independence day parade in suburban chicago. and some breaking news: the manhunt for the person of interest, 22-year-old robert e. cremo iii, is over. police say the gunman open