Stop the bill. Were going to talk with two leaders in that fight. Georgia democratic Congressman Hank Johnson and melanie campbell, president of the national coalition on black civic participation. Meantime, democrats are slighting the fbi over the handling of the investigation into Sexual Assault allegations made against now supreme court just Brett Kavanaugh during his Confirmation Hearings in 2018. Were going to talk with a New York times reporter that cowrote a book on Justice Kavanaugh. And a virtually empty stadium did not stop the Tokyo Olympics from kicking off in style after a year long delay. With Tennis Superstar Naomi osaka having the honor of Looit Lighting the olympic caldron. The surge driven by the Delta Variant could accelerate as we head towards fall and triple the current number of daily deaths. Thats according to new projections from the Covid19 Scenario modelling hub. A group of researchers working with the cdc. Now across the country, were seeing new cases heading
Correspondent. what does it look like on the ground and tell us about the efforts under way to try and contain and put out these fires. reporter: ayman, so 50 niles away firefighters are fighting against the tamarack fire. i want to highlight something very important and this is the fuel reduction project, one of the fuel reduction projects happening all across california. very important. it s a different fight. a fight to prepare the forest for what could be a devastating wildfire season. look at these machines that will essentially get through all the smaller vegetation to try to protect the larger trees. the reason this vegetation is so dangerous right now is because of the drought that we re experiencing all across california. sure, yeah. everything is drier than usual. that s what we re seeing on the dixie fire up in the canyon. it s primarily a fuel-driven fire. fires don t burn like that, that big in forests under normal conditions.