The ground and the best political team in the business follow the voters follow the results, follow the facts follow cnn good morning. You are live in the cnn newsroom. Im Jim Acosta in washington. We begin this morning with Kamala Harris running her biggest endorsement yet overnight for President Barack Obama and former first lady, michelle obama. Officially pledging their support to harris as president ial Bid I Cant have this Phone Call without saying to my Girl Camila i am proud of you. This is going to be historic we call to say michelle and i couldnt be prouder to endorse your through everything we can to get you through this election and until the Oval Office my goodness michelle brock, this means so much to me. Im looking forward to doing this with the two of you, doug and i both all right at any moment, harris will receive the endorsement of major Labor Unions this time in Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro considered a strong candidate as her Running Mate will also be on hand
A new manager after gareth southgate called it a day. The fa s search won t be limited to english candidates with plenty of big names potentially on their radar. And whilst it will be at pleasant summers day for many, cloud and rain gather to the north and west over the next few days and it is heat and humidity to the south and east. By friday, somewhere could hit 30 degrees. I will have the details. It s wednesday the 17th ofjuly. Our main story. King charles will officially open parliament today with a speech outlining what the new government plans to do in the coming year. It will contain details of draft bills on issues including illegal migration, nationalisation of the railways, and a move to end smoking. 0ur political correspondent helen catt has the story. Fanfare. This was the king arriving for last year s king s speech. Then, it was a conservative government which wrote the words he read out. This time it will be labour s programme for the coming year. Sir keir starmer sa
Remember, it was just about two months ago when americans were declaring liberation. How sweet that was, from wearing masks. If you got the shot, you could go out without face coverings, inside, outside. You can feel free to do that. Now we re getting guidance from director walensky. We ll have that live. But first, let s check in with peter doocy who has a sense of what we can expect here this afternoon. High, peter. Good afternoon. This is going to affect a lot of people watching right now. Ahead of the cdc director walensky s announcement, we ve seen the bullet points about who is vaccinated will need to wear a mask according to the cdc. In areas with substantial and high transmission, cdc recommends that fully vaccinated officials wear a mask in public, indoor settings to head protect against spread of delta and others. When school starts again, universal indoor masking for all teachers, staff, students and visitors to k12 schools regardless of vaccination status. Children should r
The description from his officers is how they thought they were going to die that day. The threat has not gone away an that one point the republicans sitting on the committee went from laughter to tears at one point describing why was so important for him to stand up i the face of what happened. The house minority leader has submitted five republicans to the panel. Kevin mccarthy told the rest of the. We saw a lot of very dramatic video that we saw initially played during the insurrection on january 6th. If you are watching you saw compelling at times damning emotional testimony from these four officers that held the lin to try to protect the capital and the lawmakers inside. For anybody watching and watch the videos their testimony abou that day and thought it wasn t violent think it s an eyeopener. We talked about january 6th a lot in the time since then but putting it all together and seeing it again is jarring. Listening to these officers say how they wanted to fight and hold onto
0h! and it s put away. manchester city win the carabao cup final for the fourth time in a row, as an 8,000 strong crowd watch at wembley in a government coronavirus trial event and, as la gears up for tonight s 0scars, we go behind the scenes at the ceremony s new venue union station. welcome to bbc news. india has registered a new world record for daily coronavirus infections for the fourth day in a row with almost 350,000 new cases. in the capital, delhi the epicentre of a ferocious second wave of covid the disease is killing one person every four minutes. as hospitals across india struggle with overcrowding and limited oxygen supplies, an initial shipment of uk aid is due to leave tonight. from delhi, our correspondent yogita limaye reports. with every pyre that burns, india s self belief is dying. each funeral is a story of personal loss and national shame. this man has been helping cremate their dead for decades. now, he barely ever stops working. translation: i�