find it at walmart wednesday night you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with several new developments in the attempted assassination of donald trump we ve learned that within 30 minutes of the fourth president being wounded by a sniper s bullet, federal law enforcement scoured paper records of gun sales and identified the gun and the shooter also knew sources are telling cnn that us intelligence learned that iran was plotting to assassinate trump, and that the secret service had beefed up his protection as a result, there s no evidence no evidence at this point, however, that iran had any connection to saturday s attack and tehran has denied any wrongdoing. just minutes ago we learned that the department of homeland security has opened an investigation into the secret service and the failure at the rally site. the fbi is also investigating also this afternoon, all senators will take part in an unclassified phone briefing on the
school. that day i put my boys on the bus and my friend was calling and she said nick ole, it s a shooting and it s at our school. it was the day after thanksgiving i was in my family s home in chicago. my son was with his father in florid florida. i picked up the phone and there was just this dead silence and i said where is jordan? what happened to jordan? and that s when jordan s dad said jordan has been shot. you re 25 times more likely to die from gun violence in the united states of america than any other developed nation in the world. what does this say about us as americans? we re just willing to let people die because we re afraid of the nra? there is no other single issue in the lobby in the united states that had as much success against the wishes of the majority of the country. gun vie lepsolence is taking at a historic rate. it s only getting worse and worse and we re focused on the right to bear arms and not the right to live. the nra had managed to convin
travelers pack airspace and fans fill college football statements as new cases in the u.s. hit the highest level since january. plus, the state with the highest labor day gas price ever. crime wave in chicago, at least 55 people are shot in the city over the holiday weekend, including a four year-old-boy, the new crackdown on illegal gun sales. a small town cries foul: workers at a minnesota factory are worried their jobs will be outsourced to china. unbearable, why officials in tahoe are telling residents to be on the lookout for bears. and surf s up: a different kind of therapy for front line healthcare workers. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. yuccas: good evening, to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. i m jamie yuccas in for norah. tonight, millions of storm victims from the gulf coast to the northeast are bracing for yet another blast of heavy rain and possibly even more floods. flash flood wa
we have reporting this morning from tehran, london, tokyo and washington. and this morning the u.s. has finally hit president biden s goal to have 70% of adults vaccinated against covid-19. one month too late. one month too late for the hundreds of americans who have died during the surge of the delta variant, a surge forcing some cities and states to face facts, moonk them louisiana which has had one of the lowest vaccination rates in the country. governor bel edwards has reinstated a mask mandate and space is running out at hospitals. there are no more beds left. those 23 patients are a glimpse of what we ve been doing the last two weeks while we ve been trying to get everybody vaccinated. this is having an adverse impact on people s lives today as we speak. and the least we can do is put a mask on. at the same time vaccine demand is rebounding, first shots are up 76% in the last three weeks and shots are happening where they are most needed, up 171% in the eight st
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