than the firefighters can get control over it, no matter how many people we re throwing at it, it outpaced us for several days. i m pamela brown in washington. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. you are in the cnn newsroom on this saturday. a harsh new reality check is setting in across the united states. and it s a question that pandemic fatigued americans may not want to hear. this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated. is it time to return to stricter covid measures? the question is taking on new urgency. with new cases trending up in 49 states, only utah is holding steady. the rise cause d by the highly contagious delta variant and the highly politicized antivaccine crew said. in missouri, st. louis county and city have announced a mask mandate for indoor public settings starting monday. but the state s attorney general is planning an immediate lawsuit to block it. republican eric schmitt says he wants to stop the insanity to protect free
and that it would carefully consider any issues raised by the programme. darragh macintyre, bbc news. you can see panorama: the dark side of horse racing on bbc one tonight at 8.30pm. time for a look at the weather here s susan powell. the whole team is a sleep deprived in these temperatures, it is tricky. pretty unbearable now. today the heat has built again as the sun has come up and we will continue with the story of heat humidity and sunshine for a few days yet. look at the map closely. even with a high pressure there is a little bit of blue flag there. a little bit of blue flag there. a little bit of instability higher up in our atmosphere that could spark of isolated. slow moving, could be a lot of rain in a short space of time. the majority, though committees blue skies, the sunshine, some patchy cloud for the north west of scotland. these showers if they do get going could rumble on into the smaller hours of tuesday. i am afraid tonight does not look like will be ve
legislative session right now. but this will not go far. they will not have a quorum, it seems meaning that they don t have the votes to really do any work. and that is because in an extraordinary move overnight, a majority of the state s democratic lawmakers left texas and are now in washington, d.c. in order to block republican efforts to pass new voting restrictions. the democratic lawmakers are now vowing to remain out of the state until the end of this special session, which could mean weeks out of the state. it comes as president biden will be delivering a highly anticipated speech on voting rights today. cnn s dianne gallagher is live in washington following the texas lawmakers as they plot the next move. so diane, what is happening? reporter: so the texas lawmakers who flew on the private planes leaving the state of texas in the effort to deny quorum which is about to happen, watching the house floor right now to see when they will reconvene. that is their first acc
who wins and who loses from the brand new census numbers. also in the programme.. the fires tell a haunting story. cremations mark the lives lost to india s covid outbreak. international aid is only now starting to arrive in the country. plus, why you can take the dog out of the police, but you can never take the police out of the dog. you will not want to miss this one. hello, i m katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. the biden administration is walking a narrow covid path. it wants people to remain cautious. but demand for the vaccines is falling, and they have to demonstrate there is reward for getting the shots. some pay back for all the restrictions americans have endured. and so today the president has announced a change in the medical advice. from now on fully immunised americans do not need to wear a facemask when they re outdoors unless at a crowded event. it sounds small but in terms of daily comfort, as it starts to get hotter, it s a big step
days after djokovic s visa was canceled on arriving in australia. at that time authorities determined he did not qualify for a medical exemption from the country s covid vaccination requirements for entry. cnn is covering all the angles and phil black is in melbourne following the latest developments and cnn world sports patrick snell is joining us from here in atlanta with what could come next for djokovic. phil black in melbourne, let s go to you first. talk about the decision here and how it came to be because it has surprised all of australia and a lot of people outside of the country. reporter: so, rosemary, djokovic s lawyers argued that the process in which novak djokovic had been pulled aside at the airport last thursday morning, questioned, left alone in a room, asked to present his case, asked to provide evidence on why he should be let in, that whole examination, that scrutiny that he went through when he first arrived, his lawyers have argued that the procedure