More fights over mask mandates, and why hundreds of students were sent to quarantine just days into the school year. Brutal temperatures, with much of the country broiling, when will the Heat Break . E acgsosd inloda, T Ats of a new stoight i the new violence against Ride Share drivers. Cuomos future, a major development in the Impeachment Investigation into new yorks outgoing governor. Dream finish the field of Dreams Game turns back the clock and gets its own hollywoodstyle ending. This is the Cbs Evening News with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Dokoupil good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. Norah is off tonight. Im tony dokoupil. And we begin in afghanistan, where the final stage of americas longest war is playing out amid a relentless advance by the taliban. It now controls nearly all the major cities and is within 50 miles of kabul. A Pentagon Spokesman says the military is concerned by the speed of the taliban advance and the
Vaccinated areas. 63,000 new cases now happening daily. Plus we are following major news on boosters. Israel on the verge of offering a third dose. So what could this mean for americans? we ll get there. But first to the white house and cnn s phil mattingly who is standing by with more on the president s new vaccine requirement plan. Phil, this is going to impact millions of federal workers. What is the plan and what s the response so far? i think there s two pieces. There s the policy but also what the policy signals and what the president is going to use the remarks to try to underscore. That s the urgent si at the moment the white house is on and the recognition that the past efforts to get millions of people vaccinated, while it was effective up to a point, it s dropped off. At the worst time given as you laid out the emergence of the delta variant across the country. This is a signal the white house is taking a harder line. The president made clear this is about the unvaccinated.
7yearold daughter gianna. She s notable, of course, you heard from the president saying her words really touched him saying at the time that daddy changed the world. He said, among other things, this was really an opportunity to pay proper respect to george floyd with a president who has had constant, continuous communication with the family. He said the goal today was really keep momentum going and in another interview, he said of this moment, let s not squander it. Let s not act now. The real desire is to push forward on this. Obviously there s real concern among those who wanted to see something happen sooner. You will remember the president sort of circled today on the calendar, urging congress to get something passed. By this point it was a campaign pledge that he would pass the george floyd justice in policing act. He remains committed to it. White house officials say. But broadly it will be a handsoff approach and progress on capitol hill can continue and get done soon. Members
Stun gun, beaten with a flag pole and suffer ed traumatic brain injury. He told cnn about the intense encounter he had with representative. That said it was a normal tourist visit. He said he didn t know who i was. I introduced myself. I said my name is officer michael fanne. And i fought to defend the capitol on january 6th. I explained some of the injuries i suffered as a result of that. He just stared at me, turned away. Jessica dean is on the story this morning. He is calling out republicans. They are lining. They are lying, those that say it didn t happen. It s shocking when he went to shake his hand. It is shocking. To hear him tell it, poppy. To say he put his hand out and waited to shake his hand. He later said after that encounter, the elevator opened and the congressman ran into it. Those were his words. He s trying to make sure, that house republicans, and other republicans who refuse to admit the facts about what happened here on january 6th, during the insurrection, he wan
I also talk to zachary karabell about her new book on american capitalism. And we ll explore why the arctic may be the next great region of global discord. But first here is my take. It is been the same way for decades. Every time violence between the israelis and palestinians erupts, governments around the world urge deescalation and a ceasefire agreement is reached and experts warn the situation cannot continue like this. But it has and it will. Ultimately, this is not a problem that could be resolved through power. Where the political or military, it could only be resolved through moral persuasion. The pattern of violence obscured a seismic shift that has taken place over the last few decades. Israel is now the superpower of the middle east. And an institute at a university recently laid out the disparities. Israel s per capita gdp dwarves that of the neighbors. 14 times that of egypt and eight times that of iran and six times of that of lebanon and double of that saudi arabia. They