americans believe donald trump should face criminal charges for his part in the capitol riot. on tuesday the house select committee investigating the capitol insurrection will begin its third week of hearings. this time the panel plans to focus on former president trump s efforts to pressure state officials to overturn the 2020 presidential election. georgia elections officials are expected to testify at tuesday s hearing along with arizona house speaker rusty bowers. our justice and crime reporter is joining us. what can we expect from tuesday s hearings? reporter: we re going to see another aspect of donald trump trying to manipulate the laws to take the election in 2020. this tuesday the public hearing before the house select committee is going to focus on the states, specifically battle ground states like arizona and georgia where trump and the lawyers were trying to get people to change the outcome of the votes in the states. those were states that trump lost. so we kn
hello again, everyone, thank you so much for joining me, i m fredricka whitfield. at any moment, the cdc s vaccine advisers will announce their decision on covid-19 vaccines for children, 6 months to 5 years old. pfizer and moderna are seeking authorization for their vaccines. if approved young children could begin beginning vaccinated as soon as next week. are we hearing anything more about how close they re getting? reporter: they are getting closer. they have been taking questions for an hour, and it sounds like several more questions came up. they were supposed to vote a half hour ago but they re going to take as many questions and time as need be to get through everything. after two and a half years of all of us dealing with covid, this is the last sort of big piece, you know, the last tool in the tool box to get all americans covered by vaccines and hopefully sort of squelch this pandemic to something near an end. several questions that they have been centering on and
unilaterally subvert democracy. also this morning, new photos obtained by abc news show vice president pence and his family in hiding on january 6th, after pence was rushed off the senate floor. you ll remember by secret service as rioters broke into the capitol. i think the public probably is not aware of how close a call this was. the rioters came very close to capturing the vice president and i think there is very good evidence that they would have done harm to him, perhaps even killed him. so this was a close call. that was congresswoman zoe lofgren who sits on that select committee, testifying today, very significant testimony, coming from retired federal judge michael luttig, highly respected conservative judge, once one of justice clarence thomas closest advisers, previously clerked for justice scalia, considered by former president george w. bush as a nominee to the high court himself. that s why his words carry such weight, especially on a day like today. in a
christina, let me start with you with nuts and bolt, where do things go from here and what we re seeing in the market so far. that had been a question mark. i guess i should reference your song. i saw the sign. they saw the sign the fed was going to hike. the markets are reacting positively at the moment. the dow is up 1%. you re seeing the nasdaq in positive territory. the s&p 500 in positive territory. the concerning point is jerome powell, the chair fed is speak and they changed course and became more aggressive once they received the inflation data we got last friday showing our prices have climbed 8.6%. that s the highest we have seen since 1981. because of that big jump in inflation, the fact it s continuing to climb higher, the fed needs to get more aggressive and seems like they are most likely going to continue on this trajectory even a month from now. that will have a trickle effect on the economy. he s still speaking at the moment but here is what he had to say
rainfall caused severe damage. the park announced an interim visitor access plan to balance demand, and park resources. officials closed all five park entrances as heavy rain and melting snow washed out roads and damaged bridges. pretty extraordinary. the north loop will stay closed for now. since last weekend, the park received about two to three times its typical rainfall for the entire month of june. and today more than 800 flights are being cancelled across the u.s. that s on top of the thousands that were kans med or delayed since friday. and that s despite the tsa estimating that this holiday weekend has been the busiest travel time of 2022 so far. cnn is at the los angeles international airport. there have to be a lot of frustrated travelers. what is driving all the cancellations? well, it s somewhat of a domino effect. so first of all, there are so