Here former president, barack 0bama, has endorsed the vice president kamala harris in the race for the white house. In a phone call mr 0bama and his wife, michelle, said they would do everything to get her into the oval office. Kamala! 0h, hi, you re both together! oh, it s good to hear you both. I can t have this phone call without saying to my girl, i kamala, i am proud of you. This is going to be historic. | we called to say michelle and i couldn t be prouder to endorse you and to do everything we can to get you through this election and into the oval office. Oh, my goodness. Michelle, barack, this means so much to me. I am looking forward to doing this with the two of you, doug and i both, and getting out there, being on the road. But most of all, i just want to tell you that the words you have spoken and the friendship that you have given over all these years mean more than i can express, so thank you, both. It means so much. And we re going to have some fun with this too, aren t
Discoveries as shark week hosted by john sina, summer s biggest holiday starts tonight on discovery and streams on max thank you so much for joining me today. I m for greek a whitfield, the cnn newsroom continues with pamela brown right now you are in the cnn newsroom. I m pamela brown and washington and we begin with breaking news tonight. The number of democratic lawmaker first calling for president biden to step away from his campaign is growing yet again, tonight, i ll president biden was campaigning and pennsylvania house democratic leader for ship held a meeting to discuss joe biden s future as a candidate. Now this meeting was with ranking members. We have new details breaking this aber on who was on the call, who is now calling for president biden to step aside. I want to go straight to cnn s priscilla alvarez live right outside the whitehouse and brucella, we are both talking to our democratic sources on the hill and we re hearing that there are more members calling provided a
With about 30 americans as well as other passengers became the first international flight to take off from kabul since the withdraw from afghanistan was completed ten days ago. Now as the senate arms services committee says, it will hold a hearing on the withdraw process later this month featuring testimony from three of the nation s top military leaders. Elsewhere on capitol hill, several house committees are putting together their portion of the $3. 5 trillion reconciliation bill focusing on other priorities, education, childcare and fighting climate change. We re going to talk about that process and what comes next later this hour with michigan democratic congressman dan kildee. We begin with that imminent announcement from the justice department regarding the texas abortion law. Joining me now, nbc news correspondent julia anzly, also joining me is civil rights attorney. Great to have both of you with us. Julie, excuse me, let me begin with you. What more can you tell us about this
The judge handing the pop star a victory in her conservatorship battle announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. We thought by now the worst was firmly behind us, but america s summer of recovery from covid is rapidly becoming a season of dread and frustration over americans who remain unvaccinated and highly vulnerable to the delta variant, which now more than half of new covid cases in this country. After weeks of growing confidence amid falling infection rates, a dramatic turn about under way tonight. Infections, hospitalizations and deaths climbing again. Crowded emergency rooms in some parts of the country fueling a sense of deja vu the number of americans 12 and older at least partially vaccinated now over 184 million. But the daily number of vaccinations has plummeted. Miguel almaguer has details. Reporter: the summer spike is catching experts by surprise who never expected numbers like these. Tonight new infections, hospitalizations, even deaths are inc
They will keep going up. Alex hogan on the price hike the keep coming and mark meredith in delaware on why he says they will soon be ending, we are not quite at that point. Let s get right to it with alex hogan on all these flights. Reporter: everyday items cost a lot more with prices jumping, the issue is really at the forefront of consumers minds. 83% of people are concerned about inflation, gases up 40%. Getting back in a plane will cost 20%, furniture up 10% and grocery store items like bacon up 8%. Bigname companies admit they are passing these higher prices to consumers to deal with higher cost and higher wages during the labor shortage acknowledging these spikes will likely continue to rise. Federal reserve chairman jerome powell explaining help the inflation rate falls below 2% noting that june was 5. 4, the increase is drastically higher than expected and there is no precedent for these numbers. The lumber industry saw prices soar during the pandemic which dropped for the firs