Overdrive On The Road to a massive infrastructure bill. Olympic glory. The latest on team u. S. A. , and Allyson Felixs golden finish. And later, wonderful wally. A Home Town honors a trailblazer as she shares her story of soaring into space. Im looking out the window, and i say, wow there goes the ground this is the Cbs Weekend News. From chicago, heres Adriana Diaz. Diaz good evening. We begin tonight with the significant setback in americas covid recovery. New Daily Infections have reached their highest levels in six months, returning to numbers we havent seen since the past winter surge. Take a look. New daily cases bottomed out in june at 11,000. Now they number more than 100,000. Several southern states are facing their largest outbreaks of the pandemic. The worst is in florida, which had more than 134,000 cases last week. The Delta Variant is fueling infections, especially among the unvaccinated nationwide. And now theres concern that one of the worlds biggest Motorcycle Rallies
legislative battle. there is a reasonable path to citizenship. but the president s more moderate politics on display on other issues. send a note to president biden because the answer is we can do it right now. this is new day weekend with victor blackwell and christi paul. a live look at the city of dallas this morning. and you know that they would be dealing with some rough weather across the state of texas. this morning, millions of people in the state are waking up to below freezing temperatures again, after brutal storms hit the state this week. power has been restored to most of the state. but more than 14 million texans either don t have running water or have to boil the water that they do have. officials say it could be days before the issue is resolved. it s good to see the power on there. it s crippled the state. shut down coronavirus site that killed more than two dozen people. temperatures are expect to rise amid all of the snow and ice. cnn s nata
organized by iranian-supported militia. take us through it. it s simplest to look at it this way, this region from iran to iraq into syria is the shia cres nlt, a place where iran has a tremendous amount of influence and they support proxies, provides weapons and more. that s why the message to iran comes to syria, and comes into syria. that s where we saw the military carry out its first air strike, its first offensive action under president joe biden. that s what we saw when u.s. aircraft carried out an air strike on syria, and that s the key, the strike carried out a few hours ago. a u.s. official tells us that up to a handful of militants were killed in this attack. the authorization for the strike came earlier today at the recommendation of secretary of defense lloyd austin. austin says he is confident that this site that was attacked was used by the iranian militias, the iranian-backed militias that carried out the rocket attacks in recent weeks on u.s. and coalition
theirs. it certainly is, sanjay and we re basing our assessment of 19% on the many, many surveys around prevalence, people measuring antibody tests in the population state by state over time. and we track those and put it all together with cases, deaths, and hospitalization, that s where we come up with the 19%. those higher numbers are essentially taking an assumption about what fraction of cases go undetected and then they scale across cases. so we believe in the lower number around 19%. dr. chris murray. sorry, go ahead, sanjay. i was going to say it s interesting because antibody studies could be tough, just measuring certain populations. it s a longer conversation we can hopefully have at some point. sorry, thank you, we re out of time. be sure to download dr. sanjay s podcast, coronavirus fact versus fiction. and don t miss full circle, catch it live streaming at 6:00 p.m. on cnn app watch it my time on demand. turn it over to chris for cuomo primetime. thank
had also directed the justice department to name a special council to investigate and prosecute potential election-related crimes, crimes that trump s own outgoing attorney general said he had very high confidence in that there was no impact on the election from election fraud at all. just two days after the order was drafted, discredited trump lawyer sidney powell was in the oval office lobbying for that special council job according to axios. also in that meeting disgraced former trump adviser michael flynn who promoted ideas on seizing voting equipment. cnn has not been able to independently verify this draft, and it s not clear who wrote it, but to put it plainly, any order directing the military or federal agents to seize voting kw equipment for political purposes is a coup. and just like that democracy nearly died. trump never signed that executive order, but one thing the january 6th committee is still trying to get its hands on, supposed outtakes from an infamous vi