tonight, president biden s message to the republican governors criticizing his sweeping new vaccine mandates and threatening to sue to block them, and i quote have at it . and as the delta variant spreads like wildfire, especially across the south, tonight big developments on mask mandates in schools in two states where the virus is surging. plus california s recall election hasn t even happened yet and right wing media is already spreading lies about the democratic governor s potential to beat back the recall. also ahead, my interview with a professor and commentator on race telling me what he got wrong about the state of race in america after living through the trump era. you don t want to miss that interview. i want to bring in susan glasser, national correspondent for the washington post philip bump. good to see you both. thank you so much. one day i will see you in person in studio, hopefully soon. and the reason why i haven t seen you is because of this. so, susan, p
tonight president biden s message to the republican governors criticizing his sweeping new vaccine mandates and threatening to sue to block them, and i quote, have at it. and as the delta variant spreads like wildfire, tonight big developments on mask mandates in schools in two states where the virus is surging. plus california s recall election hasn t even happened yet, and right-wing media is already spreading lies about the state s democratic governor, gavin newsom s potential to beat back the recall. also ahead, my interview with a prominent professor and commentator on race, telling me what he got wrong about the state of race in america after living through the trump era. you don t want to miss that interview. i want to bring in cnn global affairs analyst susan glasser, and national correspondent philip bump. one day i will see you in person in studio, hopefully soon. and the reason why i haven t seen you is because of this. so, susan, president biden has a messag
are you ready black people? are you ready? and at 5.45, mark kermode has the film review including a look at new release summer of soul. this afternoon it s been announced the uk has recorded more than 50,000 daily coronavirus cases for the first time since mid january. in the past 2a hours there were a further 51,870 confirmed cases of coronavirus in the uk and another 49 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for covid bringing the uk total to 128,642. earlier this afternoon official figures suggested that one in 100 people in the uk had coronavirus last week. it comes just days before the end of restrictions in england and scotland on monday. our health correspondent james gallagher is here. that top line takes us back to january. explain the context of all of this. , , ., , of this. let us rewind six months and we had of this. let us rewind six months and we had 50,000 of this. let us rewind six months and we had 50,000 cases - of this. let us rewind s
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. we begin this hour with breaking news in suburban atlanta. at least four people are dead in the city of hampton. right now a shooter is on the lose. cnn s paulo sandoval is following this. what do we know right now? reporter: this is a very active situation unfolding right now about 30 miles or so south of the sea of atlanta. the most important thing to share with viewers is a photograph just shared by authorities on the ground a few moments ago hoping anybody out there recognizes this individual. police are saying this man that has been identified as the local sheriff, about to be in his early 40s, opened fire at about 10:45 this morning, wounding and killing at least four individuals. all of them adult residents there in the city of hampton. they are three men and one woman. at this point, it is too early to say exactly what the motive is according to investigators. however, the police chief there in hampto
putin felt like he had to invade ukraine because he felt very shy about nato. the nato alliance just had too many countries in it, too many countries that were too close to russia, and that all just gave putin this terrible feeling about nato being too close, and so therefore, he had to invade ukraine. i don t actually think that s it. i don t think we know all of the reasons he does what he does, who knows what s going on in his little short dictator heart of hearts. but if, in fact, the apologists are at least partially correct, if, in fact, putin was hoping that one of the effects of him invading ukraine would be a brush back to nato, that he would be able to worry less about nato, and somehow starting this war would make that happen, sorry. when putin invaded ukraine, there were 30 countries in nato. now there are about to be 32. finland was the 31st country to join in april. that gave russia 800 more miles of border directly with a nato country, and now as of tonight, we