canceled through the app, but even try to get you a refund down rocket money today. cnn this morning with kasie hunt next there s monday, july 8. right now on cnn morning they re all making landfall on the coast of texas, as it picks up steam back to a hurricane lost a high-stakes week for the president s reelection you okay, i m paying joe biden defiance in the wake of calls from his own party to bow out of his bid for a second term hamas signals a potential central shift in their key demand to help cross the finish line for a ceasefire deal with israel it as 5:00 a.m. here in washington, here s live look at galveston, texas good morning, everyone. i m jim sciutto. great to be with you today. hurricane beryl strengthening to a category one hurricane overnight, making landfall. actually just moments ago your matagorda beach, about 150 miles north of corpus christi? more than 7 million people are under a tornado watch, including the houston area as winds reach up to 80 miles
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 callin
recall election. don, this time tomorrow night we ll be getting to see the first votes, getting ready to fill in the map. it s a yes or no, yes, recall the governor, or no, the democrats believe that will be the answer, keep gavin newsom, let him finish his term as governor and keep his covid-19 and other policies. democrats are confident. the data tells us ballots are coming back with a two to one democratic advantage. this firm tracks the mail-in voting and 52% of the ballots returned so far are from democrats, 25% from republicans. it doesn t mean all these democrats voted no but we know from public polling most democrats want to keep their governor. democrats think they re matching, maybe even exceeding, what they need to do to keep newsom in power. in 2018 when newsom was elected, this is a very blue state. 62% for gavin newsom, 38 for his republican opponent back then, john cox, one of those on the ballot this time around. 62% then. fast forward to 2020, the shall el
democratic governor gavin newsom, who is hoping to rally supporters to vote no so he can hold on to his job. also tonight a source telling cnn capitol hill police and other law enforcement agencies are bracing for potential violence at saturday s right-wing justice for january 6th rally and for the possibility that some of the attendees may be armed. and florida s republican governor ron desantis threatening to fine county and local governments in his state that mandate employees get vaccinated against covid-19. but first, here s the president campaigning for governor newsom. so i want to turn now to cnn s john king at the magic wall and what to expect from tomorrow s recall election. don, this time tomorrow night we ll be getting ready to see the first votes, getting ready to fill in the map and answer the question. in california, quirky recall, it s a yes or no. yes, recall your governor and the democrats term in midstream. no, the democrats believe that will be the
vaccination rates. a new report out of israel suggests one of the vaccines may not be as protective against it. we re on top of those headlines. first, elsa bearing down on fort myers, florida. we are there. derek, how dangerous is this storm? reporter: i think people taking this for granted, because it s early in the season. maybe just getting caught off guard. that makes it dangerous. not only the threats of tornado and water spouts but the storm surge potential. the geography of the florida peninsula and this long duration event. the storm is basically going to be moving parallel to the coastline for the next 12 to 18 hours. so that will maximize the potential threats and impacts for that location. you know we ve got a strengthening storm out there. i ve been analyzing a lot of the radar and satellite imagery, the water temperatures are very warm, like bath water in the gulf of mexico. and it is just providing that fuel necessary for the storm to develop. we re startin