Dana: the largest protest in the capital. Causing chaos, assaulting police officers, defacing national monuments and burning the american flag. So far it appears the protest is getting a pass as charges are dropped. Welcome to a new hour of america s newsroom, i m dana perino. Bill is off today. Welcome back for another hour. Martha: i m martha maccallum. The u. S. Park police announced 23 arrests, the crowd was pretty large. Many of those cases have already been dropped. The house oversight committee is demanding an update from police and prosecutors as republicans call for maximum penalties while democrats have been defending the protest as free speech. Some of it was, some of it crossed the line. Here is what the white house has to say. These are truly condemnable acts ripping down the flag, burning the flag, desecrating the flag in any way is abhorrent. Unacceptable. We support peaceful protests. We don t support this. I can t speak for law enforcement activities. If laws were brok
Looks like one massive smoke and flames. You can see it working its way up the hill. Get clear! major: hundreds of firefighters are battling the blazing fires while residents face destruction and loss. There is nothing to look at. It s the foundation. That s all that s left. Major: the cbs evening news starts now. I m major garrett in for norah o donnell. California s largest wildfire of the year is 0% contained and tearing across the northern part of the state at a ferocious speed, driven by unpredictable winds. At this time on wednesday, the park fire had burned about two square miles. 48 hours later, it has exploded, burning more than 250 square miles. That s five times the size of san francisco. Thousands of people have been forced to evacuate as the flames allegedly sparked by an arsonist, ripped through homes, buildings, and cars be at fires are burning across the west and into canada, where a monster wildfire there has destroyed about a third of the structures in the resort town
dana: this may be too structured for me, campaign operatives often move on. bill: second high profile name to move on. dana: the vice president s main spokespersons but calling it quits after less than a year in the role. not the only one to be leaving. jackie heinrich is live at the white house with the latest. good morning to you. vps chief spokesperson and senior advisor to be leaving at the end of the year. the white house is not saying why she is leaving or where she is going. we re also hearing there might be others getting ready to call it quits in the vice president s office including her deputy director of public engagement and director of press operations. white house official tells fox symone has served honorably for three years as a valuable presidential campaign and 2020 member of his transition team and deputy assistant to the president and chief spokesperson to the vice president. the president and vice president are grateful for symone s service. she i
overturn roe v. wade. constitutional law attorney jonathan turley and new mexico republican congresswoman yvette will join us next of an analysis and reaction. we begin coverage, alexis mcadams, the catholic church as they prepare for mother s day services. first, lucas thomases is live at the white house where the biden administration is refusing to condemn the protest targeting conservative supreme court justices at their home. good evening. supreme court justice clarence thomas will not be bullied into making decisions. earlier today vice president harris spoke at tennessee state university. we are once again forced to defend on the mental principles we hoped were long settled. principles like the freedom to vote, the rights of women to make decisions about their own bodies. [cheering] even what constitutes the truth. earlier dozens showing up to protest outside the supreme court. 8-foot high debray fencing has not up, it appears fencing has gone up around big u.s. c
about this hurricane that as you can see is just barrelling towards the west coast of florida. one of the things that was really interesting there that the governor is warning about is the potential for as this storm is heading there up into kind of that big bend area, that catcher s mitt we ve heard it referred to, there is a potential for this storm to make a little bit of a left turn and head more towards tallahassee. his point there is that don t think that if you are there in the panhandle, you are there in northern florida that you are out of trouble. he s saying everyone should be prepared in case this storm does make a turn. and he s telling people, look, you should be prepared to lose power. you need to get out of the way of storm surge. you don t have to go far, but far enough away to get out of the storm surge. 10 to 15 feet in some areas. we re talking about a lot of water and that water can be deadly. we have our cnn team tracking every angle of the storm. i want