With Shun Wang of china in third. But it really was all about marchand, the Home Support again treated to another spectacular showing. Australias Cameron Mcevoy took his first olympic Gold Medal, when he won the mens 50m freestyle. Mcevoy is the first australian man to win the shortest distance on the swimming programme, while britains ben proud took the silver medal. Frances Florent Manaudou got the bronze 12 years after he won gold at london 2012. The current olympic champion, Caeleb Dressel of the United States, finished sixth. Now to the track. The United States set a new World Record in the heats of the mixed four by a00m relay. The team of four comprising of vernon norwood, shamier little, Bryce Deadmon and Kaylyn Brown smashed the previous Record Set at the World Championships in budapest last year. There were also national records for france, belgium and jamaica. Home favourite Teddy Riner became the firstjudoka to win four olympic Gold Medals after defeating South Koreas kim M
Officials in an effort to undermine thepresident trump. Another allegation details how it nancy pelosi called general milley after the capitol riots and told him to protect the nuclear codes from president trump. Milley reportedly agreed and then took them to potentially limit trump s power. Telling jennifer griffin those two allegations are not true and the calls with janet were not secret. Milley s office issued a statement saying the actions were routine is part of his normal duties. Some are calling for milley to step down. General milley has a lot of explaining to do and i think he ought to stop bellowing and honking on like a goose about rage and actually try to make our country more secure. I think joe biden is senile, and you know what? i m not going to follow his orders or our future president, i don t think he is in his right mind either. It is the essence in essence, a military queue. He should be questioned under oath, if not with a polygraph test, if it happened, if it did
Controversy erupts over the deaths of elderly nursing home residents. And a possible snag in the white house plan to roll out booster shots. Live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with robin kurnow. Thanks for joining me this hour. Afghanistan s new rumors have yet to declare a formal government, and that has presented a small window for afghan women to publicly demand their rights be protected. [ chants ] these women are demanding the right to work and have a continued voice in the country s affairs, especially on education and health. As you can see here, even this small demonstrations was enough to provoke the taliban to try and break it up. Meanwhile, antitaliban forces are battling an incursion by taliban fighters. It s long been controlled by the national resistance fraternity and has never been under taliban control. I want to take you straight to kabul where journalist ben farmer is standing by. It s now 12:30 in the afternoon there. He joins us by phone. Ben, hi. I wonder
The nationals manager getting emotional. This is crazy, we all know that. We all want to feel safe. I can tell you that inside this ballpark i feel safer than ever, i really do. We care about each other. We don t want anybody getting hurt. I try to protect as many people as possible. Harris: d. C. s police union with a scathing tweet welcome to washington, d. C. Where violent crime permeates everything. It is a tragedy that elected officials won t let us do our jobs. Less than 24 hours before all of this happened d. C. Police say a 6yearold little girl was killed in a driveby shooting. Five other people were hit including the child s mother. The city s police chief on that shooting. I want everyone to look at this. 6 years old, southeast d. C. Was struck by gunfire and did not survive her injuries. We have a collective responsibility to insure our children have every opportunity to be safe from violence. So i am asking that we all stand together and say no more. I am sick and tired of
Record, more than 400,000 new cases in a single day. Meanwhile, back in the u. S. , more incremental steps toward normalcy, the kentucky derby set to take off this evening with limited capacity of about 50,000 people. Cnn s evan mcmorrissantoro is at churchill downs. First let s go to polo sandoval with an overall look at progress and setbacks. Reporter: the numbers are looking extremely promising. Consider the daily infection rate dropping from about 60,000 a day to anywhere from 30,000 to 40,000. That s one of the reasons why the cdc essentially loosened some of those recommendations for fully vaccinated people when it comes to masks. Here in new york, as a new yorker, it feels good to say that according to the mayor s office, they are now eyeing a july 1st reopening, citing a drop in hospitalizations and infections here in the big apple. Throughout much of the country, americans are seeing signs that the light at the end of the tunnel is drawing nearnce the first public covid19 vacc