hello and a very warm welcome to our viewers around the world. i m fred pleitgen right here in london and here is what s ahead on cnn newsroom president biden remains defined as calls for him to step aside, grow louder, we ll tell you who s joining the chorus and what the white house has to say. russia sentences american journalist evan gershkovich too for espionage. why washington called the conviction, quote, a sham and a cyber meltdown around the world from airlines to banks. we re learning what happened and how long it could take before things get back to normal our top story go u.s. president joe biden is vowing to stay in the race despite a growing list of fellow democrats telling him to drop out more than 30 democratic lawmakers are now publicly urging him to step aside. and that includes a dozen on friday alone, a source says the president is quote, seething at former house speaker nancy pelosi. since some of her close allies are joining the calls earlier legendary jo
hello and, welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world, i m fred pleitgen in london. and here s ahead. what? here s what s ahead on cnn newsroom. president joe biden, facing fresh called to leave the presidential race here, how the white house is responding, donald trump and as vice presidential pick, j.d. vance are hitting the campaign trail today. see what s planned after the base rousing performance at the republican convention. plus a global it meltdown is still affecting people around the world as tech experts scrambled to fix an update gone wrong, what we know about how long it could last our top story though us president joe biden is vowing to stay in the race despite a growing list of fellow democrats telling him to drop out more than 30 democratic lawmakers are now publicly urging him to step aside. and that includes a dozen on friday alone, a source says, the president is quote seething at former us house speaker nancy pelosi, since some of her
be watching that. thank you. let s do it now well, first of all, i m just glad to be back in atlanta after getting caught up in the travel mess, we all just went through maybe the only thing as complicated to navigate is the 2024 race inauguration day is six months away from today, guys and democrats do not want to see former president donald trump back on that stage. and yet they are struggling to decide who has the best chance to keep that from happening. among the new batch of names publicly asking president biden to step aside, congregate congressman marc veasey of texas not the biggest name, but he is the first member of the congressional black caucus to do it. president biden still seems to have the support of what democrats know is the base of their party. most black women and then this week, more than 1,000 black women leaders and organizers signed and released a letter demanding no change to the ticket former atlanta mayor keisha lance bottoms, actress vivica fox,
stock exchanges, health care systems, government offices, also feeling the impact and new this morning, president biden s campaign manager insisting that he is in this race and will be donald trump, who just wrapped up his convention last that s tonight. that s despite growing pressure on the president to drop his reelection bid. but let s start with the massive cyber outage. here s what we know right now. it is causing gridlock it s a major airports in every corner of the world thousands of flights have been canceled more than 1,700 in the u.s. alone, even the border crossing with canada is backed up but with cars, look at this stretching for miles and also take a look at this map by these red dots that you re seeing on the screen right now are airports that have parsed aufor ground-stops. you might say, okay, that s not a lot of red dots, that s atlanta laguardia, boston, detroit minneapolis salt. i mean, those are major airports around the world and important passengers ar
happening now breaking news, president biden, his camp campaigning in the crucial battleground. from state of michigan, right now, democratic pressure to end his reelection bid persisting though, following his high-stakes primetime news conference that we re going to hear from the president live this hour in standby for that up on capitol hill, 19 democrats now are calling for president biden to quit the race. we re learning that one of those laws makers directly confronted the president during a call today, telling him it s time to bow out all of this is donald trump is staying mum about his vice vice-presidential pick with the republican national convention down only three days away, we re going to tell you what we know and don t know about trump s vice presidential reveal. welcome to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i m wolf blitzer. you re in the situation room the skis, cnn breaking news. we re following breaking news. president biden takin