abortion rights. as of this moment, roe versus wade essentially up ended at the stroke of midnight the most restrictive abortion law in the country went into effect in texas. it essentially bans all abortions after six weeks. six weeks before most women even know they are pregnant. now this law gives private citizens the right to sue doctors or anyone else connected to a woman getting an abortion for as much as $10,000. all they need to do is help. it could be a lyft driver to take a woman to a clinic who could be sued. the timing on this is once a fetal heart beat is detected. so this law is in effect for now because the supreme court didn t act on a request to block it. through their inaction, the justices left the tightest abortion restriction since roe versus wade to be enforced. and the landmark decision itself could now be in jeopardy. joining us to talk about all this is cnn chief legal analyst jeffrey toobin. why do you think the supreme court hasn t enacted on this
kyi and other senior government leaders for what it called election fraud. the military also detaining a member of parliament and declaring a one-year state of emergency. the white house has warned, quote, the united states opposes any attempt to alter the outcome of recent elections or impede myanmar s democratic transition and will take action against those responsible if these steps are not reversed. cnn s will ripley joins me now from hong kong with more. there are those saying that this is a violation of a constitution the military actually helped write and just days ago said it would abide by. what are you hearing? what s the latest? reporter: it s extraordinary, michael, to think that this civilian government came into power just five years ago led by aung san suu kyi, who for so many years was this kind of darling of the movement for freedom and democracy around the world because she was kept in house arrest on and off for 20 years by the same military that has now
own just gone. heartbreaking stories from colorado, where wildfires reduced hundreds of homes to ashes in a matter of hours. and we begin right here in the united states, where the latest covid surge is shattering records. is u.s. is now averaging more than 394,000 new cases a day, the fifth day in a row a new high was set. now, most states, the ones you see there in dark red, have seen daily case counts rise by 50% or more in the last week. now, so far, thankfully, hospitalizations and deaths are lower than the peaks we saw in 2021, but unfortunately that doesn t mean the danger is over here. the cdc estimates more than 44,000 people could die from covid-19 in the next four weeks. meantime, millions of children are headed back to the classroom on monday. it comes as a record number of children are at this hour hospitalized with covid-19. and some school districts are announcing at least a partial transition to online learning. and that s the approach several school distr
rate hikes to come, but maybe not as steep at a single time as was earlier thought. for example, the federal reserve today raising rates half a point. we haven t seen that type of increase in the better part of 22 years. at that time bill clinton was president. that was then, this is now. all in the face of polls that show americans are very worried about inflation right now. nine out of ten of us say it is our number 1 concern. getting more so. the federal reserve doing its best today to address the problem by saying we re going to keep on top of the problem by continuing to hike interest rates. again, it s very unusual for a stock market to respond to this so positively. but the belief might be as simple as this. they re the only ones trying to do something about it. so we put our faith in them. they re the only game in town. let s go right now to ed lawrence who will be following this from the federal reserve. madison alworth in gilbert, arizona. we begin with the fed. wha
there is so a manhattan da who replace the radical leftist is still conducting an investigation to the trump organization. you have been attorney general and albany new york who ran on trying to indict donald trump and she should have been disbarred right then and there. now has ordered the trump organization to comply with the subpoena even though it s obvious. is that there is no attempt to conduct gestured on - justice. that is the democrat elected attorney general and albany. and then the democratic elected district attorney in georgia and then wednesday georgia official be reading him to hold that the georgia law as president trump side so they saw the investigation there. there are heavy democratic districts, politically elected prosecutors, people who have no intention of doing justice. we have way too damn many prosecutors, many with the backing of george soros why we have such a massive problem with crime and murder in this c country. back to that. than a fourth i