Simone biles will return to competition. Heat alert: the southeast sizzles in tripledigit temperatures, while a worsening drought fuels fires in the west. Europe reopens, with rules. We re in paris, where american tourists have returned. And later, raising a wallaby. How these caregivers are getting creative. So you guys would say you re doting parents? doting and paranoid parents. This is the cbs weekend news. From chicago, here s adriana diaz. Diaz: good evening. After all the pleading from doctors and urging even begging from politicians for reluctant americans to get vaccinated, it s finally happening. Vaccinations are increasing. But it comes as the dangerous delta variant sends cases skyrocketing. This c. D. C. Map shows the counties with the highest levels of transmission. It s especially bad in all those areas in red. And even with vaccinations up, only about half of americans are fully vaccinated. Adding to the uncertainty, the federal moratorium that stopped landlords from ev
The first medals of day four of the tokyo olympics has been won by bermuda their first ever gold medal. Flora duffy came first in the women s triathlon. Bermuda is the smallest nation taking part in these games so, many of those 65,000 would have watched their fellow bermudian cross the finishing line around a minute ahead of second placed briton georgia taylor brown. Tom dean of britain won in swimming. 22 medals to be won today an increase caused by the rescheduling of the surfing competition because of the weather. Here s how the overall medal tally looks at the start of day 4 japan leads with eight golds, one more than the us and two ahead of china. More from tokyo later. In afghanistan high numbers of civilians many of them children have been killed or injured in the first half of this year according to the united nations. As violence escalates, more than 1,600 civilian deaths have been recorded a rise of nearly 50% compared with this time last year. Government for
And in some places queues forming at the pumps. One of america s biggest pipelines is still off line, the result of the weekend s ransomware hack. Plus in a chinese city, one of three escaped leopards is still on the loose, but the five zoo keepers who d kept it quiet have been detained by police. Hello, i m katty kay in washington, christian fraser is in london. Those of us old enough to remember the two intifadas know how quickly things can spiral beyond control in the middle east. Tonight it seems it may be happeneing again. Here is the latest. Tonight the palestinian militant group hamas has fired some 130 rockets at tel aviv. Air raid sirens have sounded in the city, a building was hit and once person killed. An energy pipeline has also been hit and set on fire. The israeli defence force has continued its bombardment of the gaza strip. This evening it targeted a 13 storey residential tower, in gaza city, which later collapsed. The residents had reportedly been warned to evacuate
and our sunday morning edition of the papers is at 9:35 this morning s reviewers are shyama perera, thejournalist and author, and dave wooding, who s political editor of the sun on sunday. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. trials ahead of so called covid passports will get underway in england later this month, as the government looks to restart mass gatherings and indoor events safely. the first pilot event will be a comedy night in liverpool later this month where audience members will be tested for covid before and after the show. the pilots will last until mid may and include the fa cup semi final and final, the world snooker championship in sheffield, and several events in liverpool including an evening at a nightclub. downing street also confirmed countries will be in a risk based traffic light system when foreign holidays resume. the prime minister is expected to lay out more details tomorrow. our political correspondent, nick ear
a whole round of fixtures dedicated to one man. as mose masoe continues his journey back from career ending injuries, his rugby league family show what he means to them. we will be speaking to mose later on. and whilst we will all seize some sunshine this weekend it will be the possibility of snow and ice which may grab your attention as we go through to monday. join me for the full easter weekend forecast here on breakfast. it s friday, april the 2nd. our top story. more than 70 mps and peers from all the major parties have joined forced to oppose the introduction of so called vaccine passports in england which could mean people have to prove they ve had a jab to enter some venues. they say the move would be divisive and discriminatory . the government says a decision has yet to be made, but the prime minister is expected to give more details about the next stage of lockdown on monday. 0ur political correspondent iain watson has the story. the government wants to reopen