th a great offer, and ask how you can add comcast business securityedge. plus, for a limited time,ask how to get a $500 prepaid card when you upgrade. call today. this is cnn breaking news. >> live from cnn world headquarters in atlanta, welcome to all of you watching here in the united states, canada and around the world. i'm kim bruin hueber. this is cnn newsroom. >> ibrahim raici has won the presidential election in a lan slide based on 19% of the votes so far, and congratulated by the sole moderate opponent, rouhini whose term is ending and congratulated the

president-elect before the official results were made public. let's go straight to cnn's fred pleitgen live in tehran, a landslide victory for the hand picked main candidate, no surprise, i guess, take us through what this means for iran and for relations with the u.s. >> well, i think there are several factors, first of all, kim, i do have to say this was really a very important and certainly most probably a pivotal election for iran and i think we will see, we will see iranian politics, move much further towards a conservative trajectory, and it has been the past eight years, and of course the past eight years, with the administration, a moderate government here in iran and foreign policy and western capital, with the foreign minister under the administration, it is a well known commodity. what you have in this election here is you have a victory, as you pointed out very much a landslide victory, he won 17.8 million of the votes counted so

far. that's about 62%. that is a lot. and certainly what that seems to indicate is two things. on the one hand, and it certainly seems as though the conservatives showed up to the election here, the moderates did not. if you look at the other candidates in the race, you have another candidate who was really the highest polling moderate candidate, and he only won about 2.4 million of the votes, so much less, coming in third place. so it really seems as though the hide liners, the conservatives were able to mobilize their candidate and the moderates were not. there seems to be several factors to. that on the one hand, the moderate candidate is not someone who is someone who is a very well-known commodity before the election or the election campaign and there are a lot of people in the country who are quite disillusioned and in the policies of the rouhani administration given the economic sphere, the country very much suffering from the

crippling sanctions put in place by the trump administration and there are many people here who believe that situation was not managed the way it could have been or should have been by the rouhihi administration. >> so then that's what it means for iran. let's see what it means for the u.s., and particularly for the nuclear deal. >> yeah, that of course is a key factor. and it's interesting, because you know, obviously the economy was the main thing for iranian voters, everybody that we spoke to at the polls said the economy needs to improve, but of course, many people believe the way to doing that or the main way to doing that is putting back in place the iran nuclear agreement and getting sanctions relief. the iranian government wants to sell oil as fast as possible and wants to make an investment here in this country as fast as possible and wants to get connected back to electronic and international payment, and of course right now it is cut off from the u.s. sanctions.

the raisi administration set to come into obvious is set to take a harder line in policy, that's what it looks like tord the u.s. and western nations as well and we have to keep in mind there is a whole new foreign policy team that will be coming in and i think western capitals and washington, d.c. in particular is going to be looking at that very closely. however, as far as trying to get the iran nuclear agreement back on track, it is a very important factor. just yesterday, actually at a polling station, by chance, caught up with the head of iran to free national security council, who is very close to the iran supreme leader, he said there are things in this country that go beyond which administration is currently in power and certainly the iran nuclear agreement had relations with the u.s., with the u.s., they are very much one of those topics. the iranian supreme leader, iran supreme leader, eye toe la, he says he wants the negotiations to get back into place and to

continue he wants the agreement to come back and wants iran to be back in full compliance but only if the u.s. comes into compliance and goes back into the deal. that is something that will be continued at least as far as the top echelons of the iranian leadership are concerned. >> fascinating. thanks so much for your reporting and analysis there. cnn's fred pleitgen in the iranian capital tehran, appreciate it. in the u.s., there's cause for celebration and concern. officials say more than 300 million doses of covid vaccines have been given across the country, but health officials are worried about the spread of the delta variant. the world health organization's chief scientist explained why that strain of the virus is so dangerous. >> the delta variant is well on its way to becoming the dominant variant globally, because of its significantly increased transmissibility. >> the rise in cases caused by the variant is worrying health officials here in the u.s. as

well. it stresses the need for vaccinations as the delta variant continues to spread. cnn's nick watt has more from los angeles. >> we're heading into god willing the summer of joy. a summer of freedom. >> but will the delta variant which recently ravaged india become the dominant strain here in the u.s. >> i anticipate that will be the predominant variant in the months ahead. >> over in britain, there's more contagious variant, now for 99% of new cases. what does that actually look like. well, case counts there are rising but death rates are not. the increase is primarily in younger age groups, as a british health official, a large proportion of which, were unvaccinated. >> will the delta variant bring us back into lock down? >> pyongyang because so many people have already -- i don't think so because so many have already been vaccinated. >> in the u.s. 65% of adults

have had one shot, the vice president is touring the country, encouraging more. >> isn't that an extension of love thiy neighbor? >> michigan opens up tuesday. ohio's emergency declaration ended today. >> we have basically lifted almost all of the orders. >> the president's goal is this. 70% of adults at least one shot. by july 4th. will we make it? federal officials still won't give a straight answer. >> we're doing everything we can. >> the data suggests the country will not meet that ambitious independence day mark. but -- >> we've gotten 300 million shots in the arms of americans in 150 days. ahead of what anyone thought was possible. >> here in california, when you get the vaccine, you get this little card, as proof, i'm surprised i haven't lost mine already. there is a new web site, my vaccine record and you can type in all of your details and it

wilt store a digital proof of the vaccination for you. online. now, this is key. it is voluntary. not mandatory. nick watt, cnn, los angeles. officials are afraid the spread of the variant can threaten much of the progress that's been made in the massive vaccine rollout here in the u.s., cnn's dr. sanjay gupta looks at the importance of getting the vaccine from the dangers posed by the variants. >> i think it's interesting to look around the world at these variants and see how much of an impact they're making. take a look at the u.k., for example, i think there's a story here, that's important, that you see in the graphic, the end of january, it was primarily the alpha or the u.k. variant that was dominant in the u.s., understandably. what happened over that time period. the numbers came down overall, which was good. but at the same time, the delta variant started to enter the scene there. you saw the numbers pop back up. and it was primarily obviously

people who had not been vaccinated. so that is the concern here, and we know that this is a much more transmissible variant. the u.k. or alpha variant was 50% more transmissible than the strain before that. and this is 60% more transmissible than the alpha variant. so you get an idea, in scotland, there was a study showing that people who were infected with the delta variant were more likely to be hospitalized. so this does appear to be more transmissible and more serious also. so that is why there's so much attention on this. if you look at the effectiveness of the vaccines, take a look there, you see that alpha or delta, you get a lot of impact, a lot of protection from these vaccines, and that's why the message remains the same, to get out there and get vaccinated. it is also worth pointing out that as you can slow down the spread of the virus overall through vaccinations, through immunity, you're going to be less and less likely to actually develop mutations that are problematic, that are going to

create more variants that we continuously worry about. so no matter how you cut it, whichever way, the message remains the same. we go get vaccinated. >> a study by imperial college london finds that young people are causing quote exponential growth in covid infections in england. with some exception, the u.k. hasn't made vaccines available to those under 18. as phil black explain, the ethical factors involved are complex. mistakes are high. >> 16-year-old thomas crone is one of the very few school aged children in the u.k. to receive a covid-19 vaccine and it is claim and care for his often sick family. mom claire -- >> anywhere more than a few minutes, i would need this. >> and 12-year-old twin sons are still suffering a wide range of long covid symptoms. more than a year after first falling ill.

>> we know that children can be severely affected. >> government statistics show that 30,000 children age 16 and under have recorded experiencing long covid in the u.k. britain is yet to make vaccines widely available to adolescents, even as the highly contagious delta variant surges through the country, with growing evidence it is moving quickly through children and young people. british experts are still urging caution. >> i would be hesitant to vaccine. being safe is probably the most important thing. >> their concerns are centered on the ethical calculation of benefit versus risk. statistically very few children suffer severe illness from covid-19. while the vaccine is new, and its side effects though rare are still being studied. >> until we have those final bits of evidence and data, i think it's reasonable to wait to vaccination our adolescents. >> it's a very different approach compared to the u.s.

where over five million children under 18 are already fully vaccinated. and u.s. president joe biden is using britain's experience with the delta variant to drive that number even higher. pointing out, it's spreading rapidly among young people in the u.k. if you're young and haven't gotten your shot yet, it really is time. >> the more children that are vaccinated, the more they add to that pool of immune people, and thus they make the herd, as it will, bigger. >> reporter: france, germany, israel, are all pursuing a similar strategy. but experts in the u.k. are hoping the virus can be blocked by immunity in the adult population alone. around 80% have had at least one dose so far. >> you're hopeful that it won't be necessary to vaccinate children? >> i am optimistic, yes. but i don't think that we would wait forever. i think that we just want to make sure we're doing the right thing, we're doing what is safe and in the best interest of our children and young people.

>> claire hastings says she just hopes other children will somehow be protected quickly. so they never know the suffering and uncertainty experienced by her sons. >> we don't know what to help him. it's heart breaking. >> the u.k. medicine regulator is accused the use of the pfizer biontech vaccine for 12 to 15 ages, and the independent panel of experts will look at holding off or proceeding with the rollout. the world health organization has expressed a very strong view of the issue. it says no country should be thinking about vaccinating children right now because there are so many older or vulnerable people in countries around the world who more desperately need those doses. phil black, cnn, london. the eu is lifting travel restrictions for more than a dozen country, just ahead we will find out who may be enjoying a summer vacation in europe in the coming days. plus -- >> meteorologist tyler malden

for cnn, parts of the gulf coast are looking at storm force conditions, and we will let you know if the system still has a chance of getting named and even if that matters.

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millions of people along the u.s. gulf coast are under warnings right now, and being hammered by heavy rain and tromp fo -- tropical storm force winds. it hasn't become a main storm but it doesn't bring the effects es yer to be. tyler, what are the effects likely to be? >> tropical storm force like conditions. even though the symptom has not been technically been labeled a tropical storm nor has it received a name. but that's just a technicality. because the winds are at 45 miles an hour and the only reason it hasn't received that tropical storm status is simply because the storms are firing up far away from the center and we need those storms to be close to the center for it to officially be a tropical system but again, the winds are at 45 miles an hour, and we're seeing gusts as high as the mid 50s across portions of louisiana, going

into mississippi. we also have a tropical storm warning in effect from fort walton beach all the way to morgan city, louisiana, and we also have a tornado watch in effect as well. so just the typical tropical storm force type conditions will be heading into this region. and in fact, they're already here. there are parts of louisiana and parts of mississippi that have been dealing with rainfall for at least 12 hours, and we've seen rainfall totals pile up to about nine inches, and slidell, and the surrounding area, biloxi, going all the way to mobile, you have been dealing with heavy rainfall for quite a while. as i mentioned, about nine inches of rain in parts of louisiana. that's really starting to add up, too, because the system is slowly moving and as it slowly moves, it's going to continue to drop rain, in the same areas so the areas that ife have already picked up rainfall, will continue to pick up rainfall and

that rain streds to north georgia and portions of the carolinas, too. we can see up to five to six inches of rain over the next three days. in this part of the country. this is why we have a flood watch that extends, 570 miles or so, from about new orleans all the way up to northeast georgia. and in addition to that tropical storm, we're also watching record heat out west, get this, we are going to see temperatures yet again get up to about 120 degrees in parts of the southwest. >> yes, it's absolutely amazing. thanks so much, tyler. appreciate that. so well, as tyler mentioned there, it's about 1:20 in the morning right now in phoenix, arizona, and it's still almost 100 degrees fahrenheit and along with the heat, water is in short supply. in fact, more than 25% of the western u.s. is now facing a severe drought. the worst in 20 years. experts say it's all due to climate change, causing extremely high temperatures and

low amounts of rain and snowfall. we have the story of how one rancher was trying to cope. >> living in southern utah, cattle rancher tj atkin is used to dry conditions. >> i can't control mother nature. >> but the current dryness is more punishing than everything he has ever seen. >> you had long has it been since you've had any meaningful rain here. >> the last 15 months, combined, we're barely at three inches of precipitation in 15 months. >> and what would you normally see? >> our annual for 12 months is nine inches. >> for generations, his family has raised cattle on the same 210,000 acres in northwestern arizona. >> i either got to haul water, or i've got to, i'll take them to town and feed them for the next three months. >> atkin drove us out to the rugged arid terrain of his ranch. with temperatures well above 100 degrees, there were just a few

signs of life. until some of his cows came into view. but just some. because there's not enough water out here to sustain them all. >> i've relocated 80% already. i've sold some of them. >> atkin's water woes aren't his alone. take a look at this u.s. drought monitor map, the darker the color, the worst the drought. atkin's ranch lies deep within that crimson red. >> we have about 200 reservoirs and they're all dry. >> like dry? >> we've never had a drought in every one of them and we've never had that in the years. >> at kin's reservation is in the colorado river basin which is primarily fed by snow mack pack -- snow pack of the rocky mountains. the basin is now in its 22nd year of drought. this is clearly evident further down river at the end of the nevada/arizona border, where the

river flows into lake meade, the largest reservoir in the nation which 25 million people depend on for water. >> has it ever been this low before? >> it hasn't. not since 1937. so we are anticipating the lower basin to be in the first ever shortage condition in history. >> in fact lake meade is 143 feet below full capacity. and has shed a mind boggling 5.5 trillion gallons of water in the last 20 years. those low water levels mean power generation at the hoover dam is down 25%. >> no one can really tell with any certainty, but we can all hope that the future will be wetter. >> for his part, atkin is hoping for a wet monsoon season this summer, to replenish his dry ponds, and keep his cattle business afloat. >> we could catch one water in one week than we've caught in three years. >> but if not, he predicts the entire country will be impacted by this unprecedented western

drought. >> it is such a large area. it is almost half of the united states now. if this goes one more year, it will have a huge effect on everyone. >> and scientists say that climate change is part of the problem here, that these punishing temperatures are causing the drought and the drought is then leading to more super high temperatures. stephanie elam, cnn, in the colorado river basin. joining me now is david feldman, a professor at the university of california irvine, and the director of water uci, a program to help solve water problems facing california and the world. thanks so much for joining us. we spoke a couple of years ago, when i was in california reporting, on the last big drought, so here we are again, where many experts predicted, your colleague at uci, paleo climatologist, kathleen johnson said this, quote, this current drought is potentially on track to become the worst that we've seen in at least 1200 years. i mean that is terrifying if true. do you agree?

>> i do agree. the evidence is very strong that in the last several decades, droughts, particularly here in the west, have become longer, more intense, and with many damaging consequences. so it definitely seems to be the trend. >> well, let's get to some of those consequences, as we saw earlier, in the piece, one of the most dramatic examples of the effects this is having is on our reservoirs, like lake meade, i've been out there years ago, when it was hitting what was then record low, now the deficit is about the size of the statue of liberty. you study the colorado river which feeds that reservoir. what are you seeing? >> we're seeing the same thing. basically, there's less snow pack in the winter in the rockies, which means that there's less snow melt in the spring and the summer. and so that's diminishes the inflow into lake meade into lake powell and of course, our

demands for water from the colorado river, are not diminishing. so you put those two things together, and it means you're going to have a deficit. >> and then, we're seeing the other effects of this hot weather leading to a huge energy consumption, people across the west being asked to cut usage, or face power cut, the hot dry weather leading to more fires and now crews are facing water shortages as they try to fight those fires and it is forcing the state once again, in california, to cut off water supply to farmers, and it is not even officially summer yet, so what worries you the most when we're looking at the chain reaction of the effects this is having on our daily lives. >> i think there are two things that worry me the most. one is from an environmental standpoint. the intense droughts that we're having are leading to greater wildfires. and of course, less water available locally to put out these wheres, so that's a huge

problem. -- these fires, so that's a huge problem. also environmentally less stream flow, which means more threats to fisheries, and then from a social standpoint, what worries me is the fact that our water demands are not really following water supply. so unless we figure out some way of lessening our demands and findings in very short order ways of providing additional supply that do not involve dependency on the colorado river and other streams, we're going to have very intense problems. >> how do you find additional supply? you can't just manufacture it out of nothing. >> right. so one of the things that we could be doing better in the west, and throughout the united states, is integrated water management. to stop thinking of water as in different pockets, such as waste water, and fresh water, and drinking water and storm water. but we need to think of all

water sources as integrated. we need to re-use waste water whenever possible. we don't have to necessarily drink it, but we can re-use it and treat it to levels that are suitable for agriculture and for a lot of manufacturing activities. we also need to look where appropriate at desalination. it may be an appropriate option in certain places but we're going to have to address the problems of cost and public acceptability. these are things that we will have to think much harder about than with we have i think in the recent past. we look at these problems as technological. we need to look at them as people problems. the other thing we can also be doing is very serious efforts at greater conservation. we've done a pretty good job in the west of conserving. but we're going to have to do an even better job. we're going to have to think about our landscaping patterns. we're goes to have to think

about more efficient end uses of water. low flow appliances. these things have to be required. and we're going to have to think about ways of incentivizing reductions in water use. >> no easy solutions. i guess the only goods news is a lot of people are making that connection between these droughts and climate change, and hopefully that will lead to some policy changes. david feldman, thank you so much for joining us, really appreciate it. >> thank you. europe is getting ready to welcome back u.s. tourists. but will it be like it was before the pandemic? just ahead we will talk it a travel expert about what you should expect if you're headed overseas. >> plus, joe biden has often put his faith front and center as the first catholic president in decades and now, that might be working against him. we'll explain. stay with us. no, he's not in his room. ♪

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american travelers soon may be enjoying their favorite european destinations once again. the eu's governing body is recommending lifting restrictions for the u.s. and many other countries. cnn's cyril varnier has been following this story and has more from london. >> reporter: the european union is moving a step closer to opening its doors to international holiday-goers. the eu council recommends rolling back travel restrictions put in place at the beginning of the pandemic for at least 14 countries. on that list, australia, israel, new zealand, japan, the united states, and others. there's a major caveat, though. this should be read as a general statement of intent, not a

detailed rule book. because ultimately, border controls and travel policy depend on individual member states. and what that means is that check the rules that apply to your specific european destination, because even though the eu says it wants to harmonize travel policy, requirements vary. for instance, holidaying on the french river ra for americans is already possible. the tourists who can show proof of vaccination plus a negative covid test. where as in greece, unvaccinated americans can go island hopping. all they need to show is the negative test. and a word of caution. these rules can change on a dime. european borders can be shut quickly depending on the pandemic, especially on the emergence of possible variants of concern. cyril varnier, cnn, london. so for more on this, let's bring in simon color, the travel editor from the independent and joining me via skype from bath,

england. thanks for joining us. first, is this a surprise at all that americans will be allowed, vaccinated or not, especially since the u.s. hasn't lifted its ban on nonessential travel by europeans, i guess it all comes down to the money? >> it does, yes, it's every country for itself. every country in europe, as around the world is balancing public health with public finances. and certainly, if you are looking at tourism-dependent countries such as france, spain, greece and italy, they are absolutely desperate for visitors, as they are actually in the united kingdom, although the united kingdom is keeping the barriers up for americans for a while longer. anybody from the u.s. who wanted to come here would need to self isolate. and so europe is getting ahead and france is actually, as we heard in the report, easing its restrictions, and things are going to get even easier from tomorrow, the curfew is over.

but it's really important to say that it isn't a europe-wide policy. and furthermore, when you get to europe, every country has different rules. so for example, here in the u.k., there's no mask wearing out of doors at all. but in countries such as spain, open spaces, yet, it's absolutely the norm to wear masks, and in the netherlands, if you fail to wear a mask, that's a fine of over $100. so it's a real patch work, and as cyril's report said, you need to absolutely need to make sure you know the rules of getting into the country and if you're combining multiple countries, have to do a lot of hard work. >> you have this patch work and the eu is using countries to coordinate nations around them so that you don't have this patch work, especially as they say, if you're traveling from country to country, that things won't be different. is there any chance that this harmonization will happen or will it be as you said before, sort of every country for

itself. >> i can't see any harmonization happening this year. just as it didn't happen last year. it is a really interesting situation, in terms of the u.k., where we have at the moment, unfortunately, pretty much the highest infection rates in europe. even though we had the most advanced vaccination program. so a country like spain just says yup, you're absolutely essential, the u.k., for tourism here, so you can all come in, regardless of tests, regardless of having been vaccinated or not. where as other countries like the netherlands, like germany, are putting up the barriers to british tourists, either saying you can't come in, except for essential reasons or you will have to self isolate when you get here. so there won't be any coherent european policy. because ultimately, all of these countries wan, want

well-vaccinated travelers and you need to bear in mind the centers for disease control, shoe not be traveling internationally unless you have been vaccinated. in quite a lot of europe, having been vaccinated is a passport to, well, actually getting into some countries, and certainly having an easier ride if you're going into others. >> so good news for american travelers with a big asterisk, or 27 small asterisks, i guess. simon, travel editor at the independent, appreciate your time. thanks so much. olympic athletes from uganda are set to arrive in tokyo, although it's not clear how warmly they will be welcomed. many in japan are wary of letting in athletes in nations where coronavirus is wage, raging. >> for female boxers in uganda, it is easy to keep a social distance in the ring. days before setting off for the

tokyo olympics, it is just katherine and her training partner but najieri is used to going it alone, uganda's first and only female olympian in the sport. >> i was announced as the only person. >> two male boxers will join her on the trip to tokyo. more than half the medals that uganda has ever won at the olympics has come in men's boxing events. she says in uganda, they would have been shut out of a male-dominated sport. it wasn't until 2012 that women's boxing was included in the olympics at all. >> there were people around me. >> as she tries to take on the world, her home country has turned its main sports stadium into a covid ward. uganda is suffering a covid surge with less than 1% of the population vaccinated but the

government has managed to set aside doses to fully vaccinate the 26 athletes on the olympic team. >> there's been a rush on the vaccines, and taking advantage of some of the regional hubs that the ioc has set up, for example rwanda our neighbors. >> many japanese are wary of arriving olympic teams, especially from hot spots like uganda, at least 120 towns have withdrawn their invitation to host overseas athletes. but osaka prefecture, where ugandans are staying after arriving in japan and covid tested daily. >> why are you confident you can host this team safely? >> we expect more than three years preparing for the team, he says, limited to the hole tells and training place -- hotels and training places. >> and osaka has seen covid surges and be under a state of emergency that may end shortly before the games begin.

najieri say she will follow the rules to keep out of danger. >> we will be careful. and my friends who grew up boxing, it can change with one mistake. >> as japan prepares to have the highest sporting event, the dangers that can come from one small mistake. >> cnn, tokyo. bishops in the u.s. are going forward with a proposal that could restrict communion for president joe biden, a catholic. we'll bring you what he is saying about it next. stay with us.

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to receive the eucharist which is what catholics receive, and it is controversial and the vatican as-against it, here is the reaction from joe biden the first catholic president of the sus are u.s. in six decades. >> are you concerned about the rift in the catholic church and how do you feel%ly about that. >> that's a private matter and i don't think that's going to happen, thank you. >> the senior vatican analyst joins me live from rome, the bishops turning the most openly religious president in decades, what's behind this and for those of us who aren't catholics, how big of a deal actually would this punishment be? >> hi there, kim, well the first thing to understand is this is the catholic church where things are not always as they seem. in this case, i think there's a bit of over-interpretation going about the significance of the vote, let's be clear, the bishops were not asked to vote whether or not president biden should be denied communion, the vote was instead on what was

drafted as a document on the eucharist, the sacrament where the church teaches that catholics receive the body and blood of jesus christ. however, recent polls, in fact one recent poll suggests that two-thirds of american catholics don't believe that anymore. they think it is just a symbol. now, that is of concern to a vast share of american bishops, and what they perceive themselves to be doing here, was drafting a document on that subject. now, it will include a section on kind of the rules for receiving communion that could have implications for biden or for nancy pelosi or other pro-choice catholic democrats, but what that's going to say, we don't know, and we won't know until november. as far as the vatican goes, you are quite right, that pope francis and his team have made it clear that they are against what they call weaponizing the eucharist, that is using it to kind of score political points.

ahead of this vote, the vatican sent a document urging the u.s. bishops not to do anything that would jeopardize the unity of the church in the states. presumably, kim, all of that will be taken into consideration. as the bishops draft this document over the next several months. >> all right, so all of this seems to speak to a larger division in many christian denominations, between conservatives and those who want the church to become more progressive, so how likely is this to expose those cracks? i mean is there a dangerous here that they could fully alienate more catholics with declining mass attendance already a huge worry? >> well, those cracks are very real. and they're certainly real in the catholic church as well, kim. i think this debate to some extent already has revealed them. and it will continue to do so. of course, the thing of it is, that i think for the typical bishop, he can't really make decisions on the basis of what

are the politics of this, because for every catholic who would be alienated, if you said sure, it's fine for someone like joe biden to receive communion, there is probably another catholic who would be ticked off by it. i think at the end of the day, they are trying to thread the needle here between a pastoral concern for fostering appreciation for the sacrament of the eucharist, without doing anything that is going to look overly political. so far, they're not doing a particularly good job of avoiding that impression. i suspect that's one of the things they're going to try to work on over the course of the drafting process. kim? >> all right, interesting story. we'll follow the developments. thanks so much, appreciate it. coming up, on cnn newsroom, the hero cop who led senator mitt romney and others away from capitol rioters in january. it is a very special kind of honor. we will have the details after the break. stay with us.

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the capitol police officer who may have saved the lives of lawmakers during the insurrection riot has been given a rare honor. >> you can see officer eugene

goodman in this video from january 6th running toward the camera. he was leading rioters away from the senate chamber and even directed senator mitt romney to safety. the army veteran was hailed as a hero for his actions that day and received the distinguished public service award for his work. well, friday night, he received another honor. he threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the game between the washington nationals and the new york mets. >> officer, when you're ready. it's your pitch. >> all right, well it may have bounced but it was right over the plate. a good job there by officer goodman. first round play at euro 2020 starts up again in about four hours, with hungary taking on france in budapest. but on friday, soccer fans were treated to what's been dubbed the battle of britain.

england and scotland faced off in london and the match ended in a scoreless draw. but as darren lewis reports, the scottish players are being celebrated for the heart they showed. >> the 100th competitive meeting between england and scotland, turned out to be a landmark occasion here at wembley. for scotland, the men were simply outstanding with a performance full of spirit. relief and commitment to hold england to a point. and give themselves a real chance at qualifying for the knockdown stages. star men were chelsea's gillmore, and liverpool andy robertson and south hampton adams, here in the driving rain, with the 2,600 fans, absolutely delighted with their display. >> we've got a result. >> so many times we've come here

disappointed. not today. this was a great performance. >> a very, very, very negative england performance. >> believe me, that was rushbbi tonight. absolute rubbish. it needs to improve big time. awful tonight. awful performance. no player turned up. shocking. shocking. honestly. >> well, for england, the questions centering around the superstar striker and captain harry cane, why was he so poor for a second successive game for the championship and why is the head coach so unable to get the best out of a man who lifted the premiere golden boot last month and why was there a lack of creativity in the england side given so many mercurial talents

at southgate's dispose al. they will have to answer the questions soon. and the next match against czech republic, it will look at what direction england is going on, on ward to the 16 or closer to the summer holidays with a disappointing couple of months ahead? we shall see. darren lewis, cnn, london. and that wraps this hour of cnn newsroom. i'm kim brunhuber. i'll be back in just a moment with more news. stay with us.

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