good evening again. chris is off tonight. a big victory for the president and bipartisanship on infrastructure. with millions of kids going back to the classroom, we'll speak to the summit of one. largest school districts. we begin though with new york governor andrew cuomo. in our last hour david axelrod describes him as swung who wakes up every morning in a fighting mood. this morning he decided his fight to remain in office was over. >> re >> the best way i can help now is if i step aside and let government get back to governing. >> reporter: governor andrew cuomo announces he is stepping down, telling new yorkers he is a fighter but it's time. >> wasting energy on

distractions is the last thing that state government should be doing. and i cannot be the cause of that. >> reporter: the 63-year-old governor getting choked up at moments as he gave his resignation, speaking to new yorkers, his staff and three daughters. >> i've seen the look in their eyes and the expression on their faces, and it hurt. your dad made mistakes. and he apologized. and he learned from it. >> reporter: his decision which takes effect in 14 days comes exactly one week after the release of the state attorney general's report which concluded the governor sexually harassed 11 women in the past seven years. before calling it quits, the governor defended himself. >> however, it was also false. >> reporter: moments before cuomo's presser, his personal attorney laid out the faults she fwounld the a.g.'s report

referencing some accusers by name and said the governor wasn't given a fair process. >> this investigation took every possible negative thing that could be said about the governor and they put it in. and they disregarded the positive, the things that would balance it, and the things that would undermine what some people were saying about the governor. and that's not right. >> reporter: the governor also offering an apology to his accusers, again, attributing some of his actions as generational. cuomo specifically addressing his actions to the claims made by a trooper in his detail. >> the trooper also said in an elevator, i touched her back. when i was walking past her in a doorway, i touched her stomach. now, i don't recall doing it. but if she said i did it, i believe her. >> reporter: and apologizing. >> it was a mistake.

plain and simple. i have no other words to explain it. i want to personally apologize to her and her family. >> reporter: it was a dramatic fall from grace for the three-material governor who cnn was actively fundraising for a fourth term but bringing relief to those accusing him of sexual misconduct. two of them say they remain grateful that their voices and experiences were heard and substantiated by the ag's investigators and feel solidarity with all women who continue to be abused by men in power. at least today, one of them has faced some consequences. >> do we know if the lieutenant governor has spoken to governor cuomo? >> reporter: yeah, anderson, we know that they spoke before he gave the remarks in new york city and they believe they spoke again after those remarks were made. she was given the heads up about this resignation. it is important to note, of course, she will be the first

female woman in this top position in new york state government. she said in a tweet earlier today, i'm ready and we're going to hear from her tomorrow. she will hole her first press briefing here in albany tomorrow afternoon. anderson? >> all right. appreciate it. joining us now, cnn political analyst, "new york times" washington correspondent and devout new yorker, maggie hagerman. and john king and kimberly, a former federal prosecutor. currently teaches law at the university of baltimore. so maggie, you've covered governor cuomo for a long time through all sorts of phases of his political career. i'm wondering what you made of his remarks today? >> it was stunning. andrew cuomo had one speed generally which is fight. when he's not fighting, he does survey the land scape and decide his options are better off not fighting. that's what he decided to do. today he had been giving every indication, even as soon as sunday or yesterday, that he was going to try to keep going.

it was clear yesterday when the assembly speaker said, we are not here to make a deal with andrew cuomo. there won't be deal, that he didn't have an avenue forward. now question what happens next? he is facing certain legal jeopardy. there is a small contingent of people around him who believe he can run again as soon as next year. throw his hat in the ring. assuming if the impeachment proceeds goes ahead. we're a long way out from that but he is someone trying on pre serve whatever future he can have. he was trying on sound some sort of upbeat note despite the circumstances and the topic matter. look, this was a defeat. he is continuing to insist that he didn't do what he was accused of doing. that was the thing i was struck by. he continues to debate this report which is not that dissimilar from reports he issued when he was attorney general. >> kim, governor cuomo still faces the possibility of criminal liability. there is been some scepticism.

he would be charged. one of the accusers has gone public with her allegations. from a legal standpoint, criminally, how does this potentially play out? >> well, under new york law there is a range of sexual misconduct, the lowest would be forcible touching. and it is not just comments and maybe sort of swiping someone in an awkward way. there are allegations that he groped people in very personal places. and that could give rise to a criminal charge. most likely a misdemeanor. but this would, very early stages in this moment. the prosecutors would take that complaint presumably and do a separate investigation interviewing other witnesses to see if they can build a case beyond a reasonable doubt of criminal liability. and that's of course setting aside potential civil liability for the state of new york or for him personally. >> the idea that maggie raise that had some people are suggesting he could run again. even in a 84 or so.

that, is that, what do you make of that idea? >> donald trump says he want to make a comeback despite accounts every day of steps he took, reckless, irresponsible step he took undermine american democracy. some politicians believe they are invincible or at least can rebuild. we'll see. i think she laid it out perfectly. we don't know if that will happen. part of the calculation, most things in politics come down to math. the report came out a week ago. he waited a week. he said it was biased. he started to question the credibility of some of the women. the math got worse. 2 on a path to inhe have tabl, impeachment. if he was meimpeached and barre from running again, if you're destroying to save yourself a little wiggle room. will that play out? we'll see. the math. the math was overwhelming and it came from within his own party. >> maggie, you heard the governor complain the whole

controversy was unfair, politically motivated, the politics has gotten too hot and extreme. i mean, as though he is not the quint essential political animal. i think it was you who pointed out, he is the son of a governor, the cabinet member of the clinton administration, married to a kennedy. to hear him complain about how politics works seems sort of interesting. >> yeah. there is been an approach the whole time which suggests these forces are coming after me because i'm fighting for you. he said a version of that today. it is identical language to a lot of language we heard donald trump use about investigations into himself when he was in office. so there is that piece of it, to hear him talk this way. i think you will hear him say this was unfair. i think you hoyt a bit of jiu jitsu.

that he is doing something positive by stepping aside. he is again refusing to have contrition and i think there's another aspect we haven't talked about. democrats evaluating how they relate to issues relate to the me too movement. andrew cuomo described himself as not realizing that the lines around conduct in the office had been redrawn. he helped redraw them. he drafted new laws about workplace sexual harassment. he should have realized it. i don't think what he is saying will be sustainable for him or any politicians trying to hold republicans or members of an opposing political party to account for things they do. the democrats are struggling with how they want to handle these kinds of cases when they arise. >> it is bizarre to their governor who has she said, expanded those rules.

expanded the repercussions for such behavior. to describe himself. i'm old-fashioned. i didn't know. >> it was a grab bag approach. he wanted to say i take full responsibility. he did say that. then he questioned the credibility. women. he questioned the credibility of the investigators. and he got into the well, it's a generational thing. to borrow a phrase from bill clinton, forgive me, that dog doesn't hunt. it shouldn't hunt for anybody. to the point maggie made moments ago, he signed the law. we all know, read before you sign. he changed the rules. he changed the rules for the better in the state of new york. he is the chief executive of the state of new york. read what you sign. follow rules you enacted. >> yeah. we'll pick this up when we come back. this governor's future, whether a future is a possibility. the prospects for the first

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for the love of community. for the love of progress. citi. talking tonight about andrew cuomo's decision to step down as governor of new york. what lies ahead for him. back with our legal and political team. kim, we talked about the possible criminal charges. how exposed do you think governor cuomo may be to civil litigation from his accusers? and i assume he would be personally financially responsible. >> potentially. so really, the big entity on the hook is the state of new york. if you look at letisha's lengthy report, it is a pretty systemic troubling systematic abusive environment involving many people. not just mr. cuomo, propping up his alleged bullying and sexual harassment. the state will presumably could have civil liability for damages

under both federal and state law relating to that hostile work environment. the closest analogy, frankly, is bill clinton and paula jones. he was sued by paula jones for sexual misconduct when he was arkansas governor. then he became president of the united states, he claimed, listen, i should have immunity. that went all the way to the supreme court. the supreme court said you don't have immunity while you're president. so cuomo could have liability, personal, for money damages. it will come down to a similar question. should he be treat as governor acting in his official capacity when these incidents took place. >> because clearly, according to the report that was put out, there were a lot of enablers around the governor. >> yeah. this is what is interesting to hear about. he signed the legislation in 2019. he got on television saying how he supports women's rights and the ability to bring sexual harassment claims.

what i think this story shows is that laws themselves are meaningless if they're not enforced. it brings it through an investigative process to the proper people. those were all side stepped in an apparent, as painted in the report, effort to protect the governor. in the interests of the women and the law itself all went by the wayside. we saw it also in the trump administration. laws are only as good as the paper they're written on. it is all about he said forcement. and there was a culture of nonenforcement around this sort of anti-sexual harassment type infrastructure that applies everywhere but is only as good as it is enforced. >> the new york assembly will look at whether they can impeach the governor. how do you think symbolically, you know, what impact would that have?

or on his future ambition? >> it depends. we're in a very weird period. one thing we haven't addressed is the governor gave himself 14 days to remain on the job. i can't remember another resignation that has come amidst this kind of a controversy where the governor said i'll give myself two weeks to stay on and do a transition. i don't know of anyone who thinks there needs to be two weeks. that is sparringing concerns from not just his detractors but candle diddley, some who have been close to him. they're wondering if he is just going to wait and see if the climate shifts in the other direction. does assembly drop this. so i think what you will see is a lot of pressure on the state assembly speaker to continue with this impeachment effort. we know republicans not only want to focus on these sex harassment allegations but on nursing home deaths during covid. they want to focus on the work that the governor and his staff put into this book deal. i don't think andrew cuomo wants to see witnesses being called,

around two of those, three, likely. so i think it will be impetus to stay away, leave the job if the a ssembly continue. impeachments in new york are not the same as at the federal level. this is writing it as they go along. so we'll see. >> it is so interesting to see and hear how the governor has played this out. what his thought process was. in the world of public relations these days, it seems like the new trend has been that there is so much information coming at people these days that, and there's so much shapelessness going on, and bad behavior going on, that people can survive things they never could have survived in the past. you look at what the virginia governor, you know, people were calling for his ouster. he just barreled through it. and now people have totally

forgotten about why people wanted him to step down in the first place. it seemed clear the governor was hoping he could just barrel through and something else would come along that would knock it off the front sxags move along and that didn't happen. >> i think that's true. bill clinton fought when at the beginning, many in the democratic party said he should step down and he said no way. he was in his second term, that's important to note. he was not convicted in the senate and the math was not. there donald trump defied gravity repeatedly. as president of the united states, you might say to this day. the governor is an example. there were questions about his lieutenant governor right after that so governor northam took advantage to run the clock and hopefully in his case, the at that was turned down and the state democrats decided, we'll let him run out his term. in governor cuomo's case, a couple of factors. number one, the democratic

outrage that trump survived the access hollywood tape. democrats couldn't look themselves in the mirror when one of their own faced allegations anywhere in this ball park flag it is different. it is harassment. what trump said if true would be felony assault. there was no way democrats could have credibility without taking this as seriously as the new york democrats and national democrats took it. number two, just the math. in the end. cuomo waited a week to see. is the assembly going to blink? if i start to question the attorney general or these women, will some people back away? the answer was flat out no. it was very clear there wouldn't be blinking. the president of the united states stepped down. his lieutenant walked away. the speaker of the house walked away from him. the math that matters most are the people who can impeach him and for bid him from ever running away and that was not changing. next, the fights over mask mandates. two educators fighting back.

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school districts in both texas and florida are bucking their republican governor's bans on mask mandates. moments ago, the broward superintendent received notice that it was in noncompliance and

the school board leaders could lose their paychecks. this after they voted to maintain the ban. ron desantis said he will try to withhold salaries of those who ordered mask bans. the white house chief of staff claimed in an interview with the administration was also looking to ways the governor could make their salaries whole. in texas, over the mandate in houston and austin also promising to get masks in schools. perspective now from two individuals in the middle of all this fight. the summit at the houston summit school district, and the president of the broward teacher's union in florida. superintendent, so your proposed mask mandate stands in defiance of the governor's order. why is it so important for you? >> it is extremely important simply because we know what covid-19 and the variant are doing. the data tells us the story. what the data says right now and specifically in houston and harris county, we've seen a 500%

increase in terms of hospitalization in some of our hospitals. we know that african-american and latino individuals are taking a huge hit. and as we look at our most economically disadvantaged students, these are the families in you are ban school districts, large school districts like hisd that will suffer. so it is extremely important to us to really make a difference and take a stand around what we feel is right. >> and just in terms of the board of education set to vote on it on thursday. do you have a sense of how they may, what they may decide? >> our board of education has taken a slight turn. the focus will be to really have a vote of support so we don't feel of our nine incredible board members that will have any issues in terms of support. so we're looking forward to getting to thursday. officially having that support and moving forward with the start of the schoolier on august

23rd. >> and the public school board in broward voted to maintain the mask mandate, allowing only for health and safety concerns in defiance of the governor's executive order. is your union, the teachers you represent, are they happy with that decision? >> absolutely. you know, we went through all of covid last year, keeping safe as best we could. masks were protocol. and they are in extreme mask majority that they want masks for everybody, for the health and safety of the children, themselves, for their families. it was a great win today. we don't look at it as defying the governor. we look at it as standing up for human rights decency, listening to the science, looking at the trend in florida. all of our hospitals are packed. they're turning conference rooms into rooms for hospital beds. our children population has increase of getting covid. we've had a student die in

duval. we have a student right here in broward county that is fighting for her life. she's intubated, she is on a respirator. she is in really bad in terms of with the covid that has gotten into her body. her parents have pleaded and just got their daughter's life in the hands of our doctors here. our parents are out there saying they want their children safe also. and the anti-maskers and people that are not understanding that covid is real until it hits someone in their family. it is just heart breaking they want to put on this fight over safety protocols as simple as a mask that has helped prove the spread of covid has been on. >> do you support mandatory vaccinations for teachers? >> i'm looking forward, when it gets cleared through fda, that

it is going to be really in a good term so everybody can get it. right now we know the vast majority of our teachers and support staff and our 35,000 employees of broward county public schools, even though we didn't do any data check on it. i know when we had lines wrapped around for miles when they opened up all of the sites and centers, we had some schools that opened up, parks that opened for our employees, people waited hours and hours and hours to get that vaccine. our teachers that were the most vulnerable that couldn't wait to get the vaccine. >> but you're not necessarily supporting mandatory ones. you talked about, you want masks because you want to follow the science. obviously the science is clear on vaccines. >> i'm not in support of it right now because there are a lot of people that are vulnerable with medical conditions. when they get it out there that the fda has approved it, i think that we'll be in a better spirit

for toesh understand the importance of the vaccine. >> superintendent, i'll sure you know the infectious disease expert in houston, he fears kids going back to school without masks, it will be an accelerant among kids. he feels there will be back to school tragedy in the south. it has clearly become a political football. it has to be incredibly frustrating to be in the middle of it. >> i don't necessarily see myself in the middle of it. what i see myself is just doing the right thing. as she indicated, this is merely a difference of opinion. we're focused in on the science. we're focused in on making sure our kids and our community safe. what we know that you just referenced a pediatrician in houston that spoke to what it could look like if masks were not in place. i'm in complete agreement. and our focus is to ensure that we bring our kids back.

we know that they're missing not only the academic being in front of a highly qualified teacher but also the social, emotional scars of being away from classrooms for 18 months. it is so important for to us have the confidence that our teachers, our parents understand we can do this in a safe manner and we can educate our students over the course of the next three years and get them to a place to where they're caught up and highly qualified college and career ready students. >> appreciate it. thank you. florida is obviously the epicenter. in jacksonville, a tragedy unimaginable for a church congregation. one that can be trace in the part to covid miseducation. >> we need to understand, we're waking up into a battle zone. >> reporter: at his church in florida, pastor george davis is praying for higher vaccination

rates. over a reason ten-day period, he said otherwise healthy members of his church died from covid. none of them were vaccinated. >> we had experienced six people last week within a ten-day stretch that passed away from covid. four were under the age of 35. yesterday we had a seventh person who passed away. these are all people we care about dearly. one young man, i've known him cynic he was a toddler. a young man in the prime of his life who still had plans to be married and live out a full life. >> reporter: what frustrates pastor davis the most is all the misinformation about vaccines that's out there. that many in his congregation believe. >> when you get injected, the government is putting a tracking device inside of you and they're watching your every move. that people are dying in record numbers and it's not being reported. i learned somebody recently told me, there are asle people in the hospital in jacksonville that are struggling in icu units who

are vaccinated as there are those unvaccinated. >> reporter: a cnn analysis of data suggests s s re than 99.99 of these are fully vaccinated are avoiding hospitalization and death. pastor davis and his wife are vaccinated as well as s s eir threchildren. and he has delivered a strong pro vaccine message from the pulpit. if you're able to be vaccinated if you so choose to. i don't believe doctors and science, no matter how much schooling they've gone to. i don't believe they can come up with cures and fixes for the body without a divine presence. god all mighty, giving them wisdom and insight to figure it out. >> reporter: so far impact church has held two vaccination drives. the most recent one this past sunday at church. making it easier for those who came to pray to get vaccinated, too. andriy and rodney got vaccinated early on. though andrea was hesitant at first. >> i would say, do it so you don't have to be in the

hospital. do it so no one has to hear you struggling to breathe on your last days. do it so nobody is having to say, thfls preventible when something happens. >> and losing members of their congregation was a wake-up call. >> these aren't people you just to go church with on sunday. these are people we do life with. we saw two weeks ago at a gathering. it is. more than losing a church member. truly losing family. >> sheena and reggie smith just got sbraetd a week ago. reggie waited because he felt the vaccine was rolled out too quick will, even though it was years in the making. but now he's relieved. >> just getting the extra buffer for whatever, what could possibly attack your body. you have something there to help fight it off as well. >> just days after they were vaccinated, their good friend and fellow church member died of

covid. >> it's very hard. very hard. it is very hard losing someone that close to you and seeing life cut short. being in your 30s and seeing it cut short. nobody wants to experience that. nobody wants to see that. >> do they know where those church members got covid? was it at the church? >> they don't believe it was at the church. the pastor says. he believes it was outside the church somewhere, maybe at a birthday party or some kind of large gathering. and as you know, the vaccines aren't required at the church but masks are mandated inside the church and the pastor believes that is helping to stop the spread within the church. the good news is they've done two of the vaccine drives and among those now, they have about a thousand people who have been vaccinated. so the numbers are going up.

it is still so remarkable that you look at so many of these members of this church and they have now seen seven people. seven of their fellow churchgoers die from covid. and they're still against getting vaccinated. they go there and they pray with them and they knew them and they are still not going to get the vaccine. whether it is because of all the misinformation they're reading out there or for other reasons. >> i appreciate it. coming up next, a close confidante of president biden talking about the trillion-dollar infrastructure bill today and whether it can pass the house as well. allergies don't have to be scary. spraying flonase daily stops your body from overreacting to allergens all season long. psst! psst! all good at philadelphia, we know what makes the perfect schmear of cream cheese. you need only the freshest milk and cream. that one! and the world's best, and possibly only, schmelier.

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last hour, the chief of staff ron clainl said he believes president biden will be able to sign the bill that passed the senate today, plus a separate even larger resolution in september. one bill represents money for bridges, roads and broadband among other things. the other, $3.5 trillion would fund democratic priorities including health care, childcare subsidies and climate change. joining me now, a close

confidante, chris coons. a big win for your party and the president who wished to work with republicans. to you, what does this mean today? >> well, this is a big win for the american people. for democrats, for republicans, for president biden and for the idea that we can still work together to solve the problems that face working people across our country. this is a big deal. $1.2 trillion over eight years. it will create 650,000 new high-skill, high-wage jobs and it will fix problems like access to broad banld in urban areas and rural areas like lead i'm that that's contaminate drinking water all over our country. it will make a serious down payment on climate change and help to fix things as simple as potholes and as sophisticated as passenger rail and airports. i think it is a significant accomplishment for

bipartisanship. and we have promptly moved on to voting on president biden's bigger proposal. the $3.5 reconciliation bill. we've been voting for over 11 hours now and i am confident that all 50 democrats will support that when we finally pass it, either very late tonight or early tomorrow morning. >> so then what happens? my hope is that the house will take up the infrastructure bill and move it forward and the senate and the house will work out the details of all the different provisions of that reconciliation bill. it will cut costs for families. we have to write the details of how it will lower prescription drug costs. how it will reduce childcare and daycare costs. how it will provide for free junior college, community college opportunities, and how it will create a new civilian

climate corps and a clean electricity standard. all the details of that have to be hammered out over august and september, and then the house and senate need to agree on it. >> there has been reporting that keers 10 sinema was not on board. you need all the democrats to get on this. the reporting was she was far from a yes. do you believe this will work out? >> well, it is clear now that tonight, senator manchin and senator sinema will vote to proceed. there's a lot to work out. we'll raise taxes on corporations that don't pay any tapgss on the very wealthiest americans to meet president biden's commitment that americans under $400,000 a year won't see any tax increase. in fact, they'll get a significant tax cut and lower cost of living. senator sinema made it clear. some of the proposedleleleles of

the tax plan she may not support. we don't have those details yet. the win tonight is we have all 50 democrats moving forward. >> do you worry that pushing through a $3.5 trillion in new expense through the reconciliation process which bypasses the senate's typical 60-vote threshold without any republican votes undermines the very heart of the bipartisan victory today? >> what is striking to me. we were able to sustain a big bynum vote. 69 senators, which means 19 republicans, including senator mitch mcconnell, voted for the infrastructure deal, even knowing we would move toward this more partisan way that we'll be able to enact president biden's bold view for our country. that's largely what we'll fight over next year. whether or not our priorities of lowering costs for daycare and

childcare, prescription drugs, housing and making education more affordable. if that set of priorities wins over the american people, then we'll be successful in the mid-terms next year. if we're wrong, then the republicans will. so i don't think it undermines the idea that we can still come together and find bipartisan solutions on things like infrastructure that we all agree on. we've got other things we disagree on. whether or not the tax code should be more fair and whether or not we should make the costs that keep working families up at night easier for them to bear. >> i appreciate it. thank you. >> thank you. ahead tonight, chicago's gun violence epidemic claiming the life of a police officer. police are directing outrage at the city's mayor. the show of defiance, turning their backs on her when she came to the hospital. more on that, next. scuff-free . honey, i'm home! honey! scuff defense. i love our scuff-free life.

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explosive feud between her colleagues and city's mayor lori lightfoot. was gunned down on in a traffic stop last night. partner continues fighting for his life. some on the force question whether the mayor is fighting for them. city battles a gun violence epidemic. >> officer shot, officer down. >> reporter: the gunshots that killed ella french and critically wounded her partner during a traffic stop over the weekend. >> i want to publicly offer condolences to her mother, brother, family and friends. >> reporter: but when mayor lori lightfoot visited to support the police and families, 30 officers physically turned their backs on her, sources told the "chicago sun times." >> several hundred? thousand? >> reporter: alderman says the ward has more chicago law

enforcement than any other in the city. >> number of officers reportedly turned their backs. what message do you think that sends? >> police families and officers are -- they're at a tipping point. we've seen many police officers killed in line of duty. it's not uncommon. the scene at the hospital is uncomfortable, emotions are running high. people are angry. >> reporter: john, president of the local fraternal order of police took things a step further. >> men and women of this police department have no respect for this mayor, was as palpable as you can imagine outside the hospital. >> reporter: mayor's office put out statement saying this is not time of divisive rhetoric. in time of tragedy, emotions run high, that's to be expected. mayor spoke to range of officers and sensed overwhelming

sentiment was concern for fallen colleagues. >> she was the definition of a peace officer. and to be cut down in such an unbelievably horrible way for what who have amounted to routine traffic stop. >> reporter: officer ella french was 29 years old, only officer to be killed and shot in line of duty this year, and first since 2018. two suspects were denied bail tuesday. among the charges, 21-year-old morgan faces first degree murder, 22-year-old brother eric's charges included aggravated unlawful use of weapon with prior conviction. third suspect in federal custody for buying weapon used in indiana and giving to suspect to

use in the shooting. murders up 58% compared to 2019 and shootings up more than 65% according to chicago police department. >> that young officer, another officer fighting for his life, and we have a city completely upside down, in turmoil. we've got to change. >> it's been clearly violent and difficult climate for policing in chicago past year and a half, what is is officer morale like? >> yeah, in conversations with the chicago police superintendent, told me morale is constant struggle they're having, especially when you look at pandemic, protests of last year, even social media. that's tied to some of what that alderman we spoke to told us. easy for officers to feel like no one has their backs from politicians to media to members of the community. that said, sentiments of caring

for police have butted heads with reforming police which mayor lightfoot has been at center of helming, creating civilian oversight for the chicago police department, happening in the context of a tense year on all parties in chicago to find solutions to the violence. >> thanks. ahead the worst active wildfire rages, no end in sight. chilling images left behind next. and me...the world's best, and possibly only, schmelier. philadelphia. schmear perfection. (upbeat pop music in background throughout) what if you could have the perspective to see more?

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