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first to be interviewed and witnesses, capitol police officers attacked that terrible day. >> pierre thomas live in washington tonight. pierre, thank you. >>> and to the white house tonight amid new ransomware attacks behind the scenes in the russia again, president biden in a phone call with president vladimir putin today warning the u.s. will take any necessary action to defend our critical infrastructure. let's bring in abc's rachel scott tonight. rachel, there has been a string of recent cyberattacks again, including one on a software company, a contractor for the rnc, and of course we all remember the colonial pipeline, gas prices spiking. let's hear what the president said today about the phone call with putin. >> well, i made it very clear with him that -- that the united states expects when a ransomware operation is coming from his soil, even though it's not -- not sponsored by the state, we expect him to act if we've given him enough information to act on who that is. >> let's get back to rachel. the president pressed if there would be consequences for russia after this conversatio

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pierre thomas tonight teaming up with our abc stations across the country, what's driving this rise in violence? >>> and the images coming in at this hour, the video wall collapsing at hard rock stadium outside miami rattling south florida again just ahead of a music festival. >>> america strong tonight, the u.s. navy and the honor long overdue and the american workers making it happen. >>> good evening, it's great to have you with us on a very busy thursday night. we begin tonight with the coronavirus and this new summer surge fueled, of course, by the highly contagious delta variant. tonight those words from the cdc director, dr. rochelle walensky, calling this a pivotal moment in the pandemic. cases soaring among the unvaccinated and now the breakthrough cases among the vaccinated in this country. authorities have said that's to be expected and that the vast majority of these breakthrough cases have been mild. they say it shows the vaccines are working. but tonight authorities acknowledge the numbers are concerning. cases up more than 10% in 46 states. nearly all of the country now.

abc news chief justice correspondent pierre thomas, along with our abc stations, is doing an in-depthroot causes of gun violence called "one nation under fire." he spoke with two officers in new york city about the victims. take a look. >> who are the victims? >> when you look at who is getting shot in the city, 97% people of color. it's way off the charts. >> reporter: for chief judith harrison the fight is personal. >> as an african-american obviously it was painful to hear that 90% of your victims are people of color. >> horrifying statistic. it's not just about statistics. it's not just about people of color. it's about everyone. >> it's about everyone. important reporting there. let's bring in abc news political director rick klein joining us from washington. good morning to you. it's good to have you. just want to pick up on pierre's reporting. president biden has talked about combatting gun violence in america. what concrete steps is the administration taking? >> reporter: the president has called it an epidemic. he's made clear in his view it's tied to america's emergence from

pierre thomas on the ground in new york city. >> reporter: who are the victims? >> when you look at who's getting shot in this city right now, it's about 97% people of color. it's way off the charts. >> reporter: 2020 was the deadliest year for shootings in the u.s. in at least two decades, and 2021 is on pace to surpass these numbers. doj strike forces in five cities including chicago and d.c. to crack down on illegal guns. linsey? >> alex, thank you. >>> next tonight, the quick actions of two heroic police officers and several passersby. an out of control car plowing into a mother and baby. rescuers jumping into action. mother and child seriously hurt, but expected to survive. here's trevor ault. and a warning, some of these images may be disturbing. >> reporter: tonight, a heroic rescue caught on video. a pair of new york police officers lifting a car to save a baby trapped underneath. yonkers police investigating the incident looking at this surveillance video from friday morning, showing that out-of-control vehicle slamming into a mother carrying her 8-month

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chief justice correspondent pierre thomas examined the violence over just one week and how it is affectingervasiveness shocking. at least every hour two fatally shot, five wounded. outside of a baseball game, a stray bullet through a bedroom wall. >> he just fell to the ground. >> reporter: and a corner store. >> i'm tired of this. i'm sick and tired of this. >> reporter: gun violence surging across the country. to see the impact of gun violence on everyday life, we teamed up with the gun violence archive and our affiliates and own stations across the nation. just since saturday we tracked at least 777 incidents. at least 310 dead. 709 wounded. >> we're seeing numbers that up until last year we had had literally not seen since the early '90s. >> reporter: towns and cities across the country grappling with the carnage. at 8:00 p.m. saturday night in west philadelphia, a run to the corner store puts a mother and a 1-year-old child in her arms in harm's way. >> a white jeep pulls up in front of this store. one of the occupants of that vehicle indiscriminately started shooting inside the store

our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas has the latest. od morning, pierre. >> reporter: good morning. in a dramatic move, the u.s. government is accusing the chinese government of directly working with criminal actors. the nsa, the fbi and homeland security claim say the republic of china has been contracting with and profiting from criminal hackers who attack companies around the world. authorities say the chinese ministry of state security work with hackers last spring, affecting tens of thousands of customers here in the u.s. the activity is similar to what the u.s. accused russia of doing and likely will be seen as an escalation by the chinese government, international tensions are clearly heating up, george. >> thanks. robin? >>> now to the urgent investigation under way into that shooting outside the nationals packed baseball stadium over the weekend, sending players and fans running for cover. three people were injured. t.j. holmes joins us with the latest on this. good morning, t.j. >> reporter: good morning to yu, robin. police wa

chief justice correspondent pierre thomas has more. >> reporter: overnight, a stunning report slamming of the allegations against dr. larry nassar. >> i just signed your death warrant. >> reporter: nassar was sentenced to up to 175 years in prison in 2018 for molesting hundreds, including some of the nation's most well-known olympians, simone biles, aly raisman. >> i hope that the abuse will end with us, and i hope that people can learn from what happened to us, that this should never, ever, ever happen again. >> reporter: the new probe from the inspector general of the justice department revealing fbi agents failed to respond with the urgency that the allegations required and failed to mitigate the ongoing threat posed by nassar. according to the report, the fbi first heard the allegations against nassar in july 2015, but for months agents did not flag authorities who could have taken action. that delay leading to questions about whether as many as 70 athletes were assaulted as the fbi fumbled their investigation into nassar. the report also found as the controversy blew up some fbi o

. >> let's bring in our chief justice correspondent pierre thomas, as kate was talking about, at thee of this, do these laws discriminate against specific minority groups, a lot of gro out there who will be disappointed with this decision today? >> absolutely, a lot of the civil rights leaders say thi se problem, that if you look across the board there's not any hard evidence of widespread election fraud, i can tell you the justice department will be looking very closely at this ruling in part because they have taken a stance or signaled they're going to look very closely at many of these new laws that have passed across the country in the name of election security, just last week, they sued the state of georgia that in fact the new law passed by the georgia state did in fact unfairly and directly targeted minorities, the justice department i don't think based on conversations i had yesterday will look at this law and chang >> the supreme court upholding national impli m have a full wr on "world news tonight" and much more on abcnews.com and our streaming channel abc news live. i'm w