cnn's tom foreman tells us what's at stake. >> reporter: don, texas republicans have backed away frommany. and these are still on the table. as for voting places, no drive-through voting or dropboxes would be permitted if this legislation is finalized. republicans tried to stop drive-through voting during the 2020 election with a real eye on largely democratic houston where the sites were very popular. the court said no. but this new legislation says enough, republicans want people voting only inside solid buildings. so no standalone tents or movable structures can be used either except as part of a building or in an emergency and no 24-hour voting. in general the legislation allows for voting from 6:00 a.m. until 9:00 p.m. all of this, critics say, could impede working class people, shift workers and people of color in particular who might struggle to reach the polls in those hours. what about security measures? the legislation contains a sort of poll watcher's bill of rights. observers say they need to be free to go wherever they want to go to see and hear everything happening with

thank you, tom foreman. i want to bring in texas state representative victoria kniava. us. you and other texas house democrats met and he said there's total agreement on what you want, protecting voting rights. but do you have total agreement about how to make this all happen? >> you know, we are so grateful to senator manchin and really appreciate the time that he took with us to discuss what's happening in texas, which has national implications. we shared with him stories of, for example, i served on the committee that heard the nearly 24-hour hearing where we had a mom and dad, for example, who came to testify in the wee hours of the morning with their children sleeping in the committee room to talk about how this legislation is making it harder for them to vote. we heard from naacp, organizations, people with disabilities, about how harmful this legislation is going to be to texas voters. and we are here to do everything that we can to urge congress and especially the u.s. senate to implement some federal protections that we need. senator manchin was very supportive

tom foreman, cnn, washington. >>> former u.s.sident donald trump has now filed a class action lawsuit targeting facebook, twitter and youtube after the companies removed his access to the platforms. reminder tech companies aren't legally permitted to run their platforms as they see fit and may ban users. >>> donald trump's former personal attorney is running out of places to practice law. rudy giuliani lost his law license in washington wednesday pending a similar case in new york. that is where a judge suspended his license last month saying he lied to promote trump's conspiracy ies about a stolen election. >>> u.s. representative marjorie taylor greene has made yet another nazi era reference, this time relating to president biden's push to reach unvaccinated people at home amid rising cases of the coronavirus delta variant. just three weeks after apologizing for comparing mask wearing rules at the u.s. capitol to the holocaust, greene tweeted that people have a choice and, quote, they don't need your medical brown shirts showin

cnn's tom foreman joins nous w us now with that information and tom, the ongoing risk. >> the risk is actually why they suspended search for a while. they restarted again in these three quadrants here. look at this. this is where the pool is. and this is that letter you were talking about obtained by "erin burnett outfront." this is october of 2020 from this consultant firm that was supposed to be doing this urgent repair on the place. and they are saying we could not do it because the areas of deteriorated concrete appeared to penetrate deep into the wall. they needed access to the pool to look at all of this. and they had to keep the pool open, so they couldn't do that. and, they said, there was severely-deteriorated concrete near the pool. and if they messed with it, they feared they could affect the stability of nearby structures. so, one of the things they did was an exploratory demolition, meaning they dug into the concrete, the ground around the pool and on the pool deck to see what they could find. the initial work yielded -- look at this -- some curious results, as it pertain

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here is cnn's tom foreman. >> this is real life.coms are a measure of our times. in many cases, they're fighting for reform. >> if you put something in your show that's shocking and radical, the hope is that in five years' time, it's going to become more normal. >> reporter: here are five shows that blaze trails in social justice. starting with "all in the family." in the 1970s, the runaway hit held a mirror up to old dated views and all the demanded change. >> i suppose you'll tell me the black man had the same opportunity in the country as you. >> more. i had no people marching to andreaget me my job. >> saying things you just don't say on television. >> reporter: number four. "the cosby show." huxtables were funny, despite the accusations to come from bill cosby. >> with respect to what's happened of late, it's like hugely disappointing to all of us, but he set the standard for what a family sitcom was. >> reporter: number three. "murphy brown." long before the me too movement, this show engaged women's rights and when a real lif

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tom foreman has more. >> reporter: hot in the middle of the capitol attack there he was according to fbi. with a mask and big ideas. he was part of a bible study group in virginia which talked about making molotov cocktails, combat training for a future attack and even cessation. >> i think it does show that many of the terrorists and insurrectionists left january 6 believing it was a victory. >> reporter: according to court records officers encountered him in the riot and then the fbi infiltrated the bible group at a private home in february. those records say he met undercover agents outside a former prison to discuss testing bombs there, add an ak-47 and bomb making material and he said he wrote a manifest to because if i get in a gun fight and i don't get it i want to transfer my wisdom to my son. authorities say the so-called bible group discussed surveilling the capitol to find possible weak points. that's particularly alarming for police officers calling for better defenses around the capitol. >> i would hope they would be taking the threats seriously and paying attention. >>

here is cnn's tom foreman. >> yes, this is real alive.y sat errize politics quite like late night. sitcoms are a measure of our times. >> it's me. eddy, only i'm edie now. >> and in many cases they're fighting for reform. >> if you put something in your show that's shocking and radical, the hope is in five years time it's going to become more normal. >> reporter: so here are five shows that blazed trails in social justice. starting with "all in the family". >>? the 1970s the run away hit held a mirror up to old dated views and all but demanded change. >> now i suppose you're going tell me the black man has the same opportunity in this country as you. >> he had more. i didn't have no million people marching to get me my job. >> no his uncle got it for him. >> archie bunker saying things you don't say on television. >> number four the cosby show. the huxtabels, inspirations funny, wealth, despite the terrible accusations for bill cosby. >> with respect to what's happened of late, it's like hugely disappointing to all of us. but he set the s

shared management and ownership of the studio breaking bar years that resonate over the laughter tom foreman, cnn. >>> good morning and welcome to the "new day" i'm boris sampson. >> good morning, boris. i'm christi paul. as the delta variant causes vases to surge there is guidance how schools should have kids back. and there are questions about whether those of us who have been vaccinated may need a booster shot. >>> plus fighting back. president biden pledging to take action against russia following a spate of ransomware attacks, as we learn biden spoke with vladimir putin yesterday. >>> the count down is on to richard branson set to rocket into space this weekend. we look at how this decades in the making mission is going to unfold. >>> and southwest sizzler. the big cities that could see temperatures as high as 115 degrees today. >>> good morning and welcome to your "new day." it's saturday july 10th. thank you for joining us. >> yeah, hello, boris. and to all of our friends in phoenix -- i lived in phoenix many years. 115. god bless you. that's all i can say. >> yes. >> the dry heat doe

cnn's tom foreman joins me now.-to-school season is going to be different than any other. >> if you want to get shopping, you may already be too late. take a look at this list which the retail analysts say will be hard to come by items in the next few weeks. b backpacks, stationery. pent up demand after a year at home and problems in the supply chain. shipments from all over the globe have been slowed down by a lack of labor to make and move these goods and those shortages are driving up costs too, pam. >> well, let's talk about cost because a lot of parents i know wait until later in the summer to try to cash in on deals, on sales. is that plan still viable under these circumstances? >> that's probably a terrible plan this year, pam. it doesn't seem so. the national federal retail federation says school spending should hit a record $71 billion this year. and if you look year to year in that spending that means the average family of a kid in elementary through high school will spend about $850 on supplies back to co

tom foreman, cnn. >> and coming up in our 2:00 hour, i'll go one on one with actor cindy williams who started "laverne and shirley." it's a really fun conversation with her and you can watch "history of the sitcom" tomorrow at 9:00 right here on cnn. >>> hello again. thank you so much for joining me. i'm fredericka whitfield. we begin this hour with new concerns about surging coronavirus cases in parts of the u.s. 27 states are now seeing a rise in covid-19 cases over the previous week and many are in areas that have low vaccination rates. the delta variant of the virus has now become the dominant strain in the u.s., leading to this rapid rise in cases and now this strain is in all 50 states. cnn's polo sandoval in little rock, arkansas. one of the states seeing a surge. you're at a mobile vaccination site. the vaccinations in that state remain low. so what does it look like today? >> reporter: it's a pop-up vaccination site here, fred. and it is not as busy as authorities wish it was. in fact, i'll step out of the shot for a quick second so you can at least see that it's your usual s

here now is cnn's tom foreman. >> reporter: it's july.ms of school shopping you may already be running late. here's a list of items which analysts say will likely be hard to come by before all the kids go back to the classes. backpacks, stationary meaning note pads, index cards. sports equipment. laptops, tablets. everything that everybody wants. why such short supply? pent-up demand after a year at home and a problem in the supply chain. shipments have been slowed down by lack of labor to make and move the goods and those shortages are driving up cost. national retail federation said school spending should hit a record $71 billion and if you look at year to year spending the average family of a kid in elementary school to high school spend $850 on supplies. back to college spending up, too. don't wait for sales. there's no reason to think that the demand is going to shrink or supply is going to grow. there's very few triggers out there for big back to school sales. parents are caught in a vice here. the federation found that the vast maj

more on that now from cnn's tom foreman. >> this is our house. >> reporter: caught in the middle of the capitol attack there he was according to the fbi, with a mask and big ideas. big wong was part of a bible study group in virginia which talked about making molotov cocktails, combat training for an future attack and even secession. >> i think it does show that many of the terrorists and insurrectionists left january 6th believing that it was a victory. >> reporter: according to court records, undercover efforts they first encountered duong in private. they say he met undercover agents outside a former prison to discuss testing some bombs there, that he had an ak-47 and five boxes of bomb building material and that he said he wrote a manifest tow because if i get into a gun fight with the feds and i don't make it, i want to be able to transfer as much wisdom to my son as possible. authorities say the so-called bible group also discussed surveilling the capitol amid heightened security to find possible weak points. that's particularly alarming for police officers calling for better defe

. >> cnn's tom foreman has the do details.> they're putting enormous pressure on the teams to, in turn, put pressure on their players to say you need to get vaccinated, that means everyone. last week at least two nfl teams had not even reached the 50% level in terms of vaccinating their players. now league-wide it's at 78%. it's very clear from this kind of pressure that the wleleague wants to say everybody get vaccinated, everybody take this seriously. we played the entire season last year, but we can't have this happen again as a problem this year. if they can reschedule the game during the regular season, apparently this won't apply. if they can't, that's when these rather draconian measures kick in. >> the team with the outbreak will also be responsible financially for what happens? >> yeah. this is a big deal. if they cannot play the game in the regular season, if it captcan't be rescheduled, nobody gets paid on either side. the side that caused the outbreak not only has to figure out what they're going to do about all th

tom foreman is "outfront." >> reporter: the court made it clear, bill cosby is free because of an unwrittenct attorney in 2005 that he would never face criminal charges in exchange for cosby's cooperation in a civil lawsuit on the same matter. >> this is not a complex or difficult investigation to do. >> reporter: back then, bruce caster said there was not enough evidence for conviction any way, despite his best efforts. >> we essentially tried to build as many details for both of the main statements as we can to try to determine what exactly happened or whether there was any violation of the law. >> reporter: his reaction to cosby's release, i was right back in 2005 and i'm right in 2021. who is caster? he earned his law degree in virginia. a prosecutor in the early '80s, he was elected district attorney in 2000. he became a county commissioner, served in the state attorney general's office and spent years in private practice, too. but you may know him as the guy who said in the wake of the uprising of january 6 -- >> clearly, there was no insurrection. >> reporter: that's right. he was pa

tom foreman, cnn, washington. >>> well, you can imagine cnn will have full coverage of the blue origin launch, scheduled for 9:00 a.m. on tuesday. if you are watching us in new york. that is 2:00 p.m. if you are watching in london. >>> now, the delta variant is causing a deadly surge in covid-19 infections in the united states and around the world. let me show you this map. all those areas you are looking there in bright red indicate a 10% to 50% increase in cases. and that includes the united states where covid cases, hospitalizations as well as deaths are up. with the vast majority of them among people who aren't fully vaccinated. england just lifted all its covid rules after more than a year of restrictions, but the prime minister boris johnson freedom day was marred by surging infection and his own forced isolation after coming in contact with a covid positive person. the spiking numbers took a toll on financial markets. the dow plunging 725 points on monday. but european markets have been up today in the last 50 minutes or so. and with just days before the tokyo olympics, more tha

tom foreman has the details of what's in store for amazon's founder and his crew. >> at blue origin'srocket is slated to take off at 8:00 a.m. central time. >> command start. two, one. >> just as it has already in more than a dozen test flights like the one seen here, a million horsepower blast from the liquid fueled engine will start the journey. the astronauts will be strapped into a ring of futuristic space seats about a third of the capsule is made of windows. and the rocket will steadily rotate, changing the view. riding will be their only job. >> it's an autonomous vehicle. it's been designed so the customers, the astronauts themselves can experience the flight. >> over the first two minutes, their speed will literally rocket to more than 2,000 miles an hour. g-forces will intensify until each person feels as if they weigh three times as much as normal, but that won't last. at 2:45, the booster engine will fall away. 15 seconds later as the capsule arced toward the highest point of the flight, the passengers will start to feel much lighter. and at four minutes, 62 miles up, they