Underway. France pulled out all the stops for olympic size spectacle. But we ll live up to the hype. Kamala harris s rise to the top of the democratic field is already bringing some unwelcome attention and attacks from hope republican counterparts and hundreds of thousands of acres are blaze in california will get the latest on the efforts to contain that disaster live from london. This is cnn newsroom with max foster 2024 summer olympic games are underway in paris with the first gold medal is being awarded today and mixed team shooting and women synchronized diving the games opened with an elaborate show. It was breathtaking in size, and it was uniquely french. It was the first opening ceremony ever outside the stadium. It was centered around famous landmarks and the river seine where the team s road in the flotilla of boats famous entertainers performed, including canada s celine dion, with a love song by france s late superstar edith piaf cnn s world sports. Amanda davis joins us no
Welcome to all you watching us here in the u. S. Canada and all around the world. I m kim brunhuber. This is cnn newsroom harris officially opens the 2024 summer olympics with flash and fanfare kamala harris picks up a key endorsement from former us president barak obama and his wife. And it turns out that us federal agents had inside help in luring to top sinaloa cartel kingpins into custody live from atlanta. This is cnn newsroom with kim brunhuber the 2024 summer olympic games are underway in france with the first gold medal set to be awarded in just a few hours and mixed team shooting and women s synchronized diving. The games opened friday with an elaborate opening ceremony that was breathtaking in size. Sometimes wild and uniquely french. Cnn s coy wire has today s highlights it was pouring down rain in paris. It did not matter. France did their best to put on an olympics opening ceremony for the ages, the bells of notre dom ring for the first time since the cathedral was gutted
Good morning. And welcome to cnn this morning it is saturday, july 27. I m victor blackwell lying to you all i m amara walker and here s what we re working on for you this morning she was a bum three weeks ago. She was a bomb former president donald trump is testing out new attacks on republican rival vice president kamala harris as he sees as once commanding lead in swingstate polls shrinking within just a matter of days, how the trump campaign is struggling to define harris. And some trains are back on track and france this morning, a day after what officials called a coordinated act of sabotage ahead of the olympics opening ceremony, the concerns for more attacks is the first gold medals will be handed out this morning and a massive 300,000 acre wildfire has already burned an area the size of los angeles and it is on the move in northern california, we are on the fire lines with the very latest and one of mexico s most notorious drug lords is now in us custody thanks to the help of
News, harris closing the gap with trump, erasing the lead he wants had over biden to brand new polls out tonight show harris with the momentum right now plus trial and error trump unloading a series of new attacks against kamala harris. Which ones are real? which ones are lies? we go through them and breaking news, the fbi tonight revealing what hit trump s ear during his attempted assassination let s go outfront and good evening. I m erin burnett on this friday, outfront tonight, breaking news on kamala harris. She is surging a brand new poll out just moments ago showing harris is now in a statistics well dead heat with donald trump surging ahead of where biden was just before he dropped out of the race earlier this month, trump had a six point lead over biden, six points in electoral politics in this country is a chasm. The wall street journal s numbers now though tracking with the trend we ve been seeing from other polls from cnn and the new york times and when it comes to the allim
Extraordinary levels of enthusiasm from democrats for the fight ahead. $126 million have been raised, more than 100,000 volunteers have signed up, and 38,500 new voters have been registered. Curtain number two, the other side, desperate and plain as day racist attacks on the de facto democratic nominee that reveal a maga world in mega meltdown mode. They are trying to find ways to smear her any way they can from attacking the way vice president kamala harris laughs to her endearingly love of venn diagrams. They are suggesting a wol who spent zen years as district attorney, who served as california attorney general, a united states senator and is currently america s vice president is somehow unqualified for the job that donald trump once held. That she s only where she is because of her race, again, unlike their guy who once hosted the apprentice. Take a listen to what they are saying. The only reason kamala is in the white house is because of the dei deal with bernie. Her hole history