of covid isolation. the predominant symptom is a sore throat. this is a president who has at this moment a mild respiratory illness. this is really good news. i m pamela brown in washington. you re live in the cnn newsroom. dangerous heat and a state of emergency. the oak fire explodes near yosemite national park in california. in fact it has devoured more than 14,000 acres and is zero percent contained since it erupted friday. at least ten buildings are destroyed and thousands more are in danger tonight. the wildfire rages as much of the country deals with extreme heat including triple digits in part of california. more than 90 million people are under heat alerts. new york has registered at least one heat-related death. some cities such as boston and newark, new jersey, have seen the mercury exceed 100 degrees. we have reporters and meteorologists nationwide covering the heat wave and the changing climate. cnn s pole o sandoval is in new york. reporter: new yorker
general bill barr. last week, that focus will shift to the effort to pressure state legislatures to unlawfully result reverse the result of the 2020 presidential election. scheduled to appear as a witness on tuesday s georgia secretary of state brad raffensperger. in the early 2021, raffensperger was thrust into the spotlight with audio and phone call between him and then president trump was released. remember, during that call, trump asked raffensperger and other georgia election administration officials to find some more votes for him. all i want to do is this. i just want to find 11,780 votes. which is one more than we have. because we won the state. so we re gonna do to get those? i only 11,000 votes. fellas, i need 11,000 votes. give me a break. the call was made just four days before the insurrection of the capital. a few weeks ago, raffensperger also appeared before a special grand jury investigating possible election interference conducted by trump, and his associ
go on then, do it. a new report has described a systemic culture of abuse inside british gymnastics. by using our voices, we now know that there is a culture of abuse and these are children being abused. and in central africa the race to stop the plunder of rich peatlands and the release of damaging carbon dioxide. and coming up on the bbc news channel, rory mcilroy says he s in a good spot mentally, as he starts the us open with a sharp three under par round. welcome to bbc news at ten. interest rates have risen again to the highest level for 13 years, as the bank of england tries to slow the pace of rising prices. rates have increased from 1% to 1.25% the fifth consecutive rise and it comes as household finances are being squeezed by the record fuel and energy prices. inflation, the rate at which prices rise, is currently at 9%, the highest for a0 years, and the bank has warned it could go higher than 11% later this year. our economics editor faisal islam reports. on th
we told him, the group that went over there outlined, you know, my belief in chances for success at this point. my belief was that it was very, very 5% to 10% is not a good optimistic outlook. the committee then showed how former president trump continued to embrace allegations of fraud, going against his white house lawyers, who told him that accusations were baseless were not substantial enough to make a difference in the election outcome. the justice department even told him there was no there-there as trump kept holding onto wild conspiracies. there were so many allegations, that when you gave him a very direct answer on one of them, he wouldn t fight us on it, but he would move to another allegation. he said there s lots of fraud going on here. we told him flat-out much of the information he s getting is false and/or just not supported by the evidence. we look at the allegations, but they don t pan out. so then former president trump had a choice. the committee s
revealing that the capitol attack was farm of former president trump s plans, not just a rally that got out of control. as chairman bennie thompson put it, quote, the violence was no accident. i represented trump s last stand, the most desperate chance to hold the transfer of power. officials testified that they informed trump repeatedly that he lost. former ag bill barr called bs on trump s election conspiracies. according to the committee i had three discussions with the president that i can recall, one in november 23rd, one was on december 1st and one was on december 14th. i have been thoroughly give and take out those discussions and within that context, i made it clear that i did not agree with the idea that saying the election was stolen and putting out this stuff. i told him that it was according to the committee however, trump continued to meet with rudy giuliani and other election deniers. on december 18th, 2020, they talked about sending troops to seize voti