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>> plus, wnba star brittney griner is set to take the stand in russia, while the family of another american also held by the kremlin, also on drug charges, calls for more attention to his case. >> welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. we start today with our politics lead and merrick garland saying moments ago that the justice department will not hesitate to hold donald trump accountable for the events around january 6th even if trump is the republican nominee for president. if thats ...

boston hits the triple digits. new york city cuts its triathlon in half amid the citys longest heat wave in nine years. when will it all end? the severe weather in the midwest now moving east. rob marciano times it all out. the rising concerns over monkeypox. dr. jha says u.s. health officials are now weighing whether to declare a public health emergency, one day after the w.h.o. sounded a global alarm due to a growing outbreak. >> the update from the white house. president bidens ph...

our house and coming our way really quickly. >> forced to flee. thousands of acres burn outside yosemite park. firefighters try to beat back the flames. and deadly heat continues to punish the country. 90 million people are suffering in scorching temperatures. many areas hitting the triple digits. "newsroom" starts now. hello, everyone. thank you so much for joining me this sunday. im fredricka whitfield. we begin this hour with new developments in the january 6 investigation. toda...

you are live in the cnn "newsroom." im jim acosta in washington. just days after the january 6 committee exposed a president whose actions were a disaster, there is little evidence that donald trump has lost his mojo with the far right of the republican party. in fact, he was greeted with a heros welcome last night in florida. watch this, complete with video and pyrotechnics. >> ladies and gentlemen, please welcome the 45th president of the united states of america, donald j. trump! �...

Elkins High School students in Fort Bend ISD had no choice but to sit on the floor after their desks were moved for testing purposes.

The College Board will revise its Advanced Placement African American Studies course after Gov. Ron DeSantis rejected it as “indoctrination.”

Tonight from the cdc. >> reporter: tonight, the biden administration says the u.s. considering whether to declare monkeypox a public health emergency. >> right now, we have over 2,000 cases, but we have ramped up vaccinations, ramped up treatments, ramped up testing, and were going to continue to look at all sort of policy options. >> reporter: such a declaration would allow the health and human services secretary greater freedom to allocate emergency resources. the world health organization alr...

D.c., for example, new york, l.a., in order to put testing in place, so we have some assurance that students coming into the buildings arent increasing the transmission rates, but we dont have that in place in chicago. so despite the federal help, despite the work that the biden administration did with the school district, the mayor of the city hasnt been serious about setting up testing, and so thats the problem. >> so let me play something from you. this is from the chicago department of publi...

Spreads. some big districts going remote others pushing forward with ramped up testing. >> it would be much better if we stayed in school all the time. >> seeing the devastation up close residents finally allowed back in after a thousand homes were burned to ground by the wild fire in colorado rising tensions. president biden today on the phone with ukraines leader vowing to respond decisively if russia invades. and the on field tantrum from the nfl star in the middle of a game antonio brown...

Meantime countries in asia are trying to slow the spread of new covid cases with varying degrees of success. china reported 86 new cases sunday. and jumped into action to prevent further infection. 128 neighborhoods in a city with ten new cases. have been put under lock down over the weekend. hong kong is ramping up testing. trying to contain the spread of the regions fifth wave of the virus. hospitals are stretched to the limit. with reports of people stuck outside in the rain. due to a lack of...