considered. the supreme court decision temporarily blocks a lower courts ruling in texas that restricted the use of the drug. the drug, mifepristone is used in more than half of all abortions in the us. a decision as a victory for the biden administration. as it defends broad access to this pill. with me now is our correspondent jess parker who has been closely monitoring this decision. we now heard from the court. ~ ., ., , , decision. we now heard from the court. ., , ., court. what does this mean? i ve not court. what does this mean? i ve got a court. what does this mean? i ve got a ruling court. what does this mean? i ve got a ruling here. - court. what does this mean? i ve got a ruling here. it s - i ve got a ruling here. it s pretty short. most of it is made up from dissenting words from two justices, thomas and alito. but the supreme court has broadly decided to do is to freeze those restrictions decided by lower courts. nothing changes on access to mifepristone fo
from the united states all around the world, [ cheering ] the 15th time is a charm for kevin mccarthy, after four days and a bruising floor fight, the california republican is officially the new speaker of the u.s. house of representatives, all the dramatic scenes unfolding exactly 2 years after a violent mob stormed the capital in a failed attempt to overturn the 2020 election, we will show you how the white house marks the anniversary. the promised christmas fire fails, spending the holiday and bomb shelters. live from cnn center, this is a cnn newsroom, with layla harak. 15 bouts and evening of high drama but kevin mccarthy secured enough votes to become speaker of the house. never has a leadership contest taken so many votes in modern times and out of 222 republicans in the house it only took six hard-line conservatives to derail him in the 14th ballot on friday night, a vote he had believed was in the bag. but right-wing firebrand matt gaetz, who had sworn to ne
i think it s probably best that people work through it some more. i don t think voting tonight will be any different, but i think the vote in the future will. do you have a deal yet? not yet. a lot of progress. good morning, everyone. poppy and i are here and kaitlan is on capitol hill. day three of the speaker election, there she is. kaitlan, how you holding up? we ve been saying since day one you were there tuesday and it could go longer and it s playing out like you said. we expected it to go longer and now it has. when does it end? kevin mccarthy s desperate bid to become speaker drags on for a third day of voting. the stalemate has paralyzed the house. a big question today whether concessions kevin mccarthy made to lawmakers blocking his path, whether that s enough to get him to 218 votes needed to become speaker. the slow road to recovery for damar hamlin. the team says he s showing signs of improvement. we ll update you on that. prince harry with a stun
reportedly involved federal agents spending most of the day at mar-a-lago was related to classified information that trump took with him when he departed the white house in january of 2021. an attorney for the former guy told nbc news that trump and his team had been, quote, cooperative with fbi and doj officials every step of the way, unquote, but then added that the bureau, quote, did conduct an unannounced raid and seized paper. the new york times reports that it wasn t the first time that agents visited trump s south florida estate. quote, the search came after an earlier visit this spring to mar-a-lago by federal agents including a justice department counterintelligence official to discuss materials that mr. trump had improperly taken with him when he left the white house. mr. trump was briefly present for that earlier visit as was at least one of his lawyers according to people familiar with the situation. both the fbi and the justice department have declined to comme
of six of the seven victims killed in the shooting so far. two of them were a couple. the mccarthys there, whose toddler found alive underneath the father s body. once the shooting stopped. cnn s josh campbell is outside of the lake county courthouse where that bail hearing will take place just a short time from now. what more do we know about these warning signs that have been detailed in his past and about the charges he s now facing? reporter: good morning. we learned quite a bit about this investigation in the last 24 hours. prosecutors now formally charged the shooting suspect with seven counts of first-degree murder. one count of each of those victims killed during that parade attack. we re also learning that the weapons that were purchased here were purchased legally. authorities say over the course of the year, he purchased five weapons including one assault-style rifle that was allegedly used in this attack and police releasing information about the planning that