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we start with the breaking news. a jury has just awarded nearly $1 billion in damages to sandy hook elementary families and an fbi agent in the connecticut defamation trial against alex jones. eight families and a first responder sued the far right conspiracy theer orists for the lies he told. this is the second of three against jones, concerning the sandy hook massacre, comes after a texas jury decided in august that jones and his company should pay nearly $50 million. the connecticut jury, nearly a billion. let's go outside the courtroom. bryn, you were in there when the big figure...

and he's asking why republicans won't ban assault weapons. and another justice department deadline, the government's response to a federal judge is due today. prosecutors hope to make the case that they were careful and that there's no need for a special process now to sort through the documents seized from donald trump's home. and a noteworthy maga makeover. house a denier scrubbed his website that a the 2020 election was stolen. the president of the united states enters the campaign fray in a few moments. he will leave for pennsylvania for a planned speech on gun violence. the pr...

coast guard over the phone to personally thank them. but those same heroes are about to lose their jobs by the end of the year thanks to the president's own vaccine mandate. >> mark meredith live in washington with more. mark? >> good morning to both of you guys. the president and the first lady going to see firsthand the devastation left behind from two powerful hurricanes. as you mention the couple is going to be in puerto rico. that's on the island's southern coast. puerto rico still recovering from hurricane view and a witch at the island roughly two weeks ago, and estimate 100,0...

condition as he recovers from covid. dr. anthony fauci is standing by live. we will discuss. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. i'm wolf blitzer. you're in "the situation room." we begin our coverage tonight with the guilty verdict in steve bannon's criminal contempt trial. the former top trump adviser convicted on two counts of contempt of congress for defying the january 6th committee's subpoena. cnn's senior crime and justice reporter, katelyn polantz is joining us from just outside the federal courthouse here in washington. katelyn, give us the late...

four days after the death of queen elizabeth ii, at her scottish estate, the eyes of millions of people throughout scotland, the united kingdom, the commonwealth and beyond are fixed on the city of edinburgh this afternoon as the people of the country her majesty loved so much have their opportunity to say farewell. flags are at half mast, and there's a palpable sense of respectful remembrance around the capital, a city the late queen knew so well. back injuly, when the queen's health was already giving cause for concern, she nonetheless decided that the annual summer stay at balmora...