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trump in the midterms. the panel is preparing to get new witnesses on the record, including former trump cabinet members but the committee's next hearings in september will take place during the final stretch of the high stakes midterm campaigns. and any minute, we will get a white house update on president biden's health as he deals with covid. so let's begin with that fight over reproductive rights underway in indiana. right now, lawmakers are holding a special session to consider a new law banning abortion with very narrow exceptions. >> vice president harris flew to indianapoli...

Florida's largest school district is reversing a decision on how to teach sex ed to medmiddle schoolers and high schoolers. the school board had approved this textbook you see on the screen in april but reversed the decision last week after some parents complained. the parents' cited florida's state law that allow parents much more say in the curriculum. luisa santos is a school board member with miami-dade county public schools. thank you so much for being here. as i understand it, at this school board meeting last week, there were 38 parents and students and community members who came out in...

There signs progress is made? >> reporter: tamron, this was the first day we heard optimistic words from both sides as they went into the talks a little more than four hours ago. the union president said out of scale of 1 to 10, she rated the chances of an agreement today at a 9. both sides, the city side, the school board side said unless things go absolutely nutsy, they would have a deal. apparently there was a great deal of progress made yesterday in talks that ended around midnight. they say the big difference was that they made progress on the issue of teacher evaluations. that's been one...

Because you can't learn very much things when you have to miss the subjects. >> i feel like they're being used as pawns. this is not helping the children at all. >> let me bring in kevin tibbles. he's live for us in chicago with the very latest. we're still walking. >> the only good news out of this, tamron, is that they continue to talk every single day. every single day we are hearing reports that they're getting closer and closer across the bargaining table. obviously they are not close enough to get the teachers back in the classrooms and to get those some 400,000 students back in the scho...