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Vice President Kamala Harris is heading to the key battleground state of Wisconsin Tuesday, hitting the campaign trail for the first time since becoming the likely Democratic presidential nominee. She’s scheduled to make a mid-day speech in Milwaukee.
The campaign says it’s taken in more than $100 million between Sunday afternoon, when President Biden announced he’s bowing out of the race, and Monday evening.
Democrats moved Monday moved to consolidate behind Harris for the party’s nomination, capping a dramatic 24 hours after Mr. Biden’s shocking announcement that he was exiting the race and, a short time later, endorsing Harris for the nomination.
CBS News estimates Harris has received the endorsement of a majority of Democratic delegates. If the total holds, she would become the Democratic nominee for president after the virtual roll-call vote expected in early August.
Harris made her first public remarks since the announcement at the White House Monday at an event honoring college athletes. She said she’s "deeply, deeply grateful" to Mr. Biden for his "service to his nation" and called his legacy "unmatched in modern history."
Harris visited the Wilmington campaign office on Monday to rally the staff. A Democratic political action group, Future Forward PAC, announced Monday that it had raised $150 million, a staggering amount, given the lag in Democrats’ fundraising since Mr. Biden’s disastrous debate against Trump last month.
House Speaker Emerita Nancy Pelosi, still one of the most powerful Democrats in Washington, endorsed Harris on Monday, a key stepping stone, although Democratic leaders Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and current Speaker Hakeem Jeffries have not yet endorsed her.
The Broward Sheriff’s Office is investigating how a 6-year-old boy lost his hand after a firework explosion in Deerfield Beach Tuesday morning.
Officials said they responded to a home located at 600 NW 1st Terrace just after 10 a.m. and found a boy with a "complete hand amputation."
The unidentified child was flown to Broward Health in Fort Lauderdale via rescue chopper. Officials said the boy’s injuries were non-life threatening.
Authorities did not say how or why the boy got a hold of the fireworks, as they continue to investigate.
It is not clear if anyone will be facing charges or if anyone had been arrested.
One person was taken into custody after Miami-Dade police and FBI agents executed a narcotics warrant at a southwest Miami-Dade residence early Tuesday morning.
According to police, their officers served the warrant to residents of a home at SW 127th Avenue and SW 120th Street.
Michael Pascual said he woke to strange noises.
"You see the FBI doing flash bangs, it started at 6 a.m. in the morning. They went inside to take people out, the whole family out," he said. "They’ve been renting here already for two years, everybody here is on their own business, we don’t ask anything."
He added that at least two people walked out of the house in handcuffs.
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