Welcome to the news hour. Democrats will kick off their convention tonight

here in Chicago. A very different event than was being planned just one month ago.

Vice President Kamala Harris is set to formally accept her party's nomination for president

later this week.

But tonight will culminate with a speech from the current occupant of the White House.

That's President Joe Biden, who ended his own campaign for

re-election last month, clearing the way for Harris. Laura Barone Lopez is

here on the convention floor. She's been reporting on Harris's surge in

polling.

Laura.

I'm now and Jeff from business owners to college students.

Democrats have a new sense of hope around Vice President

Harris's nomination, and I've been speaking to voters here in Chicago to see if

Harris can maintain that energy from now until November.

If he can make more of these because people are coming.

At the Brown Sugar Bakery on Chicago's south side, a new item has generated a lot of excitement.

68 year old Robert Hawkins Jr. showed up an hour before the bakery even open to make

sure he got a taste of what's called the Kamala Cake.

I had to come and get this particular cake because my wife wanted it.

I wouldn't have been able to sleep all night.

So on the inside is the traditional German chocolate cake,

but the whipped cream has caramel and chocolate in it.

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