A toxic Work Environment on her show, why ellen is apologizing and reportedly threatening to quit. Unfounded attacks on mailin voting the president continues to undermine the longstanding practice of voting by mail. Growing concerns that the u. S. Postal service, led by one of President Trumps biggest donors, is slowing mail service. The mail is backing up. Its getting delayed. Odonnell democrats tonight accuse President Trump of undermining democracy. Bitcoin bust tonight, florida authorities arrest the mastermind behind that twitter attack of 130 accounts, including president obama, jeff bezos, and elon musk. Turns out, hes 17 years old. And tonight, cbs Steve Hartman is on the road with a local businessman who is helping to send 75 kids to college. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin this friday night with what the World Health Organ
Will address the pandemic and the hurricane. Approaching there. It comes as the president is drawing a rare rebuke from republicans even one of his predecessors for raising the alarming possibility of delaying the november election. This as more states opt for mailin ballots due to the danger of voting in the pandemic. We should note only congress can delay the election. That said, its part of a larger effort to delegitimize the election in advance. Randi kaye has the top story, that is the approaching hurricane in the midst of a pandemic storm. Reporter absolutely. We are awaiting for the hurricane to approach. 253 deaths yesterday. Florida still leads the nation in new cases, new daily cases. Nearly 10,000 yesterday. 9,956. 50 hospitals in the state are without icu beds at all. They have run out of them. So all of this as were waiting for this hurricane that is brewing out there to come to florida. It is supposed to get here on saturday and then work its way up the east coast. We are
Robert redfield and u. S. Testing czar Admiral Brett Giroir are expected to face questions in just moments on the administrations response to this pandemic, on the race for a vaccine, on inadequate testing, mask mandates and School Reopening plans. All of those key issues on the table today. Now, this comes one day after dr. Fauci said it is impossible to predict how much longer this crisis will last, especially if americans do not significantly change their behavior. And this could add to the pain in florida. Hurricane isaias is barrelling to the state right now. Thats forcing the testing sites to temporarily close. Well get to that in a moment, but we begin with our lauren fox. She is joining us on capitol hill. Good morning, its an incredibly significant hearing. The democrats have been trying to secure for quite some time. What should we expect . Reporter well, you know this is a big deal in part because this is a subcommittee, this is a committee that is charged with looking over
U. S. Averaged more than 1,000 deaths from covid. And while americans are dying, the testing czar says its sufficient. Over the last week, the u. S. Has reported more than 365,000 known coronavirus cases. Thats enough to fill up a stadium in atlanta. This stadium in atlanta over five times. California leading the country in the number of infections becoming the first state to surpass 600,000 covid cases and the new warning from the nations top Infectious Disease expert, dr. Fauci says the consequences will be devastating if the u. S. Does not get coronavirus under control and reopen safely. You will never get a good marching back economically back unless you control the biologic. You have to be able to control it. And one of the problems is in your understandable zeal to quickly get back to normal and revive the economy you can do it if you do it in a measured, prudent way. The lesion is the jumping over the benchmarks and the guideposts put forth so to think to ignore the biologic and
We are in a new phase. But i want to be clear. What were seeing today is different from march and april. This is extraordinary widespread, it is into the rural as equal urban areas and to everybody who lives in a rural area, you are not immune or protected from this virus. Dr. Deborah birx making kplen comments as the week hit the highest level since late may but the message to the nation may be too late for nancy pelosi who said over the weekend that she doesnt have confidence in birxs handling of the pandemic and doubled down on that claim this morning right here on cnn. I dont have any confidence in any who stands there and said swallow lie sol and it is going to cure your virus. I think she has enabled. Now birxs words are too late for Speaker Pelosi and too much truth for trump who jabbed at bench in the process, in order to counter nancy, deborah took the bait and hit us. It was just one in a series of tweet this is morning with the president pointing fingers at everyone else but