Half of its workforce. And whats holding up a new 400 billion rescue plan for Small Businesses . Nursing homes in crisis. Shocking numbers. 55 dead at one home, 70 in another as facilities face chronic Staff Shortages. Tonight the new federal guidelines that allow covid positive aides to keep working. Emergency room cuts in the s ddle of a pandemic, cbs news has learned that doctors and hospital staff are facing pay cuts and layoffs. Cuts and layoffs. We go through the stages of grief when you get a pay cut, and we all did. He odonnell and with the lights off on broadway, one star performs every night. His inspiring story and performance thats lifting spirits. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell reporting from the nations capital. Thank onnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin this new week with the country in a heated showdown over reopening the economy, and as we come on the air, the outbreak is getting worse in some parts of the country. At
Heres the thing that you always wonder of course about your own safety and whether or not a terrorist can get on board your next flight. Heres his next quote. What are the chances of you being on a flight when something happens . We always said its not a question of if terrorists get through its a question of when. Our feeling is that nothing bad has happened because they havent wanted it to happen, meaning the terrorists. We are not any big deter rant. Its all for show. Thats in the back of our minds we have all feared its just because al qaeda or whom ever hasnt launched yet another attack. It is not that we have stopped them. Thats they havent wanted to. You know they are harassing old ladies and small children. Theres a lot of og elling female passengers. Cover up when you go to the airport. These guys are checking you out constantly. I saw that. I witnessed that first hand. Absolutely. I was coming through there was my wife was coming through and there was some of that. I also not
Some saying the legislation is halfbacked and seriously flawed and would make our immigration problems worse. From what youve learned about what the white house has crafted, this rough draft, whats your first initial reaction . This is not anything new. Again, weve been hearing about this since the president s first policy speech. Yeah. And i dont think theres anything new. I think it has to do more with the process. Its not whats in the content. But i think the legislative body is just a little jealous of making sure that the that Congress Works this first instead of the president moving on this. But if you look at it, at the end of the day, we do pass an Immigration Reform. A lot of the concepts are going to be very similar, both in the house and the senate. And what the president has been thinking about doing. When we look at what the white house immigration plan is specifically calling for, it is applying for a lawful perspective immigrant visa, permanent residency in an eightyear
Bret, how did all of this come to light . Well, jon, this was the result of a foia request by the Washington Times, the specific story youre talking about in regards to when the Obama Transition Team was briefed about the problems at the va. The other scandals that have, the allegations have come up for at least 11 states now. And investigations are ongoing. So this is snowballing as you have lawmakers on both sides of the aisle calling for more in depth investigations and bringing in the fbi. Jon there is a former member of the va staff, high level staffer, who had this to say to congress a few weeks ago when some of these allegations first came up. I want to play you for this now. To date, we found no evidence of a secret list, and we have found no patient who is have died because they have been on a wait list. That was dr. Robert petzel, undersecretary for Veterans Affairs. He said at the time we havent found any evidence of secret lists. We havent found any evidence that people die
Americas first trade interests visited just after americas revolution ended. 230 years later, we are the two largest economies in the world. The trade and investment relationship we have benefits both of our countries. China is our Fastest Growing export market. Chinese direct investment in the United States has risen sixfold over the past five years. Chinese firms directly employ a rapidly growing number of americans. All this means jobs for the American People and deepening ties for both of our peoples. Thats why im pleased to announce during my visit, the United States and china have agreed to implement a new arrangement for visas to benefit tourists and students and businesses large and small. Under the current arrangements, visas last for only one year. Under the new arrangement, student and Exchange Visas will be extended to five years and business and tourist visas will be extended to ten years. [ applause ] of course, that will be good for the business men going back and forth