Benefits. And later, humans no longer forced to hibernate are flocking to the reopened national zoo. this is the cbs weekend news yuccas good evening. Im jamie yuccas in los angeles. We have developing news tonight on several fronts. But we begin with representative john lewis. He is being remembered this weekend in multiple Memorial Services across the state of alabama, where he was born. Lewis died last week at the age of 80. His death is not just a loss for our country but a reminder of how far we need to go in the fight for civil rights for all americans. As coronavirus dominates the headlines black americans have mortality rates that are more than twice as high as other races when it comes to covid 19. Thats just one inequity today, of many, that john lewis lived his life to eradicate through plenty of good trouble. And today, he returned to troy, alabama, where his story began. Cbs this Morning Saturday co host Michelle Miller starts us off. Reporter just after dawn, John Robert
Category 1 storm on padre island, texas with sustained winds of 90 miles per hour. Doesnt end up to look like this one. Its always good to start a new day with you. Its sunday, july 26th, im victor blackwell. Im abby philip in for christi paul today. Thanks for spending your sunday morning with us. The number of confirmed coronavirus cases around the world, now more than 16 million. More than a quarter of those cases in the u. S. And the u. S. Added more than 65,000 new cases just yesterday. And florida, they now have the second highest number of cases and is second, just behind california. Americans in all 50 states are waiting to know if more Economic Relief is coming. Senator Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell hopes to get the new relief bill to the house in the next two to three weeks. The federal Unemployment Benefits, however, expired this past week. Some hopeful news. The first phase 3 trial of a Coronavirus Vaccine in the United States will start tomorrow. 30,000 volunteers are ex
Challenged the narrative. Because i have a large platform im canceled. Theyre censoring my account. They are censoring others. Dramatically ramped up production of materials needed for a vaccine and on track to rapidly produce 100 million doses. Play you a song you make me want to roll my window down and cruise down a back road. Steve the first time america heard that song was on this program. Hi, everybody, welcome to studio f as you can see we are still social distancing for this july 29th, 2020. Its going to be another hot one here in new york city. Thanks for starting your day with us. Brian . Brian yeah. They wrote the song in the green room and they said. Steve brian, hold on a second i reclaim my time. Go. Hold on you cant have five minutes. No, no, no recommendation why did you invite me here. If you are not going to let me talk why am i here . Class act, steve. Steve im not going to interrupt your rudeness. How crazy was that. Ainsley if you didn watch the hearings yesterday w
National Republican Party to be clear, in context, theres a whole bunch of problems that the trump dpan has for the Republican Party. Theres a new poll that puts donald trump nationwide 14 points behind Hillary Clinton. 14 points behind . Now, that is not the only poll in the world, right . Theres another National Poll out also tonight from fox news that says hes only 3 points behind Hillary Clinton. Well be talking later on in the show with an expert about how to read the various polls right now. How to know whats right, especially when youve got results like these that are so disparate. In either case 13 points behind or 3 points behind, he is still behind. The headwinds seem very clear right now. Tonight at fivethirtyeight. Com theyre reading those headwinds for the president ial race and looking at the senate polls. Fivethirtyeight is giving the Republican Party a 68 chance of losing control of the United States senate this year. So that is just one of the problems that it appears
Reporting from the times was matched by the wall street journal and then the Washington Post and then cnn and then nbc and then the a. P. , after we started getting this further reporting about not just the russian government offering these bounties for american soldiers scalps but actually paying those bounties out, after we started getting reporting first from the a. P. About specific attacks and specific deaths of american troops in afghanistan now being investigated as potentially having been instigated by that russian reward money, after we got that further reporting following the New York Times friday night scoop, we contacted ambassador susan rice to see if she could come on and talk about this tonight because, i mean, its one level of bad to realize that russia is doing this, right . That u. S. Intelligence has concluded that russia is paying cash money to people for killing u. S. Troops. That is very, very bad. But its a whole other level of bad to know that the u. S. Presiden