To get food. So why is congress fighting over more funding to help those in need . Close to home a doctors struggle. Why we cant care for the patients he cares about most, his parents. Im so helpless in this whole process. Odonnell preventing the next outbreak inside the effort to close those markets for composite animals where the deadly virus was first spread. Why are they still in business . And moments of grace, americans coming together in crisis. The meaningful ways tonight that were all growing closer, even when were forced to be apart. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, donnell evening and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin tonight with breaking news. Two stark numbers that show how dramatically coronavirus has changed life in america. Tonight, the death toll nationwide has now reached more than 16,000, and more than six million americans have filed for unemployment in just the last week. In new york today, the governor compared the pandemic to septemb
Why staying indoors doesnt mean you cant still have fun. Good afternoon. The number of people to have died with coronavirus in the uk now stands at more than 1,000. At todays daily Government Press conference, the nhs englands medical director warned that every one of us has a part to play if the uk is to keep the death toll under 20,000. In the past 2a hours, a further 260 patients have died. The total number of deaths now stands at 1,019. 246 of the deaths were in england, where the victims were aged between 33 and 100 years old. It comes as testing for front line hospital staff who have symptoms in england and scotland gets under way from today. With our first report this evening, heres our Health Correspondent dominic hughes. The logistics of setting up a new medical facility from scratch, a race against time to prepare the newly named Nightingale Hospital east london ahead of the coming surge of those who fall seriously ill with covid 19. The sharp rise in todays death toll shows
More now on the Madeleine Mccann story. She disappeared from a portuguese resort. She was three at the time. The man was a convicted sex offender, living in the algarve and sleeping a campervan at the time. She was three when she went missing from praia da luz. This is the volkswagen campervan that was by the new suspect in the Madeleine Mccann investigation. With its distinctive colours, police hope it will trigger someones memory and lead to new evidence about their as yet unnamed suspect. He used the vehicle to live in, and certainly the week preceding he was in there, living, so he would move around the area, using that van as probably his base. The suspect also used this jaguar car at the time. He registered the car into someone elses name the day after Madeleine Mccann disappeared. The three year old went missing on may the 3rd 2007. Shed been sleeping in her parents holiday apartment while they were 50 metres away, having a meal with friends. Her 17th birthday was last month. On
And what that might mean. Brendan, i know youll sympathise with just how hard it is to get back on your feet and get going. But also, weve talked about the mental scars, i know its difficult sleeping. You get flashbacks, dont you . Yeah. And they tend to be getting worse as the weeks go on. I think ive had about 16 hours the Chinese Government has warned of sleep in two weeks. Would not interfere in hong kong. Im constantly waking up as if im suffocating and still in hospital. There is a route to citizenship and then not being able china goes ahead with the new laws. To get my breath back in bed, which makes me panic. But then the other flashbacks are obviously because of how fast it happened. Beijing has expressed strong dissatisfaction with the uk government after Boris Johnson promised millions of people in hong kong a route to citizenship if china goes ahead with implementing the new laws. I couldnt i have flashbacks James Robbins reports. Of not saying goodbye to my kids and my fa
Now, when the world locked down, we got used to empty streets, shuttered restaurants and empty offices. And as the world opens up, its cities may not be what they were before. In the us, big employers are reconsidering their leases on expensive City Centre Offices as employees get used to working from home. Katty kay reports. Downtown washington before the pandemic. Downtown washington during lockdown. Which one of these will the capital of the biggest economy in the world look like after covid . Deborahjordan used to work in the heart of washington. Shes glad to have given up her 45 minute commute during shutdown, and shes even gladder that the virus has prompted her employer to finally trust people to work from home. Perhaps people have stepped up as well, because theyre not in the office and theres nobody checking on them. And it really becomes a matter of, you know, what is the product that youre supposed to deliver and are you delivering it . Its a perfect storm of technology that