Stopped and when. This all happening as fears about the coronavirus, fears about the economy have begun to take hold. The president will address those fears now. My fellow americans, tonight i want to speak with you about our nations unprecedented response to the coronavirus outbreak. It started in china and is now spreading throughout the world. Today the World Health Organization officially announced that this is a global pandemic. We have been in frequent contact with our allies and we are martialing the full power of the federal government and private sector to help our people. This is an ability to confront a foreign virus in modern history. I am confident that by continuing to take these tough measures, we will significantly reduce the threat to our citizens, and we will ultimately and expeditiously defeat this virus. From the beginning of time, nations and people have faced unforeseen challenges, including large scale and very Dangerous Health threats. This is the way it always
H. W. Bush, delivered a half dozen Oval Office Addresses, his first was on the night of the 9 11 attacks. Since President Trump has been in office, he has spoken from the oval office only once before. And that was looking back at it, kind of hard to see that it deserved it, a Government Shutdown over funding for a wall on the mexican border. Tonights address comes amid a cascade of closures. Again, these are decisions that have largely been made, as chris was saying, at the state and local level, as those officials are making their own decisions about what ought to be shut down, what schools ought to be closed, and when, and what workplaces ought to be closed and when, what events ought to be stopped and when. This all happening as fears about the coronavirus, fears about the economy, have begun to take hold. The president will address those fears next. My fellow americans, tonight i want to speak with you about our nations unprecedented response to the coronavirus outbreak that starte
And alexis, a staff writer. I want to begin with you. The big question is about how long it will take for america to get to capacity for testing, for tracing. Where do we stand at this moment . The first issue with testing is unfortunately, its going to be a bit longer than we hoped. I think all of us were hoping at this time we would have enough to do what we think of as surveillance testing. Basically, testing enough people to figure out what the real incidents or positive rates are. We know were really still far away from that. There are glimmers of hope that within the next several weeks as were getting more and more tests on board that will happen but as you pointed out shs par s s of the country are already prematurely opening up. To the point about tracing, we know if you use new york citys estimate of 30 tracers for 100,000 people, most of the country falls short for anywhere near that number. Tracing means we will Contact People that are positive and look back, at least 14 day
Safe. Defunding the police . We take a look at what that means. And former Vice President joe biden weighs in. And why the minneapolis mayor is booed away at this protest rally amidst calls to dismantle his citys police force. Back in business. 100 days since new yorks first coronavirus case, the city begins to reopen. Plus where in the country cases are rising. Will Prince Andrew cooperate with u. S. Authorities in the investigation into sex offender Jeffrey Epstein . What hes saying tonight. And tonight, wall of reflection fencing outside the white house has become a rallying point for those seeking change. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell reporting tonight from houston. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us from houston where today thousands of mourners lined up for hours in the heat here at the fountain of praise church, Wearing Masks and waiting to pay their respects to george floyd. Floyd will be buried here tomorrow, next to his mother. More than tw