Another Staggering Number nearly 3. 3 million americans filed for unemployment last week. Thats more than the population of chicago. And this graph says it all. Since 2,000, weekly claims had been in the hundreds of thousands. Last weeks numbers are off the chart. Today should have been opening day for americas favorite pastime, major league baseball. Instead, tonight the president is talking about reopening the economy, saying the country has got to get back to work. The president says he will be giving states new guidelines on social distancing, getting some people back on the job in places that havent been hard hit by the virus. Our team is covering every angle of this crisis, and Mark Strassmann leads us off from just outside atlanta. , and mark, is it possible that those jobless numbers could be even higher . Reporter well, heres what you have to coder, norah. As grim as those numbers are, the reality is likely worse. Americas latest jobless numbers hit like an overnight gut punch
the committee has called him, quote, uniquely positioned to testify. the understatement of the year. just think of what he knows. think of how many times you out there heard his name from other witnesses during the hearings. mr. cipollone said something to the effect of, please make sure we don t go up to the capitol. we re going to get charged with every crime imaginable if we make that movement happen. on his phone, i remember pat saying to him, something to the effect of, the riders got to the capitol mark, we need to see the president now. and mark looked up and said, he doesn t want to do anything, pat. and pat said something to the effect of, and very clearly, had said this to mark, something to the effect of, mark, something needs to be done or people is going to die and the blood is going to be on your hands. this is out of control. i m going down there. pat cipollone weighed in at one point. that letter that this guy wants to send, that s a murder/suicide pact.
Flol advice. Well get you taper ready. First to sue at the nyse. And Gary Comiskey and kenny have started the conversation. Theyll join nous a second. We start out with two Major Corporate titans two members of the dow and both stories from washington state. Boeing shares hitting an alltime high as it gets ready to make the first flight of the next generation of dreamliner. Ty mentioned we will bring that to you live. Microsoft announcing a huge stock buyback and boosting its dividend. John fortt is all over microsoft but well begin with phil lebeau live at boeings big event in washington. Hey sue. Ten to 15 minutes away from the dash 9 making its first flight here outside of boeings Assembly Plant in everette, washington. To bring you up to speed at what the 7879 is about, a larger version of the dreamliner. It carries about 40 more passengers. The first flight is scheduled to last about five hours. Theyre going to go out over the coast for a while and swing back over moses lake to th
Vegas casinos. Places tens of thousands of Dollars Worth of bets in recent weeks. But why he did this, they simply have no clue. They know he has been acquiring weapons over the past several months. He has bought at gun stores in nevada, possibly outside the state as well. That part of nevada he is from, mesquite, is right on the border. So he could go to other states to try to buy weapons and have them sent back to the gun dealers in nevada 20 do it legally. But The Big Question here is how did he acquire automatic weapons. Youve heard the sounds on the videos of these rapid shots. Machine guns are illegal in the u. S. But its possible to buy conventional semiautomatic weapons, meaning they fire every time you pull the trigger, but just one round and convert them. But that Conversion Process can make the weapons illegal. So the authorities are trying to figure out how he managed to get
his hands on these automatic weapons. He had some of those in the room. He had Sniper Rifles with sc
Hospitals also in crisis. Were at one center serving 55,000 vets with only 102 beds. Is the v. A. Prepared if infection spikes . Supermarket safety with america shut down, theyre still on the job inside americas Grocery Stores. What theyre doing to keep workers and you safe. And helping hands keeping Health Care Heroes fed while also giving a lifeline to struggling restaurants. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. We begin with breaking news, and something unthinkable just weeks ago tonight, the u. S. Has more confirmed cases of the deadly coronavirus than any other country in the world, surpassing even china and italy. Since we were with you last night, cases nationwide have surged, growing by more than 17,000 in just one day. Sadly, more than 1,000 people in the u. S. Have died. Another Staggering Number arly t week. Thats more than the population of chicago. And this graph says it a