america: after five people are shot and 100 rounds fired in philadelphia, cbs elaine quijano is there tonight in one of the nation s deadliest cities. and a trip into the history books. cbs kris van cleave is on a flight honoring a pilot and pioneer. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this wednesday night. tonight, donald trump s former vice president is speaking out for the first time since the search of mara-a-lago, and it comes as the january 6 committee is continuing its work. tonight the panel may have a new witness. mike pence says he would consider testifying if he is asked. you may recall there was a pressure campaign led by trump for pence to overturn the 2020 election and not certify the electoral votes in congress. white house officials told the committee when pence didn t comply, the former president called him
cbs dr. jon lapook speaks with the c.d.c. director, rochelle walensky, for her only television interview. reporter: was the agency up tothe task of handling this pandemic? o donnell: gun violence in america. after five people are shot and 100 rounds fired in philadelphia, cbs elaine quijano is there tonight in one of the nation s deadliest cities. and a trip into the history books. cbs kris van cleave is on a flight honoring a pilot and pioneer. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us on this wednesday night. tonight, donald trump s former vice president is speaking out for the first time since the search of mara-a-lago, and it comes as the january 6 committee is continuing its work. tonight the panel may have a new witness. mike pences says he would consider testifying if he is asked. you may recall there was a pressure campaign led by trump for pence
the president warns the republican congress would ban abortions nationwide. this is going to go one way or the other after november. i m phil mattingly in washington. pamela brown is off today. you are in the cnn newsroom. during a blockbuster hearing with the january 6th committee this week, former white house aide cassidy hutchinson painted a portrait of an infuriated donald trump on january 6th, include a individual vivid account of his behaviority inned suv and demands to be taken to the capitol. the president had the very strong, very angry response to that. described him as being irate. the president said something to the effect of i m the effing president, take me up to the capitol now. cnn has spoken with two sources within the secret service. and they say they also heard about the incident from multiple agents. the team trump has denounced the testimony as hearsay even though hutchinson says she s heard the story from white house deputy chief of staff f
Been waiting months for this. Reporter an amateur stargazer dr. Albert brooks was eager to show off what he could do with a cereal box. Its a raisin bran viewer. Reporter as people outside viewed the partial eclipse, inside the real show was being televised as the total eclipse moved up through mexico and texas. It was a breathtaking sight. Feels so powerful and feels magical almost and the aura is really beautiful. I just feel lucky to be alive to see all this beautiful stuff in this world. Reporter hes right about being lucky because chabot astronomer Gerald Mckeegan says we just happen to live on this planet at the perfect time to view this unlikely celestial event. The sun is about 400 times farther away. Coincidentally, the sun is about 400 times bigger than the moon. So the two sets of numbers line up just right so we can see a perfect total Solar Eclipse. Reporter but that wont last for long at least in astronomical terms because the moon is slowly moving away from the earth at
Headquarters for the battle of lynchburg. This home was central to the battle of lynch bug and while t battle of lynchburg, and while the union was battling. And so this is named for Charles Johnson who grew up in the lynchburg area. He entered Business Life as a stockbroker, merchant and clerk. When he was a young man about 20 years old, he went to kentucky and this is the goal to accompany the boss through the ohio territory to the state of kentucky to survey some land that his boss had bought, and they went to the ohio river and bought a boat and picked up some passengers, and six in total and traveled down the ohio river with the goal of reaching kentucky and now, along the way, they had been warned about hostile native american indian, and they were careful to the stay in the middle of the ohio river, and however, at one point, two white men came to the banks of the river and screamed help us, help us, save us. They decided to go to bank the to try to aid the two white men, and it