Plus resilientence for four astronauts that blast off on a historic mission. At the masters a spring time class classic, its a new fall winner. And a new museum tells the u. S. Soldier story. Im looking at everything from the past to the present. Good evening, this is cbs overnight news. Today. Nearly two weeks after the election President Trump acknowledged president elect joe bidens victory in this tweet, he won, and quickly took it back in following tweets. America now confronts two dilemmas a president who refuses to accept his defeat and and out of control. New infections surging, on saturday more than 163,000 new cases were reported and deaths totalled more than 1300 yesterday. First breaking news from Kennedy Space center. Ignition. Lift off. There you go tonight four astronauts lifted off aboard a spacex rocket on a historic mission. What an experience. Got to tell you, that was really something to see, it was especially spectarin killed both his dad and mom. He wishes he can b
Changed as is the case often thanks for joining us. On this monday night everybody im grant lotus yeah, its a sad fact, im Vicki Liviakis this a death toll in the u. S. Has doubled since just the end of may and the number is projected to climb even higher before the years and the top covid19 projection model is predicting nearly 380,000 coronavirus deaths here in the u. S. By january. If that happens were going to hit half the death toll of the 1918 pandemic. And the united is on the. Grant i believe youre next all right there is some growing confusion tonight over the cdcs latest guidelines on covid last week. The cdc updated its website to say it is possible that covid may be spread through droplets. An airborne particles that are formed to a person infected with the virus. Coughs sneezes sings talks or briefs teaser things that were widely known at least if you talk to medical experts the cdc said it last week but now the city says the cdc says that was a mistake to issue that guida
Trying to figure out. Did you guys get in trouble . They sent you down at the other end of the table. Everyone is together, but youre down at one end. Listen, were going to get started. The subcommittee hearing will come to order without objection, the chairs authorized to declare recess in the committee to any time. This briefing is an extension of several hearings we have had discussing Climate Change. And on the current Economic Impacts of global warming. Im going to differ in the Opening Statement for myself and i know when we spoke earlier, in the holding area, i mentioned the fact that we would be hopefully trying to do a hearing, in fact, this is a briefing, we do have time for your Opening Statements, so, what i would like to do is to afford each of you the opportunity to do so. So, let me introduce the four of you and then we will move to you, mr. Gomez. We have alfredo gomez, director of National Resources and government accountability, office dave, joness new director for en
Several hearings we had discussing Climate Change focusing on current, future and Economic Impacts. I will defer to the Opening Statement for myself. When we spoke earlier in the holding area, i mentioned the fact that we would hopefully do a hearing. We do have time for your Opening Statements. What i would like to do is afford each of you the opportunity to do so so let me introduce the four of you and move to you, mister gomez. We have j. Alfredo gomez, Government Accountability office come a dave jones, senior director for in my mental risk and Nature Conservancy, institute for Economic Freedom and the heritage foundation, doctor Michael Michael greenstone, Milton Friedman, from the university of chicago and Stephen Benjamin mayor of the city of columbia, South Carolina. With that, director gomez, you are recognized to give an oral presentation of your testimony for five minutes. I am pleased to be here to discuss how to limit the federal governments exposure by better managing Cli
We are going to get started. The subcommittee hearing will come to order, without objection, the chair has authorized to declare a recess of the committee at any time. This briefing extension of several hearings we have had, discussing Climate Change. We are focusing on the Economic Impacts of global warming. I will defer the Opening Statement for myself. When we spoke earlier in the holding area, i mentioned the fact that we would be trying to do a hearing. This is a briefing. We do have time for your Opening Statements. What i would like to do is afford each of you the opportunity to do so. Let me introduce the four of you and then we will move to you, mr. Gomez. We have alfredo gomez, director, Natural Resources environment team, Government Accountability office. Dave jones, senior director for environmental risk at the Nature Conservancy, institute of Economic Freedom and the heritage foundation. Dr. Michael greenstone, Milton Friedman distinguished Service Professor of economics a