Odonnell tonight, making the case for four more years, the Vice President headlines night three. Good evening from the nations capi capitol. Im Norah Odonnell and welcome to cbs News Coverage of the Republican National convention. Vice president mike pence is the featured speaker. He will appear shortly from fort mchenry in maryland, and we expect the president to join him at some point. We also want to give you an update on some of the other brakes news at this hour. Hurricane laura is a category 4 storm expected to hit the texaslouisiana border with catastrophic force in the next few hours. In fact, the National Weather service is predicting an unsurvivable storm surge of up to 20 feet. Lawo want to update you, Law Enforcement is bracing for a fourth night of protest in kenosha, wisconsin, following the Police Shooting of jacob blake. Two people were shot and killed at a protest there last night. This teenager from out of town is under arrest, facing charges of intentional homicide.
, mother to luke and daughterinlaw of our 45th president donald j. Trump. Tonight, i come to you simply as an american. My life began like many, i grew up in North Carolina, my parents were Small Business owners and work hard to make sure that my brother and i had everything we needed, and not every thing we wanted. Me to believesed that in america i can achieve anything with hard work and determination. I should dream big. I did. Those very dreams are what led me to new york city. I had heard the adage if i can make it there, i can make it anywhere. I intended to do just that. Never in one million years that i think i would be on this stage tonight and i certainly never thought i would end up with the last name trump. My seventh grade english teacher used to tell us, believe none of what you hear, half of what you read, and only what you are there to witness firsthand. The meaning of those words never fully weighed on me until i met my husband and the trump family. Had ofconceived not
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A night of pageantry and politics that collides with breaking news on our shores and in our streets. Protests continue for the third night in wisconsin after the shooting of jacob blake in the back by police. A young vigilante who took up a rifle to confront protesters there has now been arrested for shooting three. Two of the victims are dead. And in an extraordinary move, the nba has posttoned tonights playoff games after the Milwaukee Bucks boycotted their game to protest the shooting of blake. The wnba, major league baseball, Major League Soccer have postponed their games tonight. Meantime, hurricane laura is bearing down on the louisiana texas border. Now a fierce category 4 storm. Set to be one of the strongest ever to make landfall in the United States. So, lets get the latest from ginger zee in port arthur. Ginger, i can see the wind is kicking up right now. We are just about to get in the main shield of what is hurricane laura. That category 4 storm, now the center of it is ab
Democrats and joe biden and Kamala Harris referring to them as radical leftists, and violence and chaos is a result of democratic leadership. And so the president again stressing that issue of law and order but certainly paramount in americans minds, the coronavirus pandemic, we have yet to hear about that except in economic terms and lives it has claimed. And also paramount is the racial tension that were seeing and calls for justice that much of our newscast has been about, especially athletes that President Trump publicly quarreled with, kneeling for the national anthem. So there is a lot at play here tonight. And it will be interesting to see how the speakers particularly Vice President pence address those issue is, so with that well have a full wrapup later, lets get back to the rnc stream. We need more leaders like President Trump who understand freedoms that pay up the fabric of america. My fellow americans, specifically my democrat and independent friends, it is now time for us