Made history. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell. Reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening. And thank you for joining us. We want to begin tonight with a huge leap forward in the development of a vaccine against coronavirus. Volunteers all across the country including a member of our own cbs news family began getting shots today as part of the final phase of testing for an experimental vaccine being developed by the nih and the drug company moderna. Tens of thousands of americans are needed for the trial and test sites are spread out across the south and west which tonight florida now has morehvi total infections than new york, which was once the epicenter of the crisis. Among those cases, 14 members of the Miami Marlins who have now tested positive forcing two Major League Baseball games to be postponed and calling into question the season. We also learned today that the virus has once again spread into the west wing. The white house says robert obrien,
Positive. Covid hits the west wing. The president S National Security advisor is now the highest ranking u. S. Official to test positive. Was President Trump exposed . Hanna hammers texas. Tonight southern texas still reeling from the effects of hurricane hanna, as thousands are without power. Breaking news, cbs news has learned at least 100 more federal agents are standing by to be deployed to portland, oregon, amid unrest there. Honoring john lewis, tonight the first africanamerican lawmaker to lie in state at the u. S. Capitol rotunda. Amazing grace odonnell his last journey through washington. And tonight, wait until you meet the motherdaughter md, the inspiring family who graduated med school in the same year and just made history. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell, reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. We want to begin tonight with a huge leap forward in the development of a vaccine agains
Right now on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn be area we are looking live from our camera on Treasure Island out of the city of San Francisco. Good morning, it is tuesday, july 28th. I am michelle griego. I am len kiese. Glad to have you with us. Ie as we start thday. Here is mary lee. We are settling into that weather pattern in the bay area. It is similar to yesterday. Here is a look with the Treasure Island camera and you can see those low clouds, so low clouds and areas of fog and right around the bay and even some of our inland locations. We are in the mid to upper 50s to 60 degrees. Through the afternoon, mid 60s in San Francisco, oakland at 72 concord. And 91 r we are where we should be if not about 3 degrees above average. We will talk about a cool down through tomorrow and then heating back up. Will have all of that coming up in my full forecast. Back to you. We have video in from the protest going on in portland. Crowds have become much larger over the past week, drawing thousand
Today people will be gathering to remember those who were killed in the gilroy garlic festival mass shooting. It happened one year ago today. The event called rising together will honor victims and heroes, its being held exactly one year after a 19 yearold man used an Assault Rifle to fire into the festivals crowd. 3 people were killed including a 6 yearold boy 19 other people were injured before Gilroy Police officer shot the gunman. The fbis domestic terrorism investigation still ongoing. And well have a lot more details coming up in a live report coming up at 5. 30 this morning. Well to the south bay now woman caught on camera spewing racial slurs at a postal worker has gone viral. Take a listen. What im doing. Well the video was shared on social media and it shows a woman calling an Asian American worker a derogatory term and upsetting the off the customers inside Tyler Brumfield is a man heard off camera condemning the womans rant. A woman is also heard again cursing and repeating
Aound the bay, clearing to the mid to upper 60s to the 70s and cool, cloudy and breezy along the coast. It gets cooler tomorrow with that stronger ocean breeze and i will have more on that coming up and now lets check in with the latest on the Traffic Alert along highway 17. A lot of activity if you plan on taking 17. Both directions and both lanes on the southbound side are shut down right at the summit. Northbound lanes are open. This is due to a big rig accident where they hit the hillside and got stuck on its side. It kind of toppled over. It will take some time for this to clear out. They are turning vehicles around at redwood estate. Using a lot of brake lights building because of this. Traffic alerts are in effect around 17 north of the summit. Today marks one year since the gunman broke into the gilroy garlic festival and shot and killed three people. There are several events planned but they will be largely closed off through social distancing. Were live in gilroy with how tod