Im just praying to the lord to protect us. Margaret plus, the candidates for president together at a 9 11 memorial. Honoring the nearly 3,000 killed 23 years ago. And shaking hands just hours after their first debate. And wildfires out west scorch more than 100,000 acres. What we are learning about a man arrested for arson in one of the states biggest blazes. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening. Im Margaret Brennan in for norah odonnell. We begin with the breaking news. Hurricane francine just coming ashore, making landfall in louisiana, with wind gusts over 100 miles per hour. Relentless Storm Surge of 510 feet is inundating the coastline and beyond, into mississippi and alabama. And the worst is still to come in the hours ahead, as the powerful storm lashes New Orleans. As much as a foot of rain may fall over the next 12 hours as the Storm Moves inland. Evacuation orders and curfews are in effect. Cbss Dave Malkoff reports from the Impact Zone in southern louisiana. Good ev
Into Tonights Debate, showing this race remains as close as can be. And what do voters want or need to hear from the stage . The effort to reach that slim group of undecided americans. Good morning. It is 10 00 eastern, 7 00 a. M. Pacific. Im Ana Cabrera joined by my Colleague And Friend chris jansing, reporting from philadelphia today, ahead of tonights pivotal debate between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. It is so great to be sitting next to you on this enormously important day in politics. Can we take another look at The Room . Where were sitting has a couple of purposes. One, it is the file room, which is an old phrase they use where people used to file their stories. Those chairs will all be full tonight with members of the media, who will be watching the debate from here, because, remember, there is no audience. So there will not even be members of nbc team, other teams, other many Media Teams there. But in the middle, thats where the Spin Room is going to be and each side will
Threatening a quote, blood blood blood bath if he doesnt win in 2024. That was just one weekend, the first full weekend since the general election matchup became official, and it all happened in the course of a Single Campaign rally. Here is trump in ohio. We are going to put a 100 tariff on every single car that comes across the line and youre not going to be able to sell those. If i get elected. Now, if i dont get elected, itll be a bloodbath, that will be the least of it. Itll be a bloodbath for the country. That will be the least of it but they will not sell those cars. Trumps bloodbath, and comes amid a campaign in which he has vowed to be a, quote, dictator to rivals and to seek, quote, retribution which is why his critics are skeptical that campaigns Cleanup Effort claiming trump was trying to say, quote, bidens policies would create an economic bloodbath for the economic industry and the autoworkers. The campaign was forced to respond because the bloodbath comments were a big s
The sleeves up because we are 235 days away from the election. Every day we are getting closer. The stakes get even higher. This week President Biden and donald trump wrapped up their primaries and other presumptive nominees. At the same time, all four criminal trials against trump are facing even more delays. In georgia, District Attorney forney willis can proceed with her case. With that, lets bring in our night and get ready because i could not be more excited about who is joining because they are the future stars of journalism in this country. Four outstanding Student Journalists from across the nation who have done amazing work. They have not in and graduated from college yet. Get ready to feel like you are and under performer. Theo baker, former spotlight editor at the stanford daily. The youngest ever recipient of the prestigious polk award. You have seen him before. Caitlin 80 joins us. Editor at the daily tar heel. The Student Newspaper at the university of North Carolina in c
Here are some of the key conversations you might have missed. The house took a major step toward potentially banning tiktok over concerns. Reporter for Social Media Giant ticktock, announce calling to split from its Parent Company or be shut down. He now heads to the senate. The u. S. House on wednesday, in a rare and overwhelmingly bipartisan vote passing the major that requires tiktoks Parent Company byte dance to sell the company within months. Would you say to people who cant understand that people watching silly dance videos is a National Security threat . We cant allow one of our foremost adversaries to have control over what is quickly becoming the dominant music and. Reporter many believe can and does store data from american users, partly because of a National Security law that requires Chinese Companies to share data and other information with the government. It begins to allow them to know how to influence americans. Reporter the annual Intelligence Committee says china used