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Than 4 million new cases just this month alone. Were going to have more on the pandemic in just a moment. We begin first at the white house, with cnns jeremy diamond. This week, President Trump said he would leave the white house if the Electoral College confirms bidens victory. Then he backtracked. Is he any closer to accepting the reality of this loss . Reporter privately now, weve been told for a couple weeks that President Trump understands the reality here, that he is unlikely to be able to overturn the results of this election. But he has continued fighting nonetheless. And publicly making these baseless allegations of widespread voter fraud in the election. Now the president s claims come against the backdrop of the fact that while hes trying to make his case in public, hes also trying to make it in court and judge after judge, court after court, has been rejecting the president s claims. The president s campaign lawyers and their allies have now lost or had to withdraw more tha
Himself, spending his day on a twitter tirade. It started at 6 38 a. M. He spent the next 38 minutes lashing out. The president called the Mainstream Media fake, failing, phony and inept. All of his words. And then he attacked Richard Blumenthal of connecticut. He tweeted about his past, misrepresentations about serving in vietnam. Words the president used to talk about blumenthal on twitter, lied, defrauded, con artist, child and baby. And the tweets kept coming. This afternoon, trump tweeted about north korea. Ill read this one in full. The Fake News Media will not talk about the importance of the United Nations Security Council 150 vote in favor of sanctions on north korea. Now, ironically, he tweeted this just as cnn was talking about this very topic at the time of the tweet. It means north korea would attack an attack. The president says he would not allow to happen. Talking about north korea, right . Well, anyway, this network has covered the u. N. For days and those facts dont s
Tough new sanctions do not seem to be persuading north korea to stop its nuclear provocations. Pyongyang is even threatening to make the u. S. , quote, pay dearly for drafting the resolution, which the u. N. Security Council Passed unanimously. North korea says the u. S. Is desperate to bring the Korean Peninsula to the brink of nuclear war, and that under no circumstances would the regime negotiate its nuclear weapons. The new sanctions could cut north koreas annual export revenue by a third. A top u. S. Diplomat is expected to urge thailand to enforce the sanctions against north korea. U. S. Officials say pyongyang uses thailand as a platform for elicit activities. Secretary of state Rex Tillerson landed in bangkok after a urging asian ministers gathered in the philippines to isolate north korea even more. Cnns alexandra field joins us now from seoul. So alexandra, past sanctions have not had much impact on north Koreas Nuclear program. Why should these new sanctions be any different
You really have to have a sense of humor with this job. This is the cbs evening news. Mason and this is our western edition. Good evening. Im Anthony Mason. We begin with some vicious summer storms. An apparent tornado today tore through salisbury, maryland, on the delmarva peninsula. It was Strong Enough to flip cars and rip up trees by their roots. No injuries were reported. Early yesterday a twister hit tulsa, oklahoma, without warning. At least 30 people were hurt and more than 70 businesses had substantial damage. Omar villafranca is in tulsa. Reporter the ef2 tornado hit just after 1 00 a. M. It blasted through the center of town with 130mph winds. The twister ripped off rooftops, shredded storefronts and blew out windows. Eight people were trapped inside this t. G. I. F. , and Officials Say at least 30 people were injured by flying debris. Officer Demita Kinard is with the tulsa police department. There were people that had some pretty horrific injuries, but none were lifethreat