Six died together, and now they will be remembered together forever. Nancy Hundreds Of Thousands of protesters calling on the israeli Prime Minister to make an immediate Hostage Deal with hamas as President Biden says netanyahu needs to do more. We are not giving up. We are going to continue to push as hard as we can. Nancy the Cbs Evening news starts now. Good evening. Im Nancy Cordes in for norah odonnell. Palpable Anger And Anguish pouring onto israeli Streets Today as throngs of protesters marched for a Ceasefire Deal that would release the remaining October 7th hostages. The day started with a nationwide strike that nearly brought the country to a standstill, followed by funerals for some of the six hostages whose bodies were returned home after they were found shot in the back of the head in a Gaza Tunnel over the weekend. Among the dead, 23yearold israeli american Hersh Goldbergpolin. President biden was asked today about the job that israels leader is doing, and his answer was
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With norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin with breaking news on a potentially Game Changing vaccine against coronavirus, at the same time infections of the virus in the u. S. Are now growing by the millions. Tonight the Biotech Company moderna says it has developed a vaccine that is nearly 95 effective and capable of preventing severe illness. The company says with emergency approval from the f. D. A. It could start giving the shots to highrisk patients and healthcare workers as soon as next month. Well on wall Street Investors reacted enthusiastically, pushing u. S. Stocks to new highs, even as experts warn the country is plunging deeper into a deadly and dark winter for the pandemic. And as we come on the air the u. S. Has surpassed 11 million cases. Thats a million new infections in just one week. That is two million since the beginning of this month. And hospitals, well, they are reaching a brea
Lets give each other a chance and lower the temperature. I like the tone hes setting john, already. Reporter and just adding, see each other again, listen to each other again. So thats thats the, you know, its not just words but actually putting them into action. The speech really ranged. You had Langston Hughes reference in there, on eagles wings, he quoted theodore parker. It was, again, this is what speech making sound like, and President Trump hasnt spoken like this, hasnt chosen to, and this was a speech that seeks to use the words in the moment to bring the nation together and move it along. Words cant do everything in a presidency, but they can do a lot. Reporter and to say he wants to root out systemic racism. Do you know how long people have been waiting for someone in that position to say that, to acknowledge, a, that it exists, and then to acknowledge we want to do something about it. Thats very powerful. Odonnell that it will be a priority. Reporter exactly, exactly, norah,
Like the country hasnt since the great depression. Reporter im errol barnett. Hospitals in at least 25 states face a critical shortage of doctors, nurses and other staffment not all hospitals are affected equally. Dr. Tara narula reports on two different facilities and how theyre coping. Reporter plains of nebraska, just 25 hospital beds and four doctors to battle the countys covid Positivity Rate of 28 . 1,500 miles away in new york, Northwell Health runs 23 hospitals, nearly 6,000 beds, 4,500 doctors. When covid first attacked the country, new york was the epicenter, and northwell were on the front lines. 84,000 Covid Patients since the crisis began. Reporter ceo Michael Dowling says the size and experience in disasters with 9 11 had advantages. Did load balancing, able to use transport to move patients from queens to westchester, to eastern long island. If wed not been able to, hospitals in queens would have been overwhelmed. Reporter small hospitals like lexington regional have few