A new emerging of a possible buyer of tiktok. More challenges for boeing as it continues to deal with the fallout from the pandemic and the 737 max woes it is tuesday august 18 and this is Worldwide Exchange. Good morning. Good afternoon good evening perhaps that song will get you, you know, jumping. Why not . Global markets are setting up their tuesdays stock futures slightly higher right now. They are in the green investor focus on the dow remains on the s p 500 a half a percent from the alltime record high if you are counting at home, any close above 3386. 15 would be a record close stop us if youve heard this one before one area not waiting around is technology the nasdaq pushing to a record high the 37th high of the year and 33rd record close of 2020. Once again leading technology, tesla. Another record high. By the way, also adding another 8 billion to elon musks personal fortune pushing him back on the list tesla shares up 32 in just five days 32 in five days hey, maybe that rec
With Norah Odonnell. Reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us, were going to begin with the first night of the Democratic National convention and what will be an unth docks political event brought on by an unprecedented pandemic. The Coronavirus Crisis is not only changed how tonights speeches will be given, but what they will focus on. Over the next four nights democrats will appear virtually without the pomp and sirks were used to seeing, where they will argue that joe biden and Kamala Harris uniquely qualified to take on President Trump and the pandemic. Tonight which will feature a speech by former First Lady Michelle Obama comes just as a new cbs news Battleground Tracker poll shows gentlemen biden leading the president among likely voters. Not only who will vote this november but how they will cast their ballot will also be front and center tonight. Todays democrats hand picked postmaster general trying to slow down mail delivery and
Skyrocketing. Dr. Deborah birx of the coronavirus revealing what she wishes america did in the early days of the pandemic. A major break in the cold case murder of run dmcs Jam Master Jay shot in cold blood. What prosecutors say led to his murder and the two men under arrest. Ellens apology. The talk show host reportedly speaking to her staff overnight in an emotional call announcing major changes to the show after accusations of a toxic work culture. Plus, close call. A woman moves seconds before a car barrels over a sidewalk. And following in his fathers footsteps, Charlie Woods impressing his dad tiger with a dominant performance in a golf tournament. Good tuesday morning, everyone. Im mona kosar abdi. And im will reeve in for kenneth moton. We begin with the Democratic National convention unlike ever before. The convention kicked off last night going virtual for the first time with a diverse lineup of speakers rallying behind joe biden and taking direct aim at President Trump. The
After reopening. Plus could a new saliva test just approved by the f. D. A. Be the key to getting rapid results . Our new series the new normal, back to school, a look at schools in one hot zone where the question remains should children be required to wear a mask in class . Dangerous heat, thousands evacuated amid raging wildfires out west as 40 Million People face the worst heat in years, now threatening californias power grid. What residents are doing to escape an energy emergency. Will Lori Loughlin get prison time . Federal prosecutors today say she should, calling her fully complicit in the College Cheating scandal. Will the judge agree . And the ballet star who battled stereotypes on stage and is now blazing new trails. 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. Were going to begin with the first night of the Democratic National convention and what will be an
The California Independent system operator extending that flex alert asking people to conserve that energy as you mention through thursday to avoid blackouts and also intermittent outage situation. Thats not what we thought we would find on this block here in milpitas. They said about 139 customers did not have power and when we got here you can see the lights are on this morning and good news for folks on this block but there are sporadic outages we want to tell you about when it comes to pg e across the bay area this morning. The good news, the rolling outages were called off last night by pg e shortly after 8 00 p. M. Because the Energy Supply would meet demand. Thats what the Energy Supplier said. Were learning two big reasons for this. The temps stayed cooler and people did conserve energy. Governor newsom also took some blame for the outages during his monday news conference. Let me just make this crystal clear, we failed to predict and plan these shortages and thats simply unacc