Politicians and so, it was especially delightful to watch you fielding a oneword answer from senator Elizabeth Warren on would she accept the Vice President ial nominee nation in the last hour. Do you mind, rachel, if we show that to america again during this hour complete with your reaction to it . Of course. I mean, i will say, it is a humbling thing. Part of the thing with the remote studios is we have a little more of a delay. Its a little more awkward for our satellite interactions with anybody but when she just said the one word that she said and i was like oh, thats it. Okay, right. It was probably not my finest, smoothest tv host moment but yeah, play it at nauseam. It was actually smoother than the recreation you did but well let the audience judge in this hour. Great moment and breaking news and well use it. Thank you very much, my friend. Appreciate it, lawrence. Thank you, rachel. Well, people are dying in america because they cannot get tested for coronavirus and once agai
For a vaccine. U. S. Pharmaceutical giant pfizer has announced it has begun testing an experimental vaccine in humans in the u. S. , that, a crucial step, but a lot of steps involved with this. Lets get to elizabeth cohen. Lets begin on this modeling here. It is a model that the white house has relied on. And now it says in effect doubling the death rate, how do they get to that number . They look at what were doing, actually, jim. Thats what they look at. They say how much are we social distancing, how much are we staying at home, and if it looks like were not doing it as much as we used to, not a surprise, the number of deaths are going to go up. Lets take a look at those numbers. Also at a second model. So what this showed, this is from the university of washington, that model you referred to that the Trump Administration relied on, theyre saying more than is 134,000 deaths between now and august 4th previously they had said 72,433. Much of the reason for that difference, why is it
That comes tomorrow. And how many people will be covered. Administration officials today already downplaying the cbo scoring. Cbo has been a very adept in not providing appropriate coverage statistics. I love the folks at the cbo. They work really hard, they do, but sometimes we ask them to do something theyre not capable of doing. Estimating the cost of a bill this size is probably not the best use of their time. I dont want to see the House Majority put at risk on a big bill that is not going to pass the senate. If we get what weve got from ryan, obamacare lite, he will not have the votes. Vice president mike pence made his pitch for the law, in kentucky when he did that. The president is also expected to hit the road soon for this bill. Lets get the latest from monica alba at the white house. The question is, what might the president do . Reporter thats right, richard. Today is a pretty quiet sunday at the white house. We can expect the president to hit the road later this week and
Good evening on this saturday night. Hundreds of thousands of people on Six Continents and throughout the United States came out in support of science. It started as a discussion online after that historic womens march in january. They left the labs and lined the streets from new york to los angeles from San Francisco to washington, d. C. The objective was a nonpartisan endorsement of factbased research. The reality many of the marchers criticized the president for proposing budgets cuts to major research. President trump responded saying he is committed to science that depends not on ideology, but a spirit of inkwquiryinquiry. Reporter on this earth day, scientists around the world did what does not come naturally. They marched. Advoca advocating for discovery, facts and Public Policy based on scientific evidence. A Public Health researcher is one of the organizers at the main event in washington. The idea that science is being neglected when you build policy is ridiculous. Reporter a
Yeah. Even from 90 feet away, i guess i can smell them. This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor this is our western edition. Good evening. It was quite a scare today for dozens of republican members of congress. They were on their way to a policy retreat in West Virginia when their train hit a truck at a crossing. About 125 miles southwest of washington. Those who were able sprung into action to hospital the injured. Julianna goldman is on the scene in crozet, virginia. The amtrak train struck a truck on the tracks this morning. Arizona senator jeff flake was on board. We were going at a pretty good speed, and all of a sudden i heard, obviously, a loud crash and felt an impact and everybody around was kind of thrown around the train car. Reporter many of the lawmakers, including House Speaker paul ryan, were traveling with their families en route to a Luxury Resort in West Virginia for a threeday retreat. They immediately tweeted out details of the crash and photos, showing w