Disease expert calling recent white house attacks on him bizarre and urges his critics to stop this nonsense. Back to school fears. A teacher in texas says she is writing her will before she returns to her classroom this fall. Tonight which states are and arent reopening their schools. Racing to a cure. The encouraging news about Modernas Covid vaccine. But tonight new questions about how long the immunity lasts. Floyds fi first time reporters get access to body cam video from two of the officers charged in George Floyds death. What the new evidence shows. And the 90yearold who climbed a mountain without ever leav her house. 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. We are going to begin tonight as we unfortunately so often do, with more records being shattered nationwide, and another startling projection of how many people will likely be killed by the coronavirus
A National Record of 59000 cases in just one day one day across the United States one of the worst hit areas by far is the state of florida it is contributing 9000 cases a day. Or put a different way 15 percent of all cases nationally in fact just this morning that jumped to 11000 a day which would make it 19 percent if my math is correct of all the cases nationally 19 percent of all the cases are coming from florida consider this florida is just one of 50 states in the United States so thats a pretty big share there has been a suggestion that large numbers by themselves they dont really matter the president for example he said the numbers are only going up because more people are being tested floridas governor he also minimise the reason for alarm stressing that those that are being infected right now are just young people and young people tend to not need hospital care. Half the cases are in their early thirties or below and in then of the ones that are over that theres a huge bulk o
Military vessel and that he doesnt think its there for the reason that were being given and he wanted to warn the entire world about this he says his train plowed as you could see right there under a highway overpass thank god it skidded to a stop just before hitting the ship. I want to do something for you now National Mental Health Officials are advising all of us to look out for each other at this time theres a telephone number that i want to give you right now this is the u. S. National help hotline this is the number that you should call if youre having a tough time dealing with this particular situation and you want to call them its 180662 help 18066 to help thats the u. S. Government National Help Hotline for Mental Health issues meanwhile theres another breaking story that were following for you right now this one involves 2 cruise ships off the coast of florida that are said to have as many as 100 or more passengers who may be ill there is at least one passenger who has alread
Being given and he wanted to warn the entire world about this his train theres the picture plowed under a highway bypass a train thankfully it skidded to a stop just before it hit the ship now we should tell you this National Mental Health Officials are advising all of us to look out for each other at this time im going to give you a number if youre watching us in the states this is the national u. S. Help hotline if you need help or know somebody who does Mental Health heres the number to call 180180662 help 180662 help meanwhile heres another breaking story that were following for you right now this one involves 2 cruise ships off the coast of florida that are said to have as many as a 1000 or more passengers. We dont know the exact number of them that are ill but it may be somewhere between 50. 100 at this point that are sick on the ship and some that have died still on the ship. At least one passenger who died has already been taken to the morgue state and local officials have been
Delivers. I cant tell you what was going through my mind. I just know she had to come out. This is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im anthony mason. Hurricane irma may be gone, but it is still taking lives. At least eight elderly residents of a nursing home in hollywood, florida, have died. The storm knocked out the electricity, leaving them to swelter without air conditioning. Now a criminal investigation is under way. Heres Jonathan Vigliotti. Reporter by midmorning the elderly men and women were carried out of the nursing home on stretchers and in wheelchairs. Many looked dazed. They had apparently been inside the hot building since the power went out three days ago, some dying, others in obvious physical distress. Family members arrived on the scene frantically looking for their loved ones. I just want to know if, god forbid, hes one of the ones that passed away. I have no idea where hes at. Reporter this woman found her 96yearold mother alive. She worried about the 90deg