Will begin with President Trump on the campaign trail and on the attack. Not against his opponent but the countrys top Infectious Disease experts. In a series of insults on twitter, he said he is a disaster and called fauci and other experts idiots, with just 15 days until the election and down in the polls in nearly every battleground state, tonight the president appears intent on minimizing the onavirusrus pandemic, telling Campaign Staffers that americans are tired of hearing about the virus and just want it to be left alone. But the president s comments come as the countrys leading Public Health experts are now warning that the next three months will be the worst of the pandemic. Nationwide the number of new single day infections has reached a new high. Since this summer and hospitalizations are up in 39 states. Tonight in a cbs news exclusive were inside one of the hardest hit hospitals in wisconsin, a state where new infections have exploded and where doctors are struggling to ke
Discrimination and a lack of diversity. How they say it affects civil rights investigations and the fight to stop injustice. And honoring van halen. Guitar god Eddie Van Halen dies, leaving an historic legacy of sound and fury. What his groundbreaking technique meant to his disciples and his fans. Ah, nobody like him. But first, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. This virus doesnt care what Political Party you belong to. It infects us all. It will take anyones life. Its a virus. President trumps Senior Adviser, Stephen Miller, is the latest in the white house to contract covid19. He has been selfquarantining for five days, but nevertheless, tested positive based on a prior exposure. But look, were taking all necessary precautions. After calling off talks for covid relief aid, President Trump now says that he wants to approve relief funds. The bipartisan spirit seems to have dissipated as weve gotten closer and closer to the election. The chairman of the joint chiefs
Capital. Odonnell good evening. And thank you for joining us. We are going to begin with tonights first president ial debate in what could now be the defining moment in a campaign that seems to have already had more than a few of them. More than 100 million americans are expected to watch President Trump and former Vice President Joe Biden Square off, the first facetoface meeting between the two men in four years. And after months of lobbing longdistance attacks, aides for both candidates say tonight the gloves and the masks will be off, in what both sides expect could be a deeply personal and contentious matchup. Joe biden is playing Office Sharing his 2019 tax returns with reporters, after the president is dogged with new revelations over how little income tax he has paid in two decades. Both men arrive amid the backdrop of a Global Pandemic which has cost more than 205,000 americans their lives, hammered the u. S. Economy, and upended daily routines, like going to work and school. T
Air, including President Trumps refusal to participate in next weeks debate after it was changed to a virtual town hall. And that new forecast for hurricane delta, which is now bearing down on the gulf coast, as a category 3 storm. But we are going to begin tonight with the breaking news out of michigan as state and federal investigators say theyve broken up this elaborate domestic terror plot designed to overthrow michigans government and kidnap or kill Governor Gretchen Whitmer while she was way on vacation. Now, in an indictment that reads like a movie script, they met in prosecutors say members of a Militia Group met in secret underground room and use the encrypted communication communio hatch their plans, raising money online and training with firearms and explosives over the summer. Prosecutors say this group was angered by whitmer after she refused to loosen statewide coronavirus restrictions this year. Tonight, Governor Whitmer, who fire from President Trump for her response to
Breaking news. Those urgent new red flag warnings in Northern California as a dangerous and deadly blaze there is growing by the minute, at times throwing fire 20 feet into the air. At least four people have died, and more than 80,000 have already been evacuated. And there are fears tonight that gusty winds will now push the already fastmoving flames toward even more towns in the napa valley. Whats now being called the glass fire has been tearing through californias wine country since sunday, wiping out as many as a dozen wineries there. And with temperatures now a recordbreaking 23 degrees above average, firefighters worry that conditions will only get worse in the coming days. Now, that fire is just one of two dozen now burning across california, torching thousand of homes and businesses as it turns memories into piles of ash. Theres a lot of new reporting to get to tonight on our broadcast. Weve got a team of correspondents covering it all. Cbs Jonathan Vigliotti is going to lead of