Ok, everybody take a seat. Democrats. G welcome to virginia blue commonwealth gala. This is important, so i want yall to listen up. Before we get started tonight, listen up. We talkportant that about the pain and sorrow suffered on may 31 in Virginia Beach. Here in virginia, and across the country, we are all too familiar with this pain. Action to stop the scorch of gun violence. And we will take it immediately. We will honor the 12 members of our Virginia Beach community, who we love. Who we love, with our actions. I agree with the governor, he said bots and prayers are not enough. We need action. Room, i dot, in this ask for we have a lot of people from the Virginia Beach community with us tonight, please stand. I asked that you all please stand with them and follow the solidarity for a moment of silence in their memory. Thank you. Crowd. This there are 1800 democrats here tonight. [cheers and applause] one for every democrat running for president. [laughter] in all seriousness, help
Ok, everybody take a seat. Democrats. G welcome to virginia blue commonwealth gala. This is important, so i want yall to listen up. Before we get started tonight, listen up. We talkportant that about the pain and sorrow suffered on may 31 in Virginia Beach. Here in virginia, and across the country, we are all too familiar with this pain. Action to stop the scorch of gun violence. And we will take it immediately. We will honor the 12 members of our Virginia Beach community, who we love. Who we love, with our actions. I agree with the governor, he said bots and prayers are not enough. We need action. Room, i dot, in this ask for we have a lot of people from the Virginia Beach community with us tonight, please stand. I asked that you all please stand with them and follow the solidarity for a moment of silence in their memory. Thank you. Crowd. This there are 1800 democrats here tonight. [cheers and applause] one for every democrat running for president. [laughter] in all seriousness, help
This is important. Address theant we pain and sorrow suffered may 31 in Virginia Beach. Here in virginia and across the country, we are all too familiar with this pain. We will take action to stop the scorch of gun violence. [cheers and applause] of gun vi. And we will take it immediately. We will honor the 12 members of our Virginia Beach community, who we love. Who we love, with our actions. I agree with the governor, he said bots and prayers are not enough. We need action. Room, i dot, in this ask for we have a lot of people from the Virginia Beach community with us tonight, please stand. I asked that you all please stand with them and follow the solidarity for a moment of silence in their memory. Thank you. Crowd. This there are 1800 democrats here tonight. [cheers and applause] one for every democrat running for president. [laughter] in all seriousness, help me say it one more time. There are 1800 fired up democrats in this room. [cheers and applause] the state of the Democratic P
Announcer ladies and gentlemen, 2005 Kennedy Center honoree tony bennett. new york state of mind playing we came of age with the legacy of the Great American songbook, created by. George gershwin. Jerome kern. The great cole porter. And interpreted by frank sinatra, ella fitzgerald, nat king cole, and then myself. laughter the whole world loves these songs. But times change, and there was an opening for another songbook. Enter billy joel. applause billys an exciting performer who can move and electrify audiences. He does it singing the songs of billy joel. Great songs on subjects from love to war, from triumph and to loss. And stories about ordinary people with extraordinary emotions. And he puts them to tunes that you cant get out of your head. What a thrill it was for me to perform with billy in front of 110,000 of our fellow new yorkers at shea stadium, singing his new york state of mind. Billy joel. applause chuckles wow. Billy joel is no less than a poet, a performer, a philosophe
Captioning sponsored by cbs ptioning sponsored this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. With s pelley good evening. He changed the world. You cant say that about many people. But you can say that about Nelson Mandela. The man who lead south africas peaceful transition out of apartheid and became the countrys first black president. He died today at the age of 95. Mandela had been battling a lung infection for many months. Right after its official announcement tonight mourners began gathering at mandelas home in johannesburg to sing his praises. We have extensive coverage of Nelson Mandelas life and legacy. First well go to deborah in johannesburg tonight, deborah, how has this unfolded for us this evening . Reporter well, scott, for 26 weeks South Africans have lived with the knowledge that Nelson Mandela was gravely ill. First the three month hospitalization and then he was sent to his home to see out his final days because there was nothing more doctor could do for him. A few d