Can president of the National Union of students and cofounder of students not suspect me about here joins me now by skype from laden in the netherlands thank you so much for coming on malea so as i said here stamina and Boris Johnson the Prime Minister condemning those who brought down that monument celebrating a slave trader in bristol what did you make of it i think so you. Choose to use air time at a time when the government has effectively waged war continues to wait for brown and black bodies through its cut to the National Health service through systematic rejection oppression exploitation of communities of color have led to the astronomical debt that we have seen amongst those communities and event forced the. Choir on it and start instead of using this time to read mobilize from below to ensure that this government never gets reelected again in order to. To continue bolstering and strengthening the very policies that continue to kill black people and to dehumanize them he uses
Are reopening. One model just out tonight is nearly doubling its estimates from 72,000 deaths to 135,000 deaths by august. Another estimate, this one from a private trump adminisncumen se to r0and ta a look at t in just two months, deaths in the u. S. From the virus have skyrocketed from 11 on march 4th to more than 8,000 on april 4th. And as we come on the air tonight, the death toll now stands at more than 68,000. All of this as the fight over social distancing is growing and in some places turning violent. Federal prosecutors say a colorado man who had been planning to attend a stayathome protest was caught with pipe bombs in his home, and in flint, michigan, three people are under arrest for murdering a guard at a store. Police say he asked one of them to wear a mask. Still even more states are loosening restrictions, including california where the governor just said some Retail Stores could start reopening on friday. So theres a lot of news to get to tonight. I have team of corres
Tensions between washington and beijing sky high. Tonight President Trump threatens to retaliate. Emotional return. A First Responder who came out n retirement to help new york is flown back home after he fell victim to the virus. Racing to a cure a Major International summit looks to fast track possible vaccines. So why didnt the u. S. Show up . Plus a new Antibody Test gets the emergency green light from the f. D. A. , but can these tests really tell if we are immune to the virus . And we have a new series looking ahead to mothers day. Tonight how a chef and her mom bonded in the kitchen and the new challenge they face in the pandemic. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin tonight with two stunning new projections that the death toll thom coronavirus in the u. S. Could drastically increase in the coming weeks just as states are reopening. One model just out tonight i
welcome to our viewers on pbs in america and around the globe. fbi director christopher ray says it s most likely covid 19 emerged from the chinese government controlled laboratory in wuhan. in response, china has accused the fbi politicising the investigation into the origins of coronavirus and says there has been no new scientific evidence to support the theory. other us agencies believe the virus developed naturally. 0ur north america correspondent john sud worth reports. suspicions have long swirled around wuhan s laboratories. now three years after the start of the pandemic, they have burst out into the open once again. the fbi has for quite some time now assessed that the origins of the pandemic are most likely a potential lab incident in wuhan. here, you are talking about a potential leak from a chinese government controlled lab that killed millions of americans. from the start, many scientists believed that covid had passed naturally from animals to humans. some of th
Fernandez. Its sadness, anger, pretty much everything you could possibly think of. Theres not one certain emotion that you feel. Reporter banners were also placed on the ground where people could grieve and express themselves. There are two banners, one to thank our First Responders and another banner to express condolences and love for the victims of this shooting and love for the community really. Reporter as Emergency Responders removed the last of the dead from the pulse nightclub, detectives begin reconstructing the movements of omar mateen, accused of committing this countrys worst mass shooting. This morning relatives began arriving at a Senior Center to learn their loved ones fate. My brother frank hernandez. We just wander to know that hes okay we just want to know anything. Reporter what prompted mateen to commit the atrocity is unclear. Hes been described as violent, mentally unstable withdrawn and religious but was he a radical or simply a man with an intense homophobia . O