News with norah odonnell, odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin with the rising death toll and utter sevastation caused by hurricane laura, which barreled across the louisiana and texas coastlines overnight, leaving entire towns under water, plowing over neighborhoods and killing at least six, including a 14year old girl. Along the coast, the destruction goes on for miles. From above you can see whats left of cameron, louisiana, where the storm came ashore, sending a storm surge more than 10 feet high over homes and businesses and tossing mobile homes and cars blocks from where they once t. Lauras 150mileperhour winds also ripped across much of the state overnight, leaving rooftops shredded and tearing homes from their foundations. Nearly a Million People are without power in the region tonight, and rescue crews are still working to make their way through some of the hardest hit areas. In west lake, louisiana, thick, toxic smoke is still billowing f
Extraordinary walkout by thel. B. Major league soccer, all in protest of the shooting of jacob blake. Tonight, cbs james brown talks to players and coaches demanding m. L. B. And soccer. Change. The Mets Dominic Smith people still dont care. Odonnell the president s big night. The Convention Speech on the White House South Lawn in front of a crowd of more than 1,000. Why Kamala Harris is on the attack tonight about how the president has handled the coronavirus pandemic. Donald trump froze. He was scared. Odonnell testing breakthrough. A 5 covid rapid test wins the president orders 150 million as the u. S. Death toll climbs to 180,000. And, the wedding was canceled, so the bride and groom brought the reception to a shelter for women and children. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin with the rising death toll and utter devastation caused
With a boycott during the playoffs. Speaking up. Pandemic politics. Vice president pence paints a positive picture of the president s Coronavirus Response at the Republican National convention. What this says about how the gop thinks it can win. But first, heres todays eyeopener. Its your world in 90 seconds. Welcome to cbs this morning. Theres a lot going on. Are we going back to the eyeopener. Welcome back to cbs this morning. This is one of those rare days where anthony, as you know, there are so many things going on at the same time. Thats what i was trying to say. We could have had several leads. Theyre all very, very troubling. Well begin with the one everybody is talking about at this hour. Hurricane laura. The country, as you know, being tested in many ways. First we have a coronavirus, an economic csis and weve got a reckoning on systemic race sichl. Now were being tested again by one of the strongest storms ever to hit the u. S. The last thing anybody needs. Her name is hurri
Shooting, when with life threatening injuries. Police are sharing this video and asking the public for help with the case. Turning to californias fight against coronavirus, 12,800 people tested positive in just the past 24 hours, a single day record for the state which also reported an additional 115 deaths. Kenny is in synthesis go. He has the latest numbers. Reporter the numbers that you just mentioned are a ality check erthe ste of califo thfight against covid19, the milestone comes as the state Just Announced that it has added one more to the county watchlist. A semblance of normalcy. The governor highlighted something. I want to highlight the president not wearing a mask, and sending a message. Surpassing new york with more than 409,000 confirmed cases over a population of 40 million, the size of 41 states combined. It is a warning, it is important to sound the alarm, it does not mean cases are going up per person. The california per capita case rate is half that of new york, the
Instead of big tech we should be thinking about small tech how do we fund say acknowledges that are just tools for people not surveillance devices we need to start having these conversations and not just in reaction to the latest leak or the latest app that has a privacy issue that you know blows up on twitter we Start Talking about this is a systemic issue. Judge in new york has decided to finance here Jeffrey Epstein must stay in jail while awaiting trial the 66 year old is charged with sex trafficking dobsons of underage girls the judge said epstein who is who was once close to to donald trump is a flight risk now to his ownership of a jet and 2 private islands. Argentina has designated hezbollah as a terrorist organization and blames a Lebanese Movement for 2 attacks on its soil and the announcement coincided with a visit by the u. S. Secretary of state like. Well as ours is marking the 25th anniversary of the bombing of the Jewish Center that killed 85 people there as a bow has th