Unsurvivable. Lets get straight to jay gray live in lake charles, louisiana, in the direct path of this storm. Jay, i know its going to be tough to hear us and we probably have a little delay. What are you seeing right now . Richard, intensity of this storm really picking up as it approaches the shoreline and moves closer to lake charles. We had severe rain gusts. Wind picking up as well. That storm surge, we are told from the National Hurricane center they expect a surge of to feet or more. A wall of water moving inland and it could push 30 miles inland or more. That would put it on the other side of interstate 10 and really in the middle of lake charles here. What have we seen, trees are down, the power went out about 15 minutes here and we expect if thats the situation were getting a pretty good gust it will continue to develop as these conditions get much more intense through the night. Were going to see the eye wall of this storm, the front eye wall which is going to be the rough
What point they are able to make it role. Here is the white house statement on this. The president takes the health and safety of himself and everyone who works in support of him and the American People very seriously. White house operations collaborates with the physician to the president and the White House Military Office to ensure all plans and procedures incorporate current cdc guidance and best practices for limiting covid19 exposure to the greatest extent possible both on complex and when the president is traveling. That is a lot of words to explain away what we know. This president is cavalier when he goes to rallies about whether people should have masks, about socially distancing. He supposedly had his staff doing things the right way because he was worried about himself and they get tested all the time and they do Contact Tracing when there is a case. But hope hicks is often seen without a mask and now our president at a time during an election has been in close proximity to
Plus, how did one teenager infect 11 people across four states . Three weeks to go President Trump plays defense tonight in pennsylvania, where he won four years ago but now trails in the polls, while joe biden puts the focus on florida. The fight tonight for the senior vote. Voter suppression . Long lines in the Lone Star State as early voting begins. And we introduce you to one texas couple who had to drive 35 miles to turn in their ballots. Why a county larger than rhode island only has one dropoff box. Only on cbs news Breonna Taylors boyfriend Kenneth Walker speaks to gayle king. And after the curtain fell on inperson performances how one theater is proving all the worlds a stage. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening and thank you for joining us. There are several developing stories as we come on the air, including two significant setbacks tonight in the search for a cure for coronavirus. Just as cases are spik
Seen throughout this pandemic, 46 in south dakota. What does that mean . That means if you test 100 people, 46 of them have come back positive. It should be below 3 . More importantly it means youre not watching nearly enough of the people out there who are positive. Now, i use this example, hopefully it makes sense, but i think we talked about this before on your program. If youre going fishing with a net and you put your net down and pull the net up and you just have one fish, what do you think . Theres probably not a lot of fish in this area. If you put your net down and have a lot of fish in your net you think theres probably a lot of other fish out there that im missing. You can think of pos tifts rates the same way. 46 Positivity Rate in south dakota means there are a lot more people out there who are not getting tested, not getting counted, have the virus, dont know it and are continuing to spread. Thats the problem. Thats when you start to see this exponential growth. People Pa
When all in starts right now. Good evening from new york. Im chris hayes. On january 6th of this year, shortly after noon, news leaks that Merrick Garland would be getting a huge new job. Two sources familiar tell my colleague mike memoli and me says President Biden selected Merrick Garland to serve as his attorney general. He is widely viewed that can be a Unifying Force within the department of justice trying to restore public faith in that institution and restoring morale within it. Garland, of course everyone knew, went through a historic snubbing in 2016 after then president obama nominated him to fill antonin scalias seat on the supreme court. They refused to meet with garland, not to hold hearings or a vote on his nomination. On january 6 the redemption story began. He was going to be joe bidens choice for attorney general. Then an hour or two later, the rest of that days awful events unfolded, overshadowing the new potential a. G. And now here we are, nearly two months later, g