Leader and congressman john lewis. He was powerful. He was largerthanlife. He was a great man and he was tough as nails. Garrett outrage in portland over protests and federal arrests. And later, ford hopes for a stampede. The bronco rides again. This is the cbs weekend news. Garrett good evening, everyone, im Major Garrett in washington. Coronavirus continues to ravage the states where it has run rampant for weeks. California, texas, arizona and worst of all, florida. With more than 12,500 new infections there. Slightly lower than its july 12th record of 15,300. Not every infection, of course, leads to hospitalization or death. Many people do recover. But each positive test is disruptive to families, friends and businesses. And absent a significant reversal in trend, the nation appears to be headed for 100,000 new cases per day. This weekend we hit roughly 70,000 per day just as experts warned of rising infection rates in georgia, tennessee, missouri and kentucky. We begin tonight with
And fighting about the virus. President Trump Doubles down on his criticism of dr. Anthony fauci. Plus hear the Emotional Message from one father who survived the coronavirus. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. Ill be right eventually. I will be right, eventually. Its going to disappear. Ill say it again. Does that discredit and ill be right. Coronavirus continues to ravage the states where it has run rampant for weeks. When youre in the middle of a pandemic and you try and deal with it, there isnt anything worse that you have as someone who doesnt care about the science. The deadly attack on the family of a federal judge just days after she was assigned to a case involving jeffrey epstein. President trump weighing in on federal agencies response in portland. The president has a complete misunderstanding of cause and effect. I think mailin voting is going to rig the election. You will accept the election . I have to see. Look, i have to see. No, im not just g
Decision of the United States Supreme Court batting segregation in public transportation. My street mate on that Greyhound Bus you must understand in 1961 black people and white people could be seated together. When you get out of washington to travel to virginia to North Carolina, alabama, mississippi, wewere on our way to new orleans. So we didnt have any problems for the most part until we got to rockville. And a little place in charlotte North Carolina, it was a sizable city, a young africanamerican man attempted to get a shoeshine in a socalled white barbershop that was in a socalled white waiting room. He was arrested and taken to jail. The next day the jury dismissed the charges against him but my seatmate and two of us arrived at the Greyhound Bus station in South Carolina and a group of white men met us in the doorway and started beating us and left us lying in a pool of blood and the local officials came up and wanted to know whether we wanted to press charges andwe said no ,
Cases. Why we are now seeing nearly double the infections from our highest point back in april. Cancer fights. Word that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg is undergoing treatment for what is her fifth bout with cancer in two decades. What shes saying aboutler future on the high court. And Capital Improvements as a nfl team searches for a new identity. We take you inside the rebranding process with a veteran in the field of sports rebranding. First, a look the todays eye opener, your world in 90 secon secon seconds. Be patient and wait, we do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now. Longtime congressman and civil rights icon john lewis has passed away. When people tell me not to change, i feel like saying come and walk in my shoes. I will show you. I will take you to those places. Reporter across the u. S. , covid cases continue to skyrocket. We feel cautiously optimistic. As bleak as it may sound right now that we are on the road to getting there under contro
Whats being done to modernize the library of congress. We heard testimony from dr. Carla hayden, the librarian of congress. This is a little more than an hour. [inaudible] who also chairs the appropriated committee for library and i think thats particularly helpful that you could be here as well. Also a member of this committee so shes here as a of the committee but also on these topics, particularly fallible in her role as appropriate. We have been having with the library, with the smithsonian, with the architect of the capitol these kinds of oversight hearings to fulfill that responsibility and be sure were giving the agencies to help they need. Were glad to be here of course with the librarian, dr. Carla hayden, with mr. Barton, the chief Information Officer and your temple, the register of copyrights. Thank all of you for being here today. I think we want to talk primarily police i want to talk primarily about monetization. We had a chance with dr. Hayden at the last meeting to tal