I have been for more than ten year, never seen patients as sick as patients with covid. Yuccas in san diego an explosion aboard a navy ship, multiple fire crews battle the blaze. And later. Ladies and gentlemen. Yuccas how one man is turning the pandemic into the best show on the block. Hands down. Now go out and be happy. This is the cbs weekend news. Yuccas good evening, im jamie yuccas in los angeles. There is new evidence tonight america is struggling badly against the coronavirus pandemic. Several states set new infection record this weekend. The nations death toll now top. That number is fueled by esr two weeks. Hs in these 21 the pandemic is also reshaping the president ial race. New cbs news polling released today from three hot spot states, arizona, florida and texas, finds the majority of voters believe things in america are going badly. In those same states more than 50 of voters say the president s handling of coronavirus is bad. This as the Trump Administration today renew
Yuccas in san diego an explosion aboard a navy ship, multiple fire crews battle the blaze. And later. Ladies and gentlemen. Yuccas how one man is turning the pandemic into the best show on the block. Hands down. Now go out and be happy. Be this is the cbs weekend news. Yuccas good evening, im jamie yuccas in los angeles. There is new evidence tonight america is struggling badly against the coronavirus pandemic. Several states set new infection record this weekend. The nations death toll now tops 135,000. That number is fueled by increasing deaths in these 21 states over the last two weeks. The pand is reshaping the president ial race. New cbs news polling released today from three hot spot states, arizona, florida and texas, finds the majority of voters believe things in america are going badly. In those same states more than 50 of voters say the president s handling of coronavirus is bad. This as the Trump Administration today renewed its push to reopen schools. Nikole killion is at t
Additional support has been provided by and by the corporation for public broadcasting, and by contributions to your pbs station from viewers like you. Thank you. From the tisch wnet studios at Lincoln Center in new york, hari sreenivasan. Sreenivasan good evening and thanks for joining us. After a ninemonth offensive, the americanbacked iraqi army won the battle for mosul today. They ousted isis fighters from the city it had held for three years. Soldiers waved iraqi flags and celebrated in the streets, even though sporadic resistance by cornered isis militans continues. It was safe enough for iraqs Prime Minister Haider Alabadi to go to mosul and announce its liberation and congratulate troops on their victory. This victory has had its costs. Iraqi Army Casualties were high the army wont reveal figures, but the pentagon has said the elite unit that spearheaded the offensive suffered 40 losses. In addition, thousands of iraqi civilians died, so many trapped in what was iraqs second mo
Rolling into the afternoon, we are expecting popup showers and thunderstorms, and overall, similar to what we had yesterday, and at times we will see the coverage increase, especially for the 5 00, 6 00 hour, and we will carry the rain chance into the evening as well. The breakdown for this saturday. 79degrees this morning, 90 this afternoon, and again, heavy downpours will be possible as we head into the of summer. Next week, looking like changes down the road as we approach. If i will show you in a few minutes, melissa. We begin with breaking news in philadelphia. Two Police Officers and four others were shot overnight an ambushstyle attack. One officer was shot 8 times in her patrol car. The man fired shots into a car, the leg. The shooter grabbed a random woman using her as a shield. He then shot her in the leg. He got into a shootout with Police Officers and shot a man and woman in the chest. Investigators found an slope that was marked doomed. They have since opened it to identif
By then, two others and four shot. Why the gunman may have gone on the rampage. And controversial ceremony. Joe paterno set to be honored at penn state. But it is under scrutiny by those who say he stayed silent about the Jerry Sandusky scandal. And rocket man. A nearly impossible stunt nearly 40 years in the a daredevil following in evel knievels footsteps. Tries to complete the snake river jump that evel knievel could not pull off in the 70s. Can he do it . The stunt you have to see, today, saturday, september 17th. Announcer from nbc news, this is today. Live from studio 1a in saturday morning. Im craig melvin alongside dylan dreyer and sheinelle jones. Stephanie ruhle has the day off. And the story of redemption. It was. I usually dont like watching those things happen. It was an attempt at redemption for the engineer. The guy who designed evel knievels back the chute opened early. The guys son used the same design this time around. It makes it better. Stay tuned. We will have more