A cancer diagnosis on social media. Good morning. Good to be with you. Im annemarie green. We are going to begin this morning with a change in the final president ial debate. The president and joe biden will face off in nashville in two days. A new rule aimed to prevent interruptions. Nancy chen is in washington. Whats changing and how are the candidates reacting to the change . Reporter annemarie, good morning to you. The first and only president ial debate was characterized by chaos and frequent disruptions by President Trump. Debate organizers are hoping for more order as we head into thursday nights debate. After a combative first matchup, the commission is making a change for this thursdays event. The radical left. Will you shut up, man. Reporter at the start of each segment, both candidates can talk for two minutes while the others microphone is shut off. For the remainder no one will be muted. Last night President Trump attacked moderator kristin welker. When i found hersheys be
Decapitated apparently because of what he taught in class. Details on the teenage suspect shot dead at the scene and why nine others are now under arrest. And just the facts. With 17 days until the election, we check in with the premier team of factcheckers who follow the president and other politicians to let you know whats true and whats not. But first, we begin with a look at todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. All the northern countries in europe, theyre already well into the fall winter surge. And thats whats heading our way. The worst is still to come. The number of u. S. Cases of coronavirus topped 8 million so far. Nearly 219,000 americans have died from the virus. Some of the media doesnt like hearing it. But i say it all the time. Were rounding that turn. All President Trump does is fan the flames of hatred and division. President trump and joe biden spent the day in battleground states. Imagine if i lose, what am i going to do . I lost to the worst candidate in the
We present the four candidates. Nearly 300 people have already cast ballots, but many more will do so in a early absentee voting or at the polls. This is an opportunity to try to get clarity about the candidates and where they stand. We had planned to hold this in person and were set up to do so , however with the senate still in session, senator collins cannot be there in person. When we should that news with the other candidates sara , gideons Campaign Said she would not appear in person if collins did not, so we have moved to a virtual gathering. Our candidates are Susan Collins, the democratic speaker of the house sara gideon, max linn and lisa savage. I will be posing questions to the candidates and each will have one minute to answer and followup discussion will be at my discretion. Each candidate will have an opportunity to ask a question of another candidate and each candidate will have one minute for a closing statement. Senator collins, i will begin with you, Mitch Mcconnell
This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. This is the cbs evening news ith norah odonnell, reporting odonnell good evening and thank you for joining us, were going to begin tonight with a possible breakthrough in the development of a coronavirus vaccine. Just as the country is entering a dangerous and deadly new phase of the pandemic. In a surprise announcement, the drug maker pfizer said its vaccine is 90 effective and it could be ready for approval in weeks. Well, that sent the dow soaring closing up more than 800 points. Its a glimmer of hope in what president elect biden is now calling a very dark winter ahead. One of his new advisors bluntly called it covid hell. And as we come on the air cases re growing at sucgrowing at such an alarming and exponential rate, tonight the u. S. Has topped 10 million infections, that is more than a million new cases since the end of october. And with the death toll rising again in cities like el paso now
Next by are joined katie keith with georgetown university, the center on Health Insurance reform. She is also an adjunct professor of law at the law school at georgetown. Thank you for joining us. Katie thank you for having me. Host here to talk about the latest Supreme Court and the most significant Supreme Court on the Affordable Care act. Give us the shorthand version of legally, how we arrived at this point. Katie to understand this case, we have to go back in time a little bit to 2012 and then 2017. If folks remember back to 2012, that was the first time the Supreme Court upheld the Affordable Care act. Chief Justice John Roberts held that the individual mandate could not be sustained under the commerce clause, but it could be sustained as a tax. It walks, talks, cracked like attacks. Quacks like a tax. Fastforward to 2017, republicans controlled both chambers of congress. Timespent much of their trying to repeal as much of the Affordable Care act as possible. It led to multiple h