Made history. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell. Reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening. And thank you for joining us. We want to begin tonight with a huge leap forward in the development of a vaccine against coronavirus. Volunteers all across the country including a member of our own cbs news family began getting shots today as part of the final phase of testing for an experimental vaccine being developed by the nih and the drug company moderna. Tens of thousands of americans are needed for the trial and test sites are spread out across the south and west which tonight florida now has morehvi total infections than new york, which was once the epicenter of the crisis. Among those cases, 14 members of the Miami Marlins who have now tested positive forcing two Major League Baseball games to be postponed and calling into question the season. We also learned today that the virus has once again spread into the west wing. The white house says robert obrien,
Positive. Covid hits the west wing. The president S National Security advisor is now the highest ranking u. S. Official to test positive. Was President Trump exposed . Hanna hammers texas. Tonight southern texas still reeling from the effects of hurricane hanna, as thousands are without power. Breaking news, cbs news has learned at least 100 more federal agents are standing by to be deployed to portland, oregon, amid unrest there. Honoring john lewis, tonight the first africanamerican lawmaker to lie in state at the u. S. Capitol rotunda. Amazing grace odonnell his last journey through washington. And tonight, wait until you meet the motherdaughter md, the inspiring family who graduated med school in the same year and just made history. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell, reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. We want to begin tonight with a huge leap forward in the development of a vaccine agains
Flow, t thint jst rainwater, ia toxic mix raw sewage from neighboring tiajuana, draining into Southern California on lower ground, eventually emptying into the pacific ocean. So it effectively its like a toilet flushing straight into ticking has anyone ever brought back something from mars . No. It will be the first roundtrip adventure to any other planet. Four previous mars rovers have paved the way for this mission. The last rover, named curiosity, has been exploring and sending back images like this for eight years, but perseverance is the first rover that will be able to look for evidence of ancient life and collect samples that nasa plans to bring back to earth. That does not sound possible. ticking im lesley stahl. Im Bill Whitaker. Im Anderson Cooper. Im sharyn alfonsi. Im scott pelley. Those stories, tonight, on 60 minutes. ticking this portion of 60 minutes is sponsored by progressive insurance. Save when you bundle auto, home, or motorcycle insurance. Visit progressive. Com.
New scenes from a packed United Airlines flight raising extreme health fears for heroic ucsf returning to San Francisco after helping fight the pandemic on the front line. This morning the group is back home from new york city, now telling their stories, saying their return flight was one of thinking biggest fears. Well get to that in a second but happy mothers day to you. Lets start with a peek of our mothers day forecast. Happy mothers day, lisa argen. Happy mothers day to you, liz. We want to show you whats on the way, but today we keep. W highs in 60s near oakland. Mild day. Already in the low 60s with the sun shining in concord. 70 on the bay and chilly at the coast. We will track those showers coming up. Liz . Sounds good. Thanks, lisa. Now to packed cabin controversy this morning. Is new york city doctors fresh off fighting the coronavirus at the new york City Hospitals on a return flight home that should have been a warm welcome was a fully packed cabin, as you can see. No soci
Thats something to behold. Its hadding the lowest level since march of 1999. Right now well take a quick look at my board, which is current. I can see it down 4. 13 i say that because ive been practicing waiting 12 seconds to get a quote on something that im trying to give you instantaneously. Now im back on the nasdaq and i can actually see it. The coronavirus pandemic has sapped demand for oil and global storage is rapidly proefing capacity the world is running out of room on ships anchored at sea the may futures contract for wti expires tomorrow looking out to june, the situation isnt quite as dire. Its back to more of what were used to, kind of, at least in the last couple of weeks as you can see there, june delivery under 23 a share meantime, an update now on the pandemic as we bring you the numbers as we do every single morning. Here are the latest numbers. Global cases topping 2. 4 million now with 165,000 deaths. Now, the u. S. Cases nearing 760,000 with more than 40,000 deaths