Pollution. From protective gear to takeout containers, theres a new flood of plastic debris in fields and waterways across the world. Well talk to some of those raising the alarm and address the problem. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. It has been able to strengthen. And you see all the rainfall over the bahamas. We have some outer bands already beginning to move into portions of south florida. Reporter the hurricane is moving closer to the u. S. Shoreline. In fact, theres a couple of landfalls possible. Behind isais more is forming. Reporter the president will take action to ban tiktok. We may be banning tiktok. Reporter coronavirus surging, more than 4. 5 Million People have been infected. We feel cautiously optimistic that we will have a vaccine by the end thereof year. This is going to be the latest election disaster in history. Mr. Trump making inaccurate claims about voting by mail. Wants to cancel or postpone the election.
Is not just costing jobs but leaving millions without Health Insurance. Half of americans gets their insurance through work. Michelle miller has one mans story. What does it mean . Some days you want to go to the doctor and see what else is wrong with you but you cant. Rodney watts was working at atlantas p hartsfield jackson. It was bad. Ive been working since i was 14. Not havingle Health Insurance, im a type ii diabetic. Reporter hes been paying for his insulin with unemployment benefits. It costs around 400 a month. He was hospitalized after a lump was discovered on his struggle. Weve that go away, i dont know. Reporter the Kaiser Family foundation estimates that about 27 million americans are at risk of losing coverage during the pandemic. Were seeing an unprecedented loss in jobs and whats going to come along with that is unfortunately the loss of insurance as well. Reporter Larry Leavitt is the Vice President of health policy. Its never a good thing to lose your Health Insurance
Trapped by floodwaters. See how total strangers put their lives on the line to get them out of danger. First, we begin this morning with a look at todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. This is a flood economically and healthwise of biblical proportion, and our republican friends are lookin like they just want to fix a leaky faucet. Reporter with stimulus talks collapsing in congress, President Trump says he is prepared to take executive action. If democrats continue to hold this critical relief hostage, i will act under my authority as president to get americans the relief they need. Reporter the u. S. Has broken yet another unthinkable record. More than 160,000 people in the u. S. Have now been killed by the coronavirus. We have to remain vigilant. Were doing very well, but we have to remain vigilant. Reporter warning of a humanitarian disaster in lebanon with widespread medicine and Food Shortages after this weeks explosion. Reporter a u. S. Top intelligence official is warnin
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