News with Norah Odonnell, his wife, lillian, who died in reporting tonight from atlanta. 2012, and on a night thawe back at how the couple odonnell good evening and thank you for joining us on this historic night here in atlanta, lived it for more than four decades. The longtime home of civil rights icon john lewis. For 44 years, john lewis had a were standing in front of the strong presence at his side, his Ebenezer Baptist church where today former president s, the wife, lillian. Though it may not have been love speaker of the house, and at first sight, says xernona friends and family all came clayton, who introduced them. Together to say good bye. I asked her what did she think of john . The Senior Pastor here called she said, i guess hes all lewis a true American Patriot right . Who loved america until america learned to love him back. That wasnt good enough for me. I said, i gotta work on this three former president s spoke, one. But it was president obama who odonnell when they m
Florida breaking its coronavirus death toll record for the third day in a row. Former republican president ialch after he attended a trump rally in tulsa. The u. S. Economy craters, a key indicator plunging by nearly 33 , the steepest quarterly dive on record. And that 600 federal boost is about to run out with no relief deal in sight. On the heels of that dire economic report and sinking poll numbers, President Trump tonight floating the idea of delaying the president ial election. Members of his own party saying not so fast. Breaking news a possible hurricane could target florida this weekend, and the east coast early next week. The new projected track just in. And finally, the remarkable love story of john and lillian lewis. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell, reporting tonight from atlanta. Odonnell good evening and thank you for joining us on this historic night here in atlanta, the longtime home of civil rights icon john lewis. Were standing in front of the Ebenezer
Hd5. Hd5. Hd5. Hd5. A Good Samaritan who tried helping two stranded swimmers was swept away by a strong current. All three ended up near a sand bar near plum island between new york and massachusetts. Eventually a coast guard crew managed to rescue them. The swimmers swallowed a lot of saltwater but are expected to be okay. Turning now to the growing concern among Health Care Workers about the rising rates of coronavirus infection. Now a new call for nationwide shutdowns. I spoke earlier with dr. Ravi. More than 1,000 Health Professionals have now signed a letter to the government saying its time to reboot our fight against covid19. They argue we should shut down the country again and start over with testing and tracing. Whats your take . Kenneth, i agree with many of the tenets of the letter. I think we do need to improve our testing, i think we need to ramp up our contact tracing. I do think it is going to be difficult to go back to square one across the nation. I think we do need to
Was shot and killed by an Oakland Police officer when he was only 18 years old, it happened in 2012 during a f ase. Noni saide wat in an exchange of gunfire that also injured the o acknowledged that blueford had not fired a gun and that the officer shot his own foot. Protests followed that incident as well. She will be joining us in a little bit but right now supervisor walton is shear with us. Thank you for jing us. Thank you for being me . This Judiciary Committee of Defunding Police departments its a conversation happening across the nation in many big cities, new york, minneapolis, philadelphia and San Francisco. Tell me about the step that you and mayor london breed announced today. So the mayor and i got together and announced actually last night that we are going to redirect resources from the San Francisco Police Department and invest in the black community. When we look at all the work weve been trying to do for reparations and make sure that we address the systemic and system
Santa clara. It will last through the end of may. And updated order from the county Health Officers will be released in the coming days. And it is expected to ease some restrictions for a small number of lower risk activities. More now from christien kafton, in San Francisco. Reporter most of the bay area already six weeks into a selfimposed quarantine now extending the Stay Home Order for at least another month. Mayor breed making it official. Today, we will need to extend the deadline for the stayathome order through the month of may. Reporter they all agreed to onwide strategy. Napa county extended its order indefinitely last week. Solano county has already extended the order through mid may and Sonoma County Stay Home Order is set to expire this coming weekend. The director of Public Health says among other factors, he would like to see a sustained decrease in the number of coronavirus cases before lifting the order. I do think we need to see some of the changes in the data that i