Action. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Good evening, everyone, im Major Garrett in washington. We are barreling toward a milestone in our countrys battle against coronavirus. One where controlling viral spread may be beyond our current capabilities. Former fda commissioner Scott Gottlieb said on face the nation this morning, we can expect about 60,000 new infections each day this week. Now mortality rates have been trending down, for weeks due to improved treatment and protections for the vulnerable. But there are to guarantees. Some estimates point to as many as 160,000 u. S. Deaths by months end. As of this Holiday Weekend the death toll is just over 129,500. The virus as we know is everywhere but there are four areas of accelerating spread. Florida, texas, arizona and california, specifically los angeles, and that is where our Lilia Luciano is with the latest. Reporter l. A. County beaches are closed again today, as covid infections are rising at an alarming rate shooting
Im going to give you a longterm financing and going to up the amount but i wont get to see you anymore. So thats the bad part. But you can focus on education now instead of worrying about getting with us in washington. So we did that for the hiorically black colleges and universities. Im very proud of it. They are incredible. They are incredible people. Got to know a lot of the heads of those colleges. They do an unbelievable job. And dont get the kind of notoriety that they should have. We expanded affordable options for Better Health care. We created opportunity zones with senator tim scott, brought it to me. We did know if we could get it past him, right . But we got it passed and i think its probably one of the great things that we have done in this administration. Tens of thousands of jobs, billions and billions of dollard neighborhood that would never ever, ever be taken care of monetarily. Areas that didnt have ten cents put in them for years and decades, and that people are inv
Griego. Weve just learned bart is one of the agents getting federal financial help. President trump tweeted hours ago saying im proud to announce the San Francisco bay area will receive over 700 million in federal funds to support continued operations and support workers at sfo and for transit on muni and bart. This money will aid in economic recovery. And just this morning bay area transit officials announced a start date for the long awaited bart extension into Santa Clara County. We have the update. June 13, just 26 days from now. Wow, isnt this a great day. Its wonderful to be able to celebrate, isnt it . Every single taxpayer in Santa Clara County its because of you that i can stand here today and say were almost there. But this is what happens when we flip me on our head in Silicon Valley and make it we. Bart received 251 million of the federal money President Trump tweeted about to buy time and keep trains running through the end of the fiscal year on june 30 and into the summer
Why newly surfaced body cam footage of an incident from 2019 could raise new questions in the investigation of his shooting death in february. And safer skies. An inside look at how one airline is taking lessons from hospitals to make people feel safe about traveling again. But first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. I happen to be taking it. Hydroxychloroquine . Im taking it. Hydroxychloroquine. Right now, yeah. The leader of the free world reveals hes taking daily doses of a drug medical experts and the u. S. Food and Drug Administration warn could have harmful side effects. Hes our president and i would rather he not be taking something thats not been approved, especially in his age group and his, shall we say, weight group. What is morbidly obese. Reporter more americans are heading back to work as states continue to ease restrictions. It never has been about money. Its about our freedom. Monday, new york, california and texas joined the Sunshine State in saying t
A prison in argentinas capital inmates demand better protection from the coronavirus determined not to die in jail. And how the pandemic is forcing muslims around the wilds to change the way they celebrate the holy month of ramadan. Now its being hailed as a landmark collaboration wild leaders have pledged to speed up development of a Coronavirus Vaccine and ensure that everyone will have access to it its part of a Health Organization initiative but the United States with the death toll now over 50000. 00 says it will not take part of that diplomatic editor james bass reports. Its just the place you would have expected in previous times to have seen u. S. Leadership in a Global Crisis and World Leaders coming together with a response not the idea of this event to coordinate the search for a vaccine testing and treatments for covert 19 and to make sure all the widely available the world needs distorts and it needs them fast. But experiences has stored those that even when tools are avai