Leader and congressman john lewis. He was powerful. He was largerthanlife. He was a great man and he was tough as nails. Garrett outrage in portland over protests and federal arrests. And later, ford hopes for a stampede. The bronco rides again. This is the cbs weekend news. Garrett good evening, everyone, im Major Garrett in washington. Coronavirus continues to ravage the states where it has run rampant for weeks. California, texas, arizona and worst of all, florida. With more than 12,500 new infections there. Slightly lower than its july 12th record of 15,300. Not every infection, of course, leads to hospitalization or death. Many people do recover. But each positive test is disruptive to families, friends and businesses. And absent a significant reversal in trend, the nation appears to be headed for 100,000 new cases per day. This weekend we hit roughly 70,000 per day just as experts warned of rising infection rates in georgia, tennessee, missouri and kentucky. We begin tonight with
Cases. Why we are now seeing nearly double the infections from our highest point back in april. Cancer fights. Word that Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader ginsburg is undergoing treatment for what is her fifth bout with cancer in two decades. What shes saying aboutler future on the high court. And Capital Improvements as a nfl team searches for a new identity. We take you inside the rebranding process with a veteran in the field of sports rebranding. First, a look the todays eye opener, your world in 90 secon secon seconds. Be patient and wait, we do not want our freedom gradually, but we want to be free now. Longtime congressman and civil rights icon john lewis has passed away. When people tell me not to change, i feel like saying come and walk in my shoes. I will show you. I will take you to those places. Reporter across the u. S. , covid cases continue to skyrocket. We feel cautiously optimistic. As bleak as it may sound right now that we are on the road to getting there under contro
Where in argentina were going to be heading to Rio De Janeiro those will be our next episodes from there as you see were in the Southern Hemisphere where we all it took us decades of my life to learn that its warm down here during the cold christmas up north so from now on i am going to be where its warm christmas much better than that cold sand its nice and warm down here so were going to look back at 2019 and you know what were the big themes of what we got right what we got wrong we didnt get anything wrong so. We definitely got right heading down to the Southern Hemisphere for christmas but the big themes ive been weve been looking at over the past few over the past decade it was this a few decades it feels like weve been doing this show for decades but its just been 10 years this autumn we got right lobel is a sion and d. Dollar is a sham those are the 2 big themes and they are really really really reaching across the headlines around the world and its undeniable to anybody now we
children, staffers at sandy hook elementary school nearly ten years ago. conspiracy peddler and profiteer alex jones slandered this little girl s memory with his online rantings and tormted his father robby who you ll hear from tonight. take a look at dylan, also 6 and also murdered in the worst mass shooting this country has ever endured and conspiracy profiteer slandered his memory for money. alex jones also slandered the memory of school psychologist. when she first heard shots she left her office, ran toward the gunman doing her best to warn others and save lives before the killer murdered her. no one can possibly imagine what her family, mhave been through since that day. and it would be bad enough had such a profound loss been all they had to live. instead thanks to this person, alex jones, they ve had to endure far worse. they ve been told their loss never happened, that their children and parents and spouses weren t actually murdered, maybe didn t even exist. so if th
it s the top of the hour on cnn news room. it s good to have you. i m victor blackwell. president biden just upkdated congress on what his administration sees as the biggest national security threat facing the country. in his new national security strategy, vladimir putin s invasion of ukraine is not the top political challenge according to biden. that distinction goes to china. russia was however at the heart of a key global meeting. there was a meeting with 50 other defense ministers on how to boost ukraine s air defense systems. ukraine is facing a third day of intensified air assault from russia which was condemned by the defense ministers for continuing to target civilian facilities. cnn s kaitlan collins is at the white house. kaitlan, you re up first. let s begin with the president and his just released national security strategy. why is china above russia here? reporter: yeah, it might surprise some people given of course, russia s ongoing invasion of ukraine, but b