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You, be safe. President obama brings activists and Law Enforcement officers together at the white house. A new cbs New York Times poll shows race relaces are worse now than after they were inspired by the rodney king verdict. It has to stop. And nba stars take a stand at the espys with a call to action. Its time to look in the mirror and ask ourselves what are we doing to create change . Good morning from the studio 57 newsroom at cbs news headquarters in new york. Good to be with you. Im meg oliver in for annemarie green. The latest polls show trump has closed gap with Hillary Clinton and today in clinton the rnc rules committee hold as meeting committing the dump trump rebellion. Good morning, meg. Donald trump spoke to governor Chris Christie by phone wednesday. Hes among the top contenders being vetted as a top vp pick. Donald trump says hes whittled down his vicepresident ial picks to two ahead of his announcement. Appearing on fox news, he hinted at who his vp might be. I want to
My brothers murder will not be in vain. His selfless legacy will live on. Reporter and in some ways, it already has. This week a family friend shared a photograph of officer smiths daughter giving a bracelet she made to the daughter of Fallen Police officer zamarripa. The funerals for officer zamarripa and officer michael krol are set to happen within the next few days. The murders of those dallas officers was motivated in part by the Fatal Police Shooting of alton sterling in baton rouge. Well, today the American Civil Liberties union sued the police there over their treatment of protesters. Sterlings 15yearold son cameron urged marchers to protest the right way. Ill never forget that image of you wailing on the side of your mom. When i put my arm around her its like somebody elses hand touched me. Like i had another hand laying on top of my hand. And when i looked over, wasnt nobody else touching me. Nobody else was touching me. And it was like at that moment i knew. My daddy here. H
This is your skin. This is your skin in the sun. The sun ages your skin and can cause skin cancer. When the Republican Convention opens next monday, clinton will be addressing the Naacp Convention in cincinnati. But donald trump has declined the invitation of the civil rights group. Thats rare. Both mitt romney and both president s bush spoke to the naacp, but reagan declined in 1980. Negative views of Race Relations are at their highest since the 1992 riots that occurred after the acquittal of Police Officers who beat taxi driver rodney king in los angeles. A cbs News New York times poll out tonight finds that 69 of americans say Race Relations are bad, about the same as 1992. The new poll was taken after the Police Shootings of black men in louisiana and minnesota, and the murders of five Police Officers in dallas. There were funerals today for three of those officers, and we have that. Amazing grace how sweet the sound reporter at this service, dallas transit officer Brent Thompson
Captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Pelley who is your running mate . That is the question for donald trump, and it could be the answer, as well. Tonight indiana governor mike pence is a leading candidate for the numbertwo spot in the republican ticket. Pence is 57, 13 years younger than trump, and he knows his way around washington. He served 12 years as a congressman. Heres major garrett. Reporter donald trump summoned his family from new york to meet with mike pence at the indiana governors mansion, their second facetoface encounter in two days. Trump then left for downtown indianapolis to huddle with other potential running mates as the Vice President ial vetting process drew to a close. First former House Speaker newt gingrich, who retired from congress in 1999 and ran for president himself four years ago,. A close adviser, gingrich often tells trump hes leading a movement. Of historical significance. Trump also met with fourterm alabama sen