[cheers and applause] norah breaking news. The criminal indictment against donald trump just filed by special counsel jack smith as the former president is once again accused of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss. The narrow scope of the charges after they Landmark Supreme Court ruling on president ial immunity appeared plus our exclusive interview with the justice who wrote a stinging dissent in that case. Tonight, our new report and the new context. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Special counsel jack smith is not giving up, filing a new federal indictment in the Election Interference Case against donald trump be a good evening, im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. The former president is facing the same for charges for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. But the special counsel tailored the allegations to respect and implement the Supreme Courts new immunity standard. Now a big part of that came down to arguing what is an official act of the president v
Shutdown again. Its the final weekend before five counties enact a new stayathome order. Good evening and thank you store joining us. Im dion lim. They say there is no time to wait, local icus are filling up fast. The order goes into effect at 10 00 tomorrow night for San Francisco and contra conat thtra county. The order mimics a state order that would have gone into effect when the icu capacity dropped below 15 . But officials didnt want to risk waiting. Restaurants can now only do takeout. Outdo outdoor playgrounds and salons must shut down. One salon has been packed all day trying to fit in lastminute customers. I can understand, matt. Reporter super busy out here. It looks like there may be one customer finishing up at this late hour despite that 10 00 p. M. Curfew. While i spoke to people inside, they understand the need for drastic measures, but one stylist says this team arouime t feels unfair for her business heading into the holidays. Its been all hands on deck in walnut cree
And also Johnson Johnson, just releasing the results from its phase three trials. Saying in its announcement it is 66 Efficacy Rate overall. 85 against severe disease. Still notably lessective than the vaccines from pfizer and moderna. What does the biden team say about that . The White House Press secretary just said this morning that President Biden is encouraged by the data coming out from j j but also said that the politicians will leave it to the scientists who we should hear from any moment. While were standing by. Lets bring in Elizabeth Cohen following the latest developments. So on this announcement from Johnson Johnson, what are they saying . Basically the bottom line here, kate, is that this vaccine does work well against covid 19, this j j vaccine. Im going to jump in. Andy slavic, one of the members of the Covid Response team is beginning the briefing now. On both the successes and the hurdles we face. I hope on these calls, that the public will get a regular and consisten
Louisiana and thats pretty darn close, that is a great first try at that. Great, admiral you the white house and lead developer of the hhs wire Public Health policy recommendation so i was hoping you could give us an overview of the Current Situation on the ground today. The situation on the ground with the pandemic, i think everyone understands that similar to where we were post memorial day, we had a significant increase in the number of cases, the hospitalizations are starting to go up as well and we do however, know how to defeat the pandemic to control it until we can get vaccines and youve heard this so many times before but physical distancing is important, wearing the mask when you cannot physically distant is really essential, the American People have done a good job, we do rank among the top in the world and mask wearing that weve got to get better as well as doing the good hand hygiene and with all of this we have to have a program of smart testing and im sure we will talk a
Persecution of jews between 1930 and 1945. That is followed by a documentary in the nuremburg trials that was first screened in germany 1948, but not released in the u. S. Until several decades later. Each week, American History tv american artifacts welcome to the u. S. Holocaust memorial museum. I am daniel greene, curator of americans and the holocaust. We decided on our 25th anniversary to look very closely in americans role in this history. That goes back to our founding charter, which mandated that the museum look very closely at americans role in this history. In fact, on the day we opened, the chairman of the board at the time said, this museum is not an answer. It is a question. What we wanted to do in this exhibition is asked difficult questions about americans response to nazism. The questions that frame this exhibition are, what did americans know and what more could have been done . You will see throughout the exhibition that what we try to do is show the context of Americ