Texas, florida, and arizona. Only on cbs news, a reporter on the front lines. Tonight with exclusive access inside one hospital in a race against time. Its not just going to be you, its going to be a whole family thats going to get sick. Odonnell heartburn drug danger . Could an overthecounter drug you take every day double your risk of getting coronavirus . The new study out, what you need to know. Trumps taxes, will the Supreme Court force the president to turn over his personal financial records to investigators . Plus the health scare for chief Justice John Roberts. And finally tonight, during a national crisis, how a 12year old with a trumpet is lifting spirits. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west. Thank you for joining us. We are going to begin tonight with another recordbreaking day in a nationwide crisis that only appears to be getting worse. A surge of new infections in florida,
Confederate flags. The response from wallace and criticism from one of the president s closest allies. Sidelined. Well take you inside the new cases and testing problems that threaten to delal plans to bring back sports. Say it aint so david jol from 5 in midmay to 20 . Hospitalizations are rising. And the outlook in many areas is woerns i worsening. We have recordbreaking cases. We are knee deep in the first wave of this. Hes facilitating the virus. Hes enabling the virus. How did this become a political statement . President donald trump is calling out nascar driver Bubba Wallace and questioned nascars call to ban the confessderate flag. A white woman who called the police during a videotaped dispute with a black man in central park was charged with filing a false report. A black man says he was attacked and threatened with lynching saturday night in bloomington, indiana. Please let him go. Were going to as soon as you let him go. In the history of sports, pat mahomes gets a tenYear
Disappears while swimming and boating on a lake with her son. And alaska life saver. How a Grocery Store owner kept his neighbors supplied after the pandemic shut down the remote towns only ferry service. Nice guy. But first, heres todays eye opener, your world in 90 seconds. We dont want the guidance from cdc to be a reason why schools dont open. Its not a matter of if schools should reopen. Its simply a matter of how. The cdc set to release some new safety guidelines for reopening schools. After President Trump threatened to cut Education Funding if schools dont reopen in the fall. Threaten me, threaten me, threaten me. How many times have we been through this. Notably absent wednesday was dr. Anthony fauci who frequently speaks out on the rising cases. Hes become the face of that task force and opines on things he has no evidence of data for. The body cam footage in the death of george floyd. Floyd said he couldnt breathe 20 times. Some severe storms rolling through minnesota. Rooft
Now inside the white house President Donald Trump hosting folks k through 12 years old professionals. Higher education folks and parents and students. The president speaking right now in this moment in the news conference. Talking about going back to school, how important that is not just for parents but also kids themselves. The white house saying if schools follow the cdc guidelines then opening up will be done safely. Listen to this. Very much going to put pressure on governors and everybody else to open the schools to get them open and it is very important. It is very important for our country. It is very important for the well being of the student and the parents. Reporter the head of cdc came out actually said urging schools to open. No one at the white house here is pushing a one size fits all approach. Health and Human Services secretary said some areas hit harder by the coronavirus will have to adjust but still can reopen. Not going to be the full experience. It will not be th
Pandemic the u. S. Begins a process of withdrawing from the World Health Organization accusing it of badly handling the pandemic and an arbitrary killing a u. N. Investigators says a u. S. Drone strike that killed a raid in general got some silly money was unlawful. Brazils president test test said positive for corona virus off to months of dismissing the illness as a little flu shot so narrow has repeatedly downplayed the threat from the virus defying social distancing measures and opposing knocked down even as brazilians deal with the regions worse outbreak a latin america tendency in human reports. To World Leaders have defied 19 like brazils jade bullshit novel. For months the president tempted fate and turned to doctors. He scorned calls to respect social distancing he seemed to relish defying even his own advisors always pressing the flesh and rarely using a face mask many members of his cabinet had become infected even his wifes grandmother some joked hed made a pact with the de