With tonights president ial debate. Final preparations are under way in cleveland where for the first time President Trump and his democratic challenger joe biden will go facetoface. They will be standing six feet away from each other to follow covid Safety Measures. Ohio which carries 18 electoral votes is currently a toss up state according g to our cbs Battleground Tracker poll. Mr. Trump is leading joe biden. Laura podesta is in cleveland. Laura, theres a lot at stake in this first debate tonight. Reporter there sure is. Good morning. 90 minutes. Six topics. No commercial breaks. The candidates are going to be trying to firm up support from decided voters and to convince undecided voters to side with them, especially here in the battleground state of ohio. Tonights president ial debate will look nothing like the debates of the past. With the coronavirus pandemic forcing organizers to limit the audience to fewer than 100 people and President Trump and joe biden wont shake hands. Are
Survivors of the massive beirut explosion demand answers as they mourn their losses. Were in lebanon with the new information on the blast. And Michelle Obamas candid comments. The former first lady speaks about her own Mental Health struggles and the pandemic and racial strife. First, heres todays eye opener. Your world in 90 seconds. It will go away. Thing goes away. Absolutely. Its no question in my mind it will go away. Chicago Public Schools will start the school year with all Remote Learning. The fact of the matter is, we are seeing an increase in cases. Investigators probing that massive explosion that tore through beirut. Teyre focusing on possible negligence. It was a nightmare. We felt that for the first time. A wedding photographer captures the exact moment a massive explosion shook beirut. Lawmakers have yet to come to an agreement on the next Coronavirus Relief bill. Well sit and work and work until we meet the needs of the American People and get this job done. Millions a
Stimulus. Tributes, bipartisan and plentiful for civil rights 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 raffage 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 recovery recover. But each positive test is disruptive to families, friends and businesses. And absent a significant reversal, the nation appears 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
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
Studios, this is kpix 5 news. Right now streaming on the bay area, taking a live look of the bay bridge this friday morning from the camera on top of the roof at 855. Thats where we are broadcasting from. At home, it is friday, we are going to be all right. We are making it through, june 26th. We are okay. Good morning to you as well. Glad to have you with us. I love the way you say friday morning. It sounds good. Lets get a check on the weekend. Here is mary lee. Good morning to you mary, have a happy friday. Happy friday to you. So glad we made it to the end of the week with our weather compared to yesterday, we are looking at cooler temperatures for the weekend with our Treasure Island camera. A start to our day. Temperatures in the midtwo upper 50s, fred run the bay their afternoon mid70s, upper 80s for san jose, and also close to 90 degrees. We will talk about the cool down details on that. Coming up in a few minutes, back to you. Many covid restrictions are keeping fourth of july