And legal struggles. Plus, covid infections rise in the fall, in the u. S. And abroad. More wildfires scorch the west, spacex launching satellites intended to make wifi universal and a sea lion plagued with seizures saved by surgery. This is the cbs overnight news. Good evening everyone im Major Garrett in washington. President trump has returned to the campaign trail with gusto, pressing against reelection head winds. Most polls are showing him trailing Vice President biden in key battleground states. But he is tapping unexpected pockets of support. A Battleground Tracker poll shows mr. Trump trailing the former Vice President in wisconsin, a state that mr. Trump narrowly won in 2016. And trailing biden in arizona. This weekend, the president made stops, in michigan, wisconsin, nevada and california at airport rallies he was greeted by big crowds, many not Wearing Masks. As the nation watches, it is voting in astonishing numbers. More than 27 million ballots cast by mail or in person.
May be time to reopen some schools. And Close Encounter with a cougar. A utah hiker learns what it feels like to be prey after getting too close to a cub. The six minutes of terror caught on tape. Dont mess with a mama cougar. First, heres todays eye opener. Its your world in 90 seconds. If confirmed, it would be the honor of a lifetime to serve alongside the chief justice and seven associate justices. The political battle has broken out on capitol hill as confirmation hearings for Amy Coney Barrett begins. I think this hearing is a sham. When you tell them theyll be a catholic judge not an american judge, thats bigotry. The president returned to the campaign trail. I feel so powerful. Ill walk into there. Ill kiss everyone in that audience. Dr. Anthony fauci wants the Trump Campaign ad featuring him to be taken down. I think its unfortunate and really disappointing that they did that. Its so clear im not a political person. Voters head to the polls but are forced to wait hours to cast
Endorsing trumps handling of the pandemic. Fauci said he has never publically endorsed any candidate and not endorsing the the comnts we not given mntext efforts of federal Public Health officials. A trump Spokes Person responded in part, the words spoken are accurate and directly from dr. Faucises mouth. The president today again boasted about his handling of the coronavirus. We lost 200,000 plus and you know, there are those that say we did a phenomenal job. But a new cbs Battleground Tracker poll found that likely voters in michigan, nevada and iowa think former Vice President joe biden would better handle the coronavirus outbreak and voters in all three states say President Trump handled contracting the virus irresponsibly. On fox, the president fired a deeply personal attack at biden. He is against god. At the very time he was saying that, the devout biden was attending mass in delaware. Both are hitting the campaign trail. Joe biden will be in ohio, iowa and pennsylvania with mor
Live from the bay area studios, this is kpix 5 this morning. Right now, on kpix 5 and streaming on cbsn bay area, look from our exclusive Salesforce Tower down the area. It is july 10th and thank you for joining us. I am i am michelle griego. Lets go over to the weather. Lets start with breaking news overnight, we had a crash on the alatoona pass. I want to show you some video of what happened overnight. You can see it shows a line of fire spreading through the hills near this area. There are plumes of smoke into the sky and there were 200 acres burned. They did stop but it has not been contained. We will be going to the scene to get more information. As far as the freeways, this happened at 11 45 with a crash on 580 near northland. We got word that all lanes are now open but both the directions were completely shut down. There are closures on grant line in the area. We will keep you updated. Lets get a check on the forecast from mary lee. Good morning, we will be watching temperatures
Even saying we would lose 9 million jobs in may in the report which show us this, they forecast the Unemployment Rate to rise to a depressionera level of 20 . They could not have been more wrong. God help them, many seemed shaken to learn that once again the president who has withstood plots to destroy his candidacy to overthrow his presidency and then impeachment in the deadly contagion of the debt chinese virus that has staggered thise incredible economy in the worlds greatest nation. The Labor Department today reporting that employment stunningly rose by two and a halfmillion in may, the jobless rate instead of 20 declined 13. 3 . In those incredible positive numbers serving as a testament to the resiliency of the American Worker as well as the president s push to safely reopen the economy and the nation that had been virtually shut because of the china virus. President trump understandably ecstatic about todays news and he held a News Conference in the white house rose garden, he c