This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin tonight with breaking news. In a dramatic reversal by the head of the u. S. Postal service. At the same time, President Trump was stepping up his lttacks on universal mailin voting today, falsely suggesting it would lead to a rigged election. His handpicked postmaster general announced he would stop cutbacks at post offices nationwide. The decision by louis dejoy comes after blistering attacks from democrats and some republicans, accusing him of slowing down mail delivery in order to delay millions of mail in ballots this fall. States plan tot trump said the idea that some states plan to mail ballots to all registered voters could lead to the possibility that there wont be a result in this years election, leading to a doover. Well, the president repeated assaults on voting by mail will no doubt be front and center at the second n
Some good news for tomorrow. Tomorrow will be a few degrees cooler than today au gres. But it will still be hot. Hot enough we are looking at the excessive heat warnings and advisories. Two colors on the map. The pink is the excessive heat. The difference is important. That only applies over here, pleasanton, san jose this is where the heat is more serious. This is 108. We talk about extremes. The excessive heat use a significant rest of heat related illnesses of you are not in the air conditioning and hydrating. This is the heat advisory in the day. This is in effect until 9 00 tonight. The National Weather service will probably extend this. This is about 1 degree of importance below a heap morning. It is still you have to read the fine print, theres still a risk of illness. This goes well into next week. I will show you that coming up in a bit. Look what else is on the weather map. A lot of lightning. That ties into a red flag warning for us. Coming up, we will put that red flag warn
1000. The airlines are taking it on the chin, first signs where so many in the industry seem to be tell of telegraphing problems, unless they get a new batch of a. The aid in march, april, may, is essentially running out. There is talk after 85 billiondollar relief package. No one agrees what it should be, when it shut be doled out. That is hitting airline stocks. Were watching that very closely. Were watching day two of the Republican Convention right now. Hillary vaughn following all of those developments for us. Hillary . Reporter neil, day one of the Republican National convention was really about President Trump and the Republican Party pitching themselves as the law and order party. What is interesting is when joe biden first got elected to the senate, he campaigned on exactly that, law and order. Every time Richard Nixon when i was running in 1972 would say law and order, the democratic mantra the response was, law and order with justice. Whatever that meant. I would say lock th
Laura tearing through the caribbean, the hurricane now taking aim at texas and louisiana. Winds expected to top 115 miles per hour. Mandatory evacuations under way along the gulf coast right now. Were live from the storm zone tracking the very latest. Fall from grace. Top conservative evangelical leader Jerry Falwell jr. Entangled in a sex scandal. The sordid allegations emerging about he and his wifes alleged relationship with their former pool attendant. Overnight the powerful ally of President Trump, the president of liberty university. The fallout this morning. Back to School Battle. A florida judge striking down the order for schools to physically reopen siding with teachers demanding the right to work remotely. Ive chosen my students over so many difficult things but i cant put my family at risk. Measures to protect their students, and colleges cracking down, shutting down bars after scenes like this in alabama as cases climb to nearly 450 at notre dame. I had a fever. I had ches
All safe. Those are some of our top stories on this monday, august 10th. Thank you for starting your week with us. And we do begin with schools ng a as coravirus cas millionaon be Holding Classes online today and tomorrow, while the building is disinfected following an outbreak among students and staff. In bigtime College Football, the power five conferences may be considering moving their season to the spring. Meantime, the pandemic has prompted some top ncaa players to call for the creation of a union. Abcs Andrew Dymburt has more. Reporter the u. S. Now surpassing 5 million confirmed cases of coronavirus. Kansas city among nine cities warned by the White House Task force they are in danger of becoming new hot spots. Were seeing a lot of activity that has been against Public Health advice. House parties of up to hundreds of people, a lot of backyard parties. Reporter chicagos mayor threatening to shut down the lakefront, posting these images on social media after witnessing what she