Florida now. Reporter perhaps the biggest challenge for congressman meadows is taking what he knows about the distance of capitol hill and bringing that into the oval office. The president seems confident he can certainly do that and leave the white house scene. Meadows is making his way over his Mick Mulvaney steps up it is mentioned meadows in the president have a particularly close relationship and in fact they speak almost every day by phone and sources tell me sometimes twice a day in the french at the president leaves will translate well into leaving the white house team. Meadow said this in a statement. As president and his administration have a long list of incredible victories they have delivered to the country during his first term with the best yet to come and i look forward to helping build on that success and staying in the fight for the forgotten men and women of america. Mulvaneys departure has been refers sometime but despite rumors to the contrary he had not fallen out
West palm beach, florida, near President Trumps maralago resort where the president is set to meet with brazils president this evening. Tell us more, kevin. Reporter well get to that in a moment. Its a political match made in heaven for the president. He has an admiration for mark meadows, his fighting spirit on capitol hill. He will come over as you pointed out after leaving the hill. He is retiring and so it would seem the fighting spirit was what did the trick, apparently for the president. The two men by the way, arthel, ive been told by sources speak virtually every day, sometimes twice a day by phone and the president or so the thinking goes should make him an effective white house chief of staff, which is no small task, given the boss predisposition to go politically rogue. Leaving the post is a man who has worn many hats for the administration, mick mulvaney. He served at acting director of the cfpb, acting white house chief of staff. His next role, special envoy to northern ir
Im leland vittert. The coronavirus is not showing down, 22 states across the United States and Christina Coleman has been tracking from the beginning and joins us now from the los angeles news room, hi christina. Hi, leland, the United States is now one of the top 10 country with the most cases of coronavirus in the world. The virus taking a toll on travel from airlines to trains, amtrak announcing today it will cancel nonstop service between new york and washington because of falling demand and amtrak also not charging passengers change fees on bookings through april because of altered travel plans. More than 2700 people are under some type of quarantine in the state of new york. New york now reporting 44 confirmed cases of the virus so far. Theres been 11 deaths in the state of washington. Most of them related to a seattle area nursing home. Theres been one death here in california and now two in florida. Florida is one of 22 states in the u. S. With confirmed cases of the virus. The
Did teens on tiktok punk the president to keep turnout low . Caught on camera. As atlanta gathers to remember Rayshard Brooks, police in new york are filmed using an unauthorized chokehold. Plus the confrontation when one of the officers who kneeled on george floyd goes shopping. Talladega might. Nascar drivers surround Bubba Wallaces car in a show of unity. The legends of racing now speaking out after a noose was found in his garage. Cultstyle killings. The shocking details from prosecutors after two Idaho Children turn up dead. Did their own mother think they were zombies . And serving up support, the pizzeria thats feeding healthcare workers while cooking up Something Else to keep them safe. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening and thank you for joining us. Tonight the u. S. Is seeing a dangerous increase in coronavirus cases in the south and west that could have implications for the entire country, especially as
Country. One state trooper showing us what one driver could be in for. A new year means a lot of new laws including a big change to help protect your privacy online. Im molly line in new york, fox news reporting begins now. [explosion] molly we begin with breaking news. Chants of death to america as militia men and protesters tried to storm the u. S. Embassy in iraq. President trump accusing iran of orchestrating the attack. A state Department Spokesperson says the Embassy Staff is safe. There are no plans to evacuate. And the ambassador was not there at the time. [shouting] cell phone video shows demonstrators battering their way through a window with Security Forces on the other side. The glass the only Thing Holding back the crowd. Fox news has confirmed a special Crisis Response task force of marines has arrived at the embassy to help protect it from any further attacks. This is video of the unit deploying on this mission from kuwait. The violence breaking out just days after the u