Implications of what they organized over the course of this week. Ill see you again on monday night. Now it is time for the last word for the great katie turner is filling in for lawrence tonight. Hey there, rachel. How cynical for them to say everybody is going to get it. Congratulations on making it through that entire convention. It is very nice of you to say that. You have been mislead or you are mistaken if you think i made it through. I am not okay, but i am going to take a weekend to get myself okay and i will be back in my human skin by monday. I hope it includes a nice, large cocktail. Rachel, thank you very much. And this president ial election, as with all president ial elections in which an incumbent is on the ballot comes down to one basic question do you want another four years of the person in the oval office right now . Do you want four more years of donald trump . Last night the president made his reelection case to america, but it was hard to see what case he was actu
Holiday gift delivery . Breaking with the president. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell congratulates joe biden and kamala harris. The Electoral College has spoken. Odonnell but President Trump still wont concede. Plus what role the president elect wants for mayor pete in his cabinet. Dire warning more than a dozen states tell cbs news they dont have the money to handle covid testing, Contact Tracing or administering a vaccine. New bodycam video in the case of Ahmaud Arbery taken moments after his death, how it contradicts the story told by one of the men charged with arbreys murder. Dramatic videos rescuers free a family from a submerged car. Plus how a nineyearold makes sense of the pandemic by watching the news. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin tonight with another breakthrough in the fight against coronavirus. Tonight the f. D.
Decisions. U. S. Disease experts say the country has not seen a significant drop in coronavirus cases yet most states we know are moving ahead. As you can see here. Plans to relax stay at home restrictions and reopen businesses and public spaces. The number of deaths in the u. S. Continues to climb by the thousands each day. Johns hopkins reports more than 73,000 fatalities so far. One expert predicts it will soon top 100,000 deaths. Its really bad and sadly looking at the u. S. As a whole just speculating forward from the number of people wherein effect shuns have already been documented, there will be tragically at least 100,000 deaths from covid by the end of this month. Second, as bad as this has been, its just the beginning. Sobering words there. The u. S. Is 1 3 of all global cases. President donald trump is now comparing the pandemic to 9 11 and world war ii. This is worse than pearl harbor. This is worse than the world trade center. Theres never been an attack like this. And it
Prime time. In 48 hours, some states will reopen in some way. Were back, says the president. Are we . Even if we do it unintelligently, even if we do it opening up to risk . We always knew we had to reopen. You know when they would say, to reopen or not . We knew we had to reopen, its always been about how. The question has never talked to you about how. Why . Its too hard. Why do you think . Reopen, vaccine or not. Reopen, testing or not. Reopen. Why . Because thats what you want to hear, thats what i want to hear. But thats b. S. Politics. And let me tell you something, democrats, youre getting played, too, because youre the party of no because trump is the party of yes. Reopen, yay you guys, but we have to, but we have to. That plays as no. We all have to get on the same page. It is not a question of whether to reopen or not. We have to reopen. There is no other choice. The only issue for our leaders is how. Like wisconsin . Where you have a weird legal battle and nobody wants to wo
Linked to coronavirus. And tonight, a new health alert for parents a possible measles outbreak. Unemployment triples, the highest Unemployment Rate since the Great Depression as food lines form across the country, the ominous prediction for how long the economic slump could last. Murder charges tonight, the father and son accused of killing an unarmed black man. Are more arrests on the way . Snow in may . Record lows as about 100 million americans are under cold weather alerts. And just in time for mothers day, Steve Hartman asks kids who they think is the best mom in the world. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening. And thank you for joining us tonight another white house staffer, this time a top aide to the Vice President , has tested positive for coronavirus. Katie miller, the press secretary to Vice President pence, is now the second confirmed case tied to the west who servesa valet who serves the president s mea