News with norah odonnell, odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin with the rising death toll and utter sevastation caused by hurricane laura, which barreled across the louisiana and texas coastlines overnight, leaving entire towns under water, plowing over neighborhoods and killing at least six, including a 14year old girl. Along the coast, the destruction goes on for miles. From above you can see whats left of cameron, louisiana, where the storm came ashore, sending a storm surge more than 10 feet high over homes and businesses and tossing mobile homes and cars blocks from where they once t. Lauras 150mileperhour winds also ripped across much of the state overnight, leaving rooftops shredded and tearing homes from their foundations. Nearly a Million People are without power in the region tonight, and rescue crews are still working to make their way through some of the hardest hit areas. In west lake, louisiana, thick, toxic smoke is still billowing f
Extraordinary walkout by thel. B. Major league soccer, all in protest of the shooting of jacob blake. Tonight, cbs james brown talks to players and coaches demanding m. L. B. And soccer. Change. The Mets Dominic Smith people still dont care. Odonnell the president s big night. The Convention Speech on the White House South Lawn in front of a crowd of more than 1,000. Why Kamala Harris is on the attack tonight about how the president has handled the coronavirus pandemic. Donald trump froze. He was scared. Odonnell testing breakthrough. A 5 covid rapid test wins the president orders 150 million as the u. S. Death toll climbs to 180,000. And, the wedding was canceled, so the bride and groom brought the reception to a shelter for women and children. 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. We are going to begin with the rising death toll and utter devastation caused
Inland areas, although a touch cooler still going to get out 50s and 60s for your current temperatures a word in concord at 61. Alameda, its bird double in concord also in the 60s currently later today, one triple digit left on the map thats for you in antioch well conquered livermore san jose all in the 90s. Tomorrow is when the big changes occur thats going to take us from the 90s inland so the 70s for your warmest highs through friday saturday and sunday ive got the breakdown on what exactly do expect this weekend. Still ahead back to you in studio. All right. Thank you very much john as the nation continues to come together to mourn the death of george floyd and call for an end to Police Brutality. Heres a look at what the protest looked like yesterday across the bay area. Peaceful for the most part as you can see demonstrators in San Francisco, oakland, san mateo gathering in the streets unifying their voices. And this was the scene as protesters rolled through the streets of San
tonight on the reidout no person having received the majority of the whole number of votes cast by surname, a speaker has not been elected. an epic fail and stunning humiliation for kevin mccarthy. who took the knee for donald trump, then gave away the store to the koo-koo fringe of his party but is still not speaker of the house. and we begin tonight with the new congress. the 118th. today was supposed to be swearing-in day, typically a big day for the country, filled with pomp and pageantry and often a feeling of hope and excitement as a new congress kicks off and implements its vision. for some, it serves as bring your kids to congress day, so that children get to see their parents or their grandparents take the oath, and perhaps make history themselves. history was certainly made on this opening day in the house of representatives when house democrats nominated their caucus chair, hakeem jeffries, of new york, to succeed nancy pelosi as speaker. i rise today a
draw. colorado is a beautiful perfect rectangle. wyoming also rectangle. very easy states to draw, right? utah also easy, it s a rectangle with a notch. new mexico is easy. it s a rectangle with a notch in its notch. some states are very easy to draw even if like me you cannot draw at all, but when your state s borders are formed by mountain ranges or by rivers in particular, your state by definition is hard to draw well because its borders are all wiggly. perhaps none more so than the wigglest, kentucky, bordereded by the great mississippi river and over the whole wiggly top of the state it s the ohio river. and on the northern part of that wiggly arc where the wibble-wobble border sticks out the most there at that spot this week you will find an american political miracle because there at the northern pokey bit of kentucky that sticks out like it s trying to start a fight, there at covington, kentucky, there is the southern end of a huge double layer cantilevered truss brid