the glitches affected hospitals, and emergency call centers. we are going to keep at this until every computer system and every component of our i.t. apparatus are working in exactly the should. the cbs evening news starts now. good evening, i am in for norah o donnell. it s called the largest i.t. outage in history and it could affect your flight, your surgery, your deliveries, even your paycheck. the cause, faulty software update. millions of workers met with a blue screen of death when they turned on their computers today. airports across the country and around the world were packed with stranded passengers. planes were grounded by the thousands, not by the weather but by t the technical tsunami. more than 4,000 flights were canceled around the world today, more than 2600 of them in the u.s., and hartsfield-jackson international airport, the world s busiest a quarter of all flights were canceled. team coverage tonight with chris s bank leaf will start off from th
in the pocket of big business but answers to the working man, union and nonunion alike. a leader who won t sell out to multinational corporations but will stand up for american companies and american industry. [ cheering and applause ] a leader who rejects joe biden and kamala harris green new scam and fights to bring back our great american factories. we need president donald j trump [ cheering and applause ] some people tell me i ve lived the american dream, and of course they are right and i m so grateful for it, but the american dream that counted most was not starting a business or becoming a senator or even being here with you fine people, though it s pretty awesome. my most important american dream was becoming a good husband and a good dad, being able to give [ cheering and applause ] i wanted to give my kids the things i did not have when i was growing up, and that is the accomplishment that i m proudest of. that tonight i m joined by my beautiful wife, an i
this an american nightmare. with just four months to go until the presidential election. is it time for the democrats at the very top to speak truth to power? can stand by for a special tribute to our loved kirsty who tonight is presenting herfinal newsnight to our loved kirsty who tonight is presenting her final newsnight with the help of some well known faces. good evening. welcome to newsnight and to my very old friends, alan cumming, who has just arrived from a very jittery america, and the today programme presenter, the marvellous martha kearney, who leaves her show next thursday. here too is the enfant terrible lewis goodall who started out on newsnight before he flew the coop for the news agents and lbc, and as always our very own nick watt. first, let s remind ourselves of those incidents from president biden last night. now i want to hand it over to the president of ukraine, who has as much courage as he has determination. ladies and gentlemen, president putin. p
sandra: top of the hour we expect to see president biden s arrival on his way to battleground michigan on a campaign rally in detroit. we know he held a call with his phonics in congress after news conference last night who do little to convince his cliques he should stay in this race it s a busy i am sandra smith the new yorker to h you. john: great to be with you i am john roberts in washington no chopper talk this afternoon because he has the motorcade to andrews it s raining here for the first time in weeks. the president spoke for 8 minutes and took questions nearly an hour in its first news conference since that dismal debate performance. take a look at this range of headlines to sum it all up. the president s to performance did not make matters worse but may not about to improve this situation the dnc chair sees it differently. listen, i think he was clear, i think he was strong, and really come across, he put on a master class in terms of international foreign p
all of this amid the reality on the ground tonight. our team and what they witnessed just outside the kabul airport. fear and chaos. gunfire believed from the taliban, beatings in the streets, contradicting the taliban s promise of an orderly transition. tens of thousands of afghan men, women and children desperate now to board planes, caught in the middle. the pentagon said it was planning to get up to 9,000 people out of afghanistan a day, but just 2,000 in the last 24 hours. tonight here, the defense secretary is pressed, can he asure safe passage for americans and afghans to the airport, to get them past the taliban? what he acknowledged today. ian pannell on the ground, george stephanopoulos at the white house. and back here at home tonight, the major news in the fight against the coronavirus. tonight, the biden administration now says there will be a third shot, a booster shot, available to everyone 18 and older beginning september 20th. tonight, the cdc pointing to t