half million deaths. we were taken by today s cover of the new york times. each of the nearly 500,000 dots represents one lost life. it stretches chronologically down from the first reported to the current death toll. and those deaths come from every state. you ll see a breakdown for each state at the bottom of your screen. the washington post had another way to grasp it. transporting 500,000 people would require a caravan of more than 9,800 buses. the caravan would stretch almost 95 miles, roughly the distance from philadelphia to new york. all this began nearly one year ago when the u.s. recorded its first known death from covid-19. by may we had hit 100,000 fatalities. by december, 300,000. we hit 400,000 nearly a month ago. but these deaths need not be in vain. there is reason for hope. new covid cases are declining. the death rate is slowing, and vaccination rates are up. right now about 5.4% of americans are fully vaccinated. dr. anthony fauci says normalcy is in si
their first day of deliberations. the judge bringing them back into the courtroom moments ago. the jury telling the judge they were ready to break for the eke evening and they will, of course, return for day two tomorrow morning. the jury right now who knows what they did today but they are looking at five felony charges, in addition to lesser counts. and they are faced with a central question. was kyle rittenhouse acting in self-defense when he killed two men and wounded another in kenosha, wisconsin, last summer? before the deliberations began today, rittenhouse helped narrow down the jury they narrowed it down to 12 men and the women who will decide his fate. they picked six members at random who will, you know, they had 18. those six are now going to be alternate jurors, so they are going to remain but they are not going to be in the room. there haven t been many clues from the jury yet. what they did is ask for extra copies of the jury instructions. these are 36 page
know, stump around with a shaved head giving nazi salutes, he wasn t that kind of a guy. he was a guy who took a pseudo-academic fake intellectual approach to his holocaust denial. he had a starting role in her book. and he sued her reliable. saying it was unfair of her to describe his scholarship the way she did. unfair for her to describe her scholarship the way as shoddy, instead it was in fact loyalist under british law for her to have said that he deliberately viewed the known evidence about the holocaust, he knowingly for one used forged material. he sued her. over those claims that he made about her in the book. and they went to trial. and it ended up being a remarkable thing, that trump. because in that trial, she and her legal team, literally had to prove the holocaust happened. over the course of ten super intense weeks, they systematically went through all the fake pseudo-scholarship and all the conspiracy theories, and all the forged john, all the garbage promoted
anger in the skies. a passenger punches a flight attendant twice in the face, breaking her nose. tonight, what the c.e.o. of american airlines is promising to do. former aattorney general say ret her plea to women who put off mammograms during the pandemic. facebook s new name. but, can it divert attention from its recent troubles? children poisoned. decorating dust for birthday cakes contains lead and dangerous metals. and, up from the ashes. a football team rises, after a devastating wildfire. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, yo our viewers in the west, and thank you so much for joining us. in the words of president biden, his presidency will be determined by what happens in the next week. before flying off to europe today, the president unveiled new framework for his build back better plan. we ll explain what made it into the proposal, and what didn t, in just a moment. but first, we
why did president biden say that he has been to the border? peter, as you may have seen there has been reporting that h did drive through the border when he was on the campaign trail in 2008. a drive through, years ago, and, discovered that might even be an overstatement. as more schools try to cancel halloween in the name of equity and inclusion. they re are breaking new details , on the circumstances and a prop gun. that killed the director of photography and enjoyed the director. thursday nights and even town hall performance sent fact checkers scrambling. laura blanchard is digging into the details for us tonight. good evening, lauren. jen psaki had her work cut out for her clarifying or spending some of the answers that president biden gave to cn on thursday at. starting with why he hasn t gon to see the situation on the u.s mexican border himself. he does not need a visit to the border to see what a mess was left by the leicester ministration. speaking amasses