on the brink: protests in hong kong turn violent as china cracks down on dissent. tonight: why beijing is blaming the u.s. for stoking an uprising and warning of a new cold war. charth horrific n video showing a mother attempting to drown her autistic son before laterkiappe profiles in service: america s tough military officer on why memorial day is personal for him. i have soldiers that are buried here that died under my command. brennan: and countdown to history. the return of u.s. space flight as astronauts prepare to blast off again from american soil. off again from american soil. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donneell reporting from the nation s capitol. brennan: good evening and thank you for joining us. norah is off tonight. i m margaret brennan. as americans observed this muted memorial day with many of the holiday curtailed the country moved closer to a milestone nearly unimaginable just two months ago. as we come on the air tonight, deaths s
world s greatest sports starts including michael phelps. more on that in just a bit. we want to begin with the race for the white house. the country wakes up this morning with a new snapshot of where the presidential election stands. our latest nbc news/ wall street journal poll shows hillary clinton beating trump by nine points. 47% for clinton, 38% for trump. that is nearly double the lead last month before the political convention. and that margin remains in a four libertarian gary johnson and green party nominee jill stein. this comes as headlines say republicans are panicked and in search for alternatives less than 100 days before election day. even house speaker paul ryan admitted trump s bid is strange since the convention. in an interview, ryan defends his endorsement but says the endorsement is not a blank check. if i see and hear things i i think i have a duty as a republican leader to defend republican principles and our party s brand. none of these things are e
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burgdorf. plus, chapel hill finds redemption. big night. first, senate republicans are preparing to invoke the so-called nuclear option as the confirmation of president trump s supreme court nominee neil gorsuch heads toward a dramatic final vote. yesterday the senate judiciary committee approved gorsuch s nomination in an 11-9 vote. it went along party lines. that vote essentially served as a preview of what will likely be a seismic contentious vote by the full senate. at some point today mitch mcconnell will file the proceeding to end debate on gorsuch s nomination with hopes of a final vote by friday, but 42 democrats have publicly announced their opposition to the nomination and support for a fill buster. in response, senator mcconnell has left open the option of changing the senate rules so that gorsuch, and potentially future supreme court nominees k pass the senate with a simple majority instead of a 60-vote threshold. those likely to fundamentally reshape the way