Fauci fires back. The countrys leading Infectious Disease expert cale attackim bizarre and urges his critics to stop this nonsense. Back to school fears. A teacher in texas says she is writing her will before she returns to her classroom this fall. Tonight which states are and arent reopening their schools. Racing to a cure. The encouraging news about Modernas Covid vaccine. But tonight new questions about how long the immunity lasts. Floyds final moments for the first time reporters get access to body cam video from two of the officers charged in George Floyds death. What the new evidence shows. And the 90yearold who climbed a mountain without ever leaving her house. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin tonight as we unfortunately so often do, with more records being shattered nationwide, and another startling projection of how many peop
Good thursday morning, everybody. Its july 16th, and im yasmin vossoughian. Weve got a lot to cover this morningful were going to start in florida where the situation is dire as hospitals struggle for icu beds. Coronavirus cases continue to pile up by the tens of thousands. Yesterday the state hit an abysmal benchmark with more than 300,000 cases. According to the health care administration, hospitals have zero beds available in their intensive care units. Another 40 hospitals have less than 10 available capacity in their icus. In miamidade, one of the hot spots, ten of the hospitals there reported no available icu beds. On tuesday the state recorded 133 deaths, marking its second deadliest day since the start of this pandemic. Meanwhile the Trump Administration saying its going to press forward with the Republican National Convention Set to take place in jackville, florida, next month with possible plans, possible, to move the event outdoors. We also have a newly revised model project
Control in weeks. Tonight inside the meetings, the rage in some communities, the governor of georgia banning all cities and counties from requiring masks. In oklahoma the only governor to test positive for covid, he says he will not mandate masks. But tonight governors in several states who initially resisted now changing course saying the numbers do not lie. The race for a vaccine in the u. S. And the new turn tonight. Are the russians trying to steal intelligence targeting researchers right here in the u. S. . The president holding an event at the white house, the focus not on the virus but the damage control. Vice president pence putting out an image with dr. Anthony fauci after the white house targeted fauci this week. And tonight the new polls, trump versus biden and what they now show. The devastating fire on board that u. S. Navy ship. Overnight the new emergency that led to an evacuation. The investigation into the gruesome death of an Army Paratrooper from ft. Bragg. He disapp
Total was 23,000. Multiply that by three today, just four weeks later. And since late june there have been nine days of record new cases. 38 states are showing a spike in new infections. While the number of americans hospitalized is near the highest levels of the pandemic. In florida with more cases per capita than any other state a spokesperson for the miamidade mayor said that icu capacity is now over 100 , additionally the mayor of miami said the city could see a stayathome order within a week if things dont turn around and now learned that the white house is hiding key data of americans. The center for Public Integrity with a copy of the 359page report prepared for the White House Coronavirus task force. It says 18 states that are in the socalled red zone for new cases and Positivity Rates should roll back the reopenings. The White House Task force led by the president kept it secret hidden from states that so desperately need the information. As the president s top aides lie about
Greatest dream in the world is that joe biden wins because the winner of this vote was decided by a fair and open election. Therefore, i humbly concede to joe biden. The American People have responded and they said to me, youre fired. Get out. Its funny i missed that concession speech from the president. Well said. Good morning and welcome to morning joe on this tuesday, november 17th. We have a lot to get to this morning. The latest with the president ial transition. We have reached the point now where the National Security adviser is openly referring to biden as the president elect. Thats very big news. Plus, some stunning allegations coming out of the state of georgia. The states republican secretary of state claims senator Lindsey Graham asked him if he could throw out absentee ballots that were cast legally. Is that a crime . Graham denies this. Well get into that. The other harsh words georgia secretary of state said about members of his own party and again, this is a republican