Death toll, as patients ar turned away and die while waiting for oxygen. School bus, hijacked. An army trainee gets on board a bus with his armyissued rifle and holds 18 children hostage. New Voting Restrictions. Floridas governor signs a new law adding hurdles to voting by mail, and restricting the use of drop boxs. Rising hate crimes. More shocking attacks on asian americans, including a woman hit with a hammer. Tonight, the new action being taby the. H th rst alfemale marine ploori san. And, writing her own ticket meet a High School Senior who was accepted to 29 colleges. 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 tonight with significant and positive new numbers showing a dramatic turn in the fight against the coronavirus nationwide. As we come on the air tonight, the u. S. Has reached a seven month low in new infections of the virus. Hospi
I want to discuss the actions that i have taken towards protecting our more vulnerable populations, specifically focused on the black community who have suffered a vastly disproportionate effect of covid19. Years and decades after this pandemic, we will surely look back and examine all of the biological and medical questions about the virus. The data accumulating over the last few weeks has shined a bright light on what seemed like a uniquely american problem. Have told you what it would highlight as long as it drew a picture. Generations of systemic disadvantages health care of communities in color and black unities in particular are now amplified in this crisis. In the city of chicago, and greater st. Louis, across our state and nation. First, we need more ubiquitous test. We are working hard to expand our Testing Capacity and thinking hard about where and how these tests are available. I have end, my team and worked to set up a partnership in the city of chicago and with more qualif
You can also send us a text this morning, 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from, and otherwise catch up with us on social media. That is facebook. Com cspan and cspanwj. A very good saturday morning to you. You can start calling in now if you are an essential worker in this country. As you are calling in, we show you this map from abc news of the 46 states and washington, d. C. That have enacted policies to close nonessential businesses in an effort to slow the spread of coronavirus. The exact number of essential by. Oyees, hard to come there is an estimate from the Brookings Institution that relied on department of Homeland Security designations of essential. Atut 7 million employees Grocery Stores, pharmacies, and bigbox stores. When it comes to the state of california, the Public Policy institute of california estimates that in a typical year, roughly one third to one half of californias labor force is employed in essential operations. The standard
Join us on washington journal primetime monday night, 8 00 p. M. Eastern on cspan. Illinois governor jb pritzker gave an update on how his state is dealing with the coronavirus pandemic. This is about an hour. Good afternoon and thank you for joining todays public update. I am here with dr. Horace smith, dr. Tor and a doctor suzette mckinney, executive director of the Illinois Medical District and the operations lead for our alternate care facilities across chicago and the state, and bishop simon gordon,. I want to discuss the actions i our taken toward protecting more vulnerable populations, specifically focused on the black community, who have focused a disproportionate effect of covid19. For months, years, and even decades after we defeat this pandemic, we will surely look back and examine the biological and medical questions about this virus. Beyond that, we need to examine what americans learned about ourselves. The data accumulating over the last few weeks has shined a bright lig
questions from children. it comes as concerns over the president s age and ability to did the job if re-elected. hello, welcome. i m sandra smith. we have made it to friday. john, hi. did you say friday? we call it fri-yay here in washington. the president struggling with fairly simple questions about his grandchildren and even the last country that he visited during a take your child to work event at the white house yesterday. where are your grandsons or granddaughters? i have one in new york, two in philadelphia, or three no, three, i have one granddaughter who is, i don t know the last country i traveled, thinking what the last one i was in. um i was yeah, you are right, ireland. that s where it was. i heard you had to get back to the oval office. by the way, the one thing i thought when i got to be president, i get to give orders. but i take more orders than i ever did and you are right. sandra: all right. a few interesting moments and exchanges there.