we are scared as black people in america. o donnell: 2020: america decides. tonight s republican national convention will feature first lady melania trump from the rose garden, and secretary of state mike pompeo shatters lady melania trump from the rose gard tradition with a political speech from jerusalem. only on cbs: the f.d.a. commissioner backtracks. why dr. stephen hahn now says data he shared was misleading. and, some experts are experts are concerned the administration may politicize a vaccine. nationwide laptop shortage. as kids go back to school remotely, why schools are having trouble buying computers. jerry falwell, jr. embroiled in scandal. the man who helped deliver trump the evangelical vote in 2016, tonight speaks to cbs news. what he says about the pool s about the poolleges a seven- year-long affair with falwell and his wife. and finally, meet a man who went from security guard to medical student, at the very same hospital. this is the cbs evening new
business. was it illegal? plus, we look at melania trump s softer tone amongst other speakers. long road back in our school matters series. how bus drivers are risking their lives and trying to keep kids safe during the pandemic. that s what they do. first here is today s eye opener. it s your world in 90 seconds. anticipated to be a category 3 hurricane. be prepared for the possibility that it could increase to be a category 4 hurricane. more than half a million people are ordered to evacuate as the national hurricane center warns of life-threatening storm surge. i m just saying it s a possibility it could be a cat 4. cat 4s are cat stroesk. shooting of an unarmed man by police sparked demonstrations across the country. black young man shot seven times in the back and hasn t come up for an answer or a comment at this point? i urge people to come together in a civil manner. day two of the republican national convention was a family affair. my father wi
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out of the meticulous fact-checking that went into covering the first night of a republican convention. and say what you will about republican conventions of the past, and i was a part of a lot of them, they sought to hugh to the facts and make their case from there. this was a totally different undertaking. that s right. there may be some exaggeration that comes with every political convention but what we saw last night was a real list of misleading statements. everything from the fact that joe biden wants to abolish the police to the fact that president obama wants to abolish the suburbs to the fact that president trump was quickly responding to the coronavirus and did all that he could in the very beginning to try to thwart the virus. we know the president downplayed the virus. he talked about the fact it was going to disappear miraculously. the president in his first speech at the republican national convention said he was dealing with the virus and it was going away th
good morning, it is august 29th, i m ali velshi. peaceful protests continued overnight in kenosha, wisconsin, following the police shooting of jacob blake jr. the 29-year-old black man was shot seven times by an officer. state officials have said that blake had told police he had a knife in his car and the knife was in fact recovered from the car but they have not offered any clear information on how or whether that knife had anything to do with police attempts to detain blake or the decision to shoot him in the back seven times. a lawyer for blake s family has said that blake was not carrying a knife and that he posed no threat to police. it s just the latest in the summer of racial reckoning that featured nationwide protests following the killing of george floyd. blake s father demanding justice for his son, who though paralyzed, according to his family, was shackled to his bed in the hospital. once they didn t succeed killing him, well, now we got to besmirch him. so the