Tonight the county medical examiner is calling his death a homing restrained by police. The georgia family says a private autopsy found he wasn officers kneeled on his neck and body for more than eight minutes. Tonight protesters calling for justice for floyd are already out in force nationwide. Including thousands marching through the streets of baltimore tonight. Hundreds are also gathering outside of the white house, where military vehicles and troops are now surrounding the complex there. As we come on the air, 23 states as well as the mayor of d. C. Have called up the national g new york, washington,s, and los angeles, have curfews. It is all part of an effort to prevent the type of looting, vandalism, and fires that destroyed neighborhoods across the country this week. Well, tonight the president is speaking out about the crisis after blasting the natve corlr t they looked weak and that they needed to dominate the protesters, even as many of them called on him to deescalate the s
A breath. He needed a breath of air. Odonnell how will this change the investigation . Plus the emotional scene as floyds brother visits his memorial and pleads for an end to the violence. And with scenes like these across america, all of it during d spread rapidly. Tonight that the virus could spread rapidly. How can ica move fors dioment . My conversation tonight with ation tonight withunch from the historian lonnie bunch from the smithsonian. Smithsonian. This is cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell, reporting from the Nations Capital. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. Well begin tonight with breaking news. A nation on edge and bracing for another night of protests. After a weekend that saw Peaceful Demonstrations along with looting and violent clashes in cities coast to coast. Tonight the president says hes calling up thousands and thousands of heavily armed soldiers in washington, and hes calling on all of the nations governors to deploy the National Guard to do
Crude Oil Last Week which hit the highest interday wti up to 63. 72 an barrel ice brent crude is up to 69. 49. Gold hit a nearly fourmonth high last week posting its eighth straight positive session on friday. Longest daily winning streak since june of 2019 right now gold price is up another 1. 75 to 1,579. 60 an ounce. Our top story, tensions with iran escalating over the weekend. Eamon javers has the latest from washington good morning. Good morning, joe the iranians were vowing revenge over the weekend the administration took to television to explain its decision to kill that iranian general who was in iraq last week and to offer an explanation for what its plan is Going Forward. Mike pompeo said the administration is prepared and ready to handle anything that the iranians respond with. Heres what he said. If the American People should know that we have prepared for this, that we are ready well talk cultural that our responses are lawful and the president will take every action nece
Venezuela but i think there are many other ways we can be involved before we actually engage troops. So i think its important that it comes to congress, we talk about it, we have a thorough discussion before we move forward with any of those types of activities. Whats happening in venezuela is the result of socialist system completely collapsing. As we celebrate Ronald Reagan this week and at cpac, its important to look at why america want to eradicate communism throughout the world. Why its beneficial to American Interest to democratic allies who believe in the free market. Can you talk a little bit about how having juan guaido takeback venezuela and give back its wealth . Be used to be a very wealthy country and implementing more of a free market system turning venezuela into an ally to the United States would be better than having maduro stick. Was no question of that and were supporting the right guy. Venezuela just not too long ago was one of the richest nations there was in the w