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holiday gift delivery? breaking with the president. senate majority leader mitch mcconnell congratulates joe biden and kamala harris. the electoral college has spoken. o donnell: but president trump still won t concede. plus what role the president- elect wants for mayor pete in his cabinet. dire warning: more than a dozen states tell cbs news they don t have the money to handle covid testing, contact tracing or administering a vaccine. new body-cam video in the case of ahmaud arbery taken moments after his death, how it contradicts the story told by one of the men charged with arbrey s murder. dramatic videos rescuers free a family from a submerged car. plus how a nine-year-old makes sense of the pandemic by watching the news. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. we re going to begin tonight with another breakthrough in the fight a ....
grief and devastated survivors. as nations around the world slowly emerge from their lockdowns, we have hit another disturbing milestone in the spread of coronavirus. johns hopkins university reporting the number of cases around the world topped 4 million on saturday. nearly 280,000 people have died. and it didn t take long to get to this point. you can see how fast the pandemic spread after the first million cases were confirmed early last month. it took less than two weeks to reach the next million. and the next and the next. about one third of those cases, 1.3 million, are of course, in the united states. with more than 78,000 lives now lost. almost every state in the u.s. will be back in business by monday to some extent. people in los angeles allowed to golf and hike again this weekend. and, as the u.s. balances opening back up with staying safe, the pandemic is hitting close to home. some of the most prominent experts leading the administration s response to the ....
it s amazing to look at this family and know she s responsible for all of this, and a piece of her will live in all of us. she s helped molded us into the men, women, uncles, aunts, mothers, and fathers, that we all are today. i m going to miss her calling me after the 1:00 and 4:00 games during football seasons to confirm the results for her pool. i m going to miss surprising her with a visit. i ll miss making her laugh. i ll miss the way that she would smile at me when we would make eye contact across the room at family parties. i ll miss her singing happy birthday over the phone to me every year. i and our entire family are going to miss our nana. we love you. hi, jamie. it s just nana. i called to talk to you. i love you. beautiful tribute to a wonderful woman who is very much loved and missed. what an incredible life she lived. our thoughts go out to all the families who lost loved ones due to the coronavirus. the news continues right now. i want to hand ....
i want to hand it over to chris for cuomo prime time. chris? as always, coop, thank you for sharing the memories, man. really such a mindsetter for all of us. thank you. i am chris cuomo. time for me to pick up the torch and my show, too, will be committed to giving respect to the memory of nose who athose wt by making sure they don t die in vain. so, welcome to prime time. let s be clear with each other. there s no time to pretend. we have not met the moment. we have not prevailed on testing. none of the states that have re-opened, none, has the capacity to test and trace the way they need to. people still can t even get tested in too many hotspots. this is the reality, and until this president starts taking desperate actions instead of just makes desperate claims, you can t expect any of us to have the confidence we need in this country to re-open. that only comes with the truth that testing and tracing can provide. also tonight, we will be finding facts in ar ....
stealing secrets. cbs news learns the u.s. plans to warn china to keep their hackers away from our vital chccine research. the most valuable intellectual property in the world right now is to do with covid vaccines. o donnell: shoddy medical masks. we investigate how substandard masks from china are getting into america s supply chain. are they endangering the health and safety of our first responders? and tonight, we ll look back at the lives of two remarkable entertainers: little richard and jerry stiller, who made us smile and brought us joy for decades. this is the cbs evening news from the nats capital.reporting going inonig atood e the white house where masks are now mandatory for all staff members and visitors. the new rule comes after two aides, including the president s valet and the vice president s press secretary, tested positive for coronavirus. tonight, the nation s top infectious disease expert, along with the heads of the c.d.c. and f.d.a., are all ....