Overwhelmed hospital treating patients in the gift shop. Locking down california extends its stayathome orders and l. A. County ramps up restrictions after cases there skyrocket nearly 1,000 . Will movies and tv shows be forced to shut down . Checks and balances President Trump lashes out at members of his party for refusing to back his stimulus plan. What hes calling republicans who dont support his push to send 2,000 checks to americans. Double trouble onethird of the country now in the path of two major storm systems. Will you be ringing in the new year with snow, ice, and rain . Profiling the bomber chilling new video and new details about the nashville bombing. explosion why the f. B. I. Is using profilers to dig in to the suspects past. And meet the mask maker, the artist bringing smiles to faces even when theyre all covered up. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Brennan good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for
Also tonight republicans have to take sides in President Trumps dead end efforts to overturn the election. And with just days to go before those key Senate Runoff races in georgia, one of the candidates is now in quarantine. Tale of the tape, new video shows a woman attacking a black teenager, falsely accusing him of stealing her iphone. His family is demanding her arrest. What she is saying tonight and its not an apology. New years storm, millions are under weather alerts from texas to new york. Well have the latest. History on the hardwood. The extraordinary moment when becky hammon became the first woman to serve as an n. B. A. Head coach. And this isnt kid stuff. Meet the eight year old entrepreneur whos matching style with purpose. This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell. Reporting from the nations capitol. Garrett good evening to our viewers in the west. Norah is off tonight. Im Major Garrett. We begin this new years eve with subdued celebrations as well as a longing to
Im don lemon. We have breaking news. This country hits a Record Number of covid19 hospitalizations for the third day in a row. More than 125,000 people. That as the cdc now projects there could be 424,000 americans dead from the coronavirus by january 23rd. Imagine that. I want you to think about that just for a minute. Its not just a number. Were talking about 425,000 americans who did not have to die. Think of it this way. Thats more than 142 times the number of people who died on 9 11. More than 142 times the number of people who died on 9 11. Hi i had to check my math more than once because it seemed impossible, but its true. The equivalent of 142 9 11s. This virus is killing us by the thousands and thousands, asked hard truth is we arent vaccinating nearly enough people to stop this tragedy. More than 2. 7 million americans have gotten shots in the arm so far. That works out to a daily rate of 53 shots per 100,000 people. But were getting outvaccinated by countries like israel, wi
All those people waiting and waiting to get two boxes of food just to feed their families. And those 2,000 stimulus checks, that could help them. Theyre a casualty of the standoff on capitol hill. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell making it clear his priority is to placate the president. While doing everything he can to ensure the measure doesnt actually come up for a vote. The senate is not going to split apart the three issues that President Trump linked together. So never mind those desperately needed checks. Well just tack on the president s grudge match with twitter and his false claims of voter fraud. False claims of voter fraud. And well just let the bill die. And what is the president doing . What is he doing while americans are suffering . There you go. Right there. Exactly what you knew hed be doing, and that is golfing. Spending his 313th day at one of his golf clubs since he took office. Trump supporters, how do you justify that . Republican lawmakers, how do you justi
Administration in its literal last days contesting the election at every turn, while an Unprecedented Campaign to eradicate a historic plague takes shape by the day. Related or not, its poetic. But as the vaccine teases prematurely at life beyond covid, the Republican Party cannot bring itself to face life without donald trump and its turning on itself in the process. Congress now bracing for an unexpected fight next week when it convenes to certify joe bidens president ial win. Nbc news reporting today that nearly a dozen gop senators are now calling for an emergency audit of the results, planning to vote to reject electors from a handful of socalled disputed states. These gop senators, of course, join the president in that objection as he travels to georgia monday for a rally ahead of Tuesdays Senate runoffs, casting doubt on his massive early vote. But not likely to say anything about the surging covid numbers, the rightful criticism of vaccine rollout on his watch, or the fact that