Go for it. Bill makes you think about Election Night more than two months ago when david perdue in georgia fell by 3 10 of a vote to avoid a runoff. This is the payoff. Dana a lot of republicans didnt show up to vote. Thats what happens. More on this with Newt Gingrich in a moment. Griff jenkins live in washington will they go it alone . I think they are. Dana. Happy friday. Looks like a purely partisan path. History was made when Vice President Kamala Harris cast the tiebreaker advancing the 2 trillion relief plan. The yays are 50, nays are 50. The senate equally divided. The Vice President votes in the affirmative and the concurrent resolution as amended is adopted. This after 15 hours of votearama The Republicans forced a majority to add amendments. More than 850 were filed. In the end 41 roll call votes were taken. Among the ones that passed joni ernst to prohibit increasing the minimum wage during the pandemic. Another blocking Illegal Immigrants from getting Stimulus Checks as we
We want to begin tonight with some breaking news. A stuny and dramatic new peak in cases of coronavirus, throwing parts of the country back into the darkest days of the pandemic. Tonight and risking months of progress in the fight against infeions sce aprwit tens othousands of new ca in thsoand west. I. C. U. Beds in hospitals are now reaching capacity in florida, texas, and arizona. And confirmed cases are rising in more than half of the country, forcing the governors of texas and california to threaten reimposing lockdowns. North carolina says its now pausing its reopening, and in a stunning move, new york governor andrew cuomo, along with the governors of new jersey and connecticut, say theyll now fine anyone visiting from a covid hot spot that doesnt isolate for two weeks. The coronavirus has now killed 122,000 nationwide, and there are more than 2. 3 million confirmed cases in the u. S. On wall street today, a concern that a resurgence of the virus will stall any possible economic
Could be on the verge of a vaccine breakthrough, and our reporting on a promising new milestone. Could a clinic halfway around the world be the best chance to cure the virus . Case dismissed the president celebrates after an Appeals Court drops the charges against his First National security advisor. But, is the case against Michael Flynn really over . Firecracker crackdown. The dangerous new trend, illegal fireworks set off in neighborhoods nationwide, one child burned while watching from his window, a homeless man lit on fire. Tonight, whats being done to stop it. And, fired up the four women who made firefighting history just by doing their jobs. 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 want to begin tonight with some breaking news. A stunning and dramatic new peak in cases of coronavirus, throwing parts of the country back into the darkest days of the pand
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Thousands raise their voices outside the u. S. Embassy in london as anti racism rallies spread across europe. As courbet 19 deaths top 400000 globally scenes of desperation in some countries afghanistan is fast running out of hospital beds. And the libyan warlord after us allies pushed for a ceasefire as the un recognized government prepares for a new advance and poor german footballs a lineup of global stars had a message for the world from across the league showing their solidarity here with the black lives and Matter Movement. There we are here we go lets start this news hour in the United States where the u. S. President donald trump has in the past few minutes just ordered the National Guard to pull out of washington d. C. Thats despite a 12th night of protests. Across the country demanding change after the death of george floyd mr trump says quote everything is under perfect control we have 2 correspondents monitoring the developments across the United States kristen salumi is st