Storm isaias lashed the east coast today. The powerful storm spawned at least 20 tornadoes, unleashing powerful winds and heavy rains on nearly a third of all americans. From new york to North Carolina the storm downed power lines and sparked fires, leaving in its wake flash flooding and destroyed homes. In maryland and in queens, two people were killed when their cars were crushed by falling trees. Tonight, whats left of the storm is racing through new england as the cleanup begins. At the same time, halfway around the world, nearly 80 people are dead after two explosions rocked beirut, lebanon, sending what looked like a Mushroom Cloud into the sky. Tonight, thousands are injured, and the death toll is expected to grow after the blast flattened much of that citys port. And while those explosions and the storm are reminders of the destructive power of man and mother nature, as we come on the air, there is new evidence of the devastation being caused by the coronavirus. Theres new Gove
Cops descend on this l. A. Mansion after hundreds party and defy state rules. Plus, christmas without the rockettes for the first time in nearly 90 years. Racing to a cure could antibodies mass produced in the lab be the next best thing to a Coronavirus Vaccine . Plus promising early results in one of those vaccine trials. The president on the staggering death toll, 1,000 deaths a day from covid19. Theyre dying, thats true, and you had it is what it is. Odonnell the stunning interview tonight. And well end tonight with the magical moment when a little girl hears her moms voice for the very first time. 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. Tonight, at least five people are dead, dozens more are injured, and millions are without power after Tropical Storm isaias lashed the east coast today. The powerful storm spawned at least 20 tornadoes, unleashing powerful wi
Wednesday is over 5,300. While its a slight dip, it is the second highest daily total for the state since the pandemic began. Governor newsom began his press Conference Today reinforcing a family message. Were still in the first wave of this pandemic. We are not in the second ve. A wave that is clearly growing. 56,000 new covid cases reported in california in just the past two weeks. And in the last two weeks, a 32 spike in new hospitalizations. Lets break it all down. More than 5,000 cases reported on monday. Jumping to more than 7100 on tuesday. Dipping to 5,300 on wednesday. What exactly is causing the increase . Yes. The cases have gone way up. But a lot of those are outbreaks and some of it is just more efficient case finding. This is the ucsf leading epidemiologist. He explains the latest spikes indicate cases identified within the last five days. So these are from reason exposures, maybe as reason as last weekend. These are not part of the protests. I can tell you that. And thes
Experienced slaevry firsthand before they passed away. They had created through that project that lasted only a few years, 1936 to 1939, that project created the largest repository of exslave testimony we have in the united states, winding up with over 2300 exslave interviews that are now largely Available Online at the library of congress website. Anyone who is interested can go in and use those. Scholars have used them to dramatically transform the way they write about the history of slavery and emancipation and kind of reconsider that. My book took a slightly different turn or different tact by looking at the exslave collection as its known to look at the racial politics of the 1930s and really to see what does it tell us about race and the federal government and attempts to rewrite a National Historical narrative during the kind of moment of economic crisis and kind of a nationwide crisis in terms of the sense of national identity. What are the racial politics at the time . Well, y
Now. A very good Tuesday Morning to you. Thanks for joining us. Im laura garcia. And im marcus washington. Mike will have a look at the commute in just a bit. First, lets start out with meteorologist kari hall. Coming in today, dry windows. Yes, its nice and dry for us this morning. Only a slight chance of some popup showers and a few isolated thunderstorms today. The storm system is still very close by the bay area, its something well have to watch but for the most part we are starting out dry with temperatures in the low 50s in san jose and well see it make it into the upper 60s and low 70s. Very nice. We do have a warmup in our forecast as we head into memorial day weekend. More on that is coming up in a few minutes, marcus. Thanks, kari. This morning another bay area county will open meaning more changes for millions more people. Phase two allows Retail Stores to provide things like Curbside Pickup, manufacturing can resume, and some offices are allowed to reopen. Entering that pha