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Are hospitalized with covid right now than in the states previous Peak Back in july of 2020. Also this hour, the legislative Victory Lap for democrats continues. Senate democrats just passing that 3. 5 trillion budget overnight. Passed along party lines, above other things it will expand medicare eligibility. Were also watching this podium because we expect to see and hear from Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer about it. Remember the once promising negotiations on a Police Reform Bill . We just got a new interview with a key negotiator. So whats the hold up . Well explain in a few moments. We start with a surge in covid cases across the country. Shannon pettymiss is there. Dasha burns is in east tennessee, and there are already dozens of positive cases among students and staff. Alison barber is in a state that has just run out of Icu Beds. And i want to bring in a doctor. A big thanks to all of you, shannon lets start with you. 15 minutes or so from now president Bide Listen be meet
is safe. what you need to know. cause of death: the medical examiner tells the jury in the derek chauvin murder trial that heart disease and drugs played a role in george floyd s death, but why he believes the interaction with police was more than floyd s body could take. the tiger woods crash, new details tonight: the pill bottle found by investigators and what he told doctors at the hospital. severe weather, millions across the sosouth brace e for powerful storms. death ofof a hip-hop icon. y all gon make me lose my mind remembering rapper dmx. caribbean volcano erupts, ash shoots 20,000 feet in the air, as thousands are evacuated. and on the road, why this 13- year-old boy scout chose to sleep in his backyard for 366 nights. 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 on this friday night. we re going to begin tonight with the worldwide ou
brian nobles with the latest from capitol hill. reporter: it took in to the early morning hours of saturday, but democrats have finally passed that $1.9 trillion covid relief package. a key priority for president biden in the early days of his administration. this is just the first step in the legislative process, it still needs to be passed by the senate. they will likely change the bill before it goes back to the house for final passage. this version of the bill that was passed on saturday, does include that increase to $15 an hour of the federal minimum wage, when it makes its way back to the senate that will likely be ruled out because of a ruling by the senate parliamentarian, that it cannot be passed with aside from the minimum wage, there s a lot of other important things that biden and democrats on capitol hill are really wanting to be a part of the package. that includes an extension of unemployment benefits. which are scheduled to sunset in the middle of march.
the merits. that s no lick rule, chuck cooper who represented a former adviser to senator cruz s campaign, driving a stake into the central argument we re going to hear from the former president s counsel. now, i understand why this fringe constitutional theory is being advanced for the past few weeks, the political right has been searching for a safe harbor, a way to oppose the conviction without passing judgment on his conduct to avoid alienating supporters, without condoning the despicable, unpatriotic, undemocratic behavior. but the truth is no such safe harbor exists. the trial is clearly constitutional by everybody frame of analysis, by still text, historical practice, senate and basic common sense. a president cannot simply resign to avoid accountability for an impeachable offense, nor can they escape judgment by waiting for the final few weeks in office to betray our country. the impeachment powers assigned by the constitution, cannot be defeated by a president wh