our interview with attorney general bill barr, tonight. reporter: does the fact remain that he lied? people sometimes plead to things that turn out not to be crimes. o donnell: easing the lockdown: california s governor puts out a plan to reopen just before mother s day. xad, a texas salon owner is released after being jailed for reopening too early. meatplants crisis: employees are wary to return to work, with many still sick. the emotional daughter of a worker who has been on a ventilator for weeks. she never missed her work, except, she s sick. o donnell: racing to a cure : a new coronavirus vaccine in development passes a crucial step, months early. and, our video salute to moms in quarantine tonight, keeping it together when everyone else is losing it. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. there s new evidence tonight that no one, not even the president
that no one, not even the president, is safe from coronavirus. the white house now confirms one of president trump s personal valets has tested positive for covid-19. cbs news has learned the valet, a member of the navy, assigned to work at the white house, served the president his meals. and while officials say the president has tested negative, the exposure is raising questions about whether the commander in chief should be required to follow his own administration s guidelines and quarantine for two weeks. the president s valet is now among the more than 1.2 million confirmed cases here in the u.s. more than 75,000 have died nationwide in the past two months. and as we come on the air tonight, there is yet another sobering number that illustrates the toll of the virus: 3.2 million more americans filed for unemployment in the last week, pushing the total number out of work since the crisis began to 33.5 million. the unemployment rate, which is due out tomorrow, has not been
announcer: from nbc news, this is today with matt lauer and savannah guthrie live from studio 1-a in rockefeller plaza. and welcome to today on a monday morning, it s martin luther king day. good morning, i m savannah guthrie. and i m carson daly. alongside dylan dreyer and natalie morales. matt and al have the morning off. super bowl xlviii, the stage is set here in new york. and now that the polar vortex not come back. i know. hopefully we re in the clear from that. 49ers/broncos, everybody happy with the match-up? no. patriots lost, i m not happy at all. trying to make dylan cry. congratulations, seattle. rivalry. yeah. more on this big game coming up, today s top story. and it s a video that s surfaced from a terror group vowing to strike during the winter olympics in sochi. with 17 days to go now, is russian security ready? and why are u.s. officials complaining about a lack of cooperation? let s get right to nbc s chief foreign correspondent
remain that he lied? people sometimes plead to things that turn out not to be crimes. o donnell: easing the lockdown: california s governor puts out a plan to reopen just before mother s day. xad, a texas salon owner is released after being jailed for reopening too early. meatplants crisis: employees are wary to return to work, with many still sick. the emotional daughter of a worker who has been on a ventilator for weeks. she never missed her work, except, she s sick. o donnell: racing to a cure : a new coronavirus vaccine in development passes a crucial step, months early. and, our video salute to moms in quarantine tonight, keeping it together when everyone else is losing it. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening, and thank you for joining us. there s new evidence tonight that no one, not even the president, is safe from coronavirus. the white house now confirms one of president trump s
told new graduates on saturday that america s leaders, quote, aren t even pretending to be in charge. let s take a quick look at some of the numbers. johns hopkins university reporting more than 4.6 million cases, more than 300,000, deaths. about one-third of those deaths are in the united states. the trump administration firing back defending the president s handling of the virus saying that he kept those numbers from being higher. cnn s jeremy diamond with more on the war of words. reporter: for the second time in two weeks, former president barack obama is speaking out against the trump administration s response to the coronavirus pandemic. this time speaking up publicly. more than anything, this pandemic has fully finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they re doing. a lot of them aren t even pretending to be in charge. reporter: that criticism came a week after president obama criticized the trump administration s re