this is jeopardy! introducing today s contestants a software engineer from arlington, virginia. an librarian from austin, texas. and our returning champion, a policy researcher and advisor from cambridge, massachusetts. .whose 1-day cash winnings total. and now here is the host of jeopardy! alex trebek! thank you, johnny. thank you, ladies and gentlemen. hi, folks. welcome to our program. this has been a great week for jeopardy! champions. we ve had three players who, in their initial appearances, won big. brendan, picking up $38,200 on yesterday s show. allison and steven, this is your initial appearance. it could happen to you as well. let s see if it does. good luck. here we go. here are the categories now for the first round of play, the jeopardy! round. next. ah. all right, brendan, start. let s do literary characters for $800. - allison. - who is watson? - dr. watson, yes. - literary characters for $200. - steven. - who is hermione? - yes. - literary characters
difference. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. pelley: it is now the trump economy, and the numbers out today show that the recovery that began eight years ago is continuing on his watch. in february, president trump s first full month on the job, the economy created 235,000 jobs, and the unemployment rate ticked down to 4.7%. all the more impressive if you believe what candidate trump claimed the rate was just a year earlier. don t believe those phony numbers when you hear 4.9 and 5% unemployment. the numbers probably 28, 29, as high as 35, in fact, even heard recently 42%. pelley: well, today, the white house didn t think the numbers were phony, and we have more now from jim axelrod. reporter: they are hiring once again at quality controlled manufacturing, which supplies parts to the aerospace industry. he controls both of these machines. reporter: by the end of this month, chief operating officer rick urban will have i
who to vote for and whether to vote at all. it s against that backdrop that joe biden and donald trump are set to face off. but tonight s debate also comes at a moment when the country is learning more than it has ever known before about the charade that donald trump s persona as a successful businessman really is. sure, he is rich, by any standard, but he has more debt and more loans soon coming due than previously understood at a time when u.s. national security is threatened by emboldened adversaries who see the united states under donald trump as having failed to contain the coronavirus and as rife with divisions internally and among partisan and cultural lines. there s new reporting in the times that builds on their blockbuster reporting yesterday that said that trump basically paid no taxes. today s reporting lays out more of the scam of the reality tv version of donald trump s biography. when it comes to trump s attempts throughout his political career to paint himse
pelley: good evening. this is our western edition. retired pro football players are again accusing the nfl of putting profits ahead of their health. more than 500 joined a lawsuit against the league today, claiming it illegally supplied them with pain-killing narcotics so they could continue to play, despite injuries. some say they were never told they had injuries. all of this, they say, led to serious, long-term health problems, including drug addiction. the suit comes less than a year after the nfl agreed to pay $765 million to settle suits accuse the league of concealing the risk of head injuries. jim axelrod has details of the new accusations. reporter: jeremy newberry played eight years at center for the san francisco 49ers. according to the lawsuit, the 38- year-old suffers from renal failure, high blood pressure, and violent headaches because of the all the pain medication he was given by team doctors and trainers to get him on the field. some games, i m taking
information about what happened during the brief and hotly contested incident. we ll learn all of it tonight. reporter: on a day protesters marched to the st. louis county prosecutor s office building, missouri s governor declared a state of emergency in preparation for whatever may come when the grand jury releases its decision on whether or not to indict officer darren wilson in the killing of unarmed teen michael brown. the st. louis mayor welcomed the decision. i agree with the governor s decision. this is why, first of all, we don t know what s going to happen or when it s going to happen or what the decision is going to be or what the reaction is going to be. i think we need to make sure that we are prepared for whatever may happen. reporter: but the governor s actions has angered some protesters who say their demonstrations have been peaceful for weeks and his decision is premature. the decision comes after these images of officer darren wilson were released this