Cbs news in moscow. Covid cases are surging nationwide. Infections and deaths set new record. This is jeopardy. We remember the amazing alex trebek. Let us play jeopardy. The man with all the answers dead at 80. This is the cbs overnight news. Good evening everyone, im Major Garrett in new york. Today, president elect joe biden attended mass and visited his sons grave, he began worker on his transition. Tomorrow, mr. Biden, only the second catholic to win the presidency is set to announce a Coronavirus Task force to prepare him for the work ahead. Much has to be done. Last week was the worst ever in terms of new cases. Hospitals are stressed. The death toll keeps rising. Bidens victory was in part powered by voters critical of President Trumps handling of the pandemic and his approach to Public Health precautions. The president s temperment alienated voters in kay states. Today the president tweeted more false claims about fraud and theft of an election. He also played golf. The 210th
We were hearing the National Media talk about black folks. Vote but more importantly we wanted to build power in our community so we could have impact on policies that were impacting us. So we started black voters find and black in order to have a really robust democracy you have to do work to engage voters on the ground level, on the local level so that they could chip the policies, and take a chip representation for the communities. Why did your organizing approach look like this year . With did you do at on the ground to get more black voters to not only register, but the show up and vote. A couple of things. When we did start this, year we started into thousand 16 and we never stopped. One of our things is cant, stop wont stop. Oftentimes in the black community you often see people come around election time, right, and its not like if a friend who only close when they want something, you never excited to see them. But for us the way that we felt we would build power is that we woul
day-to-day. all right, welcome to cross connection everyone. i am tiffany cross, and you just heard a little advice from former president barack obama. as president biden is hitting the campaign trail, trying to convince voters that the democratic party can t help. because trust me, they need more money. it does not mean more problems. people can definitely use if you are going to the bank. account inflation and the economy are at the top issues that fish voters care about. but listen, abortion rights, immigration, and protecting our democracy are all on the ballot to. so if you don t think you impact politics, believe, we politics definitely impacts. you get in that game and by all means. good morning, it. tiffany thank you for having. we every time you re on the show. we have so many things to talk, about not a lot of talk. time silica get off, you have seen a lot of the republican attack ads and i think there are some bad faith efforts out there to pin the economy on t
results of a free election. they re working right now, as i speak, in state after state to give power to the elections in americas. they are empowering election deniers to undermine democracy itself. the president did somewhat soft in that message on friday. take a listen. [inaudible] he did repeat that election deniers and those who fought for the denial are a threat to democracy. it is going every day. join me now is the host of a daily digital show, hashtag rolling martin. this is the cofounder of the black voters matter fund. very excited to have this panel breakdown president biden s speech. i want to kick it off with you, what do you think, the joe biden capture the soul of america on thursday night? i think he did three things. one of, not it was one of his strongest speeches. i think he was able to capture the idea of hope. the last two years have been very difficult for people. having a sense of hope, that and itself he s a really good job. the second thing i t
i was telling my friend to not talk. [speaking spanish] she cried a lot. according to the cdc, guns are now the leading cause of death among children than adolescents in america. it jumps a 30% between 2019 and 2020. according to the washington post, more than 311,000 students have experienced gun violence at school since columbine, in 1999. of course, republicans are suggesting to keep the schools as virtual prisons to deal with this problem. we need serious funding to upgrade our schools. this is to install bulletproof doors and locking classroom doors ultimately. as we all know, what s stops, armed, that guys, is armed good guys. i hate to break it to cancun crews there but that the armed guys were not much help. the police admit to a stunning string of failures. 19 police officers waited in the hallway for nearly an hour as these children were trapped with a gunman, before even attempting to breach the classroom. why the hesitation? one lieutenant saying that they