Disease expert calling recent white house attacks on him bizarre and urges his critics to stop this nonsense. Back to school fears. A teacher in texas says she is writing her will before she returns to her classroom this fall. Tonight which states are and arent reopening their schools. Racing to a cure. The encouraging news about Modernas Covid vaccine. But tonight new questions about how long the immunity lasts. Floyds fi first time reporters get access to body cam video from two of the officers charged in George Floyds death. What the new evidence shows. And the 90yearold who climbed a mountain without ever leav her house. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capitol. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin tonight as we unfortunately so often do, with more records being shattered nationwide, and another startling projection of how many people will likely be killed by the coronavirus
We are going to begin tonight as we unfortunately so often do, with more records being shattered nationwide. And another startling projection of how many people will likely be killed by the coronavirus in the coming months. Tonight one of the leading models used by the white house says to expect nearly 90,000 more americans to die from the virus by november 1st. Well, that alarming report comes as a surge of infections sweeping the u. S. Keeps expanding. 41 states are now seeing spikes. More than 67,000 new cases were reported nationwide in just the past 24 hours. That is yet another one day record. In florida where infections have grown by more than 100,000. In a little over a week, lines to get tested just keep getting longer. Well, tonight the countrys largest retailer walmart and its largest grocery chain kroger say theyll start mandating masks for customers in all of their stores. Several states including alabama are also issuing orders requiring face coverings. Now as the pandemi
You can send us a text at 2027488003 and if you do, please include your name and where you are from. Otherwise catch up with us on social media. A very good sunday morning to you. We take you to the coronavirus dashboard from Johns Hopkins university. The numbers 10 million cases worldwide, the United States counting for a quarter of those and 125,000 deaths. Amid renewed focus on the spread of this virus we are talking about masks this morning asking if you wear them. The topic came up friday at a hearing of the House Oversight committee. This is congressman jamie raskin talking to his fellow republican green. Sman mark [video clip] the mask is not to protect me. It is to protect other people in the event i am infected and the majority of infections are of presymptomatic. We had members of congress who did not know they had it in any of us would do that if that were the rule. Why is this complicated . There is one thing we can do to protect other people. It does not cost us anything.
Money, your money, your life, your future. Now becky quick. We begin with space travel. The weekendmarks 50 years sinc man walked on the moon now half a century later theres a push to explore the final prfrontier there is a lot of private enterprise working on the race to space. 50 years ago the eagle has landed. The first humans stepped foot on the moon the apollo 11 mission, cinched americas dominance in Space Companies like spacex using rockets to go into orbit now has come the time for us to make the next giant leap and return american astronauts to the moon. Nasas new program is artemis. It would send americans back in five years, a fete that can only be achieved with the private sector were in an entrepreneurial space race. Weve gone to 476 companies today, theyve raised 22 billion of equity capital. One startup, astro bottic. Its a railroad to the moon. It builds robotic landers, it has almost 100 million in contracts, including nasa. We offer nasa an opportunity to fly payloads
The National Book festival celebrating the library of congress, the champions of the book, they are also an amazing archival resource and are champions for the kind of Archival Research that goes into writing this sort of history that i wrote and continue to write that could not be done without these amazing washington inste at the Washington Convention center. We are now joined by author chasten buttigieg. His book i have something to tell you came out originally in 2020. The young adults version came out this year. Chasten buttigieg, you tell a story at the beginning of the book about going from starbucks to washington, d. C. In 18 years. What happened . Chasten the stickiness of starbucks helps if you adjust to washington, d. C. I fell in love with the mayor and did not see my life going from Teaching Middle School to running for president. But it has changed life in many ways. I really miss teaching but i am also very happy to be on tour with this oak. I feel like im in a larger cl