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CBS Evening News

CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 08/12

CBS Evening News

CBS News

News, Daily News

3.5650 Ratings

🗓️ 12 August 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

Tonight on the CBS Evening News podcast -- schools nationwide continue to be impacted by COVID-19, with children being sent home -- plus some schools plan to delay starting altogether. Also -- a first look at what a Biden and Harris Democratic ticket could look like-- plus how the two plan to navigate rebuts from President Trump.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight, back to school on the brink.

0:04.0

For a 16th straight day, the U.S. death toll reaches an average of 1,000 deaths, the daunting choices facing parents.

0:12.2

Tonight, one of the country's biggest school systems goes virtual.

0:15.5

Classrooms that had just reopened now tell students to quarantine.

0:19.8

Plus, from the Masters to football, the changes

0:21.9

to the fall sports season just announced. Increasing infections. Texas surpasses half a million

0:28.5

cases of coronavirus as one in four people tested are positive. Tonight, the three major

0:34.6

cities now projected to be hotspots this fall.

0:38.2

Plus, did a shortage of protective gear in California lead to nearly 16,000 essential workers getting sick?

0:45.0

The new Democratic ticket makes its debut.

0:48.3

And I couldn't be prouder to be by his side.

0:51.6

Firing off on President Trump and laying out their vision for the next four years.

0:57.5

Going on the offensive.

0:59.5

President Trump launches fresh attacks against his new rivals.

1:03.2

Plus, why is the president's son-in-law meeting with Kanye West?

1:07.9

K-9 attack.

1:09.0

Why did police order a dog to bite a black man in his own backyard even after he was on the ground?

1:16.9

Remembering Sumner Redstone. The media titan who turned drive-in theaters into a multimedia empire passes away.

1:24.9

Tonight, we look back at his life, career, and that famous catchphrase,

1:29.3

content is king. And the show must go on. We'll show you how technology saved the day for young

1:36.5

musicians sidelined by the pandemic.

1:41.6

This is the CBS evening news with Nora O'Donnell, reporting from the nation's capital.

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