CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 08/25
CBS Evening News
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3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 25 August 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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On tonight's CBS Evening News podcast -- the latest on Hurricane Laura -- now expected to make landfall as at least a category 3 hurricane. Also -- day two of the Republican National Convention -- what to expect from First Lady Melania Trump in her speech later tonight.
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| 0:30.7 | Tonight, the two major stories as we come on the air, the hurricane that has over 20 million |
| 0:35.5 | people in its path and could hit Wednesday as a |
| 0:38.4 | category three. Plus the second night of protests in Wisconsin following Jacob Blake's shooting. |
| 0:44.4 | His family saying tonight, Jacob may never walk again. |
| 0:49.0 | Hurricane Laura, predicted to be a beast of a storm, with life-threatening storm surge and dangerous winds. |
| 0:56.7 | Law enforcement going door to door as more than half a million are ordered to evacuate. |
| 1:02.4 | A family's anguish. |
| 1:04.2 | They shot my son seven times. |
| 1:11.3 | Jacob Blake's parents asked for justice as his mother denounces violence. |
| 1:16.0 | And basketball superstar LeBron James condemns the police shooting. |
| 1:20.5 | We are scared as black people in America. |
| 1:23.7 | 2020, America decides tonight's Republican National Convention will feature First Lady Melania Trump |
| 1:30.4 | from the Rose Garden. And Secretary of State Mike Pompeo shatters tradition with a political speech |
| 1:37.2 | from Jerusalem. Only on CBS, the FDA Commissioner backtracks. By Dr. Stephen Hahn now says data he shared was misleading. |
| 1:47.6 | And some experts are concerned the administration may politicize a vaccine. |
| 1:53.2 | Nationwide laptop shortage as kids go back to school remotely, |
| 1:58.2 | why schools are having trouble buying computers. |
| 2:04.7 | Jerry Falwell Jr. embroiled in scandal. |
| 2:11.7 | The man who helped deliver Trump the evangelical vote in 2016 tonight speaks to CBS News, what he says about the pool attendant who alleges a seven-year-long affair with Falwell and his wife. |
| 2:18.1 | And finally, meet a man who went from security guard to medical student at the very same hospital. |
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