CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 08/27
CBS Evening News
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3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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On tonight's CBS Evening News podcast -- Hurricane Laura's path of destruction - with over half a million without power, and at least four deaths - plus the latest on the chemical plant fire. Also -- a testing breakthrough - a five dollar antigen test wins approval amidst criticism of the new CDC guidelines.
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, widespread destruction, the aftermath of Hurricane Laura. |
| 0:05.6 | Multiple fatalities after the powerful storms slammed the Gulf Coast, leaving nearly a million without power. |
| 0:13.2 | The stunning images from above. |
| 0:15.5 | Everywhere you look, there is damage. |
| 0:18.2 | The hurricane cuts through Louisiana like a buzzsaw with 150 mile an hour winds. |
| 0:24.9 | And the dangerous chemical fire still burning tonight. |
| 0:28.0 | Plus a family's loss, we speak to the sisters of a 14-year-old girl killed by a falling tree. |
| 0:34.6 | I tried to wake her up and she wouldn't wake up. |
| 0:37.3 | Calls for justice. |
| 0:38.8 | The officer who shot Jacob Blake is identified. |
| 0:41.8 | What police are saying about the moments leading up to the seven shots that left him paralyzed. |
| 0:47.8 | Historic day in sports, NFL teams joined the extraordinary walkout by the NBA, |
| 0:53.3 | WNBA, MLB, and Major League Soccer, all in protest of the shooting of Jacob Blake. |
| 0:59.4 | Tonight, CBS's James Brown talks to players and coaches demanding change. |
| 1:04.1 | The Mets, Dominic Smith. |
| 1:05.9 | People still don't care. |
| 1:07.7 | The president's big night, the convention speech on the White House South Lawn in front of a |
| 1:13.5 | crowd of more than a thousand. |
| 1:15.8 | Why Kamala Harris is on the attack tonight about how the president has handled the coronavirus |
| 1:21.0 | pandemic. |
| 1:22.2 | Donald Trump froze. |
| 1:24.2 | He was scared. |
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