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CBS Evening News

CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 08/28

CBS Evening News

CBS News

News, Daily News

3.5650 Ratings

🗓️ 28 August 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On tonight's CBS Evening News podcast -- the latest on the investigation into the shooting of Jacob Blake -- the officer involved now identified -- and why was Blake handcuffed to his hospital bed? Also -- the pool attendant at the center of the Falwell sex scandal speaks to CBS News -- what he's saying about the controversy.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight, thousands descend here on the nation's capital, 57 years after Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., delivered his I Have a Dream speech.

0:09.8

The new calls for police reform and racial justice.

0:13.5

The families of George Floyd, Brianna Taylor, and Jacob Blake among them.

0:17.8

Stand up! We're tired!

0:21.1

Peaceful and passionate today, but growing concern over the lack of social distancing.

0:26.7

And tonight, Michelle Obama describes her reaction to the shooting of Jacob Blake.

0:31.8

Jacob Blake is no longer handcuffed.

0:34.5

But why was the man who was paralyzed after being shot seven times in the back

0:38.5

by police restrained in the first place? Devastation as far as the eye can see. The death toll from

0:46.7

Hurricane Laura rising. We visit the spot where the storm came ashore. And tonight, what's left of

0:52.9

Laura is still threatening millions.

0:56.5

COVID at the convention. Four people with ties to the Republican National Convention in Charlotte

1:02.3

test positive. And tonight, health experts fear there could be cases following the huge rally

1:07.9

on the White House South lawn. The Falwell sex scandal.

1:13.4

Tonight, Giancarlo Grande tells CBS News he was prayed upon by the evangelical leader and his wife.

1:20.2

Why the former pool attendant was concerned they would ruin his life.

1:24.2

Did you fear the Falwells?

1:26.0

Yeah, I did.

1:27.4

I mean, they're a power couple. They're

1:29.5

connected. They have, you know, the president on speed dial. But the fall wells maintain

1:33.8

Granda was extorting them. Plus, on the road, a love song has never sounded better.

1:46.4

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

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