CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 10/15
CBS Evening News
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3.5 • 650 Ratings
🗓️ 17 October 2020
⏱️ 20 minutes
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On tonight's CBS Evening News podcast -- with nearly 900 thousand Americans filling jobless claims, a look at the devastating personal impact the pandemic has had on some hard working people around the country. Also -- the latest on a controversial tabloid report claiming to have "smoking gun" evidence of corruption involving Joe and Hunter Biden. What kind of evidence does the report claim to have, and could Russia have played a role in bringing the questionable story to light?
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| 0:30.6 | Tonight, coronavirus and the election. |
| 0:33.5 | The fall surge. |
| 0:34.8 | The U.S. sees its highest number of new infections in months, as both candidates face the voters in dueling town halls. |
| 0:41.7 | With the country headed in the wrong direction, hospitalizations hit a new record in the Midwest. |
| 0:47.7 | One ER doctor tells us hospitals are being pushed to the limit. |
| 0:51.5 | And in Europe, horrible deja vu. Intensive care units close to capacity as a |
| 0:57.1 | curfew is set in Paris to stop the spread. Plus, is there a link between your blood type and risk |
| 1:03.1 | of infection? Nineteen days to go. The battleground blitz continues with both candidates |
| 1:09.0 | participating in dueling town halls instead of a second |
| 1:12.2 | debate. President Trump in Florida and North Carolina today, with Joe Biden taking questions in |
| 1:17.9 | Pennsylvania as his momentum puts hundreds of millions into his war chest. Plus Kamala Harris off the |
| 1:24.2 | campaign trail after a member of her staff test positive for COVID. |
| 1:28.8 | The economic toll. A stunning new number. Nearly 8 million Americans plunge into poverty as |
| 1:35.5 | food lines become lifelines. I'd always been taught that if I worked hard, then I'd be able to take care |
| 1:41.7 | of my family. And now that's not true. |
| 1:45.8 | Counting your vote, more than 10,000 mail-in ballots in limbo in North Carolina. The confusion |
| 1:51.5 | tonight over ballot rules and concerns of voter suppression. And teenager therapy. |
| 1:57.8 | We know we're hitting real issues and real emotion. How four high school seniors became podcast superstars catching the attention of some royal |
| 2:05.8 | listeners. |
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