CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 10/20
CBS Evening News
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🗓️ 20 October 2020
⏱️ 19 minutes
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On tonight's CBS Evening News podcast -- President Trump gearing up for a rally tonight on Pennsylvania - with just two weeks until Election Day, can he close the gap with Joe Biden in the key battleground state? Also -- the new evidence suggesting the White House knew about coronavirus spikes around the country after Labor Day, but still went ahead with maskless rallies anyway.
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| 0:00.0 | Tonight, with just two weeks to go, the president down in the polls. |
| 0:04.8 | What he did in an interview was 60 minutes before heading to a rally in must-win, Pennsylvania. |
| 0:10.2 | The president's battleground blitz, his final pitch to working-class voters who propelled him to the White House. |
| 0:17.5 | But tonight, President Trump is tied or trailing Joe Biden in every swing state he won |
| 0:23.0 | in 2016. And Melania Trump stays home with a lingering cough from coronavirus after she was slated |
| 0:29.8 | to appear on the campaign trail for her first appearance in months. Plus, the new rule for the final |
| 0:35.7 | debate. |
| 0:39.1 | Overwhelmed by coronavirus. |
| 0:46.8 | Hospitalizations are rising in 37 states, and small rural hospitals are feeling the brunt of the fall surge. |
| 0:49.2 | Mask transit. |
| 0:52.7 | The new guidelines from the CDC for planes, trains, and buses. |
| 0:55.8 | What took so long to recommend face coverings on public transportation? Volunteers wanted, would you agree to be intentionally infected with the |
| 1:02.0 | coronavirus? Scientists say it could help fast track a vaccine. Breaking news in the Brianna Taylor case, |
| 1:09.4 | the grand juror speaking out, saying the panel wasn't even given a chance to consider homicide charges. |
| 1:16.5 | Google sued by the U.S. government. |
| 1:19.7 | The biggest antitrust lawsuit in decades. |
| 1:22.6 | What does this mean for users? |
| 1:24.2 | And could the search giant be forced to sell YouTube? |
| 1:28.1 | And she's a stitching sensation, a seamstress on the sidewalk creating fashion from a food cart. |
| 1:38.5 | This is the CBS Evening News with Nora O'Donnell, reporting from the nation's capital. |
| 1:45.2 | Good evening and thank you for joining us. We are going to begin tonight with the final 14 days to the election and the frantic moves tonight by President Trump, who is tied or trailing in nearly every swing state poll. |
| 1:56.6 | Tonight, the president is not only ramping up his campaign schedule with plans to make as many as five stops a day in the final sprint to November 3rd, he's also ratchering up his rhetoric. |
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