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CBS Evening News with Norah O'Donnell, 10/21

CBS Evening News

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3.5650 Ratings

🗓️ 21 October 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

On tonight's CBS Evening News podcast -- former President Barack Obama hits the campaign trail for Joe Biden - how the former President is hoping to rally African-American voters to cast their ballots in time for Election Day. Also -- years after being separated at the US border, why some children are still living apart from their parents - how lawyers and volunteers are on a quest to try and reunite those families.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Tonight, 13 days to go, the swing state sprint.

0:04.9

President Trump and Senator Kamala Harris, both in North Carolina,

0:08.3

while former President Obama hits the trail for the first time to drum up support for Joe Biden.

0:14.1

The president looks to turn out white working class voters,

0:17.5

while Obama hopes to get black voters who stayed home in 2016 to cast their ballots

0:22.9

for his number two.

0:24.2

The economy's number one.

0:25.9

I'm here for Joe Biden today.

0:28.3

Breaking news, the man arrested for allegedly threatening to kidnap and kill the Democratic

0:32.9

ticket.

0:33.7

The shocking details tonight from the Secret Service.

0:37.3

Only on CBS, for the first time our cameras go inside Wisconsin's largest hospital.

0:42.8

I wish people would take this serious.

0:47.0

And a nurse tells us how her husband, a war veteran, prepared her for the battle of her life.

0:53.5

Breaking news, new CDC guidance that could change how

0:56.5

schools and businesses operate in the pandemic. Still separated. More than 500 migrant children

1:03.8

who were taken from their parents are still apart. Many of them under the age of five. Tonight,

1:09.3

the effort to reunite the families.

1:11.9

The Pope's stunning shift, the leader of the Catholic Church, expressing his support for same-sex civil unions.

1:19.7

What this means for gay Catholics and the future of the church.

1:23.9

Purdue Farma's guilty plea.

1:26.2

The maker of OxyContin agrees to an $8 billion settlement, where the money will go.

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