This is the cbs evening news with scott pelley. Soon as we can. In the meantime, president elect trumps schedule tonight includes dinner dinner in washington with the head of his inaugural committee. Hundreds of thousands of people are expected at fridays inauguration events, but more than 50 House Democrats are boycotting. Nancy cordes is on capitol hill. I do not intend to attend the upcoming inauguration of the applause reporter what started as a sporadic protest has grown to include roughly a quarter of all House Democrats. Theres nothing for me to celebrate. Reporter including pennsylvanias dwight evans and tennessees steve cohen. When he questioned john lewis, they crossed the rubicon. Reporter mr. Trump slammed congressman louis as all talk and no action after he said he did not consider the Trump Presidency legitimate. Maryland congressman said, his twitter tirade showed a discard for the office you will soon hold and demands my absence from your inauguration. Its a turnaround
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The transformation thats taken place in our society just in the last decade. And ive said before, i think we made some useful contributions to it, but the primary heroes in this stage of our growth as a democracy and society are all the individual activists and sons and daughters and couples who courageously said this is who i am and im proud of it, and that opened peoples minds and opened their hearts, and eventually laws caught up, but i dont think any of that would have happened without the activism, in some cases, loud and noisy, but in some cases just quiet and very personal, and i think that what we did as an administration was to help to the society to move in a better direction, but to do so in a way that didnt create an enormous backlash and was systematic and respectful of the fact that in some cases these issues were controversial. I think the way we handle, for example, dont ask, dont tell, being methodical about it, chiefs, making sure that we showed this would not have an
Carolyn tyler is on the ground. Reporter there were lots of luminaries from nancy pelosi to mayor ed lee who gathered in that tent that you see behind me on land that will one day see the warriors practicing their jump shots. This is a journey that began some five years ago. Reporter you probably have never seen a Ground Breaking like this. Just as owners promised to build a privately financed arena like no other. 200 feet behind me is center court. Closer than that is where beyonce will take stage. Reporter the owners wanted an arena along the waterfront but there was so much opposition they turned to this location in mission bay. Chase bank bought the naming rights for what will be chase center. Smaller than oracle at 18,000 seats. The new place will be a boonem the franchise and he hopes to be around to enjoy it. Three years away is three decades in a an nba coachs life. It will be fun playing in there. Reporter the venue is expected to open for the 20192020 nba season. In San Franc
And a good wednesday morning to you all. We begin with breaking news from houston this morning about the health of former president george h. W. Bush. Weve learned that mr. Bush has been hospitalized since saturday after experiencing shortness of braetd. A spokeswoman says hes doing well and responding to treatment and expected to be out of the hospital in a few days. The former president was last seen in public earlier this month at a texans game. He spent some time on the field there with his son jeb. Now, he was already not planning to attend the Trump Inauguration on friday due to health issues. So, were going to be staying on top of this story throughout the morning for you. We wish him well, indeed. And were going to turn now to the nations next president , donald trump, just two days away from taking office. Preinaugural festivities kicked off with a blacktie dinner in washington as trump addressed hundreds of diplomats and donors, and check out this tweet from Vice President el