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Odonnell tonight, making the case for four more years, the Vice President headlines night three. Good evening from the nations capi capitol. Im Norah Odonnell and welcome to cbs News Coverage of the Republican National convention. Vice president mike pence is the featured speaker. He will appear shortly from fort mchenry in maryland, and we expect the president to join him at some point. We also want to give you an update on some of the other brakes news at this hour. Hurricane laura is a catego...

So sure, you have to address it. Frankly, there are probably more people watching the Weather Channel tonight than watching the convention. David dont say that, rick, thats a little cold. The president ordered the National Guard, more National Guard today, and now the nba is suspending games and some major league suspended, too. Absolutely, and im curious to see how the campaign decides to address this tonight. And of course the Vice President is going to be speaking on law and order, and its go...

[cheers and applause] [crowd chanting, four more years] good evening america. It is an honor to speak to you tonight from the hallowed grounds of fort mchenry. The site of the very battle that inspired the words of our national anthem. Those words have inspired this land of heroes in every generation since. It was on this site 206 years ago when our young republic heroically withstood a ferocious naval bombardment from the most powerful empire on earth. They came to crush our revolution, to divi...

Men and women of remarkable character and fortitude. Fueledaordinary spirit the dreams they held. That spirit lived on to win liberty in the revolution, and bold and the underground railroads, strengthened the brave souls of normandy, it endured with those who gallantly fought the spread of communism, and on 9 11, that same spirit was found in the men and women storming the gates to save precious lives. Heroism thrives in the presence of tyranny, disaster. It is stronger than antivirus. Then any...

Good evening america its an honor to speak to you tonight from the hallowed of the hallowed grounds of fort mchenry the site of the very battle that inspired the words of our National Anthem those words have inspired this land of heroes in every generation since it was on this site 206 years ago when our young republic heroically withstood a ferocious naval bombardment from the most powerful empire on earth they came to crush our revolution to divide our nation and to end the american experiment...

A night of pageantry and politics that collides with breaking news on our shores and in our streets. Protests continue for the third night in wisconsin after the shooting of jacob blake in the back by police. A young vigilante who took up a rifle to confront protesters there has now been arrested for shooting three. Two of the victims are dead. And in an extraordinary move, the nba has posttoned tonights playoff games after the Milwaukee Bucks boycotted their game to protest the shooting of blak...

Democrats and joe biden and Kamala Harris referring to them as radical leftists, and violence and chaos is a result of democratic leadership. And so the president again stressing that issue of law and order but certainly paramount in americans minds, the coronavirus pandemic, we have yet to hear about that except in economic terms and lives it has claimed. And also paramount is the racial tension that were seeing and calls for justice that much of our newscast has been about, especially athletes...

The shooting of a black man led to protest and violence there. And the protests have now reached the world of sports tonight. The nbas three playoff games suspended as well as three Major League Baseball games postponed for the night. And the rising death toll in the covid pandemic, surpassing 180,000 deaths in this country according to the latest count by nbc news. We are likely to hear more about these topics tonight and our team of correspondents will dig into how all these issues could shape...

Oakland near the Oakland Police station. There was a brief confrontation here between demonstrators and police but they are our heavy barricades and the crowd went in different directions. Right now they are in the grand lakes section. We saw some video online from a few weeks ago, fireworks being set off by demonstrators. Police have Just Announced an Unlawful Assembly which is in the precursor for arrests. A clock this evening. Several hundred people began marching through the streets of oakla...

And Vice President pence for four more years. God bless our heroes and god [applause]united please welcome the Vice President of the United States, mike pence accompanied by the second lady, karen. Second lady, karen pence. [cheers and applause] [applause] four more years] vice pres. Pence good, america. To youn honor to speak tonight from the hallowed grounds of fort mchenry, the site of the very battle that inspired the words of our national anthem. Those words have inspired this land of heroe...