From the nations capital. Odonneodning and thank you for joining u deam coronavirus closing in on 150,000 americans, it now,a peers the outbreak is growing so rapidly nationwide, nearly half of all states are in what the white house calls the red zone. In a new report given to governors this week, but not released publicly, the president s Coronavirus Task force says the infection rate in 21 states is so high that they should begin reimposing restrictions. This is even as the president is publicly calling on governors to reopen. Now, nowhere is that more obious than in florida where tonight the state has reached its highest singleday death toll since the crisis began. And in yet more ominous evidence that the pandemic shows no sign of slowing down, dr. Deborah birx, the administrations coronavirus coordinator, says virus is again moving north, and shes now encouraging more states, including virginia, to limit Indoor Dining and shut down bar service. Tonight, major lbeabl i shutting dow
Attorney general william barr on capitol hill defends the use of tear gas in d. C. s Lafayette Park as an officer with the National Guard testifies protesters were met with excessive force. The events i witnessed at Lafayette Square on the evening of june 1 were deeply disturbing to me and fellow National Guardsmen. Odonnell campaign 2020, america decides. Joe biden says hell pick his running mate next week. So who is on the short list . Deadly shark attack. A 63yearold woman killed by a great white shark as shark sightings in new york force popular beaches to close along the coast. Two fatal accidents brought neww york city to shut down a popular mopedsharing company. Could other cities do the same . And tonight, military history the woman now in charge of the u. S. Army reserve, shattering a Glass Ceiling more than 100 years old. This is the cbs evening news with norah odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening to our viewers in the west. Thank you for joinin
News. Vicki our top storyor other top story we are falling right now is out of the east bay where police found a human torso near the bay bridge. Kron4s and kermit as liven oakland for us tonight would be tough on investigation. Then . Dan kerman . He was taking photos of the old bay bridge and the city skyline. He discovered a torso. Reporter at this point they believe the body has been in the water for one month for a little longer and once to shore several days ago. What we do believe that it is a young male. Reporter as to whether foul play was involved, early indication is there was not since there was no trauma to the torso, which raises several other questions. We do not know if this is a missing persons case or is possible suicide . Reporter now, we are not ruling anything out of the facility into foul play but likely not. They will run dna on this torso to identify who it was. Kron4 movekron4news vicki kron4 first told you about this story with a mobile push alert at 148 this
Scalia. sot rev. Rob schenck president , National Clergy council we came out here this morning to be here to witness his last visit. Scalias casket arrived for the final visit. Following close behind were his children and his former law clerks serving as honorary pall bearers. Once inside. The current members of the court joined the family in a Short Service led by scalias son. Father paul scalia. nats after the ceremony, the public was allowed in to view the body. Emily weatherspoon was the first person in line. The High School Junior from North Carolina says it she respected scalia. Weatherspoon raleigh, North Carolina hes definitely someone who really what he believes in and sticks with country. standup weijia jiang cbs news the Supreme Court president and mrs. Obama are expected to arrive at the court some time today to pay their respects but they will not attend the funeral tomorrow. The white house is sending Vice President biden to represent the administration saying he had a pe
Police. They say its possible the rest of his family was killed days before. Now to another tragedy we ve been following the deadly tornadoes across virginia. We are now hearing from the mother of the twoyearold child killed when a tornado tore apart the home where he was in waverly. Trenicka stringfield was the only person to survive when the ef1 tornado hit wednesday. She says she thought it was like another rainy day but in just seconds the family was thrown from their trailer. Her son ian, boyfriend larry and brother devine were all killed. A total of five people lost their in virginia. Newschannel three s Margaret Kavanagh is back in waverly as the town tries to pick up the sot tiara miles victim 32 11 one of the scariest moments in our life. Track the shock of what happened is still setting in tornados tear through the waverly community. Driving around you can see home after home suffered damage trees down and debris still everywhere. Killing 26 year old devine stringfield, 2 yea