Transcripts For KPIX CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell 20

Transcripts For KPIX CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell 20240712

This is the cbs evening news with Norah Odonnell, reporting from the nations capital. Odonnell good evening, and thank you for joining us. Were going to begin tonight with breaking news. Cbs news has learned the commission on president ial debates plans to issue new rules for the rest of this years debates after tuesday nights faceoff between President Trump and former Vice President biden turned into a farce. While the commission has not formally voted on changes, an informed source tells cbs news they need to actthey need to act in t in the coming days after being inundated with complaints. About a chaotic debate. Among possible changes to the rules, cutting off a candidates microphone if that person ignores the rules and interrupts another candidate or the moderator. Tonight, with 34 days left until the election, the candidates are back out on the campaign trail, even as President Trump tries to clarify his refusal to denounce White Supremacy at the debate along with a group known to support it. We have a lot of new reporting to get to tonight. Our team of correspondents is standing by to cover it all. Cbs ed okeefe is going to lead off our coverage tonight from ohio. Good evening, ed. Reporter good evening, norah. Bidens team says hell be there for the next two debates, under whatever rules the commission develops to try to contain the president s behavior. But the Trump Campaign says you cant be moving the goalpost and changing the rules in the middle of the game. This new debate over the future of debates comes as many seem to agree weve hit a new low in president ial politics. The individual mandate was the most unpopular mr. President i got rid of it. Mr. President im the moderator of this debate, and i would like you to let me ask my question. Reporter after a debate full of insults and interruptions, more than 73 of them from the the president , the commission on president ial debates said its time for a change. Dont ever use the word smart with me. The question is, the question is radical left will you shut up, man. Listen, who is on your list, joe . Its hard to get any word in with this clown. Reporter issuing a Statement Today saying additional structure is needed to ensure a more orderly discussion at the next two matchups. I think it was just a national embarrassment. Reporter the chaotic debate followed joe biden on to the campaign trail today as high embarked on a twostate campaign tour. Campaigning in ohio, he took a few more uninterrupted swings at the president. Trump has no plans, no ideas. Didnt express a single plan that he had about how he was going to move forward. Reporter mr. Trump had a different take i thought the debate last night was great. Weve gotten tremendous reviews on it. Reporter the president was asked again today if he condemns white supremacists. He didnt do so directly, but did try to walk back comments about the proud boys, a farright group that has supported white supremacist ideas. I dont know who proud boys are, but whoever they are, they have to stand down, let Law Enforcement do their work. Reporter he drew criticism even from republicans for the way he talked about the group at the debate. Proud boys . Stand back and stand by. But ill tell you what, ill tell you what somebodys got to do something about antifa and the left. Reporter his own party urged him to correct the record. I think he misspoke. I think he should correct it. If he doesnt correct it, i guess he didnt mispeak. I want to associate myself with the remarks of senator tim scott that he put out earlier today. He said it was unacceptable not to condemn white supremacists, and so i do so in the strongest possible way. Reporter and today, biden had his own message for the proud boys. Cease and desist. Thats not who we are. This is not who we are as americans. Reporter now, tonight, the candidates are in states that their parties lost in 2016. The president holding a rally in northern minnesota, while that train trip took biden through parts of ohio and pennsylvania where he needs to boost his support. Norah. Odonnell ed okeefe, thank you. Lets get more now on the strict new rules the Debate Commission is considering issuing in the coming days, including cutting off a candidates microphone. Cbs chief washington correspondent Major Garrett joins us now. Major, many are demanding this dramatic rule change. Can they do it . Reporter the commission can do it, norah. It is empowered to set the rules for the debate, and they do that in collabuition with the campaigns. And they did that for the first debate, but those rules were quite obviously flouted. That gives the commission more menj. The commission controls the audio feed. The networks handle the tv parts. In these negotiations with the campaign, they can say if you dont do what we want, we can count your sound off. That is on the table, whatever the commission decides, norah, it hopes to inform the country in the coming days. Odonnell the next debate will be a town hall on october 15 in florida. How is that going to affect the whole dynamic . Reporter its in the miami area. The Gallup Organization is gathering the undecided voters right now, about 25 or 30. Bull dozing or ignoring a moderator is different from bull dozing or ignoring a question from an undecided voter looking straight into your eyes. Every candidate wants to engage with that voter that might bring a dimension of decorum that proved elusive to Chris Wallace last night. Odonnell the next debate will be between the Vice President ial candidates. What can we expect . Reporter Vice President mike pence loves to talk about policy. He almost never likes to talk about the personality of President Trump. So hes going to focus on the accomplishments of the first term of the trump administration. Kamala harris, the democratic Vice President ial nominee, also wants to prove her policy chops and get in some prosecutorial. Questions of that trump record. Both are looking out for their own personal interests and are going to want to have an idea of their debate that is deciedly different from the one the nation saw and didnt quite like last night. Odonnell now to one of the biggest moments in the debate. A ed reported, tonight, the president is being rebuked by members of his own party for failing to explicitly condemn White Supremacy and groups that support it. But as cbs jeff pegues reports, tonight, at least one of those groups is welcoming the president s comments. Ill tell you what reporter shortly after the president declined to denounce them, the proud boys were online celebrating and claiming victory. On telegram, a group leader wrote, standing down and standing by, sir. Also, a new logo with the president s words appeared. The Antidefamation League has been tracking positive reaction from various hate groups, including this one citing more possible violence. They responded passionately and with tremendous enthusiasm, literally changing their logos and developing memes so they see this as a call to arms. Reporter the proud boys are a farright group founded in 2016 that often supports white supremacist ideas and violence. In 2018, members of the group were arrested in new york for beating two men. Critics say President Trump has a history of not condemning rightwing violence. In charlottesville in 2017, thousands of rightwing protesters clashed with counterdemonstrators. You also had people that were very fine people, on both sides. Reporter last night, donald trump jr. Said his father was misunderstood about his proud boys comment. I dont know if that was a mis you know, a misspeak, but he was talking about having them stand down. Hes more than happy to condemn that. Joe biden is continually able to talk about the charlottesville hoax. Reporter charlottesville was not a hoax, of course. And tonight, a representative for the proud boys told us that they do not consider the mention during the debate an endorsement, nor do they consider themselves white supremacists. Meanwhile, the f. B. I. Says that white extremists are responsible for some of the most lethal activity here in the u. S. Norah. Odonnell jeff pegues, thank you. The death toll continues to climb from those devastating wildfires in California Wine country. We learned today a fourth person has died, a man who was evacuated on sunday with severe burns. Thats 30 lives lost to fires in california since last month. Fires have destroyed 26 times more land in the state this year than last. Heres cbs jonathan vigliotti. Reporter tonight, fighting fire with fire. In napa, crews are lighting backfires to help stop these flames from causing more devastation. Meanwhile, a fourth person has died in a wildfire farther north. Both fires have burned more than 100,000 acres. Wineries like this one are now barely recognizable, and scores of homes now destroyed. There were fires on both sides of my property. Reporter not only did sean maher lose his home in the town of saint helena. His brother and father lost their homes, too. What was that conversation like with your father when you called him up . We both cried and a lot of great memories. So its its tough. Reporter President Trump blames californias most destructive wildfire season on the states poor management of 33 million acres of forest. But the state only owns 3 . The federal government owns nearly 58 . Regardless, Scientists Say Climate Change is drying out vegetation too fast for modern tools and the firefighters that use them to keep up. Napa valleys lifeline, their grapes, have largely been spared. But several vineyards have been destroyed. Firefighters are now working 48hour shifts to try to contain the flames before the wind picks back up tomorrow. Norah. Odonnell jonathan vigliotti, thank you. Were going to turn now to breaking news from southern california. Remember that brutal ambush shooting of two sheriffs deputies that was all caught on Surveillance Video . Well, charges have been filed. And get this the suspect was already in custody. Heres cbs carter evans. Reporter tonight, police say the intense manhunt for the gunman who ambushed two l. A. County sheriffs deputies is over. This morning, my office filed attempted murder charges against deontae lee murray. Reporter but murray was arrested two weeks ago after a carjacking in an hourslong standoff. Investigators say a handgun he tossed during that chase was a key piece of evidence. That was pretty powerful, when the gun was thrown from the car, we knew it was a 40caliber. Reporter but at the time, officials were adamant the cases were unrelated. It seems deliberately misleading when you strongly suspected the guy. O it that this may have but you been the guy. But you definitively said he wasnt. Were not going to tell you all of our suspicions because you dont give away the story. Reporter dramatic video shows the wounded female deputy applying a tourniquet to help save their partner. Investigators believe murray acted alone, but theyre unclear about his motive. Other than the fact that he obviously hates policemen and wants them dead. Reporter investigators have now tested the gun they say murray tossed out the car window and the baalistics match the gun used to shoot those two deputies. They are now recovering at home. Murray is in jail on 6. 1 million bail. Norah. Odonnell carter evans, thank you. Now to the coronavirus pandemic. Tonight, more than a dozen states report positivity rates above 10 , indicating the virus is once again spreading quickly. And tonight, cbs Nikki Battiste has an update on the race to develop a vaccine. Reporter today, the chief of moderna therapeutics said his companys vaccine wont be ready before the november election, and he doesnt expect to be able to distribute the vaccine to the general population until next spring, which is in sharp contrast with what President Trump said during last nights debate. You wouldnt have made ventilators. And now were weeks away from a vaccine. Reporter this comes as new cases in 11 states have jumped by at least 60 , compared to two weeks ago. Today in wisconsin, where covid hospitalizations alone reached a record high, this hospital official issued a dire warning this pandemic is real. And while you may be one of the lucky ones who doesnt know anybody whos had covid, i guarantee you, you will. Reporter new york city, once the epicenter of the virus, is also seeing a rise in new cases. Yet today, the citys restaurants reopens for Indoor Dining at 25 capacity. But that may not be enough to rescue some businesses. And many customers refuse to eat inside. I prefer Outdoor Dining because im afraid of covid, totally and completely. Reporter the owner of that restaurant told us at 25 capacity, she can only seat 18 people. Here in new york city, restaurants are required to do temperature checks and keep cleaning logs. But mayor bill de blasio says he may have to shut down Indoor Dining again if covid cases continue to rise. Norah. Odonnell Nikki Battiste, thank you. A judge today gave kentuckys attorney general an extension until friday to release grand jury recordings in the Breonna Taylor shooting death. Daniel cameron wanted more time to redact witness names. A member of the grand jury pushed to get the proceedings released, claiming cameron misrepresented their deliberations. No officers were directly charged in taylors death. Tens of thousands of airline employees are about to lose their jobs when a federal aid program runs out at midnight. Congress has not been able to agree on a new relief bill. And its not just the Airline Workers who will suffer. The effects will ripple throughout the economy. Heres cbs kris van cleave. Reporter tomorrow, united Flight Attendant annette hala could lose her dream job to covid. I love my job. The thought of losing it is really hard right now. Reporter shes not alone. About 45,000 airline employees are facing furlough or layoff. I cant really imagine not having a paycheck, and Health Insurance is really big. Reporter between march and july, airlines shed roughly 45,000 jobs. But commercial aviation helped support another 10. 4 million u. S. Workers. Thats one out of every 14 jobs. Like the one 62yearold Theresa Santucci lost. Im basically squeaking by. Reporter she was among the 50plus who worked on alaskas inflight magazine, which shut down after the airline pulled it from their planes. A day later, were all emptying out our offices. Reporter this Dallas Business was left holding the bag, tens of thousands of bags of nuts the airlines cant use. Business is down 80 . The pandemic is also devastating the Airport Parking industry, which employed about 12,000 precovid. Lost business totaling 400 million and counting. In march, the ceiling fell. Our business just disappeared into thin air. Reporter rob chavezs family has owned fast park for 60 years. High had to lay off synth of his staff. Thats 540 people. Dajuan roberts was one of them. He was furloughed for nearly four months. Whats that like . You know, bad. Reporter hes back working part time, but that doesnt cover the bills. Kris van cleave, cbs news, baltimore. Odonnell so tough for so many people. There is still much more news ahead on tonights cbs evening news. Dramatic video of an american fighter jet crashing after a midair collision. What happened to the pilot and the crew of the other plane. And stunning news from the french open. Why Serena Williams suddenly dropped out of the tournament. Sweat it bend and stretch it track it share it compare it think it solve it try and crack it breath it calm it and renew it renew active from unitedhealthcare gives you so many ways to be healthy. Powered by aarp staying sharp and fitbit. And included in Unitedhealthcare Medicare plans. Unitedhealthcare. Get medicare with more. Hi jen hi. So youre the scientist here. 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