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news.com. i'm major garrett. . this is the "cbs overnight new news". i'm major garrett in washington. there is still no new help from congress for the millions of americans struggling in the wake of categories crisis. at the same time, reported infections in u.s. passed five million on sunday, the most of any country. with the election approaching, a new cbs news battle ground tracker pole finds former vice president joe biden leading trump in p lindh and wisconsin. on saturday, president trump took executive action to extent some benefits. paula reid is traveling with the
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president in new jersey and took ook at fe holiday to americans earning less than $100,000 per year. >> president trump is trying to defer a 6.2% social security tax for americans making up to $104,000 a year. the taxes would have to be paid next year. >> i plan to make permanent cuts to the payroll tax. >> only congress has the power to issue tax cuts. republican senator ben faf called the news unconstitutional slop. the president directed $44 million from fema to cover a $300 a week up employment benefit for five more weeks with states being asked to cover an additional $100 in benefits. cbs news asked the president if
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he's givingmres thiis expecte eied u in this is going to be delayed or -- rapidly through the courts. >> the president asked for extended relief on student loans and delaying evictions. the president repeated a false claim about the act signed by president barack obama in 2014. >> we passed choice, as you know veterans choice and veterans accountability. >> cbs news pressed the president on his statement. >> you have veteran -- [ cheers and applause ] >> it haed in -- >> excuse me. go ahead. please. >> it's a false statements, sir. >> who are the people we hear sharing in that clip? >> major, those members are the president's golf club who were invited to his conference this
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weekend. they laugh at his jokes and boo the press on cue. it feels like a mini-trump campaign rally. this weekend was more about joe biden expecting to announce his running made, the president is light. we expect more press conferences like this, especially here in new jersey where we has supporters to spear him on. >> one of the biggest motorcycle rallies in the world is happening right now this the black hills of north dakota. as lilia luciano reports, little could be done to stop it despite the pandemic. >> reporter: tense royal >> reporter: this is the 80 anniversary of sturgis. >> people are tired of being at home. this is about freedom. >> it could be the largest gathering anywhere post
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pandemic. le. >> they've worked so hard for so many months to keep our numbers low. we're in the hundreds of unfamiliar faces not wearing masks. it's concerning. >> nationwide, deaths are pading high school in georgia.oh days after this photo went viral, some students and staff are infected. saying in a letter we have anticipated that covid-19 would impact us. it's not looking good in the midwest, either. wisconsin reporting record infections on saturday. in texas, the governor extended the state's disaster declaration to help curb the spread of coronavirus while chicago's mayor called out people crowding together. is similar site in san francisco, even california hit a new milestone. 10,000 deaths did.
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there are encouraging signs. hospitalizations are going down. california is updating its data. a glitch in the system caused a black log of 300,000 tests. major? >> paula reid, thanks. authorities declared a riot friday after a fire was set inside a police building. the protests have been smaller following the are drawl of federal agents. error and despair in beirut as the fall of the government is called for. 158 people were killed. more than 6,000 injured. emtiaz tyab has the latest. >> reporter: it was a day of rage against the ruling. and almost immediately lebanese forces turned their tear gas canisters against protesters.
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a crackdown on young people whose lives are already in pieces. they're calling this a day of judgment, a day of biblical reckoning for their leaders, who they say for too long have let them down and have now destroyed everything. the fury following tuesday's terrible explosion brought thousands out to the street. through the tear gas they chanted "revolution". >> you're calling for a revolution? >> we're falling for change. as long as there's no change, there's going to be a revolution. >> reporter: but three decades ago, from the ashes of a brutal 15 years in civil war. few have answers but some are calling for. still other major questions remain like how over 27 tons of amoan numb nitrate could be
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carelessly stored for six years in downtown beirut. some minutesters have resigned after much of the city was laid to waste. the president is refusing to allow an independent international investigation into what caused the explosion, calling it "a waste of time." infuriating protesters who blamed him and other politicians for a series of recent calamities. >> they need to be in prison. they need to really pay for whatever it is that they did. >> reporter: by night fall protesters stormed several government buildings. shouts of "revolution" in the corridors of power. but security forces cracked down hard. and wrestle back control from the strong arm of the state, apparently the only part of it that still works. nbc news, beirut, emtiaz tyab. >> 75 years ago this week world
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war ii ended. two atomic bombs forced the are you sender of japan. we'll speak to a
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this is the "cbs overnight news." a bell tolled in nagasaki, japan, on sunday. it marked 75 years since the u.s. dropped an atomic bomb on that city. aimed at forcing the country's constitute render in world war ii, it was the second atomic bomb attack. the first fell on hiroshima on august 6th last thursday people gathered for a scaled-back memorial. more than 200,000 were killed, most of them civilians. ramy inocencio spoke with one survivor.
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>> reporter: the cloud rose menacingly over hiroshima 75 years ago, an event seared in world history and in this woman who survived. >> i remember the horror of that day, blinding light like thousands of strobe lights, my body thrown to the ground it. >> reporter: at 81 she says she's been blessed to live. her mission now, banning all nuclear weapons. >> translator: 75 years after surviving the bombing, i'm more determined to help the world rid nuclear arms. >> reporter: it was once a humming up to center. tanaka lived close bibut on august 6 vt 1945, the enola gay bomber dropped its payload on the city, a five ton bomb
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nicknamed little boy. it killed an estimated 80,000 people up the city thec domas one of the few things left standing. >> it's the peace flame and peace memorial few seem. it spotlights the day of the bombing. irrate yatd artifacts, torn cloerkts as trisick m, a lunch never eaten. photographs of burn victims hang on the walls next to survives. hot melting skin and black radioactive rain. through her own artwork, tanak ocesshat day ago. >> the united states bombed your city. do you have any criticism for america? >> translator: we were full of
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rage but once we saw the americans, it was clear they were just like us. >> reporter: what do you want the world to remember? >> eliminating nems, ensuring this tragedy is never repeated. >> reporter: she makes one last line in english. a remarkable woman who survived a nuclear bombing, yet still has peace in her hard. ramy inocencio, cbs news, hiroshima, japan. >> this year's hurricane season has already broken records with nine named storms to date. now there's an updated forecast and that is next.
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coast causing widespread damage to over 2 million people in its path. >> losing power, certainly not for this long. >> reporter: amy hop kip has waited nearly a week for the electricity to come back on in her connecticut home. hopkins who's immunocompromised has been storing food in the freeze enfor months. >> now i have to start from scratch again. i have can't go to the super market to get it. >> reporter: power crews are working to get the lights back on but hundreds of thousands in new york, and connecticut are still in the dark. it's the worst since storm sandy. >> we were hit hard by this tropical storm and that we lost almost half our power across the state. >> reporte icesaias is the ninth
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named storm. 25 storms are predicted, the most in a seasonal forecast. cbs meteorologist jeff berridelli. >> generally speak we've been ahead of record pace. not only do we expect more hurricanes than normal this but especially stronger hurricanes than normal. >> reporter: in some parts of the northeast some people may be without power as late as tuesday night. tom hanson, cbs news, new york. >> these are by any measures stormy times for the airline industry and it could get much worse. thsob could be at rifblg october 1st when the bailout money runs out. kris van cleave spoke with southwest airlines ceo gary kelly about this financial turbulence. >> reporter: united attendant is
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among the 82 employees who cbs has learned have been told they could be furloughed when the support runs out. >> it's almost like watching something that you've been a part of that you've helped build kind of fall apart or crumble and you don't have anything else to do other than just stand aside and feel helpless. >> reporter: but help could come from from capitol hill. 223 members of the house an 16 senate republicans have signed letters calling for another 25 billion payroll support for airlines to avoid pay cuts. gary kelly. what's in it for the taxpayer to keep airline workers working when so many other industries don't get that kind of help? >> you will see massive lay office absent some kind of
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support. >> reporter: he's said passenger traffic needs to double to avoid them next year. additional government for would buy time while business remains off by 75 percent. 84% of leisure fliers haven't booked a trip this summer. people widely support masks on board and support did blocked middle seats. part of a new normal in very uncertain skies. kris van cleave, cbs news, washington. >> juggling home and work. meet some moms on capitol hill doing it. that's next. a lotta folks are asking me lately how to get their dishes as clean as possible. i tell them, you should try
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discover what's good - pantene nutrient blends house lawmakers passed two bills last week providing $60 billion for childcare centers and families and providers. the measures face an uncertain future in the senate. as huey burns reports, knows hit close to home. >> reporter: like so many moms, the pandemic has left genie herrera-butler juggling childcare with working from home. >> in terms of like i don't know
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what she wants. >> it means answering constituents wherever she can find the space. she's a republican congresswoman from washington. katy porter is also getting creative. >> it was so wowed and so i went out to the membership van to report a podcast. whatever you want to say about the minivan, it has pretty good sound proofing. >> nationwide concerns about childcare and reopening cool, working moms say their perspective is more important than ever. >> childcare is a main driver of i allowing men and women to do their jobs and to focus particularly as we have people searching for new jobs, trying to get off unemployment. >> experts worry it's placing bigger burdens on women. half households with young children have a working mother.
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and jobs lost this spring belong to women. it's been slower for women of color. >> what is the solution? >> i'd love to see some kind of tax credit or something for childcare so people can afford to take care of their children and go to work. >> tammy duckworth is a mother of two who became the first u.s. senator to give birth while in office. she asked for changed rules so her newborn could join he >> the two-year-old is on a tear right now. >> now she's pushing for more funding for childcare. >> i bring my challenges i'm facing and albeit i face them with privilege. i'm a united states senator. i worry about working moms who have to go to work. >> a decision between bringing their kid to an unprotected place and going to work to put food on the table, that's ridiculous. >> that's the kind of consensus
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that's usually hard to come by in washington. cbs news, new york. >> when we return we'll meet
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. we end our broadcast with a chess prodigy. this young man has beaten a lot of the odds already. >> reporter: for now his dream of becoming the world's youngest
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grand mearsth ayears? >> i'm nine. the world record is 12 years and seven months. >> reporter: the longer we are on lockdown and the longer this pandemic lasts, the shorter your time to be the world's youngest grand master. >> uh-huh. >> but you still think you can do it? >> yes. >> reporter: last year, the then-third grader won the new york state chess championship learning to play while living in a manhattan homeless shelter. he received support from around the world. the family says they are touched by the generosity. >> i really thank god that i have a place to live, because it's not easy. >> a faith that the family hopes can inspire others. they're writing a new back "my name is tani," and i believe in miracles. >> do you still believe in miracles? >> yes. >> there are more wonders ahead.
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trevor noah is developing a film based on his life story. >> how exciting is that? >> it's very exciting when
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