here are tonight's headlines. ♪ ♪ >> we stand with israel! >> norah: massive crowds gather in support of israel on the national mall. >> motivated, they say, by what they have been seeing on college campuses appeared >> norah: plus the news from president biden who believes a deal will happen to release the hostages held by hamas. >> what is your message for the families? >> hang in there. we are coming. >> a deadly crash here in ohio involving multiple vehicles including a charter bus full of students beard >> might be injue bus, it is on fire. stuff is starting to explode. >> norah: stronger storms and devastating weather. the new report that shows climate change is worsening across america. >> we are the last generation that is really going to be able to make a meaningful difference in the outcome. >> norah: and our exclusive interview with democratic senator joe manchin. why is he is frustrated with washington politics and looking for americans who feel the same way. senator, the big question everyone is asking is, will you run for president? ♪ ♪ good evening, and thank you for joining us on this tuesday night, and we begin with several developing stories, including a massive five vehicle crash in ohio involving a bus full of high school stud students. at least six people killed and more than a dozen other is injured. we are going to go to the scene in just a moment. but first, there is major news here in washington about the war between israel and hamas. tonight, the white house and pentagon almost simultaneously saying that u.s. intelligence supports israel's claim that hamas has a vast tunnel system under hospitals to store weapons and hold hostages. tonight, retired admiral john kirby, spokesman for the national security council, told reporters aboard air force one that using hospitals like that would amount to a war crime. president biden today had a message for the families of hostages: to hang in there, "we are coming." what that means is still unclear. and tonight, cbs news can confirm that one of those hostages is 3-year-old abigail egon from arizona. she is the youngest american being held by hamas. back here in washington, tens of thousands came from all over the country for the march for israel on the national mall. we have a lot of news to bring you tonight come and cbs's nancy cordes will start us off from the white house. >> reporter: israeli tanks surround gaza's largest hospital, which u.s. officials say is doubling as a command and control hub for hamas. still, the u.s. urged israel today not to fire any more munitions at al-shia medical center amid reports of incubators failing, babies dying, and a mass grave being dug on hospital grounds to dispose of thousands of bodies. >> we do not want to see a firefight in a hospital where their innocent civilians. >> reporter: as the conflict moves into its sixth week, gaza is gripped by a full-blown health care crisis. in northern gaza, there is just one functioning hospital left. cbs news heard from one of the doctors there. >> there's over 500 wounded, and there's only two operating rooms. we are three surgeons added obstetrician providing care for the whole of gaza city. >> reporter: at the white house today, president biden expressed rare optimism of the potential for a deal to freeze some of the roughly 420 hospitals, including up to nine americans, who are currently being held by hamas. >> talking with people involved. i believe it is going to happen, but i don't want to get into detail. >> reporter: but the israeli defense forces confirmed today, one of the hostages, 19-year-old female israeli soldier, had been killed. >> we will no longer stay silent. >> reporter: on the national mall in washington, d.c., today, thousands gathered to show support for israel amid a wave of anti-semitism here at home. >> from the river to the sea! >> reporter: rebecca hammerman, who is jewish, brought her 14-year-old down from westchester, new york. what has been the hardest part about all of this, as a mom? >> you know, i think as a mom, all you want is for your kids to feel safe and secure, and i think this has short of shaken s and made us feel less safe than we have ever really felt before. >> reporter: goldy zazon is a sophomore at rutgers university and the great-grandchild of holocaust survivors. >> i feel like what we are going through right now is exactly what happened to them in 1940, the year before the holocaust began. >> rep>> norah: nancy cordes jos us now from the white house. nancy, want to talk about our u.s. troops, they were attacked again today in the middle east by iranian-backed forces. what is the very latest? >> reporter: well, norah, that attack takes the number of strikes on u.s. forces in the region in the past month to at least 56, and the number of u.s. troops who have been injured is now standing at 60. u.s. military has launched three separate retaliatory air strikes on these iranian-backed forces command in fact new pentagon video just released tonight shows the most recent of those strikes, sunday night, in northeastern syria, taking out a safe house and a training area. u.s. officials say they are prepared to launch a fourth strike, norah, if these attacks keep coming. >> nancy cordes at the white house with all of that new video and information. thank you, nancy. turning now to that fiery crash involving a charter bus and a semi truck in ohio. at least six people were killed and 15 others injured in the horrific accident. the bus was carrying 57 passengers, mostly high school students. reporter lacey crisp from our cbs columbus affiliate is on the scene. >> a semi hit the back of the bus. semi and bus are currently on fire. >> reporter: flames and heavy smoke could be seen pouring from the charter bus this morning after it was struck on a busy stretch of highway in central ohio. it's unclear how many of the dead and injured our students. >> there is children's trapped on the bus bid speed to the tesco laurus valley high school marching band, including sophomore tori wilson, were on their way to perform at a conference in columbus moments before the deadly collision. >> i could be one of those kids right now that is, you know, not here. >> reporter: wilson managed to make it off the bus just moments before it went up in flames. >> it was a great relief being off the bus. but my mind kept going back to the kids that were on that bus that could not get off. and i just kept thinking to myself, if i wasn't able to get myself pulled out, i probably would have just burned up in that bus. >> reporter: the national transportation safety board is sending a team to investigate today's multivehicle crash. that conference where tori's marching band was supposed to perform was canceled due to the tragedy. norah? >> norah: lacey crisp, thank you so much. well, there is some breaking news from capitol hill. the house, and a rare display of bipartisanship, proved a short-term spending bill tonight, clearing a big hurdle toward avoiding a government shutdown. but also today, one of the most exclusive clubs almost became fight club. cbs's scott macfarlane explains. >> reporter: congresses gridlock nearly turned into a headlock here >> you want to run your mouth, we can be two consenting adults, we can finish it here. >> reporter: oklahoman republic and senator mark wayne marvin, a former mixed martial arts instructor, challenged teamsters president% sean o'brien. >> you want to do it right now? >> you stand your butt up. >> butt up. >> reporter: vermont's bernie sanders had to step in. >> sit down, you are a united states senator. sit down, please. >> reporter: wasn't necessary to do something so provocative and that you end? >> i don't know what provocative is. he is the one that said stand up. >> reporter: tempers flared across the capitol in the house, with accu cajuns of attack of one on another. >> it was in this basement hallway, kevin burchett helped deto oust mccarthy as speaker, elbowed him. during an interview at the time and the microphone picked up audio. >> why do you elbowed me in the back, kevin? a, kevin! you got any guts? >> reporter: ran after mccarthy. >> what kind of chicken move is that? you're pathetic. >> you need security, kevin. >> reporter: mccarthy said it was an accidental bump in a crowded hall. >> if i hit somebody, i would know i hit them. >> reporter: you are quite competent this was deliberate? >> oh, yeah, yeah. come on people i will take a polygraph test. >> reporter: meanwhile, averting a government shutdown is an accomplishment for new house speaker mike johnson, a bipartisan vote, part of what caused trouble for kevin mccarthy and norah, his fellow republicans tell cbs news johnson had so little choice with so little time he had >> norah: very unusual. scott macfarlane, thank you so much. we were also on capitol hill today to sit down exclusively with senator joe manchin. it is his first interview since the melting he would not seek another term in the senate, and the moderate democrat did not rule out a run now for the white house. senator come the big question everyone is asking is, will youn for president? >> is not about me. it's not about the next election. i keep telling people, in this is a movement. >> norah: are you thinking about running for president quest next week i don't know where the future lies. i know we cannot continue the direction we are going. >> norah: that is why senator manchin says he wants to mobilize the middle. people feel politically homeless. >> i feel politically homeless. >> norah: you do? >> yes. >> norah: the west virginia senator says he won't vote for donald trump and isn't sold on joe biden, either. do you think president joe biden deserves a second term? >> i think the people make those choices, i cannot make those tht choice beards beyond what you are a democrat. >> i'm an american first. i'm an american. i'm an independent, i think. i can tell you this. i feel comfortable working with both sides. >> norah: senator manchin has been involved for years with no labels, a centrist organization that is exploring a third party unity candidate in 2024. senator, address this concern. if you ran on a third-party ticket, wouldn't you be helping to elect donald trump? >> i don't buy that scenario. i've heard that. and i wouldn't buy that scenario because if you look back in history how things have played out, i don't think they thought ross perot would elect bill clinton. now that we see the falls with bobby kennedy jr., would be helping -- would be helping joe biden because it takes votes from donald trump. i've never been a spoiler and anything. i've never tried to. i compete the best i possibly can. i compete to win. okay? and i am going to work, right now, to try to win the middle back. they've got to decide, i want things different. i want to make a change. >> norah: how do they do that? >> getting involved. saying, listen, you would be surprised at how things can happen when there is a movement saying, you are not giving me an option. >> norah: what is causing the election of increasingly more partisan people? less moderates. why isn't the system electing moderates? >> the system is closed beer with a closed system. the business model is basically, you control all from birth to the finality of it, so if it is starting up a grass root speck in your home, could be a home district, could be a home state, whatever, congresspeople are districtwide, if it is basically designed that we are going to have this ideology no matter what, whether it is you, me, or whoever, but someone will come from we consider more extreme has a better chance of winning than someone that is more moderate or conservative. >> norah: senator romney told me, i really think that independent candidates are likely to elect donald trump, and i think him being elected again would be devastating for our country and its character. do you agree with that? >> i agree with the second part, not the first. he and i have talked about this many times. i think the best you can say that is going to help or hinder one or the other. >> norah: so y you and mitt romney have talked about whether an independent candidate would help elect donald trump? >> you can't help but can't talk about it because that is all you hear about in the press. we have agreed to disagree. >> norah: are you concerned presidential election is donald trump versus joe biden? >> very concerned. sure. >> norah: why? >> it would be detrimental for a person who i tried to work with as president -- >> norah: donald trump. >> right, and i couldn't get% there with donald trump. but basically, this visceral hatred and degradation of human beings and talking about people that make up america, you know, you can't -- you can't be a person who believes the only fair election is the one you win. you can't be a person who believes the only laws pertaining to everybody but me. there is no privilege like that it wasn't designed that way. >> norah: well, we are going to have much more of our conversation tomorrow on "cbs mornings." now to tonight's "eye on america," we go inside a high school classroom students grapple with how to understand the war between israel and hamas, and with so many kids getting their news from social media, cbs's nicole sganga reports on how teachers are tackling the conflict. >> we are going to talk about some of the conflict. >> reporter: for students in stewart parker's ap human geography class, todays lesson is also today's news. >> gaza, israel, west bank -- >> norah: that has these high school freshman diving inte history of one of the world's most enduring conflicts. >> in israel, the cultural makeup is mostly jewish and muslim. >> reporter: and separating fact from fiction. >> how many of you have seen images of the conflict while you are looking at your social media feed? >> reporter: at winter park ninth grade center, just outside of orlando, parker knows this subject doesn't stay within his classroom walls. students don't get the complete picture by scrolling through instagram reels or tiktok. >> no, not at all. >> reporter: a recent survey found more than half of generation z teenagers called get their daily news from social media platforms. images of the war filling their screens. >> especially like the gaza strip, i saw like images oe ambulances rushing a kid younger than me out. >> reporter: leaving students like riley derrick and grace caron scrolling through an avalanche of information. some of it inaccurate. so you are noticing myths and disinformation -- >> for sure. >> reporter: how do you avoid it? >> sometimes you can't. >> reporter: a new study by the anti-defamation league reveals 70% of participants reported seeing misinformation or hate related to the conflict while on social media. >> this is the world we are taking in and we can make impact and try to improve it. >> a lot of people don't agree on the same, a lot of the time. >> reporter: parker says his students give him hope. >> since they are constantly on their social media, they see problems, but they want to fix them. >> that is more likely to cause pacifism and peace among groups of people. >> reporter: the changemakers of tomorrow. or "eye on america," nicole sganga, winter park, florida. >> norah: now to combating climate change, the white house unveils what it calls the most ambitious climate agenda in history. that's next. ♪ ♪ when i first learned about my dupuytren's contracture, my physician referred me to a hand specialist. and i'm glad he did, because when i took the tabletop test, i couldn't lay my hand flat anymore. the first hand specialist i saw only offered surgery. so, i went to a second hand specialist who also offered nonsurgical options — which felt more right for me. so, what i'd say to other people with dupuytren's contracture is this: don't wait — find a hand specialist trained in nonsurgical options, today. i found mine at findahandspecialist.com. salonpas, makers of powerful pain relief patches for 89 years... believes in continuous improvement... like rounded corners that resist peeling, with an array of active ingredients... and sizes to relieve your pain. salonpas. it's good medicine. kayaking is my thing. running is awesome. but her moderate to severe eczema would make her skin so uncomfortable. now i'm staying ahead of it. dupixent helps heal your skin from within. so, they can have clearer skin and less itch. serious allergic reactions can occur that can be severe. tell your doctor about new or worsening eye problems such as eye pain or vision changes including blurred vision, joint aches and pain, or a parasitic infection. don't change or stop asthma medicines without talking to your doctor. ask your doctor about dupixent. 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