Hush money trial. We do not believe this was targeting any particular person or any particular group. Margaret the Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening. Thank you for being with us. Im margaret brennan. Norah is on assignment. We begin tonight with that Breaking News from lower manhattan. Emergency crews rushed to a park just across the street from the courthouse, with fire extinguishers, to douse the flames engulfing a 37yearold man. After burning for several minutes, he was carried away on a stretcher and taken to the hospital in critical condition. It does not appear the incident has anything to do with the trial of the former president , which continued on without interruption. Authorities say the man was carrying colorful pamphlets that were full of antigovernment conspiracies. They dont believe he was targeting any particular person or group. Cbss Jericka Duncan will start us off tonight with the latest details. Across the street, from 100 centre street, hes on fire reporter it was a shocking image, too graphic to be shown in full detail, in the middle of a New York City Park this afternoon, of a man on fire. It happened right outside the courthouse where former president Donald Trumps criminal trial was underway. A man has now lit himself on fire outside of the courthouse in manhattan where we are waiting. Reporter the incident unfolding live on cable news just after 1 30 eastern. We are, like, yelling to the cops who are all outside of the park. I dont know if he was really political or just unbalanced. Reporter authorities confirmed 37yearold Maxwell Azzarello was from st. Augustine, florida. Tonight, Officials Say he is intubated and in critical condition. He throws the pamphlets throughout the park, and then he pulls out a canister and pours some kind of liquid on himself. Court officers, members of the police department, they run into the park. They make efforts to put him out. Reporter how concerned are you that somebody was able to get this far in, light themselves on fire, with all of these lawenforcement officials around . We are very concerned. Of course we are going to review our security protocols. Reporter azzarello posted what he called the ponzi papers online, critical of both republicans and democrats, claiming, we are victims of a Totalitarian Con that is about to hit us with an apocalyptic fascist world coup. This gentleman did not breach security protocols. The park was open to the public. Reporter and today at a news conference, when i asked authorities how this incident changes things moving forward, one official said that shutting down this park, which was also used as a Designated Space for protesters, margaret, is now under consideration. Margaret Disturbing Development there. Jericka duncan, thank you. Meanwhile, inside the courthouse, Jury Selection concluded and Opening Statements will now begin monday in what is the first criminal prosecution of a former president of the United States. Trump faces 34 counts of falsifying Business Records as part of a hush money scheme. Cbss robert costa has the latest. Reporter the full jury is now set in the unprecedented criminal trial of former president donald trump. The trial starts on monday, which is long before a lot of people thought. The judge wants this to go as fast as possible. Its for his reasons, not for my reasons. Reporter the remaining five alternate jurors selected today complete the panel. They will hear evidence and step in if any of the jurors drop out. The group of seven men and five women weighing the evidence includes a teacher, an investment banker, and a corporate lawyer. The assigned foreperson is originally from ireland. Emotions ran high, with some potential jurors complaining of anxiety. One saying today, this is so much more stressful than i thought it was going to be before being dismissed. It is indeed possible that we may see one or two jurors who come in on monday and just say that they have reconsidered their position and they cannot serve. You are going to get a lot of pressure, and you are going to see what it feels like to be pressured by other people. Reporter meanwhile, trump has said he is willing to take the stand. Yeah, i would testify, absolutely. Reporter and today in separate court proceedings, trump and his attorneys were briefed about topics that persecutors would raise if he were to testify, potentially including fraud, past Sexual Misconduct allegations, and alleged gag order violations. Everyone else can say whatever they want about me. They can say anything they want. They can continue to make up lies and everything else. Reporter and late today, trumps legal team tried to get an Appeals Court judge to halt the trial and change the venue, citing concerns about Jury Selection, but the judge denied that request. Meaning, for now, full steam ahead for the prosecution, come monday, when they will call their first witness. Margaret . Margaret another reason this is just a highly Unusual Campaign season for you. Bob, thank you for your reporting. Now to israels retaliatory air strikes on iran. Senior u. S. Officials confirmed the Missile Strikes to cbs news, but little else is being publicly shared. Cbss debora patta reports tonight from jerusalem. Reporter flashes in the night sky. Among the few images posted on social media, purportedly showing the Israeli Attack on iran. Cbs news has learned that israeli aircraft operating outside iran fired a small number of missiles on the City Of Isfahan after suppressing syrian air defenses. Isfahan is where iran has several nuclear facilities. The u. N. s top Atomic Energy body says none of them were damaged. For now, though, officials are mostly keeping their heads down and their mouths shut. Secretary of state Antony Blinken did not address the attack directly and would not be drawn on whether the u. S. Had been given advance notice. Im not going to speak to anything other than to say we were not involved in any offensive operations. Reporter there has also been no official israeli confirmation of the strike. Iran expert Menahem Merharvy believes that, for now, israel has had the last word. Because the message was to the government in iran, to the regime, you know, we can reach you. You are not impregnable on the one hand, yet we do not look for more adventures on this front. Reporter iran also played down the attack. Nothing to see here, was the official line. It was just our powerful Air Defense Firing at a suspicious object, said general siavash mihandoost. It caused no damage at all. Regime supporters chanting Death To Israel mocked the attack, saying it was nothing special, just a bunch of small drones. Merharvy told us the merharvy told us the nature of the Israeli Attack gives iran enough space to walk away from this. He doesnt believe they will retaliate this time, and that for now, at least, the Playing Field has been leveled. Margaret . Margaret debora patta tonight in jerusalem, thank you. Back here in washington, Congress Took a key step toward passing foreign aid bills to provide billions of dollars in Security Funding for ukraine, israel, and taiwan. House Speaker Mike Johnson scheduled a vote for tomorrow. Cbss Scott Macfarlane is on capitol hill, where the speaker may be putting his own job on the line. Reporter The Long Wait for helping ukraine appears nearly over. The world is watching. It is time for congress to act. Reporter after a key test vote today, the u. S. House is poised to approve nearly 61 billion in aid to ukraine tomorrow. Along with billions to help israel. But the political cost is difficult to calculate. Im concerned that the speaker has cut a deal with the democrats to fund foreign wars. Reporter a third hardline republican, arizonas paul gosar, has signed onto a plan that could oust his fellow republican mike johnson as u. S. House speaker. The group has criticized johnson for again pushing a major proposal largely supported by democrats. Other republicans told cbs news theyre dissatisfied, too. Do you think this is a Tipping Point for speaker johnson, this ukraine vote . I definitely sense that there is a souring, you know, to republican leadership. Reporter the defectors still wont say when they would force a vote against johnson, who defended the ukraine legislation. This is the best possible product that we can get under these circumstances. Reporter democrats supported it overwhelmingly. Oh, this money was needed yesterday. Like, i cannot emphasize enough that if we didnt step in soon to help ukraine, we could be giving the whole show to vladimir putin. Reporter and democrats havent ruled out voting to keep johnson in his job if he is challenged. If he works with us in an earnest way, that they would be willing to vote no on a motion to vacate. Reporter also set for a vote tomorrow, a bill that would require tiktok to be sold or divested from its chinabased owner or face a ban in the United States within a year. Margaret, they have added this to this major foreign aid package. Margaret its going to be a busy weekend on capitol hill. Scott, thank you. A possible School Shooting was averted. Police in maryland revealed new details today about how they stopped a students plan to carry out an attack. Cbss Nicole Sganga reports. A potentially catastrophic event was prevented. Reporter a possible School Shooting thwarted. Authorities arrested 18yearold alex ye, charging the High School Student previously hospitalized for psychiatric treatment with making threats of Mass Violence at his high school and Elementary School in rockville, maryland. According to charging documents, a friend alerted local police of a chilling 129page memoir, a story of a bullied transgender teens desire to shoot up his school. Elements police say are pulled from the suspects real life. Even after being removed from the school, ye said that he could do something at graduation because he lived close to the school. Ye was preoccupied with selfharm, School Shootings, and explosives. Reporter police saying he google searched other mass shootings, including sandy hook, and nearby gun ranges. Police also recovered a bb gun from the suspects home. No other weapons were found, and the suspect is being held without bond. There have been 140 threats made to Montgomery CountyPublic Schools this school year, according to local police. The district has bolstered its Security Footprint and is now offering Trauma Counseling to students. The overall mood is definitely shocked but thankful that nothing bad really happened. No one really expected this to happen. Its kind o crazy when its your own school. Reporter we reached out to the suspects attorney. We have not yet heard back. Tomorrow marks 25 years since columbine. Police say the suspect here mentioned that School Shooting in recent online conversations. Margaret . Margaret Nicole Sganga, thank you. Well, Microchip Maker Intel is at the center of the latest hightech race between the u. S. And china. Cbss jo ling kent got exclusive access to intels stateoftheart facility for tonights in depth report. Reporter this is the new front line in the global chip war. Here we go. Lets go. Reporter intel is one of the biggest chipmakers in the world. Inside this oregon fabrication plant, yellow light protects the millions of chips, or semiconductors, that power nearly all of the tech that we use. Inside each one of those boxes, 25 silicon wafers. They travel around this factory, running about 200 miles over 3 to 6 months, going through thousands of steps before they are officially a semiconductor. Ceo Pat Gelsinger says intel is accelerating production to satisfy massive demand. Every aspect of Human Existence is depending more and more on what we do with semiconductors. Reporter its a matter of national security, too. For example, if china were to ever invade taiwan and block chips made on the island, the Global Financial impact could be more than 1 trillion. That puts intel under tremendous pressure, especially after the Biden Administration awarded the company 8. 5 billion from the chips act to build more fabrication plants and upgrade others. Why should a taxpayer believe that this is actually going to happen . If you show up in ohio today, you know, we have thousands of Construction Workers today at that site. You know, these arent empty promises. Were saying do we want to build these factories in the United States or do you want them built in asia . Reporter currently less than 10 of semiconductors are made in the u. S. His goal, double that by 2030. The covid period was a bit of a wakeup call for the nation. All of a sudden, our Car Factories were stopped because we didnt have a 1 chip. How did that happen . And we found out all of those chips were being built in asia and we had no particular influence on those supply chains. Reporter intel has Just Announced a new weapon, this high na lithography machine, the most advanced ever made. It uses a laser that heats material 40 times hotter than the sun to create the next generation of semiconductors. How is this massive new machine that youre installing going to make a material difference . 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