if there is anything tha recent events in tennessee and other states have taught us, i should be that state legislatures are critical fo our democracy. i mean, it is where america policy is made and if we don t know who you re stat representatives are, you shoul get to know them because the are determining the future state houses create policies whose impact can reach beyond state lines and influenc entire regions, affectin peoples pocketbooks, education s abilities to make decisions about their own bodies and virtually every facet of lif you can think of beyond laws alone, how you state legislature s run has direct impact on you as well i mean, look at tennessee. more than 136,000 tennesseeans woke up on friday morning with a no representation in their own state house. that s because the republica majority expelled of the two youngest black male legislators, representatives justin pearson and justin jones, saying the violated house decorum rules all for demanding tha
last week s scoot shooting. school shooting. i didn t hear you. they re coming, they re coming. cbs s mark strassmann is there. so much indiscriminate carnage in a country polarized by what to do about it. plus, pope francis returns to the vatican, just in time for holy week. i m chris livesay in st. peter s square where pope francis is celebrating palm sunday mass after making a swift recovery. and later, triumph and heartbreak. there s no stopping march madness, even though the calendar says it s april. announcer: this is the cbs weekend news with jericka duncan. good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. tonight new york city is bracing for what could be two tumultuous days. on monday, former president donald trump is expected to fly from florida to new york. then on tuesday he will be formally arraigned on criminal charges in an historic indictment that remains under seal. today, in west palm beach, ved to supporters from inside his suv as he
Norah relentless severe storms slammed the south. What the [bleep] norah tonight, the devastation from another tornado outbreak, as more than 200,000 customers are without power after a wild week of weather. I went right in the house in the nick of time. They just tore everything up. Norah tonight, the multiday threat with large hail pelting parts of texas. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us on this friday night. We want to begin with a story we have led this broadcast with almost every night this week deadly and dangerous storms unleashing fury and dozens of tornadoes from michigan to florida. A line of severe thunderstorms, winds gusting above hurricane force, and tornadoes tore through the florida panhandle, including the city of tallahassee, early this morning. This drone video shows the long trail of destruction to homes and businesses. Roofs you can see, in some cases, completely gone. Massive chunks of hail battered
I went right in the house in the nick of time. They just tore everything up. Norah tonight, the multiday threat with large hail pelting parts of texas. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. On this friday night. We want to begin with a story we have led this broadcast with almost every night this week deadly and dangerous storms unleashing fury and thousands of tornadoes from michigan to florida. A line of severe thunderstorms, winds gusting above hurricane force, and tornadoes tore through the florida panhandle, including the city of tallahassee, early this morning. Theres a drone video shows the long trail of destruction to homes and businesses. Roofs you can see in some places completely gone. Massive chunks of hail battered parts of central texas, with some pieces bigger than a baseball. Cbss Cristian Benavides will start us off tonight from tallahassee, where he saw the destruction up close. Speed to fierce, Howling Wind
officially add unhinged convicted felon who snapped after he lost the 2020 election to the list. that is how the current leader of the free world, president joe biden, describes his rival and his first expansive remarks taking down donald trump post trial, post conviction. the president taking the presumptive republican nominee on head on, for having made history in all of the wrong ways. for becoming the first ever ex-american president to become a convicted felon and for being the first convicted felon to then try to become president again. current president telling a crowd at a fund-raiser in connecticut last night that the 2024 election campaign had entered, quote, uncharted territory, with trump s criminal conviction. adding that as if the guilty verdict isn t disturbing enough, quote, more damaging is the all out assault donald trump is making on the american system of justice. echoing remarks president biden made last week, he called out trump s claims of a rigged just