school shootings in american history. red flag laws: the renewed focus on mental health and gun safety. could new laws prevent future mass shootings? americans hit the road. with tens of millions planning to travel this holiday weekend, tonight what you can expect at the airport and the gas station. plus, could severe weather create a travel nightmare? two more months expect more delays before shelves are fully stocked with baby formula, a warning to parents from the head of the f.d.a. deadly home explosion outside philadelphia. what caused the blast that killed at least five people? and on the road with a memorial day tradition heard from coast to coast. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. brennan: good evening, and thank you all for joining us on this friday night. i m margaret brennan in for norah. there is growing outraging tonight after texas police admit to multiple failures in their response to the scho
Sun shine. The last of the showers exiting the atlantic beaches and were getting a few breaks in the clouds just to the south. Temperatures right now are near 80 degrees. And the Shenandoah Valley, more sun this morning out in western maryland, West Virginia the leading edge of heat beginning to push in. Low and mid 80s there. In the upper 70s around the chesapeake baey where its still quite cloudy as well. Chance for storms later this afternoon. This is chris gordan with that developing story in rockville. Vandalism to the confederate memorial statue. Spray painted black lives matter and on the bottom red spray painting that iappears to say black lives matter. It apparently happened overnight. An uber driver came to take a look at the statue. He called the police. They called rockville city police. This is a rockville district. The Montgomery County official said he will have it removed. They had a crane operator in last week measuring it for removal from this area but this vandalism
In venezuela. I do not think it is fair, what has happened the past few months in a country, that you have had the majority of venezuelans protesting, demanding change, demanding free and fair elections, and they have been received by the National Guard and police with tear gas, with rubber bullets, and sometimes with regular bullets, would shotguns. More than 120 people have been killed. And according to the attorney general, she has said that more than 90 of those who have been killed our opposition protesters. Especially young people between 20 and 30. So there has been violence in venezuela, we condemn all violence. I do not think it is fairto all violence. I do not think it is fair to say that it has been on both sides. There is one side that has insisted on protesting peacefully, and every time that the police or National Guard appear, it ends with people being killed. Just tell us about the opposition and who they are. The opposition has evolved since it began in venezuela. Toda
North korea vowing revenge against the u. S. In response to tough new u. N. Sanctions over missile and nuclear programs. Former u. N. Ambassador john bolton joins us with more on what happens now. Illegal and unconstitutional. Chicago mayor rahm emanuel suing the department of justice blocking federal tax dollars for sanctuary cities. The doj firing back, saying what emanuel should be focused on instead of this. The white house is pushing back hard what they call an absurd report out of the New York Times about a 2020 shadow campaign. Well explain. First back to the markets. The dow climbing into the close to score, looking at that, another record finish. But oil that is moving in the opposite direction as opec meeting gets underway. Lets go to phil flynn watching action from the cme and Nicole Petallides on the floor of the new york stock exchange. Nicole, lets start with you. What exactly was driving the dow and s p to new records today . I want to point out, nasdaq up half a percent
This be open and talk about it rather than hold it inside and abuse people on the quiet. This showcases there is a quiet. Typical fix is to block letters like this but that doesnt fix the attitude or improve the environment. They have to change the way people think and they cant do that unless theyre very much aware of how theyre thinking now. In response to the essay, googles new vp of diversity Danielle Brown emailed employees yesterday which said, we are unequivocal in our belief that diversity and inclusion are critical to our success as a company and well continue to stand for that and be committed to it for the long haul. She said change in culture is hard but google is doing the right ning thing. Lillian kim, abc7. A hayward man shot at after pursuing a truck thief on gamble court in hayward lass night. Abc7 cornel bernard is life at Police Headquarters with more. Reporter eric, Hayward Police dont really recommend doing what stacy jetton did, confronting a truck thief. Luckily