brought against him by writer e. jean carroll. now i guess we are going to see, is this number enough or potentially do we go through this again? nancy: the cbs evening news starts now. good evening. i m nancy cordes in for norah. thank you for being with us. we are going to have more on that massive payout donald trump was ordered to make to e. jean carroll in a moment. also tonight, though, big news from the border, where migrant crossings hit a new record in december. hundreds of thousands of them, and countered by border agents. plus, boeing 737 max 9 is returning to the skies. cbsnews is there as the first flight takes off from seattle after the planes were grounded for three weeks following that terrifying midair incident. but we want to begin tonight a jury found he acted maliciously, out of hatred, ill will, or spite in his ongoing verbal attacks on the former elle magazine columnist. they concluded he should pay $83.3 million in damages. a previous ju
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u.s. todd: jonathan lines on the ground in yuma, arizona, but we begin with caroline shivley. we are here at gate 40 along the border wall in el paso. it is hard to get a sense in the dark, we are on this side of the border. on the other side are migrants, take a look at what it looks like in the daytime. migrants huddled together just wai waiting begging to be let in. the 2000-mile border, has set up a tent city, some waiting near checkpoints. 10,000 migrants were caught trying to sneak over the border tuesday alone. these are children being swept away on the rio grande river. two adults plunged into the water and saved them. fox captured video of migrants crossing into brownsville. president biden says scenes like this are nothing new. president biden: we ve had chaos at the border for a number of years. we have to fully fund border security efforts. purpose what we are doing now, is making legal immigration more streamlined and going in direction people know there is
plus, two jewish men shot outside of synagogues in los angeles on different days. tonight authorities say they re connected. the victims targeted for their religion. the federal hate crime charges just filed. the outrage in ohio. families waiting in long lines for help in east palestine two weeks after that toxic train derailment and new details on what may have caused this crash. the tragedy on the field. a 12-year-old dying after collapsing at football practice. the family says the ambulance took 30 minutes to arrive. what his mother says could have saved his life. and the book of 125,000 names, the story it tells and the deep connection for our correspondent. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. and good evening. i m tom llamas in for lester tonight. they were sworn to protect, but today five fired memphis police officers were in a courtroom facing charges of murder that they beat tyre nichols so badly during his arrest last month that he died