Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Welcome to the overnight news. Im elaine quijano. Severe weather killed at least four people this weekend in the south. A wave of storms from texas to canada unleashed floods, devastating wind, lightning, hail, and tornadoes. A week of heavy rain and melting snow has caused flood emergencies in several states, and the threat is expected to continue into the week. Heres tony dokoupil. Reporter scenes of destruction like this motel shredded by a possible tornado in northeastern arkansas guided the central and Southern United States this weekend. As pounding rains, rising rivers and at least eight possible tornadoes ravaged the country. The roof of this home near bowling green, kentucky caved in, killing a 79yearold woman. It was an elderly female which was located in the kitchen part of the house. Reporter the ohio river swelled to nearly three times its normal level in louisville, kentucky and spilled its banks further north, where cincinnati, o
Resource,itional there is a link on our website to the National Constitution centers interactive constitution. Newsmakers is pleased to welcome representative bought. Goodlatte. The area around harrisburg and virginia. , her 24 years in congress is announced he will not be running again let next year. He is a full plate between now and the end of the term. We will talk about the issues. Thank you for being with us. It is great to be with you and your viewers. Let me introduce the reporters. Scott long covers congress for the hill and alan gomez covers congress for usa today. I think we are starting with you, scott. Thank you for being with us, today. Unfortunately, we saw another tragedy with the School Shooting in parkland, florida. Betsy devos, the education secretary, we just learned, has made comments that Congress Needs to hold hearings looking into these types of issues dealing with School Shootings. Your leadership committee, you have not chosen to go that route into gun violenc
Said he does not plan to resign. Elaine . Omar, thank you. Up this weekend by the u. N. Security council has yet to take hold in sy there was more fighting sunday bombing that killed at least 50. A massive refugee crisis that started six months ago continues to grow. Every week hundreds of Rohingya Muslims are still crossing over the border from myanmar, formerly burma, into bangladeshe fled their homes, escaping their brutal military crackdown. Our digital network, cbsn, investigated the crisis and found social media is being used as a weapon against the rohingya. The new cbsn documentary, weaponizing social media the rohingya crisis, premieres on our streaming network, cbsn, at cbsnews. Com. Coming up, insights on gun control from a country that has nearly eliminated shooting deaths. And later, when they look at their diets with Virtual Reality goggles, they see the light. Growing up, a lot of people judged me because of the way i look. I thought all asians were good at math. You all
Killed 59 people yesterday and sickened over 500 others . Do you think the nation with demand action . If we had an outbreak every day that had over 100,000 people a ,ear killed and injured congress would be in a frenzy. We found two minutes for a moment of silence and we moved on. Gun violence is a Public Health hazard. Bit as important as every other disease or outbreak. Ours is the only developed country in the world that cannot protect our families from death and injury from guns on a massive scale. Of frustration in congress and another School Shooting in my district, i sat down with my constituents to go through, what are the things that we can do that would make a difference . We understood that you cannot completely solved evil people. Theres not a statute thats foolproof. Are built withs efforts to try to make things better. Lets stop dealing with gun violence as a political issue and think about it as the Public Health epidemic that it is. Its already claiming over 12,000 liv
Very, very smart. Im afraid when it comes to foreign policy, he is very, very not smart. laughter trevor i dont think you won with that line. That was like a very, very sick not burn. Mmm. Now i know why we didnt invite mitt romney to the Comedy Central trump roast. Mr. Trump is so very, very not attractive that if given the choice to have a sexual encounter with him using jebs genitals, i would choose to do Something Else entirely. fake laugh but this whole announcement is a bit of a shift from the last time romney spoke about trump four years ago. Thank you to donald trump for his endorsement. It means a great deal to me to have the the endorsement of mr. Trump. Being in Donald Trumps Magnificent Hotel and having his endorsement is a delight. Im so honored and pleased to have his endorsement. Trevor ooh mitt romney im surprised you didnt get pink eye after shoving your nose that deep into trumps ass applause thats why trump is winning, people flipflop like this. A bigger question you