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
it s a two-person race now or is it? tonight on laura coates live. all right. i admit that was a bit of a trick question. nikki haley does think it s a two-person race between trump and herself. donald trump got out there and just threw a temper tantrum. i know that s what he does when he is threatened and he should feel threatened. trump and biden think it s a two-person race between the two of them. you know what the fact is? the primary season is taking a bit of a back seat to what we ll call the court season because even though nine republicans, yes, nine republicans have dropped out of the race, people forget about a third party, the real decider at times, the courts. now it may all come down to fani willis, alvin bragg, jack smith, letitia james, not to mention, of course, the d.c. circuit court and perhaps the biggest decider of all, those nine who are still very much a part of the game, the supreme court. so much for a two-person race. this is going to be a wh
Serve. We look at todays eyeopener, your world in 90 seconds. It is a sniper from up here somewhere. It is a sniper . You hear the shots. Get down. Get down. Target and Kill Five Police officers in dallas. Police say the snipers were targeting officers in an effort to injury and kill as many as they could. Get down officer down. Police started shooting in one direction, whoever was shooting, was shooting back. Thats when the war began. A peaceful protest. No one was acting up or crazy. Watch out we was running, they kept shooting. We dont know where it is coming from. I didnt see anybody else. It was just the cops. I believe i speak for every single american when i say that we are horrified over these events. Lets be clear. There is no possible justification for these kinds of attacks. You see video footage running towards gunfire, with no chance to protect themselves. To put themselves in harms way to make sure citizens can get to a place of security. All that to say the Police Office
Sense of it all. It has been a vicious, calculated and despicable attack on Law Enforcement. This morning, america in crisis, ambush in dallas. Our special coverage begins right now. And good morning, america. Afraid we are bringing you grim news this morning. That horrifying scene in dallas overnight. The deadliest attack on Law Enforcement since 9 11. One of the many peaceful protests against Police Shootings took a fatal turn. And here is what we know at this hour. Police say at least two snipers were involved shooting 11 officers and one protester mom with her children. Five Police Officers have been killed. Three suspects are currently in custody. One woman and two men. Another suspect appears to be dead and there you see the officers standing guard outside Parkland Hospital saluting those who lost their lives protecting the injured and this morning dallas just reeling. This is the front page of the ambush. You are looking at live aerials of the scene. Buildings are on lockdown ri
Were live from dallas with all the latest on the investigation. Nightly news begins right now. Tragedy in dallas. This is nbc nightly news with lester holt. Reporting tonight from dallas. Good evening. Tonight police say the shots that turned the streets behind me into a killing zone, taking the lives of 15 Police Officers 5 Police Officers, wounding 7 others and 2 civil juans came from one man operating alone with a grudge against police and white people. Tonight the nation shares dallas anxiety and shock over how a peaceful protest of Police Shootings of black men turned into an ambush of Police Officers here in texas. As marchers ran in fear from the shots, police took cover and desperately tried to neutralize the attacker. Tonight weve learned the killer is a black army veteran of the war in afghanistan. Nbcs Gabe Gutierrez has details. Go, go, go ambush was wellplanned, wellthoughtout and evil, police say. Hundreds of protesters caught in the cro crossfire, while officer were targ