The forecast . Cbs evening news starts now. Traffic jams, flight delays, and Severe Weather. The memorial they traveled rushes off to anything but a smooth start tonight. Good evening, and thank you for being with us. I am barista bought in for norah. Nearly 34 million americans are heading out of town by road and by air and they are having their patience tested for two reasons. Wrist, there is a near recordbreaking number of travelers. At the tsa says today could be the busiest day ever for passenger screenings. Than there are the widespread storms, thunder, heavy rain, and strong winds from the great plains in the midwest to as far south as georgia. All complicating the holiday getaway. We have Team Coverage of the weather and travel, and cbss Kris Van Cleave will start us off. Reporter major gridlock on an l. A. Freeway holding the memorial day getaway. Shut down for three hours during a police standoff, and those pulling into lax just found another traffic jam. Break likes outside.
Norah plus the new Tornado Threat tonight. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Tonight, tens of millions of americans are in the path of dangerous storms from texas to vermont. Good evening, im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. Its a fourth straight day of Severe Weather bringing destructive wind, flooding, and tornadoes. Several twisters touched down last night in the hawkeye state, including one with winds up to 165 Miles Per Hour. And the scope of the devastation is heartbreaking. This is what the small town of greenfield, iowa, looks like from above tonight. Home after home brought to the ground. Search and rescue operations are underway right now with the governor revealing its unknown exactly how many people are dead or missing. Cbss Roxana Saberi is in greenfield tonight, talking to families who lost everything. Reporter the tornado that ripped through greenfield, iowa, left a trail of destruction several miles long. This is a Search And Rescue mission, and it will c
Directly to Hush Money Payments to Stormy Daniels. Why he says the fo former president was afraid of the Adult Star Story would be a disaster for the 2016 campaign. Its marked down in. Norah Cbs Evening News starts now good evening im Norah Odonnell and thank you for being with us after a pivotal day in the criminal trial of donald trump, the former president coming facetoface with this one time personal Attorney Michael Cohen who gave six hours of detailed testimony under oath, Painting A Behind The Scenes picture of what was happening in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. The former fixer and inside man detailed how trump personally approved the socalled Hush Money Payouts to hide stories he believed would hurt him with female voters in his 2016 run for the white house. What was the Stormy Daniels payment and that trumps reimbursement to cohen disguised as Legal Expenses that is at the heart of this criminal case. Trump is charged with 34 Felony Counts of falsifying Business Recor
Beer united we will never be defeated james tonight clashes in portland and washington, d. C. Cbs evening news starts now. Good evening. Im james brown in for norah. And we begin tonight with President Bidens sharp criticism today of the violence that has broken out in protest on Americas College campuses over the israelhamas war. In recent weeks, nearly 2,000 people have been detained or arrested at dozens of schools. There were more protest today at Portland State, George Washington university, the university of pennsylvania, and nyu. Speaking at the white house today, President Biden made his most extensive comments to date on the protests, condemning antisemitic slurs, vandalism, trespassing, and major disruptions to classes and graduations at some universities. New york city mayor eric adams says nearly half of those arrested earlier this week at Columbia University and nearby city college were not students at those schools. Adams claims outside agitators are radicalizing students
a historic day in america. a former president of the united states now a convicted felon. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us on this important night. donald trump seethed as he left a manhattan court room today as a convicted criminal. and then here he is come arriving back trump tower, waving at crowds. today, a jury of 12 new yorkers found him guilty 34 times over of creating false business records, including these checks with his signature, tied to hush money payments made to adult film star for stormy daniels. the jurors unanimously agreed with the prosecution that these payments are part of a scheme to conceal crimes that hid damaging information from the voting public during the 2016 presidential election. we have team coverage as we answer some of the major remaining questions. how will this affect the presidential election? is this the only criminal trial trump will face in the months ahead? and will trump face prison time? cbs s robert