remember the first grade teacher shot by a six-year-old, tonight s the teacher s lawyer claiming officials failed to act. three times, full administration was warned by concerned teachers and employees that the boy had a gun on him. o donnell: heavy tanks to are ukraine, president biden reverses course, european allies follow suit promising 80 more of their own leopard tanks. tonight with what the pope is saying about homosexuality in a new interview and the high school class, a lesson that changed one student s life forever. this is the cbs evening news with nora o donnell reporting from the nation s capitol. o donnell: good evening and thank you zoo much for joining us on this wednesday night. we are learning new details in that federal civil rights investigation into what the u.s. attorney today called the tragic death of tyre nichols, five officers were fired and just tonight cbs news has obtained new police dispatch audio. we are hearing for the first time from
surrounding former president donald trump. why a grand jury could soon hear from former vice president mike pence. also, our exclusive interview with the leaders of three powerful congressional caucuses, the first time the three have sat down for an interview together. we stand in unity together. i think that is the power of the tricaucus, the power of us is being able to stand together, to make change, and to be there to support each other. but first, the breaking news, a second military base used by the u.s. in syria coming under attack today. it is happening just one day after a drone strike killed one american worker and wounded several troops at a different coalition base. intelligence officials believe the drone came from iran. president biden authorized new air strikes in response. joining us now is nbc news chief white house correspondent peter alexander. good morning. tell us about the new attack and what more do we know about iran s role? reporter: yeah, jos
We saw some of that flooding all over the roadways. Now were talking about major highways, i10 south of here. 69 is closed. Beaumont becoming its own mini island, and in very many places across jefferson county, you have islands just trying to get help to them, because there are so many rivers that are passing through. Rivers that used to be streamtr like this street behind me. You see the water coming off the street there. Thats traveling into a drainage ditch, and this is the problem. We just saw a man try to cross the drainage ditch. He thought it was a street. He was almost washed away before our eyes. He was able to swim right back up before the current took him away. That is why police are saying here in southeast, texas, this is not over by any means. The brunt of the storm may be head thing way right now. Drew griffin in beaumont. Emergency services and possible rescues to go into Eastern Parts of texas into western louisiana. We thought new orleans was going to have rain, four
Do, we have a Customer Service hot line that we turned into a nonemergency call center, and weve asked the residents if they need to be rescued and its not an emergency, or if they think they might need to be rescued, that they call that 311. Most of the people unless they get hit later or are near the river. W we are prioritizing those, the residents that can get out of their homes, like i said, were prioritizing them. And also we they do know that we will wait until daybreak. Because of the standing water, so many of the streets and the
typically shelter in beaumont. We have three shelters open, they will not at capacity until they started to get at capacity, well look at opening another shelter. A shelter, you dont just put up there and ask people to come. You have to have supplies, cots, blankets, and someone that knows how to run it. And the red cross, because of all the devastation in texas is very, very limited resources for them, too. So i think that would be our biggest issue,