welcome to champions for change. i m dr. sanjay gupta. this hour we will spotlight people who are changing the way things are done. they re not celebrities. they re not politicians, but they are re-shaping the world with creativity, passion and heart. later in the show you re going to meet my champion for change, but first, cnn anchor and former track star ana cabrera catches up with a coach and mentor for some determined girls who are lacing up their running shoes and chasing down dreams. go get them! go get them! i wouldn t be the person i am today without her. excellent, baby girl. jean bell wears a lot of hat, she s a coach, a judge, a friend. to me, she s a dream maker. hat she s a coach, a judge, a friend. to me, she s a dream maker. i ve been coaching my own team jeuness for 37 years. what does jeuness mean? it s a french word for young ladies. i wanted to coach young girls as they became young women. i can let them know that education is the
pence as the rioters approached. thanks to all of you for getting up way too early with us on this thursday. big day, morning joe starts right now. tonight i come to you with a spring in my step, a song in my heart, emotionally and spiritually refreshed because you know how as humans we have to accept the fact that sometimes bad things happen to good people. well, by the grace of god, sometimes bad things happen to alex jones, and that s a good thing. oh, yes, conspiracy theorist alex jones ordered to pay nearly a billion dollars to sandy hook families for lying about the 2012 massacre being a hoax. we will speak with one of the plaintiffs in the case, a sandy hook mother. and you know, mika, we were watching this live, got breaking news. and as the verdicts were coming in, it was so painful. it was so painful. looking at the parents. you know, they re talking about, you know, basically a billion dollars in civic awards, and you just couldn t, you still looked at
a debate coming up. john: begin with the supreme court hearing arguments today on what could be one of the most consequential rulings for higher education in decades. hello, john roberts in washington and hello to you this afternoon. gillian: good to be with you, john, on this spooky halloween. john: good to be with you as well. gillian: i m gillian turner. whether to end affirmative action policies in a pair of cases. john: opponents argue the criteria has harmed millions of students, particularly asian-americans. david spunt starts us off live outside the supreme court. did justice brown jackson recuse herself. that s right, because of her position on the harvard board of overseers, and her connections to harvard university. she thought it was best she sits out. there are two separate cases, overall affirmative action affects millions of students across the country and the justices began hearing two arguments three hours ago. started with the case out of the uni
but we have more to do. o donnell: ukraine s counteroffensive. russian forces on the run, as president zelenskyy says ukrainian troops have liberated thousands of square miles of territory. cbs s debora patta reports tonight from kharkiv. california mudslides. a tidal wave of mud, as thousands are evacuated or ordered to shelter in place. cbs s mark strassmann is at the scene. this wall, plus sandbags underneath it, is what saved my house. this is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. o donnell: good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us on this busy tuesday night. as we come on the air, the coffin of queen elizabeth is now at buckingham palace. it was an emotional return home, as thousands lined the streets of london to catch a glimpse of the only monarch many of them have ever known. the late queen arrived at the palace for the final time, her official residence during her 70-year reign. the day be
street party kicks off its final day at the notting hill carnival in west london. nasa has cancelled today s launch of its most powerful rocket, artemis one, which had been due to take off for an uncrewed test flight to the moon. the us space agency said one of its engines had developed a bleed that couldn t be fixed in time; the next possible launch date is friday the second of september. the artemis programme aims to return humans to the moon. if successful, the plan is for astronauts to be on board the flight in two years time. our science correspondent, jonathan amos told us what went wrong. frustrating day today, ben, it really was. we had a number of little issues that cropped up. first of all, when we got here, it was pouring with rain and that delayed them tanking, putting all the propellants that they needed to go in this monster rocket over my shoulder. then they thought they had a crack halfway up the rocket, believe it or not, and decided that that was just frosti