coverage of a historic federal indictment of a former president of united states begins at this hour with the dramatic full statement made by special prosecutor jack smith this afternoon when he, in effect, introduced himself to the american people, speaking publicly for the very first time in his six and a half months of investigating donald trump. good afternoon. today an indictment was unsealed. charging donald j trump with felony violations of our national security laws as well as participating in a conspiracy to obstruct justice. this indictment was voted by a grand jury of citizens in the southern district of florida and i invite everyone to read it in full to understand the scope and the gravity of the crimes charged. the men and women of the united states intelligence community and our armed forces dedicate their lives to protecting our nation and its people. our laws the protect national defense information are critical to the safety and security of the united stat
the president s home turning up even more classified material. the fallout tonight. outrage in memphis. what the family of tyre nichols is saying after viewing police body-cam video of his brutal arrest. miracle rescue. after missing for hours, how this free diver was found, more than five miles off the florida keys. and finally, how this close-knit community is coming together, after tragedy overshadows joyful celebrations. this is a special edition of the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting tonight from monterey park, california. porting tonight from monterey park, california. o donnell: good evening and thank you for joining o donnell: good evening and thank you for joining us as we begin a new week together. tonight, we are here in monterey park, california, a community that is in mourning following the deadliest mass shooting of the year, and what was supposed to be a night of celebration for the lunar new year instead turned into a massacre. well, toda
van. what we re learning about the suspect, his possible motive. as we also learn the stories of the victims tonight. matt rivers standing by with late reporting here. and juju chang with the families tonight. the lives lost. and the scene inside that ballroom. also breaking as we come on the air tonight, there is late word coming in of another deadly shooting. this time, in des moines, involving students at a staff member. authorities say two students shot and killed. that staff member wounded. tonight, after the fbi finds more classified documents at president biden s home, after a 13-hour search, new questions. and what attorney general merrick garland said today when asked if president biden was being treated any differently than former president trump. mary bruce standing by at the white house. two back-to-back storms moving across the country. more than 20 states are on alert from arizona all the way east. snow and rain from philadelphia to new york to boston. and
monterey park, california. a gunman opened fire inside a dance studio near lunar new year celebrations saturday night. that suspect is a 72-year-old man who targeted another local after his initial rampage. police say he then took his own life, after an hours-long standoff in a parking lot the following day. he was disarmed by two community members they consider to be heroes. pause they saved lives. this could have been much worse. the weapon that we recovered at that second scene, i m describing as a magazine-fed semi-automatic assault pistol. not an assault rifle, but an assault pistol that had an extended large-capacity magazine. and just ahead, you re going to hear from one of the men who confronted and fought off the gunman, one of those heroes, fighting him off before he could open fire at that second dance studio. let s begin this hour with cnn s senior national correspondent, kyung lah who s on the scene there in monterey park, california. so kyung, what more ca
. . . pete: straight to a fox news alert. a mass shooting taking place at a lunar new year event in los angeles late last night leaving at least nine people dead. will: details are still limited. monterrey county police are expected to have a press conference. rachel: witnesses say it was a male and used a machine gun to carry out the shooting we re monitoring the story. will: fox news alert. six more items containing classified material are found at president biden s home in wilmington, delaware. rachel: they found the documents after nearly all day search two weeks after we learned about the classified material found at penn biden scepter. pete: six more. brooke broke the story last night. she joins us now. brooke. reporter: more classified documents were found in president biden s wilmington, delaware home after nearly 13 hour fbi search. biden s attorney responding to the revelations say, they took the materials deemed within the scope of its inquiry, six items askin