Michael cohen. The former speaker of the house trying to discredit the prosecutions key witness. This is a man who is clearly on a mission for personal revenge. Norah the Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. We are going to get to the intense and contentious questioning of former fixer Michael Cohen by Donald Trumps defense team in just a moment. But first, there is some breaking news about a horrific accident in florida. Now a truck driver is under arrest for a dui after a deadly crash that killed at least eight people and injured 40 others in Central Florida early this morning. State investigators say the driver of that pickup truck collided with a bus that was carrying 53 migrant farmworkers. Cbss Manuel Bojorquez reports tonight on the conditions of those still in the hospital in ocala. Reporter more than 30 ambulances rushed to the scene of the crash at about 6 30 this morning. It happened on a rural road about 50 miles sou
good morning. welcome to cnn this morning. sunday, november 19. i m victor blackwell. i m amara walker. thank you for being with us. here s what we re watching for you. president biden is rejecting calls for a ceasefire in gaza. what israel s prime minister is saying about hostages being held by hamas. republican presidential i candidates, what they are saying about the president and each other. good news for people hitting the roads this thanksgiving holiday. gas prices are at their lowest levels in years and analysts say they are likely to drop even more. bad news if you are flying. a wet week ahead with several systems that could slow down travel across the country in the air. we ve got your holiday travel forecast. we begin this morning with reports out of gaza where there was an explosion at a u.n.-run school. we want to warn you. the video you re about to see is disturbing. video shows dozens of bodies, including women and children. the school was being used
against hamas. rejecting mounting calls for a cease-fire in gaza. in a new op-ed in the washington post, the president writes, quote, as long as hamas clings to its ideology of destruction, a cease-fire is not possible. every cease-fire is time they ex ploi exploit to restock and attack innocents again. this comes as gaza s largest hospital, al shifa, continues to be a key military target for the idf, claiming hamas is using the complex as a large-scale command center. a claim hamas denies. hospital officials say patients and staff were ordered to evacuate the medical complex, which israel denies. a head doctor there says six doctors are staying at the medical complex to treat around 120 too vulnerable to evacuate. but as the fighting continues in the north, israel s military is now vowing to advance anywhere hamas is found. there are growing signs a ground offensive into southern parts of gaza could be imminent. meanwhile, in tel aviv thousands gathered at a massive rall
you are live in the cnn newsroom. i m jim acosta in washington. good evening. we re only one year out from election day, and already there are warning signs for president biden in his bid for re-election. a new set of polls from the new york times and sienna college show biden trailing former president donald trump in hypothetical matchups in four key swing states. you see them there on-screen. trump appears to have an edge in nevada, georgia, arizona, and michigan, all critical states that could hand the election to the former president. but legal problems continue to pile up for donald trump. tomorrow he is expected to have to answer to some of these serious allegations of fraud that he s facing. he s set to take the stand in new york for a civil trial that could determine the fate of his business in that state. so one year from election day, how worried should the white house be about these low poll numbers for joe biden at this stage of the campaign? cnn s senior data
about his efforts to get sober before buying the gun at the center of the case. the outrage in israel. the u.n. adding it and hamas to a blacklist of those who harm children in war zones. new body cam video from the arrest of the world s number one golfer, scottie scheffler. what it reveals. and team usa stunning the world with a historic win. is america catching cricket fever? announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening, and welcome. in this season of extremes and heightened weather danger we ve witnessed these last several weeks, it s now the crippling heat we re watching tonight taking hold across a wide stretch of the southern tier putting 21 million people under heat alerts today. in the past 24 hours, triple-digit temperatures being recorded in places that include phoenix and las vegas. near record high temperatures could occur as far east as miami. tonight, first responders are adopting some of the lessons from last year s deadly summ