gilgo beach killer appears in court for the first time since pleading not guilty as prosecutors reveal they have collected a mountain of evidence. ♪ ♪ >> police sources say they know who they are looking for in the deadly stabbing of a beloved dancer. police now investigating o'shae sibley's death as a hate crime. ♪ ♪ >> memphis police are hailing a jewish school for its safety plan, saying it prevented another potential mass shooting. a former student tried to gain entry to the margolin hebrew academy with a gun. ♪ ♪ >> in the war between russia and ukraine, a drone hit the same moscow high-rise overnight that was damaged in another drone just two days ago. russia called it a terrorist attack by ukraine, which has not claimed responsibility. ♪ ♪ >> major: the women's world cup is well underway, but the u.s. team has already scored a massive win: equal pay. >> it meant a lot to be able to achieve what we have done. we still have more progress to make. ♪ ♪ >> major: and a heartfelt reunion and a lifelong lesson on persevering. >> whatever i said stuck with him. >> hey, look, you did something good. ♪ ♪ >> major: good evening to our viewers in the west, we thank you for joining us on this historic tuesday night. i am major garrett in for norah. we begin with breaking news in one of the special counsel's investigations of donald trump. a federal grand jury here in washington has voted to indict the former president for his efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election. among the charges include conspiracy to defraud the united states, obstruction of an official proceeding, and a civil rights-era law that makes it a crime to oppress, threaten, or intimidate a person of their free exercise or enjoyment of any right in the constitution. it is just the second time in american history that the department of justice has filed criminal charges against a current or former u.s. president. special counsel jack smith announced the indictment just moments ago. today's charges are related to trump's attempts to challenge the result of an election he lost, plans for fake electors and his role in the january 6th attack on the u.s. capitol. trump responded to today's news on his social media account, calling smith "deranged" and the indictment "election interference." cbs news' robert costa has today's late-breaking details and starts us off tonight. robert, good evening. >> reporter: good evening, major. an historic day with the former president and the current republican front-runner donald trump accused by the justice department of spearheading a criminal conspiracy against the united states. according to the indictment, for more than two months following election day, the defendant spread lies that there was fraud in the election, and he had actually won. these claims were false, and the defendant knew they were false. the former president was also charged with impeding the january 6th congressional proceeding where the 2020 election outcome was to be verified and led to the storming of the capitol by trump supporters. >> the attack on our nation's capitol on january 6th, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of american democracy. it is described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. lies by the defendant. >> reporter: the indictment lists six unnamed coconspirators. to the actions described possibly match of the conduct of former attorney rudy giuliani, john eastman, and a former justice department official. the indictment also says that trump and some coconspirators attempted to reach senators late on january 6th to delay the certification vote even more so that they could get states to object to the count. sources tell cbs news former president trump's legal team is now mapping out a new strategy: to push back on the charges, shifting blame onto lawyers, who were advising him at the time of the aftermath of the 2020 election. in a recent social media post, trump noted his attorneys met with the department of justice, saying they explained in detail that i did nothing wrong and was advised by many lawyers. sources say the strategy could involve trying to pin blame on john eastman, trump's former lawyer, who sought to have former vice president mike pence refuse to certify the 2020 presidential election results and presented trump with a memo outlining a plan to do so. but those familiar with the special counsel's work say terms conduct is being deeply investigated, and that prosecutors are skeptical that trump was just following advice. >> just because an attorney gives you advice, an attorney does not provide a defense if the attorney is suggesting you go out and violate a criminal law. that is not t a defense. >> reporter: the next step in this process will come on thursday, when former president donald trump has been summoned to appear in washington before the grand jury in federal court. >> major: robert, let's talk about the trump's potential lines of defense. the indictment lists six unindicted coconspirators, and the president has said on his social media accounts, or at least implied, that he was taking advice, could this "i was just taking advice from lawyers" provide him with the means by which to defend himself against these charges? >> reporter: that is the defense that is being mounted by former president trump's legal team but as a federal prosecutor just told cbs news, just because a lawyer advises you something doesn't necessarily mean you have to take that advice, and if the lawyer is advising you on something that could be breaking the law, you would be breaking the law if you go along with that advice. so the special counsel, based on our reporting, does not believe that trump's argument is going to hold water, as this case moves forward, and instead they are focusing on the advice trump got and also how he tried to push the lawyers along and to say to them, let's try to make this happen and have me stay in power. >> major: robert costa, thank you so much for being with us. john dickerson is with us. john, if you can, it's a big lift, put this indictment in historical and political context. >> reporter: well, it is the most powerful person in the american system attacking the central pillar of the system, a free and fair election, and he is using the power to attack the system that he was given in order to protect the system. that's what happened in the last election. he is now asking to be rewarded for that behavior by being reelected to the office, and he very well, according to the polls, and as you know well from covering this race looks like he will be rewarded, and in the final kicker, the person who held the line on january 6th, his vice president, who stood up for the system to protect it, is doing so poorly in the republican race, he may not even make the debate stage to be in a position to call his former boss to account for attacking the system. >> major: it was a big lift, carried out beautifully. john dickerson, thank you so much. we turn now to the case of the suspected gilgo beach serial killer on new york's long island. suspect rex heuermann charged in the murder of three women appeared in court today. cbs's errol barnett was there. >> reporter: today, rex heuermann appearing stone-faced, wearing a dark blazer and handcuffs, stood before a judge. attorneys from both sides meeting at a conference hearing to discuss evidence against him, including surveillance video and items gathered during a 12-day in-depth search of the suspect's massapequa park home. >> suffice to say, it is a massive amount of material, and that is just the beginning. >> reporter: heuermann's lawyer accusing the media of having already convicted his client. >> he is a man who has never been arrested before. he has maintained his innocence. >> reporter: heuermann's wife, asa ellerup, releasing these images of the home she shared with him, showing a bathtub that appears to be sliced open, with boxes of items strewn everywhere. >> there are some reports that heuermann's soon-to-be-ex-wife is upset the way the house was effectively turned upside down, she might try to bring forward a case. >> she can pursue whatever remedies she feels are necessary. >> reporter: ellerup also saying she has been blindsided by the arrest. in a statement referring to their adult son and daughter, she says, they have been crying themselves to sleep, "and i have been crying myself to sleep, too. every time my kids go through something, they open a box, every single time, they cry." in discussing her son with develop mental issues, ellerup tells "the new york post," "he is so distraught and doesn't understand, and as a mother, i have no answers for him." heuermann is charged with killing three women working as escorts in the gilgo beach area and is the lead suspect in a fourth death there. if found guilty of the six charges against him, heuermann faces multiple sentences of life without parole. now, heuermann's lawyer says he now needs to sift through eight terabytes of evidence and data. that is equivalent to roughly 2,500 pages, and one other note, heuermann is not believed to be linked to deaths taking place -- that took place in atlantic city. major? >> major: errol barnett, we thank you. now to the dangerous heat in much of the country. for the forecast, let's bring in meteorologist chris warren from our partners at the weather channel. chris, good evening. >> good evening, major. very hot and dry conditions fueling wildfires in the west. a firenado created by the intense heat from the fires, and unfortunately, no significant relief on the way anytime soon, not expecting any significant rain in california, arizona, a little bit in nevada, but that is about it. meanwhile, the fire potential increasing in oklahoma and in texas, as the heat dome remains. it continues for the high plains and a lot of the southern states here. a very, very intense and dangerous heat going right into the weekend. going to see that heat build into the southwest even more from what we are seeing today. and into the weekend, many locations, major, will see highs into the triple digits. >> major: chris warren, thank you. political leaders in new jersey were shaken today by the death of the state's trailblazing lieutenant governor, sheila oliver, who made history as the first black woman to hold statewide elected office, died today. she was 71 and was named new jersey's acting governor friday, when governor phil murphy went on overseas vacation. oliver was then hospitalized for an unspecified medical condition. the distraught governor said appointing oliver as his lieutenant was the best decision he ever made. tonight, new york city police are investigating the fatal stabbing of a dancer as a possible hate crime. cbs's shanelle kaul reports witnesses described hearing homophobic slurs during the attack outside a brooklyn gas station. >> reporter: the nypd is still searching for the person who fatally stabbed o'shae sibley, a professional dancer and choreographer. >> they murdered him because he was gay. >> reporter: it happened saturday night at this brooklyn gas station. sibley is seen on this surveillance video while he and his friend stopped to get gas. moments later, witnesses say he got into a heated argument with a man who made homophobic slurs. sibley was stabbed in the chest and later died. >> o'shae was a beacon of light that just influenced everybody. >> i'm horrified. >> reporter: tony morrison works with glaad, a nonprofit lgbtq advocate organization. are these isolated incidents? >> o'shae sibley joins a horrific list of five other lgbtq+ people who have been murdered in recent weeks. >> reporter: hate crimes reported to the fbi across the country rose by 11% between 2020 and 2021, but crimes against gay males increased 41%. sibley's friend kemar jewel says he is still in shock. >> homophobia and words can lead to ideologies and thoughts and those thoughts can lead into actions, and those are the type of actions that took away o o'se from this world. >> reporter: o'shae sibley was also a student here at the famed alvin ailey theatre in new york. in a statement, the theater's director said he was loved by both fellow students and instructors here and that he had incredible energy. major? >> major: shanelle kaul, thank you. we are learning more tonight about the man memphis police say tried to enter a jewish school with a gun on monday. the alleged gunman has been identified as a former student at that school. another former student tells our cbs affiliate the suspect had struggled for years with mental health problems. after being shot in a confrontation with police, the suspect was taken to the hospital in critical condition. as the war in ukraine drags into its 18th month, there was yet another drone attack in the russian capital of moscow today on a building that was hit just days ago. cbs's ramy inocencio has the latest details. >> reporter: the shock wave, then smoke from a downed drone, rising over moscow's wall street, one of several targeting russia today. the kremlin blames kyiv. it's the second time in 48 hours this skyscraper, housing three russian government ministries, was hit. muscovites are concerned, but not scared, yet. "the drone attack was like a mosquito bite for a human." and from russia, several drones hit a college and sports complex in kharkiv near ukraine's northeast border. and russian shelling blew the roof off this hospital in kherson on the southeast front line, killing a doctor on his first day at work and injuring five colleagues. ramy inocencio, cbs news, dnipro, ukraine. >> major: the u.s. women's national soccer team barely advanced to the knockout stage of the world cup this morning with a scoreless draw against portugal. but cbs's nancy chen reports that for a team that has won so much on the field, it's biggest win has come off of it. >> reporter: the biggest women's sporting event is smashing records. >> headed down! >> reporter: but the u.s. team has already notched a massive win off the pitch: playing in their first world cup with equal pay to men. in some cases, female players had been earning just 38% of what men made per game. this is the first world cup since the equal pay victory. you were at the table for that win. what did that mean? >> it meant a lot to be able to achieve what we have done. we still have more progress to make and ways to go. >> reporter: that includes bringing in even more money to women's sports. >> this is actually terrible business move if you are not getting in on it, if you are not investing. >> reporter: fifa sponsorship has grown 150% since the last women's world cup, and on tv, the matches are forecast to reach 2 billion viewers worldwide a nearly 80% increase from 2019. >> i think for a business perspective it is all upside. >> reporter: ally bank recently announced it is working to spend equally on paid advertising across men's and women's sports. >> 80% of all purchase decisions in a household are made by women. right? this is who the consumer is today, and women's sports are at a tipping point of really becoming massive. >> reporter: a women's world cup with plenty to cheer for. >> i think america has grown into, you know, loving the game now. you see so much more investment, and you see people actually like watching and learning. it is incredible. >> rapinoe, left side. >> reporter: nancy chen, cbs news. >> major: a massive fire destroys a building under construction in san francisco. the details straight ahead. ♪ ♪ in s san francisisco. the detailils straighght ahead. ♪ ♪ martial ararts is my p passi. i i work out w whenever i i . but wiwith my modederate- to-severe e eczema, itit can be totough. now, i'm s staying ahehead of . dupipixent helpsps heal your skin n from withihin. so y you can have clelearer skin,n, and notiticeably less itch.h. seririous allergrgic reactios can n occur thatat can be e se. tetell your dodoctor aboututw or worsenining eye proroblems susuch as eye e pain or vision n changes includingg blururred visionon, joinint aches and painin, or a pararasitic infectioion. dodon't changege or stop asthma m medicines without t talking to youour doctor.. ask k your doctotor ababout dupixexent. nenew nature's's bounty hair growtwth. clinicalally shown t to hep grgrow thickerer, fuller h hr withth just one e capsule a y ofof advanced d hair complpl. conqnquer hair t thinnin. ...and falall in lovee wiwith your hahair all ovever . only from m nature's b boun. bug spray y works bestst... when your r family actually w wears it. ♪♪ get odoror-free eight hourur protectioion from mososquitoes anand tics without t the ick. zevovo on-body r repellent.. people l love it. bubugs hate itit. i'm m your overlrly competitivive brother.r. chececk. psycych! 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>> just being able to thank a guy that helped me out when i was little and share with him, the, hey, look, you did something good. >> reporter: and that's a win in the game of life. kris van cleave, cbs news, peoria, illinois. >> major: 1962 and san diego both mean a lot to me. and that is tonight's "cbs evening news." for norah o'donnell, i'm ma nothing ever changes. for the first time, we are hearing from the ex-wife of bob lee as the man accused of murdering him is ordered to trial. a lawmaker calling it a sad day was former president trump is indicted again. a construction site destroyed in a massive inferno. there wanting something like this would happen eventually. tenderloin has a long history of client open drug use and homelessness. that is nothing new. the people most accustomed to calling for help. some volunteers are scared to step foot in it. now they are appealing directly to city leaders for help. >> even those whose mission it is say things have gone too far. >> though it may be god's work,