gaza city, as thousands of palestinians escape south. here are tonight's headlines. ♪ ♪ we are inside gaza tonight. the israeli military takes us further inside the territory than any other journalists. >> the commander here told us there were about a thousand hamas militants here to begin with. now there are a few dozen. >> norah: as israeli soldiers advance, thousands of palestinians flee, as the world health organization says the level of death is hard to fathom. >> the military objective here has always been to destroy hamas, but there is growing international outrage that means destroying everything. >> norah: breaking news. a man is in custody, accused of having an assault style rifle near the u.s. capitol. the new details. >> did you have a gun? >> norah: a jewish man dies after israeli and palestinian protesters clashed. what investigators say tonight. >> investigators not ruled out the possibility of a hate crime and this is being investigated as a homicide. >> norah: "america decides." millions head to the polls on this election day. one of the top issues: abortion. we speak to voters in ohio. >> while ohio is the only state with abortion on the ballot today, key races in pennsylvania, virginia, and kentucky could impact the future of abortion access in those states. >> it doesn't need to be this way. >> norah: protecting america's teens on social media. the disturbing details from a former engineer for the parent company of facebook and instagram. wework files for bankruptcy. how the pandemic led to the fall of the tech company. ♪ even if we're just dancing in the dark ♪ the boss is back. bruce springsteen's surprise performance, his first since suspending his tour. ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ good evening to our viewers in the west, and thank you for joining us. tonight, we are learning that president biden is personally urging prime minister netanyahu for a humanitarian pause in gaza, but israel is insisting a halt in fighting will only come after the more than 200 hostages taken by hamas are released. it may not be the only disagreement between the two allies. netanyahu saying he sees israel playing a role in gaza for "an indefinite period," specifically talking about security responsibility. well, you may recall president biden told "60 minutes" it would be a big mistake if israel occupies gaza after the war. well, tonight, the fighting in the heart of gaza city is intensifying. look at these pictures. this comes as today marks one month since the hamas attack that killed more than 1400 people, the deadliest attack on jews since the holocaust. and now, thousands of civilians are fleeing gaza city as the battle between israel and hamas draws closer. cbs's charlie d'agata embedded with the israeli army in northern gaza. he will start us off tonight from tel aviv. good evening, charlie, and tell us what you saw. >> reporter: good evening, norah. we saw destruction. destruction as far as the eye could see. no civilians. even soldiers that we were with said they had seen no civilians. but they were coming up against hamas militants. in fact, while we were there, they had to reinforce other troops who were coming under fire. we joined the paratroopers of israel's 501st airborne brigade among the first wave of forces to invade gaza after hamas militants went on their murderous rampage one month ago. gunners kept lookout as we crossed the desert scrubland of northeast gaza until we reached beit hanoun. as we arrived, the sound of ongoing gun battles could be heard nearby. [gunfire] the city had an estimated prewar population of more than 60,000 people. looking around, it is hard to imagine anyone lived here at all. lieutenant colonel ido kass said there was little choice. i know that the military objective is to destroy hamas. >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: but you destroyed everything. >> yeah, because, look, hamas is using infrastructure. just 10 minutes ago, we had a serious battle with a group of hamas inside a school. we found these rocket launchers. >> reporter: he showed us a missile site hidden in the backyard of a home next to what used to be a swimming pool. the commander here told us there are about a thousand hamas militants here to begin with. now there are a few dozen left. it is not the threats above ground that they are worried about, but the ones below it. before the fight even began. as we were speaking, explosions and gunfire erupted a few blocks away. we were told a hamas fighter emerged from a tunnel near a school and fired an rpg at troops. southwest of here, in gaza city, israeli troops closing in on the heart of the city have triggered a mass exodus south, splitting the territory in two. [explosion] on the highway south of the city, our cbs news colleague marwan al-ghoul spoke with some of those fleeing the fighting. >> reporter: walking for hours to cross from gaza north to the south. carrying nothing. >> reporter: except a white flag of surrender and the will to survive. >> we are civilian people. we want to live in our land with peace. but nobody involved let us to leave. >> reporter: one month since this war began, residents face an uncertain future. first and foremost, when, and how, it will end. now, in terms of that embed, the in the israeli military has tight restrictions on coverage, mainly having to do with not showing anything that might give away, like, locations or reveal the identities of their soldiers, so the idf viewed our raw footage as a condition of entry into gaza, but had no control over our final report. norah? >> norah: charlie d'agata, thank you so much. well, back here at home, protests and demonstrations on both sides of the conflict are taking place almost daily in cities across the country. while most are peaceful, some rallies have turned violent. tonight, an investigation is underway after the death of a 69-year-old jewish man who was fatally injured at a rally near los angeles. cbs's elise preston reports on the disturbing details. >> reporter: thousand oaks, california, is trying to come to grips with why 69-year-old paul kessler lay dying after a confrontation. moments earlier, he had held an israeli flag. nearby, pro-palestinian demonstrators. >> investigators have not ruled out the possibility of a hate crime. >> reporter: but no one has been charged, and police say they still have no video showing why, and how, kessler fell to the ground, fracturing his skull. he died hours later. >> these witnesses are providing conflicting statements about what the altercation and who the aggressor was. >> free, free palestine! >> reporter: with emotions often reaching a fever pitch nationwide and with attacks on the rise, fueled by anti-semitism and islamophobia, this community may be the latest impacted. does this incident change your safety and patrol measures at demonstrations, regardless of size? >> no. so we are not changing our protocol. 15 minutes prior to this confrontation, there was no indication of impending violence. >> reporter: the los angeles chapter of the council on american-islamic relations said in a statement, "we join local jewish leaders in calling all individuals to refrain from jumping to conclusions." at a makeshift vigil, tributes and anguish. >> my heart hurts that someone innocently left home, and he never came back. >> reporter: now investigators tell us there have been many conflicting statements about who actually started this incident. they are asking anyone with video to come forward. they are actually hoping someone who drove by captured the altercation on their car cameras. norah? >> norah: there are cameras everywhere. elise preston, thank you. here in washington, there was a security alert on capitol hill today when a man carrying a semiautomatic rifle was arrested by police in a park near the senate office building. we get the latest from cbs's nikole killion on capitol hill. >> reporter: a tense scene near the u.s. capitol as police took down a 21-year-old man who was carrying a semiautomatic weapon. >> and he was holding the gun down as he walked. they ordered him to stop. he did not. one officer tasered him in the back. he fell forward onto his gun. >> reporter: the suspect was identified as ahmir lavon merrell of atlanta, georgia. a law enforcement source tells cbs news the gun seized was a modified ar-15 rifle. police did not say why he came to the capitol, but he may have suffered from mental health issues. >> it's good that they found this person, but we are keeping a constant vigilance on security. >> reporter: authorities say there was no threat to the congressional community, but the incident follows another one this week where u.s. capitol police confiscated a pair of glock handguns after two suspects crashed a stolen vehicle into a barricade. >> i am very concerned about the heightened threats against members. this is something we are continuously dealing with. >> reporter: the investigation is still ongoing. police are trying to figure out how merrell may have gotten the gun. he faces a warrant and several charges tonight, including having an unregistered firearm. norah? >> norah: nikole killion on the hill for us, thank you. there was also an important hearing on capitol hill today about the threats teenagers face on social media. a former facebook engineer told a senate panel that meta dismissed warnings about unwanted sexual advances and widespread bullying aimed at teens on instagram, including his own daughter. we get more on this from cbs's jo ling kent. >> reporter: tonight, meta under fire once again. >> i appear before you today as a dad with first-hand experience of a child who received unwanted sexual advances on instagram. >> reporter: former meta engineer arturo bejar testified before a senate subcommittee today, alleging that the social media giant has not done enough to address the harmful effects of facebook and instagram on teens. >> my 14-year-old daughter joined instagram. she and her friends began having awful experiences. including repeated unwanted sexual advances, harassment. she reported these incidents to the company, and it did nothing. >> reporter: while working as a consultant in october 2021, bejar says he sent this email to ceo and founder mark zuckerberg, and instagram head adam mosseri, sharing his daughter's negative online experiences, but says the outreach was ignored by the founder. >> and the disregard for the health mental health of our kids is truly shocking. >> reporter: what should parents be taking away from this? >> parents need to become more aware of the digital lives their children are leading. companies need to take more responsibility for the way their products are designed, and policymakers need to enact new laws to hold those companies accountable. >> reporter: a bipartisan bill aimed at protecting kids online is now making its way through the senate. meantime, in response to bejar's claims, meta tells me that every day, countless people inside the company are trying to keep young people safe, and it has already introduced more than 30 tools support teens and their families online. norah? >> norah: such an important story for parents and filie jo ling kent, thank you so much. a case argued at the supreme court today could put the safety of people in abusive relationships at serious risk, while also impacting gun laws in many states. now, at the center of the case is a federal law that bans those under domestic violence restraining orders from having guns. we get more from cbs's jan crawford at the supreme court. >> the real fear of losing your life when you leave is real. it's a real fear. >> reporter: ruth glenn is head of a national advocacy group for victims of domestic violence. she also is a survivor. >> eventually, he later found me, a few months, a few weeks later, and shot me three times, and left me for dead. >> reporter: her organization was one of many today urging the supreme court to uphold a 30-year-old federal law banning guns for people under restraining orders for domestic violence, like defendant zackey rahimi. rahimi, under a protective order for assaulting and threatening to shoot his ex-girlfriend, was convicted of violating the law after he was involved in several other alleged shooting incidents in texas. in the supreme court today, his lawyer argued the law violated the second amendment right to keep and bear arms, prompting this exchange with chief justice john roberts. >> you don't have any doubt that your client is a dangerous person, do you? >> your honor, i would want to know what "dangerous person" means. >> well, it means someone who is shooting, you know, at people. that's a good start. >> reporter: rahimi's argument could have wide-ranging implications for modern-day gun laws, as well as the system of background checks. over the last 25 years, the law has stopped people under protective orders from buying guns about 78,000 times. the court seemed almost unanimously poised to keep it in place. justice elena kagan. >> you don't give guns to people who have the kind of history of domestic violence that your client has. >> reporter: now, ever since the court ruled that there is an individual right to bear arms, there has been a lot of confusion in the lower courts over what kind of gun laws are constitutional. this case could also provide some much-needed guidance on some of those other gun regulations, including efforts to ban specific kinds of weapons. norah? >> norah: jan crawford, thank you very much. turning now to election day across the country, voters from coast-to-coast are going to the polls to weigh in on important races, including governor, state assemblies, and mayors in several major cities. kentucky and mississippi voters will decide if their governors deserve four more years or if they should be replaced. but there is one issue that is hanging over several races: abortion. abortion rights are on the ballot in ohio, and it has also played a central role in the campaigns in virginia for control of the general assembly. cbs's jericka duncan is on the ground in columbus, ohio, to find out what is on the minds of voters. >> reporter: abortion rights supporters rallied this afternoon in a last-minute effort to get voters to the polls. >> abortion is health care. >> this morning we spoke to an area that normally leans democratic. >> i remember what illegal abortions are like. they are not good. i would rather have women have a choice. >> i think it's important, as women, to keep, you know, fighting for our rights. >> the amendment guarantees a woman and abortion, and allows it until a fetal viability, usually around the 23rd week according to doctors. exceptions beyond that point would be permitted if a physician determines an abortion is necessary for the health or life of the mother. >> under this amendment, any kind of abortion is going to be fine. this is too extreme for ohio. >> reporter: ohio's republican governor mike dewine calls the amendment radical and says it will allow abortion at any point during pregnancy. >> the majority ohioans do not believe that abortion should be allowed at any point. >> reporter: dewine signed a six-week abortion into law in 2019 that is currently on hold in. amy natoce, a spokesperson with protect women ohio, is against issue 1. >> we are stripping the ability in the legislature to go forward and pass protection for the unborn. >> reporter: while ohio is the only state with abortion on the ballot today, key races in pennsylvania, virginia, and kentucky could impact the future of abortion access in those states. in virginia, all 140 general assembly seats are up for grabs, with republicans pushing for a 15-week abortion ban. ohio now marks the seventh state since roe v. wade was overturned where abortion-rights supporters prevail when abortion is on the ballot. norah. >> norah: important vote. jericka duncan, thank you so much. heavy smoke and fog are blamed for another deadly crash in louisiana. we will have the details next. louisiana. we will have the details next. his she's been looking for. sotyktu is the first-of-its-kind, once-daily pill for moderate-to-severe plaque psoriasis for the chance at clear or almost clear skin. it's like the feeling of finding your back... is back. or finding psoriasis can't deny the splendor of these thighs. once-daily sotyktu is proven to get more people clearer skin than the leading pill. don't take if you're allergic to sotyktu; serious reactions can occur. sotyktu can lower your ability to fight infections including tb. serious infections, cancers including lymphoma, muscle problems, and changes in certain labs have occurred. tell your doctor if you have an infection, liver or kidney problems, high triglycerides, or had a vaccine or plan to. sotyktu is a tyk2 inhibitor. tyk2 is part of the jak family. it's not known if sotyktu has the same risks as jak inhibitors. find what plaque psoriasis has been hiding. ask your dermatologist about sotyktu for clearer skin. so clearly you. sotyktu. the right age for neutrogena® retinol? 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