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[cheers and applause] norah breaking news. The criminal indictment against donald trump just filed by special counsel jack smith as the former president is once again accused of trying to overturn his 2020 election loss. The narrow scope of the charges after they Landmark Supreme Court ruling on president ial immunity appeared plus our exclusive interview with the justice who wrote a stinging dissent in that case. Tonight, our new report and the new context. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Special counsel jack smith is not giving up, filing a new federal indictment in the Election Interference Case against donald trump be a good evening, im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. The former president is facing the same for charges for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. But the special counsel tailored the allegations to respect and implement the Supreme Courts new immunity standard. Now a big part of that came down to arguing what is an official act of the president versus a private one. And the timing is likely not coincidental. We are actually 70 days out from the election. Once we hit 60 days, the Justice Department has a role that new charges will not be filed against a nominee or someone tied to a political campaign. Cbss robert costa has the revised indictment, and he brings us the breaking news. Reporter the new indictment over Donald Trumps efforts to overturn the 2020 president ial election suddenly brings his conduct around the Capitol Attack back to the four of this years intensifying race for the white house. The slims down indictment from 45 pages to 36 pages still alleges trump engaged in conspiracy to hold onto Power Chromatic comes in the wake of a Supreme Court ruling that president s have brought immunity for official acts. It removed all the allegations concerning trumps attempts to pressure the Justice Department into supporting his false claims that the election was rigged. One of the unnamed coconspirator who cbs news identified as jeffrey clark, a trump loyalist within the doj, has been taken out of the new indictment. Trump has long claimed he did nothing wrong. This is a persecution of a political opponent. This was never supposed to happen in america. Reporter but still intact in the indictment, the charge he engaged in a conspiracy against the right to vote and have ones vote counted. Trump led sweeping efforts in the court and then when that failed began to pressure officials in congress added states to help him, including georgias republican Secretary Of State Brad Raffensperger after trump lost the state. I just want to find 11,780 votes. Reporter raffensperger spoke to 60 minutes and 2021. He was asking us to recalibrate or recalculate, i believe, some of the different answer. Reporter trumps lawyers are excited to fight this. President Trump Lawyers are going to say there is no indictment you could bring that does not involved official actions because former President Trump was in office at the time. Norah this is such a big development. Robert costa joins us now pizza what is the trump team saying in response to this new indictment . Reporter i just got off the phone with a source close to trump legal team. In the coming days they are going to ask for more time to brief these case because of these new developments which they expected. That means this could push a trial date past the election, or if the judge agrees to have the trial soon, trump could appeal all the weight of the Supreme Court. Norah the legal drama continues. Robert costa, thank you very much. In a broadcast exclusive, we spoke to Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson about her blistering dissent in that landmark immunity case. She granted cbs news her first tv interview since drying the nations highest court ahead of the publication of her memoir, lovely one. Here is what she set about what worries her about the decision in trump versus United States. In your dissent, you wrote that the court declared for the first time in history that the most powerful official in the United States can, under circumstances yet to be fully determined, become a law unto himself. Sounds like a warning. Well, i mean, that was my view of what the court determined. Norah you were concerned about broad immunity. I was concerned about a system that appeared to provide immunity for one individual under one set of circumstances. When we have a criminal Justice System that ordinarily treated everyone the same. Norah are you prepared that this election could end up who are for the Supreme Court . As prepared as anyone can be. [laughs] let me ask you, are you prepared for all of the news cycles that you are getting as a result of this one . [laughs] norah no. No exactly. I mean come i think there are eagle issues that arise out of the process of the super import has to be prepared to respond if that should be necessary. Norah and a new legal issue may have just arisen. You can see much more of our interview with justus Ketanji Brown jackson this weekend on cbs sunday morning. There is joy and relief tonight in israel following the Daring Rescue operation that freed another hostage from an underground tunnel in gaza. We have the dramatic new video of the 52yearold arab man being freed as he has flown home to israel, where he belongs to the countries minority muslim be 24 community. Cbss imtiaz tyab reports tonight from tel aviv. Reporter Israeli Military personnel greeted Qaid Farhan Al Kadi at an undisclosed location in Southern Gaza just moments after he was rescued. The 52yearold father of 11, who was reportedly found alone without guards in an underground hamas tunnel, was taken by an Army Helicopter to a hospital in israel. Al kadi was among the 250 people adopted by Hamas On October 7th when he was working at a Security Guard at. Reporter a3 in southern israel. He lost weight but says he is healthy. At one point his son, who had been allowed to see him, emerged from of the ward al kadi is treated in. We asked how his father was doing. Thank god, he says, he is doing fine. As al kadis mob once gather here waiting to be reunited with him following his hostage ordeal in gaza, in cairo, negotiations for a ceasefire and Hostage Release Agreement remain stuck. Talks which are aimed at bringing some of the over 100 remaining hostages still in hamas captivity home and bring a temporary end to israels devastating assault on gaza. Over the past four days alone, Health Officials there say at least 230 palestinians have been killed in israeli strikes. And hundreds more wounded. Including many children. Children who are also increasingly at risk of disease. Aid agencies say they have not reported the first case of polio in gaza in 25 years. Our cbs news team traveled to the central city of deir al balah, where raw sewage was everywhere. And it is at this makeshift tent we met naveen abu el jedyan, and her nine children, including an 11monthold who was the first palestinian child to be diagnosed with polio. His mother told us his left leg is now paralyzed. [speaking in a global language] reporter he was supposed to get his polio vaccination on the first day of the war, she says. Please, someone, have mercy on my son. I wish he could move like before. I pray no other child gets this virus. And tonight more than 1. 2 million doses of the Polio Vaccine have arrived in gaza to inoculate more than 640,000 children. Now the u. N. Wants a sevenday Pause Infighting to vaccinate as many kids as they can, something neither israel nor hamas have agreed to. Norah . Norah such an important part of this story. Imtiaz tyab, thank you very much for officials in atlanta or investigate a deadly accident today at a maintenance facility. Two Delta Employees 58 and 37 years old were killed and another was injured in an apparent explosion at the airlines wheel and brake shop. Operations at the airport were not impacted. Turning now to the weather, with more than 55 Million People under heat arise or hes across the country and with day 4 of that dangerous heat wave in. In chicago, the feelslike temperature was nearing 110 degrees, forcing the closure and early dismissal of schools in the area. Question how long will this blistering heat last . Lets bring in cbs and lonnie quinn. Good evening, lonnie. Good evening to you norah. New york city is going to tap into some of that heat you refer to tomorrow. As of right now were catching him a nice cooling breeze. Lets take a look at where the most Severe Weather is right now as we speak. We are focusing on the midwest. The two places, chicago and detroit. Detroit, you are getting pounded right now by a very strong line of severe thunderstorm watch, warning in effect for you right now. Winds are 60 Miles Per Hour. Is moving quickly, though, about 45 Miles Per Hour to the east, so that will be in it i would. Her cargo it is tonight. Later tonight you will tap into the same storms during the overnight hours, i am keeping md then the whole thing will redevelop tomorrow evening from washington, d. C. , to philadelphia. But for places like chicago that are going to get that big rain today, they were 99 degrees today on the thermometer. You said it, norah, feeling like 110. Tomorrow after some raincold air, they will be 80 degrees. Indianapolis doesnt tap into those showers. There went to be 97 degrees again tomorrow as the heat wave continues there. That is the very latest. It is all yours, norah. Norah interesting to see those maps. Lonnie quinn, thank you very much. And there is an election uproar growing in texas with a federal rights Investigation Called for peered The League Of United Latin American Citizens or lulac is accusing the states Republican Attorney general of Voter Intimidation after authorities raided the homes of its volunteers over allegations of voter fraud. Cbss Omar Villafranca spoke with some of those whose homes were searched. Based scared the hell out of me. Reporter Lidia Martinez five longest volunteer, had her home raided by the Texas Attorney general. We live in the United States of america and you are acting like gestapo, this is not russia. Reporter they search this room . Everything. Reporter Update Officers showed up at her home last tuesday morning, took her phone, laptop, questioned her for hours, and made her wait outside. I said, let me get dressed peered for god sake. Reporter what were you wearing . My nightgown. And i had all of these policemen around me. It was embarrassing, humil humiliating. I was so angry. It was horrible. Reporter the raid comes after state Attorney General ken paxton recently announced an investigation into allegations of Election Fraud and vote harvesting, which began in 2022. The Attorney Generals Office said it had found enough evidence to obtain Search Warrants, which they executed last tuesday across three different counties. Lulacs president says this is voter suppression. It is evidence there are patterns of lawsuits, raids, searches, and seizures, that he is trained to keep latinos from voting. Reporter now the organizations asking the Justice Department to investigate paxton. In a letter first obtained by cbs news, they called his actions a serious violation of the civil rights of latino citizens. Cecelia casiano is running for a Hotly Contested State House seat and says officers executed a Search Warrant at her home. I believe this is plain old politics that the republicans are just trying to suppress the voice of the latino community, trying to suppress me. Thats not going to happen. Reporter we reached out to paxton for comment but did not hear back. Now propublica report found between january 2020 and september of 2022, paxtons Office Opened up at least 390 cases for potential election crimes, but of those cases, only five lead to conviction. Norah . Norah Omar Villafranca with that new reporting today, thank you pure new concerns tonight about a rare mosquito Borne Disease after the first death. One state has seen in a decade. We have the details next. 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Reporter melissa jonesdiaz going letter by letter, teaching the mysterious code of the english lang which. It makes that oh, that viable, say its own name. Reporter do kids need to be explicit they taught all of these rules . It makes the a say its own name. Reporter from decades, most school said no, give kids time with books they like and they will mostly figure it out themselves. Not now. Specific, detailed instruction is taking over. It was a big shift in my teaching. In my understanding of how students learn to read. Reporter i did notice when i walked in, Decoding Strategies Poster up there. Is that poster up here a year ago . No. This year now is more based upon the science of reading. Reporter the science of reading isnt so much a curriculum as a Grassroots Movement is known for arguing that phonics, the relationship between letters and their sounds, is key to learning to read. Its powered by parents who believe the old system left their kids behind, and its quickly transforming how reading is taught. 39 states and the district of columbia have passed new laws are made new rules requiring schools to follow the science of reading approach. That generally means new books and new Teacher Training with a focus on phonics. What we were doing was not working for where the large number of our students were at. Reporter jason borges is overseeing new york citys Reading Program after a partial rollout last year, its in every classroom this fall. Okay, very good. Reporter and old approaches like letting kids look at pictures to guess the word, socalled cueing, are being pushed the past. Reporter so cueing is out . Teachers cannot do it anymore . Should not be doing it. Reporter instead, when Brielle Rosario flips through cinderella. To give. Reporter she is taught to ignore the pictures and focus on the letter groups. Oh. Reporter the class has spent hours drilling. It sounds. Reporter what is a welded sound . Like. Reporter research is showing this method does help but somewhat modestly. A recent stanford study found two years of the approach was like getting an extra quarter year of learning. Implement and the changes can be hard, and knowing just how far to push those changes is still being sorted out. There has been, obviously, this giant swing across the country. We have seen it in state after state after state. I wonder how you think about the possibility of the pendulum swinging too far. It is a concern, particularly for me. Its not just about phonics, right . There is so much more to Teaching Reading that i worry things will be not only too reductive, being just phonics, but then also that things do get taken a bit too far. Reporter the nations Largest School system is now attempting that balance. The test results will be eagerly awaited. Good job. Reporter for eye on america, brook silvabraga in new york. 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And just recently we got to experience contractors coming together, a Local Builder came out and built six more cabins for us in three days. So we now are no longer have to turn away kids. So its so much more than just coming and having fun. We do it through fun. But the value of these kids coming to camp is that acceptance and that opportunity to just be a kid. Norah always thinking about kids and cancer. The kids and the staff at Camp Rainbow Gold are tonights heart of america. And that is tonights Cbs Evening News peered im norah odonnell. Thank you for joining byrd you may be seated. Judge judy look. You said, you may be seated. Look how well behaved that dog is. The neighbors rottweiler wasnt so nice. Judge judy when you took the dog off the leash, the dog attacked that little dog. Right. Judge judy thats what he wants me to believe. And the facts arent so simple. Judge judy did you tell your wife what happened . Yeah, i told her. Judge judy she swore to a different story. 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