the fight over who can police the border escalating and the supreme court weighing in. nearly half a million people here in el paso have to basically justify their presence in the united states because of the color of their skin. norah: what this means for the battle over immigration. texas, very simply, is enforcing the laws. norah: the cbs evening news starts now. good evening. i m norah o donnell, and thank you for being with us. we want to begin tonight with a ruling from the supreme court that allows a sweeping texas immigration law to go into effect for now. in a 6-3 decision, the nation s highest court said it won t block the law, known as sb 4, that gives local and state police the power to arrest and detain migrants suspected of crossing the border illegally. the federal government has been the sole authority of immigration enforcement for decades. and critics say this ruling is an affront to federal law. the case now heads back to the court of appeals
indicted, highly classified documents in bathroom and the ballroom down at mar-a-lago. and federal judge aileen cannon, the trump appointed lawyer who came to this case with only three years on the bench and with very little experience in running criminal trials. cannon whose rulings in the case so far have repeatedly drawn scrutiny and reversals and rebukes by higher courts. and now judge cannon is under fire once again for what the washington post diplomatically calls, quote, an unusual order regarding jury instruction. quote, even though cannon has not yet ruled when the trial will be held or a host of other issues, she s skipping ahead to the very end, to jury instructions, asking prosecutors and defense attorneys to consider two different hypothetical situations. writing in part, quote, in the first scenario the jury would be allowed today review a former president s possession of a record and make a factual finding, whether it is personal or presidential, using the de
county evolved into a hostage situation in trenton that ended just moments ago. good evening i am christina coleman and for jon scott and this is the fox report. three people were killed in the philadelphia suburb of falls township, pennsylvania this morning the suspect carjacked a vehicle and fled then briefly took hostages inside this house across the delaware river into new jersey. andre gordon is now in police custody after a five hour long standoff. he is accused of killing a three family members including his 13-year-old sister. the people in that trenton home are believed to be more relatives of his. police managed to safely evacuate them early in the standoff. police in pennsylvania say gordon is an ar-15 style rifle to carry out the attacks. we are live in new york city with the latest. christina, just about a half-hour ago police arrested 26-year-old andre gordon ending a chase and stand up and began a little before 9:00 a.m. this morning. police are not saying wh
haiti, trapped americans begging to get out as we await an update from the state department. so begins a thursday afternoon. sandra: a developing situation at this hour. i m sandra smith in new york. this is america reports . we are following it for you. violent gangs are attempting to seize control of haiti led by a brutal war lord known as barbecue. john: barbecue, a former police officer, got the nickname from his penchant to eliminate his opponents by burning them to death. believed to be responsible for a massacre in 2018 that killed at least 71 people and burned some 400 homes. he is now calling for a bloody revolution. sandra: haiti s top political leaders are rejecting the latest regional plan for a transitional government. gillian turner has an update live at the state department for us. gillian: we do know there are americans stuck inside haiti who want to escape as the country is teetering on the brink of collapse. officials here at the state department do
dissidents throwing molotov cocktails pouring dye in ballot boxe voters pouring dye in ballot boxes critics allege the vote was rigged. our keir simmons questioning putin late tonight. mr. president, is this what you call democracy? suspected coast-to-coast murderer in a police accused of a shootout of killing a police officer days after allegedly murdering an emt in south carolina and parts of south carolina sheltering in place again this morning, one day after a killing spree there left three dead. this carjacking victim speaking out today i was sitting in my car, and someone banged on my window, and then he pulled the gun out. and powerful volcanic eruptions in iceland with a state of emergency stunning images of lava flowing towards towns. and winter is not over yet. the dangerous cold snap about to send temperatures plummeting and on this st. patrick s day, the country has gone green. announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. i m ga