Milestone tonight as the country prepares for memorial day weekend. If you are vaccinated, you are protected, and you can enjoy your memorial day. If you are not vaccinated, our guidance has not changed. O donnell: congresswoman condemned: republican leaders call out marjorie taylor greene for comparing masks and vaccines with jewish suffering during the holocaust. The rare rebuke. Wild weather: tornadoes in kansas, the storm threat for millions tonight. Murd murder charges: remember the case of two missing kids in idaho found buried in their stepdad s backyard? the breaking new indictments. Peace mission: the secretary of state tries to preserve a fragile ceasefire, even as israel issues a blunt warning to hamas. And the gamechanger. A mysterious donor changing lives for student athletes. This is the cbs evening news with norah o donnell, reporting from the nation s capital. O donnell: good evening, to our viewers in the west and thank you for joining us. We re going to begin tonight
we do begin with breaking news. emergency crews are on the scene of a passenger train derailment, near the u.s. canadian border. the amtrak train was traveling from chicago west ward to seattle as you can see here and about 4:00 p.m. mountain time, it goes off the track. investigators from the national transportation safety board are en route to the scene. images showing multiple train cars on this side with rescue personnel at work. you can see standing near by. authorities say three people were killed and a number of others injured. according to amtrak, there were more than 140 passengers and 16 crews on board at the time of this derailment. a passenger on that train derailed. she joins me now. tell us which car you were in and what happened? i was in the second sleeper car on the train. and, we had actually gone back to our rooms, i was asleep when the train derailed. i woke to it derailing. i would describe the experience as kind of extreme turbulent on an airplane bu
here are tonight s headlines. the former president on his way to georgia with a brand-new high profile attorney, and just hours after his former chief of staff turned himself in. the developing new details. stay the [bleep] away, there is a shooting going on. at least four people are dead and at least six others injured following the country s latest mass shooting. among the dead is the alleged gunman. new details about the plane crash that killed a wagner leader yevgeny prigozhin. but it is likely prigozhin was killed. nothing to indicate that there was a surface-to-air missile. he had a complicated fate, president vladimir putin said, and he made some serious mistakes. it was a heated night in milwaukee for the first republican primary debate. eight g.o.p. candidates were on the stage. do you want a super pac puppet or do you want a patriot who speaks the truth? if you want some things i can ask a man. if you want something done, ask a woma
about the government s evidence what she warned the former president not to do. sam bankman-fried, the one-time crypto mogul, thrown in jail ahead of his fraud trial. why the judge revoked his bail new photos inside the home of the suspected gilgo beach serial killer. why his family is threatening to sue police and also revealed his wife s health battle. and amid the destruction on maui, the beloved landmark still standing announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening, and welcome, everyone. in maui tonight, residents and survivors of this week s deadly firestorm are being allowed to return to the scorched neighborhoods they called home to see what is left, but warned by hawaii s governor to brace for the worst. many residents of haina after ng harrowing escapes from the advancing flam asking the tough questions tonight, why there were no warning sirens before flames consumed everything around them. tonight, the lahaina fire is largely containe
now the e deadliest t in modern u.s. history. at least 99 people dead more than 1,000 still missing. just 20% of the fire zone has been searched by dogs. and the potential failures fire hydrants without water, no emergency sirens and why did authorities say they had the fire under control only for it to come roaring back to life our team in maui also tonight, will donald trump be indicted a fourth time the georgia prosecutor calling witnesses before a grand jury investigating his attempts to overturn the 2020 election results in that state. we re at the courthouse a small town in kansas now a battleground over free speech after police raided a local newspaper. how the owner says it led to his mother s death. the new legal move by the subject of the oscar-winning movie the blind side. the former nfl star who was taken in by a wealthy family as a teen now says the story was all based on a lie. and the dramatic rescue caught on camera four divers missing for hours found