Beer united we will never be defeated james tonight clashes in portland and washington, d. C. Cbs evening news starts now. Good evening. Im james brown in for norah. And we begin tonight with President Bidens sharp criticism today of the violence that has broken out in protest on Americas College campuses over the israelhamas war. In recent weeks, nearly 2,000 people have been detained or arrested at dozens of schools. There were more protest today at Portland State, George Washington university, the university of pennsylvania, and nyu. Speaking at the white house today, President Biden made his most extensive comments to date on the protests, condemning antisemitic slurs, vandalism, trespassing, and major disruptions to classes and graduations at some universities. New york city mayor eric adams says nearly half of those arrested earlier this week at Columbia University and nearby city college were not students at those schools. Adams claims outside agitators are radicalizing students. Cbss nancy cordes leads off our coverage tonight from the white house. Reporter white house Officials Say it was the sheer number of violent encounters on College Campuses over the past two days that prompted President Biden to speak out. Is the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos. Reporter his comments came in the wake of nearly 2,000 arrests. More than 30 colleges and universities. The barricade. Reporter just today, protesters were ejected from the library at Portland State university that they had occupied for three days. Inside, police say they found ball bearings, paint balloons, Spray Bottles of ink, and diy armor. Vandalism, trespassing, breaking windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes and graduations. None of this is a peaceful protest. Palestine will be free reporter like many protesters, President Biden has expressed concern about the plight of palestinian civilians. More than 34,000 killed, according to the hamasrun health ministry. But when asked today if he would change his policies towards israel, as the protesters have been demanding, biden said, simply. No. Reporter the unrest is now threatening to become an election issue. Young people are a key democratic voting block. Bidens needs to listen to what the students are calling for, which is an end to a genocide funded by the united states. So, first things first, stop funding israel. Reporter in battleground wisconsin, donald trump argued biden should have spoken out sooner. There is a big fever in our country and he is not talking. Reporter but trump also made this unfounded claim about campus demonstrators. They do come from other countries, and they are paid. To be due some republicans have urged President Biden to send in the National Guard to quell campus protest, but he said no to that today. Cbs news was first to report that the Biden Administration is now considering bringing some palestinians from wartorn gaza to the u. S. As refugees. J. B. . James nancy, thank you very much. One of the most intense flash points is the campus of ucla. Police broke up an encampment overnight and bulldozers were brought into date to scoop up trash and tents. Some buildings were covered in graffiti. Cbss Jonathan Vigliotti is there. Reporter Early Morning chaos on the campus of ucla. These are a riot police. Reporter Hundreds Of Officers in riot gear clashed with protesters. Get back get back reporter with support from multiple agencies, officers moved in, tearing down barricades and dismantling te tents. Firing rubber bullets and flashbangs. Cbss carter evans was there as Police Stepped into action. Reporter we are looking at what might be the end of the protests here at this encampment. Police have got the protesters surrounding, pushing them up against a wall they are, but they are not giving up. Reporter the propalestinian cam and set up by students one week ago was declared unlawful by the University Tuesday night. This is an attack on democratic rights. This is our radius. Reporter more than 200 people were arrested, arms zip tied behind their backs and let a way. We need to resist. We need to keep protesting. That is the only way change will be made. Reporter newlyreleased Police Body Cam footage at Columbia University just officers cutting their way through barricades after the School Called and the nypd to clear protesters from the campus. Cbs news has learned no firearms were found, but police did recover small pocket knives, baseball bats, and gloves. Cbss Lilia Luciano spoke with New York City mayor eric adams about the unrest at Columbia University. We saw a change in Protest Behavior when we saw a destruction of property, taking over buildings. We saw the patterns that these individuals that we identified are used to doing. Reporter mayor adams says outside agitators known to police were arrested alongside the student protesters. There is a difference between the protests that are happening outside the gates and the protests in the encampment. Who are the dangerous people were arrested inside Hamilton Hall . Im not sure we are asking the question that someone is dangerous that uses a hammer to break into a building, destroy property, while theyre in that building, burglarizing that building. Burglary is one of our seven major crimes. Reporter back here on the ucla campus, Cleanup Is Und underway. An encampment behind me has been cleared out, and tonight, there is an increased Police Presence here on campus. Along with calls for the chancellor to step down. Meanwhile, all classes have been moved online for the rest of the week, j. B. James thank you, jonathan. Tonight, mandatory evacuations are in place in areas around houston, texas, as a major river there quickly rises. Nearly 40 Million People are on alert for flash flooding. Thats following days of torrential rains and severe thunderstorms. Cbss Omar Villafranca reports from hardhit southeast texas. Reporter parts of livingston, texas, waterlogged after overnight storms soaked the South East Texas town. Up to 8 inches of rain fell in some areas this morning, leaving homes and businesses looking like lakefront property. He tried to get to livingston, but couldnt. Heavy downpours drenched major highways and slowed traffic during the Morning Commute. We could only get as far as coldspring, 17 miles away. The main road in town is shut down. We found residents taking horses and even pet pigs to dryer, higher ground. About an hour and a half ago, it was about waist deep in my backyard. Reporter luckily, vanessa russells home is on stilts, but her confidence is not high, after she found out the Lake Livingston dam across the street was open to relieve the swollen lake. Dumping millions of gallons into her neighborhood. Speak with horrible. Do not move to a flood point, ever. Oh, no way. Further east in college station, a woman tried to drive through a parking lot. That got bad very quickly. Reporter she abandoned her car once the car became too deep. She is okay. Thats the important part. Her car maybe not so much. Reporter people there walking through water that reached their knees. Houston mayors mcguire. It appears the worst is yet to come. Reporter high water vehicles like this one are the only way to get around certain neighborhoods. Here in san jacinto county, Emergency Crews have already rescued 32 people, and with more rain in the forecast, that number may go up. J. B. . James omar with the tough news. Thank you, omar. Tonight, one of the nations busiest highways is completely shut down in a bustling area of connecticut. A massive fire after a Gasoline Tanker crashed also severely damaged an overpass. No one was seriously hurt, but this could have a huge Economic Impact in the northeast. Cbss tony aiello reports from the scene. Reporter raging flames and black smoke turned Dawn Into Darkness after the multivehicle crash on i i95 in norwalk, connecticut, this morning. Fire officials they car swerved in front of a truck, pulling a Flatbed Trailer come as a fuel tanker approached, loaded with 8500 flammable gallons, all colliding under the fairfield overpass bridge, igniting a massive fire. Ironically, it happened near the headquarter of norwalk fire. The bridge was damaged. The heat from the burning fuel compromised some of the bridge, so that bridge is going to have to come down. Reporter while firefighters used foam to battle the blaze, Officials Say roughly 4,000 gallons of the Gasoline Load had burned or runoff. The crash occurred on the southbound lane of i95, a busy stretch of the northsouth interstate, with more than 145,000 vehicles traveling through daily. The Morning Commute turned into a chaotic mess, with thousands of vehicles diverted to local roads around the Accident Scene after state police shut down the highway in both directions. For a lot of truckers, we are on the clock, so you can only work 14 hours and drive 11 hours, so this impact, it slows down the delivery time for our loads. Reporter they will begin dismantling that fire damaged overpass early friday morning, with an eye on reopening that critical highway for rush hour monday, j. B. James tony aiello, thank you so much. Today was the sixth day of testimony at former president Donald Trumps socalled hush money trial in manhattan. Before the jury heard from a former attorney for Stormy Daniels, there was a hearing on more potential violations of a gag order by the former president. Pbss robert costa is at the courthouse. Reporter former President Trump already find 9,000 for violating a gag order, could be penalized again as judge juan merchan this morning considered four additional violations. This judge is totally conflicted. Has me under an unconstitutional gag order. Reporter prosecutors cited several examples, including this come about future witness michael cohen. Got caught lying in the last trial. Reporter on the stand today, Stormy Daniels a former attorney Keith Davidson who negotiated 130,000 payment from cohen to pay Stormy Daniels forr story before the election. And you have sex . Yes. Reporter the night trump won, writing, what have we done . Howard replied, oh, my god. Asked to clarify the text, davidson told the attorney there is an understanding their activity might have assisted trumps campaign. Trump has denied any wrongdoing and details about the payment, so today, the prosecution played an audio recording, in which rafah until davidson hates the fact we did it. Davidson testified that was a reference to the payment for daniels. Trump lawyers meanwhile tried to Paint Davidson is a serial extortionist of celebrities. Citing alleged deals related to lindsay lohan, charlie sheen, and hulk hogan. And that he did the same with trump. They are doing a good job at showing sort of this cd, dirty underbelly of this world that Keith Davidson peddles in, by all accounts, this is what this man does for a living. It is breadandbutter. Reporter and today, trump falsely claimed that he is not able to testify due to the gag order. Thats not true. He is able to testify. The gag order just prohibits him from criticizing the jury or the witnesses beer j. B. . James robert costa in new york, thank you. Arizonas neartotal Ban On Abortion has been repealed. Governor katie hobbs made that official today, Undoing A Law that dated back to 1864. This summer, a law passed in 2022 will go back into effect. That allows abortions up to the 15th week of pregnancy. Some Abortion Rights advocates want that to be extended to 24 weeks and are collecting signatures to put that on the ballot in november. Here in washington, House Republicans are bracing for another mutiny against their leader from the conferences far right. This time, congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene is threatening to move ahead with the vote to remove House Speaker mike johnson using the same procedure that ousted Kevin Mccarthy. But this time, johnson has an unlikely ally. In an interview for this sundays 60 minutes, our Norah Odonnell sits down with House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries. Norah nine months after getting the job of speaker, republican Kevin Mccarthy of california got dumped by the far right wing of his party. Following three weeks of paralysis, mike johnson of louisiana took his place. I want to thank you all for the trust that you have instilled in me. Norah after he worked with democrats to pass the foreign aid bill that included 61 billion for ukraine, georgia congresswoman Marjorie Taylor greene, who opposed it, said she will follow through with the threat to oust him. Jeffries told us he works to find Common Ground with the other side of the aisle, and at least one republican who might be happy about that is speaker johnson. Johnson, at some point today. Norah this past week, democrats said they would vote against congresswoman greenes effort to remove him. Has speaker johnson asked for your help . He has not. And our view would traditionally be, let the other side work its own mess out. 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The certain of my soil reached trigger temperature six to 4 degrees fahrenheit. Where is this not actually coming from . It really is, it is kind of ambient sound. That is kind of where they do the mating ritual. Reporter the eggs drop down here come a cycle that happens every 13 year. But this year, a special. I think i got one. Reporter in central illinois, dr. Katy dana and her son are waiting on a 17 year brood. Its a boy. Reporter and a 13 year ones. All in the same area, overlapping for the First Time Since 18 oh three, when Thomas Jefferson was president. And you can see other kinds of cicadas. Reporter and these ones are still here and her band at the Massive Bug Collection at the university of illinois. These specimens are from the great, great great, great great, great great grandparents. Reporter we could talk about a trillion of these beard big number, isnt it . 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James three heroes who put their lives on the line to save others. Tonights Heart Of America. And thats tonights evening news. For Norah Odonnell, im i didnt want to be in front of brian. I wanted nothing to do with it. Announcer she says her boyfriends roommate is troubled. Im terrified of him. Im terrified right now. Judge judy nobody forced you to come here. Announcer . When word about her questionable relationship leaks. There is no one else in my life that these messages would have come from. Judge judy except him. Correct. Judge judy or maybe his wife. Is that a possibility . You flew from minnesota. I assume you came on the same flight with him. Right. Announcer judge judy. You are about to enter the courtroom of you are about to enter the courtroom of judge judith sheindlin. Captions paid for by Cbs Television distribution previously on judge judy. Judge judy whos doug . I used to work for him. I currently work for him. She is dating one of my best friends, and i started seeing doug and meghan together at odd ends of times. Judge judy does doug have family . Yes, a wife and two kids. Judge judy what proof do you have that those vulgar and threatening texts emanated from the plaintiff . She files a protective order, and you didnt show up. Why . I had broken my ankle two days prior. Judge judy get me the medical records. Announcer in a case continued from yesterday, Brian Kalenberg is suing his former friend, meghan rettke, for attorney fees, lost wages and a restraining order. Judge judy now, ms. Rettke, when we adjourned, you were going to get your medical records. You have them . Id like to see them, please