Tonight, several developing headlines as we come on the air. The alleged school shooter. The new video, what it shows. And nikolas cruz in court. And now, the husband and wife who took him in, breaking their silence. Answering the questions, what did they know . Were there signs . And what they said to him after the massacre and what he said back. Also tonight, the twitter storm. President trump unleashes. The president under mounting pressure from many of the school kids at that school to do something. And the president taking aim, saying the fbi missed signals in florida, spending too much time on russia. The reaction was swift. The major winter storm. 24 states, from california to vermont. Snow, ice, flooding. More than 100 accidents and counting. The brawl at sea. The pictures. The huge fight onboard a cruise ship. More than 20 family members involved. And tonight, police now investigating possible criminal charges. Fergie responds tonight, amid the social media storm after her ren
And a jaw dropping tweet that seems to blame the fbi and the russia probe for last weeks school massacre, just 40 miles away from where he was. Quote, very sad that the fbi missed all the many signals sent out by the Florida School shooter, this is not acceptable. They are spending too much time trying to prove russian collusion with the Trump Campaign. There is no collusion. Get back to the basics and make us all proud. Exclamation point. Kaitlan collins is in west palm beach. Really an epic tweet storm, but the president here echoing a point that you heard from many on the right in the wake of the School Shooting, trying to draw a tie between the russia probe and missed signals there. Reporter yeah. Thats right, jim. We almost saw that tweet coming from a mile away. The president spent a considerable amount of time indoors this weekend after aides determined it would be in poor optics if he was out golfing in close proximity to the shooting and so shortly after it happened. So the pr
This is the cbs evening news with jeff glor. Glor and this is our western edition. Good evening. Were going to begin tonight in florida where six days after the parkland shooting, dozens of students are on their way to the State Capitol to protest gun violence. This afternoon, as the students rode a bus, the Florida House voted down a measure to consider a ban on assault weapons. Also today, four of the dead were laid to rest. In washington, the president moved to prevent conversion of legal rifles into machine guns. We begin with adriana diaz on the road with the students reporter students have been spending their time on the bus, talking about what they want to say to lawmakers. They organized this whole trip themselves in just a few days, and they say this is just taste of their determination. This is about a discussion. This is about us demanding epange. Reporter 100 students from Stoneman Douglas high school boarded buses, taking their fight for gun reform to the states capitol, 4
Asking about Jared Kushners personal business dealings during the president ial transition. The potential for conflict of interest is so enormous. The president appears to be lashing out at everyone but russia. We must defend our democracy. And that is not happening. Announcer this is new day with chris cuomo and alisyn camerota. All right. Welcome to our viewers in the United States and around the world. This is your new day. It is tuesday, february 20th, 6 00 here in new york. Heres our starting line. Survivors of the Florida School massacre are taking their fight to the states capital. Busloads of kids are heading to tallahassee today to demand a change to gun control laws. In washington, dozens of the teens demonstrating. 17 of them. Of course, thats the number of lives lost in that shooting, they laid on the ground in silence symbolizing those lives in that attack. It comes as the white house signals that President Trump is open to improving the nations background checks for gun b
More than 20 family members involved. And tonight, police now investigating possible criminal charges. Fergie responds tonight, amid the social media storm after her rendition of the National Anthem. What shes now saying tonight. And President Trumps tweet about oprah not long before midnight. Why hes calling her insecure. Good evening. And its great to have you with us here on this president s day. And tonight, the president unleashing that twitter storm involving the Florida School shooting, the fbi and russia. And it comes as we learn more about that deadly shooting in parkland, florida. Nikolas cruz in court for a preliminary hearing today. And this video now emerging, allegedly fighting at school. Tonight, were learning more about what that fight might have centered around with cruz. And for the first time, the family that took him in after his mother died from the flu, now breaking their silence. Abcs Victor Oquendo leads us off from florida tonight. Reporter nikolas cruz appeari