stake, nancy. >> that bill could be heading to the president's desk soon. natalie brand, thank you. today's congressional action includes $26 billion in aid to israel, some of which will be used to support defense systems that repelled recent attacks from iran. cbs's debora patta has the latest now from jerusalem. >> reporter: good evening. for now, at least, security experts here believe tehran will not respond to israel's retaliatory strike, but it has diverted attention from the war in gaza, which reached a grim new milestone. more than 34,000 dead. the frantic rush to save the injured after yet another israeli air strike in rafah. health workers do their best, but for this little girl it is too late. her father is inconsolable, pressing her tight against his chest one last time. the days grind on.
it is such a spectacular win that it makes it easier for the uaw to organize at the 11 remaining nonunion automakers. >> reporter: these uaw gains appear to be part of a renaissance moment for unions. a year ago, the so-called summer of labor saw hollywood actors and writers and las vegas hotel workers winning big. the next test for the uaw comes next month with workers at two mercedes-benz plants voting to unionize in alabama. nancy? >> jeff nguyen, thank you. tonight, flash flooding threatens parts of the south. take a look at texas where widespread rain and thunderstorms soaked part of the state today. that's making driving treacherous on water-logged roads. today marks 1,200 days since the attack on the u.s. capitol. it has led to the largest criminal probe and prosecution in u.s. history, which is still
>> reporter: the drama in court was eclipsed briefly friday in a park outside. a 37-year-old man doused himself with accelerant and set himself on fire. he later died in a hospital. >> we do not believe this was targeting any particular person or any particular group. we just, right now, are labeling it as sort of a conspiracy theorist. >> reporter: authorities say the incident was not a threat to the trial, but they are reassessing security. the barricades are up here. former president trump has said he is willing to testify in his own defense, but we don't know yet what subjects he might be asked about. the judge will decide that, nancy, on monday. >> opening statements could go on for days. bradley blackburn, thank you so much. tonight, organized labor has made new inroads in the south after a big breakthrough by the united auto workers. cbs's jeff nguyen is tracking the story for us tonight. jeff? >> reporter: nancy, following the historic union vote, volkswagen has acknowledged the results and thanked its employees for voting.
"they're going to strike at 3:40, it's happening," shouts a man. minutes later, it's done. in this makeshift kindergarten, teachers provide a welcome relief from the war. more than half of gaza's 2.3 million palestinians are sheltering in rafah. it was supposed to be their last stop. despite the tensions this week with iran, the g7 meeting, which wrapped up in italy yesterday, is keeping the pressure on israel, warning that a full-scale operation in rafah, nancy, would have catastrophic consequences. >> devastating pictures. debora patta, thank you so much. tonight, former president trump is on the campaign trail in north carolina after spending the week attending his criminal trial in new york. cbs's bradley blackburn is outside the court with more. bradley? >> reporter: nancy, we are now used to seeing images of former
wayne said about a him, the ethics testimony that was about what was said? does he deny he told other people from your same network to call me about a it? i don't know if all these people are liars. i don't believe that to be true. i know what transpired. even if you look at byron donalds' latest quote this week -- howard: yeah, lord of the flies. >> what matt gaits did has broken the republican may noter he's now created lord of the plies -- majority. -- flies. ask anybody inside our conference, they actually know it. howard: so you're saying all the things press wrote about it, and certainly the congressman was part of that, well, of course, it had partially to do with the fact that any single member, and you had to make that concession, could offer a motion to vacate finish. >> this isn't -- let's talk about the motion to vacate, okay? that has been around for more than a hundred years. every speaker has had to live with that except nancy on her second time, she changed it.
years and have had many disagreements with mike johnson in recent years, but this is the mike johnson that i knew a long time ago. this is a mike johnson, a man who had real principles. i was very glad to see it. >> "new york times" columnist david french and "the new yorker"'s susan glasser, thank you, both. david, we were happy to have nancy on the other day, the better half. >> i'm sorry you downgraded to me. i'm sorry you downgraded to me. >> she's amazing. all right. thanks for coming on this morning. let's bring in senior political columnist for "plate politico," jonathan marti his piece, "trump the front-runner? not so fast." what are you seeing playing out, jonathan? >> i think the trump is going to win conventional wisdom got out of hand the last couple months. there's, frankly, some overcompensation from people who aren't trump fans but want to see him.
and then the reaction to it afterwards. >> love to tell the story about meeting president biden because when you meet him, this guy is as sharp as a knife. >> martha: that says it all again from the biden campaign and the name of the ad is sharp, former deputy use director of state communications, at that in both with us, it's going to continue to get attention i always think that these kind of wawa pain tension campaign states -- stops are contrived and weird but this one was a bit odd what do you make of it? >> people love seeing the president and candidates go in getting fried food and pizza and ice cream and doughnuts i thought this was not hear or there he went obviously raising again the right loving to attack age and health and i'm in all of how well it has done whether it's hillary clinton or nancy
Nancy's refusal to address an obvious question is typical in MLS, which does very little to prepare coaching prospects for the media focus of most jobs in world football.