1400 israelis, and now israeli forces are in the heart of gaza city, as thousands of palestinians escaped south. here are tonight's headlines. ♪ ♪ we are inside gaza tonight, the israeli military takes us further inside the territory then any other journalists. speak with the commander here told us there are about a thousand hamas militants here tn with. now there are a few dozen. >> norah: as israeli soldiers advanced, thousands of palestinians flee, as the world health organization says the level of death is hard to fa fathom. >> the military objective has been to destroy hamas, but there is growing international outrage that means destroying everything here it's beer and breaking news. a man is in custody, accused of having a self-style rifle near the u.s. capitol. the new details. >> did you have a gun? >> norah: a jewish man dies after israeli and palestinian coprotesters clashed. what investigators say tonight. >> investigators not ruled out the possibility of a hate crime and this is being investigated as a homicide. >> norah: america decides. millions had to the polls on this election day. one of the top issues, abortion. we speak to voters in ohio. >> while ohio is the only state with abortion on the ballot today, key races in pennsylvania, virginia, and kentucky could impact the future of abortion access in those states. >> it doesn't need to be this way. >> norah: protecting america's teens on social media. the disturbing details for a former engineer for the parent company of facebook and instagram. wework files for bankruptcy. how the pandemic led to the fall of the tech company. ♪ dancing in the dark ♪ >> norah: the bosses back. bruce springsteen surprise performance, his first since suspending his tour. ♪ ♪ good evening, and thank you for joining us. tonight, we are learning that president biden is personally urging prime minister netanyahu for a humanitarian pause in gaza, but israel is insisting a halt in fighting will only come after the more than 200 hostages taken by hamas are released. disagreement between the two tur allies. netanyahu says he sees israel playing a role in gaza for "an indefinite period," specifically talking about security responsibility. well, you may recall president biden told "60 minutes" it would be a big mistake if israel occupies gaza after the war. well, tonight, the fighting in the heart of gaza state he is intensifying. look at these pictures. this comes at today marks one month since the hamas attack that killed more than 1400 people, the deadliest attack on jews since the holocaust. and out thousands of civilians are fleeing gaza city as the battle between israel and hamas draws closer. cbs's charlie baggett embedded with the israeli army in northern gaza. he will start us off tonight from tel aviv. good evening, charlie come and tell us what you saw. >> reporter: good evening, norah. we saw destruction. destruction as far as the eye could see. no civilians. even soldiers, we were with, said they had seen no civilians. but they were coming up against hamas militants. in fact, while we were there, they had to reinforce other troops who were coming under fire. we joined the paratroopers of israel's 501st airborne brigade among the first wave of forces to invade gaza after hamas militants went on their murderous rampage one month ago. gunners kept a lookout as we crossed the desert scrubland of northeast gaza until we reached beit hanoun. as we arrived, the sound of ongoing gun battles could be heard nearby appeared [gunfire] the city had an estimated prewar population of more than 60,000 people. looking around, it is hard to imagine anyone lived here at all. lieutenant colonel ido kass said there was little choice. i know that the military objective is to destroy hamas. >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: but you destroyed everything. >> hamas is using infrastructure. just 10 minutes ago, we had a serious battle with hamas inside a school. we found these rocket launchers. >> reporter: he showed us a missile site hidden in the backyard of a home next to it used to be a swimming pool. the commander here told us there are about a thousand hamas militants here to begin with. now there are a few dozen left. it is not the threats above ground that they are worried about, but the ones below it. before the fighting began. as we were speaking, explosions and gunfire erupted a few blocks away. we are told a hamas fighter emerge from a tunnel near a schl and fired an rpg at troops. southwest of here, in gaza city, israeli troops closing in on the heart of the city have triggered a mass exodus south, splitting the territory in two. on the highway south of the city, our cbs news colleague marwan al-ghoul spoke with some of those fleeing the fighting. >> reporter: walking for hours to cross from gaza north to the south. carrying nothing. >> reporter: accept a white flag of surrender and the will to survive. >> we are civilian people. we want to live on our land with peace. but nobody involved led us to leave. >> reporter: one month since this war began, residents face an uncertain future. first and foremost, when, and how, it will end. now, in terms of that embed, the in the israeli military has tight restrictions on coverage, mainly having to do with not showing anything that might give away, like locations or reveal the identities of their soldiers, so the idf viewed our raw footage as a condition of entry into gaza, but had no control over our final report. norah? >> norah: charlie d'agata, thank you so much. well, back here at home, protests and demonstrations on both sides of the conflict are taking place almost daily in cities across the country. while most are peaceful, some rallies have turned violent. tonight, an investigation is underway after the death of a 69-year-old jewish man who was fatally injured at a rally near los angeles be at cbs's elise preston reports on the disturbing details. >> reporter: thousand oaks, california, is trying to come to grips with why 69-year-old paul kessler lay dying after a confrontation. moments earlier, he had held an israeli flag. nearby, pro-palestinian demonstrators. >> investigators have not ruled out the possibility of a% hate crime. >> reporter: but no one has been charged, and police say they still have no video showing why, and how, kessler fell to the ground. fracturing his skull. he died hours later. >> these witnesses are providing conflicting statements about what the altercation and who the aggressor was. [chanting "free palestine"] >> reporter: with a protest reaching a fever pitch nationwide and attacks on the rise fueled by anti-semitism and his mom up will be a come of this community may be the latest impacted. does this incident change your safety and patrol measures at protests? >> we are not changing our article. 15 minutes before the altercation, there was no indication of violence. >> reporter: the president of islamic -- we join those to refrain from jumping to conclusions. at a makeshift vigil, tributes in english. >> my heart hurts that someone innocently left home and he never came back. >> reporter: now investigators tell us there have been many conflicting statements about who actually started this incident. they are asking anyone with video to come forward. they are actually hoping someone who drove by captured the altercation on their car cameras. norah? >> norah: there are cameras everywhere. elise preston, thank you. here in washington, there was a security alert on capitol hill today when a man carrying a semiautomatic rifle was arrested by police in a park near the senate office building. we get the latest from cbs's nikole killion on capitol hill. >> reporter: a tense scene near the u.s. capitol as police took down a 21-year-old man who was carrying a semiautomatic weapon. >> he was holding the gun down as he walked. they ordered him to stop. he did not. one officer tasered him in the back. he fell forward onto his gun. >> reporter: the suspect was identified as ahmir lavon merrell rell of atlanta, georgia, in law enforcement source tells cbs news the gun seized was a modified ar-15 rifle, police did not say why he came to the capital, but he may have suffered from mental health issues. >> it's good that they found this person, but we are keeping a constant vigilance on sec security. >> reporter: authorities say there was no threat to the congressional community, but the incident follows another one this week where u.s. capitol police confiscated a pair of glock handguns after two suspect crashed a stolen vehicle into a barricade. >> we are very concerned about the heightened threats against members. this is something we are continuously dealing with. >> reporter: the investigation is still ongoing. police are trying to figure out how merrell may have gotten the gun. he faces a warrant and several charges tonight, including having an unregistered firearm. norah? >> norah: nikole killion on the hill for us, thank you. there was also an important hearing on capitol hill today about the threats teenagers face on social media. a former facebook engineer told a senate panel that meta dismissed warnings about unwanted sexual advances and widespread bullying aimed at teens on instagram, including his own daughter. we get more on this from cbs's jo ling kent. >> reporter: tonight, meta under fire once again. >> i appear before you today as a dad with first-hand experience of a child who received unwanted sexual advances on instagram. >> reporter: former meta engineer arturo behar testified before a senate subcommittee today, alleging the social media giant has not done enough to address the harmful effects of facebook and instagram on teens. >> my 14-year-old daughter joined instagram. she and her friends began having awful experiences. including repeated unwanted sexual advances, harassment. she reported these incidents to the company and it did nothing. >> reporter: while working as a consultant in october 2021, he says he sent this email to ceo and founder mark zuckerberg, and instagram head adam and sherry, sharing his daughter's online expenses but ignored by the founder. speak with a disregard the health of our kids is truly shocking. >> reporter: what should parents be taking away from this? >> parents need to become more aware of the digital lives their children are leading. companies need to take more responsibility for the way their products are designed, and policymakers need to enact new laws to hold those companies accountable. >> reporter: a bipartisan bill aimed at protecting kids online is now making its way through the senate. meantime, in response >> any five's claims, meta tells me at every day, countless people inside the company are trying to keep young people safe, and it has already introduced more than 30 tools to support teams and their families online. norah? >> norah: such an important story for parents and families. jo ling kent, thank you very much. a case argued at the supreme court today could put the safety of people in abusive relationships at serious risk, while also impacting gun laws in many states. now at the center of the case is a federal law that bans those under domestic violence restraining orders from having guns. we get more from cbs's jan crawford at the supreme court. >> the real fear of losing your life when you leave israel. it's a real fear. >> reporter: ruth glenn is head of the national advocacy group for victims of domestic violence. she also is a survivor. >> eventually, he later found me, a few months, a few weeks later, and shot me three times, and left me for dead. >> reporter: her organization was one of many today urging the supreme court to uphold a 30-year-old federal law banning guns for people under restraining orders for domestic violence, like defendant zackey rahimi. rahimi come under a protective owner for assaulting and threatening to shoot his ex-girlfriend, was convicted of violating the law after he was involved in several other alleged shooting incidents in texas. in the supreme court today, his lawyer argued the law violated the second amendment right to keep and bear arms, prompting this exchange with chief justice john roberts. >> you don't have any doubt that your client is a dangerous person, do you? >> your honor, i wouldn't want to know what dangerous person means beard >> someone who is su know, at people. that's a good start. >> reporter: rahimi's argument could have wide-ranging implications for modern-day gun laws, as well as the system of background checks. over the last 25 years, the law has stopped people under protective orders from buying guns about 78,000 times. the court seemed almost unanimously poised to keep it in place. justice elena kagan. >> you don't give guns to people who have a kind of history of domestic violence that your client has. >> reporter: now, ever since the court ruled that there is an individual right to bear arms, there has been a lot of confusion in the lower courts over what kind of gun laws are constitutional. this case could also provide some much needed guidance on some of those other gun regulations, including efforts norah? >> norah: jan crawford, thank you very much. turning now to election day across the country, voters from coast-to-coast are going to the polls to weigh in on important races, including governor, state assemblies, and mayors and several major cities. kentucky and mississippi voters will decide if their governors deserve four more years or if they should be replaced. but there is one issue that is hanging over several races: abortion. abortion rights are on the ballot in ohio, and it has also played a central role in the campaigns of virginia for control of the general assembly. cbs's jericka duncan is on the ground in columbus, ohio, to find out what is on the minds of voters. >> reporter: abortion rights supporters rallied this afternoon and a effort to get voters to the polls. we spoke to voters in a district that traditionally leans democratic. >> i remember what illegal abortions were like. they are not good beard i would rather have women have a choice. >> i think it's important, as we are meant to keep, you know, fighting for our rights. >> reporter: the proposed amendment called issue 1 would guarantee a women's right in ohio to an abortion. it would allow the procedure up until fetal viability, usually around the 23rd week of according to doctors. exceptions beyond that point would be permitted if a physician determines an abortion is necessary for the health or life of the mother. >> under this amendment, any kind of abortion is going to be fine. this is too extreme for ohio. >> reporter: ohio's republican governor mike dewine calls the amendment radical and says it will allow abortion at any point during pregnancy. speak with a majority ohioans do not believe that abortion shoule allowed at any point. >> reporter: dewine signed a six week abortion law in 2019 that is currently on hold in. >> we are stripping the ability and legislature to go forward and pass protection for the unborn. >> reporter: ohio is the only state with abortion on the ballot today, key races in pennsylvania, virginia, and kentucky, could impact the future of abortion access in those states. in virginia, all 140 general assembly seats are up for grabs, with republicans pushing for a 15 week abortion ban. since roe v. wade was overturned last year, abortion rights supporters have prevailed in 6 out of 6 states when the issue of abortion is on the ballot. norah? 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