I went right in the house in the nick of time. They just tore everything up. Norah tonight, the multiday threat with large hail pelting parts of texas. The Cbs Evening News starts now. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us. On this friday night. We want to begin with a story we have led this broadcast with almost every night this week deadly and dangerous storms unleashing fury and thousands of tornadoes from michigan to florida. A line of severe thunderstorms, winds gusting above hurricane force, and tornadoes tore through the florida panhandle, including the city of tallahassee, early this morning. Theres a drone video shows the long trail of destruction to homes and businesses. Roofs you can see in some places completely gone. Massive chunks of hail battered parts of central texas, with some pieces bigger than a baseball. Cbss Cristian Benavides will start us off tonight from tallahassee, where he saw the destruction up close. Speed to fierce, Howling Winds slammed into tallahassee early this morning. Packing powerful, 84 mileperhour winds, which left behind widespread destruction, ripped off rooftops, tossed vehicles, downed power lines, and toppled trees. Theres trees and people houses, you got trees on top of houses. This is some of the worst storm ive seen since ive been in tallahassee. Reporter just west in crest field, this Gas Station Awning was pieces, scattered several blocks. Part of a Weather System and wreaking havoc across the south and much of the central midwest. Near record hail the size of melons fell in johnson city texas damaging homes and forcing residents to seek shelter. Look at the pool. Reporter back in tallahassee, Business OwnerAnna Edson Mcbride says part of her roof is missing but she still feels lucky. My optimism has been my faith for a really long time, and somehow, i think that it will, it will still be there for me. Reporter nearly every business here in the art district has suffered substantial damage, and norah, that art studio only all that we spoke to, she said that she has lived here in tallahassee for ten years. She has gone through two hurricanes, and that she has never seen storm damage like this. Norah . Norah wow. Cristian benavides, thank you for being there. Donald trump will be back in a new york courtroom on monday for his socalled hush money trial, and cbs news has learned his longtime fixer Michael Cohen will take the stand. Today, the judge cracked down on cohen, telling him he needed to stop taunting donald trump after cohen wore a shirt on social media depicting the former president behind bars. It comes after a week of dizzying testimony sex and innuendo from adult film star for Stormy Daniels. We get more now from cbss robert costa. Reporter former present donald trump closed a day in court. And alleged sexual encounter he denies. Everything you have been watching has nothing to do with the case. Reporter daniels took a swipe at trump on time, riding real men respond to testimony by being sworn in and taking the stand in court. Oh, wait, never mind. Prosecutors say daniels was a key witness. She accepted a 130,000 payment from trumps former attorney Michael Cohen before the 2016 election, in exchange for keeping quiet about her story appeared on the stand friday, former white house aide Madeleine Westerhout testified about a 2017 oval office meeting, where prosecutors say trump and cohen discuss those payments. Are you ready to testify . Yes. Reporter as the prosecutions star witness, cohen will take the Stand On Monday to lay out his account of how he and trump allegedly falsified records to suppress daniels story, which trump has denied. Did you know about the 130,000 payment to Stormy Daniels . No. Then why did Michael Cohen there was no truth to that her . Reporter cohens credibility will be intensely scrutinized by the defense. He has served jail time on federal charges related to the hush money payments. Yes, i lied to congress, at the direction of, in coordination with, and for the benefit of donald j. Trump. Reporter cohen could be a decisive witness, but also a wild card, according to cbs news legal analyst rikki klieman. He is going to be expansive in his answers, probably much more than the prosecution would like. And certainly going to be a difficult witness for the defense to control. Norah and robert costa joins us now, and robert, there is news tonight about another member of trumps inner circle, former circle. Reporter former white house strategist steve bannon, a legal reckoning. An Appellate Court ruled bannon was rightly convicted of Contempt Of Congress and he now faces a four month prison sentence. What the committee was trying to find out in the House January 6th Committee was what bannon told trump behind the scenes in the days ahead of the capitol attack. Norah and he still wont say . Reporter he still wont talk. He is on his progress every day but will not talk to congress or the courts appeared to be, robert costa, thank you so much. Two schools in virginia are getting new names. Actually, they are old names, the names of confederate officers. Shenandoah County School board is the first in the nation to revert to names from before the racial reckoning of 2020. In a cbss Nikole Killion reports, the community is fiercely divided over the mo. Show that the motion carried. Reporter and a 51 vote, the Shenandoah CountyVirginia School board voted to restore the names of two schools to Confederate Generals after a heated, hourlong meeting. Why are we here tonight . To go back to a time in history that was very cruel. Everyone is going to think that we are racist rednecks. And thats not okay. Reporter the schools were initially stripped of their confederate names in 2020, after massive protests surrounding the death of george floyd. Our streets reporter Mountain View high school will be renamed for Confederate General stonewall jackson, while Honey Run Elementary School will bear the names of two Confederate Generals, robert e. Lee and turner ashby. Do you see this as a slap in the face to African Americans wo live in this community . It is absolutely the slap in the face to African Americans, and quite frankly, the school board as it is currently comprised made a decision to go against the will of the people they are. I respond by saying hopefully this can open up dialogue where people can sit down and simply discuss issues such as the spirit reporter mike steve said the renaming process four years ago was flawed. Of the process that was not followed and people were not given a voice in their own government, which, i mean, that is the cornerstone of our republic. Reporter the Virginia Naacp told me it is considering potential action. Some Board Members are defending their votes, but earlier, a School Administration building was placed on lockdown as a precaution following a threat on social media. Norah . Norah Nikole Killion, thank you. Turning overseas, russian officials are investigating a terrifying Commuter Bus Crash today on a bridge in historic st. Petersburg. Seven people are dead. Several others are badly hurt, and the bus driver is in custody. Cbss Chris Livesay has the dramatic video. Reporter captured on surveillance footage, the moment a st. Petersburg bus jerks across the median, collides head on with oncoming traffic, then plunges into the moyka river with some 20 passengers on board. Several bystanders leapt to the rescue. They just dove in with their clothes on and helped, says this witness, as others try to save more with life or servers. Russian authorities reportedly said the owner of the bus had been cited nearly two dozen times previously. The driver has been detained. Either he was staring erratically or the brakes failed, accounts this witness. The bus drivers wife blamed exhaustion, telling Russian Media he had been forced to work a Morning Shift after driving for 20 hours a day before. Chris livesay, cbs news. Norah now to some Breaking News. A brandnew report from the Biden Administration says israel may have violated International Human law humanitarian law in gaza, and may be misusing u. S. Weapons. But the report does say that the u. S. Cannot make a definitive assessment. Cbss Ramy Inocencio is in tel aviv with the latest. Reporter with Eastern Rafah encircled by israeli tanks, hamas launched at least six rockets. The projectiles fell into southern israel. No one was hurt. Israel attacked sites from central gaza to the south, as its war cabinet green let the military to deepen its operations in rafah. Retired army general israel ziv explains the tactics. Go through the main street with a combination both of tanks, infantry, and air sup support. Reporter block by block . Block by block. We dont have any other choice. Reporter as israels military advances, more than 110,000 people have Evacuated Rafah since last weekend, says the u. N. Satellite images show white tent camps disappearing across three days. There is no choice, said this displaced man. We will have to go to the coast like everyone else. The u. N. In gaza tells the strip only has three days worth of food left. General ziv says he believes Prime Minister netanyahu is making a mistake with this operation. So the issue of rafah is not actually rafah. Its about the decision the day after rafah. And i think that netanyahu cannot afford that decision anymore. Reporter and that day after decision is who will be in charge of gaza if peace can be reached . Reporter 21 said the corrupt Palestinian Authority is not the est choice, but it is the lesser of two evils compare . Norah Ramy Inocencio, thank you. Back here at home, that war is still stoking unrest on college campuses. Especially with graduation season underway. Just today at mit, Police Officers in helmets and riot gear cleared out a propalestinian encampment. Ten protesters who refused to leave were arrested. There were similar scenes at upenn, with police arresting 33 people and breaking down tents. And at the university of arizona in tucson, police in riot gear used tear gas against protesters. Schools are taking different approaches to handling protests on campus, with very different outcomes. One school that stands out is Sacramento State. Cbss Elise Preston goes indepth for an exclusive interview with the universitys president. Reporter even the peaceful treelined campus of Sacramento State has not been immune to protests. Free, free palestine reporter definitely running without sleep. Reporter this Week University president luke wood oversaw a peaceful end. The encampment here came down, not with violence, but with dialogue. We want to thank the time for luke voit not calling sacrament a police. That is what a lot of students are really looking for, to take a moral stand about what is taking place in the world. Reporter he leads with empathy. The 42yearold grew up in foster care, suffered bouts of hunger and homelessness, and received his degrees here. I did 92 listening sessions, 75 minutes each, with over 1500 of our students, faculty, staff. There were several schools across the country, you saw pole move in with riot gear. This isnt a war zone. Its a college campus. Well, i got to first tell you how i feel as a person and as an individual. And really come as a black man. I get a heightened level of anxiety when people are in fear, they respond in a protected mechanism, which doesnt always lead to the best outcomes. Reporter this protest ended as the university shared a new policy that excludes direct investments in corporations. That violate fundamental human rights. We are not investing in students futures by engaging in relationships with companies that profit from war. Reporter Political Science major Sarah Bukhari was inside the encampment. I do feel heard. Im not going to lie to you, i cried a couple times. My whole life, no one has asked me what i thought about the arab u. S. Arab relations. Reporter what is the message . It is to create an environment where people can engage in honest and open dialogue without being vilified or canceled. Reporter across the country, College President s have faced backlash from alumni and donors, who would says he has, too, but his focus remains on the students who call Sacramento State home. Norah . 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Reporter just eight months after she was crowned miss miss usa. [cheers and applause] noelia voigt wrote her relationship with the pageant was unendurable and said she had been diagnosed with anxiety because of the mental and emotional toll it had taken. In a Resignation Letter provided to cbs news by a source, voigt also said there is a toxic Work Environment within the miss usa organization. Voigt also said she was made to feel unsafe at events, including an experience where she claims she was sexually harassed at a christmas parade. Voigt announced she was stepping down from her role monday in an instagram post. There is Breaking News right now and there is a secret code involved. Reporter some social media users noticed the first letters of the sentences starting the post spelled i am silenced. Miss usa contestants signed restrictive Nondisclosure Agreements that bar them from speaking about the pageant without the organizations approval. 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