And fuel, norah. The strips crucial southern Border Crossing in rafah remains closed. Ramy inocencio, thank you for being there. Now to the intensifying war in ukraine. Russian forces are carrying out a major assault in and around ukraines second largest city, kharkiv, capturing more than a half dozen towns and villages over the weekend. Russia has also been pounding ukraines power grid while ukraines desperately outgunned troops wait for more military aid to arrive from the u. S. And western allies. Tonight, new york city is on edge following a string of random assaults, including two hghprofile incidents in just the last week. A tourist in times square was stabbed over the weekend, and a celebrity was punched in the face by a stranger just a few days earlier. Cbss Nikki Battiste reports on whats behind this rise in frightening attacks. Reporter Surveillance Video shows this terrifying moment on saturday in times square. A man jumping up from a walker, pulling out a knife, and lunging at two women walking by, stabbing one of them in the chest. A few minutes later, Police Handcuff the suspect. Its the latest in a series of random assaults across new york city. About a dozen people, mostly women and one 9yearold, have reported incidents to police. Some shared stories online, saying they were randomly punched in the face while walking down the street. It was like a zombie walking and just punched me and just keep walking out of nowhere. Reporter actor Steve Buscemi had a swollen, bloody eye after he was allegedly hit by this man last week. His publicist said in a statement that the sopranos and boardwalk empire star was another victim of a random act of violence in the city. I think its a combination of factors, and one of it is unaddressed mental illness. Reporter overall, murders, burglaries, and shootings in new york city are down. But there have been about 1,000 more misdemeanor assaults like punching incidents this year compared to last, about a 7 jump. Is it the randomness of these incidents that causes the alarm . It is. Im just minding my business. Im not engaging with anybody. Im not making eye contact. Im not being hostile, and yet i get assaulted, and thats what makes people afraid. Reporter the nypd believes there are multiple people behind these punching attacks, and they dont all appear to be connected. So far there have been at least four arrests. We reached out to the nypd to ask if theyre stepping up street patrols, but we havent heard back. Norah. Nikki battiste, thanks very much. Tens of millions of americans are gearing up for the upcoming memorial day weekend. Aaa says 43. 8 Million People are expected to travel 50 miles or more this year, making it the busiest in nearly 20 years. Heres cbss kris van cleave. Reporter hoping to beat the potentially recordbreaking Summer Travel rush, joy noel booked her vacation months ago. Im definitely am excited for this travel season. I do plan on traveling on airplanes. I do plan on taking my car, just like seeing where this Summer Season takes me. Reporter and she will not be alone. Aaa is p expecting about a 5 bump in Airline Travel this memorial day weekend. United airlines is planning for its busiest ever, flying over half a Million People a day. But most will drive. Aaa predicting a record 38. 4 million will hit the road, up 4 from last year. It goes back to that bucket list, yolo, you only live once mentality. A lot of people are going, you know what . Lets not take those trips we always take with our family. Lets get a little bit more adventurous. Reporter one of the Fastest Growing segments is cruising of. The industry is expecting 35 million passengers this year, a new high. For the thousands on board carnival fa ren day, vacation season started early. What do you like best about cruising . That you get to go to multiple destinations, unpack your suitcase once. You got food, entertainment, even the casino if youre into that. Reporter now, when it comes to holiday traffic, aaa expects the roads to be busiest next thursday and friday between noon and 7 00 p. M. United Airlines Thinks the airports will be busiest on thursday. Top Domestic Travel destinations include orlando, the florida beaches, los angeles, las vegas, and here in denver, norah. Kris van cleave with good information, thank you so much. A Church Congregation pulls together to stop a gunman while dozens of kids await their first holy communion. The heroic whats the worst part of the locker room . Shareef axe. Axe. Brandon i like that. Shareef reminds me of like a designer store. Brandon this smells like a candle. Shareef is this a joke . 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Quickthinking churchgoers joined forces to stop a gunman in louisiana this weekend. Cbss Omar Villafranca has the dramatic video. Reporter chaos during communion caught on a livestream. It happened saturday at Saint Mary Magdalene Church during a frst communion ceremony for children in abbeville, louisiana. Police say a 16yearold boy carrying a gun opened the back door of the packed church but was immediately confronted and escorted away from the church by parishioners. The priest tries to calm everyone by asking them to recite a prayer while altar servers can be seen running for cover and clergy ducking behind the altar. No one was hurt. The 16yearold was arrested and taken for a mental evaluation. Saturdays incident comes a week after a man attempted to shoot a pennsylvania pastor midservice. Video captures the moment his gun jams and the deacon dives over a pew and tackles him. 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Im frustrated because its just like you do everything that youre supposed to do, and then you have to wait on the government to catch up. Reporter henderson filled out the free application for federal student aid, known as fafsa, almost five months ago. He finally received his Financial Information last week, after some College Decision deadlines. Typically the department of education releases the forms on october 1st, then sends the students data to colleges within one to three days of submission to calculate aid. This year, the application forms came out three months late. Its estimated more than a quarter of colleges have still not sent aid packages. Did you ever think of giving up, maybe not going to college . Yeah, many times actually. Really . Um, i was just, like, so tired of waiting. Reporter new Jersey High School senior jaylen james finally received her aid package close to the decision deadline. My biggest advice is to not give up. Reporter sarah urkida oversees College Counseling for thousands of Public School students in the dallas area. Ask for extensions. Ask if deposits or housing are refundable. Ask for anything they possibly can to help make a decision, but dont opt out at this point in the process. Reporter a fafsa fiasco thats still not finished. Meg oliver, cbs news, wayne, new jersey. Heart of america is finally, tonights heart of america as we celebrate Asian American and Pacific Islander heritage month. Cbss nancy chen has the story of an inspiring maestro who is breaking barriers while hitting all the right notes. Reporter new yorks metropolitan opera sets the tone as one of the worlds most prestigious stages, and conductor xinjiang is helping to shape its sound. The groundbreaking maestro born in china made her guest debut earlier this year, one of the first Asian American women to lead from its podium. Do you hope to inspire other musicians . Absolutely. Reporter in the u. S. , only about 1 in 4 music directors are people of color, and even fewer are women. Do you think it was harder as a woman, as a person of color . The double standard . Oh, absolutely. But to be within this group, one also has to learn how to grow from it and give yourself the space to make mistakes. Its okay. Reporter experience jong passes on while also leading the new jersey symphony, in her eighth season as its first female music director. And as she blazes a new path, jong hopes the music itself strikes the highest note of all. Nancy chen, cbs news, new york. [ applause ] conductor shin jong, tonights heart of america. And thats the overnight news for this tuesday. For some of you, the news continues. For others, athletic back later for cris mornings kwiegs and follow us online anytime at cbsnews. Com. Reporting from the nations capital, im norah odonnell. This is cbs news flash. Im Shanelle Kaul in new york. Storms lashed southern louisiana and new orleans tonight with high winds and flash flooding. Police say theres at least one fatality and more than 118,000 customers lost power. The toll from Severe Weather in indonesia has now climbed to at least 50 people dead with 27 still missing. Violent storms in sumatra over the weekend caused a combination of flash flooding, mudslides, and ash debris from a nearby volcano. And walmart is cutting hundreds of corporate jobs and moving most Remote Workers back to offices according to a report in the wall street journal. Walmart is americas largest employer with more than a million workers across the country. For more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. Im Shanelle Kaul, cbs news, new york. Do you have any messages for donald trump today . The prosecutions key witness takes the stand in Donald Trumps socalled hush money trial. Is there anything he could say that could put you in jeopardy . Michael cohen ties his old boss directly to hush money payments to Stormy Daniels. Why he says the former president was afraid the adult film stars story would be a disaster for his 2016 campaign. I paid a lawyer a legal expense. Its marked down in the book. Announcer this is the cbs overnight news. Good evening. Im norah odonnell, and thank you for being with us after a pivotal day in the criminal trial of donald trump. The former president coming face to face with his onetime personal attorney, Michael Cohen, who gave six hours of detailed testimony under oath, painting a behindthescenes picture of what was happening in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. The former fixer and inside man detailed how trump personally approved the socalled hush money payouts to hide stories that he believed would hurt him with female voters in his 2016 run for the white house. It was the Stormy Daniels payment and trumps reimbursement to cohen disguised as Legal Expenses that is at the heart of this criminal case. Trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying Business Records to conceal that information from voters. Reporters in the room say trump spent much of the day in court with his eyes closed. Cbss robert costa was there for todays riveting testimony and reports tonight on a secret recording between cohen and trump that the jury heard just today. What do you have to say to donald trump . Reporter Michael Cohen left early this morning for what would be a blockbuster day in court, where he testified that when Stormy Daniels started shopping her story, donald trump told him, just take care of it. Cohen set the scene. The 2016 election was just weeks away, and according to cohens testimony, trump said, its a total disaster. Women are going to hate me. I have no idea what theyre even doing. Reporter as trump continued to deny all the allegations, cohen detailed how he made the 130,000 payment to daniels to keep her quiet, which he described in 2019. He asked me to pay off an adult film star with whom he had an affair and to lie about it to his wife, which i did. Reporter before finalizing the 130,000 payment to daniels, cohen said he called trump to tell him because everything required mr. Trumps signoff. On top of that, i wanted the money back. Cohen so far has been effective for the prosecution. He is the first witness whos really placed donald trump directly in these discussions about the payoff to Stormy Daniels. Reporter cohen pointed to a trump tower meeting where he and former chief Financial OfficerAllen Weisselberg showed trump this document with cohens name at the top and 130,000 scribbled at the bottom. It was there, cohen testified, that trump approved the plan to pay him in monthly installments. Jurors also heard trump and cohen allegedly talking together in 2016 about a separate hush money payment made to former playboy playmate karen mcdougal, a recording cohen made without telling trump. And i spoke to allen about it. When it comes time for the financing, which will be listen, what financing . Well have to pay him something. No, well pay with cash. Reporter one major challenge for prosecutors is getting the jury to believe Michael Cohen. Hes a convicted felon who spent time in prison and admitted lying to congress. I think the only way they could do that is really by allowing cohen to be himself on the stand and testify and come across as a person who is credible, who may have lied in the past but is telling the truth now. Reporter trump and cohen barely looked at each other all day, but there was one moment where cohen was asked to single out the defendant, and he did just that. Cohen will be back in the courtroom tomorrow. Norah. Robert costa, thank you so much. Now, breaking news from the scene of that deadly bridge collapse in baltimore. In a risky operation, engineers just hours ago set off controlled explosions in the wreckage of the Francis Scott key bridge to help try and free the massive cargo ship that crashed into it nearly seven weeks ago. Cbss Nicole Sganga is there. Reporter explosive precision cuts at the site of the key bridge collapse. Workers demolishing steel beams to remove a colossal steel truss atop the container ship dali, where 21 crew members remained below deck during this operation. It is going to allow for the pressure from those cuts to literally separate the metal and cut through the steel. Reporter once clear, crews will work to refloat the container ship dali in hopes of moving the ship out of the channel in just two days. The massive container ship spanning 985 feet and weighing 116,000 tons, and moving it is one of the last remaining barriers to clearing the channel. The key bridge is down. Reporter this is the moment the first Police Marine unit arrived onscene at the deadly bridge collapse seven weeks ago. At least several v