the "cbs evening news" starts now. the nation's highest court rejects an effort to limit the use of the widely-used abortion pill mifepristone. good evening. i'm norah o'donnell, and thank you for being with us. the implications are enormous. medications are now the most common way to end a pregnancy, and some providers send them by mail to states that have limited or banned abortions. the decision comes on the same day that senate republicans blocked legislation that would protect access for in vitro fertilization and other fertility treatments. democrats brought this bill to the floor because they are trying to make the battle over reproductive rights a centerpiece of the debate this election year. cbs's jan crawford is at the supreme court with why all nine justices on this divided court agreed on this ruling. >> my body! my mind! >> reporter: finding common ground in a divisive case, the supreme court refused to roll back access to the abortion pill mifepristone, saying a group of antiabortion doctors had no business filing a lawsuit over how the pill was approved. >> we knew we had no choice but to sue the fda. >> reporter: the decision written by justice brett kavanaugh unanimously reversed conservative lower court judges who okayed the group's lawsuit against the fda, seeking to restrict access to the drug nationwide. the stakes were high. 63% of abortions last year were medication abortions, and the lower court ruling would have required women to see a health care provider instead of telehealth to get the pill. the justices said the lawsuit was flawed from the beginning because the antiabortion doctors weren't harmed by the fda's approval of mifepristone, and so they lacked legal standing to sue. "instead of going to the courts," kavanaugh wrote, "citizens and doctors who object to what the law allows others to do may always take their concerns to the executive and legislative branches." while not a decision on the merits, it sends a message to lower courts, to put some brakes on novel legal efforts both sides abused in the fight over abortion. >> it isn't the end. there are three states that will continue to litigate these issues in the lower courts. >> reporter: those states are idaho, missouri, and kansas. additional states banned mifepristone prescriptions by telehealth, and louisiana has listed it as a controlled dangerous substance. >> this is not a cause for celebration. because the reality is certain things are still not going to change. >> reporter: now, we expect more decisions from the court tomorrow, and then over the next couple weeks as the justices wrap up what has been an incredibly consequential term. and one of the cases, we are still waiting on, whether former president trump can be prosecuted for his actions around january 6th. i expect that case and all of these cases by the end of the month, early july. norah? >> norah: and jan, i do want to ask you about that breaking news about justice clarence thomas, that report revealing he took more flights on a private jet funded by a megadonor. and that they were not disclosed by the justice. what can you tell us? >> reporter: well, the senate judiciary committee has released some documents showing he took three additional trips with his longtime friend, the billionaire harlan crow, including a trip to montana, another trip back to his family home in savannah, but justice thomas has always maintained that those kind of trips with a friend, who didn't have business before the court, were personal hospitality, and as a result did not have to be disclosed under the rules in place at the time. the judicial conference changed those rules last year. justice thomas says going forward he will report all of that travel on his disclosure reports. norah? >> norah: jan crawford at the supreme court, thank you. now to the record-breaking rainfall and rising floodwaters across south florida. five counties are under a state of emergency right now after days of nonstop heavy downpours, and it's still coming down. floodwaters are stranding drivers, closing schools, and causing headaches for homeowners. cbs's manuel bojorquez is in the thick of it. >> reporter: heavy rains slammed south florida for the fourth day in a row. the rainfall rate was as high as 4 inches an hour. the drenching downpour has left parts of miami-dade county impassable. with cars submerged and entire neighborhoods underwater. >> like, it's crazy. i mean, look at my pants. look at me. i'm wet. every time i walk in the streets, the water is right here. >> reporter: the storm system, now centered over the atlantic, has dumped more than 20 inches of rain in some areas. waist-high water meant some residents waded, kayaked, or wakeboarded to get around flooded communities. in dania beach, first responders rescued at least 40 people from floodwaters as homeowners sought higher ground. officials are warning residents to stay off the roads. >> more than half of the deaths from flooding each year occur in vehicles, so the message is: turn around, don't drown. >> reporter: in hallandale beach, this person drove right into a canal, mistaking it for a road. schools in all of broward county were closed today. >> oh, [bleep]! >> reporter: here in hollywood, florida, eric aragon's home flooded. they had to evacuate through a window, and now he is concerned about what's next. >> it's only going to get worse, and honestly, i don't want anything to happen to myself or my family, so yeah, we are going to leave. >> reporter: his house is just down this street, where as you can see, the flooding has not receded before this new round of storms began. further south, the city of miami beach has opened up nine parking garages so people can move their cars away from low-lying areas. norah? >> norah: manny bojorquez, thank you for being out there. and for how long these storms will stick around and the heat wave moving east, let's bring in cbs miami chief meteorologist ivan cabrera. good evening, ivan. >> norah, good to see you. we have, let's see, happy ducks, we've got happy iguanas here in south florida. everyone else is not. we're just waiting for the sunshine to come back, and unfortunately, we are going to have to wait another day. we are waterlogged here. as you saw, some folks are getting home by kayaks. this is the second no-name storm we have been dealing with over the last couple of years. take a look at some of the numbers. 12 to as high as 20 inches of rainfall have fallen over the last couple of days. just to put that in perspective, that's about three months' worth of rainfall here across south florida. you know, we always talk about the atmospheric river over california, well, we have our own here that has been moving through. we have been tapping into the tropics, and it has just been relentless rain, tropical rains, funneled right over south florida, and that is going to continue for at least one more day. in fact, additional accumulation of perhaps 2-4 inches, which on top of what we have already had is going to make things a lot worse. also, following this, severe weather moving out of the midwest. that is going to be entering the northeast as we headed through tomorrow, so heads up there. we got gusty winds, severe wind gusts, 60-80 miles an hour. not out of the question. large hail. and then the heat dome we have been covering, that expands to the east, so get ready for some of the hottest temperatures that we have seen and experienced so far this season across the northest coming up this weekend. norah? >> norah: ivan, thank you so much. donald trump visited capitol hill today for the first time since the january 6th riot, a riot he is accused of inciting, causing millions of dollars in damage. congressional republicans are falling in line behind the presumptive nominee, as former house speaker nancy pelosi said that trump was "returning to the scene of the crime." here is cbs's robert costa. >> reporter: rousing displays of republican unity today around the party's presumptive nominee. >> i am with them 1000%. they are with me 1000%. >> reporter: and a notable show of a truce between trump and his longtime foil, senate g.o.p. leader mitch mcconnell, after not speaking since late 2020. for former president trump, thursday's washngton tour was a chance to play up his poll numbers and reassure his party after becoming a convicted felon last month. >> just was a great meeting. there's tremendous unity in the republican party. >> reporter: in a closed-door meeting with house republicans, sources say he lashed out at the justice department, calling it dirty, along with an expletive. he also criticized milwaukee, host to the republican national convention next month, calling it horrible. a spokesman said he was referring to crime and voting issues. wisconsin democrat gwen moore shot back, saying, "once he's settled in with his parole officer, i am certain he will discover that milwaukee is a wonderful city." this was trump's first trip to the hill since the january 6th attack in 2021, and republicans today avoided the topic. did january 6th ever come up? >> no, it did not. >> on january 6th, donald trump lit a fire in this country. >> reporter: meanwhile, the biden campaign highlighted trump's return, releasing this ad this morning, as a mobile billboard was seen playing video of the january 6th attack across capitol hill. trump has said he would pardon rioters. >> they ought to release the j6 hostages. they have suffered enough. >> reporter: as i stood outside the senate g.o.p. conference room, it was cheer after cheer, laugh after laugh. this wasn't a reckoning, but a republican embrace of trump, despite all of his challenges. norah? >> norah: robert costa, thank you. now to tonight's other top stories. president biden is on the world stage tonight, in italy for the g7. he is speaking about his son for the first time since hunter's conviction, but as cbs's nancy cordes reports, for the white house, the high-stakes summit is about supporting ukraine. >> reporter: this historic agreement comes as ukraine struggles to regain momentum in its war with russia. late today, president biden and ukraine's president signed a document that pledges u.s. support for ukraine, including military aid and training, for the next ten years. at their press conference, biden was asked if he felt his son, hunter, had been given a fair trial. >> i said i would abide by the and i will do that. and i will not pardon him. >> reporter: biden was also asked if he would use his power to reduce his son's sentence, which could include jail time. biden said no. >> norah: a new report from the department of justice finds the phoenix police department violated civil rights, discriminated against people of color, and used excessive force. cbs's kris van cleave has more from arizona. >> reporter: norah, doj says it found a pattern or practice of the violations, noting pervasive failings that went on for years. the report found officers enforced drug laws and low-level offenses more severely against black, hispanic, and native americans. phoenix police also unlawfully detained the homeless and violated people's free speech rights. >> the police department turned a blind eye to the data, ignored these unmistakable warnings, and failed to uncover its own discriminatory policing patterns. >> reporter: the city of phoenix says it will review the report, and the police union flatly rejected it. >> norah: and the nypd made an alarming discovery during a routine traffic stop, finding an arsenal of weapons. and now investigators want to know why the suspect had the stockpile. cbs's jericka duncan has more. >> reporter: norah, police say around 1:30 wednesday morning, they pulled over 27-year-old judd sanson here in queens for driving with a blacked-out license plate. inside the car, they found a stash of weapons, including a 9mm handgun, 179 rounds of ammunition, knives, axes, and an nypd bullet proof vest. the suspect pleaded not guilty and was remanded back to jail until monday. prosecutors say they don't know what he was planning, but said it could have been a disaster. >> norah: thanks, jericka, and to our teams around the globe. the consumer product safety commission is investigating multiple deaths associated with weighted sleep sacks and blankets for infants. that consumer alert is next. ♪ ♪ is next. ♪ ♪ for possibilities, discover a different first treatment. immunotherapies work with your immune system to attack cancer. but opdivo plus yervoy is the first combination of 2 immunotherapies for adults newly diagnosed with non-small cell lung cancer that has spread, tests positive 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>> and anna, i would just push that back to you and tell me, what other companies have a peer-reviewed clinical trial that could take years before ever launching a product? we're a small business. how would we have innovation in america? i mean, this is how america works. >> reporter: to that, aap president dr. hoffman says... >> show me the data that it's safe. if you can't show me that it's safe, i'm not going to be able to recommend it. >> reporter: connecticut democratic senator richard blumenthal says government regulation of infant product is too weak. >> the consumer product safety commission has no power to take those products off the shelves. >> reporter: senator blumenthal has asked the ftc to investigate those companies advertising and statements about safety. both companies told us they were responding to his concerns. nested bean told us his criticisms were inaccurate, but both founders told us they have now lost more than 50% of their business, and dreamland baby's ceo williams says she is planning to sue the cpsc over that commissioner's warning letters to retailers. on that, norah, the cpsc declined to comment. >> norah: anna, thank you very much. it's a submarine showdown in cuba. that's next. marine showdown in cuba. that's next. showdown in cuba. that's next. but we could. with heart disease, you never know. so we made changes. green juice. yeah, not a fan. diet, exercise... statins helped. but our ldl-c (bad cholesterol)-it was stuck! stuck! just couldn't lower it enough. and high ldl-c meant a real risk of another attack. so i said, "let's ask our doctor about repatha." what can i say? 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