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The most deadly carried out with assault weapons. cbs' nicole killian spoke with one victim's mother who's taking her cause straight to congress. >> reporter: it is not the book patricia oliver wanted written about her son. >> when you open the book you're always going to see joaquin was shot four times. >> reporter: joaquin was one of 17 people killed when a gunman opened fire at marjory stoneman douglas high school in parkland, florida, in 2018. what is it you miss most about joaquin in. >> everything. he was my sunshine, and i wasn't able to see him grow as a young adult. >> reporter: this ...

For more than 40 years a virginia man has used his artistic eye to take americans where cameras often cannot go, inside some of the nation's highest profile trials and legal proceedings. cbs' scott macfarlane turns our camera on courtroom artist bill hennessy. >> reporter: in a year of blockbuster courtroom moments there's always a reserve seat up front for the man with the pencils and the pad. bill hennessy of virginia is one of the busiest and most prolific courtroom artists of his time. for decades he's been sketching the drama that plays out in front of america's judges and juries. >> it's...

Penniless and traumatized like this venezuelan. she told us she prayed for courage. federal authorities have increased deportation flights and added space at detention facilities to ease overcrowding. >> we're not out of the woods yet. >> we're absolutely not out of the woods yet. we're going to continue to work really hard. >> reporter: and tonight legal sparring after a federal judge in florida temporarily blocked the biden administration's migrant release policy designed to alleviate overcrowding. the department of justice says it plans to appeal. major? >> nicole in brownsville, texas, we ...

It's not reached the crunch point yet. >> reporter: and major, lawmakers were supposed to meet here with the presidnt to discuss those debt ceiling negotiations yesterday. that meeting has now been pushed to next week. >> at the white house for us tonight christina ruffini, thank you. to the middle east now. today israel and the islamist militant group in gaza agreed to a cease-fire. five days of fire has claimed the lives of at least 13 palestinians and two israelis. today ukrainian president zelenskyy arrived in rome for a private audience with pope francis. it lasted 40 minutes with zelen...

Under a state of emergency because of a sharp spike in covid cases.rgency because of a sharp spike in co cbs's ramy inocencio on what that means for the games. >> reporter: just landed in tokyo, olympic star simone biles and team u.s.a. gymnastics, and the u.s. swimming team. these and more than 11,000 other athletes are touching down just as tokyo reports more than 1,300 new covid cases today, the most since january. the latest confirmed thursday alone: an unidentified olympic athlete, five olympic contractors and staff, and at least eight japanese employees at a hotel hosting brazil's judo t...