♪ ♪ tonight, severe storms. deadly tornadoes leave a trail of destruction in tennessee. >> oh, my god. >> at least six killed in search for survivors under way amidst the devastation. >> i'm manuel bojorquez. in one hard-hit tennessee, in some cases there is very little that can be saved. >> tonight, that same storm system working its way up the

east coast bringing blinding rain, damaging winds and snow. we'll have the complete forecast. >> also tonight, the santa ana winds fanning the flames of a wildfire in ventura county, california. authorities warning residents to get to safety. call to surrender. >> i'm charlie d'agata in tel aviv with the fight raging across gaza. prime minister benjamin netanyahu tells hamas it's time to surrender and while the bombing of southern gaza intensifies, so does the desperation of the people left in the rubble. and later for you, beacons of the past. mark strassman shines a light on the push to save america's aging lighthouses. >> there is a lighthouse for days like this. >> exactly. >> right? ♪ ♪ this is "the cbs weekend news" from new york with jericka dunk an. >> good evening, everyone.

jericka is off. i'm errol barnett. we begin in season the ral tennessee where powerful storms kill at least six people and unleashed a trail of terror in the state. tonight, crews are still digging out from the rubble after an outbreak of tornadoes flipped trucks, flattened homes and toppled power lines. tens of thousands of people are still without power right now. cbs's manuel bojorquez leads us off tonight in nashville, tennessee and manuel, good evening. >> good evening, errol. in this neighborhood powerlines and polls were toppled and homes are now missing entire sections. it's also in this area where three people were killed including a child. >> there was little doubt as the intense storm blew through middle tennessee. >> oh, my god! oh! >> that these incredibly large funnel clouds near the heart of nashville -- >> oh, my god, would cause major damage. >> i hope nobody was in those

houses. it was really bad. this is the rubble left in its wake, devastating, deadly and widespread. >> this morning we have a lot of families who are suffering. >> it's going to take a lot of time, a lot of resources and us coming together to get through this difficult time. >> the damage is heaviest in clarksville and in hendersonville, where little is left of this antique mart. that's where pam miller and five customers including sheila mays and gwendolyn murphy gardner rushed to the shelter below. >> we got down to the basement just in time within about -- less than five minutes we shut the door and everything began to rip apart. >> what was that like? >> it was frightening. >> had you not gone down there -- >> oh, we would have been under all this stuff. no doubt. no doubt. >> we made it! we made it! >> hallelujah. >> tonight, those here are salvaging what they can, cleaning up and taking stock. >> we need help. we made it.

>> how grateful are you right now that you and your customers are okay. >> god was with us the whole time. no doubt in my mind. >> crews have been deployed to these hard-hit neighborhoods to try to restore power, but at last check more than 20,000 customers were still without electricity and temperatures are expected to dip below freezing overnight. errol? >> all right. manuel bojorquez, thank you. at this moment severe storms are roaming from coast to coast, firefighters are battling a wind-fueled wildfire in ventura county, it's inching closer to homes right now and in north dakota, it's the blustery winter storms causing problems, blanketing roads like these in grand forks. in the northeast there are flooding concerns and let's bring in meteorologist paul good low with our partners at the weather channel. >> errol, december outbreaks of severe weather are common in

parts of the south and mid south and that's what we're still in the middle of and storms are rolling eastward producing at least 25 reports of trrns and more throughout the day. we're not quite done. later on tonight, east of 95 still could bring strong and severe storms and maybe tornadoes. same system, heavy rain across the northeast and heavy snow eventually across parts of ski country here and a couple of inches of rain and a foot or so of snow and the winds coming in tonight and staying up through the day on monday. if you're traveling at any of these airports in the red good luck with that for your monday. major delays are expected. out to the west, more snow for the ski country here and also southern california, the high winds giving us the wildfire threat. they should be diminishing as we head into your monday. errol? >> all right. paul goodloe, from the weather channel. thank you. today state media in syria reports israeli rockets were intercepted by country's air defense system near the capital

damascus, benjamin netanyahu is warning hamas militants in gaza that the end is near and is urging them to surrender. cbs' charlie d'agata is in tel aviv. >> good evening, errol, the head of the u.n. in gaza in his strongest statement yet described the situation there as the worst he's ever seen, warning of a total humanitarian% collapse inside the territory. the israeli military has been battering areas in and around the southern city of khan younis claiming it's the command center and agency says the relentless bombardment is exacting an horrific toll in the civilian population. israeli troops, forging ahead after the u.s. blocked the latest u.n. security council attempts at a humanitarian ceasefire and promised the delivery of more weapons. cbs news in gaza spoke with

families fleeing kahn younis to the border town of rafah. ay amuse taffa zor absaid her child needs medical attention. >> he is sick, there is no treatment and i have no money to travel, she says. there is no food, no water, we're begging from others. with the world food program facing severe water strikzs, deaths from starvation and disease might top those killed in the bombings. it's becoming too dangerous for aid agencies to operate spokesperson for the u.n. in gaza juliette toumi told us. >> we have come to a point where we are not sure if we are even to fulfill our mandate and provide assistance for people in need in gaza. this is unprecedented. >> but despite a series of air

strikes near the rafah border crossing with egypt, israeli colonel elan goran told us it's safe to pass through. >> i can tell you that there is a humanitarian corridor. we are not attacking the humanitarian corridor, second, we know exactly where the shelters are. we didn't attack any, any u.n. truck that wanted to facilitate or to bring goods for shelter. >> we asked the colonel how it was possible to move trucks through an active combat zone like that, errol. he said rafah is a big place, but whatever the case tonight, aid agencies say tens of thousands of people will go to bed hungr and thirsty and some with no shelter at all. >> thank you, charlie d'agata. the university of pennsylvania has named the new board of trustees after the chair of the board resigned saturday. this follows widespread outrage over the president's testimony

last week at an antisemitism hearing on capitol hill. nikole kill onjoins us. >> good evening. he will stay on at the university of pennsylvania until a new president is named and she will continue in a tenured faculty position. many board members and students hope this is an opportunity to move forward. >> universty of pennsylvania president liz magill stepped down from her role saturday telling the school community in a short statement it has been my privilege to serve as president but it made no reference to the firestorm surrounding her testimony last week to the house education committee about antisemitism on college campuses. does calling for the genocide of jews violate penn's rules or code cob duct? yes or no? >> if the speech turns into conduct it can be harassment, yes. >> it is a conduct-dependent

decision. >> it is a conduct-dependent decision, is that your testimony, calling upon the genocide of jews is depending on context. >> elise stefanik questioned and posted one down, two to go. this forced resignation is the bare minimum of what is required. the house panel has now opened an investigation with subpoena power into the universities. >> this is not just confined to these campuses. we want to look at columbia, cornell and many, many other institutions. >> students raised their voeses. >> magill's resignation was welcomed by a pennsylvania governor who is also sits on the school's board while some students had mixed reaction. >> president magill didn't have a strong grasp on the situation on the ground of campus. >> there's a lot of tensions on the ground on campus and i really hope a lot of it starts

to go down. >> m.i.t. board says it still stands by its president and hundreds of harvard faculty members have signed on to a letter opposing president claudine gates' approval according to a source familiar. >> nicole killian, thank you. >> a new cbs news poll shows most americans disapprove of president biden's handling of the israel-hamas war with few thinking his administration's actions are bringing things closer to a peaceful res lugsz. skylar henry joins us from the white house. break down the numbers for us. >> good evening, there is an increasing number of democrats who thinks president biden is giving too much support for israel, but it's not just the war. seven in ten mondays disapprove of the president's inflation at the border. it's an issue that's hung up in congress as law neighbor can provide more funding support as well as funding for israel and

ukraine in their respect words and ukraine's president will travel with d.c. tuesday between the president lawmakers. 16% are concerned about the state of democracy and 20% say they're are about there was a strong jobs report released just last week. 46% of people say they feel worse off than their parentses were at their age or better especially mook those between the ages of 30 and 64. a majority of people also said a combination of the time from the pandemic shut downs to right now are some of the most difficult economically especially as americans say their income isn't keeping up with inflation and most think a president can control those numbers. pr president biden's approval rating is stable at 41%, but errol, it depends largely to

hinge on the economy. >> thank you. >> a stark reversal for former president donald trump. he announced on his social media platform that he will not take the stand as the final defense witness tomorrow in his new york civil fraud trial. trump already testified when the state presented its case. the new york attorney general filed a $250 million lawsuit against trump and his company alleging they are liable for illegally inflating the value of trump's properties for decades. straight ahead for you on the "cbs weekend news." we'll take you to arizona for a look at the migrant crisis growing at the southern border. >> a call to court after a medical scare and a glimmer of hope at the nation's aging lighthouses.

>> this weekend arizona governor katie hobbs visited one of the busiest ports of entry at the southern border. the crossing has been closed due to a recent surge of migrants

beyond what border patrol can handle. they're demanding more resources from the biden administration. adamant yamaguchi has a first-hand look. >> every day last week hnundred of migrants were at the border of arizona due to the massive number of arrivals. >> it's daybreak and so after a long, cold night of sleep around campfires or trying to sleep around campfires the processing may begin momentarily. >> this mother of four tells us she's escaping the violence of mexican cartels. >> translator: i am fighting as much as i can so my children can have something better. >> this is one of the border's most remote stretches and one of the busiest. in the last year there's been a 140% spike in migrant apprehensions in this area.

our cameras captured the moments s smugglers helped dozens of people cross illegally. >> and there the smugglers go. this is the breach in the wall that the smugglers have cut through and this is what the border patrol is up against and this is not an anomaly by any means. >> here's another one rod that was just cut and repaired today. >> agents are really sort of playing a game of whack-a-mole. they see a breach, they respond to it. they try to seal it up and then somewhere else along this very long corridor of the wall, another breach occurs and this is all by design. the smugglers realize that this particular area is vulnerable because there are so few resources and agents and so they stand a much better chance at being able to funnel as many migrantses as they can illegally into the u.s. adam yamaguchi, cbs news, lukeville, arizona. >> still ahead for you here on the "cbs weekend news" how much

would you pay for this gold watch? the eye-popping number one bidder just agreed to next.

today in oslo, norway, the nobel peace prize was awarded to narges mohammadi. her twin children kiana and ali rhamani accepted and read aloud a prepared speech, either human rights will become respected internationally or human rights violations will continue to spread across state borders. a timely record was set today for a good cause. a watch made by cassio not usually associated with high end

fetched more than $400,000 at auction. it's a special edition made of 18 karat yellow gold. the money will help fund the nature conservancy here in new york. next on the "cbs evening news," a monster find known as the trex of the seas.

♪ ♪ today, a highly anticipated debut for nba star lebron james' son, freshman bronny james returned to the court for his first game at the university of southern california. bronny went into cardiac arrest during a pre-season workout back in july. last week he was finally cleared to play by his doctors after months of recovery. a gigantic sea monster discovery on new zealand's coast. a skull of a plyosur.

many of the 190 teeth are still intact, the 40-foot long creature longer than a school bus was known as the ultimate killing machine 150 million years ago. sweet dreams tonight. when we come back, the preservationists helping lighthouses endure the test of time.

♪ finally tonight, as gps technology spreads, lighthouses are fading into the background as essential landmarks for navigation and many of them are in need of desperate rest restoration. mark strassman says how preservationists are beckons of the past shine again. >> it is always fun to greet history. >> frank sciame has a ghostline ghost. >>, i want it to remain way it was. >> the saber brick lighthouse in connecticut, built in 1886 and

bought by sciame as a handyman special right in his connecticut backyard. >> it was a mess, so you knew you had a major project? >> we did. >> hundreds of lighthouses dot america's shorelines and from centuries past, symbols of safe passage through the storm. >> they need some tlc. >> they definitely need some tlc, yes. >> kate kale from the federal administration, overseeing lighthouses. >> the coast guard don't have the money for the tlc and they don't have the need for the lighthouses as a whole. >> under the lighthouse preservation ak, roughly 150 lighthouses in disrepair have gone given to non-profits for restoration. >> what's this floor? >> this is the state room. >> or auctioned to private buyers like frank sciame. his price tag, $290,000 plus all the repair.

the new owners promise to refurnish and maintain the lighthouses. sciame is a press vagszist who owns a construction company. >> we wanted it to be old, rusty, weathered and worn, cracked and chipping. any crack that wasn't structural we left. >> all four floors ren vatsed in four weeks. a complete redo to win the approval of any lighthousekeeper and teach sciame's grabbed children about preservation. it's a waterfront property to remember. >> what to you is the romance of the lighthouse? >> well, the setting is so special. the history. you know, the history. it was in need of help and who wouldn't want it? >> this lighthouse has come through a different storm. neglect. >> nice day to be out here. the rain, isn't it great? >> this is perfect. that's why there is a lighthouse for days like this, right? >> mark strassman, cbs news,

fenwick, connecticut. >> and that the "cbs weekend news" for this sunday. coming up tonght "60 minutes" including a revealing interview with novak djokovic. i'm errol barnett in new york. we thank you for your time. good night. he's got it. touchdown. now at 6:00, the 49ers with another comfortable win. how they pulled away from the seahawks. how niner nation is reeling about the stretch run. i want to live in a safe place, where i'm not afraid to go out at night. >> a string of recent incidents have people in one oakland neighborhood taking matters into

their own hands to keep their streets safe. and later ice is melting in the arctic at an alarming rate. what researchers hope it can tell us about the future of our planet. good evening, i'm andrea nakano. brian hackney is off tonight. well make that five wins in a row for the 49ers today. the red and gold beat the seahawks for the second time in three weeks 28-16 at levi's stadium. sports director, vern glenn, will break down the highlights in just a moment. but first let's get out to betty yu in santa clara. betty, the 49ers faithful feeling pretty good at this hour, right, betty? >> reporter: and you can tell how good they felt just by seeing all the smiles. in fact, with minutes left on the clock, andrea, there were many celebrations breaking out all around levi's stadium. and tonight's win really strengthened the niner's position in the race for the no. 1 in the nfc.