deer born's first ever arab american mayor. he says many here have lost loved ones during the fighting. >> what's unfolding overseas is not a political crisis and it's not complicated. it's a humanitarian one. >> reporter: a democrat, the mayor applauds the president's domestic accomplishments, but he's now struggling with his support. >> if you feace the binary choie of re-electing the president or re-electing the former president, what do you do? >> well, you have an issue where you have both individuals with blood on their hands. one is spewing obviously very hateful rhetoric. but we have a current president whose policies overseas have resulted in the loss of nearly 20,000 gazans. >> reporter: holding michigan is key to a biden victory in 2024. 146,000 muslim americans voted here in 2020 with nearly 70% nationally going for the president. but abu salah warns the anger here could cost the president the election. >> so what will people do? stay home?

>> no. we're going to go vote, but we're going to keep the top of the ticket empty. >> you would skip voting for president in 2024? >> yes. >> even if it meant donald trump might win the presidency? >> if you were to tell me that my vote would be the vote whether biden wins in michigan or not, i would still not vote for biden. from the campaign trail now ed o'keefe joins us from the white house as another issue facing president biden is ukraine funding. president zelenskyy in washington tonight as congress blocks aid. what's at stake here, ed? >> reporter: norah, this really is a last-ditch attempt by president zelenskyy to save needed war funding. it's been caught up in a fight between congress and the president over border policy. cbs niz has learned president biden personally invited zelenskyy to washington. they'll have a press conference together here at the white house. zelenskyy is so concerned about the impasse that in a speech earlier in washington, he warned, quote, if there's anyone inspired by unresolved issues on capitol hill, it's putin and his sick clique. norah.

>> that's pretty strong, ed o'keefe. thank you. tonight the fallout for elite college presidents continues after that congressional testimony about how to handle anti-semitism on college campuses. one of the three presidents is out of a job, and as cbs's nikole killion reports, she may not be alone. >> reporter: amid calls for her removal, supporters of harvard president claudine gay reallied to her defense, from alumni to staff. more than 700 faculty letters signed a letter urging harvard's governing boards to resist political pressures that are at odds with harvard's commitment to academic freedom. >> those 700-plus signatories all agreed on the fundamental importance of the university from political interference. >> does calling for the genocide of jews violate harvard's rules of bulletlying and harassment? yes or no. >> it can be depending on the context. >> reporter: gay's response at a congressional hearing last week along with the presidents of mit and university of pennsylvania

ignited a political firestorm. >> it is a context-depend end decision, congresswoman. >> it's a context dependent decision? that's you're testimony today? >> reporter: saturday penn president liz magill resigned. >> i'd say it's bittersweet. i think what it exposed is what a lot of us have been saying for a while now is there's this sense of moral ambivalence when it comes to anti-semitism. >> reporter: following magill's resignation, republican congresswoman elise stefanik posted on x, one down, two to go. michael roth is president of wesleyan university. >> i hope they don't lose their job because they would then be subject to these outside forces that republican congresswoman on the one hand,lso these big donors who are trying to throw their weight around. i think that's not good for the long-range health of these schools. >> reporter: before magill's resignation here at penn, at least one major donor threatened to pull a $100 million donation and a prominent harvard alum claims the university is missing

out in over a billion dollars in terminated donations in light of the controversy. harvard's president has apologized for her testimony. norah. >> nikole killion, thank you. well, now to some more breaking news from new york city. first responders are on the scene at an apartment building in the bronx that partially collapsed this afternoon. you can see a corner of the seven-story building crumbled to the ground, exposing several rooms to the street. officials say they have evacuated everyone, but they continue to search through the rubble for any victims. so far, there are no reports of injuries. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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finally getting into military bare racks at temperatures approached freezing. >> all we have is some snacks. the last meal we had was 15 hours. most of us weren't anticipating to be in canada in this cold air, so we don't even have jackets. >> reporter: delta sent a second rescue flight this morning hoping to get passengers out before a major winter storm. >> we're very anxious and also angry that this has taken so long. >> reporter: after more than 24 hours, passengers finally took off for detroit late this afternoon.

tonight we're learning that the woman who sued texas so she do have an abortion is leaving the state to get the procedure. it comes after what's being described as a hellish week for kate cox. late friday the texas supreme court blocked an order stopping the 31-year-old from having an abortion. and to make the legal limbo more confusing, texas' high court just vacated its order since she left the state. doctors say her fetus has a fatal condition, and without

emergency care, the mother of two's life is at risk, and she may not be able to get pregnant again in the future. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. tonight, the two blockbuster movies that dominated the summer box office are leading this year's golden globe nominations. "barbie" is up for nine awards, including best musical or comedy. on the drama side, "oppenheimer" is up for eight golden globes, facing off against films including martin scorsese's killers of the flower moon and bradley cooper's maestro. well, taylor swift's concert movie is among eight movies that

were nominated in the new box office achievement category. the 81st annual golden globe awards will air live on sunday, january 7th, right here on cbs and paramount+. always a reminder, i need to watch some more movies. and that's the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for cbs mornings and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. special counsel jack smith says in a filing that prosecutors will use data from former president donald trump's cell phone in the 2020 election case. smith plans to call an expert witness to testify on trump's cell phone usage leading up to january 6th. the air force says 15 people have been disciplined after the

classified documents leak by air national guardsman jack teixeira. he was arrested in april for sharing classified documents on discord. and a busy holiday season at the airport. aaa predicts 7.5 million people will travel by air for christmas and new year's this year. that would be the most since it began tracking in 2000. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." tonight we begin with breaking news. the supreme court just moments ago taking a step forward in a historic case involving donald trump. late this afternoon, the supreme court agreeing to hear an extraordinary petition from special counsel jack smith, who is pursuing this criminal

prosecution of trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. now, the nation's highest court is now set to weigh in for the first time on the historic criminal prosecution of a former president. the special counsel is asking the justices to break from tradition and decide quickly on whether donald trump has immunity. here is what the special counsel wrote in this petition. "this case presents a fundamental question at the heart of our democracy, whether a former president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office." robert costa is our chief election and campaign correspondent. he's here to help us understand these big developments. so, robert, the special counsel is trying to make sure that his case moves forward on march 4th, right? >> norah, that's exactly right. jack smith is looking into the future. he knows when the january 6th trial begins next year, former president trump will claim it's illegal and try to raise that with the highest court. that view is backed up by our sources, who say trump is

pushing his lawyers to appeal, appeal, and appeal, and argue he should be immune from prosecution about his alleged conduct while serving as president. but now smith is trying to get ahead of trump's strategy, to make sure he's on solid ground legally and won't be delayed by a flurry of motions from trump. trump's team pushed back against him today, saying smith is attempting to bypass the appeal process. they now have until december 20th to respond before the high court weighs in, if they do at all. all of this, of course, is going to take place as the republican presidential race heats up next spring, and trump could be wrapping up the nomination. >> also in this petition, why did the special counsel reference u.s. versus nixon? >> history hovers over ixon? everything, especially with this case. remember back in 1974, the u.s. government said president richard nixon couldn't protect his tapes. now the special counsel, jack smith, is looking for a similar ruling from the court to say prosecutors can move forward and try to prosecute a president or a former president. >> and do it expeditiously. robert, thank you.

well, now to severe weather and heavy rain and snow across the country. flooding still a concern in new england over the next few days. this as the same storm system tat led to a tornado outbreak with at least eight twisters touching down across tennessee, kentucky, mississippi, and north carolina, killing six people. there was one ef-3 tornado with winds up to 150 miles per hour. it was on the ground for an hour, and it traveled 40 miles. cbs's manuel bojorquez shows us the devastation tonight from hard-hit clarksville, tennessee. that's about an hour outside nashville. >> reporter: residents captured the disaster unfolding over middle tennessee saturday. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: electrical equipment blowing up, lighting up the night sky. daylight revealed the devastation after more than a dozen possible tornadoes tore through the state. leaving nearly 100 injured and at least 6 dead, including 10-year-old arlan. 31-year-old floridema gabriel

perez and her 2-year-old son, anthony mendez, also died when the tornado tossed a nearby trailer, crushing their mobile home. perez's husband said in spanish that he and their other two children were also home and lucky to have survived. >> i said did they find the baby? they said, yes, they couldn't find it because she was holding it, covering it, protecting it. >> reporter: churches and emergency shelters are trying to provide the basics to those who lost all as small armies of volunteers help with cleanup, like ryan puckett. >> how great is the need here? >> it's -- it's pretty great. i mean we need people. we need donations. it's cold, and it's only going to keep getting colder, and these people need hope, quite plain and simple. >> reporter: the system's impact is far-reaching. it also spawned tornadoes in north carolina and alabama, bringing heavy rain to new england, where flood watches are still in effect tonight.

back in tennessee, tanya osborn says she's lucky she wasn't home when her house was ripped apart. but the recovery won't be easy. >> my whole life has been reduced to several garbage bags and what i can get in them and what i can salvage. >> reporter: and as the cleanup continues here in clarksville tonight, there are still more than 14,000 customers in this area who do not have power, and temperatures are expected to dip below freezing once again overnight. norah. >> manny bojorquez, thank you so much. turning overseas now to the war in gaza, the israeli military says it now controls the main square in gaza city, the headquarters of hamas. prime minister benjamin netanyahu calls it the beginning of the end for the terror group. cbs's charlie d'agata reports from israel. >> reporter: the israeli military released new video said to show troops advancing further into southern gaza. a house-by-house battle of urban warfare.

with hamas officials updating the death toll past 18,000 today, envoys from the u.n. security council visited the egyptian border crossing with rafah. the u.s.'s sole veto against a cease-fire has fueled anti-war protests in the west bank. the anger and the outrage is growing here in the west bank with every day the war goes on and every victim inside gaza. aimed not just at israel but icreasingly against america. >> my message is to the united states is not to use the veto against the cease-fire because they believe in democracy, and they support democracy. and democracy is saving lives. >> reporter: despite those frustrations, the u.s. is already part of post-war plans for gaza according to palestinian minister of social affairs ahmad majdalani. >> there are discussions. they have ideas. >> reporter: those ideas may not be the same.

their plan includes an element of what may remain of hamas. but prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called for the group's total destruction. >> maybe israel, they can destroy his military forces, but they cannot destroy hamas as an organization. >> reporter: an organization not only blamed for the massacre of more than 1,200 israelis but reiterating threats that not a single hostage will leave unless all its demands for a prisoner release are met. norah. >> charlie d'agata, thank you. tonight we're learning that the woman who sued texas so she could have an abortion is leaving the state to get the procedure. it comes after what's being described as a hellish week for kate cox. late friday the texas supreme court blocked an order stopping the 31-year-old from having an abortion. and to make the legal limbo more confusing, texas'' high court just vacated its order since she

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm nicole sganga in washington. thanks for staying with us. as the war between israel and hamas continues to play out on television screens around the world, president biden's unwavering support for israel is

starting to have political repercussions here at home. the latest cbs news poll finds most americans disapprove of the president's handling of the conflict, and that number has grown as the war stretches on. that could democramake a big die in the battleground state of myrrh. mr. biden carried the state by just under 3% of the vote in 2020, but 200,000 muslim americans live in michigan and support for him there has begun to turn. ed o'keefe reports. >> reporter: 23-year-old adam abusalah's concerns about president biden are an alarm bell for democrats. >> he's killing our people. >> reporter: four years ago, he campaigned for the president, urging neighbors in predominantly arab american dear born, michigan, to vote against donald trump. >> if were you to ask me two months ago if i was going to vote for joe biden, i would have held fly moos and voted for him. >> he's worried about the health of the economy. but now as the administration

stands by israel's deadly attacks on gaza, abusalah says he and his community can no longer support the president. >> the same way they're being silent right now in the face of injustices, we're going to be silent in november 2024. >> reporter: abdullah ha mud is dear born's first ever arab american mayor and says for many here, the israel-hamas war is deeply personal. >> we have some residents who have lost entire families. >> reporter: a democrat, the mayor credits legislation signed by the president for pumping tens of millions of dollars of federal aid into his city. >> the domestic policies that president biden has achieved have been nothing short of phenomenal. >> reporter: but he has his own strong views on what's happening in gaza. >> you cannot overlook the genocide that's taken place, and you have to weigh that on a scale. >> what is your view on how president biden has responded to what happened on october 7th? >> i think it has been awful. >> reporter: holding michigan is key to a biden victory in 2024.

146,000 muslim americans voted here in 2020 with nearly 70% nationwide going for the president. but abusalah warns the anger here could cost the president the election. >> so what will people do, stay home? >> no. we're going to go vote, but we're going to keep the top of the ticket empty. >> you would skip voting for president in 2024. >> yes. >> even if it meant donald trump might win the presidency? >> if you were to tell me that my vote would be the vote whether biden wins in michigan or not, i will still not vote for biden. >> it's that much of an issue for you? >> yeah. my people dying is that much of an issue for me. >> reporter: a biden campaign spokesperson says the president continues to work closely and proudly with leaders in the muslim and palestinian communities across the country while the white house says it is tirelessly working to increase the urgent delivery of aid to the, quote, innocent people of gaza. >> that was ed o'keefe reporting. another crisis driving voters away from the president,

the flood of migrants flowing across the southern border. adam yamaguchi paid a visit. >> reporter: daybreak at the lukeville border crossing in arizona. hundreds of migrants have reached the most important moment in their journey to the u.s. border patrol officials are starting to line the individuals up based on language and where they're from. the processing may begin momentarily. overnight, people built campfires for warmth. some have gone days without food or water. this man traveled from west africa. >> did you sleep? >> how to sleep? yeah, nowhere to sleep. >> did you expect this when you came into the u.s.? >> no. >> reporter: daniela is a mother of four from mexico. >> translator: i'm very tired of walking so much with my children, with the baby in my arms and the little girl on my shoulders. >> reporter: this is one of the border's most remote stretches, now one of the busiest. in the last year alone, there's

been a 140% spike in migrant apprehensions in this area. >> i've been working in this sector of the border for almost 20 years, and we've never seen anything like this. they're cutting through the wall. >> reporter: our cameras captured one of those breaches. >> hey, guys. >> reporter: smugglers hid their faces. this is the breach in the wall that the smugglers have cut through, and this is what the border patrol is up against. this is not an anomaly by any means. here's another one, a rod that was just cut and repaired today. for nearly everyone here, the u.s. represents a safe haven. >> translator: i'm fighting as much as i can so my children can have something better. the food and drug administration has approved a powerful new therapy that could cure sickle cell anemia. it's a devastating condition that affects more than 100,000 americans. the breakthrough came as a

result of the gene editing technology known as crispr. dr. jon lapook reports. >> reporter: from the time he was a baby, pain was at the center of johnny lubin's daily existence. >> it was really just a pounding pain in my back, like my lower back, and it would really be hurting. >> reporter: johnny had inherited a gene for sickle cell from each of his parents, fab yen and j.r. >> when you heard that your son had sickle cell genes, what went through your head? >> you know, it was devastating as i found out and discovered more about the disease. >> reporter: pain from sickle cell can occur anywhere blood circulates. that's because red blood cells normally donut shaped bend into inflexible sickle shapes, causing them to pile up inside blood vessels and prevent the normal delivery of oxygen throughout the body. complications include bone deterioration, strokes, and organ failure. >> did you read about life span of people with sickle cell? >> yeah. >> what did you learn? >> it didn't say that they live

very long. like not past -- what was it? 40? i actually did want to live past 40, you know. >> reporter: for more than a decade, johnny was in and out of the hospital. >> i would count how many times i'd been in each room, and at one point i had been in every room on the floor. >> at that time we thought we were going to lose him. >> j.r., you thought so? >> absolutely. and that wasn't the first time. we felt like he suffered for so long and so much that we wanted to try, you know, anything. >> reporter: in the past, that would have meant correcting those abnormal red blood cells using donated bone marrow. as an only child, johnny had only about a 15% chance of finding a match. but then the family learned about a cutting-edge clinical trial to edit a small number of the billions of letters in johnny's genetic code and relieve his symptoms. no donor would be needed. >> they did explain that it's a trial, you know. they said, you know, it's risky.

>> reporter: first stem cells were removed from johnny's bone marrow, and he was given chemotherapy to help wipe out the abnormal cells. then in a laboratory, the gene editing technology called crispr was used to increase the amount of a protective form of hemoglobin, a protein that picks up oxygen from our lungs and delivers it throughout the body. that protective form usually diminishes after birth. the cells would then infuse back into johnny's bloodstream. >> the thought you could use your own cells, edit them, you don't have to depend on a donor, i think is pretty incredible. >> reporter: dr. monica battia is chief of pediatric stem cell transplantation at new york presbyterian and johnny's doctor. >> you're reprogramming yourselves to produce hem hemoglobin. it's been widely known those who have higher levels of feetle hemoglobin dr. >> as an investigator in the crispr trials, she was well aware there was no maurgeen for error. >> you want to make sure the

corrections you're making are the ones you want. >> what have we got here? >> this is the calendar.poctobe. we like to call that my second birthday. >> reporter: after five weeks in the hospital and six months out of school, johnny was living a whole new life. >> when you saw those cells that had come originally from your body butty engineered now to be new and improved, go into your bloodstream, what went through your head? >> i thought that was pretty cool. i have, like, new cells. and i honestly hoped, you know, i could get some superpowers from it, like genetically engineered something. >> have you tried any of this? have you tried like -- >> oh, i've tried, yeah. i fell on my back a few times trying to climb the wall like speedder man. >> so it's just saving your life. >> yeah, just that. >> that's a pretty good superpower. >> yeah. >> you know, his doctor said everything looks good. he can go and live his life as a normal kid. >> did anybody use the word

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>> reporter: here at teachers treasures, a free store for educators who need school supplies, executive director margaret sheehan is still stunned at her good fortune. >> it was an act of amazing kindness. >> reporter: after someone called to offer her nonprofit more than $1 million. >> to which i responded, i need to sit down. >> reporter: and it wasn't just her. for the past two years, across the city of indianapolis, dozens of other nonprofits have gotten the same call. >> the first thing he said is, what would you do with a million dollars? >> we hovered above our own bodies, thinking like is this real? >> reporter: the man making the calls was attorney dwayne isaacs, and he says just about everyone had that same reaction. some wouldn't even hear him out. >> probably three or four different entities that lost out because they just didn't take my call. >> lost out on a million dollars?

>> yeah. >> it was that unbelievable. >> mm-hmm. >> reporter: and you still haven't heard the most unbelievable part. the money isn't his. he's just the executor. the money belonged to a guy named terry kot. terry worked 30 years for the veterans administration. he had no immediate family and, most importantly -- >> he just was unbelievably frugal. >> reporter: terry lives in this modest house in south indianapolis, drove an old honda, and refused to carry a cell phone because he said they cost too much. even when he died back in 2021, he wanted no announcement because who would spend good money on an obituary? the man was pennywise but pound-generous. everything was directed to charity. but terry didn't specify what charity, so dwayne called around to see who wanted it. and in the end, about a dozen nonprofits took his call and got a share of the $13 million

estate. >> so, yeah, it's crazy. >> reporter: including $1.5 million for teachers tr treasures, roughly double their annual budget. >> forever clahanged because of his choice of how he lived. >> he's smiling someplace. there's no doubt about it. he would be getting a kick out of this. >> reporter: if only because he just got a glowing obituary on cbs news, and it didn't cost h

a high-tech tour guide is taking children into a whole new world. mark strassmann reports. >> reporter: at tampa's florida aquarium, two guests charted new waters. this robotic tour guide. >> it's a very large honeycomb ray cruising by the window there. >> reporter: and 9-year-old gavin bennian in a hospital bed two miles away. >> do you want to say hi to my friend gavin? >> hi, gavin.

>> reporter: the back story, a shared inspiration. >> we see a robot. light bulb goes off. >> reporter: a partnership between roger german and job kuris, the ceos at the aquarium and tampa general hospital. >> i thought it was a great idea. it's tough being chronically ill, particularly when you're a kid. >> i got to imagine it's a chance to get the kid/patient out of the hospital without ever leaving the room. >> yeah, that's exactly right. >> because you're now getting the sense that you're there. >> i think they're getting breakfast. >> yeah, i think so. >> reporter: gavin bennian is getting treatment for an autoimmune disorder. but in this moment, he got to forget all that. >> you get to see the things that you'd really like to see. >> reporter: he steered the robot from a laptop, mapping out his own aquarium tour, talking to anyone walking with a robot, like ceo german. >> there's his face. he's got his t-shirt here. he's got, you know, wheels which, you know, gives him the mobility. >> technology makes it look so

real, and it's crazy how it does it. >> it's heartwarming. >> it is therapeutic, but it also builds resiliency, and it helps with the healing process. >> and to include kids who would otherwise be excluded. >> absolutely. >> 100%. >> reporter: a robot in an aquarium helping sick kids feel under the sea and over the moon. mark strassmann, cbs news, tampa. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. special counsel jack smith says in a filing that prosecutors will use data from former president donald trump's cell phone in the 2020 election case. smith plans to call an expert witness to testify on trump's cell phone usage leading up to january 6th. the air forcsays 15 people have been disciplined after the

classified documents leak by air national guardsman jack teixeira. he was arrested in april for sharing classified documents on discord. and a busy holiday season at the airport. aaa predicts 7.5 million people will t vel by air for christmas and new year's this year. that would be the most since it began tracking in 2000. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv m shanelle kaul, cbw york. tonight, the breaking news out of the supreme court just hours after an unusual request from the special counsel investigating donald trump. the nation's highest court agreeing to fast-track the process. plus, the south cleans up after a deadly tornado outbreak. the massive cleanup as thousands are without power and cold temperatures roll in. we start a new series, looking at the pandemic's

lingering effects on america's children. >> in jefferson county, kentucky, the number of students chronically absent has skyrocketed since the pandemic. we'll follow along as they search for students. hi, barbie. >> hi, barbie. >> hi, barbie. >> and the nominees are in. who received the most golden globe nominations? we'll tell you. >> you're the best, or you wouldn't be in here. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." tonight we begin with breaking news. the supreme court just moments ago taking a step forward in a historic case involving donald trump. late this afternoon, the supreme court agreeing to hear an extraordinary petition from special counsel jack smith, who is pursuing this criminal prosecution of trump for his efforts to overturn the 2020 election. now, the nation's highest court is now set to weigh in for the first time on the historic

criminal prosecution of a former president. the special counsel is asking the justices to break from tradition and decide quickly on whether donald trump has immunity. here is what the special counsel wrote in this petition. "this case presents a fundamental question at the heart of our democracy, whether a former president is absolutely immune from federal prosecution for crimes committed while in office." robert costa is our chief election and campaign correspondent. he's here to help us understand these big developments. so, robert, the special counsel is trying to make sure that his case moves forward on march 4th, right? >> norah, that's exactly right. jack smith is looking into the future. he knows when the january 6th trial begins next year, former president trump will claim it's illegal and try to raise that with the highest court. that view is backed up by our sources, who say trump is pushing his lawyers to appeal, appeal, and appeal, and argue he should be immune from prosecution about his alleged conduct while serving as president. but now smith is trying to get

ahead of trump's strategy, to make sure he's on solid ground legally and won't be delayed by a flurry of motions from trump. trump's team pushed back against him today, saying smith is attempting to bypass the appeal process. they now have until december 20th to respond before the high court weighs in, if they do at all. all of this, of course, is going to take place as the republican presidential race heats up next spring, and trump could be wrapping up the nomination. >> also in this petition, why did the special counsel reference u.s. versus nixon? >> norah, history hovers over everything, especially with this case. remember back in 1974, the u.s. government said president richard nixon couldn't protect his tapes. now the special counsel, jack smith, is looking for a similar ruling from the court to say prosecutors can move forward and try to prosecute a president or a former president. >> and do it expeditiously. robert, thank you. well, now to severe weather and heavy rain and snow across the country. flooding still a concern in new england over the next few days.

this as the same storm system that led to a tornado outbreak with at least eight twisters touching down across tennessee, kentucky, mississippi, and north carolina, killing six people. there was one ef-3 tornado with winds up to 150 miles per hour. it was on the ground for an hour, and it traveled 40 miles. cbs's manuel bojorquez shows us the devastation tonight from hard-hit clarksville, tennessee. that's about an hour outside nashville. >> reporter: residents captured the disaster unfolding over middle tennessee saturday. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: electrical equipment blowing up, lighting up the night sky. daylight revealed the devastation after more than a dozen possible tornadoes tore through the state. leaving nearly 100 injured and at least 6 dead, including 10-year-old arlan burnham. 31-year-old floridema gabriel perez and her 2-year-old son, anthony mendez, also died when the tornado tossed a nearby trailer, crushing their mobile home. perez's husband said in spanish

that he and their other two children were also home and lucky to have survived. >> i said, did they find the baby? they said, yes, they couldn't find it because she was holding it, covering it, protecting it. >> reporter: churches and emergency shelters are trying to provide the basics to those who lost all as small armies of volunteers help with cleanup, like ryan puckett. >> how great is the need here? >> it's -- it's pretty great. i mean we need people. we need donations. it's cold, and it's only going to keep getting colder, and these people need hope, quite plain and simple. >> reporter: the system's impact is far-reaching. it also spawned tornadoes in north carolina and alabama, bringing heavy rain to new england, where flood watches are still in effect tonight. back in tennessee, tanya osborn says she's lucky she wasn't home when her house was ripped apart. but the recovery won't be easy. >> my whole life has been

reduced to several garbage bags and what i can get in them and what i can salvage. >> reporter: and as the cleanup continues here in clarksville tonight, there are still more than 14,000 customers in this area who do not have power, and temperatures are expected to dip below freezing once again overnight. norah. >> manny bojorquez, thank you so much. turning overseas now to the war in gaza, the israeli military says it now controls the main square in gaza city, the headquarters of hamas. prime minister benjamin netanyahu calls it the beginning of the end for the terror group. cbs's charlie d'agata reports from israel. >> reporter: the israeli military released new video said to show troops advancing further into southern gaza, a house-by-house battle of urban warfare. with hamas officials updating the death toll past 18,000 today, envoys from the u.n. security council visited the egyptian border crossing with

rafah. the u.s.'s sole veto against a cease-fire has fueled anti-war protests in the west bank. the anger and the outrage is growing here in the west bank with every day the war goes on and every victim inside gaza, aimed not just at israel but increasingly against america. >> my message is to the united states is not to use the veto against the cease-fire because they believe in democracy, and they support democracy. and democracy is saving lives. >> reporter: despite those frustrations, the u.s. is already part of post-war plans for gaza according to palestinian minister of social affairs ahmad majdalani. >> there are discussions. they have ideas. >> reporter: those ideas may not be the same. their plan includes an element of what may remain of hamas. but prime minister benjamin netanyahu has called for the

group's total destruction. >> maybe israel, they can destroy his military forces, but they cannot destroy hamas as an organization. >> reporter: an organization not only blamed for the massacre of more than 1,200 israelis but reiterating threats that not a single hostage will leave unless all its demands for a prisoner release are met. norah. >> charlie d'agata, thank you. ♪honey baked ham and potatoes au gratin♪

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." and the israel-hamas war is creating political pressure on president biden back here at home. dozens of protesters were arrested at the capitol today as they demanded a cease-fire in the war. and a new cbs news poll finds

most americans disapprove of the president's handling of the conflict, and that number is growing as the war stretches into its third month. cbs's ed o'keefe traveled to the battleground state of michigan to understand how the war could impact biden's re-election hopes. >> reporter: 23-year-old adam abusalah's concerns about president biden are an alarm bell for democrats. >> as a community, we're tired of voting for the lesser of two evils. >> reporter: four years ago, he campaigned for the president, urging neighbors in predominantly arab american dearborn, michigan, to vote against donald trump. >> if you were to ask me two months ago if i was going to vote for joe biden, yeah, i would have held my nose p voted for him. >> reporter: but as the administration continues standing by the deadly attacks in gaza, abusalah says he and his community can no lodnger stand by the president. >> the same way that they're being silent right now in the face of injustices, we're going to be silent in november 2024.

>> reporter: abdullah hammoud is dearborn's first ever arab american mayor. he says many here have lost loved ones during the fighting. >> what's unfolding overseas is not a political crisis and it's not complicated. it's a humanitarian one. >> reporter: a democrat, the mayor applauds the president's domestic accomplishments, but he's now struggling with his support. >> if you face the binary choice of re-electing the president or re-electing the former president, what do you do? >> well, you have an issue where you have both individuals with blood on their hands. one is spewing obviously very hateful rhetoric. but we have a current president whose policies overseas have resulted in the loss of nearly 20,000 gazans. >> reporter: holding michigan is key to a biden victory in 2024. 146,000 muslim americans voted here in 2020 with nearly 70% nationally going for the president. but abusalah warns the anger here could cost the president the election. >> so what will people do? stay home? >> no. we're going to go vote, but

we're going to keep the top of the ticket empty. >> you would skip voting for president in 2024? >> yes. >> even if it meant donald trump might win the presidency? >> if you were to tell me that my vote would be the vote whether biden wins in michigan or not, i will still not vote for biden. >> from the campaign trail now, ed o'keefe joins us from the white house as another issue facing president biden is ukraine funding. president zelenskyy in washington tonight as congress blocks aid. what's at stake here, ed? >> reporter: norah, this really is a last-ditch attempt by president zelenskyy to save needed war funding. it's been caught up in a fight between congress and the president over border policy. cbs news has learned president biden personally invited zelenskyy to washington, first for bipartisan meetings on capitol hill. then they'll have a press conference here at the white house. zelenskyy is so concerned about the impasse that in a speech earlier in washington, he warned, quote, if there's anyone inspired by unresolved issues on capitol hill, it's putin and his sick clique. norah. >> that's pretty strong, ed o'keefe.

thank you. tonight the fallout for elite college presidents continues after that congressional testimony about how to handle anti-semitism on college campuses. one of the three presidents is out of a job, and as cbs's nikole killion reports, she may not be alone. >> reporter: amid calls for her removal, supporters of harvard president claudine gay rallied to her defense, from alumni to staff. more thang 700 faculty members signed a letter urging har verdict's governing boards to resist political pressures ta that are at odds with harvard's commitment to academic freedom. >> those 700-plus signatories all agreed on the fundamental importance of the university from political interference. >> does calling for the genocide of jews violate harvard's rules of bullying and harassment? yes or no? >> it can be depending on the context. >> reporter: gay's response at a congressional hearing last week along with the presidents of mit and university of pennsylvania ignited a political firestorm.

>> it is a context-dependent decision, congresswoman. >> it's a context dependent decision? that's you're testimony today? >> reporter: saturday penn president liz magill resigned. >> i'd say it's bittersweet. this senior at penn attended the hearing. >> i think what it exposed is what a lot of us have been saying for a while now. there's this sense of moral ambivalence when it comes to anti-semitism. >> reporter: following magill's resignation, republican congresswoman elise stefanik posted on x, one down, two to go. michael roth is president of wesleyan university. >> i hope they don't lose their job because they would then be subject to these outside forces that republican congresswoman on the one hand, but also these big donors who are trying to throw their weight around. i think that's not good for the long-range health of these schools. >> reporter: before magill's resignation here at penn, at least one major donor threatened to pull a $100 million donation and a prominent harvard alum claims the university is missing

out in over a billion dollars in terminated donations in light of the controversy. harvard's president has apologized for her testimony. norah. >> nikole killion, thank you. well, now to some more breaking news from new york city. first responders are on the scene at an apartment building in the bronx that partially collapsed this afternoon. you can see a corner of the seven-story building crumbled to the ground, exposing several rooms to the street. officials say they have evacuated everyone, but they continue to search through the rubble for any victims. so far, there are no reports of injuries. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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tonight we're learning that the woman who sued texas so she could have an abortion is leaving the state to get the procedure. it comes after what's being described as a hellish week for kate cox. late friday the texas supreme court blocked an order stopping the 31-year-old from having an abortion. and to make the legal limbo more confusing, texas' high court just vacated its order since she left the state. doctors say her fetus has a fatal condition, and without emergency care, the mother of

two's life is at risk, and she may not be able to get pregnant again in the future. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. tonight, the two blockbuster movies that dominated the summer box office are leading this year's golden globe nominations. "barbie" is up for nine awards, including best musical or comedy. on the drama side, "oppenheimer" is up for eight golden globes, facing off against films including martin scorsese's "killers of the flower moon" and bradley cooper's "maestro" while taylor swift's concert movie is among eight movies that were

nominated in the new box office achievement category. the 81st annual golden globe awards will air live on sunday, january 7th, right here on cbs and paramount+. always a reminder i need to watch some more movies. and that's the overnight news for this tuesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings" and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is "cbs news flash." i'm shanelle kaul in new york. special counsel jack smith says in a filing that prosecutors will use data from former president donald trump's cell phone in the 2020 election case. smith plans to call an expert witness to testify on trump's cell phone usage leading up to january 6th. the air force says 15 people

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