>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." mother nature struck with deadly and violent force this weekend as dozens of tornadoes ripped through the plains.

the hardest-hit state, oklahoma. take a look at this devastation. this is the small city of sulphur, home to only 5,000 people. some 85 miles southeast of oklahoma city. much of main street, as you can see, reduced to rubble. lives shredded. at least four deaths reported in the state including an infant. more than 100 tornadoes are reported to have struck since friday. the flurry starting in nebraska. and tonight the threat of severe weather remains in texas, louisiana, arkansas, missouri and oklahoma. cbs's omar villafranca is in sulphur, oklahoma and leads off our coverage tonight. omar, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening. last night wave upon wave of storms pounded oklahoma. and take a look at some of this damage here behind me. trees snapped in half. behind those trees buildings missing the roof. walls collapsed. thousands of people are still without power, and many more are trying to pick up the pieces. >> large tornado confirmed on

the ground. moving north just south of sulphur. >> reporter: violent storms ravaged oklahoma overnight. the small city of sulphur devastated after taking a direct hit. >> all of downtown sulphur is destroyed. >> reporter: at sunrise the widespread damage revealed. the tornado shredding buildings, turning them into piles of metal and brick. 19-year-old addie gordon was helping out at the local steakhouse when she heard sirens and ran for cover. >> as we're running through the building to get down to that basement, the glass is all shattering out of the windows, and it's just like a bomb went off. >> just so hard to wrap your mind around. >> reporter: dana vanderver and donna lewis's business was wiped out one day after the store's gro grand opening. >> too soon to even think about it really. i donate know what we'll do. >> reporter: dozens of tornadoes ripped through the plains this weekend, impacting millions. in the city of marietta near the

texas-oklahoma border a tornado carved a canyon through this dollar tree warehouse. the national weather service says a preliminary report of this storm called it an ef3. and that's wind speeds of at least 136 miles per hour. and residents here are saying cleanup will take weeks. jericka? >> yeah, those pictures say it all. omar villafranca, thank you. now to the middle east. today president biden spoke by phone to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, warning once again about a new israeli assault on the city of rafah in gaza. also today, secretary of state antony blinken left washington for his latest trip to the region. blinken is expected into israel tuesday. it will be his seventh visit since the war began in october. cbs's debora patta is in east jerusalem tonight with the very latest. debora? >> reporter: good evening. there is a flurry of diplomatic activity in this region this

weekend, a last-ditch effort to revive cease-fire talks and secure a hostage deal ahead of a possible ground offensive in the southern gaza city of rafah. the pressure is mounting on prime minister benjamin netanyahu. anger over the government's failure to bring their loved ones home has spilled onto the streets, as demonstrators have stepped up their protests, which more than once have ended in scuffles with police. prioritizing a hostage deal over the rafah offensive has exposed cracks in netanyahu's coalition government. "the release of the hostages is our first priority," said foreign minister israel katz. adding "that would mean deferring an offensive in rafah," where more than 1.4 million palestinians are sheltering. a move vehemently opposed by israel's more hawkish right-wing faction. with the threat of a full-scale

offensive hanging over rafah, people here keep asking where will they go? much of gaza lies in ruin. the destructs on such a scale it is uninhabitable. and there is nowhere safe to run to. this little boy and his elder sister are beside themselves with grief. they've already lost their mother. now their father's been taken too. "my brother is just 6 years old," zayna al ref screams. "he's an orphan. how do i raise him." the staggeringly civilian death toll in gaza has sparked nationwide protests at american universities, which have not gone unnoticed by students in rafah, whose education came to an abrupt halt with the war. they no longer have walls to spray graffiti on. instead showing their gratitude on the tents they now call home.

aid groups have warned that an invasion of rafah would worsen the already desperate humanitarian situation in gaza, jericka, where famine looms. >> debora patta reporting in east jerusalem. thank you. in this country stanti-war protests on college campuses have grown nationwide. this is usc in los angeles. police there and in other cities made over 100 arrests this weekend. cbs's mark strassmann has more. >> reporter: while the clamor on campus keeps spreading, a clash of more than ideas. riot gear at ohio state. tasers at emory university in atlanta. mostly pro-palestinian protesters at times scuffling with police, waved on by school administrators, with hundreds of arrests. communities like the university of texas turning on each other. israel's war on hamas has another front line. >> free, free palestine!

>> reporter: a free speech and hate speech campus debate that's anything but academic. >> if you want to protect free speech, then you don't break up peaceful protests. >> people didn't seem to be aware of how bad the situation was for free peech and academic freedom already was on campus until october 7th. >> reporter: greg lukianov of the foundation for individual rights and expression, a group defending the right to free speech. >> do you have the sense that any of this is moving the ball forward? >> some of the way the protests have been going on on college campuses has been alienating more of the public than bringing it in. >> reporter: on columbia university's west lawn civil disob disobedience. this ongoing tent city galvanized national protests. they want the university to divest investments in israel and companies they say profit off repression of palestinians. dueling protests at columbia. pro-israel, pro-palestinian,

reflect a larger welter of opinion and emotion, passion and perceived prejudice. >> people would be up in arms and protesting that right away. but because it's the jews i feel like nobody cares. >> reporter: all this coast-to-coast commotion is well into its second week. and what began here at columbia has now rippled overseas. from paris to london university students occupied buildings and marched in the streets. they're echoing this u.s. student movement. at times a moment that's been unflattering, even dark, from intolerant protesters to stumbling universities. mark

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continue this week at colleges and universities across the country. over the weekend police made hundreds of arrests at a half dozen schools. administrators are grappling with how to balance free speech against complaints of intimidation and possible violence. so how did we get here? david pogue has that story. >> we want justice, you say how. >> hands up. >> bring them home! >> reporter: it's been an upsetting week on american college campuses. >> oh, my god. >> reporter: clashes with armed police. >> why are you doing this? >> reporter: mass arrests of students and outsiders. locked campus gates. the firestorm began on april 17th, when a congressional committee grilled columbia university president minouche shafik about antisemitism at student protests against the war in gaza. >> antisemitism has no place on our campus and i am personally

committed to doing everything i can to confront it directly. >> reporter: she promised to crack down on the protesters. and she did. >> for what reason? i'm just standing on the sidewalk. >> reporter: the columbia news enraged students on other campuses nationwide. for many college administrators it's a no-win situation. >> it is presenting a near existential threat to the very fabric of the universities' life. >> reporter: dan mogolov is a public affairs officer at the uft of california berkeley, where this week's protests have been peaceful. >> these campuses are supposed to be areas for free speech. >> we have an unwavering and absolute commitment to free speech. but the university like all public institutions is allowed to have time, place and manner rules. meaning the right to free expression is not absolute. you can't interfere with or disrupt the operations of the university. >> reporter: and that's the problem. many colleges say that the protests violate those time and

place rules and make other students feel unsafe. including skyler saradsky, a senior at george washington university in washington, d.c. >> i was here a little bit earlier with a few of my friends holding the israeli flag that i'm now wearing, and i got spit at. we got middle fingers from a few people. >> we took over a campus administration building. we occupied it, threw the deans out of the building. >> reporter: as a self-described radical at harvard in the '60s, michael kazan protested the vietnam war. today he teaches the history of social movements at georgetown university in washington. >> do you look back fondly on your protest days? >> we felt we were changing history. and in some ways we were. and that's a thrill. one of the reasons i became a historian is because i was involved in these movements. >> are there any ways that the current conflict is different from the previous ones? >> well, the most important one from vietnam is that american soldiers are not fighting. american planes are not bombing

gaza. >> reporter: another difference? this time the students aren't unified against a common enemy. >> the middle east is unique in that it divides the campus community. it sets student against student, faculty member against faculty member. and then all of that is fueled in a way it never was in the past by social media. >> reporter: so what exactly do these protesters want? >> our goal for georgetown is for georgetown to divest. >> i want to stay here until like -- like the university divests. >> we mean divestment. absolutely. >> got it. >> reporter: a college's endowment is a tax-exempt fund it can use to pay for professorships or scholarships. every college invests its endowment. but the protesters want these schools to sell off the stocks in companies that benefit from the war like weapons makers or that do busines with israel. but for a big school that could be hard to do.

the modern endowment is invested in huge portfolio funds that don't offer control over individual stocks. >> do these students think that divestment will actually make a difference in anything? and will it? >> no, probably not. i don't know what percentage goes to a company that does business with israel. but it probably isn't very much. but it's a way to make demands on people they might have some influence over. which are college administrators. >> they're not changing the course of the war. but they are also in effect asking a question of college administrations. do you see me? do you hear me? do you care about me? >> reporter: some tactics definitely don't say we care about you. >> one thing we did learn in the '60s, though, is that bringing in the police, arresting students is almost always a bad idea. unless they're violent. sending in the cops is the best way to make sure it's not going

to be peaceful. >> reporter: and that's not the only pattern kazan has observed. >> april is the month for protests. it was back in 1969. that was true in 1986. >> what do we want? >> when the anti-apartheid protests were at their height. it's before final exams. the weather is nice in most parts of the country. >> reporter: but in other ways april couldn't be worse timing because graduation is only weeks away. the university of southern california has already canceled its main commencement ceremony. and other schools may follow suit. and remember, this year's graduating seniors already lost their high school graduation ceremonies in 2020 to covid. but for demonstrators like george washington junior riley bukema the protests take priority. >> so missing two graduations has to be a really sad prospect. and i know that's a really tricky position. but it's not as tricky as being bombed. so i feel like this is more

important. >> do these protests sometimes work? >> it can work in getting attention and effectuating a certain degree of change. how much? debatable. but that doesn't make it less important to those engaged in it. >> reporter: georgetown sophomore and protest organizer selena al shihabi is more confident. >> if you look back at history, it's all the student movements. it always starts with the new generation waking up and saying we will no longer tolerate this and we are going to create a better tomorrow for our children to live in. and that's what we're seeing right now. >> that again was david pogue reporting. well, in washington the clock is ticking on tiktok. millions of users including small businesses are threatened by a new law that could ban the chinese-owned platform altogether. jo ling kent has more. >> this is where you go live from. >> this is where i go live from, yeah. >> we support every business on here. >> reporter: brandon hurst says tiktok has changed his life. >> it allows me to go live,

share who i am. but it also makes it easy for people to buy. >> reporter: since he started selling on tiktok last year hurst, better flown as brandon the plant guy, says he's tripled his business. >> in the last year we've been able to sell 57,000. >> everyone always asks me do i have a favorite variety of anti-yes, i do. >> reporter: his company is one of 7 million small businesses on tiktok. according to the platform, it has supported more than 224,000 american jobs. >> i have friends and family members that work for me and help package plants and orders. so this goes beyond just me now. this is like a team of eight other people that would lose their jobs. >> reporter: now that the tiktok ban has been signed into law, the chinese-owned social media company has nine to twelve months to sell to an american owner or be banned. forcing scores of entrepreneurs to look for a new home. in the meantime, tiktok plans to sue in federal court. >> one of the biggest beneficiaries of a tiktok ban of course would be meta. instagram reels is the most natural fit.

it isn't exactly the same. you can replicate the technology but you can't replicate the culture. >> where do you pivot your social media business? >> i'm on instagram. i've been doing business on other platforms. there's just not many places you can live sell. i haven't thought about it yet, to be honest. i'm not sure. i'm not sure what we'll do. >> we just hit 225,000 likes. >> reporter: an uncertain future for his budding business. bytedance, the parent company of tiktok, says it has no plans to sell the company. meanwhile, tiktok ceo sho chu is leaning on the company's recent first amendment victories in u.s. courts, vowing it will prevail again. jo ling kent, cbs news, los ageles. there is a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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believe it or not, it has been five years since a fire nearly destroyed the notre dame cathedral in paris. restoring the historic landmark is of course a labor of love for many, including an american craftsman. here's elaine cobb. >> reporter: last year hank silver was running a small

carpentry business in massachusetts. through a contact in france he was offered a rare chance to join a team in normandy preparing timber to rebuild the nave of notre dame. >> i could not say no to that opportunity. it's an opportunity that happens once in a lifetime wouldn't even be the right term. >> reporter: the monumental task of restoring notre dame after the 2019 fire called for ar artisans skilled in traditional building methods. >> we first hewed all the logs using actions in order to recreate that rippled finish that you were able to see in the original cathedral. >> reporter: then he came to paris to set the timber trusses in place. >> many carpenters came from united states. >> reporter: there's still a lot of work left to be done to restore notre dame to its former glory. but everyone here is confident it will be ready for the planned reopening in december. four months ago the spire rose again into the paris skyline,

topped with a recreation of the original gold cross and rooster. the rooster holds several holy relics but also -- >> they created a second chamber, and it's got a scroll with the names of everybody who worked on the cathedral. >> oh, wow. so your name's in there? >> yeah. isn't that cool? >> that is supremely cool. >> it's up there. protecting the city. >> reporter: hank silver says he's looking forward to seeing notre dame reopen at the end of this year. elaine cobb, cbs news, paris. >> and that is the "overnight news" for this monday. reporting from new york city, i'm jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. south dakota governor kristi noem is firing back after coming under fire for writing in her new book about shooting and killing her family's dog. she says tough decisions like that happen all the time on a

farm and says she followed the law. noem is a potential running mat for presumptive republican presidential candidate donald trump. houston texans wide receiver tank dell was among ten people shot at a waterfront bar in sanford, florida. dell has been released from a hospital. a 16-year-old suspect is under arrest. and game, set match. the tennis drama "challengers" serves up a win at the box office, taking first place with $15 million in ticket sales. for more download the cbs news app on your cell phone or i'm matt pieper, cbs news, new york. ♪ deadly storms. tornadoes tearing across the plains. a scene of devastation in sulphur, oklahoma. >> all of downtown sulphur is destroyed. >> the town taking a direct hit. dozens of tornadoes roaring across multiple states,

impacting millions. >> i'm omar villafranca in sulphur, oklahoma where a powerful tornado ripped through the main street, flipped cars and turned businesses into rubble. also, diplomatic mission. secretary of state antony blinken makes his seventh visit to the middle east since israel's war with hamas. the crisis in gaza critical. >> i'm debora patta in jerusalem where benjamin netanyahu is facing mounting domestic pressure to delay a rafah invasion and make a deal. campus crackdowns. new arrests as colleges nationwide struggle to quell anti-war demonstrations. plus, comedian-in-chief. president biden poking fun at his age and his political rival at a night of glamour and glitz in washington, d.c. >> i've always done well in the original 13 colonies. in seven battleground states new cbs polling on the campaign fight.

and later, her inventors call her lucki. customers call her rosie. restaurant owners say she's the future. >> i am rosie, delivery robot. welcome to our restaurant. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." mother nature struck with deadly and violent force this weekend as dozens of tornadoes ripped through the plains. the hardest-hit state, oklahoma. take a look at this devastation. this is the small city of sulphur, home to only 5,000 people. some 85 miles southeast of oklahoma city. much of main street, as you can see, reduced to rubble. lives shredded. at least four deaths reported in the state including an infant. more than 100 tornadoes are reported to have struck since friday. the flurry starting in nebraska and tonight the threat of severe weather remains in texas,

louisiana, arkansas, missouri and oklahoma. cbs's omar villafranca is in sulphur, oklahoma and leads off our coverage tonight. omar, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening. last night wave upon wave of storms pounded oklahoma. and take a look at some of this damage here behind me. trees snapped in half. behind those trees buildings missing their roof. walls collapsed. thousands of people are still without power. and many more are trying to pick up the pieces. >> large tornado confirmed on the ground. moving north just south of sulphur. >> reporter: violent storms ravaged oklahoma overnight. the small city of sulphur devastated after taking a direct hit. >> all of downtown sulphur is destroyed. >> reporter: at sunrise the widespread damage revealed. the tornado shredding buildings, turning them into piles of metal and brick. 19-year-old addie gordon was helping out at the local steakhouse when she heard sirens and ran for cover.

>> as we're running through the building to get down to that basement, the glass is all shattering out of the windows and it's just like a bomb went off. >> reporter: at any point were you scared? >> oh, i screamed. i thought i was going to pee myself. >> it's so much worse in person. just so hard to wrap your mind around. >> reporter: dana vanderver and donna lewis's business was wiped out. one day after the store's grand opening. >> too soon to even think about it, really. i don't know what we'll do. >> reporter: dozens of tornadoes ripped through the plains this weekend, impacting millions. in the city of marietta near the texas-oklahoma border a tornado carved a canyon through this dollar tree warehouse. the national weather service says a preliminary report of this storm called it an ef3, and that's wind speeds of at least 136 miles per hour. and residents here are saying cleanup will take weeks. jericka? >> yeah, those pictures say it

all. omar villafranca, thank you. now to the middle east. today president biden spoke by phone to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, warning once again about a new israeli assault on the city of rafah in gaza. also today, secretary of state antony blinken left washington for his latest trip to the region. blinken is expected into israel tuesday. it will be his seventh visit since the war began in october. cbs's debora patta is in east jerusalem tonight with the very latest. debora. >> reporter: good evening. there is a flurry of diplomatic activity in this region this week. in a last-ditch effort to revive cease-fire talks and secure a hostage deal ahead of a possible ground offensive in the southern gaza city of rafah. the pressure is mounting on prime minister benjamin netanyahu. anger over the government's failure to bring their loved ones home has spilled onto the

streets as demonstrators have stepped up their protests, which more than once ended in scuffles with police. prioritizing a hostage deal over the rafah offensive has exposed cracks in netanyahu's coalition government. "the release of the hostages is our first priority," said foreign minister israel katz. adding "that would mean deferring an offensive in rafah," where more than 1.4 million palestinians are sheltering. a move vehemently opposed by israel's more hawkish right-wing faction. with the threat of a full-scale offensive hanging over rafah, people here keep asking where will they go. much of gaza lies in ruin. the destruction on such a scale it is uninhabitable. and there is nowhere safe to run to. this little boy and his elder sister are beside themselves with grief.

they've already lost their mother. now their father's been taken too. "my brother is just 6 years old," zayna al raif screams. "he's an orphan. how do i raise him?" the staggeringly high civilian death toll in gaza has sparked nationwide protests at american universities, which have not gone unnoticed by students in rafah, whose education came to an abrupt halt with the war. they no longer have walls to spray graffiti on. instead showing their gratitude on the tents they now call home. aid groups have warned that an invasion of rafah would worsen the already desperate humanitarian situation in gaza, jericka, where famine looms. >> debora patta reporting in east jerusalem. thank you. today one of the best players in the history of women's basketball announced that at age 38 she's retiring.

candace parker played 16 seasons in the wnba, made the announcement today on instagram. parker is a three-time wnba champion and two-time olympic gold medalist. she said, "i will pursue business with the same intensity and focus" that she gave basketball. well, now to japan and a centuries-old tradition, one that some parents might not appreciate. today massive sumo wrestlers in tokyo and other sites across japan made 100 babies cry by gently shaking or swaying them before an audience. some japanese believe the 400-year-old ritual wards off evil and brings good health. there is a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." the anti-war protests on college campuses have grown nationwide.

this is usc in los angeles. police there and in other cities made over 100 arrests this weekend. cbs's mark strassmann has more. >> reporter: while the clamor on campus keeps spreading, a clash of more than ideas. riot gear at ohio state. tasers at emory university in atlanta. mostly pro-palestinian protesters at times scuffling with police, waved on by school administrators, with hundreds of arrests. communities like the university of texas turning on each other. israel's war on hamas has another front line. >> free, free palestine! >> reporter: a free speech and hate speech campus debate that's anything but academic. >> if you want to protect free speech, then you don't break up peaceful protests. >> people didn't seem to be aware of how bad the situation for free speech and academic freedom already was on campus until october 7th. >> reporter: greg lukianov of the foundation for individual rights and expression, a group

defending the right to free speech. >> do you have the sense that any of this is moving the ball forward? >> some of the ways the protest has been going on on college campuses has been alienating more of the public than bringing it in. >> reporter: on columbia university's west lawn civil disobedience. this ongoing tent city galvanized national protests. they want the university to divest investments in israel and companies they say profit off repression of palestinians. dueling protests at columbia. pro israel, pro palestinian, reflect a larger welter of opinion and emotion, passion and perceived prejudice. >> people would be up in arms and protesting that right away. but because it's the jews i feel like nobody cares. >> reporter: all this coast-to-coast commotion is well into its second week. and what began here at columbia has now rippled overseas. from paris to london, university

students occupied buildings and marched in the streets. they're echoing this u.s. student movement. at times a moment that's been unflattering, even dark, from intolerant protesters to stumbling universities. >> a lot of campuses are teaching young people to think like activists and less like scholars. when you're reduced to just shouting at each other, that is a failure of some of the things that makes higher education so special. >> reporter: mark strassmann, cbs news, new york. well, anti-war activists rallied outside a hotel hosting the annual white house correspondents' dinner, attended by president biden. more than 100 people waved palestinian flags, some shouting "shame on you" to arriving guests. inside a celebration of freedom of the press and a chance to poke fun at politics. comedian colin jost joked about the president and the legal woes of his expected republican rival. >> can we just acknowledge how

refreshing it is to see a president of the united states at an event that doesn't begin with a bailiff saying "all rise." >> i'm a grown man. running against a 6-year-old. >> cbs's skyler henry was there. skyler, it wasn't all laughs, though, in what will be a critical election year. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, jericka. a bit of a balancing act, if you will. still, though, it was a night filled with journalists, stars and top political officials. president biden poked fun at himself during his speech, but he also took verbal aim against his presumed opponent this november. in what's expected to be a very close race. >> donald has had a few tough days lately. you might call it stormy weather. >> reporter: amidst the jokes and jabs at the annual white house correspondents' dinner president biden detailed his perspective on the stakes for the upcoming election. >> eight years ago you could have written it off as just trump talk.

but no longer. not after january 6th. >> reporter: former president trump responded on his truth social platform, voicing his displeasure about the event and calling biden, quote, an absolute disaster. with a little more than six months to go before the election, new cbs news polling out today shows a very tight rice in three battleground states we surveyed, pennsylvania, wisconsin and michigan. states that helped biden win in 2020. but registered voters say the impacts of inflation are looming large in their minds and add they aren't seeing an improvement in a post-pandemic economy in their respective states. sparking a downward trend for the president and an advantage for trump as biden trails in the polls with voters when asked whether which candidate, quote, understands the needs and concerns of people like you. an edge he once held in the summer of 2020, when voters were asked the same question. and former president trump is looking to pick up on that momentum in those battleground

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a village in florida has come up with a unique solution to its peacock problem. cristian benavides reports. >> we can probably fit these two. >> reporter: in pinecrest, florida a novel approach for a pesky predicament. >> is this what you pictured? >> no. i did not realize how many there

were. i mean how big of a problem. >> reporter: trapper blake wilkins is usually out chasing reptiles. >> similar to the iguanas, you know, the peacock population has exploded down here. >> they are an expensive nuisance. >> reporter: jumping on roofs, pecking at cars, damaging property, even stopping traffic. not to mention the noise. so many complaints, the village decided to act. the humane solution, peacock vasectomies. >> you know, leave the trap there. >> reporter: wilkins' team is tasked with trapping the peacocks. wrangling the peacocks is no easy task. but it's just the first step in the process. then exotic animal veterinarian don harris takes over. >> if you do a vasectomy on one male, you can stop seven, ten, 15 females from reproducing. the victory behind all this is we are not removing the masculinity of the males. they retain their beautiful appearance.

they retain their beautiful tail. they retain their dominance. >> reporter: the pilot program has ruffled a few feathers. some residents feel the birds should be left alone. even stopping some caged peacocks from reaching the operating table. still other cities and towns across the country are calling dr. harris, looking to snip their own peacock problem. cristian benavides, pinecrest, florida. >> and that is the "overnight news" for this monday. reporting from new york city, i'm jericka duncan. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. south dakota governor kristi noem is firing back after coming under fire for writing in her new book about shooting and killing her family's dog. she says tough decisions like

that happen all the time on a farm and says she followed the law. noem is a potential running mate for presumptive republican presidential candidate donald trump. houston texans wide receiver tank dell was among ten people shot at a waterfront bar in sanford, florida. dell has been released from the hospital. a 16-year-old suspect is under arrest. and game, set, match. the tennis drama "challengers" serves up a win at the box office, taking first place with $15 million in ticket sales. for more download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm matt pieper, cbs news, new york. it's monday, april 29th, 2024. this is "cbs news mornings." heartbreak in the heartland. >> the water started coming in. and i thought, i'm going to die here. >> tornadoes carve a path of