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directly to hush money payments to stormy daniels. why he says the fo former president was afraid of the adult star story would be a disaster for the 2016 campaign. >> it's marked down in. norah: cbs evening news starts now ♪ ♪ good evening i'm norah o'donnell and thank you for being with us after a pivotal day in the criminal trial of donald trump, the former president coming face-to-face with this one time personal attorney michael cohen who gave six hours of detailed testimony under oath, painting a behind the scenes picture of what was happening in the final weeks of the 2016 campaign. the former fixer and inside man detailed how trump personally approved the so-called hush money payouts to hide stories he believed would hurt him with female voters in his 2016 run for the white house. what was the stormy daniels

payment and that trumps reimbursement to cohen disguised as legal expenses that is at the heart of this criminal case. trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to conceal that information from voters. reporters in the room said trump spent much of the day in court with his eyes closed. the robert costa there with today's riveting testimony and a secret recording that the jury heard today. >> michael cohen left early this morning for what would be a blockbuster day in court where he testified that when stormy daniels started shopping her story, donald trump told him "just take care of it." cohen set the scene, the 26 teen election was just weeks away and according to cohen's testimony, trump said it's a total disaster. women are going to hate me. as trump continued to deny all the allegations, cohen detailed

how he made the 130,000 payment to daniels to keep her quiet which he described in 2019. >> he asked me to pay off an adult film star with whom he had an affair and to lie about it to his wife, which i did. >> before finalizing the $130,000 payment to daniels, cohen said he called trump to tell him because everything required mr. trump's signoff. on top of that i wanted the money back. cohen so far has been effective for the prosecution, he is the y placed donald trump directly in these discussions about payoffs to stormy daniels. >> cohen pointed to a trump tower meeting where he and former chief financial officer allen weisselberg showed a trump at this document with cohen's name by the top and $130,000 scribbled at the bottom. him it was there, cohen testified, that trump approved the plan to pay him in monthly installments. jurors also heard a trump and a

cohen allegedly talking together in 2016 about a separate hush money payment made to former "playboy" playmate karen mcdougal, a recording cohen made without telling trump. >> i spoke to alan about it, when it comes time to financing -- >> what financing? >> we'll have to pay for this. >> one major challenge is getting the jury to believe michael cohen. he's a convicted felon who spent time in prison and admitted to lying to congress. >> the only way they could do that is really by allowing cohen to be himself on the stand and testify and come across as a person whose credible. and who may have lied in the past but telling the truth now. >> trump and a cohen barely looked at each other all day but there was one moment where cohen was asked to single out the defendant and he did just that. cohen will be back in the courtroom tomorrow. >> norah: robert costa, thank you so much. breaking news from the scene of

the deadly bridge collapse in baltimore. in a risky operation, engineers set off controlled explosion in the wreckage of the francis scott key bridge to help try to free the massive cargo ship that crash into its nearly seven weeks ago. cbs's nicole sganga is there. >> explosive position cuts at the sight of the key bridge collapse. workers demolishing steel beams to remove a colossal steel truss on top of the container ship dali where 21 crew members remain below deck during this operation. >> with this going to allow for the pressure from those cuts to cuts deliberately separate the metal and cut through the steel. >> once clear, crews will work to reflow to the container ship at dali in the hopes of moving it out of the channel. the massive container ship spanning 985 feet and weighing

116,000 tons, moving it is one of the last remaining barriers to clearing the channel. >> the bridge is down. >> this is the moment the first police marine unit arrived on scene at the deadly bridge collapsed seven weeks ago. >> at least several vehicles in the water. >> authorities have recovered all six bodies of the construction workers who died during the bridge collapse. maryland has now offered $22 million in assistance to impacted small businesses, plus 2.8 million in cash to port workers. >> we are talking about a port that has an economic output of $191 million daily. >> amid calls for accountability as investigators dive into the most expensive maritime tragedy in u.s. history. >> we know that those who need to be held responsible for this tragedy will be held respo responsible. >> findings from a preliminary investigation by the ntsb are

expected to be released tomorrow. meanwhile, maryland transportation officials say that the new bridge is expected to cost as much as $2 billion. >> norah: nicole sganga, thank you so much. tonight at the white house is urging israel to focus on a clear end game with its war with hamas with a political plan for the future of the palestinian people. this comes as israel finds itself fighting hamas in areas it once thought had been cleared of militants. the struggle for food and shelter in gaza is getting wo worse. >> is really strikes echo across northern gaza. in the first weeks of this war, more wounded and more dead with thousands running out of refugee camps as israel's military rolled in to stop hamas from regrouping. "a tank is behind a school." yelled to this mother, we don't know where to go. >> parts of rough a city set

shattered and abandoned as israel advanced to there. need nearly 360,000 people have fled in the past weeks. the already displaced again displaced into the sands of al mawasi and further north. "i need to stay strong because of my daughter" said jamila abu jebara. she named her six other sons and daughters killed in an israeli strike seven months ago today. "i think i'm dreaming and i'll wake up and five my children around me." deema, now an only child said "i just want this more to end." hostility runs deep and wide. today israeli settlers attacked an aid convoy headed to gaza, ransacking the trucks and throwing their contents onto the streets. as the country marked its first memorial day since october 7th for fallen soldiers and victims of terror, the u.s. warned israel it needs a plan to replace hamas as a governing body in gaza.

>> you're going to have a vacuum and a vacuum that's likely to be filled by chaos and anarchy and ultimately by hamas again. >> now in gaza the health ministry is appealing for international pressure to let in aid to. the strips crucial southern border crossing in rafah remains closed. >> norah: thank you for being there. now to the intensifying war in ukraine. russian forces are carrying out a major assault in and around ukraine's second largest city kharkiv capturing more than a half-dozen towns and villages over the weekend. russia has also been pounding ukraine's power grid while ukraine desperately outgunned troops wait for more military aid to arrive from the u.s. and western allies. tonight new york city is on edge following a string of random assaults including two high profile incidents and just last week. a tourist in times square was stabbed over the weekend and a celebrity was punched in the face by a stranger just a few days earlier.

cbs's nikki battiste reports on what's behind this rise in frightening attacks. >> surveillance video shows this terrifying moment on saturday in times square. a man jumping up from a walker pulling out a knife and lunching at two women walking by, stabbing one of them in the chest. a few minutes later, police handcuffed the suspect. it's the latest in a series of random assaults across new york city, about a dozen people mostly women and 19-year-old have reported incidents to police. some shared stories online saying they were randomly punched in the face while walking down the street. >> it was like a zombie walking and just punched and just kept walking out of nowhere. >> actor steve buscemi had a swollen bloody i after he was allegedly hit by this man last week. his publicist said in a statement of "the sopranos" and boardwalk empire star was another victim of a random act

of violence in the city. >> i think is a combination of factors. one is unaddressed mental illness. >> murderers, burglaries, and shootings in new york city are down but there have been about 1,000 more misdemeanor assaults like punching incidents this year compared to last, about a 7% jump. >> was at the randomness of these incidents that causes the alarm? >> i'm minding my business, i'm not engaging with anybody i'm not making eye contact i'm not being hostile, and yet i can get assaulted and that's what makes people afraid to. >> the nypd believes there are multiple people behind these punching attacks and they don't appear to be connected to. there have been at least four arrests. we reached out to the nypd to ask if they are stepping up street patrols but we haven't heard back. >> norah: nikki battiste, thanks very much. more than 100 active wild fires are burning in canada sending the thick smoke across the border south into the united states.

minnesota officials issued the state's first air quality alert of the year for parts of wisconsin and iowa also facing air quality issues. canada had its worst wildfire season on record last year and extreme drought conditions could make this year even worse. tonight, severe weather is once again taking aim at parts of the country. this tornado striking a short time ago in southern missouri while heavy rains flooded roads across texas and dropping hail the size of golf balls. look at that at homes near austin. more than 10 million americans are under foot alerts from texas to florida with more rain in the forecast. some areas could receive up to a foot by the end of the week. tens of millions of americans are gearing up for the upcoming memorial day weekend. aaa says 43.8 million people are expected to travel 50 miles or more this year making it the busiest in nearly 20 years. hears cbs's kris van cleave. >> hoping to beat the

potentially record-breaking summer travel rush, joy noelle balanag booked her vacation months ago. >> i'm excited for this travel season, i travel on airplanes, i plan on taking my car. just seeing where the summer season takes me. >> she will not be alone. aaa is expecting about a 5% bump in airline travel this memorial day weekend. united airlines is planning for its busiest ever, fly more than half a million people a day. most will drive. aaa protecting a record 38.4 million will hit the road come up 4% from last year. >> it goes back to that bucket list you only live once mentality. a lot of people are now going let's not take those trips we always take with our family, let's get a little more adventurous. >> one of the fastest growing travel segments post-pandemic is cruising, the industry is expected nearly 35 million passengers this year. for the thousands on board carnival for its sold-out

inaugural sailing it started early. >> what do you like best about cruising? >> you get to go up to multiple destinations come on pack your suitcase once. you got food, entertainment, a casino if you're into that. >> when it comes to holiday traffic, aaa expects the roads to be busiest next thursday and friday between noon and at 7:00 p.m. united airlines thinks the air airports will be busiest on thursday. orlando, florida beaches, las vegas, and here in denver. >> norah: kris van cleave with good information, thank you so much. a church congregation post they got her to stop a gunman while dozens of kids away to ther awar first holy communion. the heroic story next. ract, or genital yeast infections, and low blood sugar.

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