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with demand for certain weight loss, drugs skyrocketing and online pharmacy is offering its own version at a huge discount. we're hearing from a stanford expert about the potential risks that story and much more with ryan and moto and myself coming up tonight at 5. thank you so much for joining us for today's conversation about the class of 2024. if you're graduating congratulations, we love to hear what you think and what you're seeing and hearing in your neighborhoods. poster thoughts online. and the hashtag kpi >> norah: tonight, deadly turbulence. >> it was an awful feeling. >> norah: the terrifying moments in the sky, an international flight plunges, leaving passengers bloody and oxygen masks hanging pickle what we are learning about what
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exactly happened. >> the damage we see in this airplane is not typical of what you would see from just turbulence. >> norah: the "cbs evening news" starts now. ♪ ♪ truly a nightmare at 37,000 feet on a flight from london. good evening, i'm norah o'donnell, and thank you for being with us. this was the scene on board a singapore airlines plane. debris strewn everywhere, dents in the overhead compartments after unbuckled people slammed into them during severest turbulence on the way to singapore appeared one person is dead, dozens are injured, and seven are in critical condition. the chaos lasted less than 2 minutes, forcing pilots to make an emergency landing in bangkok. cbs's kris van cleave has more on what happened from passengers who experienced it. >> reporter: passengers describe a sudden drop during a meal service that left
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passengers bloody, overhead bins and oxygen masks dangling, dented ceilings, and debris everywhere. >> during the few seconds of the plane dropping, there was awful screaming. >> reporter: it happened about ten hours at a singapore airlines flight 321 as it approached thailand of a trip from london to singapore. there were storms in the area one per luminary flight data show the plane appeared to encounter a sudden turbulent event lasting about a minute. it launched on belted passengers and crew into the ceiling, leaving dunstan's injured and a 73-year-old british man dead of a possible heart attack. a line of ambulances met the boeing 777300 after an emergency landing in bangkok. >> just a sudden drop. and the thing i remember the most was just objects and things flying through the air. it was awful. they were covered in blood. >> reporter: among the 211 passengers and 18 crew on board, at least four americans.
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one is said to be among the injured. 30 people were taken to hospital, according to the airline, seven in critical condition. >> it's extremely rare to have a turbulence event result until to fatalities. >> reporter: former t ntsb chair robert sumwalt. >> i would call this an in-flight upset, whether the result of turbulence or something else. >> reporter: too early to know for sure? >> too early to know for sure at this point. >> reporter: injuries from turbulence are rare. the faa says between 2009 and 2022 in the u.s., there were 163 recorded. nearly 80% water airline crew. the best thing you can do to protect yourself and stay safe is where that seat belt, norah. >> norah: frightening. kris van cleave, thank you. well coming out as a breakig news with a new round of severe weather hammering the. at this hour there have been reports of dozens of tornadoes across iowa, with several residents under tornado watches through the night.
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cbs's roxana saberi is in davenport, iowa, tonight. >> reporter: tonight, a dangerous tornado outbreak in iowa. at least a dozen reports of twisters so far today. this video is captured by a tornado chaser in adams county, iowa, about 100 miles southwest of des moines. you can see a home ripped to shreds, debris swirling, and the devastating aftermath. the tornado took down several wind turbines, setting off a massive fire, sending thick black smoke billowing into the air. forecasters are predicting many more tornadoes will hit the midwest tonight, including after dark, the most dangerous time, when people are asleep and may not hear warnings. and you can see the wind is picking up here in davenport, iowa. the storms are heading straight toward us. some moving as fast as 70 miles per hour. we are under a tornado watch until 9:00 local time tonight. and for details on this dangerous situation and what people can expect, i want to
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bring a meteorologist chris bruin from our partners at the weather channel. chris? >> yeah, that's a particularly dangerous situation, it is a notable threat here for eastern iowa and other parts of the midwest. the winds we already have in the blue sky we have seen at times today just shows you how dangerous the environment is in the in atmosphere as the storms work this direction, so that tells us they are going to intensify, likely produce more destructive tornadoes, so you want to take this threat very seriously. let's take a look at the timing. you can see what already looks like. we have watches stretched all the way down into parts of missouri and arkansas, but here it iowa, this seems to be the bulk of where we will see the worst conditions. that is where torcons are the highest, also southwest wisconsin's other parts of minnesota, torcon 7, a notable threat. the storms will move through quickly and once they clear you the threat is dying out and we will clear out very nicely but the problems don't stop there. damaging winds could exceed into chicago and that all the way down into the mid-south come tomorrow. there is a look at our threat from texas to arkansas and you can see the timing will continue
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through the afternoon and into tomorrow night, even early thursday morning, so we have a long 48 hours to go, norah. >> norah: important information appeared chris bruin and roxana saberi, thank you so much. well, tonight, the defense rest in donald trump's so-called hush money trial and closing arguments are expected to start next week. but it's a video posted to trump social media account during court yesterday that president biden is calling attention to. and includes references to a unified murati gnome xp 24. that is a term largely associated with hitler's regime in nazi germany. biden's as it is a pattern of the form presence dictator and anti-semitic tropes. cbs's robert costa has new reporting tonight. >> reporter: former president trump addressed reporters today outside of the courtroom but offered no comment on the incendiary controversial video posted to his social media account. >> what happens after donald trump wins? >> reporter: the video showed hypothetical headlines of an imagined trump victory this fall
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with one asking, what's next for america? three times suggesting the creation of a unified reich, a term widely associated with nazi germany. president biden released this campaign video response. >> a unified reich? that's hitler's language. that's not america's. he cares about holding onto power. >> this kind of rhetoric is unsurprising coming from the former president, and it is appalling, and we got to tell him who we are. >> reporter: it's not the first time trump has used rhetoric prompting outrage for its echoes of hateful extremists. he's a set of immigrants... >> their poisoning the blood of our country appeared to be to end of his political opponents using language some historians say is akin to a propaganda. >> the radical left dogs that live like vermin within the confines of our country. >> reporter: trump's words on the trail have grown increasingly charged, with visceral nationalistic statements. in minnesota on friday, trump
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told supporters the country was theirs. >> this is not a nation that belongs to them. this is a nation that totally belongs to you. it belongs to you. [applause] this is your home. this is your heritage. >> reporter: trump has said if he wins in november, he'd be a dictator on day one only. on saturday, at the nra convention, he mused about the possibility of staying on for a third term. >> you know, fdr, 16 years, almost 16 years, he was four terms. i don't know, are we going to be considered three term or two term? >> reporter: the trump campaign has taken down the video and blamed a "junior staffer" for sharing the material, which was first published elsewhere. norah? >> norah: robert costa, thank you very much. now to the battleground state of arizona. 11 of donald trump's allies, including rudy giuliani, pleaded not guilty in an arizona court for allegedly trying to keep
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trump in power after he lost the 2020 election. the former president himself is not charged in this alleged if a collector scheme, but he is an unindicted coconspirator number one. cbs's ed o'keefe reports from unix. >> hello? is this rudy giuliani? >> reporter: of the former new york city mayor phoned in to a court arizona courtroom today for. >> do this in 5 minutes. it's a complete embarrassment to the american legal system. >> reporter: prosecutors finally serve a subpoena to the mayor friday night after his 80th birthday party in florida, they say after weeks of trying to find him. he now has to pay $10,000 bond processing in the next 30 days. giuliani is 1 of 18 charged by arizona's democratic attorney general with fraud, forgery, and conspiracy, a group including former white house chief of staff mark meadows, former trump attorney john eastman, and the former head of arizona's g.o.p. kelli ward. at her husband, michael.
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their attorney says they committed no crime. >> in the future clients it was protest? >> absolutely, peaceable protests, which is constitutional. freedom of speech. >> reporter: at least five states are investigating or prosecuting so-called fake elector's and tried pressuring then-vice president mike pence do not certify the electoral college count. trump isn't charged in arizona, but he is in georgia, and in an interview today with cbs news pittsburgh, he says he's concerned with how elections will be conducted in battleground pennsylvania. >> we should go to all paper ballots. we should have one day voting, one day election, and just do it properly, and voter i.d. >> reporter: disputes about election results in battleground states are going away. just last week in piney delta county, michigan, a port of canvassers initially refuseds of a county commission rates. there pushed by conspiracy activist questioning the reliability of voting machines. the board eventually approved the results under pressure from state officials.
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the defendants in this case aren't scheduled to go on trial until mid-october on the earliest, meaning another legal battle over the hundred 20 elections isn't likely to be resolved until after the after the 2024 contest. norah? >> norah: ed o'keefe, thank you so much. a new controversy tonight in the world of artificial intelligence, as one of hollywood's biggest movie stars says her voice was copied without her consent by one of the most powerful ai companies. actress scarlett johansson lames openai's chatgpt mimicked her voice for his latest personal assistant program. cbs's jo ling kent has the tale of ai imitating art, imitating life. >> reporter: scarlett johansson says she was shocked and angered when she heard a voice which sounded an awful lot like her. >> i am doing fantastic, thanks for asking. >> reporter: johansson is calling out openai ceo sam altman, saying the company's new ai voice, sky, sounded quite eerily similar to the virtual assistant she played in the
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movie, "her." >> i want to learn everything about everything. >> reporter: this is sky. >> once upon a time, in a world not too different from ours. >> reporter: johansson claims altman asked her to participate twice, saying he felt my voice would be comforting to people, but she declined the offer. npr's bobby allyn broke the story after interviewing openai cto mira murati. >> said, hey, did you guys base this voice off of scarlett johansson? and she said, really, i don't even know what that voice sounds like. then we reach out to scarlett johansson, and she says, my own family thought it was me. >> reporter: last year, altman's ads be 26 is his favorite film. >> that wasn't readily prophetc. >> reporter: in on the day of the ai voice lunch, he tweeted the words be 26. he now says out of respect for miss johansen, we have paused using trump's voice in our products. we are sorry to miss johansson that we didn't communicate better. this comes at a time when the use of ai in hollywood remains a
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major concern. >> this is openai's business model. they troll the entire internet for every image. they vacuum it up, and make many, many millions of dollars . who isn't getting paid? the artists. >> norah: and jo ling kent joins us now. and this isn't the first accusation against ai like this, right? >> reporter: that's right, openai has been sued by "the new york times," the authors guild of america, including john grisham and david baldacci, along with various actors and artists. this scarlett johansson case is really just the tip of the iceberg. it's about permission to use content and what openai is doing with it, norah. >> norah: future to come here or it's here. >> reporter: it's year appeared to be on jo ling kent, thank you. special meals for people on weight loss. injectables are coming to a grocery store near you. what's in them and how much they'll cost. that's next. ♪ ♪ 99 years old and he'd come five days a week if we let him. shape is great, the color's nice, that's a swell lid for you, baby!
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pfas. in tonight's "eye on america," mark strassmann reports from ohio, where many firefighters worry about their gear and foam that about smoke and flames. >> reporter: and small-town bellbrook, ohio, firefighter jay leach feels burned. >> most firefighters got into this job due to its inherent risk, but we never knew the gear and the equipment we were using has been killing us. >> reporter: inside fire station 22, lieutenant leach helped remove buckets of firefighting foam. it's called a fff come undeniably effective, but laced with pfas, so-called forever chemicals, now linked to various cancers, especially among firefighters. cancer caused 72% of active duty firefighter deaths last year, according to the international association of firefighters. a separate study showed smoke and elation causes 4% of active-duty firefighter deaths. a safer foam now exists, and 21
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states have introduced policies that limit the use of afff firefighting foam. but for jay leach, cancers heartache has no limits. you said you want to show me something. >> i do. i keep my wife with me. in my helmet. there is a picture of her in there. >> reporter: you wear that whenever you go on a call? >> yes. >> reporter: his wife, tracy, was a firefighter for 25 years. her diagnosis in 2017, breast cancer. despite no family history of cancer. >> it pretty much ravaged her body. and then december of 2022, she was diagnosed terminally, and two weeks later, on christmas eve, she passed away. >> reporter: you can't conclusively prove it. >> correct. >> reporter: but in your gut.
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>> i wholeheartedly believe pfas because my wife's cancer. >> reporter: in a statement, the american chemistry council, an industry group, cited supports limits on "face the nation," adding all pfas are not the same. does not scientifically accurate to appropriate to a group them together when considering safety risks. but for jay leach, this moment was cathartic, dropping off buckets of afff for destruction. tens of thousands of gallons of it sit in fire stations across america. ohio is the first state committed to destroying all of it. ohio governor mike dewine. >> this is sitting there, which does nobody any good. >> does nobody any good. it might leak out. there is a danger whenever you have a product like that. >> reporter: another worry, pfas have been inside firefighting gear for decades. "heart of america" helped propel water and contaminants, but put on this gear and you are wrapping yourself inside suspected currents and agents.
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>> we sweat, or pores open up, and the chemical on our body. >> reporter: 19 years into this job, are you more scared of buyers are more scared of cancer? >> cancer. absolutely. i love the job, but at the end of the day, i sit and think, does it know mike is it worth i? >> reporter: they realize the irony. scared of what is supposed to protect them. for "eye on america," mark strassmann, bellbrook, ohio. >> norah: what a story. and next, the story of a special college graduation ceremony that's all in the family. that's next.
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ronald yancey, the first black graduate, handing me to my diploma, but also the fact that i get to have my grandfather hand me my diploma. >> there are three kinds of people in the world. those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. deanna made this happen. >> norah: i agree. ronald and deanna yancey, they are tonight's "heart of america." and congratulations to all the graduates. and at's tonight's >> judge judy: they can evict you because they don't like the color of your hair. >> i agree with what you're saying. >> announcer: they were no longer welcome... >> judge judy: they considered you annoying tenants. >> it was unnecessary eviction. >> judge judy: there's no such animal. >> okay. fair. >> announcer: ...and there's nothing they can do about it. >> judge judy: they could terminate your lease. >> that's right. >> judge judy: you don't have to agree with me. i know i'm right. i'm always right. that's why i'm here. >> announcer: "judge judy." you are about to enter
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the courtroom of you are about to enter the courtroom of judge judith sheindlin. captions paid for by cbs television distribution andi epstein and her boyfriend, lawrence diehl, are suing their former landlords, alexander and sara kriss, for a malicious eviction and the return of their security deposit. >> byrd: order! all rise! this is case 481 on the calendar in the matter of epstein/diehl vs. kriss. >> judge judy: thank you. >> byrd: you're welcome. parties have been sworn in. you may be seated. >> judge judy: ms. epstein and mr. diehl, you rented a property that is owned by the defendants. you rented that property for a term of one year. you are suing the defendants for several things -- one, for maliciously evicting you, and the second is for the return of your security deposit. the defendants have a counterclaim primarily for the cost of the attorney that they paid for having to evict you. okay. so let's start.

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