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a.i. voice skye sounded eerily similar to the virtual assistant she played in the movie "her". >> i want to learn everything about everything. >> reporter: this is skye. >> once upon a time in a world not too different from ours -- >> reporter: joe hansen claims altman asked her to participate twice, saying, he felt my voice would be comforting to people. but she declined the offer. npr's bobbie allen broke the story after interviewing openai cto mira marati. >> i 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 said her is his favorite film. and on the day of the a.i. voice launch, he tweeted the word "her." he now says out of respect for ms. johansson, we have paused using skye's voice in our products. we are sorry to ms. johansson that we didn't communicate better. this comes as a time when the

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suspected carcinogens known as pfas. in tonight's "eye on america," mark strassmann reports from ohio, where many firefighters worry about their gear and foam than about smoke and flames. >> reporter: in small town bell brook, ohio, firefighter jay leach feels burned. >> most firefighters that got in this job knew it's an inherited risk, but we never knew the gear and equipment we're using is killing us. >> reporter: inside fire station, he helped remove buckets of firefighting foam. it's 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 inhalation causes 4% of active-duty firefighter deaths.

a safer foam now exists, and 21 states have introduced policies that limit the use of a-fff firefighting foam. but for jay leach, cancer's heartache has no limits. >> you said you wanted to show me something. >> i do. i keep my wife with me in my he helmet. there's a picture of her in there. >> you wear that whenever you go on a call. >> mm-hmm. >> 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. >> you couldn't conclusively prove it.

>> correct. >> but in your gut. >> absolutely. i wholeheartedly believe that pfas caused my wife's cancer. >> reporter: the american chemistry council says it supports limits on using a-fff, adding all pfas are not the same. it is not scientifically accurate or appropriate to 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 cmmitted to destroying all of it. ohio governor mike dewine. >> this gives us an alternative. >> sitting there, which does nobody any good. >> it does no one any good. you know, it might leak out. you know, there's a danger whenever you have a product like that. >> reporter: another worry, pfas have been inside firefighting gear for decades. p farks help repel water and contaminants, but put it on this

gear, and you're wrapping yourself inside suspected carcinogens. >> we sweat. our pores open up, and the forever chemicals can go in our body. >> 19 years into this job, are you more scared of fires, or are you more scared of cancer? >> cancer, absolutely. i love the job, but at the end of the day, i sit and think, is it worth it? >> reporter: they realize the irony. scared of what's supposed to protect them. for "eye on america," mark strassmann, bellbrook, ohio. >> what a story. and next, the story of a special colle ge gra

finally, tonight's "heart of america." it's graduation season and a time to celebrate the hard work of america's students. but for ronald yancy, it's a reminder of personal perseverance. nearly six decades ago, he became the first black graduate at georgia tech, paving the way for other students of color. earlier this month, he presented

a diploma and a hug to one of those students, his granddaughter, deanna. she graduated with a master's in electrical and computer engineering, the very same field as her grandfather. >> i get the best of both worlds of not only having ronald yancy, the first black graduate, hand me 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. >> i agree. ronald and deanna yancy, they are tonight's "heart of america." and congratulations to all the graduates. and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." and you can follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell.

this is "cbs news flash." i'm carissa lawson in new york. multiple fatalities are reported after tornadoes tore through western iowa on tuesday. this tornado left a trail of destruction in adams county. severe weather alerts remain for

much of the midwest overnight. fani willis, a key player in the georgia election interference case against former president donald trump and 18 other defendants, is claiming victory in her democratic primary. in november, she faces off against a republican challenger in the race for fulton county district attorney. and donald trump's hush money trial in new york is drawing closer to an end. the jury has been sent home until may 28th, when closing arguments are expected. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm carissa lawson, cbs news, new york. tonight, deadly turbulence. >> the plane just suddenly dropped. there was awful screaming. >> the terrifying moments in the sky. an international flight plunges, leaving passengers bloody and oxygen masks hanging. what we're learning about what exactly happened.

>> the type of damage that we see in this airplane is not typical of what you would see from just a turbulence encounter. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." 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 severe turbulence on the way to singapore. one person is dead. dozens are injured. tonight, seven are in critical condition. the chaos lasted less than two minutes, forcing the 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 passengers bloodied, 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 10 hours into singapore airlines flight 321 as it approached thailand on the trip from london to singapore. there were storms in the area when preliminary flight data show the plane appeared to encounter a sudden turbulent event lasting about a minute. it launched unbelted passengers and crew into the ceiling, leaving dozens injured and a 73-year-old british man dead of a possible heart attack. a line of ambulances met the boeing 777-300 after an emergency landing in bangkok. among the 211 passengers and 18 crew on board, at least 4 americans. one is said to be among the injured. 30 people were taken to the hospital according to the airline, 7 in critical condition. >> it's extremely rare to have a turbulence event result in fatalities. >> reporter: former ntsb chair robert sumwalt. >> what i would call this right now is an in-flight upset,

whether that is a result of atmospheric turbulence or whether it's the result of something else. >> 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 reported. nearly 80% were to airline crew. the best thing you can do to protect yourself and stay safe is wear that seat belt, norah. >> frightening. kris van cleave, thank you. well, now to some breaking news with a new round of severe weather hammering the heartland. at this hour, there have been at least a dozen reports of tornadoes across iowa with several states under tornado watches through the night. cbs's roxana saberi is in davenport, iowa, tonight. >> reporter: tonight a dangerous tornado outbreak in iowa with at least a dozen reports of twisters so far today. this video was 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. 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're under a tornado watch until 9:00 local time tonight. for details on this dangerous situation and what people can expect, i want to bring in meteorologist chris bruin from our partners at the weather channel. chris. >> yeah, that's a particularly dangerous situation, and it's a notable threat here for eastern iowa and other parts of the midwest. the winds we already have and the blue sky we've seen at times today, it just shows you how dangerous the environment is in the atmosphere as the storms work this direction.

so that tells us they are going to intensify. they will 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 it already looks like. we've got watches stretched all missouri and arkansas.s of but here in iowa, this seems to be the bulk of where we'll see the worst conditions. that's where torcons are the highest. also into southwest wisconsin and southern parts of minnesota, a torcon of 7. that's a notable threat here. the storms will move through quickly. once they clear you, the threat is done and we will clear out very nicely. but the problems don't stop there. damaging winds could exceed into chicago and all the way down into the mid-south come tomorrow. there's a look at our threat from texas to arkansas. you can see the timing will continue through the afternoon and into tomorrow night, even early thursday morning. so we have a long 48 hours to go, norah. >> important information. chris bruin and roxana saberi, thank you so much. well, tonight the defense rests 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

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>> 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 echos of hateful extremists. he's said of immigrants -- >> they're poisoning the blood of our country. >> reporter: and of his political opponents, using language some historians say is akin to nazi propaganda. >> and the radical left thugs 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 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. 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

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allegations in a hearing wednesday after an attorney for keogh says a temporary restraining order was granted on monday according to wreg, our cbs affiliate in memphis. >> you want to keep the status quo and make sure nothing changes, make sure nobody is harmed. and the biggest harm would come from an illegitimate sale of graceland. >> reporter: elvis presley enterprises manages graceland, and they said in a statement that any claims of foreclosure are fraudulent. but check this out. elvis' ex-wife, priscilla, even went to social media and put a picture of graceland up and said, it's a scam. now, we reached out to two people who are associated with that lending company to ask some questions, and they said they would send our questions to their attorneys. omar villafranca, cbs news, memphis, tennessee. turning to health news, the massive demand for weight loss drugs like ozempic and wegovy has caused a nationwide shortage. now an online pharmacy says it will offer its own version at a

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except the people who are making it and the people who are selling it. >> reporter: even without fda approval, news of hims and hers cheaper alternative sent its stock soaring monday. the cdc says 42% of american adults have obesity, and while 1 in 8 americans have used a glp-1 medication, more than half of all adults who have taken it say it was difficult to afford the cost. >> even though there's a sense of urgency to improve your halth, there's also an even higher bar, which is first it has to be done safely. >> reporter: nancy chen, cbs news, new york. the liz neeley: you know, you've probably heard it said that some people have to hit rock bottom before they really come to the lord and give him their life. and that's what happened.

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athletes around the world have just about two months left to prepare for the summer olympics. the legendary simone biles is bidding for a spot on the u.s. women's gymnastics team and dominated at last weekend's u.s. classic, a crucial stop on the way to paris. cbs's jamie yuccas breaks down the competition.

>> reporter: with her signature power, agility, and grace, simone biles was true to form at saturday's u.s. classic. flipping high in the air to win gold on the floor. [ cheers and applause ] and landing the biles, her self-titled vault skill, en route to an all-around win as the 27-year-old eyes her third olympics this summer. >> i was just happy to be back out there, get through those nerves again, feel that adrenaline. >> reporter: biles finished nearbily two points ahead of the runner-up but says she still has work to do. >> for me, it's getting through it, having the confidence, working on cleanliness. >> reporter: also hoping for a third olympics appearance is 28-year-old gabby douglas. the 2012 all around champion and three-time medalist. but she dropped out of the u.s. classic after falling twice on the uneven bars. meanwhile, shilese jones beginning her bid for a first

olympics appearance, took gold in the bars. she finished in second place overall. and sunisa lee, the all-around gold medalist at the tokyo 2020 olympics, took home the beam title at saturday's meet. in a comeback from a kidney issue that cut her college career short. jamie yuccas, cbs news. and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. check back later for "cbs mornings." reporting from the nation's capital, i'm olivia gazis. this is "cbs news flash." i'm carissa lawson in new york. multiple fatalities are reported after tornadoes tore through western iowa on tuesday. this tornado left a trail of destruction in adams county. severe weather alerts remain for much of the midwest overnight.

fani willis, a key player in the georgia election interference case against former president donald trump and 18 other defendants, is claiming victory in her democratic primary. in november, she faces off against a republican challenger in the race for fulton county district attorney. and donald trump's hush money trial in new york is drawing closer to an end. the jury has been sent home until may 28th, when closing arguments are expected. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm carissa lawson, cbs news, new york. tonight, deadly turbulence. >> the plane just suddenly dropped. there was awful screaming. >> the terrifying moments in the sky. an international flight plunges, leaving passengers bloody and oxygen masks hanging. what we're learning about what exactly happened. >> the type of damage that we

see in this airplane is not typical of what you would see from just a turbulence encounter. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." 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 severe turbulence on the way to singapore. one person is dead. dozens are injured. tonight, seven are in critical condition. the chaos lasted less than two minutes, forcing the 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 passengers bloodied, 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 10 hours into singapore airlines flight 321 as it approached thailand on the trip from london to singapore. there were storms in the area when preliminary flight data show the plane appeared to encounter a sudden turbulent event lasting about a minute. it launched unbelted passengers and crew into the ceiling, leaving dozens injured and a 73-year-old british man dead of a possible heart attack. a line of ambulances met the boeing 777-300 after an emergency landing in bangkok. among the 211 passengers and 18 crew on board, at least 4 americans. one is said to be among the injured. 30 people were taken to the hospital according to the airline, 7 in critical condition. >> it's extremely rare to have a turbulence event result in fatalities. >> reporter: former ntsb chair robert sumwalt. >> what i would call this right now is an in-flight upset,

whether that is a result of atmospheric turbulence or whether it's the result of something else. >> 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 reported. nearly 80% were to airline crew. the best thing you can do to protect yourself and stay safe is wear that seat belt, norah. >> frightening. kris van cleave, thank you. well, now to some breaking news with a new round of severe weather hammering the heartland. at this hour, there have been at least a dozen reports of tornadoes across iowa with several states under tornado watches through the night. cbs's roxana saberi is in davenport, iowa, tonight. >> reporter: tonight a dangerous tornado outbreak in iowa with at least a dozen reports of twisters so far today. this video was 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. 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're under a tornado watch until 9:00 local time tonight. for details on this dangerous situation and what people can expect, i want to bring in meteorologist chris bruin from our partners at the weather channel. chris. >> yeah, that's a particularly dangerous situation, and it's a notable threat here for eastern iowa and other parts of the midwest. the winds we already have and the blue sky we've seen at times today, it just shows you how dangerous the environment is in the atmosphere as the storms work this direction. so that tells us they are going to intensify.

they will 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 it already looks like. we've got watches stretched all the way down into parts of missouri and arkansas. but here in iowa, this seems to be the bulk of where we'll see the worst conditions. that's where torcons are the highest. also into southwest wisconsin and southern parts of minnesota, a torcon of 7. that's a notable threat here. the storms will move through quickly. once they clear you, the threat is done and we will clear out very nicely. but the problems don't stop there. damaging winds could exceed into chicago and all the way down into the mid-south come tomorrow. there's a look at our threat from texas to arkansas. you can see the timing will continue through the afternoon and into tomorrow night, even early thursday morning. so we have a long 48 hours to go, norah. >> important information. chris bruin and roxana saberi, thank you so much. well, tonight the defense rests 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's social media account

during court yesterday that president biden is calling attention to. it includes references to a unified reich. that is a term that is largely associated with hitler's regime in nazi germany. biden's campaign says it's, quote, a pattern of the former president's praise for dictators and echoing 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 with one asking, what's next for america? and 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 on to power.

>> this kind of rhetoric is unsurprising coming from the former president, and it is appalling. and we gotta tell him who we are. >> reporter: it's not the first time trump has used rhetoric prompting outrage for its echos of hateful extremists. he's said of immigrants -- >> they're poisoning the blood of our country. >> reporter: and of his political opponents, using language some historians say is akin to nazi propaganda. >> and the radical left thugs 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 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. 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-term. 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, quote, junior staffer for sharing the material, which was first published elsewhere. norah. >> robert costa, thank you very much. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight news."

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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." 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 trump in power after he lost the 2020 election. the former president himself is not charged in this alleged fake elector scheme, but he is unindicted co-conspirator number 1. cbs's ed o'keefe reports from phoenix. >> hello. this is rudy giuliani. >> reporter: the former new york city mayor phoned in to a phoenix courtroom today to face charges of trying to overturn results of the 2020 presidential election. >> i do consider this indictment a complete embarrassment to the american legal system. >> reporter: prosecutors finally served 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 a $10,000 bond and show up in arizona for processing in the next 30 days. giuliani is one 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 gop, kelli ward and her husband, michael. their attorney says they committed no crime. >> in the view of your clients, it was protest? >> yes, absolutely. peaceable protest, which is constitutional. freedom of speech. >> reporter: at least five states are investigating or prosecuting so-called fake electors who tried pressuring then vice president mike pence to 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 aren't going away. just last week in tiny delta county, michigan, a board of canvassers initially refused to certify the results of a county commission race. they were pushed by election conspiracy activists questioning the reliability of voting machines.

the local board eventually approved the results under pressure from state officials. the defendants in this case aren't scheduled to go on trial until mid-october at the earliest, meaning another legal battle over the 2020 elections isn't likely to be resolved until after the 2024 contest. 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 a.i. companies. actress scarlett johansson claims openai's chatgpt mimicked her voice for its latest personal assistant program. cbs's jo ling kent has the tale of a.i. 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'm doing fantastic. thanks for asking. >> reporter: johansson is calling out openai ceo sam altman, saying the company's new a.i. voice sky sounded eerily

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this comes at a time when the use of a.i. in hollywood remains a major concern. >> this is openai's business model. they troll the entire internet for every image. they vacuum it up and make many, many, many millions of dollars off of this. who isn't getting paid? the artists. >> and jo ling kent joins us now. and this isn't the first accusation against a.i. like this, right? >> 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. >> future to come, or it's here. >> it's here. >> 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. they'll cost. that's next. “the darkness of bipolar depression made me feel like i was losing interest in the things i love.

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>> but in your gut -- >> absolutely. i wholeheartedly believe that pfas caused my wife's cancer. >> reporter: the american chemistry council says it supports limits on using afff, adding "all pfas are not the same. it is not scientifically accurate or appropriate to 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 gives us an alternative. >> it's sitting there, which does nobody any good. >> it does no one any good. you know, it might leak out. you know, there's a danger whenever you have a product like that. >> reporter: another worry, pfas have been inside firefighting gear for decades. pfas help repel water and contaminants, but put it on this gear, and you're wrapping

yourself inside suspected carcinogens. >> we sweat. our pores open up, and the forever chemicals can go in our body. >> 19 years into this job, are you more scared of fires, or are you more scared of cancer? >> cancer, absolutely. i love the job, but at the end of the day, i sit and think, is it worth it? >> reporter: they realize the irony. scared of what's supposed to protect them. for "eye on america," mark strassmann, bellbrook, ohio. >> what a story. and next, the story of a special college graduation ceremony that's all in the family. how do i love thee? ...let me count the ways. ♪ love can get a little messy... good thing there's resolve. love the love. resolve the mess.

finally, tonight's "heart of america." it's graduation season and a time to celebrate the hard work of america's students. but for ronald yancey, it's a reminder of personal perseverance. nearly six decades ago, he became the first black graduate at georgia tech, paving the way for other students of color. earlier this month, he presented

a diploma and a hug to one of those students, his granddaughter, deanna. she graduated with a master's in electrical and computer engineering, the very same field as her grandfather. >> i get the best of both worlds of not only having ronald yancey, the first black graduate, hand me 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. >> i agree. ronald and deanna yancey, they are tonight's "heart of america." and congratulations to all the graduates. and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." and you can follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell.

this is "cbs news flash." i'm carissa lawson in new york. multiple fatalities are reported after tornadoes tore through western iowa on tuesday. this tornado left a trail of destruction in adams county. severe weather alerts remain for

much of the midwest overnight. fani willis, a key player in the georgia election interference case against former president donald trump and 18 other defendants, is claiming victory in her democratic primary. in november, she faces off against a republican challenger in the race for fulton county district attorney. and donald trump's hush money trial in new york is drawing closer to an end. the jury has been sent home until may 28th, when closing arguments are expected. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm carissa lawson, cbs news, new york. it's wednesday, may 22nd, 2024. this is "cbs news mornings." breaking overnight, heartbreak in the heartland. a string of tornadoes leaves death and devastation in their wake. plus --

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