you can watch our hour long, special roots and resilience and a pc celebration this friday. at 4 p.m. on kpx. and streaming on cbs news bay area. well, thank you so much for joining us for today's conversation on summer travel and safety. we love to hear what you think. and what you're seeing and hearing in your neighborhoods. post your thoughts online using the hashtag kpi. the ex cbs evening news is next local news continues on our streaming service, cbs news bay area i'll see you at 5:00. >> what a monster. >> norah: deadly tornado outbreak. >> it just sounded like our whole house was going to come down. down. >> norah: tonight the search and rescue as survivors pick up the pieces after twisters destroy entire neighborhoods in the midwest. >> there's 14 houses that i can count that are no longer there.

>> norah: plus the new tornado threat tonight. the "cbs evening news" starts now. ♪ ♪ tonight, tens of millions of americans are in the path of dangerous storms from texas to vermont. good evening, i'm norah o'donnell, and thank you for being with us. it's a fourth straight day of severe weather bringing destructive wind, flooding, and tornadoes. several twisters touched down last night in the hawkeye state, including one with winds up to 165 miles per hour. and the scope of the devastation is heartbreaking. this is what the small town of greenfield, iowa, looks like from above tonight. home after home brought to the ground. search and rescue operations are underway right now with the governor revealing its unknown exactly how many people are dead or missing. cbs's roxana saberi is in greenfield tonight, talking to families who lost everything.

>> reporter: the tornado that ripped through greenfield, iowa, left a trail of destruction several miles long. >> this is a search and rescue mission, and it will continue to be throughout the day. >> reporter: winds in excess of 136 miles per hour shredded homes and flung cars in trees, sending debris more than 6 miles into the sky. >> don't know who is tv that is. >> reporter: zeke chafa says one of his two daughters was at home alone when the twister hit. she is survived by hiding in thr basement. >> another. i got my daughter. everything else can be replaced. >> reporter: including, he says, his home of 20 years. as all of the stuff yours, do you think? >> i don't think any of it is. that's a fridge from somebody's house. my fridge is over there. >> that's a big tornado. >> reporter: at least 18 tornadoes were reported across the state yesterday, including this one near the town of nevada. a traffic camera capture the

moment it barreled across a highway, flipping the semitruck. storms are part of the nonrelentless season of severe weather. more than 850 tornadoes have been reported across the u.s. already this year. far above average. back in greenfield, sisters keely and kaiya pickrell told us they are still in shock. you must have a lot of memories here. >> yeah. >> reporter: do you want to build new ones? >> yeah. >> reporter: here? >> yep. >> i hope so. >> reporter: we have seen residents here all day, helping one another, picking up the pieces, and they all say the same thing: they want to rebuild it, if they can. norah? >> norah: roxana saberi, thank you for being there. there is breaking news tonight. new questions surrounding supreme court justice samuel alito after "new york times" report of a revolutionary war era flag linked to the january 6th insurrection photographed outside alito's beach house in

new jersey last summer. it was an appeal to heaven flag, which became a symbol of support for donald trump's "stop the steal" campaign to overturn the 2020 election. the times previously reported in other "stop the steal symbol," an upside down american flag, was flown outside alito's home in virginia in january of 2021. alito says his wife put up that flag as part of a dispute with a neighbor. the revelation has dozens of democratic lawmakers calling on the justice to recuse himself from january 6th related cases. today, 19 families of uvalde school shooting victims announced they have settled one lawsuit against the city for $2 million, but they are filing another against the school district and 92 state police officers. this week some marks two years since officers made no mike waid 70 minutes to confront the gunman who killed 19 children and to teachers at robb elementary.

cbs's lilia luciano is back in uvalde. >> reporter: still in search of answers and accountability, nearly two years to the day the families of slain and some surviving victims filed a $500 million federal lawsuit, calling the response of the greatest law-enforcement failure in confronting an active shooter in american history. >> the time has come to do the right thing. >> reporter: the lawsuit names 92 individual officers from the texas department of public safety, the agency with the largest presence at robb elementary, as the killer was left inside the two classrooms, shooting multiple times for more than an hour. >> 376 officers doing their job and unable to protect these children from 77 minutes. >> reporter: but in a city torn apart by rage, grief, and political polarization since mad a $2 million settlement with the city, which included enhancement police training and a new fitness for duty standard, among other community resources. anybody hearing $2 million would

conclude that can't be satisfactory settlement in this case. >> that's right. >> reporter: why? >> you do not want to go after your city that you know and love and potentially even jeopardize them financially and put them into bankruptcy. >> reporter: 10-year-old victim lexi rubio's mom, kimberly, says the second year is increasingly difficult. >> i think the first year, you are in shock, and numb. year 2 comes around, and it's just, it's been a really long time since we have seen her. held her. heard her. >> reporter: why was it important to reach the settlement? >> this is injustice, but it's the city step toward promoting healing in our community, and this is lexi's community, thi is my community. >> reporter: in addition to that $2 million settlement, which is coming from the insurance that the city holds, the city has also agreed to make

may 24th an annual day of remembrance and to build a permanent memorial to honor the victims, including all those children, possibly in this town square. norah? >> norah: lilia luciano, thank you for all your reporting from there. we appreciate it. tonight, the families of female idf soldiers taken on october 7th want you to see the images we are about to show you, and a warning, they are disturbing. they show the women bound, some bloodied, before they were ushered into a waiting vehicle at gunpoint. the families released the video in an attempt to pressure israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu for release. and tonight there are new protests. it's not the only pressure that netanyahu is feeling after three countries said today they'll recognize palestinian statehood. cbs's imtiaz tyab has more from east jerusalem. >> reporter: prime minister netanyahu responded with fury, calling it a reward for terrorism. with the leaders of norway,

spain, and ireland insist the move to recognize a palestinian state was in support of peace. >> and because we believe that permanent peace can only be secured upon the basis of the free will of a free people. >> reporter: regional analysts say the move by the european nations, which is largely symbolic, may be assigned the u.s.'s decades long dominance over the so-called peace process is starting to wane. the last time direct talks were held between the israelis and palestinians was during the obama administration, and that collapsed in a matter of months. the three european leaders said their recognition of palestine was also part of efforts to pressure israel to end the fighting in gaza. and the pressure is only mounting tonight after the families of five israeli women released graphic images of their abduction from the nir oz kibbutz, part of a desperate plea to prime minister netanyahu to agree to a deal with hamas to secure their release.

orly gilboa is the mother of 19-year-old daniela. >> i just want everyone do whatever they can to bring her home. >> reporter: in gaza, the fighting rages on. a cbs news team was at the al-aqsa hospital in deir al bala after an israeli air strike killed at least 12. and between a potential arrest warrant for alleged war crimes, unilateral recognition of the palestinian state by european powers, and anguished pleas from hostage families at home, netanyahu is facing pressure from all sides as he desperately tries to cling onto power. norah? >> norah: imtiaz tyab, thank you. there is breaking news tonight and the 2024 race for president. former republican presidential candidate nikki haley said this. >> so i will be voting for trump. having said that, i stand by what i said in my suspension speech. trump would be smart to reach

out to the millions of people who voted for me and continue to support me. and not assume that they are just going to be with him. and i genuinely hope he does that. >> norah: haley has had sharp differences with her former boss, and previously called trump not qualified to lead the nation. here's a look at sites other top headlines, starting with the fallout from donald trump's contraception comments, with cbs pittsburgh. first, the former president said he wants restrictions on contraceptive access. then he backtracked. cbs's scott macfarlane has reaction. >> reporter: democrats have been trained to press women's reproductive rights into a winning campaign issue. now they are considering a plan to make access to contraceptives a federal right. leaning into the former president combines he would be open to restriction. >> well, we are looking at that and we are going to die policy on that very shortly.

>> reporter: minnesota democrat amy klobuchar says congress has to move on the spirit speak like to come at his word because we saw time and time again with the kind of judges he put on the court. >> reporter: democrats know they don't have 60 votes to make this law, but they want to make some political noise. >> norah: now to that deadly sudden turbulence on a singapore airlines flight from london monday. cbs's chris livesay reports the u.s. is now part of the investigation. >> at least 20 people are still in intensive care and now we are hearing more harrowing details from those on board. >> they hit the ceiling. >> there is dense on the overhead luggage compartments. what you would expect to be a warning for some kind of incoming turbulence. it did happen. >> reporter: the ntsb is sending investigators to bangkok where the plane made an emergency landing. >> norah: next to graceland, where the american landmark in memphis is safe, at least for now. cbs's omar villafranca on what happens next. >> reporter: graceland, the legendary home of elvis presley, will not go up for a foreclosure

auction tomorrow, after a judge in memphis paused the proceedings. just hours after the judge granted the injunction, someone who claims to be a representative of the investments now says the company is withdrawing the case that it made a $3.8 million loan to elvis' late daughter, lisa marie presley, with graceland as collateral, saying the loan wasn't paid off before she died. lisa marie's daughter and heir, riley keough says her mother never borrowed the money in the claims were fraudulent were fraudulent. >> norah: finally to turks and caicos were five americans are being held after small amount of ammunition were found in their luggage. that includes a florida grandmother who spoke to cbs's kris van cleave. >> reporter: serena greer was on a surprise mother's day vacation with her daughter when police allege airport security spotted two rounds of ammo in her bag as she was leaving the turks nk coast. she insists she didn't know the bullets were there. you spent a few nights behind

bars. >> i did. >> reporter: what was that experience like? >> they chained me to a chair by my leg. it's cold. scared. it was awful. >> reporter: a delegation of u.s. lawmakers just met with local leaders urging leniency and hoping for a solution, but the fate of the five americans is up to the courts. >> norah: thanks to our cbs news teams around the globe. a big announcement today about those popular buy now, pay later plans, you know what i'm talking about, well, "money watch" is next. so this is better. even this. dupixent is an add-on treatment for specific types of moderate-to-severe asthma that's not for sudden breathing problems. dupixent can cause allergic reactions that can be severe. tell your doctor right away if you have rash, chest pain, worsening shortness of breath, tingling or numbness in your limbs. tell your doctor about new or worsening joint aches and pain or a parasitic infection. don't change or stop asthma medicines including steroids,

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as if nature is yet again trying to capture our collective attention. do i have a cicada on my back? >> yes, you do. it was a big one. neotredecim. >> reporter: in april, so many of us gathered to stop and stare during a total eclipse of the sun. earlier this month, millions of us marveled as the northern lights danced across the night sky. two events accurately predicted by astronomers. >> now we are seeing periodical cicadas coming out of the ground predicted by entomologist come at a time when people lost faith in science, this shows that scit right. >> reporter: i don't want to overplay this but doesn't give us this kind of shared experience in a world where we don't have that many of those anymore? >> i think so. i was at an eclipse party and there were people there from all political persuasions. we didn't talk politics. we watched. >> reporter: now, kritsky has created an app called cicada safari to attract where and when

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cbs's james brown. j.b. was honored with the lifetime achievement award at last night's 45th annual sports emmys. the three time emmy winners career spans more than four decades and includes hosting the super bowl pregame show a record 12 times. j.b. is host of the nfl today on cbs come at a special correspondent for cbs news, ande lucky to have our very own james brown. he is tonight's "heart of america." such a great guy. >> adrian and i were no longer living together, due to his aggression and violence. >> announcer: after having a child, all they did was fight. >> during the struggle, i told him that he was hurting me and to let me go. and he refused to. >> judge judy: is there something wrong with you? >> i had begun miscarrying the pregnancy that i'm currently carrying because of the trauma. >> announcer: and innocent lives face an uncertain future. >> judge judy: you have one child with him. you're having another. duh. >> announcer: "judge judy." you are about to enter

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