this 16-year-old is lucky to still have his arm. his brother didn't survive, he says. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: "he was shot right next to me in the stomach and the leg. he was 12." the hamas-run health ministry says 274 people were killed in the rescue operation. many hundreds more wounded. israel disputes that number and blames hamas for surrounding the hostages with civilians like these. we spoke to unicef spokesman's james elder in gaza, who saw the grisly scenes at the hospital himself. >> it felt again like day one of the war. this hospital heaving with people, children, you know, little 3-year-olds, 7-year-olds with these grotesque wounds of war, head injuries and the burns. it's a smell of burning flesh that's very hard to get out of one's head. >> reporter: so many child

victims in gaza where almost half the population is under 18. but that cease-fire is still in limbo. a frustrated secretary of state antony blinken said hamas, quote, waited two weeks and proposed changes. as a result, the war hamas

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all eyes will focus on the play stereo phonic, which has now garnered more nominations than any other show ever. anthony mason spent some time with the cast. ♪ >> reporter: the play "stereophonic" follows a band struggling to make an epic album. ♪ and the rivalries and resentments that boil up when they're trapped together in a studio for a year in the late '70s. >> but what about me? and like when you sold my guitar. >> okay. this was seven years ago. >> the guitar that took me months and months to save for. >> is this actually a working studio? >> it is a working studio. >> reporter: will butler, a former member of the band arcade fire, wrote the tony-nominated score for a play in which the

studio is the stage. ♪ >> does the soundboard actually work too? >> they did midnight train to georgia on this sound board. >> no way. >> reporter: he began working with playwright davidage amy back in 2014. >> my attitude when i joined in was, this will be a lark. >> you get on board ten years ago. there's no cast. there's no script. so you have to start envisioning music for a band that doesn't exist. >> yes. it was hilarious. in the script, five six years,age amy finishes the script, and it's like the band plays something transcendent. >> the problem is if the song isn't convincing, the play won't be convincing. >> yeah. yeah, that's the problem. >> reporter: another problem, finding five actors who convincing could become a band. ♪

>> what were you looking for in that casting process? >> anything. i was very cavalier. i was like, any idiot can be in a band. look at this guy. ♪ >> reporter: only chris stack, who plays drummer simon, had any experience in a band. ♪ ♪ i'll see you when i get there ♪ >> reporter: sarah pigeon, who plays diana, and julianna canfield, who plays holly, had never sung professionally. >> all of us were cast because they thought we could act the parts, and then they sort of crossed their fingers that would be able to get their musically. >> were you confident in that? >> no. >> no. ♪ sunday morning and the light's fine ♪ >> reporter: the cast rehearsed for hours every day. some took lessons. tom pa sin ca, who is the band's

lead guitarist, said he's only ever played garbage guitar. >> when you did an in-person audition, your hand was actually shaking? >> oh, yeah, my hands shake all the time. i mean they don't shake anymore, but off broadway, they shook a lot. >> but also what part of that anecdote that i've heard is that he made them cry playing the song that he played in that audition. so shaky hands, trembling hearts. >> that's right. that's right. trembling hearts. >> you're cousins with the main doobie brother. >> yeah. >> you're a doobie cousin? >> reporter: eli geld and andrew butler play the studio engineers. >> you and andrew have an interesting job because you spend a lot of the play actually with your backs to the audience, being engineers. >> if i'm not really careful during the show, it's easy to forget that there's like 800 people sitting right behind us. >> reporter: for the fictional band, the creative process creates turmoil. >> my wife doesn't want to be with me.

i've got to find something to live for. >> why do you have to be such a sad man in a blanket all the bloody time, eh? >> some of the things that my character goes through parallel my own life in pretty intense ways. and so that was a really fun weekend with my therapist to figure out. ♪ >> reporter: if the plot sounds familiar, the show's creators insist the story is not based on fleetwood mac. but for their auditions -- >> what did you sing for your oughtition? >> rhiannon. >> i sang landslide. >> there seems to be a theme. >> yeah. >> reporter: in the script for "stereophonic," the group does not have a name. >> in your mind, have you given it a name? >> yes. >> we have, but it's a secret. >> i will not be speaking the name. >> has anyone said it yet? >> no. the guys wouldn't say it. >> but it's kind of fun. it's kind of fun that we have a

secret name. ♪ >> reporter: what's no longer a secret is "stereo phonic's" success. ♪ >> you have an album now. >> yeah. a damn good album. >> it rocks. >> i never thought that i would record any music or see my name on spotify. >> i think also to have something that's physical when theater is so fleeting is really special to sort of commemorate this. a life-changing moment for all of us. ♪ >> what a hilarious ride it's been. it's been a lark. >> a 13 tony nomination lark. >> it's pretty good. ♪ >> and you can watch the 77th annual tony awards this sunday starting at 8:00 p.m. eastern right here on cbs and streaming on paramount+. on paramount+. "cbs news (♪♪) this is a hot flash.

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>> up to west. look at the moves he has. >> reporter: he's the man who inspired the nba logo. it doesn't get any more iconic than that. as a player, jerry west had roaring crowds in the palm of his hands as he dazzled his way across every court he played on. he was an all-star every year of his career and reached the finals nine times, even winning the finals mvp when his team lost in 1969. he won his only championship in 1972. but the jerry west show was only just beginning. as general manager, he created the showtim lakers of the '80s and the kobe/shaq dynamic duo of the early 2000s. tributes pours in from across the sports landscape. magic johnson, who west drafted in 1979, wrote, jerry west was more than a general manager. he was a great friend and confidant. he was there in my highest moments, winning five nba championships, and in my lowest moment, when i announced my hiv

diagnosis and we cried together for hours in his office. >> i was a dreamer. my family didn't have much. >> reporter: in his later years, west was open about his battle with depression. >> i'd sit alone on our front porch and wonder if i ever make it to the top of that mountain, what will i see on the other side? well, i did make it to the other side, and my dreams have come true. >> reporter: a kid from rural west virginia who reached 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. i probably had a lot of anxiety at that point about my future,

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... steve hartman now with an inspiring story of perseverance that he found "on the road." >> reporter: although born without hands or feet, 25-year-old zach angland says the only limbs he ever longed for were wings. always wanted to be a pilot. unfortunately, no quad amputee had ever become a commercial pilot. >> obviously nothing worth

having comes easy. >> from the time he was born, he was a disciplined and determined child. >> reporter: adoptive parents harold and patty say there was no talking him out of it. so when zach turned 18, he applied to a flight school, that said no. >> there's nothing we can really do for you. we're sorry. >> reporter: the second one said the same. >> like here we go again. >> reporter: as did the third. >> the same response. >> reporter: and so it went. more than a dozen times over. >> you're not hearing what they're saying. >> i'm not. my wife will tell you i'm a little bit hard headed. >> reporter: which is why this hard headed husband and soft-hearted father applied to one more school. the spartan college of aeronautics in tulsa, oklahoma. they said yes, although zach's struggle was just getting started. he still needed approval from the federal aviation administration to take the lessons. but the faa repeatedly and in no uncertain terms denied his

request. and after the fifth rejection letter, zach finally gave up. >> i was like, this is not for me. this is impossible to do. and so my mom was over my shoulder at this point, right? and then she's like, you're not done yet. >> i said, you can never succeed until you've learned to fail. >> reporter: and patty says her son obviously hadn't failed enough. so zach kept at it until finally they cleared him for one takeoff. and when zach was given the opportunity to show his potential, it became clear as blue sky that you don't need hands to have wings. zach graduated from flight school a few years ago and now teaches the same course so many told him he couldn't even take. >> why do people need to hear this? >> because my story isn't just

for amputees. we all go through trials and tribulations. the word "impossible" is an illusion behind the word "possible". >> reporter: and failure, just the turbulence on your journey. steve hartman on the road in tulsa. and that's today's "cbs news roundup." be sure to tune in later for "cbs mornings." reporting from new york city, i'm shanelle kaul. ♪ hello and thanks so much for watching. i'm shanelle kaul in new york, and here are some of the stories we're tracking on "cbs news roundup." a unanimous supreme court ruling preserves access to one

of the most widely used abortion pills. but more litigation is on the way. in rain-soaked florida, there is little relief in sight with another storm possible for next week. and a victorious return to capitol hill for donald trump as he now rallies republicans around his run for president. all nine supreme court justices rejected a bid to cut access to the abortion medication mifepristone. it's the court's first abortion-related decision since conservative justices overturned the federal right to an abortion two years ago. cbs's skyler henry was at the supreme court. >> reporter: the abortion drug mifepristone, used in nearly two-thirds of all u.s. abortions last year, will stay available to patients up to ten weeks pregnant without having an in-person doctor visit. the nine justices were unanimous, finding the abortion opponents who brought the case lacked the legal standing to sue the fda. >> it doesn't have anything to do with whether or not abortion

is a protected liberty under the constitution. it has everything to do with these doctors, this medical group, whether or not they could walk into the courthouse doors and say, i was injured enough to be able to move forward with my suit. >> reporter: president biden, in italy for the g7 summit, praised the decision but signaled abortion access will be a top issue in november, saying in a statement, "it does not change the fact that the right for a woman to get the treatment she needs is imperiled if not impossible in many states." today's ruling allows mail order pharmacies to continue shipping mifepristone nationwide. but just last month, louisiana designated the drug a dangerous controlled substance. 14 states are enforcing bans on all stages of abortion, making access to mifepristone difficult. >> the data are very, very clear that mifepristone is extremely safe, extremely effective. over 100 peer-reviewed journal

publications have shown this over and over again. >> reporter: anti-abortion activists were outside the supreme court thursday, vowing to fight on. >> they're not saying that abortion pills are safe. they just said the case didn't have standing. so we'll be back with another case with better standing next time. >> reporter: three states, idaho, kansas, and missouri, are working to return the issue to the courts with plaintiffs directly impacted. skyler henry, cbs news, the supreme court. now to the record-breaking rainfall and rising floodwaters across south florida. five counties are now under a state of emergency after days of nonstop heavy downpours, and it's still coming down. take a look at this video here. those cars are not parked in a river. that is actually a city street in miami under several feet of water. it's happening all across the region, and now there's news of another tropical storm possible next week. cbs's manuel bojorquez is in the thick of it. >> reporter: heavy rain slammed south florida for the fourth day

in a row, dumping on average 4 inches of rain per hour. the drenching downpour has left parts of miami-dade county impassable with cars submerged and entire neighborhoods underwater. >> it's crazy. i mean look at my pants. look at me. i'm wet. every time i walk in the street, the water is right here. >> reporter: the storm system now centered over the atlantic has dumped more than 20 inches of rain in some areas. waist-high water meant some residents waded, kayaked, or wakeboarded to get around flooded communities. in dania beach, first responders rescued at least 40 people from floodwaters as homeowners sought higher ground. officials are warning residents to stay off the roads. >> more than half of the deaths from flooding each year occur in vehicles. so the message is turn around, don't drown. >> reporter: in hallandale beach, this person drove right into a canal, mistaking it for a road.

schools in all of broward county were closed. >> oh, [ bleep ]! >> reporter: here in hollywood, florida, eric aragon's home flooded. they had to evacuate through a window, and now he's concerned about what's next. >> it's only going to get worse, and honestly i don't want anything to happen to myself or my family. so, yeah, we're going to leave. >> reporter: his house is just down this street, where as you can see, the flooding had not receded before the new round of rain began. further south, the city of miami beach has opened up nine public parking garages so that residents can move their cars away from low-lying areas. manuel bojorquez, cbs news, hollywood, florida. former president donald trump made a triumphant return to capitol hill thursday, his first visit to republicans in congress since the january 6th attack. former house speaker nancy pelosi said in a statement trump was, quote, returning to the scene of the crime. here's cbs's robert costa. >> reporter: rousing displays of

republican unity around the party's presumptive nominee. >> i'm with them 1,000%. they're with me 1,000%. >> reporter: and a notable show of a truce between trump and his longtime foil, senate gop leader mitch mcconnell, after not speaking since late 2020. for former president trump, thursday's washington tour was a chance to play up his poll numbers and reassure his party after becoming a convicted felon last month. >> it just was a great meeting. there's tremendous unity in the republican party. >> reporter: in a closed-door meeting with house republicans, sources say he lashed out at the justice department, calling it dirty along with an expletive. he also criticized milwaukee, host to the republican national convention next month, calling it horrible. a spokesman said he was referring to crime and voting issues. wisconsin democrat gwen moore shot back, saying once he's

settled in with his parole officer, i am certain he will discover that milwaukee is a wonderful city. this was trump's first trip to the hill since the january 6th attack in 2021, and republicans avoided the topic. >> did january 6th ever come up? >> no, it did not. >> on january 6th, donald trump lit a fire in this country. >> reporter: meanwhile, the biden campaign highlighted trump's return, releasing this ad as a mobile billboard was seen playing video of the january 6th attack across capitol hill. trump has said he would pardon rioters. >> they ought to release the j-6 hostages. they've suffered enough. >> reporter: as i stood outside the senate gop conference room, i heard cheer after cheer, laugh after laugh. this wasn't a reckoning but a republican embrace of trump despite all of his challenges. robert costa, cbs news, washington. shareholders at tesla have given ceo elon musk a massive vote of confidence to the tune

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tore through paradise, california. 85 people died, and much of the town was lost. many residents decided to move on, seeking a safer place to live. jonathan vigliotti reports for "eye on america." >> look at that. look at that! >> reporter: images like this show how extreme weather ravages main streets across america. in the last five years, at least five towns in four states have bee nearly erased from the map, all of them after paradise, california, fell. >> so at first i thought we were just going to evacuate maybe for a day or two and then come back home. >> reporter: justin miller's childhood home in paradise was destroyed. he's one of the many who chose not to return, now making his home in nearby oroville. >> was there ever a thought in your mind of staying in paradise, of returning? >> at first we were inc. thissing, you know, after the lot was cleared off, we could rebuild there. then we realized the town would take a while to rebuild, so it would just be easier to move someplace like here in oroville. >> reporter: just last year,

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where increasingly people are finding that in their search for affordable housing, they sort of have to live in an area that's exposed to one of these climate-driven hazards. we're going to see more potential paradises happening where we have these communities exposed to this threat that the community might not be prepared to face. >> reporter: paradise residents kylee and ellie war bell largely picked up the pieces on their own, including removing dead trees and vegetation from their property as they applied for and waited to receive federal aid. >> has the meaning of home changed for you? >> yes, a lot. >> home, for me, was kind of like a place you live in. but home will always be wherever my mom is. >> reporter: five years on, paradise families have scattered. the fabric of this small town frayed. >> in jesus' name, amen. >> reporter: but don't tell that to the washles, pioneers of a new american community they hope is resellient to climate-fueled storms. for "eye on america," i'm

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>> all your shoes? >> from every tour, going all the way back to 1980. >> reporter: that's when the band formed at the university of georgia in athens. ♪ >> reporter: michael stipe on vocals. peter buck on guitar. mike mills on bass. and bill barry on drums. a college band that would become a super group, taking indie rock to the top of the pop charts. ♪ ♪ stand in the place where you live ♪ >> what does it mean to you all t be recognized for songwriting? >> we lived or died on the strength of our songs. so this is a huge honor. >> this it is the hardest thing that we do, and it's the thing we've worked on the most from the very beginning. >> because we had to. >> well. >> i mean really early on, just to put food on the table, we had to write songs as fast as we could.

>> reporter: the quartet found their sound quickly. ♪ >> it felt like kismet to me. >> it did? >> yeah. when it happened, it felt right. >> reporter: much of their songwriting was done in this studio. >> we'd all show up at 1:00 and bring in any ideas that we had. >> yeah. >> and see if it inspired anybody else to do something with it. >> reporter: mills, buck, and barry would write the music, then give it to stipe to write lyrics. >> and michael, of course, is one of the best mel odd sifts in the world. >> i've never been called a mem odd sift a before. >> i kind of like it. >> reporter: some songs came easily, like "losing my religion." ♪ >> you were just messing around with the mand olin. >> yeah, and i still don't play mandolin. >> where did you pull that lyric from so quickly. >> no idea. >> no idea. >> i remember originally it was, that's me in the kitchen. not the spotlight.

♪ that's me in the corner ♪ ♪ that's me in the spotlight ♪ ♪ losing my religion ♪ >> you all didn't really think that much of that song, did you? >> i loved the soj, but we never thought it was going to be a hit. >> it's like a bumblebee. they shouldn't be able to fly, and that song shouldn't have been a hit. >> but, boy, did it fly. >> it did. >> there's the obligation of songwriting that comes withen aalbum you have to put out. you know, you're sitting there. the label is waiting for another record. >> peter buck is waiting for another record. >> sorry, guys. >> were you the task master? >> certainly not like i could get these guys to do anything they didn't want to do. >> somebody's got to drive the train, and we were all more than happy to have peter be sort of our motivator. >> well, more than happy may not be the phrase i would use. >> looking back, let's say there's a body of work that wouldn't be there had you not been pushing us as hard as you did. ♪ everybody hurts ♪ >> reporter: in 1995, drummer

bill barry suffered a double brain aneurysm onstage in switzerland. he recovered but left the band two years later. r.e.m. carried on but never quite regained its equilibrium before disbanding in 2011. >> i think the main reason was that at that point, there wasn't anything we could agree on really musically. >> right. >> what kind of music, how to record it. are we going to go on tour? you know, it was like we could barely agree on where to go to dinner. >> yeah. >> and now we could just agree on where to go to dinner. >> right. >> we're also hear to tell a tale, and we're sitting at the same table together with deep admiration and lifelong friendship. a lot of people that do this can't claim that. >> why do you think that is? why do you think you can all sit at this table when so many bands can't together? >> ego and lawyers. >> not ours.

theirs. >> i think we quit at the right time. this is a really good place to finish, you know. great tour, great album. go home. >> yeah. any second thoughts about that, anybody, ever? >> no. >> never? >> very happy. >> bill, did you ever have any second thoughts about walking away? >> of course i did. >> you did? >> you okay? >> yeah. it -- that was a weird time for me. >> i bet. >> and i made it weird for these guys too. >> no, you didn't. >> no, it wasn't weird. we respected your decision a hundred percent. >> yeah, because we're all sitting here friends again. >> yeah. >> still. >> i mean you had some major health issues that you had to deal with. >> yeah. i'm not going to use that as an excuse. >> what would you attribute it to? >> maybe that thing in switzerland, brain aneurysm and successful surgery, it may have lowered my energy level. >> yeah. >> and i just didn't have the

drive i once did. >> so you knew you had to give it up. >> yes. and i didn't regret it at the time. i sort of regretted it a little later. >> yeah. >> so, yeah. but enough about me. ♪ >> reporter: all four members of r.e.m. will be honored tonight for their songwriting and an exceptional catalog. ♪ shiny happy people ♪ >> reporter: of 15 studio albums. >> have you ever sort of looked at as a body of work because it's pretty impressive. >> it's so self-indulgent to do that. i mean none of us are really quite that self-indulgent. >> okay, i am. >> and then i wound up on youtube, and i watched some live performance. i'm like, wow, i can't believe we did that. and we did it really well from time to time. ♪ >> i got to ask the question that everybody's going to ask me

if i asked, which you know is coming is what would it take you guys to get back together one more time? >> a comet. >> super glue. >> super glue? it ain't happening is what you're saying. >> no. no. >> why is that? >> it would never be as good. ♪ >> na was our anthony mason with r.e.m. this is "cbs news roundup."

one of the most historic attractions in long beach, clifornia, has undergone a major facelift. tom waits paid a visit. >> the queen mary approaches her final resting place at long beach. >> reporter: to great fanfare in 1967, the queen mary makes landfall for the last time in long beach, california. today the majestic ocean liner sits proudly at the port.

>> there's a soul here that other ships don't have, but the queen mary has it. >> reporter: commodore everett horde has been looking after the queen for 43 years. if the ship has a soul, he is the heart. >> she's the closest thing to a living being that i have ever commanded. >> reporter: the queen mary is a floating museum. >> the farewell party for the 1,200 passengers -- >> reporter: once the playground for the rich and famous, transporting hollywood royalty and actual royals. winston churchill also took ships aboard the ship guided from this very bridge. but the queen mary's reign almost came to an end. after decades in port, the mighty ship fell into disrepair and was in danger of sinking. >> the queen mary is a lucky ship. i believe the ship has a bit of a prove dential kiss upon her. >> reporter: perhaps this case kept the ship afloat. like other iconic ships, the queen mary with its opulent art deco interior made the

transition from a luxury liner to a critical military asset during world war ii. >> all 2,000 port holes and windows were quickl blacked out. all running lights were extinguished for the next six years. >> reporter: in 1947, the queen mary resumed passenger voyages but with air travel becoming popular, the ship would be retired. the city of long beach bought it in 1967 to be a waterfront tourist attraction. >> give the old queen a tremendous welcome. >> reporter: but decades later, the pandemic shut down the queen mary, and in 2021, the city of long beach took control again to save it. >> and we evaluated the options to scrap the queen mary and the cost to fully restore it and the cost to protect it. and we ultimately made the decision as a city council to give the queen mary another shot. >> reporter: a new partnership with evolution hospitality would revive the deteriorating ship and even turn a profit. >> the ship does everything it can to create these fun and exciting things to do. and then once we make money, we put it right back into the ship.

>> reporter: the liner's grandeur is attracting new generations of fans. >> i want the queen mary's legacy to be one of beauty, splendor. >> reporter: so now it's up to the queen's visitors to keep the legacy al e. as lon as they keep coming, the queen mary will endure. tom waits, cbs news, long beach, california. and that's today's "cbs news roundup." elle kaul. ♪ hello and thanks so much for watching. i'm shanelle kaul in new york, and here are some of the stories we're tracking on "cbs news roundup." a unanimous supreme court ruling preserves access to one

of the most widely used abortion pills. but more litigation is on the way. in rain-soaked florida, there is little relief in sight with another storm possible for next week. and a victorious return to capitol hill for donald trump as he now rallies republicans around his run for president. all nine supreme court justices rejected a bid to cut access to the abortion medication mifepristone. it's the court's first abortion-related decision since conservative justices overturned the federal right to an abortion two years ago. cbs's skyler henry was at the supreme court. >> reporter: the abortion drug mifepristone, used in nearly two-thirds of all u.s. abortions last year, will stay available to patients up to ten weeks pregnant without having an in-person doctor visit. the nine justices were unanimous, finding the abortion opponents who brought the case lacked the legal standing to sue the fda. >> it doesn't have anything to do with whether or not abortion

is a protected liberty under the constitution. it has everything to do with these doctors, this medical group, whether or not they could walk into the courthouse doors and say, i was injured enough to be able to move forward with my suit. >> reporter: president biden, in italy for the g7 summit, praised the decision but signaled abortion access will be a top issue in november, saying in a statement, "it does not change the fact that the right for a woman to get the treatment she needs is imperiled if not impossible in many states." today's ruling allows mail order pharmacies to continue shipping mifepristone nationwide. but just last month, louisiana designated the drug a dangerous controlled substance. 14 states are enforcing bans on all stages of abortion, making access to mifepristone difficult. >> the data are very, very clear that mifepristone is extremely safe, extremely effective. over 100 peer-reviewed journal

publications have shown this over and over again. >> reporter: anti-abortion activists were outside the supreme court thursday, vowing to fight on. >> they're not saying that abortion pills are safe. they just said the case didn't have standing. so we'll be back with another case with better standing next time. >> reporter: three states, idaho, kansas, and missouri, are working to return the issue to the courts with plaintiffs directly impacted. skyler henry, cbs news, the supreme court. now to the record-breaking rainfall and rising floodwaters across south florida. five counties are now under a state of emergency after days of nonstop heavy downpours, and it's still coming down. take a look at this video here. those cars are not parked in a river. that is actually a city street in miami under several feet of water. it's happening all across the region, and now there's news of another tropical storm possible next week. cbs's manuel bojorquez is in the thick of it. >> reporter: heavy rain slammed

south florida for the fourth day in a row, dumping on average 4 inches of rain per hour. the drenching downpour has left parts of miami-dade county impassable with cars submerged and entire neighborhoods underwater. >> it's crazy. i mean look at my pants. look at me. i'm wet. every time i walk in the street, the water is right here. >> reporter: the storm system now centered over the atlantic has dumped more than 20 inches of rain in some areas. waist-high water meant some residents waded, kayaked, or wakeboarded to get around flooded communities. in dania beach, first responders rescued at least 40 people from floodwaters as homeowners sought higher ground. officials are warning residents to stay off the roads. >> more than half of the deaths from flooding each year occur in vehicles. so the message is turn around, don't drown. >> reporter: in hallandale beach, this person drove right into a canal, mistaking it for a road.

schools in all of broward county were closed. >> oh, [ bleep ]! >> reporter: here in hollywood, florida, eric aragon's home flooded. they had to evacuate through a window, and now he's concerned about what's next. >> it's only going to get worse, and honestly i don't want anything to happen to myself or my family. so, yeah, we're going to leave. >> reporter: his house is just down this street, where as you can see, the flooding had not receded before the new round of rain began. further south, the city of miami beach has opened up nine public parking garages so that residents can move their cars away from low-lying areas. manuel bojorquez, cbs news, hollywood, florida. former president donald trump made a triumphant return to capitol hill thursday, his first visit to republicans in congress since the january 6th attack. former house speaker nancy pelosi said in a statement trump was, quote, returning to the scene of the crime. here's cbs's robert costa. >> reporter: rousing displays of

republican unity around the party's presumptive nominee. >> i'm with them 1,000%. they're with me 1,000%. >> reporter: and a notable show of a truce between trump and his longtime foil, senate gop leader mitch mcconnell, after not speaking since late 2020. for former president trump, thursday's washington tour was a chance to play up his poll numbers and reassure his party after becoming a convicted felon last month. >> it just was a great meeting. there's tremendous unity in the republican party. >> reporter: in a closed-door meeting with house republicans, sources say he lashed out at the justice department, calling it dirty along with an expletive. he also criticized milwaukee, host to the republican national convention next month, calling it horrible. a spokesman said he was referring to crime and voting issues. wisconsin democrat gwen moore shot back, saying, "once he's

settled in with his parole officer, i am certain he will discover that milwaukee is a wonderful city." this was trump's first trip to the hill since the january 6th attack in 2021, and republicans avoided the topic. >> did january 6th ever come up? >> no, it did not. >> on january 6th, donald trump lit a fire in this country. >> reporter: meanwhile, the biden campaign highlighted trump's return, releasing this ad as a mobile billboard was seen playing video of the january 6th attack across capitol hill. trump has said he would pardon rioters. >> they ought to release the j-6 hostages. they've suffered enough. >> reporter: as i stood outside the senate gop conference room, i heard cheer after cheer, laugh after laugh. this wasn't a reckoning but a republican embrace of trump despite all of his challenges. robert costa, cbs news, washington. shareholders at tesla have given ceo elon musk a massive vote of confidence to the tune

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and hamas of war crimes, hamas for sexual violence as well as killing and abducting civilians, and israel for crimes against humanity and acts of collective punishment against civilians. one example of the toll inflicted on non-combatants is the recent hostage rescue. chris livesay has more on this from tel aviv. [ sound of gunfire ] >> reporter: we've seen the dramatic video of the rescue of those hoijts. what's less visible, the aftermath and those who survived. our team in gaza tracked down this eyewitness, who walks us through his bullet-ridden home just across the street from where one of the rescue vehicles broke down under heavy gunfire. >> go, go, go! >> reporter: the commandos burst into our apartment, he says, and questioned us at gunpoint. the commandos bound the men's hands and put bags on their heads, he says. when it was all over, two of his

grandsons had been shot. this 16-year-old is lucky to still have his arm. his brother didn't survive, he says. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: "he was shot right next to me in the stomach, in the leg. he was 12." the hamas-run health ministry says 274 people were killed in the rescue operation. many hundreds more wounded. israel disputes that number and blames hamas for surrounding the hostages with civilians like these. we spoke to unicef spokesman james elder in gaza, who saw the grisly scenes at the hospital himself. >> it felt again like day one of the war. this hospital absolutely heaving with people, children, you know, little 3-year-olds, 7-year-olds with these grotesque wounds of war, head injuries and the burns. it's a smell of burning flesh that's very hard to get out of one's head. >> reporter: so many child victims in gaza where almost

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you can catch right here on cbs. all eyes will focus on the play "stereophonic," which has now garnered more nominations than any other show ever. anthony mason spent some time with the cast. ♪ >> reporter: the play "stereophonic" follows a band struggling to make an epic album. ♪ and the rivalries and resentments that boil up when they're trapped together in a studio for a year in the late '70s. >> but what about me? and like when you sold my guitar. >> okay. that was serve years ago. >> the guitar that took me months and months to save for. >> the guitar that you used once because you didn't do the work. >> is this actually a working studio? >> it is a working studio. >> reporter: will butler, a former member of the band arcade

fire, wrote the tony-nominated score for a play in which the studio is the stage. ♪ >> does the soundboard actually work too? >> they did "midnight train to georgia" on this soundboard. >> no way. >> reporter: he began working with playwright david adjmi back in 2014. >> my attitude when i joined in was, this will be a lark. >> you get on board ten years ago. there's no cast. >> there's no script. >> so you have to start envisioning music for a band that doesn't exist. >> yes. it was hilarious. in the script, five, six years in, adjmi finishes the script, and it's like "the band plays something transcendent." >> the problem is if the song isn't convincing, the play won't be convincing. >> yeah. yeah, that's the problem. >> reporter: another problem, finding five actors who convincing could become a band.

♪ >> what were you looking for in that casting process? >> anything. i was very cavalier. i was like, any idiot can be in a band. look at this guy. ♪ >> reporter: only chris stack, who plays drummer simon, had any experience in a band. ♪ i'll see you when i get there ♪ >> reporter: sarah pidgeon, who plays diana, and juliana canfield, who plays holly, had never sung professionally. >> all of us were cast because they thought we could act the parts, and then they sort of crossed their fingers that we would be able to get their musically. >> were you confident in that? >> no. >> no. ♪ sunday morning and the light's fine ♪ >> reporter: the cast rehearsed for hours every day. some took lessons. tom pecinka, who is the band's

lead guitarist, said he'd only ever played garbage guitar. >> when you did an in-person audition, your hand was actually shaking? >> oh, yeah, my hands shake all the time. i mean they don't shake anymore, but off broadway, they shook a lot. >> but also one part of that anecdote that i've heard is that he made them cry playing the song that he played in that audition. so shaky hands, trembling hearts. >> that's right. that's right. trembling hearts. >> you're cousins with the main doobie brother? >> yeah. >> you're a doobie cousin? >> reporter: eli geld and andrew butler play the studio engineers. >> you and andrew have an interesting job because you spend a lot of the play actually with your backs to the audience, being engineers. >> if i'm not really careful during the show, it's easy to forget that there's like 800 people sitting right behind us. >> reporter: for the fictional band, the creative process creates turmoil. >> my wife doesn't want to be with me. i've got to find something to

live for. >> why do you have to be such a sad man in a blanket all the bloody time, eh? >> some of the things that my character goes through parallel my own life in pretty intense ways. and so that was a really fun weekend with my therapist to figure out. ♪ >> reporter: if the plot sounds familiar, the show's creators insist the story is not based on fleetwood mac. but for their auditions -- >> what did you sing for your audition. >> rhiannon. >> i sang landslide. >> there seems to be a theme. >> yeah. >> reporter: in the script for "stereophonic," the group does not have a name. >> in your mind, have you given it a name? >> yes. >> we have, but it's a secret. >> i will not be speaking the name. >> has anyone said it yet? >> no. the guys wouldn't say it. >> but it's kind of fun. it's kind of fun that we have a

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most, jerry west delivered. >> out to west. look at the moves he has. >> reporter: he's the man who inspired the nba logo. it doesn't get any more iconic than that. as a player, jerry west had roaring crowds in the palm of his hands as he dazzled his way across every court he played on. he was an all-star every year of his career and reached the finals nine times, even winning the finals mvp when his team lost in 1969. he won his only championship in 1972. but the jerry west show was only just beginning. as general manager, he created the showtime lakers of the '80s and the kobe/shaq dynamic duo of the early 2000s. tributes poured in from across the sports landscape. magic johnson, who west drafted in 1979, wrote, jerry west was more than a general manager. he was a great friend and confidant. he was there in my highest moments, winning five nba championships, and in my lowest moment, when i announced my hiv diagnosis and we cried together

for hours in his office. >> i was a dreamer. my family didn't have much. >> reporter: in his later years, west was open about his lifelong battle with depression. the basketball court became his oasis after a rough childhood. >> i'd sit alone on our front porch and wonder if i ever make it to the top of that mountain, what will i see on the other side? well, i did make it to the other side, and my dreams have come true. >> reporter: a kid from rural west virginia who reached the highest peaks basketball had to

steve hartman now with an inspiring story of perseverance that he found "on the road." >> reporter: although born without hands or feet, 25-year-old zack anglin says the only limbs he ever longed for were wings. always wanted to be a pilot. unfortunately, no quad amputee had ever become a commercial pilot. >> obviously nothing worth having comes easy.

>> from the time he was born, he was a disciplined and determined child. >> reporter: adoptive parents harold and patty say there was no talking him out of it. so when zack turned 18, he applied to a flight school, that said no. >> there's nothing we can really do for you. we're sorry. >> reporter: the second one said the same. >> like here we go again. >> reporter: as did the third. >> the same response. >> reporter: and so it went more than a dozen times over. >> you're not hearing what they're saying. >> i'm not. my wife will tell you i'm a little bit hardheaded. >> reporter: which is why this hardheaded husband and soft-hearted father applied to one more school. the spartan college of aeronautics in tulsa, oklahoma. they said yes, although zack's struggle was just getting started. he still needed approval from the federal aviation administration to take the lessons. but the faa repeatedly and in no uncertain terms denied his

request. and after the fifth rejection letter, zack finally gave up. >> i was like, this is not for me. this is impossible to do. and so my mom was over my shoulder at this point, right? and then she's like, you're not done yet. >> i said, you can never succeed until you've learned to fail. >> reporter: and patty says her son obviously hadn't failed enough. so zack kept at it until finally they cleared him for one takeoff. and when zack was given the opportunity to show his poential, it became clear as blue sky that you don't need hands to have wings. zack graduated from flight school a few years ago and now teaches the same course so many told him he couldn't even take. >> why do people need to hear this? >> because my story y isn't jus

for amputees. we all go through trials and tribulations. the word "impossible" is an illusion behind the word "possible." >> reporter: and failure, just the turbulence on your journey. steve hartman on the road in tulsa. and that's today's "cbs news roundup." be sure to tune in later for "cbs mornings." reporting from new york city, i'm shanelle kaul. it's friday, june 14th, 2024. this is "cbs news mornings." catastrophic flooding. the relentless torrential downpours continue to hammer south florida causing a mess on the roads and a mess for homeowners, and it is not over yet. the president and the pontiff. the two leaders meeting on the world stage of the g7 amid two ongoing wars. can they find a roadmap to