♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> brennan: on the cbs evening news this tuesday, more tornadoes hit the midwest. that makes more than 500 in the past 30 days. in the south, record flooding is possible after days of torrential rain. >> just total devastation. >> you just can't believe it until you see it. >> reporter: this is a utighborhood that has seen some flooding before, but never like atis. >> the water, it's up to the roof. >> missouri could become the first state in the country without an abortion clinic. >> we will fight. we are going to be there for missouriians. >> the first major trial in the opioid crisis. >> oklahoma's attorney general bl suing johnson & johnson. >> it's time to hold them responsible for their actions. on brennan: late today we learned of a second intruder caught inside the president's mar-a-lago resort.

>> these guys were not going to give up on me. thank god! >> brennan: and how did she do it? the hiker who survived 17 days in the forest shares her story. >> i just have so much gratitude and thanks. b >> brennan: good evening. i'm margaret brennan. this is our western edition. this is the fourth worst month for tornadoes ever recorded, and the threat continues tonight with watches and warnings posted in at least half a dozen states from oklahoma to new jersey. more than 500 tornadoes have been reported in may. dozens just yesterday, including this one, near somerset, indiana. a tornado killed an elderly man overnight in celina, ohio. since last week, at least 15 people have been killed by storms. dean reynolds has more on the tornado outbreak. >> tornado on the ground! wait for the power flashes. >> reporter: one storm after another pummeled the nation's midsection leaving a trail of despair, destruction, and at

least one death from some 53 twisters that may have touched down across eight states overnight. >> a tornado just hit our house. ( siren ) >> reporter: in ohio and indiana, winds up to 140 miles per hour ripped homes from their foundations, raised roofs, and toppled thousands of trees. a dollar store in the outskirts of dayton now looks to be worth about 10 cents. on woodhaven street in the northridge section of dayton, we found john barber, a resident here for 44 years. >> i grabbed a flashlight, and i knew we'd go in to the basement, and before we got out of the bedroom, the lights went out. >> so basically in here. >> reporter: directly across the street, jeremy sutter surveyed what's left of the home he purchased just five months ago. you were basically in the-- in the hallway? >> i had this mattress right here covering everything. i had a blanket over us. >> reporter: most of those we spoke to have insurance, but it will be a very long time before they're back in this neighborhood.

where are you going to spend the night? >> back to my mom's garage. i'm a homeowner, back to mom's garage. gotta love it. >> reporter: at least 130 people were injured in these widespread storms overnight, and, unfortunately, the forecast calls for more stormy weather here in ohio and elsewhere tonight, tomorrow, and possibly thursday, too. margaret. >> brennan: brace yourselves. dean reynolds, thank you. president trump says he promised the governor of arkansas today that fema and the federal government will help with the state's record flooding. satellite photos show just how much the arkansas river has widened over the past month in fort smith. manuel bojorquez is there. >> reporter: the only way to access this fort smith, arkansas, neighborhood is by boat. jason baugh took us along. what's it like to be on a street that you would normally drive? >> it's pretty devastating to see all this water in the neighborhood. >> reporter: riverlyn terrace is

now part of the arkansas river. this is a neighborhood that has seen some flooding before, but never like this. ta a look at this house. the water is up to the roof. storms upstream have pushed the arkansas river to historic levels, more than 40 feet now etter it started flooding nearly a week ago. by tomorrow, it could reach its seak-- 20 feet above flood stage. and officials caution the parts of town that remain dry because of the 26 miles of levees are not out of the woods. they appear to be holding for now, but they've never contained so much water. 87-year-old korea war veteran bud cooksey is not waiting to see what happens. he's moved out of most of the e mily's belongings. >> when we first got notifications i was not worried s out my street because i'm not required to have flood insurance where i live here. >> reporter: the house is now inches from taking on water. >> this here has probably been the most nerve-wracking experience i've ever had in my entire life.

>> reporter: and that's coming from someone who served in korea. the forecast is only adding to the anxiety here. some areas could get up to three inches of rain by tomorrow night. adding to the misery and the time it will take for the water to recede. margaret. >> brennan: manny, thank you. a bill to provide disaster relief was blocked again today in the house. it includes $19 billion to places hit hard by hurricanes and floods. president trump supports the funding, and the house was set to approve it in a voice vote while most members are away on recess. but republican thomas massie of kentucky objected, saying he wants the full house to vote, and that could happen next week. the supreme court today issued a compromise ruling on a restrictive indiana abortion law upholding some portions while refusing to reinstate others. this suggests that the justices are not eager to take up a challenge to "roe v. wade." at the same time, several states

are attempting to enact new restrictions on abortion, and as first reported on cbsn, missouri may soon have no clinics providing abortions. here's janet shamlian. rt reporter: the only abortion clinic in missouri may be forced to stop performing them friday. planned parenthood says the state will likely not renew its license. >> banning abortion is not going to stop abortion. but it will stop safe, legal abortion. >> reporter: it would mark the first time since the 1973 "roe v. wade" decision that a state would be without an abortion clinic. jennifer box used a clinic to terminate a previous pregnancy due to a genetic anomaly. >> if something's wrong, i won't be able to do anything in the state we live in. and that feels awful in a way iu >> reporter: brian westbrook is an antiabortion rights advocate. ri so the way this was written, we can save lives immediately

here in the state of missouri with or without "roe v. wade." wa reporter: at least 15 states have enacted abortion restrictions or outright bans in 2019. five states have passed so- called heartbeat bills, forbidding abortion once a heartbeat is detected, as early as six weeks. louisiana will likely pass its heartbeat bill tomorrow. john milkovich is sponsoring it. where is the consideration for the woman? peat about rape? what about cases of incest? there's no accommodation for that. >> actually, our belief is that if someone commits a sexual assault, the unborn baby has committed no crime. >> reporter: the vote, scheduled for tomorrow here at the louisiana state capitol, it is expected to pass. this state has a democratic governor, and in a divide with other democratic leaders, governor john bell edwards says he will sign this legislation isto law. margaret. >> brennan: janet shamlian, thank you.

late today, we learned of a second episode involving an intruder caught on the grounds of mar-a-lago, president trump's palm beach resort. paula reid is following this. >> reporter: according to federal prosecutors, university wisconsin freshman mark lindblom snuck into mar-a-lago through a tunnel that connects the beach to the president's private club. the incident occurred november 23 of last year while mr. trump and his family were spending the thanksgiving weekend at his winter white house. at one point that day, the president left the club to head to his nearby golf course. lindhblom was wanded by secret service agents at the tunnel's entrance, according to the "palm beach post." he remained at the club for 20 minutes until he was discovered by the secret service near the pool. this intrusion came several months before a chinese woman illegally snuck into mar-a-lago by telling security she was a club member and was there for a swim. at the time, president trump expressed confidence in the

secret service. >> secret service is fantastic. these are fantastic people. and the end result is it was good. >> reporter: lindhblom reportedly said his motivation for sneaking into the president's club was just to see if he could do it. he's pleaded guilty and been sentenced to one-year probation. margaret. >> brennan: paula reid at the white house. democratic front-runner joe n den today broke his silence after the president took repeated jabs at his record while traveling in japan. ed o'keefe reports biden intentionally held his fire until air force one touched down. >> reporter: minutes after the president returned from a four- day trip to japan, joe biden's campaign called recent attacks by mr. trump beneath the dignity of the office. the president had broken an unofficial rule, that politics stops at the water's edge, and repeatedly targeted biden. in tweets, he sided with north korean dictator kim jong-un, whose state-run media called biden "a low i.q. individual."

>> well, kim jong-un made a statement that joe biden is a low-i.q. individual. he probably is, based on his record. he also attacked "sleepy biden" for his support of a 1994 anticrime bill. biden himself reemerged today after 10 days off the campaign trail. at a teachers union event in houston: >> we have to change the way in which we think about early education. >> reporter: his slower schedule is in notable contrast to other democratic candidates who have been barnstorming for weeks. yet biden has a lead in the polls a month out to the first debate. to close that gap, some biden rivals are hitting him on his record, agreeing with the president about his 1994 crime bill. >> that crime bill was one of the foundations of mass incarceration and a very painful era in our nation's history. >> that bill contributed to mass incarceration in a country that is the most grievously incarcerated in the world. >> reporter: younger contenders also say someone else might best

reflect a changing party. >> we need to be able to bring in new energy. we need to be able to bring in new voters. >> reporter: the president tweeted yet again this evening about biden, and a trump campaign spokesman called it "rich" that biden would criticize the president for getting political while overseas, pointing out that biden criticized the president while in germany earlier this year. margaret. >> brennan: ed, the campaign season is still just beginning. >> reporter: that's right. >> brennan: opening statements were made today in a landmark trial in oklahoma. it could determine whether states can hold drug makers responsible for the opioid crisis. omar villafranca is there. >> emily walden's son, t.j., served his country in the kentucky national guard. he was also addicted to opioids and tried to get clean. >> i did everything from following him to drug testing him. i put $11,000 on a credit card to put him into treatment and he wanted to get better. >> reporter: in 2012, t.j.

died after overdosing on oxymorphone. he was only 21. >> opioids take a hold of you, and it's extremely hard for people to overcome that. >> reporter: emily and thousands of other families are now watching closely as the opioid maisis is on trial in oklahoma in a case that could affect more than 1,800 other pending lawsuits. >> the worst man-made public health crisis in the history of our country. >> reporter: in 2017, oklahoma attorney general mike hunter filed lawsuits against several pharmaceutical companies, accusing them of "executing massive and unprecedented diction" and making millions of dollars in profit. >> money can make people and businesses do bad things, very bad things. and that is why i'm here today. >> reporter: drug companies purdue and teva both settled with the state out of court, admitting no liability. johnson & johnson, and their

subsidiary janssen, are accused in the lawsuit of creating a public nuisance. during the height of the opioid epidemic, more than 500 oklahomans died from overdoses a year. in a statement, johnson & johnson pointed out that their products in oklahoma were clearly labeled and that they lere designed to prevent abuse. their subsidiary, janssen pharmaceuticals, called the state's allegations "baseless," and "unsubstantiated." the state's attorney says that at one point there were enough prescriptions to provide 135 pills for every adult here in cleveland county. this trial is expected to last about two months. margaret. an brennan: thanks, omar. a quick programming note: norah o'donnell, the incoming anchor of the cbs evening news, has an exclusive interview with boeing be.o. dennis muilenburg. it's his first interview since two crashes that killed 346 people and led to the grounding

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amanda eller says one of her darkest moments dealing with a flash flood just one day after injuring her legs. >> i was sitting in a foot of water, on hard rocks, that i knew were digging into my skin, but i didn't have another choice. >> reporter: she says her ordeal began when she went into the forest to jog and meditate. >> i laid down on a tree. i was looking at the sky. and when i got up and i tried to go back the way i came, the path was not leading me back to my car, and i tried all these different paths. and then i was like, oh, shoot, these are not bike paths, these are not walking paths. these are boar paths. >> reporter: lost, the 35-year- old physical therapist and yoga instructor hiked for seven days until she reached a waterfall. eller lived on insects, wild berries, stream water, and slept in the mud. >> which i don't recommend ever doing that. it's very cold and it doesn't warm up. >> reporter: after more than two weeks of suffering, a volunteer search team spotted her from a helicopter. s seeing these guys, like, come over here in the helicopter, and i can't tell you my heart just

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now at 7:00, breaking news from the midwest, we are tracking tornado weather. we are showing you the new damage that is just hours old. bay area rain, now fire crews are battling a brush fire. how the end of the school year party turn into a life-and- death situation for an 11-year- old. >> all of the ambulance came in. we could not go in the water anymore. the hunt for a coldhearted couple. how they are teaming up to rob bay area businesses. >> they got away with my credit card, and spent about $2000. >> we are looking for people looking at the train doors and standing by the train doors. we have a warning about a