guns. >> it's the worst feeling to know that i send my children somewhere every day where they are a target. >> reporter: outrage bubbled over after the deadliest school shooting in state history. three children and three staff members dead. >> we have to put something in action, more laws in place. >> reporter: inside the packed rotunda, outnumbered troopers worked to control the crowd of teachers, students, and gun control advocates. they demanded state lawmakers hear them out. >> i hear the voice of god's children saying, help us. save us. our lives matter. >> reporter: in washington, d.c. wednesday, a democratic congressman confronted a republican member about gop opposition to more gun restrictions. >> i'm talking about gun violence! >> in a school that allows teachers to carry. >> carry guns? more guns lead to more death.

>> reporter: the grieving behind me moves into a new phase tomorrow with the first funeral for one of the three schoolchildren killed in the attack. and remember, all those children were just 9 years old. norah. >> mark strassmann, thank you so much. now to a tragic loss in the u.s. military to tell you about tonight. a deadly accident took the lives of nine soldiers in southwest kentucky last night. officials say two blackhawk helicopters crashed during a routine training mission about 30 miles outside the fort campbell army base. cbs's janet shamlian is there and spoke to an expert about the dangers of nighttime training. >> reporter: this is the field where two blackhawk helicopters went down late last night. emergency crews raced to the scene, but it was too late. >> two helicopters came over pretty low and all of a sudden, as soon as they got over the house, something popped, a loud bang, and everything shut down just all of a sudden. >> reporter: the blackhawks were a version used for medical

evacuations from the 101st airborne division at fort campbell. they were on a training mission using night vision goggles when the aircraft collided and went down in a field near the kentucky/tennessee border. >> i would like to express our deepest sympathies to the families of our fallen soldiers. >> reporter: according to a facebook post, north carolina pastor tim gore identified his son caleb as one of the victims, saying, he was the light of my world. chuck nad is a former army blackhawk pilot. how much more difficult is it to fly a helicopter at night? >> when you're flying a blackhawk helicopter at night, you have much less margin of error. you have to be on top of your game because the rate of closure, depth perception, all of that is diminished. >> reporter: the army says one of the helicopters had five soldiers on board, the other, four. >> we're going to wrap our arms around these families, and we're going to be there with them not just for the days, but the weeks and the months and the years to come. >> reporter: a blackhawk from the tennessee national guard

crashed in alabama last month. two reservists were killed. and last year, two blackhawks with the utah national guard crashed during training. everyone survived. tonight a flight safety team from alabama's fort rucker is here investigating the crash, and the news has been devastating for the community that supports fort campbell. people around here feel very connected to the military. norah. >> no doubt. janet shamlian, thank you so much. turning now overseas, the arrest of an american journalist on espionage charges is yet another sign of the deteriorating relations between the united states and russia. "the wall street journal's" evan gershkovich is the first u.s. reporter to face spying charges in russia since the end of the cold war. cbs's chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret brennan reports the state department is condemning the detention in the strongest possible terms. >> reporter: the kremlin claims "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovich was caught

red-handed on wednesday while trying to obtain classified information. >> translator: under the cover of journalistic activity -- >> reporter: russia accuses the 31-year-old american, an accredited journalist, of working as a spy in the city offia catrin ber, where he was arrested by russia's top security agency, the fsb. >> translator: i wasn't allowed to the hearing. >> reporter: his lawyer said russian authorities refused to let him into a very quick hearing. the court ruled the journalist should be detained for nearly two months. "the wall street journal" vehemently denies the espionage allegations, and u.s. officials have not yet been permitted to see or speak with him. it is unclear whether this is a tit for tat arrest. six days ago, the justice department charged russian national sergei check sov for freight lendly supposing as a student while working as an intelligent agent in the u.s. from 2017 until 2020. the espionage allegations against gershkovich are similar to those against 53-year-old american paul whelan, who has been stuck behind bars since

2018. former u.s. ambassador to russia john sullivan visited the fsb facility where gershkovich is being held. >> that reporter is now charged with espionage, something that significant would be approved at the highest levels in moscow. i'm confident of that. >> reporter: norah, the arrest of a journalist is having a chilling effect on the few western reporters remaining inside russia. the state department in the meantime is urging the release of this journalist and advising all americans to immediately leave russia. >> margaret brennan with all those new details, thank you so much. tonight 50 million americans are in the path of a severe weather outbreak. for the forecast, let's bring in meteorologist mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, mike. >> norah, good evening. we're expecting a severe weather outbreak beginning tonight, really taking hold on friday. three threats in particular that we're watching for. long live, long track, very intense tornados. midwest, mid-south, deep south.

also extreme winds and very large hail. this will really take shape in the afternoon and evening on friday. it's going to feel like a very warm, humid spring day for us in many locations. all the warm, moist air out ahead of a low pressure cold front and dry line. temperatures will be in the 70s and 80s. the timing of these storms really it's the middle of the afternoon. we're targeting areas in the midwest and the south in particular for some very intense tornadoes. that all forms a squall line as we go through the nighttime hours, and many areas will be at risk for straight line winds right through the night on friday. >> mike bettes, thank you. there's news tonight about pope francis. the vatican says the pontiff made a marked improvement since undergoing treatment for bronchitis in a rome hospital on wednesday. doctors say the 86-year-old could be discharged in the next few days. it's still unknown if he'll recover in time for palm sunday this weekend or easter the following weekend. and there is breaking news from utah, where a jury has reached a verdict in the gwyneth

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the final four of the men's ncaa basketball tournament tips off this weekend, and this year's march madness will be a fitting end for sports broadcasting legend jim nance, who's calling his final tournament after nearly 40 years. we spoke to him for tonight's "person to person." >> do you believe it? >> a march madness to remember with cinderella stories

upsetting every bracket. >> the owls of florida atlantic! >> we're so used to this being a gathering of the heavyweights. they're not here. what we do have here is a collection of underdogs, teams of dreamers. >> this is jim nance's 37th ncaa men's basketball champioship. >> cinderella would show up maybe in the first round. but to make it all the way to the promised land, as we call it, the final four, it's unprecedented. >> nance gave us a window into how he prepares for each game with his signature research board. >> i have notes, pages after pages after pages. ultimately i scratch out a few things on a board ta resides in front of me when i call the game. >> reporter: three teams will make their first ever appearance in the final four. but for the voice of the tournament, it will be his last. what made you want to step back? >> i'm not retiring in any capacity. my kids need daddy at home, and dadny needs to be home with them more too. so something had to give. it was a difficult decision. >> nance's journey independs wht

all began, in houston, where he attended college and got his start in broadcasting. >> and i'm very grateful that the city gave me that chance. >> reporter: a chance he doesn't take for granted. >> i have just a huge, heart-filled measure of thanks for being able to have this seat for that long to tell so many stories and document so many great events. and no regrets. i'm just looking forward to one last celebration of college basketball, not me. this is cbs news flash. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. donald trump, who is the first frmer u.s. president to be indicted, could be arraigned next tuesday. that's according to sources who spoke to cbs news. the charges, which remain under seal, will be read to him at

that time. trump is under investigation for the alleged cover-up of financial payments made to adult film star stormy daniels. in a statement, trump said the democrats have done the unthinkable, indicting a completely innocent person in an act of blatant election interference. democratic manhattan district attorney alvin bragg was seen leaving his office thursday evening without commenting on the indictment. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening and thank you for joining us on this historic night in our nation's history. for the first time ever, a former president of the united states has been indicted and

will face criminal charges. a grand jury voting today to charge donald j. trump. the precise charges are under seal and not yet known. alvin bragg and the manhattan district attorney's office case is linked to trump's role in hush money payments to former porn star stormy daniels, all actions taken from before he became president. but trump also faces legal scrutiny in three cases from his time in office. mr. trump reacting just a short time ago, calling this a political persecution and a witch hunt. we want to show you live pictures of trump's florida resort, mar-a-lago, and note that this indictment has wide-ranging implications. the former president has already declared as a candidate for the 2024 race for the oval office. also now to new york because we are learning there police have stepped up security, and cbs news has learned that every nypd officer, including plainclothes officers, have been ordered to be in full uniform

for tomorrow's shifts and they should be ready to deploy. there is concern about security. there is concern about protests. we've got a lot of developments to get to. let's bring in cbs's robert costa, who broke this news here at cbs news. good evening, robert. >> good evening, norah. an explosive political and legal moment. a former president indicted while he runs once between again for the presidency. and tonight trump moments ago vowed to fight back, calling this indictment political persecution at the highest level in history. the indictment is still under seal, but cbs has learned former president trump will be instructed by the manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg, to surrender and face arraignment. the charges are unknown for now but all center around payments made to adult film star stormy daniels. trump, seething from the indictment, went on truth social to say this is an attack on our country the likes of which has never been seen before. having a former president fingerprinted and then arraigned in open court presents some

unprecedented challenges. >> there will be a lot of planning that will go into it. there will be advance work as the secret service would do in any protective visit. and i can assure you that all of the law enforcement at the state, local, and federal level will be joined hand in hand with the secret service to accomplish this mission. >> reporter: the prosecution's main witness is michael cohen, who made the actual payment to daniels. a payment the former president had denied knowing about. security had been increased around the manhattan courthouse in recent days, and the d.a. had received death threats after trump posted last week that he would be indicted. now that the indictment has happened, police likely will ramp up their presence again. >> he will be processed. he will have a mug shot. he will get a booking number. he will give fingerprints, albeit electronically rather than by ink. and ultimately whether or not he will be handcuffed is

discretionary for the police, in this case the nypd. >> robert costa, i know you have been speaking with members of trump's legal team. what do they say is next? >> they're going to fight this at every turn, first move to dismiss the indictment, and ultimately if it goes to trial, to question the credibility of the key witness, michael cohen. >> robert costa, thank you very much. i want to bring in our chief washington correspondent, cbs's major garrett. so i mean president trump has survived two impeachments, other charges against him. what happens now he's a candidate for president of the united states? >> so in theory the former president has been trying this case in the public sphere for about the last nine days. national polls indicate he has prosper the as a result of that. many republicans have rallied to his defense on capitol hill just hours after this indictment, having never seen the indictment. we still don't know what the underlying charges are and how they line up with new york law. having not seen that, there's a rallying effect around the

former president. but to your point opening this broadcast, norah, new york police are beefing up. if this becomes a traumatic event for the country, that in no way benefits former president trump because that deepens a sense of national trauma about his underlying conduct. and though republicans will rally around him, this has a long way to go on the facts, the law, and the politics. and the former president's conduct -- ask he's already talked about protests, implications of violence. all of that will be laid at his doorstep, and he could say after january 6th, it didn't really touch me. the second time around very well may be different. >> legal experts have already said this is the weakest of some of the cases against donald trump. he's facing those three other probes from actions he took while in office. you hear republicans today saying this was a misstep by that manhattan district attorney. >> there had been that sense that this is not the case to bring. is this really the set of facts, and is this the underlying law that is so clear-cut, that is so imperative that we must indict a former president? as robert well knows and as i've learned the last week and a half, those in the trump inner circle much more concerned about the actions of the special counsel here in washington, d.c.

and the series of setbacks dealt at trump and his attorneys in both the questions about his handling or mishandling of classified documents and his actions leading up to and on january 6th. those cases are also moving forward, and the series of losses by the trump legal team there concern them much more deeply than what has just happened today in manhattan. >> so good to always have you reporting and analysis. major garrett, robert costa, thank you so much. turning now overseas, the arrest of an american journalist on espionage charges is yet another sign of the deteriorating relations between the united states and russia. "the wall street journal's" evan gershkovich is the first u.s. reporter to face spying charges in russia since the end of the cold war. cbs's chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret brennan reports the state department is condemning the detention in the strongest possible terms. >> reporter: the kremlin claims "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovich was caught red-handed on wednesday while trying to obtain classified

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hospitalized with bronchitis and is being treated with antibiotics. the vatican insists that he's already starting to feel better, but the issue comes as the catholic church is set to mark palm sunday this weekend, the beginning of holy week. chris livesay has the story from rome. >> reporter: the pope's condition is improving. that's according to the vatican, which says he slept well through the night, and when he woke up this morning, he had breakfast, read several newspapers, and resumed working from right behind me in his hospital room, where those blinds are closed. he was rushed to the hospital, prompting prayer and sympathy from around the world. >> the pope is ill now, so say an extra prayer for him. >> reporter: at his general audience, the pontiff appeared in good health, until it was over, climbing aboard the popemobile, wincing in pain. it's become a common sight ever since he tore a knee ligament last year, the pontiff is often confined to a wheelchair. when he does walk, he suffers a bad limp, forcing him to cancel

both vatican celebrations and overseas trips. here at the jamellely hospital in rome, the faithful keep vigil much as they did in 2021 when he was hospitalized for ten days for a colon surgery. it was diverticulitis, a painful condition that pope francis revealed in january has returns. all of it generating rumors that francis, like his predecessor benedict, might resign. father anthony figure ray doe recently told us. how much more time does francis have to carry out the rest of his agenda? >> he has certainly made it clear unless he's impeded from being a pope, maybe throug some mind difficulties or some illness of the mind, he will continue to be that pope. >> reporter: however, francis has also flirted with the idea of calling it quits. earlier this year, he became the first pontiff in modern history to preside over the funeral of

his predecessor. francis championed that pontiff's brave decision to retire when benedict was 85. francis is 86. remember, pope francis is already missing part of a lung from an infection as a young man. sunday is palm sunday, marking the beginning of holy week through easter. it is the busiest time of the year for the catholic church, and now it's unknown if pope francis will celebrate it from st. peter's square or here in his hospita bed. >> that was chris livesay in rome. turning now to the war in ukraine, where winter has turned to spring and both russia and ukraine are expected to launch major offensives. troops are preparing for battle around the northern city of kharkiv near the russian border. ramy inocencio is there. >> reporter: far from any halls of power, these walls of earth

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the stunning advances of artificial intelligence have a lot of tech executives saying it's time to pump the brakes on these so-called chat bots. elon musk and more than 1,000 tech leaders and researchers are warning that ai tools present a profound risk to society and humanity. brooke silva-braga traveled to toronto, a research hub, to speak with some of the creators. >> so this is an experimental preview of a chat bot we've been working on powered by our model. >> reporter: nick frost is a co-founder of co-here. like google and open ai, the toronto start-up has trained massively powerful computers on trillions of words and asked them to talk back. can it write -- call it a book report -- about war and peace? >> okay. it can. war and peace is a historical novel by russian author leo

tolstoy. >> reporter: in a major leap for computing, these models can understand and create natural language. >> it just wrote this. >> yeah, but it's based on all the stuff that it's seen. >> reporter: the tech had been in research labs for years. chatgpt's release last fall -- >> cheese, oh cheese, so luscious and bold. >> reporter: brought it to an unprepared public. >> it's writing me a poem about cheese, and it's pretty good. >> the old-school programming, we would write code to tell a computer what to do. we still do that. lots of people still do that. but another thing we do now is we write code to tell a computer how to learn what to do. and the way it learns is being shown many examples of what it should do. so in the context of large language models, the way that works is we get a huge amount of text, and then we show it a few words, and we get it to predict the next word. this simple technique turns out to give you something very useful and very powerful. >> reporter: so powerful that open ai's new jpt 4 does better

on the bar exam than 90% of aspiring lawyers. these models write computer code i seconds and churn out blog posts on any topic that ai programmers haven't banned. they're becoming the newest arbiters of what ideas are out of bounds. and while chat apps are the current rage, other forms of ai -- >> now you can generate a video with nothing but words. >> reporter: -- will do much, much more. >> this is the biggest technological advancement since -- >> i think it's comparable in scale with the industrial revolution or electricity. >> electricity? >> or maybe the wheel. >> or maybe the wheel? >> yeah. >> reporter: jeffrey hinton is known as a godfather of artificial intelligence. for the last ten years, he's helped google create ai and mentored the industry's rising stars, including open ai's chief scientist, ilya cisco va, and nick frost over at co-here. in fact, toronto is a global ai hub today in large part because hinton moved here 40 years ago

with the canadian government agreed to fund his unusual research. >> i was kind of weird because i did this stuff everybody else thought was nonsense. >> reporter: while others pursuing a, a tried to program logic and reasoning into computers, hinton thought it was better to have them figure things out themselves. the idea was to mimic the brain with lots of practice, these virtual neural networks illustrated here would make the right connections to solve a given task. there were doubters. >> the big issue was, could you expect a big neural network that learns by just changing the strength of the connections? could you expect that to just look at data and with no kind of innate prior knowledge, learn how to do things? people in mainstream ai thought that was completely ridiculous. >> it sounds a little ridiculous. >> it is a little ridiculous, but it works. >> it's all the real thing. >> reporter: only in the last decade or so have computers been powerful enough to prove hinton

was right. his machine learning ideas applied to different kinds of training data now create all kinds of outputs. this, of course, isn't tom cruise, but a deepfake impersonating him. >> i went down to the office because they were making a robot of me. >> reporter: this isn't andy warhol's voice in the recent netflix documentary, but a clone generated by resemble ai. >> click record and then read the sentence out loud. >> reporter: after a few minutes reading training text, founder zoe hob am at had cloned my voice too. >> habitat for measurement, which helps homeowners build homes alongside volunteers. >> i definitely feel myself in there. >> reporter: a company called synesthesia had me read a script in front of a green screen. >> they use that video to create this digital version of me. we paired it with resemble's voice to create a tv reporter who will say anything you type. the technology will only get better in the years ahead. >> reporter: using this tech to spread misinformation seems

inevitable. >> this is my very first day. >> reporter: using it to replace journalists and lawyers and accountants and radiologists and novelists and songwriters and painters, well, that could happen too. >> it's going to take a whole ton of jobs. >> i think it's going to make a whole lot of jobs easier and a whole lot of jobs faster. >> i hear your answer in two ways. one, wow, it's great if it turns out that way. two, maybe it's a little scary if the people making this technology haven't come to grips with the potential downfall of what it can do. >> yeah. i think we try our best to think about what the true impact of this technology is. >> reporter: and the true impact of these advancements is the subject of a high-stakes debate right now. will ai quickly zoom past human abilities and become what's thought of as artificial general intelligence or agi? last month, open ai's ceo wrote the risks could be extraordinary. a misaligned, super intelligent

agi could cause grievous harm to the world. but frost and others say term terminator-style worries are bloefr yoen. large language models are just algorithms that write some smart-sounding words. they don't understand even basic truths. >> what day is it. >> it's monday. >> it just guessed? >> it just guessed, yeah. >> i don't think the technology we're building today naturally leads to artificial general intelligence. i don't think we're close to that. >> reporter: his mentor used to agree. >> until quite recently, i thought it was 20 to 50 years before we have general purpose ai. now i think it may be 20 years or less. >> some people think it could be like five. >> i wouldn't completely rule that possibility out now whereas a few years ago, i would have said no way. >> are we close to the computers coming up with their own ideas for improving themselves? >> yes, we might be. >> and then it could just go fast. >> that's an issue, right. we have to think about how to control that. >> yeah. can we? >> we don't know. we haven't been there yet, but

we can try. >> okay. that seems kind of concerning. >> um, yes. >> what do you think the chances of ai just wiping out humanity? >> it's not inconceivable. >> okay. >> that's all i'll say. >> reporter: how hinton wonders will we manage a technology that could give a handful of companies or governments such awesome power? >> so i think it's very reasonable for people to be worrying about those issues now, even though it's not going to happen in the next year or two. people should be thinking about those when you humble yourself under the mighty hand of god, in due time he will exalt you. hi, i'm joel osteen. i'm excited about being with you every week. i hope you'll tune in.

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financial payments made to adult film star stormy daniels. in a statement, trump said the democrats have done the unthinkable, indicting a completely innocent person in an act of blatant election interference. democratic manhattan district attorn alvin bragg was see leaving his office thursday evening without commenting on the indictment. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. york. we're coming on the air tonight with breaking news. former president donald trump has just been indicted by a new york grand jury. an unprecedented moment in american history. what we're learning tonight. will donald trump surrender, be handcuffed, and fingerprinted? here are tonight's headlines. for the first time, a former

president of the united states indicted, all related to hush money payments made to former porn star stormy daniels. cbs's robert costa joins us with late details. what do we want? >> gun control! >> i'm so disappointed in our lawmakers for not doing something about this. > thousands protest at tennessee's state capitol demanding tighter gun laws. and for the first time, the chilling calls for help from inside that elementary school. >> please hurry. >> they're coming. they're coming. two blackhawk helicopters collide, killing nine american soldiers. why this nighttime exercise went horribly wrong. >> this is a truly tragic loss. russia has arrested an american journalist on the suspicion of espionage. >> russian security officials claim that evan gershkovich, a works for "the wall street journal," was trying to obtain classified information. we have another severe

weather outbreak coming as the area is still trying to recover from last week's storm outbreak are included in this risk. hello, friends. >> and sports broadcasting legend jim nance reflects on a nearly four-decade career covering march madness. >> being able to have this seat for that long, to tell so many stories and document so many great events, no regrets. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening and thank you for joining us on this historic night in our nation's history. for the first time ever, a former president of the united states has been indicted and will face criminal charges. a grand jury voting today to charge donald j. trump. the precise charges are under seal and not yet known.

alvin bragg in the manhattan district attorney's office case is linked to trump's role in hush money payments to former porn star stormy daniels, all actions taken from before he became president. but trump also faces legal scrutiny in three cases from his time in office. mr. trump reacting just a short time ago, calling this a political persecution and a witch hunt. we want to show you live pictures of trump's florida resort, mar-a-lago, and note that this indictment has wide-ranging implications. the former president has already declared as a candidate for the 2024 race for the oval office. also now to new york because we are learning there police have stepped up security, and cbs news has learned that every nypd officer, including plainclothes officers, have been ordered to be in full uniform for tomorrow's shifts, and they should be ready to deploy. there is concern about security. there is concern about protests. we've got a lot of developments to get to. let's bring in cbs's robert

costa, who broke this news here at cbs news. good evening, robert. >> good evening, norah. an explosive political and legal moment. a former president indicted while he runs once again for the presidency. trump moments ago vowed to fight back, calling this political persecution at the highest level in history. the indictment is still under seal, but cbs has learned former president trump will be instructed by the manhattan district attorney, alvin bragg, to surrender and face arraignment. the charges are unknown for now but all center around payments made to adult film star stormy daniels. trump, seething from the indictment, went on truth social to say this is an attack on our country the likes of which has never been seen before. having a former president fingerprinted and then arraigned in open court presents some unprecedented challenges. >> there will be a lot of planning that will go into it. there will be advance work as the secret service would do in any protective visit. and i can assure you that all of

the law enforcement partners at the state, local, and federal level will be joined hand in hand with the secret service to accomplish this mission. >> reporter: the prosecution's main witness is michael cohen, who made the actual payment to daniels. a payment the former president had denied knowing about. security had been increased around the manhattan courthouse in recent days, and the d.a. had received death threats after trump posted last week that he would be indicted. now that the indictment has happened, police likely will ramp up their presence again. >> he will be processed. he will have a mug shot. he will get a booking number. he will give fingerprints, albeit electronically rather than by ink. and ultimately whether or not he will be handcuffed is discretionary for the police, in this case the nypd. >> robert costa, i know you have been speaking with members of trump's legal team. what do they say is next? >> they're going to fight this at every turn, first move to

dismiss the indictment, and then ultimately if it goes to trial, to question the credibility of the key witness, michael cohen. >> all right. robert costa, thank you very much. i want to bring in our chief washington correspondent, cbs's major garrett. president trump has survived two impeachments, other charges against him. what happens now? he's a candidate for president of the united states. >> so in theory the former president has been trying this case in the public sphere for about the last nine days. national polls indicate he has prospered as a result of that. many republicans have already rallied to his defense on capitol hill just hours after this indictment, having never seen the indictment. we still don't know what the underlying charges are and how they line up with new york law. so having not seen that, there's a rallying effect around the former president. but to your point opening this broadcast, norah, new york police are beefing up. if this becomes a traumatic event for the country, that in no way benefits former president trump because that deepens a sense of national trauma about his underlying conduct. though republicans will rally around it, this has a long way to go on the facts, the law, and

the politics. and the former president's conduct -- and he's already talked about protests, implications of violence. all of that will be laid at his doorstep, and he could say, well, after january 6th, it didn't really touch me. the second time around very well may be different. >> legal experts have said this is the weakest of some of the cases against donald trump. he's facing those three other probes from actions he took while in office. you hear republicans today saying this was a misstep by that manhattan district attorney. >> there had been that sense that this is not he case to bring. is this really the set of facts, and is this the underlying law that is so clear-cut, that is so imperative that we must indict a former president? as robert well knows and as i've learned the last week and a half, those in the trump inner circle much more concerned about the actions of the special counsel here in washington, d.c. and the series of setbacks dealt at trump and his attorneys in both the questions about his handling or mishandling of classified documents and his actions leading up to and on january 6th.

those cases are also moving forward, and the series of losses by the trump legal team there concern them much more deeply than what has just happened today in manhattan. >> so good to always have your reporting and analysis, major garrett. robert costa, thank you so much. now to this other developing story. a freight train derailment led to an evacuation of residents in asmall minnesota town about 100 miles west of minneapolis. officials say there is no threat to the public, and residents were allowed to return to their homes. also no injuries were reported, and the ntsb has arrived on the scene to investigate. the

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." all right. grief turned to anger today in nashville four days after the deadly school shooting that killed six people, including three children. thousands of protesters descended on the state capitol

to demand action on gun reform. cbs's mark strassmann is in nashville where authorities just released the 911 calls from monday's shooting. and a warning, some of the calls are disturbing. >> reporter: the first 911 calls from the covenant school came just after 10:00 a.m. monday, muffled but clearly desperate. >> approximately how many shots have you heard? >> a lot. a lot of shots. >> reporter: witnesses describe the shooter dressed in a vest and camouflage. >> going down the hall, shooting. there's glass in the doors. >> reporter: another caller cowering in an art room closet shushes students as she calls for help. >> just please hurry. >> they're coming. they're coming. just try -- okay. try to stay quiet. i don't know what's going on there. >> okay. be quiet. >> reporter: outside tennessee's state capitol building, the second stage of grief -- anger. >> gun control! >> reporter: thousands of protesters demanding new laws to limit the state's easy access to

guns. >> it's the worst feeling to know that i send my children somewhere every day where they are a target. >> reporter: outrage bubbled over after the deadliest school shooting in state history. three children and three staff members dead. >> we have to put something in action, more laws in place. >> reporter: inside the packed rotunda, outnumbered troopers worked to control the crowd of teachers, students, and gun control advocates. they demanded state lawmakers hear them out. >> i hear the voice of god's children saying, help us. save us. our lives matter. >> reporter: in washington, d.c. wednesday, a democratic congressman confronted a republican member about gop opposition to more gun restrictions. >> i'm talking about gun violence! >> in a school that allows teachers to carry. >> carry guns? more guns lead to more death. >> reporter: the grieving behind me moves into a new phase

tomorrow with the first funeral for one of the three schoolchildren killed in the attack. and remember, all those children were just 9 years old. norah. >> mark strassmann, thank you so much. now to a tragic loss in the u.s. military to tell you about tonight. a deadly accident took the lives of nine soldiers in southwest kentucky last night. officials say two blackhawk helicopters crashed during a routine training mission about 30 miles outside the fort campbell army base. cbs's janet shamlian is there and spoke to an expert about the dangers of nighttime training. >> reporter: this is the field where two blackhawk helicopters went down late last night. emergency crews raced to the scene, but it was too late. >> two helicopters came over pretty low and all of a sudden, as soon as they got over the house, something popped, a loud bang, and everything shut down just all of a sudden. >> reporter: the blackhawks were a version used for medical evacuations from the 101st

airborne division at fort campbell. they were on a training mission using night vision goggles when the aircraft collided and went down in a field near the kentucky/tennessee border. >> i would like to express our deepest sympathies to the families of our fallen soldiers. >> reporter: according to a facebook post, north carolina pastor tim gore identified his son caleb as one of the victims, saying, he was the light of my world. chuck nadd is a former army blackhawk pilot. how much more difficult is it to fly a helicopter at night? >> when you're flying a blackhawk helicopter at night, you have much less margin of error. you have to be on top of your game because the rate of closure, depth perception, all of that is diminished. >> reporter: the army says one of the helicopters had five soldiers on board, the other, four. >> we're going to wrap our arms around these families, and we're going to be there with them not just for the days, but the weeks and the months and the years to come. >> reporter: a blackhawk from the tennessee national guard

crashed in alabama last month. two reservists were killed. and last year, two blackhawks with the utah national guard crashed during training. everyone survived. tonight a flight safety team from alabama's fort rucker is here investigating the crash, and the news has been devastating for the community that supports fort campbell. people around here feel very connected to the military. norah. >> no doubt. janet shamlian, thank you so much. turning now overseas, the arrest of an american journalist on espionage charges is yet another sign of the deteriorating relations between the united states and russia. "the wall street journal's" evan gershkovich is the first u.s. reporter to face spying charges in russia since the end of the cold war. cbs's chief foreign affairs correspondent margaret brennan reports the state department is condemning the detention in the strongest possible terms. >> reporter: the kremlin claims "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovich was caught red-handed on wednesday while trying to obtain classified

information. >> translator: under the cover of journalistic activity -- >> reporter: russia accuses the 31-year-old american, an accredited journalist, of working as a spy in the city of yekaterinburg, where he was arrested by russia's top security agency, the fsb. >> translator: i wasn't allowed to the hearing. >> reporter: gershkovich's lawyer said russian authorities refused to let him into a very quick hearing. the court ruled the journalist should be detained for nearly two months. "the wall street journal" vehemently denies the espionage allegations, and u.s. officials have not yet been permitted to see or speak with him. it is unclear whether this is a tit for tat arrest. six days ago, the justice department charged russian national sergey cherkasov for fraudulently posing as a student while working as an intelligence agent in the u.s. from 2017 until 2020. the espionage allegations against gershkovich are similar to those against 53-year-old american paul whelan, who has been stuck behind bars since 2018.

former u.s. ambassador to russia john sullivan visited the fsb facility where gershkovich is being held. >> that reporter is now charged with espionage. something that significant would be approved at the highest levels in moscow. i'm confident of that. >> reporter: norah, the arrest of a journalist is having a chilling effect on the few western reporters remaining inside russia. the state department in the meantime is urging the release of this journalist and advising all americans to immediately leave russia. >> margaret brennan with all those new details, thank you so much. tonight 50 million americans are in the path of a severe weather outbreak. for the forecast, let's bring in meteorologist mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, mike. >> norah, good evening. we're expecting a severe weather outbreak beginning tonight, really taking hold on friday. three threats in particular that we're watching for. long-lived, long-track, very intense tornados. midwest, mid-south, deep south.

also extreme winds and very large hail. this will really take shape in the afternoon and evening on friday. it's going to feel like a very warm, humid spring day for us in many locations. all the warm, moist air out ahead of a low pressure cold front and dry line. temperatures will be in the 70s and 80s. the timing of these storms really it's the middle of the afternoon. we're targeting areas in the midwest and the south in particular for some very intense tornadoes. that all forms a squall line as we go through the nighttime hours, and many areas will be at risk for straight line winds right through the night on friday. >> mike bettes, thank you. there's news tonight about pope francis. the vatican says the pontiff made a marked improvement since undergoing treatment for bronchitis in a rome hospital on wednesday. doctors say the 86-year-old could be discharged in the next few days. it's still unknown if he'll recover in time for palm sunday this weekend or easter the following weekend. and there is breaking news from utah, where a jury has reached a verdict in the gwyneth

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>> the owls of florida atlantic! >> we're so used to this being a gathering of the heavyweights. they're not here. what we do have here is a collection of underdogs, teams of dreamers. >> this is jim nance's 37th ncaa men's basketball championship. >> cinderella would show up maybe in the first round. but to make it all the way to the promised land, as we call it, the final four, it's unprecedented. >> reporter: nance gave us a window into how he prepares for each game with his signature research board. >> i have notes, pages after pages after pages. ultimately i scratch out a few things on a board that resides in front of me when i call the game. >> reporter: three teams will make their first ever appearance in the final four. but for the voice of the tournament, it will be his last. what made you want to step back? >> i'm not retiring in any capacity. my kids need daddy at home, and daddy needs to be home with them more too. so something had to give. it was a difficult decision. >> reporter: nance's journey

ends where it all began, in houston, where he attended cllege and got his start in broadcasting. >> and i'm very grateful that this city gave me that chance. >> reporter: a chance he doesn't take for granted. >> i have just a huge, heart-filled measure of thanks for being able to have this seat for that long to tell so many stories and document so many great events. and no regrets. i'm just looking forward to one last celebration of college basketball, not me. this is cbs news flash. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. donald trump, who is the first former u.s. president to be indicted, could be arraigned next tuesday. that's according to sources who spoke to cbs news. the charges, which remain under seal, will be read to him at that time. trump is under investigation for

the alleged cover-up of financfinancial payments made tt film star stormy daniels. in a statement, trump said, "the democrats have done the unthinkable, indicting a completely innocent person in an act of blatant election interference." democratic manhattan district attorney alvin bragg was seen leaving his office thursday evening without commenting on the indictment. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. it's friday, march 31st, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." historic indictment. donald trump becomes the first former u.s. president to face criminal charges. when he could surrender, and reaction from republicans and democrats. preparing for protests. the new york police department beefs up security. the order given to each officer