kpix.com. cbs weekend news is next andwe'll be back in 30 minutes. ♪ tonight an unprecedented week for the american presidency. an historic first, a former president prepares for his arraignment on criminal charges. >> you have not heard a single trump defender stand up and say, oh, that's not the donald trump i know. >> the latest on donald trump's return to new york, his legal fight, and the politics of the moment. unbelievable! >> also tonight, path of destruction. multiple deaths in several states after that violent tornado outbreak. >> i'm omar villafranca in wynne, arkansas. we'll show you how a family of five survived a violent tornado even after their home >> and there's a new weather threat in the forecast. today in nashville, final respects for 9-year-old will

last week's scoot shooting. school shooting. >> i didn't hear you. >> they're coming, they're coming. >> cbs's mark strassmann is there. >> so much indiscriminate carnage in a country polarized by what to do about it. plus, pope francis returns to the vatican, just in time for holy week. >> i'm chris livesay in st. peter's square where pope francis is celebrating palm sunday mass after making a swift recovery. and later, triumph and heartbreak. there's no stopping march madness, even though the calendar says it's april. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs weekend news" with jericka duncan. good evening and thank you for joining us tonight. tonight new york city is bracing for what could be two tumultuous days. on monday, former president donald trump is expected to fly from florida to new york. then on tuesday he will be formally arraigned on criminal

charges in an historic indictment that remains under seal. today, in west palm beach, ved to supporters from inside his suv as he left his golf club. he has not appeared before cameras to address his indictment, but that is expected to change soon. cbs' robert costa is outside trump tower in manhattan. robert, good evening to you. how do things look right now? >> reporter: good evening, jericka. new york remains on high alert ahead of former president trump's return to the city on monday. he will be here at trump tower ahead of his arrangement on tuesday. he does plan to fly back to florida later tuesday and speak with reporters at mar-a-lago. >> he's gearing up for a battle. >> reporter: former president trump's lawyer joe tacopina vowing an aggressive legal strategy ahead of tuesday's arraignment. >> the team will look at every, every potential issue that we will be able to challenge, and we will challenge. of course, i very much anticipate a motion to dismiss coming because there's no law

that fits this. >> reporter: the charges remain under seal, but a source familiar with the indictment tells cbs news that former president trump will likely be charged with falsifying business records in the first degree, a felony stemming from alleged hush money paid to adult film star stormy daniels. michael cohen, a key witness in the investigation, sat down with "cbs news this weekend" and said the case is more than about his testimony. >> yes, i lied to congress at the directions of, in coordination with, and for the benefit of donald j. trump. if there's anyone out there that thinks that that lie is going to prevent me from being the credible witness that i am based on the documentation, the testimony, the emails, the reporting, it's not going to happen. >> reporter: new york remains on high alert ahead of tuesday's arraignment at a manhattan courthouse. cbs news' legal analyst rikki klieman. >> he will be given a booking number. at the time that he receives that booking number, he is officially, quote/unquote, under arrest.

>> hopefully this will be as painless and classy as possible for a situation like this. >> reporter: most republicans are offering trump support, including florida governor ron desantis, who slammed manhattan district attorney alvin bragg. >> this guy is doing politics. he has an agenda. that is not the rule of law. >> robert costa joins me now. i know you've been speaking to a number of politicians. how do these criminal charges affect trump's presidential campaign? >> reporter: jericka, many republicans publicly are expressing outrage about the indictment, but privately, there's a lot of political calculation going on with donors and elected officials, wondering if trump is now increasingly vulnerable in the 2024 republican race. some donors told cbs news today that they're thinking about recruiting some new names to jump in. one target, virginia governor glenn youngkin. >> robert costa for us in new york city, thaou now to the weather. today, more dangerous storms are forecast for a wide swath of the south and midwest. large areas of both are already

in ruins from a violent system that fueled tornadoes in at least eight states, causing multiple deaths. cbs' omar villafranca is in hard hit wynne, arkansas, about 100 miles west of memphis. omar, good evening. >> reporter: good evening. cars, homes, even schools were damaged by this deadly storm. check this out. this is part of a high school stadium speaker system. that stadium is about a quarter mile away. this system raked across the region and left a multi-state path of destruction. weekend storms dropped more than 50 tornadoes in the south and midwest. this giant funnel cloud was recorded ripping through north little rock on friday. in wynne, arkansas, people spent to 100 m wt cleaning up debris

the only way into curtis mcnelly's house is through a blown out window. whose bedroom is this? >> this is my son. >> reporter: a powerful tornado destroyed his home. >> we are all hunkered down. >> reporter: but he survived with his wife, two kids and mother-in-law by hiding out in this hallway. >> my daughter, we told her to keep her head down, but she don't listen. she told me she thought we were in heaven with the angels. >> reporter: she thought it was over? >> she thought it was done. for a while, i did, too. >> reporter: more than a dozen people are dead in tennessee after a suspected tornado roared through several counties on friday. the same system killed one person in belvedere, illinois, when the roof of a packed concert hall collapsed with 200 people inside. in ohio, powerful winds knocked a tree down onto a house, killing a 13-year-old. >> this is crazy. >> reporter: and in delaware, p rnado tod n su county. back in wynne, there won't be

monday classes at the local high school. >> when i walked out yesterday, i didn't realize that would be the last time i would teach in this classroom. >> reporter: teachers and students are praising the wynne school superintendent because the superintendent allowed students to get out early and get away from the path of the storm. and many people here are saying, that saved lives. jericka? >> omar villafranca for us, thank you. a new weather threat is already on the move. let's bring in meteorologist paul goodloe from our partners at the weather channel with more on that. good evening. >> good evening, jericka. we're still tracking severe weather right now. the risk of damaging winds and tornadoes, including the fort worth and dallas area, all night long. then our next severe maker is actually dumping snow right now across the west. mid-winter conditions across the wasatch moving to the rockies, the northern rockies, and it breaks out towards the plains. could bring us record-setting snow in duluth, maybe even

minneapolis, as well. maybe a foot to a foot and a half, the high elevations we go. but the same system, it's not just a snowmaker, it will set up the atmosphere to bring enough energy and shear or winds to give us more tornadoes. so, four days after our latest tornado outbreak, we could have some of the same real estate dealing with yet another tornado outbreak coming up this tuesday. jericka? >> some areas can't catch a break. thank you, paul. a pointed message today from u.s. secretary of state antony blinken. in a rare phone call with his russian county part, sergey lavrov, blinken urged the immediate release of "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovich. he was arrested last week accused of being a spy. blinken also urged the release of paul whelan. another detained american. today in st. petersburg, videos posted to social media captured an explosion at a cafe. the blast killed a prominent russian military blogger, a supporter of russia's war in

ukraine. at least 25 others were hurt. there's been no claim of responsibility. well, today christians around the world marked the start of holy week. at the vatican, pope francis presided over holy week. presided over palm sunday mass, marking the start of a holy week and the end to a sudden health scare. here's cbs' chris livesay. ♪ >> reporter: palm sunday, a week before easter, and pope francis is back on his feet. i, too, need jesus to caress me, to come close to me, he said in his homily in st. peter's square. the last time we saw him here was wednesday, before the 86-year-old was rushed to rome's hospital for trouble breathing. it was bronchitis. by friday, he was already well enough to baptize a baby in the same hospital, miguel angel, just a few weeks old. on his way out the next morning,

he signed a boy's cast and embraced the distraught young parents of the daughter they lost overnight. when asked how he was feeling, he quipped -- it seems like i'm still alive. today, in st. peter's, he did struggle through a nagging cough and hoarse voice as he read the homily. and he had help from a cardinal during altar duties, nothing new since he began suffering from knee pain last year. you can feel a collective sigh of relief amongst the thousands of faithful here. their prayers answered to hear their pontiff speaking in st. peter's square and not lying in a hospital bed. shelly is visiting from phoenix. you seem moved. >> i am. very moved. it's very spiritual. you don't realize how it makes you feel. >> reporter: while some pundits fear this latest illness could

mark the end of his papacy, he's now back on schedule for events leading up to easter and beyond. chris livesay, cbs news, rome. now to nashville. the site of last week's deadly school shooting. today, a funeral was held for the fourth of six people killed. grieving family and friends remembered 9-year-old william kinney as someone looking forward to playing baseball this season and for being quick to laugh and always inclusive of others. cbs' mark strassmann is in nashville. >> please hurry. >> they're coming. they're coming. >> reporter: nashville school's massacre, another muzzle flashpoint about. guns in america. six people killed, three of them 9 years old. >> these large, mass public shootings, they represent about 1% of gun violence nationwide. >> reporter: michael runs new jersey's nonpartisan gun violence research center. one of its inescapable conclusions --

>> where there's more firearms, there's more firearm injury and death. >> reporter: america has roughly 400 million guns in private hands. gun violence, like heart disease or opioids, qualifies as a public health crisis. during the covid pandemic, the u.s. firearms homicide rate spiked by 35%. on average, gun violence kills more than 100 americans a day. just as unsettling, guns are now the number one cause of death among children. >> every shooting has this vast ripple effect that affects so many more people and tears apart families and communities. >> reporter: nashville is now one of those communities. like parkland, like buffalo, like uvalde, so many indiscriminate carnage in a country polarized by what to do about it. thousands of tennesseeans last week demanded state lawmakers limit access to guns. unlikely in a state where gun rights are expanding.

at the federal l -- >> it's not just legislation that solves these problems. >> reporter: -- it's paralysis. >> i have gone the fullest extent of my executive authority to do on my own anything about guns. >> reporter: nashville's shooting sparked this congressional dust-up between democrat jamaal bowman and republican thomas massie. >> are you listening to what i'm saying? >> calm down! >> calm down? children are dying! >> i know. >> 9-year-old children! >> reporter: nashville's grief is still raw. weekend memorial services for evelyn dieckhaus, hallie scruggs and william kinney. >> reducing gun violence should be the number one priority for our country. anything less, we are failing our children. >> reporter: mark strassmann, cbs news, nashville. straight ahead on "cbs weekend news," china flexes its muscle and money in cambodia as it carves a path of global influence. and fitting finale.

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san diego state's men's team clinched their first ticket ever to it the title game when aztec's guard lamont butler sank this buzzer-beater saturday, stunning florida atlantic university and basketball fans everywhere. >> went to pull-up and i'm just glad it went in. we're going to the national championship. >> reporter: the cinderella aztecs will face powerhouse university of connecticut monday in houston. the huskies, who cruised to the championship game by outscoring their opponents by an average of 20 points, are chasing their fifth title. >> johnson gives lsu the lead! >> reporter: for the women it would be a first national championship for both university of iowa and louisiana state university. >> here's clark, a deep one. you bet! >> reporter: the tournament has been a shot to stardom for hawkeye standout, caitlin clark. the first player to score a 40-point triple double in ncaa

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san francisco always comes back. that's our civic creative -- we're coming back. >> is problem plagued san francisco really on the rebound? what the data is saying as the city faces a massive budget shortfall. i'm john ramos in sunnyvale. one homeowner's attempt to go all electric has not gone easy. we'll have the cautionary tale coming up. and a bay area father taking up the fight against fentanyl turning his pain into a new mission. live from the cbs studios in san francisco, i'm brian hackney. >> i'm andrea nakano. some gloomy news this week for san francisco. the city is losing money and lots of it. the latest budget outlook shows nearly an $800 million shortfall over the next two years. back in december, the

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