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>> reporter: regardless of the outcome of the case or the other legal challenges facing trump, he has vowed to press forward on the campaign trail. >> i'd never drop out. it's not my thing. i wouldn't do it. >> reporter: trump's deposition lasted all day, a sign he is eager to defend his company and its practices and increasingly confident that answers given today won't be tied to the investigation that led to his criminal indictment here last week. norah, this civil case is set to go to trial in october. >> major garrett, thank you very much. the other big story tonight is an extremely rare severe weather event in florida. experts are calling it a 1 in 1,000-year downpour as more than two feet of rain swamped ports of ft. lauderdale within hours, triggering flash floods that trapped people in their homes and cars and left a major airport underwater. cbs's manuel bojorquez is there. >> reporter: tonight a massive cleanup after unprecedented flooding. rescuers had to use boats to access ft. lauderdale's
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hardest-hit neighborhoods, bringing people and pets to safety after a night surrounded by floodwaters. >> i'm going to go back and get your mommy and daddy, all right, bud? >> we had a huge amount of volunteers coming in with their swamp buggies and high water vehicles, which has been a huge help. >> reporter: some people waded through the water with boxes wrapped in plastic, trying to keep their bre longings dry. others described having to climb out of windows. >> i couldn't open the door because the water was too much pressure on the door. >> reporter: more rain fell in a 24-hour period than any other day in the city's history. nearly 26 inches. that's more than 40% of ft. lauderdale's annual rainfall in just one day. >> no city could have planned for this. >> reporter: the result was flooded streets littered with abandoned cars. the water's weight is believed to have contributed to a roof collapse at this shopping center. no one was injured. and the main runway at ft. lauderdale hollywood international airport remains mostly submerged today, forcing operations to shut down. >> nature wasn't kind to us, and
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that's just unfortunate. we have never had to deal with such an item. >> reporter: more than 800 flights have been canceled, and hundreds of passengers left stranded, like the la delaware as family trying to get home to new jersey from their florida vacation. this was their terrifying ride to the airport yesterday. >> we're thinking, oh, my god, we're going to miss the flight, we're going to miss the flight because it took us a 24-minute ride now is an hour and 45-minute ride. >> reporter: tonight ft. lauderdale is getting the last thing it needs, more rain. and we're also just learning that the earliest this flooded airport may reopen is 9:00 a.m. tomorrow because even once the water subsides, workers have to clear debris and inspect for damage. norah. >> what a cleanup. manuel bojorquez, thank you very much. the storm threat isn't over yet across florida, and much of the southeast. let's bring in mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel. hey there, mike. >> norah, good evening. still contending with storms across south florida again today
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after record setting rain falling yesterday. the storm that produced the rain in ft. lauderdale lasted for st. you can see the storms over stationary boundary that just sat right over i-95 and a 1 a. if you look at it three dimensionally, boy does ft. lauderdale stand out. more storms again today. they stretch all the way up into georgia and alabama. more storms tomorrow across south carolina, north carolina, and portions of virginia. then of course there's record setting heat in the northeast after a record-setting 90-degree day today in new york city. we'll do it all again tomorrow. norah, new york, 89 degrees. >> mike bettes, thank you. tonight there's an arrest in the murder of cash app founder bob lee, who was stabbed to death in san francisco last week. police are now saying that lee knew the alleged killer in a case that has rocked silicon valley. here's cbs's jonathan vigliotti.
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>> reporter: these haunting security camera images posted by london's daily mail show the final moments of bob lee's life. and tonight police say that brutal stabbing was not a random attack. >> we can confirm that mr. lee and mr. momeni knew each other. >> reporter: san francisco's police chief says 38-year-old nima momeni, who owns a tech company, was arrested this morning in the suburb of emeryville and booked on one charge of murder. officers confronted him with bullhorns. law enforcement did not give details or a motive for the killing, but sources tell the san francisco publication mission local that momeni and lee were driving together in a car through downtown san francisco during the early hours of april 4th when, quote, some manner of confrontation allegedly commenced. >> this is more about human nature and human behavior than it is about our city. >> reporter: lee's fatal stabbing quickly gained national attention. tech industry leaders,luding
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twitter ceomusk,lame it o the city. in mr.musk's tweet that assumed incorrect circumstances about mr. lee's death serve to mislead the world in their perceptions of san francisco. we all should and must do better. the suspect had several liens on his properties over the years. tonight police are using search warrants to gather more evidence. meanwhile, momeni remains in county jail. he will be arraigned tomorrow, norah. >> jonathan vigliotti, thank you >> jonathan vigliotti, thank you very ♪♪ open talenti and raise the jar to gelato made from scratch. raise the jar to flavors from the world's finest ingredients. and now, from jars to bars. new talenti gelato and sorbetto mini bars. ♪♪
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>> reporter: it's devastation i and other simulated emergencies all within 52 acres. this is disaster city, where elite rescue teams learn to save lives. >> is there anything else like this? >> there's no replication of this kind of thing. there's smaller sites that have little bits of this, but nothing to my knowledge has this much disaster on this kind of scale. >> reporter: stephen is the training manager for texas task force one, and this is their training ground. the team one of 28 search and rescue squads under fema. there are more than a dozen disaster scenarios here, each one based on a real-life catastrophe. this is a flattened parking garage modeled on the one underneath the world trade center. from 9/11 to hurricane katrina and the surfside building collapse, they've been on the front line of the nation's biggest disasters. >> what situation might this
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occur in? >> so this situation would come in. >> kevin mathison is a rescue specialist. >> these scenarios basically train us for any disaster that could happen in the world. >> did we get a measurement off the call? >> reporter: the responders execute -- requiring planning and engineering skills. even using volunteer victims. >> why do the teams need to keep coming back? >> it's a perishable skill. the things that we learn here, they're so technical and so specific, if you're not constantly using that hammer or saw, it perishes and you're not able to use it when you need it. >> reporter: where training meets tragedy, prepping for the unpredictable. for eye on america, janet shamlian, college station, texas. there's news tonight about supreme court justice clarence thomas and secret real estate thomas and secret real estate deals with a
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oscar winner jamie foxx is recovering tonight from what his family calls a medical complication. foxx's daughter says her 55-year-old dad quickly received treatment and is already on his way to recovery, but the family's not providing any further details. foxx has recently been working on a netflix movie called "back in action" with cameron diaz. a broadway institution is about to take its final bow. that's next.
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finally tonight, it may be hard to believe, but the final curtain and chandelier is about to fall for broadway's longest running musical. ♪ the phantom of the opera is tere inside your mind ♪ >> fan ton of the oop ra will close on sunday after 35 years and nearly 14,000 performances. andrew lloyd webber's masterpiece tells the story of a soprano and the masked phantom who's obsessed with her. producer cameron mcintosh recently said you amgs dream that a show will run forever, but all shows do finally close. and that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." and remember you can follow us online anytime at snews.com.
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ere the on c this is cbs news flash. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. more than 70,000 gun enthusiasts are expected to gather in indianapolis this weekend for the annual nra convention. former president donald trump and former vice president mike pence are both set to speak today. montana may become the first state to completely ban tiktok. a final house vote will likely happen today before the bill goes to republican governr greg gianforte. the move will likely face legal challenges in the future. and thousads of music lovers are heading to california this weekend as coachella kicks off. this year's lineup features a
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more diverse group of headliners includin bla , and f re, download thebs p onourelon or.i'm shanelle kaun >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening and thank you for joining us. we want to begin tonight with a stunning break in the investigation into the highest profile u.s. intelligence leak in years. the disclosure of pentagon secrets about the war in ukraine that has reverberated across the world. under arrest tonight, a 21-year-old massachusetts air national guardsman named jack teixeira. thany questions. how did he have access to these top secret documents, and what prompted him to allegedly post military documents in his obscure online chat group with teenagers?
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our boston station, wbz, was there, capturing his arrest live, showing heavily arme feral of taking the suspin cusdy justh oooutse his mom'me about an hour h of bton. s david marti goi to lead um t go evening, david. >> reporter: good evening. the fbi has arrested the prime suspect, and just moments ago the secretary of defense ordered an investigation into how the pentagon handles its classified documents, some of which circulated for months in a chat group used by video gamers, some of them teenagers. the fbi put on a show of force to arrest a 21-year-old airman in the massachusetts national guard. he came out with his hands up in front of his childhood home south of boston. attorney general merrick garland announced the arrest. >> today the justice department arrested jack douglas teixeira
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in connection with an investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defense information. >> reporter: it came one week after the pentagon first discovered some of its most highly classified documents posted on social media, although on a gaming platform called discord. >> it slowly spiraled into just intelligence about everything. >> reporter: "the washington post" interviewed a teenage member of a small chat group on discord, who said the leaks began with text messages quoting from classified documents and then, when no one seemed impressed, photographs of the actual documents. >> it would appear as if he sort of grew angry with the fact that only one or two people were paying attention to these documents that he was pouring his heart out into. and as a sign of just anger, he just decided to post the full documents. >> reporter: glimpses of what
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lay beneath the documents, a countertop and a kitchen floor, matched photos of the inside of teixeira's home. a digital trail which led "the new york times" there ahead of the fbi. staed at feeds om aorce re ve surveillance aircraft around the world are downloaded and analyzed. he worked with fiberoptic cable and may have been able to monitor the network over which the classified documents flowed. there were about 20 members of the chat group where those documents first appeared, but law enforcement officials say no other arrests are imminent. teixeira is scheduled to appear in court tomorrow. norah. >> what a story. david martin, thank you so much. we turn now to some breaking news about abortion rights. florida lawmakers today voted to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. that's before many women know they're pregnant. governor ron desantis, who is preparing a possible run for president, said he will sign the ban into law. patients from across the south
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had been traveling to florida for abortions since the supreme court overturned roe v. wade last june. that ruling triggered abortion bans in 13 states, including states in the south like tennessee, louisiana, and mississippi. florida will join georgia now with this six-week ban. meanwhile, the battle over access to the abortion pill throughout the u.s. could be headed to the supreme court. today the justice department asked the high court to intervene. cbs's nancy cordes on what this means for women's reproductive rights. >> reporter: the new ruling doesn't block access to the abortion drug mifepristone, but it does make it harder to get, shortening the time frame in which the drug can be used from the first ten weeks of pregnancy to the first seven and halting mail delivery of the pill, requiring women to visit a doctor's office multiple times instead. >> that's likely to be, you know, a significant barrier for individuals who are living in states that have essentially shut down abortion access.
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>> reporter: mifepristone is one of two drugs used together to carry out more than half of all abortions in the u.s. the 2-1 ruling comes five days after a conservative federal judge in texas sought to reverse fda approval of the drug altogether. the three-judge fifth circuit court of appeals panel cited the risk of serious complications listed on mifepristone's own label, including sustained fever and sepsis. >> you see this ruling as a win. >> we do. we are happy and pleased that the previous safeguards that were there for over 16 years have been restored. >> reporter: the fda insists mifepristone is safe and complications rare. vice president kamala harris slammed the ruling, saying it threatens the rights of americans across the country. >> we are going to continue to fight in the courts. we believe that the law is on our side and we will prevail. >> reporter: this fight now goes to the u.s. supreme court.
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but if the justices don't weigh in by the end of the day tomorrow, these restrictions will go into effect, at least for the time being, norah. >> we'll be watching it closely. nancy cordes, thank you very much. former president donald trump was back in his hometown of new york city today as his legal troubles contine to mount. last week he was arraigned there on a slew of felony charges. today he was answering questions in connection with a high-stakes civil case. cbs's major garrett has details tonight from trump tower in manhattan. >> reporter: with less fanfare but equal defiance, former president donald trump was back in his once beloved new york for a deposition in a civil case accusing the trump organization of business fraud. sources say trump did answer questions today, unlike his first deposition in august when he took the fifth more than 400 times. >> i decline to answer the question. >> reporter: then and now, he accused new york attorney general letitia james of bias. >> this is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our
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countr>> rep james aeg trump organization intentionally misstated property values in order to obtain loans and other benefits. according to the a.g.'s filing, he claimed his trump tower apartment was worth $327 million, more than three times the sales price of the most expensive new york city apartment at that time. trump has denied wrongdoing. >> from the prosecutor's perspective, it's a fairly straightforward presentation. here's what former president trump valued his assets at, and here is their true value. there is your misrepresentation. there's your deception. there's your fraud. >> reporter: regardless of the outcome of the case or the other legal challenges facing trump, he has vowed to press forward on the campaign trail. >> no,ize i'd never drop out. it's not my thing. i wouldn't do it. >> reporter: trump's deposition lasted all day, a sign he is eager to defend his company and its practices and increasingly confident that answers given today won't be tied to the investigation that led to his criminal indictment here last week. norah, this civil case is set to
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm catherine herridge in washington. thanks for staying with us. longtime california senator dianne feinstein has asked to be temporarily replaced on the powerful senate judiciary committee. the 89-year-old democrat has been home in california for more than two months, recovering from a case of shingles. and her absence from the judiciary committee has allowed republicans to block the confirmation of some judicial nominees. feinstein has announced she won't be seeking a sixth term next year, but some democrats are pressing her to resign now,
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saying she's unable to fulfill her duties. meanwhile, democrats and republicans are already gearing up to replace her. that includes representative katie porter, nat atlee morales has her story. >> the drug didn't get any better. the cancer patients didn't get any better. you just got better at making money. >> reporter: when congresswoman katie porter takes the mic, she has a plan of attack. >> but you're feeding us lies that we must pay astronomical prices to get innovative treatments is false. >> reporter: her ability to challenge some of the titans of industry has made her viral and a go-to guest on late-night talk shows. >> are you exhausted from appearing in every republican's nightmares? >> um, no. i think that's a very comfortable role for me. >> okay. >> if you're full of bull [ bleep ], i'm coming for you. >> reporter: porter first ran for office in 2018, flipping an orange county district long ids wking ia republican eecame
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congress 12, et 7 when theirr wo in >> what adv youarly on from your fellow members in congress about how to do your job? >> when i asked about the schedule, i said, can we figure out what we're doing because i need to tell my child care provider. they said, well, we just can't run congress around people like you. and i said, what do you mean people like me? well, you have such a special situation. and i said, special? there's like 10 million, 12 million single parents out there. the only place where that's special is in congress, not in america. >> we've got some sand from the beach. >> reporter: this is the minivan from the title of her new memoir. >> we've got a weird book from an ex-boyfriend. we have a project that i never had time to help my daughter with. >> reporter: with personalized plates that read "oversight," porter says she's a rule follower while cruising her neighborhood near uc irvine's law school, where she used to
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teach. >> when you're in this minivan, do you. >> reporter: rock out? a little carpool karaoke? maybe. ♪ ready, ready, ready to run ♪ >> reporter: in the book, porter shares lighthearted parenting tales, but she also reveals a darker time as a victim of domestic abuse. she writes, my ex-husband got angrier and more violent as the realization that they were divorcing became clearer. porter slept with a chair propped against the doorknob. >> it was hard. to have to go back to something that i just desperately wanted to have be in the past. >> you also understood the importance of your voice, to be that voice in washington, to talk about domestic abuse. >> when that kind of thing is happening to you, like i said, it's very personal, and you often experience it alone. who do you tell? who can you trust? and when i spoke about it on the campaign, i was shocked and saddened how many people came up to me and said, you know, that
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happened to me. >> reporter: her kids have grown up campaigning, nicknaming her congress mom. when porter won her seat last november, her son paul introduced her to supporters, recalling his reaction when mom first told him she was entering politics. >> my brother luke and i looked at each and said, this hobby isn't going to last long. >> are you worried about them reading the book? >> yeah, i let the kids read the book before it was published because i knew it would be painful for them. one of the things they said was, i'd like some time to consider my legal rights. another one said, this is why i don't read memoirs. so they definitely are probably not going to be leaving any amazing reviews on the book. >> reporter: porter travels to washington at least three times a month, so most meals are prepped ahead of time, and there's a whiteboard in the house. congress mom is now in a race being called a dramatic showdown
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to fill the senate seat dianne feinstein has held since 1992. >> it's been reported senator feinstein, who is 89, is suffering from cognitive decline. she has denied that. do you think, though, there should be an evaluation of mental fitness for candidates running for public office? >> so i think the solution to this is to make sure that every candidate, every campaign, the voters really have a chance to meet them, to test them, to challenge them, and to make their own decisions about whether or not to support them. >> you said at the time you think it's time for change. >> it is time for change. >> are you saying it was time for change that dianne feinstein was not up to the task of the job? >> well, what i'm saying is it's time for change, but we also need people who are new, who see the problems facing the next generation or younger generations, and that's why i decided to run. >> reporter: porter's toughest challenger might be california congressman adam schiff, who played a key role in former president trump's first impeachment. >> you've called yourself a war.
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are youe a warrior than congressman schiff is? >> congressman schiff is a career politician. i think i'm closer to what it's like to be a regular american citizen, watching tv or reading the paper and wondering why the heck does congress not work? inflation is always complex. anyone who says -- and this is the republicans all day long. inflation's bad. no [ bleep ], sherlock. of course inflation's bad. i, too, go to the grocery store. >> you are running for the senate now, but are there perhaps bigger aspirations someday, the white house? >> i think one of the things you have to do as a single mom is just solve the next problem that's in your face. but i've always been the kind of person who looked for ways to make a difference. >> so sounds like you're very open to the idea or the suggestion. >> well, i'm not saying no, but i would think -- i think it's silly to say no. i think government service is important. i mean keep in mind i'm 49, and i'm considered young by congressional standards. i'm not young. i've had botox twice. like i'm not young. but by congress terms, i am.
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and so i think it is important fo new voices, voices that often haven't been heard in our government, whether those are people of color or indigenous people,gbtqpeople, t loo r thosed wk through th. repoing.natalieorales meanwhile, another republican is poised to join the race to challenge donald trump for the gop presidential nomination. caitlin huey-burns spoke with south carolina senator tim scott during a pre-campaign swing through iowa. >> i'm announcing my exploratory committee for president of the united states. >> reporter: for weeks, senator tim scott has been on a tour of key political states. now he's betting in the race for the republican presidential nomination optimism wins over outrage, even as donald trump leads the field. >> i see that america is starving for positive, optimistic leadership. if we can unite this country around the solutions, focusing
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more on those solutions than anything else, it's my only path forward, and it's the one i've chosen. >> is your candidacy a sign that the republican party needs new leadership? >> i hope that the nation wants new leadership. i happen to be a conservative because it actually works. it's one of the reasons why i went from a poor kid mired in poverty and a single parent household to a person who was able to start my own business and then run for congress. >> reporter: his announcement stands in stark contrast to the former president's message. >> our country is going to hell. >> reporter: but scott isn't willing to criticize trump directly or by name. >> i'm not focused on politicians. i'll be honest with you. what i've heard from the american people is that they want us to focus on them, not on each other. >> if donald trump is the nominee for the republican party, would you support him? >> i plan on being the nominee. obviously. i have an exploratory committe moving forward. >> but if trump is the nominee, would you support him? >> obviously i'm looking forward to being the nominee.
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>> reporter: scott would be joining fellow south carolinian nikki haley, who also spent wednesday in iowa. scott is the senate's only black republican and has put an emphasis on faith and conservative values. >> i amount certainly 100% pro-life. i've been very clear about that, very consistent about that. i do think we spend not enough time understanding how far the far left has gone on the issue of abortion. >> if you were president, would you advocate for federal limits? >> yeah. so once again, i -- once again, i'm 100% pro-life. >> so yes? >> that's not what i said. i do believe we should have a robust conversation about what's happening on a very important topic. >> reporter: scott says his personal story sets him apart from the rest of the gop field. his mother sacrifices center to a likely campaign. >> so when you told your mom you were going to make this decision, what did she say? >> i think she kind of cried honestly.
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coronation next month. imtiaz tyab has the answer from outside buckingham palace. >> the british press has been relentless in their speculation of will they or won't they. the answer came in the form of a very brief two-sentence statement from here, buckingham palace. the statement read "the duke of sussex will attend the coronation service at westminster abbey on may 6th. the duchess of sussex will remain in california with prince archie and princess lilibet kwx. a compromise it seems for the new king. >> i think harry coming on his own was the hope from many inside the palace becaus the focus will be much more on the king and the queen on coronation day as it should be rather than on what sideshow might be going on with harry and meghan in attendance. >> reporter: prince harry hasn't been in the uk months since he and meghan stepped back as
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working royals in 2020. ttphrinceip's fune andenueen elizabeth died. prince harry was also here last month to attend a high court hearing in his case against the publishers of a british tabloid newspaper. but while promoting his "spare," he told 60 minutes anderson cooper in january he wanted to sit down with members of his family to discuss the issues he's been so open about privately. >> there needs to be a constructive conversation, one that can happen in private. >> reporter: it's not clear if that conversation happened, nor do we know how or why the decision was made he would attend the coronation alongside 2,000 other guests including the first lady and not his wife and children. whatever the reason, it will be the first time prince harry will be seen in public with king charles, camilla and prince william since writing so unsparingly about them in his book. as for meghan, the coronation happens to fall on prince
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archie's 4th birthday. but her absence on the king's crowning moment, well, it's only going to add fuel to the speculation that this roy 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. you'll be inspired, you'll be encouraged. i'm looking forward to seeing you right here. you are fully loaded and completely equipped for the race that's been designed for you.
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this next story could be a scene from a frankenstein movie. there's a research group in europe that's been collecting and storing brains for more than 75 years. ian lee tells us why. >> reporter: it's a one of a kind cranium collection in denmark. buckets of knowledge that seemed like a no-brainer. >> i think it's the largest collection in the world actually, almost 10,000 brains that were collected. >> reporter: started by a prominent psychiatrist, the oldest brain is from 1945. the newest from 1982. back then, researcherselied as science progressed, so would their understanding of diseases affecting the mind. >> when they finished the autopsy, they kept the brain and put it up on a shelf and said, okay, maybe in 50 years, maybe
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even more, someone will come and know more about the brain than we do now. >> reporter: the brains come from patients with dementia, schizophrenia, major depression, and other disorders. scientists say the brain bank has already led to some breakthroughs, including finding a rare type of hereditary deme. whileolctionas cropfu, a da don patients against their will. >> there were no people from the outside who were asking questions about what went on in these state institutions. >> reporter: and with little in ways of effective therapy, experts say the untouched brains create a baseline for modern medicine. >> we can see whether these changes could be associated with the treatment or not as those brained were not treated. >> reporter: as a time capsule of knowledge from yesterday helping patients of tomorrow. ian lee, cbs news. and that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for
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"cbs mornings." and follow us online all the time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm catherine herridge. this is cbs news flash. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. more than 70,000 gun enthusiasts are expected to gather in indianapolis this weekend for the annual nra convention. former president donald trump and former vice president mike pence are both set to speak today. montana may become the first state to completely ban tiktok. a final house vote will likely happen today before the bill goes to republican governor greg gianforte. the move will likely face legal challenges in the future. and thousands of music lovers are heading to california this weekend as coachella kicks off. this year's lineup features a more diverse group of headliners
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including bad bunny, blackpink , and frank ocean. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connecte. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. tonight, the fbi takedown of an air national guardsman accused of sharing classified documents in one of the biggest intelligence leaks in a decade. how he had access to america's top secrets. here are tonight's top headlines. the 21-year-old arrested and handcuffed outside of his mother's home. what we're learning about why he shared national secrets about the war in ukraine in his online chat group. >> this was a deliberate criminal act. historic flooding in florida closes a major airport and schools as more wet weather is on the way. the san francisco police
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department has arrested a suspect in the murder of tech executive bob lee. >> the cash app founder was stabbed in the city last week. the justice department says it will ask the supreme court to pause an appeals court decision that keeps access to a commonly used abortion pill but imposes some restrictions that will make the medicine harder to get. "eye on america." janet shamlian takes us to disaster city, where rescue teams prepare for the next catastrophe. >> as that next big thing happens, how do we mirror that, bring it here, and then be able to train on it so people are ready to respond to it? ♪ and broadway's longest running show prepares to take its final bow. ♪ the phantom of the opera is there ♪
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs ovnight news." > eing us. want egin ton wa bak in atioi prile u.s. intelligence leak in years. the disclosure of pentagon secrets about the war in ukraine that has reverberated across the world. under arrest tonight, a 21-year-old massachusetts air national guardsman named jack teixeira. and there are still so many questions. how did he have access to these top secret documents, and what prompted him to allegedly post military documents in his obscure online chat group with teenagers? our boston station, wbz, was there, capturing his arrest live, showing heavily armed federal officers taking the suspect into custody just this e about an hour soutof bosn. well, tonight we're also learning that journalists from "the new york times" had
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identified the alleged leaker from what they call a digital trail of evidence, including a granite countertop. the journalists were knocking on his door just moments before the fbi showed up. cbs's david martin is going to lead us off tonight from the pentagon with all the details. good evening, david. >> reporter: good evening. the fbi has arrested the prime suspect, and just moments ago the secretary of defense ordered an investigation into how the pentagon handles its classified documents, some of which circulated for months in a chat group used by video gamers, some of them teenagers. the fbi put on a show of force to arrest a 21-year-old airman in the massachusetts national guard. he came out with his hands up in front of his childhood home south of boston. attorney general merrick garland announced the arrest. >> today the justice department arrested jack douglas teixeira in connection with an
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investigation into alleged unauthorized removal, retention, and transmission of classified national defense information. >> reporter: it came one week after the pentagon first discovered some of its most highly classified documents posted on social media although the leaks started last fall, when secrets first started showing up on a gaming platform called discord. >> it slowly spiraled into just intelligence about everything. >> reporter: "the washington post" interviewed a teenage member of a small chat group on discord, who said the leaks began with text messages quoting from classified documents and then, when no one seemed impressed, photographs of the actual documents. >> it would appear as if he sort of grew angry with the fact that only one or two people were paying attention to these documents that he was pouring his heart out into. and as a sign of just anger, he just decided to post the full documents. >> repr: glimpses of what lay beneath the documents, a countertop and a kitchen floor,
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matched photos of the inside of teixeira's home. a digital trail which led "the new york times" there ahead of the fbi. teixeira was stationed at a base in massachusetts, where live feeds from air force surveillance aircraft around the world are downloaded and analyzed. he worked with fiberoptic cable and may have been able to monitor the network over which the classified documents flowed. there were about 20 members of the chat group where those documents first appeared, but law enforcement officials say no other arrests are imminent. teixeira is scheduled to appear in court tomorrow. norah. >> what a story. david martin, thank you so much. we turn now to some breaking news about abortion rights. florida lawmakers today voted to ban abortions after six weeks of pregnancy. that's before many women know they're pregnant. governor ron desantis, who is preparing a possible run for president, said he will sign the ban into law. patients from across the south had been traveling to florida for abortions since the supreme
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court overturned roe v. wade last june. that ruling triggered abortion bans in 13 states, including states in the south like tennessee, louisiana, and mississippi. florida will join georgia now with this six-week ban. meanwhile, the battle over access to the abortion pill throughout the u.s. could be headed to the supreme court. today the justice department asked the high court to intervene. cbs's nancy cordes on what this means for women's reproductive rights. >> reporter: the new ruling doesn't block access to the abortion drug mifepristone, but it does make it harder to get, shortening the time frame in which the drug can be used from the first ten weeks of pregnancy to the first seven and halting mail delivery of the pill, requiring women to visit a doctor's office multiple times instead. >> that's likely to be, you know, a significant barrier for individuals who are living in states that have essentially shut down abortion access. >> reporter: mifepristone is one of two drugs used together to
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carry out more than half of all abortions in the u.s. the 2-1 ruling comes five days after a conservative federal judge in texas sought to reverse fda approval of the drug altogether. the three-judge fifth circuit court of appeals panel cited the risk of serious complications listed on mifepristone's own label, including sustained fever and sepsis. >> you see this ruling as a win. >> we do. we are happy and pleased that the previous safeguards that were there for over 16 years have been restored. >> reporter: the fda insists mifepristone is safe and complications rare. vice president kamala harris slammed the ruling, saying it threatens the rights of americans across the country. >> we are going to continue to fight in the courts. we believe that the law is on our side and we will prevail. >> reporter: this fight now goes to the u.s. supreme court. but if the justices don't weigh
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." former president donald trump was back in his hometown of new york city today as his legal troubles continue to mount. last week, he was arraigned there on a slew of felony charges. today he was answering questions in connection with a high-stakes civil case. cbs's major garrett has details tonight from trump tower in manhattan. >> reporter: with less fanfare t eqdefian, rm esenna trump b a si in civil ca accung t truio
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bd. questions today, unlike his first deposition in august when he took the fifth more than 400 times. >> i decline to answer the question. >> reporter: then and now, he accused new york attorney general letitia james of bias. >> this is the greatest witch hunt in the history of our country. >> reporter: james alleges the trump organization intentionally misstated property values in order to obtain loans and other benefits. according to the a.g.'s filing, he claimed his trump tower apartment was worth $327 million, more than three times the sales price of the most expensive new york city apartment at that time. trump has denied wrongdoing. >> from the prosecutor's perspective, it's a fairly straightforward presentation. here's what former president trump valued his assets at, and thertcome of the corhetherlegalm
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he has vowed to press forward on the campaign trail. >> no, i'd never drop out. it's not my thing. i wouldn't do it. >> reporter: trump's deposition lasted all day, a sign he is eager to defend his company and its practices and increasingly confident that answers given today won't be tied to the investigation that led to his criminal indictment here last week. norah, this civil case is set to go to trial in october. >> major garrett, thank you very much. the other big story tonight is an extremely rare severe weather event in florida. experts are calling it a 1 in 1,000-year downpour as more than two feet swamped parts of ft. lauderdale within hours, triggering flash floods that trapped people in their homes and cars and left a major airport underwater. cbs's manuel bojorquez is there. >> reporter: tonight a massive cleanup after unprecedented flooding. rescuers had to use boats to
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safety after a night surrounded by floodwaters. >> i'm going to go back and get your mommy and daddy, all right, bud? >> we had a huge amount of volunteers coming in with their swamp buggies and high-watte wi wrapped in plastic, trying to keep their belongings dry. others described having to climb out of windows. >> i couldn't open the door because the water was too much pressure on the door. >> reporter: more rain fell in a 24-hour period than any other day in the city's history, nearly 26 inches. that's more than 40% of ft. lauderdale's annual rainfall in just one day. >> no city could have planned for this. >> reporter: the result was flooded streets littered with abandoned cars. the water's weight is believed to have contributed to a roof collapse at this shopping center. no one was injured. and the main runway at ft. lauderdale hollywood international airport remains mostly submerged today, forcing operations to shut down. >> nature wasn't kind to us, and that's just unfortunate.
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we have never had to deal with such an item. >> reporter: more than 800 flighave bn canc and ds of engeeft st tueras ly tingw jerseyrom their florid to the airport yesterday. >> we're thinking, oh, my god, we're going to miss the flight. we're going to miss the flight because it took us -- a 24-minute ride now is an hour and 45-minute ride. >> reporter: tonight ft. lauderdale is getting the last thing it needs, more rain. and we're also just learning that the earliest this flooded airport may reopen is 9:00 a.m. tomorrow because even once the water subsides, workers have to clear debris and inspect for damage. norah. >> what a cleanup. manuel bojorquez, thank you very much. the storm threat isn't over yet across florida and much of the southeast. let's bring in mike bettes from our partners at the weather channel. hey there, mike. >> norah, good evening. still contending with storms across south florida again today after record-setting rain
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falling yesterday. the storm that produced the rain in ft. lauderdale lasted for roughly ten straight hours. you can see the storms over a stationary boundary that just sat right over i-95 and a1a. if you look at it three-dimensionally, boy, does ft. lauderdale stand out. were to be confirmed that thatat inecd. more storms that stretch all the way up into georgia and alabama. more storms tomorrow across south carolina, north carolina, and portions of virginia. then of course there's record-setting heat in the northeast after a record-setting 90-degree day today in new york city. we'll do it all again tomorrow. norah, new york, 89 degrees. >> mike bettes, thank you. tonight there's an arrest in the murder of cash app founder bob lee, who was stabbed to death in san francisco last week. police are now saying that lee knew the alleged killer in a case that has rocked silicon valley. here's cbs's jonathan vigliotti. >> reporter: these haunting
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security camera images posted by london's "daily mail" show the final moments of bob lee's life. and tonight police say that brutal stabbing was not a random attack. >> we can confirm that mr. lee and mr. momeni knew each other. >> reporter: san francisco's police chief says 38-year-old nima momeni, who owns a tech company, was arrested this morning in the suburb of chf .on law enforcement did not give details or a motive for the killing, but sources tell the san francisco publication "mission local," that momeni and lee were driving together in a car through downtown san francisco during the early hours of april 4th when, quote, some manner of confrontation allegedly commenced. >> this is more about human nature and human behavior than it is about our city. >> reporter: lee's fatal stabbing quickly gained national attention. tech industry leaders, including
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twitter ceo elon musk, blamed it on a violent crime wave that has taken over the city. >> reckless and irresponsible statements like those contained in mr. musk's tweet that assumed incorrect circumstances about mr. lee's death serve to mislead the world in their perceptions of san francisco. we all should and must do better. >> reporter: and we're learning the suspect had several liens on his properties over the years. tonight police are using search warrants to gather more evidence. meanwhile, momeni remains in county jail. he will be arraigned tomorrow, norah. >> jonathan vigliotti, thank you very much. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. hey, i just got a text from my sister. you remember rick, her neighbor? sure, he's the 76-year-old guy who still runs marathons, right? sadly, not anymore. wow. so sudden. um, we're not about to have the "we need life insurance" conversation again, are we? no, we're having the "we're getting coverage
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every direction.trderamearthes, and other simulated emergencies all within 52 acres. this is disaster city, where elite rescue teams learn to save lives. >> is there anything else like this? >> there's no replication of this kind of thing. there's smaller sites that have little bits of this, but nothing to my knowledge in the united states or even the world has this much disaster on this kind of scale. >> reporter: stephen bjune is the training manager for texas task force one, and this is their training ground. the team one of 28 search and rescue squads under fema. there are more than a dozen disaster scenarios here, each one based on a real-life catastrophe. this is a flattened parking garage modeled on the one underneath the world trade center. from 9/11 to hurricane katrina and the surfside building collapse, they've been on the front line of the nation's biggest disasters. >> what situation might this occur in?
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>> so this situation would be for a building collapse, so the guys come in and build these shores to help make the structures safe. >> kevin mathison is a rescue specialist. >> these scenarios basically train us for any disaster that could happen in the world. >> did we get a measurement off the wall? >> reporter: the responders execute technical rescues requiring planning and engineering skills, even using volunteer victims. >> why do the teams need to keep coming back? >> it's a perishable skill. the things that we learn here, they're so technical and so specific, if you're not constantly using that hammer or using that saw, it perishes ask you're not able to do it again when you need it. >> keep it as straight as you can. >> reporter: where training meets tragedy, prepping for the unpredictable. for "eye on america," janet shamlian, college station, texas. there's news tonight about supreme court justice clarence thomas and secret real estate deals with a billionaire republican donor.
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crow took thomas on lavish vacations, which also were not reported. actor jamie foxx has suffered a health scare. we'll tell you what his family is say
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reveringonight from what family calls a medical complication. foxx's daughter says her 55-year-old dad quickly received treatment and is already on his way to recovery, but the family's not providing any further details. foxx has recently been working on a netflix movie called "back in action" with cameron diaz. a broadway institution is about to take its final bow. that's next.
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finally tonight, it may be hard to believe, but the final curtain and chandelier is about to fall for broadway's longest running musical. ♪ the phantom of the opera is there inside your mind ♪ >> "phantom of the opera" will close on sunday after 35 years and nearly 14,000 performances. andrew lloyd webber's masterpiece tells the story of a soprano and the masked phantom who's obsessed with her. producer cameron mackintosh recently said you always dream that a show will run forever, but all shows do finally close. and that's the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs mornings." and remember you can follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com.
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reporting from here in the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is cbs news flash. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. more than 70,000 gun enthusiasts are expected to gather in indianapolis this weekend for the annual nra convention. former president donald trump and former vice president mike pence are both set to speak today. montana may become the first state to completely ban tiktok. a final house vote will likely happen today before the bill goes to republican governor greg gianforte. the move will likely face legal challenges in the future. and thousands of music lovers are heading to california this weekend as coachella kicks off. this year's lineup features a more diverse group of headliners
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including bad bunny, blackpink," and frank ocean. it's friday, april 14th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." leaked documents. the fbi captures an air national guardsman suspected of revealing military secrets on line. how investigators believe the 21-year-old got his hands on the sensitive material. murder arrest. a major break in the stabbing death of a tech executive in san francisco after police say the suspect and victim knew each other. marathon day brings the eyes of the world to boston. >> race preparations. the boston marathon is just days away.

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