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buying. tonight we're learning the florida department of emergency management is sending 500,000 gallons of fuel here to the southeast part of the state to help. norah. >> that is needed. manuel bojorquez, thank you so much. turning overseas, "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovich made his first court appearance today in moscow. a russian judge rejected an appeal from the american journalist to be freed from his pretrial detention on espionage charges. the state department says he is being wrongfully detained. cbs's nancy cordes reports his lawyers have vowed to keep fighting for his release. >> reporter: evan gershkovich stood in a metal and glass cage with his arms folded ahead of what the white house dubbed a sham judicial proceeding. "he is in a combative mood," his russian lawyer said. "he's ready to defend himself." gershkovich was arrested and accused of espionage during a reporting trip in russia last month. >> totally illegal what's happening. >> reporter: the 31-year-old
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"wall street journal" reporter was one of the few western journalists left in russia after putin invaded ukraine last year and began cracking down on free e lastricanussi accusedry. of espionage, paul whelor tha s. >> hav there been any substantive negotiations or even conversations about evan between u.s. officials and russian officials yet? >> what i can say is that we are -- we are committed to getting evan home, and we are committed to getting paul whelan home. >> reporter: in a letter written in russian, evan reassured his parents that he is not losing hope. "i read. i exercise, and i'm trying to write." his parents, who fled russia for the u.s. in the late '70s, told "the wall street journal" they are trying to be optimistic. >> that's where we stand right now. but i am not stupid. i understand what's involved.
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>> reporter: russian officials have said they might be willing to discuss a potential prisoner swap but only after evan's trial is complete, and that trial is not scheduled to begin until late may at the earliest. so he'll remain forme kgb prison, norah, at least until then. >> all right. nancy cordes at the white house, thank you very much. there are growing concerns over the safety of americans inside the war-torn african nation of sudan after a u.s. diplomatic convoy came under attack on monday. secretary of state antony blinken said preliminary reports indicate the attackers were linked to a paramilitary group fighting against sudan's army for control of the country. cbs's debora patta reports from the region. >> reporter: a city of over 6 million people turned into this as hostilities between two rival sudanese generals explodd into
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all-out war. gunshots rang out in residential areas. fighter jets thundered across apartment blocks. and khartoum's international airport was enn flames.asl, civ caughtn the mile >> we're fine. we're safe. the power has been out. that was something, you know. it's like i don't even know what it is anymore. >> reporter: the u.s. has urged americans in khartoum to stay indoors. secretary of state antony blinken said yesterday a clearly marked u.s. diplomatic convoy was fired on. nobody was harmed, but in calls with both generals, he said the action was reckless and irresponsible. >> i made very clear that any attacks, threats, dangers posed to our diplomats were totally unacceptable. >> reporter: a 24-hour
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humanitarian cease-fire was supposed to start earlier tonight, but it has had little effect, and heavy gunfire cou s long after it was supposed to begin. the state department says contingency planning for u.s. personnel in sudan is under way, but, norah, the airport remains closed, and there are currently no plans to evacuate american civilians. >> debora patta, thank you. and there's more breaking news from right here in new york city. at least one person has died and several others were injured after a parking garage partially collapsed in lower manhattan late this afternoon. emergency crews arrived on the scene within minutes, a frantic search for victims. cbs's lilia luciano is there. >> an explosion in a parking garage with collapse. >> reporter: late today, dozens of new york city firefighters rushed to lower manhattan after a four-story parking garage collapsed, sending cars crashing
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down to the basement. >> it sounded like a bomb going off, something like a little explosion that happened because ld, comy fell>>r: authorities building. four were taken to the hospital. >> this was an extremely dangerous operation for our firefighters. we had firefighters inside the building conducting searches. the building was continuing to collapse. >> reporter: firefighters used a drone and rebottic dogs to search for survivors over concerns the rest of the building could fall. >> this building is completely unstable, and the chief -- we do not want to send in someone until we can make sure the building is shored up. >> reporter: nearby pace university was also evacuated, and classes were canceled. crews and investigators will continue working through the night to find answers. but authorities say they believe everybody is outside of the building. norah. >> lilia luciano, thank you very
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ishika was just 12 when her anxiety started after feeling the pressures of her school work, ishika developed a eating disorder. >> just being able to control how i look versus i thought i wasn't worth enough or smart enough. i was like maybe i can be pretty enough or i can, you know, follow these norms that social media has set. >> this is a different generation. their ability to cope with things is very different. they're all resilient, but i think they're just exposed to a lot more things much earlier than we would have thought. >> reporter: lisa demoore is a clinical psychologist and mother of two. she says parent shz delay and limit their children's access to social media. >> when girls are in distress, they tend to collapse in on themselves whereas when boys are in distress, they tend to act out. >> how do we help teens deal with those ups and downs? >> we approach it from emotion regulation. so you can't get rid of distress. you can't keep it from arriving, but you can regulate it.
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getting feelings out, teenagers say, is out they get relief. >> reporter: ishika didn't have that outlet with her parents. it was only when she had thoughts of suicide that they began to realize the severity. >> a lot of parents have the "not my kid." attitude. like my kid, he's not like your kid. s better. >> you don't see it even when it's hiding in plain sight. when you look back and see the symptoms and say those are all there. but while we're going through this, we just didn't realize it. >> reporter: knowing the signs is the first step. experts say parents should keep an eye out for a sudden drop in grades, self-isolation, short temper, and changes in eating or sleeping habits. teens need two things for healthy development. what are they? >> what they need is the warmth it's harder sometimes with teenagers. i would say the number one rule for raising teenagers is don't take it personally. >> reporter: after months of intensive therapy, ishika is in recovery and now the family speaks openly about mental
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an unexpected visitor showed up on the white house grounds today. a toddler squeezed through the metal fencing and started making his way towards the north lawn while his parents watched from pennsylvania avenue. secret service agents quickly scooped him up and then brought him to his parents. damar hamlin, the buffalo bills player who collapsed on the field earlier this year, made a big announcement today. that's next.
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we end tonight with big news in the nfl. buffalo bills safety damar hamlin is now fully cleared to return to football just after three months after collapsing on the field in cardiac arrest. the 25-year-old today worked out with his teammates today after getting the green light from three separate specialists. and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. 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. reporting from here in the broadcast center in new york
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city, i'm norah o'donnell. this is cbs news flash. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. jack teixeira, the massachusetts air national guardsman accused of leaking intelligence documents related to the war in ukraine, has a detention hearing in federal court today. he faces up to 15 years in prison after allegedly leaking the documents on social media platform discord. the supreme court is set to decide an the availability of mifepristone today. the widely used abortion pill was almost taken offer the shelves earlier this month after a texas judge suspended its fda approval. and netflix is ending its mail order dvd service later this year. the streaming company says it mailed out more than 5.2 billion
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dvds in 25 years. for more, dnload 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 as we're coming to you tonight from new york city. we begin with some breaking news in one of the most consequential media trials in decades. the $1.6 billion defamation case against fox news. late this afternoon, the judge announcing a settlement was reached between dominion voting systems and the cable media giant. the ceo of the voting machine company says fox has admitted to telling lies about the dominion company and has agreed to pay nearly $800 million to settle the case. fox said in a statement, quote, we acknowledge the court's avembaassmend the gut, box is s
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media circus of having its top stars and executives appear on the witness stand. cbs's scott macfarlane starts us off tonight from outside the courthouse. what a day. wh twi good eveniahot was a true last-minute settlement. just after opening statements were set to begin, judge eric davis announced to the court the parties have resolved their case. a blockbuster settlement averting a potentially landmark trial. >> the truth matters. >> reporter: lawyers for dominion voting systems celebrated their settlement with fox news this afternoon, announcing the company would pay dominion more than $787 million. >> today's settlement of $787,500,000 represents vindication and accountability. lies have consequences.
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the truth does not know red or blue. >> reporter: dominion had been seeking $1.6 billion in damages from fox for defamation, arguing the company knew the claims of election fraud aired by their guests and some of their hosts were false and aired them anyway -- >> an update on dominion. >> reporter: -- damaging dominion's reputation and business in the process. dominion's ceo john poulos. >> fox has admitted to telling lies about dominion that caused enormous damage to my company, our employees, and the customers that we serve. nothing can ever make up for that. truthful reporting in the media is essential to our democracy. >> reporter: attorneys for fox left the courthouse without comment. in a statement, the company did not apologize though they acknowledged the court found some of fox's claims about dominion to be false. with the settlement, fox news now avoids a six-week trial. >> fox settled pretty clearly to avoid the public humiliation of
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having to send all of their top talent as well as their top executives into the courtroom. i think they saw the strength of dominion's case. >> reporter: dominion's attorneys wouldn't say whether there was anything else in the settlement besides money. >> money is accountability, and we got that today from fox. >> reporter: the trouble isn't over for fox. another voting system company, smartmatic, who fox news hosts allege was part of an effort to rig the 2020 election for joe biden, has also sued for defamation and seeking $2.7 billion. experts say that, too, could end in a settlement and potentially a larger sum. norah. >> scott macfarlane, thank you very much. the 84-year-old kansas city man accused of shooting a black teenager after he accidentally went to the wrong home to pick up his younger brothers has surrendered to police. andrew lester faces two felony charges for using his .32 revolver to shoot the 16-year-old twice last thursday.
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cbs's adriana diaz is in kansas city, missouri, with the latest on yarl's recovery. >> we love you, ralph! >> reporter: today, ralph yarl's classmates marched in solidari and support. ralph's mother, cleo nagbe, says her son is recovering from being shot in the head and arm. >> mostly he just sits there and stares, and the buckets of tears just rolls down his eyes. you can see that he's just replaying the situation over and over again. >> reporter: andrew lester faces two felony counts, armed criminal action and first-degree assault. according to the criminal complaint, the 84-year-old told police he had just laid down in bed when he heard the doorbell. he picked up his gun and said he saw a black male, approximately 6 feet tall, at the door, telling detectives he was, quote, scared to death due to the male's size and lester's old age. thcomplaint says lr edlyxpresser
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thvict. h th this is neth strt enfact, hittr. u seat strsign there? that's ne 115th terrace, just about 100 yards away. ralph's family says as he was trying to get help, someone yelled at him to get on his knees and raise his hands. >> and all we hear is a bunch of banging at our door. >> reporter: in his first television interview, zach, who lives across the street, says he and his mother went to help. >> there was blood from where he was at all the way up to the door. >> reporter: he says he is still replaying that night in his head. >> you hear about these things on the news over time. then when it really happens to you, it's a life changer. >> when you have images of ralph, what do you see? >> i see fear. >> you saw fear in his eyes? >> i saw fear in his eyes. >> reporter: the demonstrations continue this evening, and today, five days after the shooting, andrew lester
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surrendered before bonding out. norah, this afternoon ralph's family told us they want equal justice, the same treatment any victim deserves no matter their race. >> yes, and it comes as ralph yarl's family says that the gofundme for medical expenses has now surpassed $3 million. adriana diaz, thank you so much. now to some fuel frustrations in florida. while the sunshine state is still drying out from last week's historic rainfall, it's the gas pumps that are really dry. cbs's manuel bojorquez tells us what's behind the shortage and how long it will last. >> reporter: tonight, some ft. lauderdale drivers are still finding either long lines or empty pumps. >> you're in line, and you're hoping they still have gas by the time you get there. >> hoping to have it or hoping that i don't have to push it in the last 10, 20 feet. >> reporter: for some, the frustration has boiled over. >> it's just kind of violent like you hear.son thprobm.
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>> reporr: it's die efrom edelivery of fuel from rglas, which services 12 florida counties. at one point today, more than half of miami and ft. lauderdale gas stations were without fuel according to gasbuddy. but with more deliveries resuming, the worst may be over. >> it turned into a panic buying spree, which overwhelmed the system. even a normally functioning system probably would not have been able to keep up. but i wouldn't say it's a shortage simply because there are millions of gallons of gasoline still waiting to be delivered at port everglades. >> reporter: and tonight pat de haan with gasbuddy says it could be about a week or so before things start to get back to normal. that's if people stop panic buying. tonight we're learning the florida department of emergency management is sending 500,000 gallons of fuel here to the southeast part of the state to help. norah.
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>> that is needed.mann borquez, much. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight yo! you gotta try this new axe. it's the fine fragrance g.o.a.t.! ♪ ♪ the new axe fine fragrance collection. smell finer than the finest fragrances with the g.o.a.t. if you've had sensitivity, those zingers can really cause some of that jolting pain. there is one great solution out there with sensodyne.
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm sarah e wall weiss in washington. thanks for staying with us. "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovich is back in a russian prison this morning. a judge in moscow denied his request for bail as he awaits trial on charges of espionage. gershkovich was arrested while reporting in the ural mountains. moscow claims he was trying to obtain classified information and was caught, quote, red-handed. the journal denies the accusation, and the u.s. state department says he's being wrongfully detained. holly williams is following this >>orte rte fm statenside holdina
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new low in america's relations with russia. the u.s. ambassador to russia says she was finally allowed to visit evan gershkovich in prison yesterday, and he's in good health and remains strong. >> he was a brilliant young man. >> reporter: yevgeny is a russian journalist who says he left the country 15 years ago because he wasn't free to do his job. he told us gershkovich is likely being used by the kremlin as a hostage with orders from the very top. >> i think that they asked vladimir putin, can we do this? and he said, okay, you can. move ahead. >> reporter: "the wall street journal" published part of a letter written by gershkovich in russian to his parents, reassuring them he isn't losing hope. i love you very, very much, he
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signed off until we meet soon. his parents both grew up in the soviet union before moving to the u.s. they sat down for an interview with "the wall street journal." their son's employer. >> i know that he feels like it was his duty to report, and he loves russian people, you know. >> he still does? >> he still does, yes. >> reporter: they reminisced about his childhood in new jersey and said they're trying to stay positive. >> it's one of the american qualities that we absorbed. be optimistic. believe in happy ending. that's where we stand right now. >> reporter: even if the u.s. government can negotiate evan gershkovich's release, it may not be quick. basketball star brittney griner was held by russia for nearly ten months.
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also today, russian media has released new video of vladimir putin that purportedly shows him visiting russian forces inside ukraine. it appears to show the russian leader in an area occupied by the russian military during its invasion. that was holly williams in ukraine. closer to home, the justice department has launched a crackdown on alleged chinese agents in the u.s., accused of intimidating critics of china's communist government. two men are under arrest this morning, accused of opening and running a secret chinese police station in new york city. jeff pegues has the story. >> reporter: the secret police station took up an entire floor of this chinatown building in new york city. according to investigators, it was run by the chinese government to track and even harass dissidents living here in the u.s. >> this case is a further example of audacious activities that the government of china has carried out right here on
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american soil. >> reporter: breon peace, the u.s. attorney for the eastern district of new york, says officers from china's ministry operating little legally. >> the mps subjected chinese dissidents living here in the united states to the authoritarian rule of the prc. that is unacceptable. >> reporter: two men, both new york city residents, have been charged with conspiring to act as agents of china's government. 34 mps officers have also been charged with operating an online troll farm to threaten chinese dissents in the u.s. and to spread propaganda and sow divisions in the country. what investigators uncovered is part of a pattern across the world. >> we found these stations in over 50 countries where people are being pressured, where people are being threatened, where people are being harassed and intimidated. >> reporter: the suspects arrested are facing some serious
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time behind bars, 20 years if convicted. and as unusual as this case is, you can expect to see more china-related cases because currently u.s. officials tell us that china poses the most serious national security threat to the u.s. >> that was jeff pegues reporting. when disaster strikes, it's the job of emergency rescue teams to step into the chaos and save lives. but the skills they need require constant practice. janet shamlian takes us to a unique facility in texas where these elite crews are training for the next catastrophe. >> reporter: it's devastation in every direction. train derailments, earthquakes, 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
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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 ba joon 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? >> so this situation would be for building collapse, so the guys come in and put these shores to help make the structure safe. >> reporter: 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
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engineering skills. >> tell us if you get hurt or hung up on something. >> reporter: 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 swinging that hammer or using that saw, it perishes, and 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 upredictable. janet shamlian, college station, texas. 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.
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back of the seat. >> you feel that in the pit of your stomach when it starts. >> yeah, it really gets up and goes. it's doing over 1 g of longitudinal acceleration. >> reporter: it's the first all-wheel drive corvette, makine >> you canhe tires. >> oh, yeah. >> reporter: and the first to have a hybrid electric motor paired with its beefy 495 horsepower v8. >> corvette is america's sports car. >> reporter: jeff holder is corvette's chief engineer. >> is there added pressure when it comes time to implement a change to the corvette? >> absolutely, yes. the legacy of corvette isn't lost on any of us working on a corvette. so there's always this challenge to keep the heritage intact but to always look forward. >> was deciding to add electric to the corvette a risk? >> it was, but a well thought out risk. >> reporter: the corvette started as project opal in the
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1950s, a distinctly american take on the popular british sports cars on the time. the original goal was to make a sports car for the college kid selling for around $2,000. >> the shape of things to come. >> reporter: it made its debut at gm '1953 moat ra ma show in new york, going into production months later. 300 would be built, but only 183 sold. christo dot ini is a gm historian. >> what it represented at the tme was a shot in a completely new market for chevrolet. but it wasn't a hit with the youth. and then the next year, they built more than they could sell. so very early on, it was thought that perhaps this wouldn't last. >> reporter: that original 19534 corvette was underpowered, boasting only 150 horsepower engine. that changed in 1955 when it got a v8 and a face lift the next year. when the stingray came in 1963, there was no questioning the
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corvette's muscle or its success. >> the history of corvette is really about pushing the envelope and about taking that performance as far as it can go. >> reporter: pushing that envelope through its eight design generations, the corvette became an american icon. featured in dozens of movies and tv shows, elvis droefr a one of himoe cla bake.latemerica had corvette summer. star trek's james t. kirk crashed one in 2009. barbie's been driving a pink gm even sold a kiddie corvette in 1966. ♪ little red corvette ♪ >> reporter: and you know you've made it -- ♪ baby you're much too fast ♪ >> reporter: -- when prince sings about you. is it hard to be cool for 70 years? >> yeah, i think it's hard to be
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cool for 70 years. cool isn't something that is prescribed by those that make the product. it's actually what is accepted by the community. >> reporter: that community includes hundreds of corvette clubs across the u.s. and around the world. >> you get in a corvette and take the top off, and you just leave all your troubles behind, let the wind hit your face. >> reporter: anthony gordon is president of the washington, d.c. area extreme corvette club. he and his wife own three. >> it's a fantastic car. it's in a class all by itself. >> when you heard that they were going to electrify the corvette, were you worried about that move at all? >> yes, iecausearit it. an electric car was a turnoff. like most corvette owners, we really don't care for that. but it's something to get used to. >> reporter: chief engineer josh holder believes all skeptics ned to do to get used to it is take the corvette e ray out for a spin. >> electrification that we've put into the e ray is all about enhancing performance, and that's and what it does. it's endless torque. >> oh!
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>> that's exactly why people buy a corvette. the e ray shines. >> reporter: as corvette starts its next 70 years with a bit (male) there are many voices in today's world. everyone is voicing their opinions about everything, and jesus is no exception to that. what if there was a clear voice telling whjesuis?y (male announcer) join dr. david jeremiah as he teaches who jesus is and what that means for your life. tune in to dr. jeremiah's new series, "christ above all",
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spring has sprung in much of the nation, but on some mountains, it's still ski season. wendy gillette took to the slopes. >> reporter: mammoth mountain in california is getting a mammoth amount of snow this ski season, shattering an all-time record. and the season won't end until at least july. it's the same story at many other ski areas in the west, including in the tahoe region, which is experiencing its snowiest season since the early '70s, pushing back closing dates for weeks. here at jackson hole mountain resort in wyoming, the snowfall easily surpassed the seasonal average, making for great conditions extending into this month. 588 inches fell this season, just shy of the record
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593 inches measured in 2016 and '17. >> it's been amazing. we are the beneficiary of some of the best snowfall in the americas. >> reporter: this year's amazing season turned into amazing revenues for hotels like the four seasons resort and residences jackson hole, where we stayed for a special rate. the resort, which features a wealth of after ski spots, cozy rooms and year-round pools is the only one at the base of the mountain. stays are up as much as 8% this winter compared to pre-pandemic 2019. as snow totals rose, so did the prices of lift tickets, hitting over $300 at arizona's snow bowl in january. one way to avoid sticker shock is to consider lesser known resorts like snowy range in wyoming, where tickets start at $49, or the state's sleeping giant ski area, where you'll find tickets as low as $59. jackson hole has a program which reimburses airfare in exchange for money spent on activities. that's likely to continue next season. wendy gillette, cbs news, jackson hole, wyoming.
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that's the overnight news for this wednesday. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm sarah ewall-wice. this is cbs news flash. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. jack teixeira, the massachusetts air national guardsman accused of leaking intelligence documents related to the war in ukraine, has a detention hearing in federal court today. he faces up to 15 years in prison after allegedly leaking the documents on social media platform discord. the supreme court is set to decide on the availability of mifepristone today. the widely used abortion pill was almost taken off the shelves earlier this month after a texas judge suspended its fda approval. and netflix is ending its mail order dvd service later this year. the streaming company says it mailed out more than 5.2 billion dvds in 25 years.
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for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. tonight, the breaking news. the bombshell settlement. fox news agrees to pay nearly $800 million for lies told about the 2020 election. here are tonight's headlines. >> fox has admitted to telling lies about dominion. >> just moments before one of the most consequential media trials was set to begin, fox chooses to avoid testimony by rupert murdoch and its top stars. >> the truth matters. the 84-year-old man accused of shooting a teenager who rang the wrong doorbell is now in police custody as ralph yarl's mother speaks to cbs news. >> he got a couple of bullets in his body instead of a couple of
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twins coming out and giving him a hug. last week's floods have led to a fuel distribution problem across parts of south florida. >> hit one gas station. hit two gas stations. gas station number seven, got here, no gas. if i didn't decide to keep fighting, i wouldn't be here today. >> kids and mental health. what parents can do to help combat america's growing crisis. >> overwhelmingly, teenagers are just looking for empathy. and three months after suffering cardiac arrest, damar hamlin is cleared to play football again. >> this event was life-changing, but it's not the end of my story. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening and thank you for joining us as we're coming to you tonight from new york city. we begin with some breaking news
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in one of the most consequential media trials in decades. the $1.6 billion defamation case against fox news. late this afternoon, the judge announcing a settlement was reached between dominion voting systems and the cable media giant. the ceo of the voting machine company says fox has admitted to telling lies about the dominion company and has agreed to pay nearly $800 million to settle the case. fox said in a statement, quote, we acknowledge the court's rulings finding certain claims about dominion to be false. that's not a direct admission of guilt, but fox is seeking to avoid the embarrassment and the media circus of having its top stars and executives appear on the witness stand. cbs's scott macfarlane starts us off tonight from outside the courthouse. what a day. what a twist. good evening, scott. >> reporter: norah, this was a true last-minute settlement. just after opening statements were set to begin, judge eric davis announced to the court the parties have resolved their case. a blockbuster settlement averting a potentially landmark
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trial. >> the truth matters.insystems celebrated their settlement with fox news this afternoon, announcing the company would pay dominion more than $787 million. >> today's settlement of $787,500,000 represents vindication and accountability. lies have consequences. the truth does not know red or blue. >> reporter: dominion had been seeking $1.6 billion in damages from fox for defamation, arguing the company knew the claims of election fraud aired by their guests and some of their hosts were false and aired them anyway -- >> an update on dominion. >> reporter: -- damaging dominion's reputation and business in the process. dominion's ceo john poulos. >> fox has admitted to telling lies about dominion that caused enormous damage to my company,
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our employees, and the customers that we serve. nothing can ever make up for that. truthful reporting in the media is essential to our democracy. >> reporter: attorneys for fox left the courthouse without comment. in a statement, the company did not apologize though they acknowledged the court found some of fox's claims about dominion to be false. with the settlement, fox news now avoids a six-week trial. >> fox settled pretty clearly to avoid the public humiliation of having to send all of their top talent as well as their top executives into the courtroom. i think they saw the strength of dominion's case. >> reporter: dominion's attorneys wouldn't say whether there was anng settlement besides money. >> money is accountability, and we got that today from fox. >> reporter: the trouble isn't over for fox. another voting system company, smartmatic, who fox news hosts allege was part of an effort to
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rig the 2020 election for joe biden, has also sued for defamation and seeking $2.7 billion. experts say that, too, could end in a settlement and potentially a larger sum. norah. >> scott macfarlane, thank you very much. the 84-year-old kansas city man accused of shooting a black teenager after he accidentally went to the wrong home to pick up his younger brothers has surrendered to police. andrew lester faces two felony charges for using his .32 revolver to shoot the 16-year-old twice last thursday. cbs's adriana diaz is in kansas city missouri, with the latest on yarl's recovery. >> we love you, ralph! >> reporter: today, ralph yarl's classmates marched in solidarity and support. ralph's mother, cleo nagbe, says her son is recovering from being shot in the head and arm. >> mostly he just sits there and stares, and the buckets of tears just rolls down his eyes. you can see that he's just replaying the situation over and
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over again. >> reporter: andrew lester faces two felony counts, armed criminal action and first-degree assault. according to the criminal complaint, the 84-year-old told police he had just laid down in bed when he heard the doorbell. he picked up his gun and said he saw a black male, approximately 6 feet tall, at the door, telling detectives he was, quote, scared to death due to the male's size and lester's old age. the complaint says lester repeatedly expressed concern for the victim. ralph went to an address on this road. this is ne 115th street when, in fact, his little brothers were just a block down. you see that green street sign there? that's ne 115th terrace, just about 100 yards away. ralph's family says as he was trying to get help, someone yelled at him to get on his knees and raise his hands. >> all we hear is a bunch of banging at our door. >> reporter: in his first tv interview, zach, who lives
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across the street, says he and his mother went to help. >> there was blood from where he was all the way up, up on the door. >> reporter: he says he's still replaying that night in his head. >> you hear about these things on the news over time. then when it really happens to you, it's a life changer. >> when you have images of ralph, what do you see? >> i see fear. >> reporter: five days after the shooting, andrew lester surrendered before bonding out. norah, this afternoon ralph's family told us they want equal justice, the same treatment any victim deserves no matter their race. >> yes, and it comes as ralph yarl's family says that the gofundme for medical expenses has now surpassed $3 million. adriana diaz, thank you so much. in another disturbing case, a homeowner in upstate new york has been charged with second-degree murder after he allegedly opened fire on a car that pulled into the wrong driveway on saturday night. police say 65-year-old kevin monahan shot and killed 20-year-old kaylin gillis after she and her friends got lost
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>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." now to some fuel frustrations in florida. while the sunshine state is still drying out from last week's historic rainfall, it's the gas pumps that are really dry. cbs's manuel bojorquez tells us what's behind the shortage and how long it will last. >> reporter: tonight, some ft. lauderdale drivers are still finding either long lines or empty pumps. >> you're on "e" right now. you're in line, and you're hoping they still have gas by the time you get there.
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>> hoping to have it or hoping that i don't have to push it in the last 10, 20 feet. >> reporter: for some, the frustration has boiled over. >> it's just kind of violent like you hear. so hopefully we can get in and get out with no problem. >> reporter: it's a distribution problem, a ripple effect from last week's historic flooding. high water and pump problems slowed the delivery of fuel from port everglades, which services 12 florida counties. at one point today, more than half of miami and ft. lauderdale gas stations were without fuel according to gasbuddy. but with more deliveries resuming, the worst may be over. >> it turned into a panic buying spree, which overwhelmed the system. even a normally functioning system probably would not have been able to keep up. but i wouldn't say it's a shortage simply because there la gasoline still waiting to be delivered at port everglades. >> reporter: and tonight pat de haan with gasbuddy says it could be about a week or so before things start to get back to normal. that's if people stop panic buying.
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tonight we're learning the florida department of emergency management is sending 500,000 gallons of fuel here to the southeast part of the state to help. norah. >> that is needed. manny bojorquez, thank you so much. turning overseas, "wall street journal" reporter evan gershkovich made his first public court appearance today in moscow. a russian judge rejected an appeal from the american jurnalist to be freed from his pretrial detention on espionage charges. the state department says he is being wrongfully detained. cbs's nancy cordes reports his lawyers have vowed to keep fighting for his release. >> reporter: evan gershkovich stood in a metal and glass cage with his arms folded ahead of what the white house dubbed a sham judicial proceeding. "he is in a combative mood," his russian lawyer said. "he's ready to defend himself." gershkovich was arrested and accused of espionage during a reporting trip in russia last month. >> totally illegal what's happening. >> reporter: the 31-year-old
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"wall street journal" reporter was one of the few western journalists left in russia after putin invaded ukraine last year and began cracking dowon the last american russia accused of espionage, paul whelan, has been imprisoned for more than four years. >> have there been any substantive negotiations or even conversations about evan between u.s. officials and russian officials yet? >> what i can say is that we are -- we are committed to getting evan home, and we are committed to getting paul whelan home. >> reporter: in a letter written in russian, evan reassured his parents that he is not losing hope. "i read. i exercise, and i'm trying to write." his parents, who fled russia for the u.s. in the late '70s, told "the wall street journal" they are trying to be optimistic. >> that's where we stand right now. but i am not stupid. ve sthey might be p dsor ed.>>
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swap but only after evan's trial is complete, and that trial is not scheduled to begin until late may at the earliest. so he'll remain in a former kgb prison, norah, at least until then. >> all right. nancy cordes at the white house, thank you very much. there are growing concerns over the safety of americans inside the war-torn african nation of sudan after a u.s. diplomatic convoy came under attack on monday. secretary of state antony blinken said preliminary reports indicate the attackers were linked to a paramilitary group fighting against sudan's army for control of the country. cbs's debora patta reports from the region. >> reporter: a city of over 6 million people turned into this as hostilities between two rival sudanese generals exploded
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into all-out war. gunshots rang out in residential areas. fighter jets thundered across and khartoum's international airport was engulfed in flames. and as usual, civilians were caught in the middle. >> we're fine. we're safe. the power has been out. that was something, you know. it's like i don't even know what it is anymore. >> reporter: the u.s. has urged americans in khartoum to stay indoors. secretary of state antony blinken said yesterday a clearly marked u.s. diplomatic convoy was fired on. nobody was harmed, but in calls with both generals, he said the action was reckless and irresponsible. >> i made very clear that any attacks, threats, dangers posed to our diplomats were totally unacceptable. >> reporter: a 24-hour humanitarian cease-fire was
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supposed to start earlier tonight, but it has had little effect, and heavy gunfire could still be heard in the capital long after it was supposed to begin. the state department says contingency planning for u.s. personnel in sudan is under way, but, norah, the airport remains closed, and there are currently no plans to evacuate american civilians. >> debora patta, thank you. and there's more breaking news from right here in new york city. at least one person has died and several others were injured after a parking garage partially collapsed in lower manhattan late this afternoon. emergency crews arrived on the scene within minutes, a frantic search for victims. cbs's lilia luciano is there. >> an explosion in a parking garage with collapse. >> reporter: late today, dozens of new york city firefighters rushed to lower manhattan after a four-story parking garage collapsed, sending cars crashing down to the basement.
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>> it sounded like a bomb going off, something like a little explosion that happened because the whole ceiling, from what i've been told, completely fell down. >> reporter: authorities say six workers were inside the building. four were taken to the hospital. >> this was an extremely dangerous operation for our firefighters. we had firefighters inside the building conducting searches. the building was continuing to collapse. >> reporter: firefighters used a drone and robotic dogs to search for survivors over concerns the rest of the building could fall. >> this building is completely unstable, and the chief -- we do not want to send in someone until we can make sure the building is shored up. >> reporter: nearby pace university was also evacuated, and classes were canceled. crews and investigators will continue working through the night to find answers. but authorities say they believe everybody is outside of the building. norah. >> lilia luciano, thank you very much. the "cbs overnight news"
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psychologist and the author of the new book "the emotional lives of teenagers." ishika vij was just 12 when her anxiety started. after feeling the pressures of her school work, ishika developed a eating disorder. >> just being able to control how i look versus i thought, you know, i wasn't worth enough or smart enough. so i was like maybe i can be pretty enough or i can, you know, follow these norms that social media has set. >> this is a different generation. their ability to cope with things is very different. they are resilient, but i think they're just exposed to a lot more things much earlier than we ever would have thought. >> reporter: lisa damour is a clinical psychologist and mother of two. she says parents should delay and limit their children's access to social media. >> when girls are in distress, they tend to collapse in on themselves whereas when boys are in distress, they tend to act out. >> how do we help teens deal with those ups and downs? >> we approach it from the side of what we call emotion regulation. so you can't get rid of distress. you can't keep it from arriving, getting feelings out, as
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teenagers say, is how they get relief. >> reporter: ishika didn't have that outlet with her parents. it was only when she had thoughts of suicide that they began to realize the severity. >> a lot of parents have the "not my kid" attitude. like my kid, he's not like your kid. my kid's better. >> you don't see it even when it's hiding in plain sight. when you look back, you see the symptoms and you can say, those are all there. but while we're going through this, we just didn't realize it. >> reporter: knowing the signs is the first step. experts say parents should keep an eye out for a sudden drop in grades, self-isolation, a short temper, and changes in eating or sleeping habits. you say teens need two things for healthy development. what are they? >> what they need is the warmth and structure. it's harder sometimes with teenagers. i would say the number one rule for raisinenis d't take it personally. >> reporter: after months of intensive therapy, ishika is in recovery and now the family speaks openly about mental health.
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an unexpected visitor showed up on the white house grounds today. a toddler squeezed through the metal fencing and started making his way towards the north lawn pennsylvania avenue. secret service agents quickly scooped him up and then brought him to his parents. damar hamlin, the buffalo bills player who collapsed on the field earlier this year, made a big announcement today. that's next.
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we end tonight with big news in the nfl. buffalo bills safety damar hamlin is now fully cleared to return to football just after three months after collapsing on the field in cardiac arrest. the 25-year-old today worked out with his teammates today after getting the green light from three separate specialists. and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. 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. reporting from here in the broadcast center in new york city, i'm norah o'donnell.
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this is cbs news flash. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. jack teixeira, the massachusetts air national guardsman accused of leaking intelligence documents related to the war in ukraine, has a detention hearing in federal court today. he faces up to 15 years in prison after allegedly leaking the documents on social media platform discord. the supreme court is set to decide an the availability of mifepristone today. the widely used abortion pill was almost taken off the shelves earlier this month after a texas judge suspended its fda approval. and netflix is ending its mail order dvd service later this year. the streaming company says it mailed out more than 5.2 billion dvds in 25 years.
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for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. it's wednesday, april 19th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." last-minute deal. fox news and dominion settle a defamation lawsuit for almost $800 million. why the legal trouble isn't over yet for the cable news giant. all we know is he was hurt. we need to get him -- he needs to be the priority right now. >> neighbor speaks out. for the first time, hear from the man who rushed to help a black teenager who was shot after ringing the doorbell of the wrong home. pint-sized trespasser. agents stop a curious trespasser after he squeezed through the white house fence. good morning, and good to be with you, i'm anne-m g

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