your safety and patrol measures at demonstrations regardless of the size? >> no. so we are not changing our protocol. 15 minutes prior to this confrontation, there was no indication of impending violence. >> reporter: the los angeles chapter of the council on american islamic relations said in a statement, we join local jewish leaders in calling on all individuals to refrain from jumping to conclusions. at a makeshift vigil, tributes and anguish. >> my heart hurts that someone innocently left home, and he never came back. >> reporter: now, investigators tell us there have been many conflicting statements about who actually started this incident. they're asking anyone with video to come forward. they're actually hoping someone who drove by captured the altercation on their car cameras. norah. >> there are cameras everywhere. elise preston, thank you. there was also an important hearing on capitol hill today about the threats teenagrs face on social media. a former facebook engineer told

a senate panel that meta dismissed warnins about unwanted sexual advances and widespread bullying aimed at teens on instagram, including his own daughter. we get more on this from cbs's jo ling kent. >> reporter: tonight meta under fire once again. >> i appear before you today as a dad with firsthand experience of a child who received unwanted sexual advances on instagram. >> reporter: former meta engineer arturo bejar testified before a senate subcommittee today, alleging that the social media giant had not done enough to address the harmful effects of facebook and instagram on teens. >> my 14-year-old daughter joined instagram. she and her friends began having awful experiences, including repeated unwanted sexual advances, harassment. she reported these incidents to the company, and it did nothing. >> reporter: while working as a consultant in october 2021, behar says he sent this email to

ceo and founder mark zuckerberg, an instagram head adam mosseri sharing his daughter's negative experiences. but he says his outreach was ignored by the founder. >> just the disregard for the mental health of our kids is truly shocking. >> what should parents be taking away from this? >> parents need to become more aware of the digital lives that their children are leading. companies need to take more responsibility for the way their products are designed. and policymakers need to enact new laws to hold those companies accountable. >> reporter: a bipartisan bill aimed at protecting kids online is now making its way through the senate. meantime in response to bejar's claims, meta tells me that every day countless people inside the company are trying to keep young people safe, and it has already introduced more than 30 tools to support teens and their families online. norah. >> such an important story for parents and families. jo ling kent, thank you so much. a case argued at the supreme

court today could put the safety of people in abusive relationships at serious risk while also impacting gun laws in many states. now, at the center of the case is a federal law that bans those under domestic violence restraining orders from having guns. we get more from cbs's jan crawford at the supreme court. >> the real fear of losing your life when you leave is real. it's a real fear. >> reporter: ruth glenn is head of a national advocacy group for victims of domestic violence. she also is a survivor. >> eventually he later found me a few months -- three weeks later and shot me three times and left me for dead. >> reporter: her organization was one of many today urging the supreme court to uphold a 30-year-old federal law banning guns for people under restraining orders for domestic violence, like defendant zachky rahimi. ra meemy, under a proektive order for threatening to shoot his ex-girlfriend, was convicted

after he was involved in several other alleged shooting incidents in texas. in the supreme court today, his lawyer argued the law violated the second amendment right to keep and bear arms, prompting this exchange with chief justice john roberts. >> you don't have any doubt that your client's a dangerous person, do you? >> your honor, i would want to know what dangerous person means. >> someone who's shooting, you know, at people. that's a good start. >> reporter: rahimi's argument could have wide-ranging implications for modern day gun laws as well as a system of background checks. over the last 25 years, the law has stopped people under protective orders from buying guns about 78,000 times. the court seemed almost unanimously poised to keep it in place. justice elena kagan. >> you don't give guns to people who have the kind of history of domestic violence that your client has. >> reporter: now, ever since the court ruled that there's an individual right to bear arms, there's been a lot of confusion

in the lower courts over what kind of gun laws are constitutional. this case could also provide some much needed guidance on some of those other gun regulations, including efforts to ban specific kinds of weapons. norah. >> jan crawford, thank you very much. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

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voters. >> reporter: abortion rights supporters rallied together at a watch party, elated that voters said yes to issue 1, enshrining a woman's right to vn abortion in ohio. >> abortion is health care. >> reporter: this morning we spoke to voters in a district that traditionally leans democratic. >> i remember what illegal abortions are like. they're not good. i'd rather have women have a choice. >> i think it's important as women to keep, you know, fighting for our rights. >> reporter: the amendment guarantees a woman's right to an abortion. the now passed amendment will allow the procedure up until fetal viability, usually around the 23rd week according to doctors, but make exceptions for the health or life of the mother. >> under this amendment, any kind of abortion is going to be fine. this is too extreme for ohio. >> reporter: ohio's republican governor, mike dewine, calls the amendment radical and says it will allow abortion at any point

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fund-raiser in new york city. he joined john mellencamp for a duet of their song "wasted days" at the event to honor injured veterans and their families. the new jersey native thrilled the audience as he played four solo songs, including his classic, "dancin' in the dark." it's good to see the boss. 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 the nation's capitol, i'm norah o'donnell. ♪ ♪ even if we're just dancin' in the dark ♪ this is "cbs news flash." i'm jarred hill in new york. results from a critical offyear election night. in kentucky, democratic incumbent governor andy beshear is projected to win re-election,

defeating the red state's attorney general. in ohio, voters overwhelmingly chose to enshrine abortion access in the state's constitution. cbs news exit polls showed young voters played a big role here. 82% of voters under 30 voted yes. ohio also voted to legalize recreational marijuana, making it the 24th state to do so. and in rhode island, democratic gabriel amo is projected to win the special election to represent the state's first congressional district. he will be the first person of color to represent rhode island in congress. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm jarred hill, cbs news, new york. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening and thank you for joining us.

tonight we are learning that president biden is personally urging prime minister netanyahu for a humanitarian pause in gaza, but israel is insisting a halt in fighting will only come after the more than 200 hostages taken by hamas are released. it may not be the only disagreement between the two allies. netanyahu saying he sees israel playing a role in gaza for, quote, an indefinite period, specifically talking about security responsibility. well, you may recall president biden told "60 minutes" it would be a big mistake if israel occupies gaza after the war. well, tonight the fighting in the heart of gaza city is intensifying. look at these pictures. this comes as today marks one month since the hamas attack that killed more than 1,400 people, the deadliest attack on jews since the holocaust. and now thousands of civilians are fleeing gaza city as the battle between israel and hamas draws closer. cbs's charlie d'agata embedded with the israeli army in

northern gaza. he will start us off tonight from tel aviv. good evening, charlie, and tell us what you saw. >> reporter: good evening, norah. we saw destruction. destruction as far as the eye could see. no civilians. even soldiers that we were with said they had seen no civilians, but they were coming up against hamas militants. in fact, while we were there, they had to reinforce other troops who were coming under fire. we joined the paratroopers of israel's 501st airborne brigade, among the first wave of forces to invade gaza after hamas militants went on their murderous rampage one month ago. gunners kept lookout as we crossed the desert scrubland of northeast gaza until we reached bay at ha noon. as we arrived, the sound of ongoing gun battles could be heard nearby.

the city had an estimated pre-war population of more than 60,000 people. looking around, it's hard to imagine anyone lived here at all. this lieutenant colonel said there was little choice. >> i know that the military objective is to destroy hamas. >> mm-hmm. >> but you destroyed everything. >> yeah, because, look, hamas is using infrastructure. i mean just ten minutes ago, we had a serious battle with a group of hamas inside a school. we found these rocket launchers. >> reporter: he showed us a missile site hidden in the back yard of a home next to what used to be a swimming pool. the commander here told us there are about a thousand hamas militants here to begin with. now there are a few dozen left. it's not the threats above ground that they're worried about, but the ones below it. >> it was before the fighting began? >> yeah. >> reporter: as we were

speaking, explosions and gunfire erupted a few blocks away. we were told a hamas fighter emerged from a tunnel near a school and fired an rpg at troops. southwest of here in gaza city, israeli troops closing in on the heart of the city have triggered a mass exodus south, splitting the territory in two. on the highway south of the city, our cbs news colleague, mar juan al ghoul, spoke with some of those fleeing the fighting. >> walking for hours to cross from gaza north to the south, carrying nothing. >> reporter: except a white flag of surrender and the will to survive. >> we are civilian people. we want to live in our land with peace. but nobody in the world let us to leave. >> reporter: one month since this war began, residents face an uncertain future. first and foremost, when and how it will end.

now, in terms of that embed, the israeli military has tight restrictions on coverage, mainly having to do with not showing anything that might give away locations or reveal the identities of their soldiers. so the idf viewed our raw footage as a condition of entry into gaza but had no control over our final report. norah. >> charlie d'agata, thank you so well, back here at home, protests and demonstrations on both sides of the conflict are taking place almost dailey in cities across the country. while most are peaceful, some rallies have turned vients. tonight an investigation is under way after the death of a 69-year-old jewish man who was fatally injured at a rally near los angeles. cbs's elise preston reports on the disturbing details. >> reporter: thousand oaks, california, is trying to come to grips with why 69-year-old paul kessler lay dying after a confrontation. moments earlier, he had held an israeli flag. nearby, pro-palestinian

demonstrators. >> investigators have not ruled out the possibility of a hate crime. >> reporter: but no one has been charged, and police say they still have no video showing why and how kessler fell to the ground, fracturing his skull. he died hours later. >> these witnesses providing conflicting statements about what the altercation and who the aggressor was. >> reporter: with emotions often reaching a fever pitch nationwide and with attacks on the rise fueled by anti-semitism and islamaphobia, this community may be the latest impacted. the los angeles chapter of the council on american islamic relations said in a statement, we join local jewish leaders in calling on all individuals to refrain from jumping to conclusions. at a makeshift vigil, tributes and anguish. >> my heart hurts that someone innocently left home, and he never came back. >> reporter: now, investigators tell us there have been many conflicting statements about who

actually started this incident. they're asking anyone with video to come forward. they're actually hoping someone who drove by captured the altercation on their car cameras. norah. >> there are cameras everywhere. elise preston, thank you. here in washington, there was a security alert on capitol hill today when a man carrying a semiautomatic rifle was arrested by police in a park near the senate office building. we get the latest from cbs's nikole killion on capitol hill. >> reporter: a tense scene near the u.s. capitol as police took down a 21-year-old man who was carrying a semiautomatic weapon. >> he was holding the gun down as he walked. they ordered him to stop. he did not. one officer tasered him in the back. he fell forward onto his gun. >> reporter: the suspect was identified as ahmir lavon merrell of atlanta, georgia. a law enforcement source tells cbs news the gun seized was a modified ar-15 rifle. police did not say why he came to the capitol, but he may have suffered from mental health issues.

> it's good that they found this person, but we're keeping a constant vigilance on security. >> reporter: authorities say there was no threat to the congressional community, but the incident follows another one this week where u.s. capitol police confiscated a pair of glock handguns after two suspects crashed a stolen vehicle into a barricade. >> i'm very concerned about the heightened threats against members. >> reporter: the investigation is still ongoing. police are trying to figure out how merrell may have gotten the gun. he faces a warrant and several charges tonight, including having an unregistered firearm. norah. >> nikole killion on the hill >> nikole killion on the hill for sometimes, the lows of bipolar depression feel darkest before dawn. with caplyta, there's a chance to let in the lyte™. caplyta is proven to deliver significant relief across bipolar depression. unlike some medicines that only treat bipolar i, caplyta treats both bipolar i and ii depression.

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washington. thanks for staying with us. israeli forces continued to bombard gaza from the sky while troops and tanks tightened their stranglehold on gaza city. right now there's no cease-fire in sight, but when the fighting does end, israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu said israel would need to maintain security in gaza for, quote, an indefinite period. either way, the civilians in gaza just want the war to end. the gaza health ministry says nearly 11,000 people have been killed so far. debora patta has the story from jerusalem. >> reporter: even in war, there is time for play. a brief respite at the shelter for these children of gaza amid all they have lost and seen. mothers and fathers running, desperate to protect them. the grief that overwhelms those who cannot save the ones they love.

each death not just a number. like tiny little mariam al masry, her parents' whole world. "how will i go home without you, my beloved?" her mother, implores. "how will i go home without you?" so many young lives barely lived. this man prays for them. he's been a grave digger for 30 years. he told cbs news this cemetery used to bury two or three people a month before the war. now it's received over 6,000 bodies. more than half are children. [ speaking in a global language ] "let them kill hamas. i have no problem with that," he raged. "but why are they killing innocent children sleeping in their homes?" the true cost of this war countered in the lives of children killed or broken.

but even here, it doesn't always kill resilience and hope. the children of gaza are experiencing extreme symptoms of trauma, including anxiety, fear, and nightmares and that these are compounded day in and day out as the war is relentless and does not stop. >> that was deputy ra pat ta in jerusalem. closer to home with election day less than a year away, the leading republican presidential candidates minus donald trump will hold their third debate tonight. polls show that voters are less than enthusiastic about a possible rematch between trump and president biden. we sent tony dokoupil out to a football game to find out why. >> reporter: the first thing to know is we, too, came for the beer pong. >> oh, yeah! >> reporter: and for the

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>> college football rivalry at its finest. >> reporter: when iowa took on iowa state in september, it was five players not suiting up who made some of the biggest headlines. all had been sidelines and were dealing with criminal betting charges, including iowa state's star quarterback. >> that's a starting quarterback of a power five university of football. how much bigger do we get than starting quarterback at power five schools? >> was he betting on his own team? >> yes. i mean athlete betting on their own events, period, in our world, it just can't happen. > reporter: matt holt runs u.s. integrity, a las vegas based tech firm, retained by nearly every professional sports league and all of the major college conferences. holt's company is the watchdog, guarding every game that can be bet -- >> it's a first down. >> reporter: -- to make sure they're conducted fairly and squarely. >> i think iowa and iowa state was a huge eye-opener. >> reporter: maybe for others,

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workers be working? >> they wouldn't be working. they would be at home. >> reporter: it's work that's changing lives, even as the pen used everywhere from u.s. post offices to combat front lines hasn't changed. >> so you think that people who are blind or who have other disabilities can't produce and they can't perform at the same levels of other people. and we're proving that wrong every single day. >> reporter: through their work writing a news story. janet shamlian, greensboro, north carolina. and that's the overnight news for this wednesday. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm erica brown. this is "cbs news flash." i'm jarred hill in new york. results from a critical off-year election night. in kentucky, democratic incumbent governor andy beshear is projected to win re-election, defeating the red state's

republican attorney general, daniel cameron. in ohio, voters overwhelmingly chose to enshrine abortion access in the state's constitution. cbs news exit polls showed young voters played a big role here. 82% of voters under 30 voted yes. ohio also voted to legalize recreational marijuana, making it the 24th state to do so. and in rhode island, democrat gabriel amo is projected to win the special election to represent the state's 1st congressional district. he will be the first person of color to represent rhode island in congress. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv hill, cbs news, ne york. tonight, america decides. it's election night for millions of americans. plus, the world marks one month since hamas' deadly terror attack that killed more than 1,400 israelis. and now israeli forces are in

the heart of gaza city as thousands of palestinians escape south. here are tonight's headlines. we are inside gaza tonight. the israeli military takes us further inside the territory than any other journalists. >> the commander here told us there are about a thousand hamas militants here to begin with. now there are a few dozen. >> as israeli soldiers advance, thousands of palestinians flee as the world health organization says the level of deaths is hard to fathom. >> the military objective here has always been to destroy hamas, but there's growing international outrage that means destroying everything. breaking news. a man is in custody, accused of having an assault-style rifle near the u.s. capitol. the new details. >> did you have a gun? a jewish man dies after israeli/protest -- palestinian protesters clash. what police are saying tonight. >> investigators have not ruled out the possibility of a hate

crime, and this is being investigated as a homicide. america decides. millions head to the polls on this election day. one of the top issues, abortion. we speak to voters in ohio. wework files for bankruptcy. how the pandemic led to the fall of the tech company. ♪ even if we're just dancing in the dark ♪ the boss is back. bruce springsteen's surprise performance. his first since suspending his tour. ♪ [ applause ] >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." good evening and thank you for joining us. tonight we are learning that president biden is personally urging prime minister netanyahu for a humanitarian pause in gaza, but israel is insisting a halt in fighting will only come after the more than 200 hostages taken by hamas are released.

it may not be the only disagreement between the two allies. netanyahu saying he sees israel playing a role in gaza for, quote, an indefinite period, specifically talking about security responsibility. well, you may recall president biden told "60 minutes" it would be a big mistake if israel occupies gaza after the war. well, tonight the fighting in the heart of gaza city is intensifying. look at these pictures. this comes as today marks one month since the hamas attack that killed more than 1,400 people, the deadliest attack on jews since the holocaust. and now thousands of civilians are fleeing gaza city as the battle between israel and hamas draws closer. cbs's charlie d'agata embedded with the israeli army in northern gaza. he will start us off tonight from tel aviv. good evening, charlie, and tell us what you saw. >> reporter: good evening, norah. we saw destruction. destruction as far as the eye could see. no civilians. even soldiers that we were with

said they had seen no civilians, but they were coming up against hamas militants. in fact, while we were there, they had to reinforce other troops who were coming under fire. we joined the paratroopers of israel's 501st airborne brigade, among the first wave of forces to invade gaza after hamas militants went on their murderous rampage one month ago. gunners kept lookout as we crossed the desert scrubland of northeast gaza until we reached beit hanoun. as we arrived, the sound of ongoing gun battles could be heard nearby. the city had an estimated pre-war population of more than 60,000 people. looking around, it's hard to imagine anyone lived here at all. this lieutenant colonel said there was little choice.

>> i know the military objective is to destroy hamas. >> mm-hmm. >> but you destroyed everything. >> yeah, because, look, hamas is using infrastructure. i mean just ten minutes ago, we had a serious battle with a group of hamas inside a school. we found these rocket launchers. >> reporter: he showed us a missile site hidden in the backyard of a home next to what used to be a swimming pool. the commander here told us there were about 1,000 hamas militants here to begin with. now there are a few dozen left. it's not the threats above ground that they're worried about, but the ones below it. >> it was before the fighting began? >> yeah. >> reporter: as we were speaking, explosions and gunfire erupted a few blocks away. we were told a hamas fighter emerged from a tunnel near a school and fired an rpg at troops. southwest of here in gaza city, israeli troops closing in on the heart of the city have triggered

a mass exodus south, splitting the territory in two. on the highway south of the city, our cbs news colleague, marwan al ghoul spoke with some of those fleeing the fighting. >> walking for hours to cross from gaza north to the south, carrying nothing. >> reporter: except a white flag of surrender and the will to survive. >> we are civilian people. we want to live in our land with peace. but nobody in the world let us to leave. >> reporter: one month since this war began, residents face an uncertain future. first and foremost, when and how it will end. now, in terms of that embed, the israeli military has tight restrictions on coverage, mainly having to do with not showing anything that might give away locations or reveal the identities of their soldiers. so the idf viewed our raw

footage as a condition of entry into gaza but had no control over our final report. norah. >> charlie d'agata, thank you so much. here in washington, there was a security alert on capitol hill today when a man carrying a semiautomatic rifle was arrested by police in a park near the senate office building. we get the latest from cbs's nikole killion on capitol hill. >> reporter: a tense scene near the u.s. capitol as police took down a 21-year-old man who was carrying a semiautomatic weapon. >> he was holding the gun down as he walked. they ordered him to stop. he did not. one officer tasered him in the back. he fell forward onto his gun. >> reporter: the suspect was identified as ahmir lavon merrell of atlanta, georgia. a law enforcement source tells cbs news the gun seized was a modified ar-15 rifle. police did not say why he came to the capitol, but he may have suffered from mental health issues. >> it's good that they found this person, but we're keeping a constant vigilance on security.

>> reporter: authorities say there was no threat to the congressional community, but the incident follows another one this week where u.s. capitol police confiscated a pair of glock handguns after two suspects crashed a stolen vehicle into a barricade. >> i'm very concerned about the heightened threats against members. this is something we're continuously dealing with. >> reporter: the investigation is still ongoing. police are trying to figure out how merrell may have gotten the gun. he faces a warrant and several charges tonight, including having an unregistered firearm. norah. >> nikole killion on the hill for us, thank you. there's a lot more news ahead on the "cbs overnight

>> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." tonight an investigation is under way after the death of a 69-year-old jewish man who was fatally injured at a rally near los angeles. cbs's elise preston reports on the disturbing details. >> reporter: thousand oaks, california, is trying to come to grips with why 69-year-old paul kessler lay dying after a confrontation. moments earlier, he had held an israeli flag. nearby, pro-palestinian demonstrators. >> investigators have not ruled out the possibility of a hate crime. >> reporter: but no one has been charged, and police say they still have no video showing why and how kessler fell to the ground, fracturing his skull. he died hours later. >> these witnesses providing conflicting statements about what the altercation and who the aggressor was. >> reporter: with emotions often reaching a fever pitch nationwide and with attacks on the rise fueled by anti-semitism and islamaphobia, this community may be the latest impacted. >> does this incident change

your safety and patrol measures at demonstrations regardless of the size? >> no. so we are not changing our protocol. 15 minutes prior to this confrontation, there was no indication of impending violence. >> reporter: the los angeles chapter of the council on american islamic relations said in a statement, we join local jewish leaders in calling on all individuals to refrain from jumping to conclusions. at a makeshift vigil, tributes and anguish. >> my heart hurts that someone innocently left home, and he never came back. >> reporter: now, investigators tell us there have been many conflicting statements about who actually started this incident. they're asking anyone with video to come forward. they're actually hoping someone who drove by captured the altercation on their car cameras. norah. >> there are cameras everywhere. elise preston, thank you. there was also an important hearing on capitol hill today about the threats teenagers face on social media. a former facebook engineer told

a senate panel that meta dismissed warnings about unwanted sexual advances and widespread bullying aimed at teens on instagram, including his own daughter. we get more on this from cbs's jo ling kent. >> reporter: tonight meta under fire once again. >> i appear before you today as a dad with firsthand experience of a child who received unwanted sexual advances on instagram. >> reporter: former meta engineer arturo bejar testified before a senate subcommittee today, alleging that the social media giant had not done enough to address the harmful effects of facebook and instagram on teens. >> my 14-year-old daughter joined instagram. she and her friends began having awful experiences, including repeated unwanted sexual advances, harassment. she reported these incidents to the company, and it did nothing. >> reporter: while working as a consultant in october 2021, bejar says he sent this email to ceo and founder mark zuckerberg

and instagram head adam mosseri, sharing his daughter's negative experiences. but he says his outreach was ignored by the founder. >> just the disregard for the mental health of our kids is truly shocking. >> what should parents be taking away from this? >> parents need to become more aware of the digital lives that their children are leading. companies need to take more responsibility for the way their products are designed. and policymakers need to enact new laws to hold those companies accountable. >> reporter: a bipartisan bill aimed at protecting kids online is now making its way through the senate. meantime in response to bejar's claims, meta tells me that every day countless people inside the company are trying to keep young people safe, and it has already introduced more than 30 tools to support teens and their families online. norah. >> such an important story for parents and families. jo ling kent, thank you so much. a case argued at the supreme court today could put the safety

of people in abusive relationships at serious risk while also impacting gun laws in many states. now, at the center of the case is a federal law that bans those under domestic violence restraining orders from having guns. we get more from cbs's jan crawford at the supreme court. >> the real fear of losing your life when you leave is real. it's a real fear. >> reporter: ruth glenn is head of a national advocacy group for victims of domestic violence. she also is a survivor. >> eventually he later found me a few months -- three weeks later and shot me three times and left me for dead. >> reporter: her organization was one of many today urging the supreme court to uphold a 30-year-old federal law banning guns for people under restraining orders for domestic violence, like defendant zackey rahimi. rahimi, under a protective order for threatening to shoot his ex-girlfriend, was convicted after he was involved in several other alleged shooting incidents in texas.

in the supreme court today, his lawyer argued the law violated the second amendment right to keep and bear arms, prompting this exchange with chief justice john roberts. >> you don't have any doubt that your client's a dangerous person, do you? >> your honor, i would want to know what dangerous person means. >> someone who's shooting, you know, at people. that's a good start. >> reporter: rahimi's argument could have wide-ranging implications for modern day gun laws as well as a system of background checks. over the last 25 years, the law has stopped people under protective orders from buying guns about 78,000 times. the court seemed almost unanimously poised to keep it in place. justice elena kagan. >> you don't give guns to people who have the kind of history of domestic violence that your client has. >> reporter: now, ever since the court ruled that there's an individual right to bear arms, there's been a lot of confusion in the lower courts over what

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>> reporter: abortion rights supporters rallied together at a watch party, elated that voters said yes to issue 1, enshrining a woman's right to have an abortion in ohio. >> abortion is health care. >> reporter: this morning we spoke to voters in a district that traditionally leans democratic. >> i remember what illegal abortions are like. they're not good. i'd rather have women have a choice. >> i think it's important as women to keep, you know, fighting for our rights. >> reporter: the amendment guarantees a woman's right to an abortion. the now passed amendment will allow the procedure up until fetal viability, usually around the 23rd week according to doctors, but make exceptions for the health or life of the mother.

>> under this amendment, any kind of abortion is going to be fine. this is too extreme for ohio. >> reporter: ohio's republican governor, mike dewine, calls the amendment radical and says it will allow abortion at any point during pregnancy. >> the majority of ohioans did not believe that abortion should be allowed at any point. >> reporter: dewine signed a six-week abortion ban into law in 2019 that is currently on hold in the courts. amy natoce, a spokesperson with protect women ohio, is against issue 1. >> we're stripping ability away from the legislature to go forward and pass protections for women and the unborn. >> reporter: while ohio is the only state with abortion on the ballot today, key races in pennsylvania, virginia, and kentucky could impact the future of abortion access in those states. in virginia, all 140 general assembly seats are up for grabs with republicans pushing for a 15-week abortion ban. ohio now marks the seventh state since roe v. wade was overturned where abortion rights supporters prevailed when abortion is on the ballot. norah. >> an important note. jericka duncan, thank you so much. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. the "cbs overnight news"

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a dangerous combination of fog and wildfire smoke is being blamed for another series of crashes outside new orleans. one man was killed and several others were injured today on interstate 10. officials are urging drivers to use extreme caution in the area this week. this comes two weeks after seven people were killed in a massive smoke and fog-related pileup on interstate 55 involving nearly 170 vehicles. tonight officials in southern california are investigating what caused a fire

today that destroyed a historic building once used to store blimps during world war ii. in recent years, it appeared in tv shows and movies, including "jag," "the x-files," "austin powers," and "star trek." helicopters used to battle wildfires were sent in to knock down the flames. it's a stunning fall for the office-sharing company wework. what led to the once $47 billion company's collapse? that's next. $147 billion company's collapse, next.

the office-sharing company wework has filed for bankruptcy protection. the new york-based company once valued at $47 billion is now struggling with debt and trying to get out of long-term leases. wework started to crater during

the covid pandemic when demand for office space drastically fell. the boss is back. that's next. finally tonight, the boss is back and better than ever. ♪ we're just dancing in the dark ♪ >> bruce springsteen appeared onstage for the first time since postponing his 2023 tour dates to seek treatment for peptic ulcer disease. the 74-year-old rock legend gave a surprise performance last night at the stand up for heroes

fund-raiser in new york city. he joined john mellencamp for a duet of their song "wasted days" at the event to honor injured veterans and their families. te new jersey native thrilled the audience as he played four solo songs, including his classic, "dancing in the dark." it's good to see the boss. 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 the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. ♪ even if we're just dancing in the dark ♪ this is "cbs news flash." i'm jarred hill in new york. results from a critical off-year election night. in kentucky, democratic incumbent governor andy beshear

is projected to win re-election, defeating the red state's republican attorney general, daniel cameron. in ohio, voters overwhelmingly chose to enshrine ohio voted to legalize recreational marijuana making it the 24th state to do so. and in rhode island, democrat gabriel amo is projected to win the special election to represent the state's first congressional district. he will be the first person of color to represent rhode island in congress. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm jarred hill, cbs news, new york. ted tv. it's wednesday, november 8th, 2023. this is the "cbs morning news." seeing blue. democrats score victories in several states with abortion rights a key issue on the ba