. >> reporter angelica alvarez says he is telling the gop lawmakers to stop wasting their time. >> reporter: while hundreds of children have been reunited with their families more than a thousand are still waiting. this as house republicans delay a vote on immigration reform. it has been two days since president trump signed an executive order to keep children with their parents who cross the border illegally. details of implementing the change are still being worked out including where the families will stay. another pressing question, how the roughly 2300 children recently separated will be reunited with their families. the whit about 500 kids have been returned to their parents. one of those reunions took place this morning at the baltimore washington airport in maryland. her seven-year-old son was taken from her in may after they arrived in guatemala. she sued to regain custody and the justice department agreed to release the boy. after weeks of urging congressional republicans to take action on immigration, president trump is changing course and advising them to forget about immigratio

reporter angelica alvarez has more. >> reporter: we are hearing a lot about this but the first coming from president donald trump with what he calls a victory. the mission's highest court has ruled president donald trump's controversial travel -- travel ban constitutional handing a significant legal victory to the trump administration, rejecting the challenge the policy disseminated against muslims or exceeded the president's authority. >> a tremendous success. a tremendous victory for the american people. >> reporter: barring people from seven countries from entering the united states. in five years of those countries, the majority residents are muslim. roberts was joined by four other conservative justices. they determined the president has substantial control over immigration. the state of hawaii sued arguing it violates religious freedom laws. >> donald j. trump is calling for a total and complete shutdown of muslims entering the united states. >> reporter: hawaii cited past comments from president donald trump as proof of illegal discrimination based on religion. justice sonia so

angelica alvarez reports. >> they're sending a message. they want scott pruitt out.picked steven cook to run a superfund task force. he spent 20 years as a lawyer. part of the industry responsible for creating many of the toxic sites he's now in charge of cleaning up. >> if i were a governor or mayor, i would be really concerned that the game of politics is being played instead of cleaning up the sites and making communities safe. >> reporter: elgie holstein says it's about helping big business, not the environment. >> what is clear is his first choice of appointments is not going to be people who care about the environment. >> reporter: the "associated press" found nearly half of the political appointees recently hired at the agency have industry ties. while environmentalists are concerned cook's job history makes him bad choice for the job, the epa argues it makes his background good for the agency. pruitt's allies on capitol hill say he still has work do. >> it's important that people believe he's a person they can trust and will do the job without influence one w

angelica alvarez cbs news, capitol hill. >> they are scrambling to find places to put immigrant families and one site they are considering is the concord naval weapons says -- abandoned airfield. it could hold up to 47,000 immigrants. the memo describes the housing is temporary. some young immigrants are already at a facility in south hill. the key program -- says it will offer he -- operate as a -- >> it's for undocumented minors being prosecuted -- process through the system typically here for 30 to 60 days. >> the nonprofit says on its website it does not support separating families at the border. >> another immigration matter making headlines in the bay area, immigrant families and supporters rallied outside of san francisco -- a san francisco courtroom challenging the temporary protected status program. it protects an estimated 300,000 people living illegally coming from the u.s. -- coming from countries from violence or disaster. >> they want to tell americans to fear undocumented people. there's no reason to fear. we are very beautiful people. >> like other tps holders they've liv

angelica alvarez for cbs news. the white house. >> donald trump says he's considering making more high profile pardons. mr. trump said today he may grant clemency to businesswoman martha stewart. stewart was convicted in 2004 of obstructing justic foryingabout. the president said he's also considering pardoning or commuting the sentence of rod blagojevich, the former politician currently serving a 14-year sentence. he appeared on the tv show "the apprentice." >>> today the president also met with relatives of victims from a school shooting in texas. he then went to a coast guard station to meet with the families behind closed doors. 10 people died in the attack at santa fe high school earlier this month. it's the 27th school shooting in the u.s. since president trump took office. >> lava is flowing over an area the size of six football fields. it's covered four and a half square miles over the past four weeks, destroying at least 70 homes so far. cbs reporter cart cart is on the big island and shows us hundreds of

angelica alvarez has more on the landmark decision. >> reporter: protesters from coast to coast rallied on the streets tuesday following the supreme court's decision to uphold president trump's travel ban. >> it codifies religious issues rooted in bigotry and will be viewed as a latest injustice. >> reporter: it applies to five mostly muslim countries. it also affects north korea and venezuela. >> a tremendous success. >> reporter: writing for the conservative chief justice john roberts, he said the travel ban was squarely within the scope of presidential authority to protect national security and says nothing about religion. >> we have to make sure that we vet people coming in to the country, we know who's coming in. >> reporter: the landmark 5-4 ruling divided justices along the ideological line. president trump's own nominee neil gorsuch helped tip the scales. >> it's un-american to do what has been done. >> reporter: while democrats were united against the decision, most republicans defended it. >> the court rightly concluded it has full constitutional and statutory authority to def

angelica alvarez, cbs news, annapolis, maryland. >> two people were also treated at the hospital with minor injuries. neither was shot. those injuries are believed to have been caused by flying glass. and both of the people involved in the defamation suit are no longer with the paper. >>> a decades old cold case murder investigation has come to a violent end in the south bay. investigators say 72-year-old steven blake crawled attacked and killed a 19-year-old girl back in 1974. arliss perry was found dead inside the stanford memorial church. she had been strangled, stabbed and sexually assaulted. detectives say it was crawford who first reported the body to police while as a security guard but they had trouble getting evidence over the years. finally they got a hit. >> he knew he was a person of interest. he knew that we were continuing the investigation actively right now because our detective had talked to him recently. >> deputies say they were about to serve a search warrant at his san jose apartment yesterday morning when he shot himself. no word on exactly what investigators fou

let's get the very latest from our reporter, angelica alvarez, at the scene of that shooting.the friends and fellow reporters of the friends and fellow reporters of those who had been killed said we are going to get this week ‘s paper out. they have done that. that front page of the most difficult one may have ever had to put together. yes. definitely. we've just got a copy of this paper. it has all the pictures of the five victims. inside are stories about them. they have already been published online. talking about their contributions to the community and how they will all be missed by their colleagues and the community. the law—enforcement reminded everybody yesterday this is personal to them to because they interact with these reporters on a daily basis. this has hit everyone really ha rd. daily basis. this has hit everyone really hard. what more are police saying about the interrogation of the suspect and the possible motive? they are not saying too much about the specific interrogation. we're hoping to hear an update later today. as far as a motive, they have not spent t