jeff pegues, cbs news, washington. >>> a former florida sheriff's deputy has been found not guilty for failing to act during the mass shooting at marjorie stoneman douglas high school in 2018. 60-year-old scot peterson wept yesterday after a jury acquitted him on several charges including felony child neglect. he could have faced nearly 100 years in prison. 17 people died during the massacre. peterson was the only armed school resource officer on duty at the time. he remained outside the building and failed to confront the shooter. >> we've got our life back after 4.5 years. don't anybody ever forget this was a massacre on february 14th. only person to blame was that monster. >> peterson claimed he did not know where the shots were coming from. >>> overseas, more than 600 people were arrested overnight in france following a third straight night of protests. the demonstrations are over tuesday's deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old boy during a traffic stop in a paris suburb. president emmanuel macron called the shooting unforgivable. the officer accused of shooting the teenager is f

jeff pegues, thank you.the political drama unfolding here in washington first reported by cbs to sprint attorneys for former president donald trump met with justice department officials this morning. the meeting lasted just under two hours. here is cbs's robert costa. >if >> reporter: donald trump's attorneys argued privately to officials that no charges should be brought against trump in the case involving classified documents. citing unfair treatment by special counsel jack smith. >> this is kind of the last page in the defense attorney's playbook to avoid indictment. it's usually not successful. but it almost always means an indictment is imminent. >> reporter: trump has denied doing anything wrong. >> all i know is this: everything i did was right. >> reporter: sources say a charging decision in the case is imminent and comes as the 2024 race is heating up. trump's own former vice president mike pence filed his candidacy days after taking aim at trump for praising north korean leader kim jong un and russ

." >>> i'm jeff pegues in washington. thanks for staying with us.s is a life-changing event, and the battle against the disease can be long and grueling. that fight for life is now complicated by an alarming shortage of lifesaving cancer treatments. 14 commonly used chemotherapy drugs are now in short supply, and that means that more than 500,000 patients do not know if they can get the treatment they need. norah o'donnell spoke with one of them. >> reporter: carol noon has an aggressive form of endomeet real cancer. it's treatable, but there's no time to waste. >> do you know if the drugs will be available for the rest of your treatment? >> no. i have no -- there's no guarantee. >> reporter: the night before her seconond dose of chememo, t 61-year-old got a call from her doctor. the hospital ran out of her treatment. thankfully, noon got her dose a week later. >> so how has this complicated your recovery process? >> well, i think it's an emotional roller coaster. it's just very frustrating to know that there's a standard of care, these two generic

>> norah: jeff pegues with all of those new details. thank you, jeff.h of france remains on edge following three nights of violent and destructive protests sparked by the deadly police shooting of a 17-year-old boy during a traffic stop. president emmanuel macron called the killing inexcusable, and the officer is facing a preliminary charge of voluntary homicide. about 40,000 police officers are now on patrol across france. we turn now to a threat to an iconic american fruit: the georgia peach. an unusually warm winter has devastated the state's annual harvest by more than 90%, leaving farmers and consumers out in the cold. in tonight's "eye on america," cbs's mark strassmann heads to the heart of peach country. >> reporter: in the peach state, naturally, you eat peach cobbler. but at atlanta's silver skillet restaurant... >> everything okay? >> we are using either canned peaches, or we are having to do fresh frozen. >> reporter: georgia's fresh peaches are expensive and scarce. lawton pearson, a fifth generation peach farmer, showed us why. >> you've g

>> norah: jeff pegues back in minneapolis for us. thank you, jeff.o the largest work stoppage in the u.s. in more than 60 years. 97% of ups union workers voted to authorize a strike this summer if a deal can't be reached on a new contract. cbs's carter evans reports a walkout would likely devastate the nation's fragile supply chain. >> ups! >> reporter: gil guzman has been driving for ups for 23 years. did you vote to authorize a strike? >> i did. we are the best in the business. it's time to get paid like it. >> reporter: he is 1 of 330,000 employees who want wage increases and more full-time jobs. >> we work hard. we work hard for our job. we work hard for this company. we move this country around. >> reporter: ups is the biggest shipping company in the u.s. around 6% of the nation's gross domestic product passes through its brown vans. nationwide, drivers deliver nearly 19 million packages every single day. and a halt in operations would cause major supply chain disruptions. >> the reason we call it a chain is it is so integrated, so any strike, e

cbs's jeff pegues will start us off tonight from near the crash site in greenville, virginia. orter: norah, we're getting new information tonight from the faa. faa officials tell us that air traffic controllers lost contact with that small plane about 14 minutes into the flight. that flight came to an end here. you see this hilly terrain behind me. you can imagine how treacherous it is for investigators, who are out here trying to sift through the wreckage. but getting to the wreckage is a problem all unto itself. the wreckage is about a mile and a half out, but it takes about 3 1/2 hours to hike there. from above, a large crater scars the terrain where the cessna plane crashed. today the ntsb was at the scene, looking for evidence. >> basically everything is on the table until we slowly and methodically remove different components and elements that will be relevant for this safety investigation. >> reporter: the plane took off in tennessee yesterday afternoon, flying to long island, new york, at 34,000 feet, where it made a u-turn. a half hour later, six f-16 fighter jets inte

." >> i'm jeff pegues in washington. thanks for staying with us.her its forces for the long anticipated counteroffensive against russian troops. part of the so-called shaping operation is a series of drone attacks on targets inside russia. several russian border regions came under assault over the past 24 hours, and earlier this week, drones took aim at the heart of moscow. holly williams has the story from london. >> reporter: russia says a urainian drone attack probably sparked the fire at this oil refinery inside russian territory. both sides in this war are rely heavily on weaponized drones. on tuesday, a swarm of them attacked moscow, revealing the rus russian's accountability. vladimir putin called it a clear sign of terrorist activity. many would call that ironic given that putin invaded his neighbor. while his military has sent these so-called weaponized drones that detonate on attack to cities. these interest drones that are being used to kill ukrainians. they've caused devastation. ukraine's responded by building its own armed drones, hop

." >> i'm jeff pegues in washington. thanks for staying with us.t in toronto after the stunning news that the pga and european tour plan to merge with the saudi-backed liv golf tour. players met for a mandatory meeting with the commissioner stunned, including those who turned down tens of millions of dollars to join the rival tour, and now will end up working for them any way. manuel bojorquez has the story. >> this ultimately is a decision that i think is in the best interests of all of the members of the pga tour. >> reporter: it's a union that seemed unimaginable, but one pga tour commissioner jay monahan is downing down on. >> how did we go from, you know, a confrontation to now being partners? we just realized that we were better off together than we were fighting or apart. >> reporter: last year, the saudi arabian government launched liv to rival the pga tour, offering hundreds of millions of dollars to the world's top players. notable champions splintered off, leading to a bitter divide. >> i think that what they've done is they've turned th

." >> i'm jeff pegues in washington. thanks for staying with us.has issued a statewide advisory after four cases of malaria were discovered south of tampa, another reported in texas. the mosquito-borne parasite was widely wiped out in this country in the 50s, and over the past 20 years, the only cases of malaria in the u.s. were in people who traveled outside the country. now these localized cases are spreading concern about potentially infected mosquito swarms. cristian benavides reports. >> reporter: mark rubin says summer is the busiest time of year. >> it's hotter out. it's training every day. >> reporter: he is the owner of the mosquito authority in south florida. >> there seems to be more and more mosquitos, more and more calls. >> reporter: now the cdc is issuing an advisory after seeing five cases of the mosquito-borne illness malaria. they signal the first local spread of the disease in 20 years. health officials say the cases in texas and florida were acquired here in the u.s., not through travel. >> that means that we have had malaria sp

." >>> i'm jeff pegues in washington. thanks for staying with us.ual meeting in new orleans after reaffirming a commitment that only men should lead its churches. the convention rejected the appeals of two churches that were expelled because they had female pastors. one of them is the california-based saddleback church. it's got the second biggest congregation in the sbc with 14 churches in southern california and another 4 overseas. janet shamlian reports. >> on the question of saddleback chur 9,437otes in favor. vot u the ban on churches with female pastors wasn't close. >> saddleback church is not in friendly cooperation with the southern baptist convention. >> reporter: delegates upheld the february expulsions of the saddleback megachurch in lake forest, california. ♪ and the smaller froome creek baptist church in louisville, kentucky, all because they employed female pastors. >> there has never been a moment in the history of the southern baptist convention that the southern baptist convention was supportive of the idea that women could occupy

. >> norah: jeff pegues is here, as well, and i know has some questions for you, scott. >> scott, we know how much scott loves courtrooms. he was in the courtroom for the manhattan case, as well. and so i was wondering if you could contrast and compare, in terms of the former president's demeanor, how did he look today, how did -- what was his demeanor, especially, if you compare it to the video that we saw at the arraignment in new york city in early april? >> reporter: identical, jeff. same mannerisms, same body language, same expression on his face. we had an advantage of perspective today. we were in the overflow room, where there was a video's fee to giving us a head on picture of donald trump. those in the courtroom only saw the back. we could see his face and expression. the overflow room is actually the jury meeting room here, 300 seats and a few tiny televisions, so small the kind of televisions you get at a low cost hotel room. we watch this on tv and threw a feed, and we could see, even through the grainy picture, donald trump sitting, no expression, nothing to say, idle a