naomi ruchim in new york. thank you. >>> nearly two years after the uvalde school massacre the families of the 19 victims have settled one lawsuit against the city for $2 million. they're filing another against the school district and 92 state police officers who waited more than an hour to confront the gunman. the story from cbs' lilia luciano. >> reporter: still in search of answers and accountability, nearly two years to the day the families of slain and some surviving victims filed a $500 million federal lawsuit calling the response the greatest law enforcement failure in confronting an active shooter in american history. >> the time has come to do the right thing. >> reporter: the lawsuit names 92 individual officers from the texas department of public safety. the agency with the largest presence at robb elementary as the killer was left inside the two classrooms shooting multiple times for more than an hour. >> 376 officers doing their job and unable to protect these children for 77 minutes. >> reporter:

naomi ruchim in new york. thank you. >>> democratic new jersey senator bob menendez's latest corruption trial is set to begin today with jury selection. prosecutors allege he and his wife accepted gold bars, cash, and a luxury car as bribes to aid three businessmen in his home state. the favor allegedly benefited the governments of egypt and qatar. his lawyers say he stayed within the rules and did nothing illegal. >>> and now to the middle east where israeli forces are pushing deeper into gaza's southern city of rafah which israel says is hamas' last stronghold. and the idf is now also battling a resurgence of hamas militants in several towns in the northern part of the territory which had been cleared out months ago. secretary of state antony blinken delivered some of the strongest public criticism yet of israel's conduct of the war in gaza, telling cbs' "face the nation" that israeli tactics have failed to protect civilians in gaza and failed to neutralize hamas. >>> the israeli military opened a new humani

naomi ruchim in new york. thank you so much. >>> breaking overnight, a body was recovered from the scene of a massive explosion in downtown youngstown, ohio. the explosion happened yesterday at a building which houses chase bank and several apartments. the man killed was an employee of the bank. seven people were hospitalized, one was in critical condition. witnesses reported smelling gas and hearing a boom. the fire chief said the cause of the blast is still unknown. >>> another night of severe weather across a storm-battered texas. strong thunderstorms swept across the lone star state bringing pounding rain, baseball-sized hail, and damaging winds. more than 500,000 homes and businesses are without power in texas where an oppressive early season heat wave is adding to the misery. tom hanson spoke with several people who took a direct hit. >> reporter: strong, powerful winds near 80 miles per hour slammed into garland, texas, damaging homes, uprooting trees. one came crashing into this neighbor's house. >> th

naomi ruchim is live outside that new york courtroom and we understand the closing arguments were anappens? >> reporter: well, reed, good morning. yes, after a very long day yesterday, the judge decided to push back the beginning of court a tiny bit today. so instead of the normal 9:00, the jury will reconvene at 10:00 this morning. which here in new york is just about 30 minutes away. so the energy starting to pick up here as we know more security is gathering. the former president will be here soon along with the jurors. and ultimately today the judge the beginning. the start of the day, he will give off the jury instructions to the jury and what they need to decide in the all important case. that's expected to last about an hour and from there the fate of the former president will be in the jury's hands. today, judge juan merchan gives instructions to the jury. and then they'll begin deliberations in former president donald trump's manhattan criminal trial. >> we'll see how it goes. >> reporter: trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to reimburse ex-

cbs' naomi ruchim is joining us now with the latest details, breaking details. >> reporter: folks have been following this story overnight. now we have breaking updates this morning. iran's cabinet held an emergency meeting overnight, and they are calling ebrahim raisi a martyr along with the bodyguards and other officials on board that helicopter. in the broader international community, raisi's legacy casts a far darker shadow on iran. in the foggy mountains of northwestern iran, rescue crews have found the body of iranian president ebrahim raisi after his helicopter crashed near the azerbaijan border. the aircraft was part of a convoy of three helicopters when it made what officials describe as a hard landing, also killing the nation's foreign minister. this video shows the leaders on board where they had been visiting a dam project earlier in the day. state media broadcast iranians praying for raisi while waiting for news from the crash site. by many accounts, he was an extremely divisive president, elected in the lowest turnout in the country's history. he was also known as a conse

naomi ruchim is live outside that new york courtroom and closing arguments, they were a marathon. reed, good morning. that's right. after a very long day yesterday, court is set to reconvene here at about 10:00. so about an hour and a half new york time. that is when the judge will hand over the instructions to the jury. they will be complicated and they will be thorough in this case. such a monumental decision that has to be made here. that process is expected to take about one hour and then after that, the fate of the former president will be in the hands of this new york jury. today, judge juan merchan gives instructions to the jury. and then they'll begin deliberations in former president donald trump's manhattan criminal trial. >> we'll see how it goes. >> reporter: trump is charged with 34 felony counts of falsifying business records to reimburse ex-fixer and key prosecution witness michael cohen, who paid adult film star stormy daniels $130,000 to keep quiet about an alleged sexual encounter in the leadup to the 2016 election all of this trump denies. his three hour closing