>> pelley: after making a vow-- t i don't want to be speaker. >> pelley: then swearing an oath-- >> i do. >> pelley: paul ryan takes the pledge. >> i do not want, nor will i ncept the nomination for our party. >> pelley: also tonight, when hail freezes over. ase southern plains, an assault by missiles of ice. how does the most popular vehicle in america do in a crash test? we'll show you. rd, allegations of rock 'n' roll larceny. ♪ ♪ "stairway to heaven" takes a step into court. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is our western edition. that sound heard across america today was the speaker of the house slamming the door on the republican presidential nomination. paul ryan will be neither a white knight nor a dark horse at the convention. here's major garrett. >> so let me be clear. l do not want, nor will i accept the nomination for our party. >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan, a favorite of some of the g.o.p.'s biggest donors, said he should not be eligible for his party's nomination at a contested convention. >> if no can

this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: that sound heard across america today was the speaker of the house slamming the door on the republican presidential nomination. paul ryan will be neither a white knight nor a dark horse at the convention. here's major garrett. >> so let me be clear. i do not want, nor will i accept the nomination for our party. >> reporter: house speaker paul ryan, a favorite of some of the g.o.p.'s biggest donors, said he should noting eligible for his party's nomination at a contested convention. >> if no candidate has a majority on the first ballot, i choose from a person who is actually participated in the primary. count me out. >> reporter: the former vice presidential candidate has ruled out ambitious political moves before. speaker? >> why not? speaker. >> reporter: a month later. >> i do. >> reporter: ryan was sworn in as speaker. today he said this is different. >> being speaker of the house is a far cry from being president >> reporter: ryan will serve as chairman of the july g.o.p. convention and acknowledged delegation might turn

>> pelley: the mysterious death of prince. ase autopsy is complete. >> there was nothing at all that indicated an obvious trauma. >> pelley: also tonight, the superstar is mourned and celebrated. ♪ >> this morning, we played "purple rain" and "delirious" just to get warmed up. ♪ >> pelley: eight members of an ohio family have been murdered execution-style. the trump persona: his campaign calls it an act. cruz calls it a lie. and a special kind of love. >> "i find anything that can't 'tgulate its own body temperature endearing." >> pelley: steve hartman "on the road." >> should be riveting. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is our western edition. all day long, there has been an incredible outpouring of love for prince at his home in minnesota. this following a night of celebrations of his life and music, including an enormous block party thrown by spike lee in brooklyn, new york. prince had millions of fans all around the world, but ironically he died alone. that was

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: five states went to the polls today, and tonight cbs news projects big wins for republican front-runner donald trump in pennsylvania, maryland, rhode island and connecticut. cbs news projects a win for hillary clinton in maryland. we'll begin with the republicans tonight. major garrett is at trump headquarters in new york. major? >> reporter: scott, with four wins declared and another one expected, donald trump is well on his way to accumulating 90 to 100 delegates tonight, pushing him ever closer to securing the republican nomination. we caught up with the g.o.p. front-runner outside the "time" magazine gala here in midtown manhattan, and it is there trump told us it's time for rivals ted cruz and john kasich to quit. >> they really should drop out of the race. >> reporter: you think they should drop out? >> absolutely. they have no way of getting there, no way. i'm millions of votes ahead of both of them, many millions of votes ahead. >> reporter: cruz conceded early tonight at a rally in india

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: houston filled up like a bathtub with a stuffed drain. a relentless foot of rain fell in texas. today folks waded the higher ground. more than 1,000 homes flooded, and one man clung to the side of a truck. big rigs struggled before two interstates were closed. omar villafranca is in houston. >> reporter: with water quickly rising, residents of this apartment complex in neighbors helping neighbors, deploying rafts and small fishing boats, some using whatever they could, from air mattresses to emmy refrigerators. >> we're just trying to rescue as many people as we can, just trying to get them from places they can't swim. >> reporter: houston mayor sylvester turner admitted water was rising so fast, first responders had trouble keeping up. >> some areas of city have ten inches of water. some areas have 15. there's water all over the place. it's very difficult to even get the red cross workers to get to their shelters. >> reporter: 120,000 residents lost power. this time lapse at a houston underpass sho

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: on the eve of a possible game-changer primary in wisconsin, our cbs news battleground tracker shows that ted cruz has a six-point lead over donald trump. john kasich is a distant third. for the nomination, trump needs to win a little over 60% of all the remaining delegates. that's doable, but it can't happen before the last big primary night on june 7th. for cruz and kasich, it is all about keeping trump from locking up the 1,237 delegates, forcing the g.o.p. nomination battle into a contested convention in cleveland this july. here's major garrett. >> reporter: ted cruz met in kenosha today and predicted a victory in tomorrow's primary. >> wisconsin is going to be pivotal. it will be pivotal for the national debate. the entire country is looking at wisconsin. >> reporter: crz's campaign is focused on picking up delegates in states with caucuses and party convention, including utah and just this weekend colorado and north dakota. >> if we have a good night tomorrow, that will be four states in a ro

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is our western edition. japan was struck this afternoon by a major earthquake, magnitude above seven, strong enough to damage most buildings within miles of the epicenter. it came just 24 hours after a strong 6.2 quake in southern japan flattened many structures and set others on fire. it's morning there now, and these are among the first pictures that we have received. as you can see, this part of an elevated highway has collapsed. ben tracy is following this. >> reporter: w earth blah started shaking violently yet again, entire hillsides were torn apart as the land began to slide. the at-least 7.0-magnitude quake also caused fires in kumamoto, japan. this man was rescued before dawn when his house collapsed on him while he was sleeping. a day earlier, the smaller but still-powerful quake sent terrified workers running from their desks. it knocked down buildings and collapsed homes. at least nine people were killed. this eight-month-old baby was rescued by emergency workers who dug through

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is our western edition. with his primary sweep this week, donald trump's path to the nomination is virtually clear, which may be why protesters threw up roadblocks today. near san francisco, crowds forced the republican front- runner to ditch his motorcade and slip into the state republican convention on foot. chip reid gets us started tonight. >> reporter: outside the hotel where donald trump spoke, r:ndreds of protesters chanted their disdain. others threw eggs at police in pot gear. trump joked about the challenge it all presented, getting inside the hotel. >> and then we went under a fence and through a fence, and oh, boy. it felt like i was cross the border, actually, you know. it's true. ( laughter ) >> reporter: once across, the contrast could hardly have been sharper. california delegate and trump fan woody woodmer wore a trump tie while his wife, donna, showed off her ivanka wardrobe. >> any woman can look like a fashion model with ivanka's collection. >> reporter: this establishmen

>> pelley: the strangers were blue star moms, including nancy totman. >> pelley: how many of these funeralsu been to? >> nancy totman: 42 funerals. and each one is difficult. it just rips your heart out to know that another family, their life, their normal, is never the same. >> deb saunders: i can think of a couple of parents right off hand >> pelley: deb saunders understood their isolation. >> saunders: you can express your sympathy, but you cannot empathize with someone unless you're walking in their shoes and that's what i knew, we had to do, was somehow gather these folks together, that they were better equipped in their journey to help one another. >> pelley: to gather the gold stars, deb saunders reached out to a tough old leatherneck, retired marine major general mike myatt, the president and c.e.o. of the marines' memorial association. >> mike myatt: deb saunders, she was a blue star mom. she came to me one day and she said, "i'm worried about the gold star moms. we need to provide some kind of comfort for them." >> saunders: i knew general myatt had the resources to help us do it

. >> pelley: the nation is playing with fire.hat was the warning today from the white house budget director, who announced more than half a billion dollars is being rushed into a battle against zika virus. zika is linked to birth defects, and mosquito have spread the virus through most of the western hemisphere. the u.s. could be next. more than 312 cases have been reported in 41 states, but all of those cases are linked to travel outside the u.s. dr. jon lapook is looking at how the money could be spent. >> that's perfect for breeding mosquito larva. >> reporter: tropical disease expert dr. peter hotez has been warning for months that poor neighborhoods on the gulf coast, like this one in houston, are similar to poor neighborhoods in brazil, the epicenter of the zika pandemic. broken screens, lack of air conditioning and standing water make for perfect breeding grounds for the hive -- for aedes aegypti mosquitoes that carry zika. >> if you look at where zika is affecting people, it's in areas of extreme poverty. >> reporter: hot

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: hillary clinton is far and away the democratic front-runner, but she just can't shake bernie sanders, who is on a winning streak lately and looking to extend it tonight in wisconsin. 86 delegates are up for grabs, but even if sanders won them all, clinton would still have nearly three-quarters of what she needs to clinch the nomination. here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: wisconsinites like to back a front-runner. since 1988 every democrat who won the badger state went on to clinch the nomination, but this time the state could go for the underdog. >> we have won six out of the last seven caucuses and primaries. >> reporter: sanders is a hit with the state's progressive base and in big college towns. daniel miller is a student in milwaukee. >> i don't think it's a long shot at all. he only needs to win 55% to 60% of the remaining delegate vote. >> reporter: that's easier said than done, as clinton reminded the women of "the view" today. >> i have 2.5 million more votes than he does. ( applause ) and i h

>> pelley: david martin at the pentagon. david, thank you. today charlie rose asked president obama why he decided to commit more american troops. >> reporter: one of the challenges of mounting a fight against a group like isil that embeds itself with civilian forces, they're not isolated. they're not out in remote areas where we can just hit them on the run, so having people who develop relationships with local tribes, with people who may be going in and out of places like raqqa, us being able to distinguish between those who we can work with and those we can't, all that is really important. >> reporter: you will meet with heads of state from europe. how are you coming together on dealing with migration and refugees? >> well, what i said to them, this is not just a european problem. this is our problem,, too but more importantly, more putting on europe's politics, the way that it advances far-right nationalism, the degree to which it is encouraging a breakup of european unity. that in some cases is being expolited by somebody like mr. putin.

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: today the first criminal charges were filed in the water debacle in flint, michigan. a poor, mostly black city of 100,000.mdéb contaminated drinking water has poisoned children and many others with dangerously high levels of lead. now two state regulators and one city employee have been charged with lying about what they knew. dean reynolds tells us the investigation is not nearly over. >> will you please tell us your name. >> reporter: with the charging of a low level official, flint's water crisis has now turned from careless to criminal. bill schuette is michigan's attorney general. >> they failed in their responsibilities to protect the health and safety of families of flint. they failed michigan families. indeed, they failed us all. >> reporter: stephen busch and prysby of the at the present time department of environmental quality and michael prysby glasgow of -- a flint water supervisor, are charged with misconduct and tampering with evidence, allegedly claiming flint's water was safe when the

. >>> the "cbs evening news with scott pelley" is next. >> pelley: big primary, new yorkers go to the polls and these two vote for themselves. >> it feels great. >> it's a proud moment. it's a great moment. >> pelley: also tonight, security lapses by the secret service. >> i mean, it's really unacceptable that somebody wearing crocs, who already had a foot problem, could make his way all the way in past security into the white house. >> pelley: a race against time to find earthquake survivors. and government and corporate power prove no match for a woman out to save her neighborhood. >> it was an act of survival because, like, this was our home. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley, reporting tonight from washington. >> pelley: donald trump hopes to make this city his home come next january, and, of course, so does hillary clinton. big victories tonight on their new york home turf would help propel the front-runners to their parties' nominations. clinton, who had a comfortable lead in late polls, is competing with bernie sanders for 247 democrat

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. reporting tonight from washington. >> pelley: donald trump hopes to make this city his home come next january, and, of course, soy does hillary clinton. big victories tonight on their new york home turf would help propel the front-runners to their parties' nominations. clinton, who had a comfortable lead in late polls, is competing with bernie sanders for 247 democratic delegates tonight. she already has 74% of the 2383 she need to clinch theination. we'll start right there with nancy cordes. >> reporter: the clintons navigated a swarm of neighbors and reporters today. >> okay, this is a private ballot. ( laughter ) >> reporter: to vote at a chappaqua school not far from their home. how does it feel to finally cast your own ballot? >> it feels great. and this has been a joy during the last to weeks to be here all over the state. just going around new york. >> reporter: she has spent those two weeks on a frenetic tour of new york's five boroughs, eight stops yesterday alone. >> oh, tha

scott pelley. take care family. we will see you tonight. >> pelley: on the eve of wisconsin, trump and kasich go at it like all get-out. >> he ought no get the hell out. >> i've got news for him, i'm going to get a heck of a lot of his voters, okay. >> pelley: also tonight, breaking news, a sight-seeing helicopter has crashed in tennessee. there are many fatalities. the growing toll from a drug far more powerful than morphine. and a family rivalry in houston. tonight meet the brothers' mothers. >> if villanova win, we win. u.n.c. win, we win. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: on the eve of a possible game-changer primary in wisconsin, our cbs news battleground tracker shows that ted cruz has a six-point lead over donald trump. john kasich is a distant third. for the nomination, trump needs to win a little over 60% of all the remaining delegates. that's doable, but it can't happen before the last big primary night on june 7th. for cruz and kasich, it is all about

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is our western edition. hillary clinton is far and away the democratic front-runner, but she just can't shake bernie sanders, who is on a winning streak lately and looking to extend it tonight in wisconsin. 86 delegates are up for grabs, but even if sanders won them all, clinton would still have nearly three-quarters of what she needs to clinch the nomination. here's nancy cordes. >> reporter: wisconsinites like to back a front-runner. since 1988, every democrat who won the badger state went on to clinch the nomination. but this time the state could go for the underdog. >> we have won six out of the last seven caucuses and primaries. >> reporter: sanders is a hit with the state's progressive base and in its big college towns. daniel miller is a student in milwaukee. >> i don't think it's a long shot at all. he only needs to win 55% to 60% of the remaining delegate votes, that are left in the country. >> reporter: that's easier said than done, as clinton reminded the women of "the view" today

>> pelley: what's next to trump? >> new york is a spring board to april 26th. 172 delegates going to be decided, or in the case of pennsylvania, nominally influenced by the statewide vote. that's are leading out of the month of april inch may it becomes much more difficult. indiana, nebraska, washington and oregon, they do not set up well for trump. that's better cruz territory. so we're all focused on june juneth and the final primary. the month of may could be key in deciding whether trump wins the nomination outright or falls just short. >> pelley: major garrett, nancy cordes, working the long hours on the campaign. we're grateful. >> thank you, scott. >> pelley: today the supreme court heard arguments in a case that tests the limits of presidential power. at issue is president obama's end run around congress, putting reform into effort by executive action. jan crawford is at the court. >> reporter: they came to the court by the hundreds, carrying posters and stories of struggle. >> it's not a normal life. it's re

>> pelley: sentencing day for dennis hastert. a judge calls the man once second in line to the presidency a serial child molester. [bell tolls] parents who lost their son to heroin go public to save lives. >> when you look at this picture, do you see a junkie? >> pelley: and female sports reporters confront hate head on. >> she's a self-important, know-it-all [bleeped]. >> this is captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: trump lowered the boom on his opponents last night then lowered the volume today. the shoot-from-the-lip candidate stuck to a script for once in his foreign policy speech. following a five-state sweep, trump is well on his way to the republican presidential nomination. ted cruz's headlights began the fade in the rear-view mirror as the texas senator came in not second but third in four of the five states. major garrett is in indianapolis. >> reporter: >> it's time to shake the rust off america's foreign policy. it's time to invite new voices and new visions into the

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is our western edition. for five years, the world has been witness to the horrors of syria's civil war. more than a quarter million people killed, more than 11 million have lost their homes. but the greatest treasure lost was the ancient city of palmyra, a world heritage site. this week, the assad dictatorship retook palmyra from isis, the bad guys taking it from the worse guys, if you will. elizabeth palmer reached palmyra today, the first american journalist to enter the city. here's what she found. >> reporter: after 10 months under isis control, who would have believed palmyra could look so good? but up close, there are monumental gaps. for 2,000 years, a roman triumphal arch spanned the entrance. now the arch is gone, brought down by isis explosives, and the syrian army tells us we can't venture any further into the ruins because the whole place is laced with mines and dynamite. so is the town next to the ruins. a group has come here today to honor the syrian soldiers who defeated isis

captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: this is our western edition. a tv station in baltimore was evacuated today after a man wearing sunglasses, a surgical mask, and an animal costume threatened to blow up the building. police took him seriously, and ended the standoff with a sniper's bullet. jeff pegues is at the scene. >> reporter: witnesses say the man appeared to be wired with explosives when he walked into the television station. he was wearing an animal costume and demanded news coverage. vitas reid is the station's meteorologist. >> and he has a bomb strapped to him. he said he will blow the p ifding up if we don't air something that he is holding. >> reporter: when police arrived a car was on fire in the parking lot, and the man, believed to be white and in his 20s, was itting just inside the station's doors. >> we got some action. we got some action. >> reporter: about 90 minutes later the man unexpectedly walked out of the station. investigators didn't want to take any chances. baltimore police spokesman t.j. smith. >> we c

. >> pelley: the c.d.c. makes an urgent appeal for more must be be -- money to fight zika. >> everything we look at with this virus seems to be scarier than we initially thought. >> pelley: also tonight, the 9/11 findings locked behind those doors. pressure grows to reveal the report. highway hazards you never see coming. >> reporter: how often do you sea driver who is medically unfit cause an accident? >> all the time. >> pelley: and new kids on the block playing with the kids next [screaming] captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: the centers for disease control told congress today it needs money and it needs it fast to fight the zika virus in the united states. zika, carried by mosquitoes, is strongly suspected of causing birth defects and now possibly another neurological disease. a white house request for emergency funds totaling nearly $2 billion is stalled in congress. here's dr. jon lapook. >> everything we look at with this virus seems to be a bit sc

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captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: the end donald trump lashed out at ted cruz and their eating habits to their unprecedented alliance to deny him the republican presidential nomination. on the eve of the next round of primaries, trump has 68% of what he needs to clinch. he won't do it tomorrow, and cruz and kasich can't do it at all, unless they can force a contested convention. here's major garrett. >> in politics you're allowed to collude, so they colluded, and actually, i was happy, because it shows how weak they are. it shows how pathetic they are. >> reporter: on the eve of a likely five-state primary sweep, donald trump campaigned in rhode island and dismissed the hail mary alliance between ted cruz and john kasich. >> it takes two guys, longtime politician, to try and get together to try and beat trump, and yet they're way behind. >> reporter: late yesterday the kasich campaign announced it would not compete in next week's indiana primary, clearing the way for cruz. cruz's team reciprocated by future primaries in new mexico a

>> pelley: one day after a deadly earthquake, a second, more powerful quake rocks japan. more are likely. also tonight, flint's fear of water. >> i get a panic attack, severe, for hours my heart palpitates. >> pelley: hackers show "60 minutes" how easy it is to break into your pope. and steve hartman with a crooked cop. >> reporter: you put an innocent guy in jail? >> correct. >> my only goal was to seek him when i got home and to hurt him. >> pelley: and he got his chance. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: japan was struck this afternoon by a major earthquake, magnitude above 7, st buildings within miles of the epicenter. it came just 24 hours after a strong 6.2 quake in southern japan flattened many structures and set others on fire. it's morning there now, and these are among the first pictures that we have received. as you can see, this part of an elevated highway has collapsed. ben tracy is following this. >> reporter: when the earth started s

>> pelley: flint's water contamination is now a criminal case. three officials are charged with felonies. >> they had a duty to protect the health of families and citizens of flint. they failed. >> pelley: also tonight, the front-runners look forward to the finish line. >> we don't have much of a race anymore. >> and victory is in sight. >> pelley: uncle sam says you have some change coming as women's history gains currency. and the tiny island that is out to save the world. they're not just tilting at windmills. >> definite king of the world moment. captioning sponsored by cbs this is the "cbs evening news" with scott pelley. >> pelley: today the first criminal charges were filed in the water debacle in michigan. a poor, mostly black city of 100,000.mdéb contaminated drinking water has poisoned children and many others with dangerously high levels of lead. state regulatore city employee have been charged with lying about what they knew. dean reynolds tells us the investigation is no

>> pelley: joe medicine crow was a u.s.ve american hero, born on the crow reservation in montana, a great uncle told him firsthand about the battle of the little big horn. in world war ii, medicine crow fought behind german lines and in one raid stole 50 german horses. he was awarded the presidential medal of freedom in 2009. joe medicine crow died sunday. he was 102. for months a volcano just 50 miles from mexico city has been rumbling. yesterday it rock and smoke more than a mile high. folks who live nearby have been warned they may have to evacuate. winter made a comeback today with freezing temperatures and snow in the northeast. driving was next to impossible in buffalo with white-out conditions. a tour bus carrying college students tripped in the adirondacks but no serious injuries. two of baseball's opening day games were postponed, too wet in new york, too cold in cleveland. up next, a court battle pitting brother against brother. i'm terhe is.at golf. people say i'm getting better. no one's ever said that. but i'd

" with scott pelley. >> pelley: about 60 million americans are in the path of dangerous storms tonight, from the southern plains to the midwest and northeast. watches are up for a possible outbreak of tornadoes. david begnaud is in wichita, david? >> reporter: scott, good evening. the rain has started to pick up here, and so has the hail. we just got hit by some hail that's actually falling on the ground right now here in wichita. over the last couple hours in this region, we've seen everything from blinding rain to intense lightning and damaging hail. it started at the airport in kansas city, missouri, this morning, hail the size of golf balls left dents in rental cars at the airport, led to some delays. that was this morning. then as we proved into the afternoon, students took shelter at kansas state university in kansas amid reports that severe weather was moving through. 18 million people from nebraska to kansas, texas and oklahoma are under

>> pelley: we'll begin tonight with breaking news. democrat hillary clinton would beat republican donald trump by ten points in a head-to-head matchup. she would defeat ted cruz by three points. the only republican that beats clinton is john kasich. now have a look at this. bernie sanders does clinton one better. he beats all of the republicans, trump by 17 points. sanders and clinton are debating in black -- brooklyn tonight five days before the new york primary. here's nancy cordes. >> our campaign today has the momentum. [cheering and applause] >> reporter: sanders drew one of the largest crowds of his campaign last night, more than 15,000 people in greenwich village, but he admitted clinton still has the edge. >> and this is a tough race for us. >> reporter: clinton's large lead in pledged delegates is poised to grow next tuesday, which has sanders' supporters increasingly eyeing superdelegates, the roughly overwhelmingly back clinton but are free to switch. one sanders' supporter even posted a superdelegate hit list online, compl