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>> norah: communities from oklahoma to michigan or cleaning up after more than three dozen s touched down. >> so your trailer was here. >> my trailer was here. >> an out? >> now it's over here. >> norah: the "cbs evening news" starts right now. ♪ ♪ good evening. i'm norah o'donnell, and thank you for being with us. we come on the air tonight with breaking news of another outbreak of tornadoes, this time in tennessee, illinois, and missouri. this is the third straight day of dangerous and possibly deadly weather moving across the u.s. tens of millions of people tonight are in the path of this massive storm system that stretches from texas to virginia, with severe thunderstorms destructive winds, large hail, and more twisters. today's threats follow another night of terror in the midwest and the ohio valley, with at least 19 tornadoes in eight states. homes and businesses were torn apart, including this fedex facility in the town of portage,

michigan. that's just south of kalamazoo. trees were ripped up and power was knocked out for tens of thousands of residents. tonight, we have team coverage of this wild weather, and cbs's roxana saberi will start us off. >> reporter: tonight, once again, a tornado threat became reality across a midsection of the country. >> power flash, look at that. >> reporter: up north, tornadoes tore across the midwest tuesday. >> that's a big one. speed to at least three have been confirmed in michigan, propping the state's first ever tornado emergency. in the crosshairs, kalamazoo county. 176 homes were damaged or destroyed. the city of portage took a direct hit not once, but twice, less than an hour and a half. an ef2 twister with winds of 13s fedex facility. authorities tell cbs news everyone inside was able to escape by the time rescuers arrived. this doorbell camera captured the moment a tornado toppled

nearly every tree in sight. >> oh, mike ott! >> reporter: while a few miles away, a twister slammed pavilion estates, splintering several mobile homes and injuring at least 12 people. today, the sound of chainsaws filled the air, as residents began cleaning up. the force of the first tornado was so strong, it wrapped multiple homes around this tree. so your trailer was here? >> yeah, my trailer was here. >> reporter: and now? >> now it's over there, yes p >> reporter: that your trailer. gerald brooks said he survived by hiding in his closet. >> i said a couple prayers, curled up in a ball, about ten seconds i was in the air. >> reporter: so you think if you weren't in the closet... speak out on the guy would have been here. >> reporter: the red cross has opened an emergency shelter to help families displaced by the tornadoes that ripped through neighborhoods like this one. the family living in this house told us they have had to move out, and now they are just waiting for their home to

collapse. norah? >> norah: roxana saberi, thank you for being there. there is even more severe weather in the forecast tonight and tomorrow, so let's bring in meteorologist reynolds wolf from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, reynolds. >> good evening, norah. we have got the boom of thunder that is approaching the music city on the set up that we have atmospheric lay speaking is very similar to what we saw yesterday. plenty of moisture feeding and from the south of mexico, unstable air math, and then we have this energy that is rolling from west to east, and you see the result right there. it is a bevy of watches and warnings, against very tumultuous storms racing across america's landscape, bringing with it really the hammer blows of severe weather, including tornadoes. now at this time, we do have a torcon listed for much of the area that raises any 5. remember they go from 1 to 10, so i 5 is where we stand. damaging wind, greater likelihood of damage there, certainly widespread power outages may be in the mix as also the very formation of very large hail. what may prove to be the biggest part of the story is the

rainfall. it could be excessive. we are talking about an area that has had plenty of moisture, and with another 2 to 3 inches of rainfall possible as we make our way through the next several hours, there is certainly a very good chance of some flash flooding. now the system is eventually going to linger a bit more towards the east end to the south, but still, millions of americans will be under threat for tomorrow. norah? >> norah: that's good information. reynolds wolf, thank you. turning out to the israel-hamas war and the breaking news out of the white house. president biden issuing a warning to prime minister benjamin netanyahu the u.s. will not supply weapons that israel could use in an assault in the southern city of rafah. we get details now from chief foreign affairs correspondent and "face the nation" moderator margaret brennan. >> let's go! >> reporter: this is what the israeli military calls a limited operation in rafah, where air strikes today hit one of the most densely populated places on earth. nearly 1.5 million people have swelled into this part of southern gaza. casualties and lack of supplies

overwhelmed this kuwait hospital director. >> i feel that the rockets, the explosive bombs, are completely different from those which have been used before. >> reporter: the biden administration announced that while it is surging weapons to israel, it has simultaneously paused delivery of 3500 so-called dumb bombs, due to concern of the impact of 2,000-pound bombs in dense urban settings. >> civilians have been killed in gaza as a consequence of those bombs, and other ways in which they go after population centers. and i've made it clear that if they go into rafah, they haven't gone into rafah yet, if they go into rafah, i'm not supplying the weapons that have been used historically to deal with rafah, to deal with the cities, to deal with that problem. >> reporter: the israeli military publicly downplayed the pause, but privately, cbs was told of deep frustration. including among republicans. >> this is obscene.

it is absurd. give israel what they need to fight the war they can't afford to lose. >> reporter: it is the first such limiting action put on israel in this seven month war hamas began back in october. >> over the top. >> reporter: but president biden one israel's prime mr. benjamin netanyahu that he was considering a policy change of israel did not show more care for civilians. half of the 35,000 dead in gaza are children. while biden did osher through $26 billion in emergency aid to israel, he's under pressure from more than half of congressional democrats, who are calling for him to withhold offensive weaponry. now he is trying to signal u.s. support may not be unequivocal when it comes to how israel uses u.s. taxpayer-funded weapons. >> we just don't believe it's possible to move those people to other places inside gaza, and we have not seen a plan to take care of them if they were moved to other places. >> reporter: and the president also said tonight the u.s. may pause artillery shell deli

deliveries. meanwhile, the cia director, bill burns, met with netanyahu in israel and is now back in egypt, and it is the united states, norah, that is leading these diplomatic efforts to release hostages and pause the fighting. >> norah: no doubt they are working very hard on this. margaret brennan, thank you. tonight, and other win for donald trump's legal team as they pushed to delay his trials. the start date of the georgia election interference case is now in limbo after an appeals court agreed to hear trump's argument to disqualify district attorney fani willis. trump and other defendants want her off the case, claiming her relationship with a former special prosecutor presented a conflict of interest. on tuesday, the judge in his classified documents case postpones that trial indefinitely, saying it will take months to settle disputes over evidence. meanwhile, trump so-called hush money trial, well, that resumes in new york tomorrow. now to a cbs news exclusive. a former spirit aerosystems employee who blew the whistle

over safety concerns is now breaking his silence to cbs news. the company is a major supplier for boeing and has been under intense scrutiny since january when a door panel blew off an alaska airlines plane mid-flight peered well, tonight, the whistle-blower is telling his story to our senior transportation correspondent kris van cleave. >> if quality matter, i would still be at spirit. >> reporter: for about a decade, santiago paredes worked at the end of the production line at one of boeing's largest suppliers, spirit aerosystems, doing final inspections on 737 fuselages before they would ship to boeing. how often did you find issues? >> every day. i'm finding over 100 defects every day. >> reporter: findings he says his managers pressured him to keep to a minimum, even, he says, referring to him by the nickname "showstopper" because repairs he identified delayed deliveries, which he said cost spirit money. >> they always said they didn't have time to fix mistakes. >> reporter: didn't have time because they needed to get the

planes out? >> they needed to get the planes out, yet. >> reporter: cbs news spoke with several current and former spirit employees and reviewed photos of dented fuselages and a wrench they say was left behind in a supposedly ready to deliver a component. were these defects that if they weren't fixed could be a safety issue down the line? >> some of them were because some of them were missing fasteners. >> reporter: and a fastener holds parts of the plane together? >> ? >> yeah. >> reporter: boeing converts it has long had a team that minds and fixes defects in spirit products after delivery when boeing is assembling the planes. >> it's a recipe for disaster, really. i said it was just a matter of time before something bad happened. >> reporter: in february 2022, paredes says his bosses asked him to speed up inspections, being less specific about where he was finding issues. he emailed his managers, writing the request was unethical. what happened to you? >> they took my teammate away. they stripped me from my -- my leadership position. >> reporter: after filing an ethics complaint with hr and contacting the company's ceo,

paredes eventually was reinstated but says he had enough, resigning that summer. >> it takes a toll on you, and i was tired of fighting. >> reporter: until today, paredes, an air force veteran who spent 12 years at spirits which are, was known as former employee won in a lawsuit brought in december by spirit shareholders, alleging widespread quality failures. quality failures paredes says boeing was well aware of. >> for many years, they knew they were getting defective fuselages. >> reporter: he says he freak only found issues in your door panels similar to the one that blew out a 737 max mid-flight in january. the ongoing ntsb investigation indicates that door panel was removed during final assembly to allow spirit contractors to make defect repairs. it appears the bolt holding the panel were not reinstalled. >> working at spirit, i almost grew a fear of flying. there's about two or three units that is in the back of your mind that you know that you would never want to fly.

>> reporter: you think there are planes out there that you wouldn't want to fly on? >> knowing what i know about the 737? it makes me very uncomfortable when i fly on one of them. >> reporter: spirit declined our request for an interview, but in a statement says the claims against the company in that shareholder lawsuits are unfounded and it remains committed to addressing concerns and continuously improving workplace safety standards. norah? >> norah: so, kris, seems like one of the obvious questions as% what is boeing doing about this? >> reporter: well, since march, boeing has been inspecting every fuselage that comes off the line in wichita. they say that has cut defect issued by about 80%. boeing maintains the 737 is safe. >> norah: kris van cleave, thank you very much. there's breaking news tonight from here in washington. the democrats joined republicans in an overwhelming vote to defeat a motion to remove house speaker mike johnson from his leadership position. >> to be vacant -- [boos] >> norah: you can hear it. republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene was met with boos after she filed that

motion to vacate the chair. greene wanted to remove speaker johnson after he helped pass several bipartisan bills, including a foreign aid package with funds for ukraine. major cities across the u.s. have been battling an expensive problem for the last several years. organized retail theft. in 2022 alone, the losses added up to more than $100 billion. well, now, new york city is cracking down on these operations that buy stolen goods in bulk and then resell it for a huge profit. here is cbs's lilia luciano. >> reporter: we've all seen the videos: flash mobs and smash and grabs targeting popular chain stores. now police say some of those thefts could be fueling the organized retail crime. >> they were doing this to make money. >> reporter: manhattan district attorney alvin bragg announced recovering a million dollars in stolen goods headed for resale. >> we found hundreds of boxes of stolen items, ranging from designer purses, electronic

devices, over-the-counter medications. >> reporter: it's called fencing. >> the people behind fencing operations often use individual shoplifters to steal goods from your local duane reade, your bodega, your convenience store. from there, the goods are brought to the fencers, who boost their bottom line by reselling them. >> reporter: a similar operation shutdown in los angeles. police found hundreds of thousands of dollars in stolen items believed to be from target, cbs, and walmart. los angeles, san francisco, oakland, houston, and new york are the most impacted by organized retail crime. recently, norah spoke with the ceo of cvs health, karen lynch, about the problem. >> norah: i remember back in the day, the really expensive stuff would be under lock and key. i get that. but now it is like shampoo and toothpaste. why? >> because they are coming in and they are just ripping through, like, the entire counter. and so, we are trying to keep

things safe. >> reporter: the new york d.a. said today that more than $200,000 from that million dollar bust were goods that were stolen from macy's alone. and experts say that this type of crime doesn't only impact what consumers could end up paying, but also jobs, because many of these retailers and up shutting down stories. norah? >> norah: it is a big problem. lilia luciano, thank you so much. dramatic moments as a fedex plane skids down a runway. look at this, sparks flying. we've got the details next. ♪ ♪ and who are anti-achr antibody positive, season to season, ultomiris is continuous symptom control, with improvement in activities of daily living. it is reduced muscle weakness. and ultomiris is the only long-acting gmg treatment with the freedom of just 6 to 7 infusions per year, for a predictable routine i can count on. ultomiris can lower your immune system's ability to fight infections, increasing your chance of serious meningococcal infections,

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>> norah: the former translator for baseball superstar shohei ohtani has agreed to plead guilty to illegally transferring $17 million out of ohtani's account. the justice department says he will plead guilty to bank fraud and an additional tax charge. investigators say that in 2021, ohtani's translator started placing what turned out to be thousands of sports bets without ohtani's knowledge. the 26-year-old man accused of murdering george a nursing student laken riley has been indicted by a grand jury on ten new charges, including kidnapping and being a peeping tom. the suspect, a migrant from venezuela, is charged with killing the 22-year-old while she was jogging on the university of georgia campus in february. a fedex cargo plane skidded to a stop today while making a fiery emergency landing in istanbul, turkey. turkish officials say the front landing gear wasn't working on

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blood donations are crucial, not just for hudson. >> some people think so but the else will do it and they don't need to, but i want people to understand that if anyone thought that way, that nobody would donate blood, and people like hudson here wouldn't -- wouldn't be here today. so it's definitely very important. >> whoever donates blood, you are awesome. >> norah: lisa and hudson her loss. they are tonight's "heart of america." and a reminder i need to donate blood. that's tonight's "c >> he was demanding that i pay him, like, right away. >> announcer: a generous friend tries to cut his losses. >> judge judy: now he says, "i want my money." >> because he got mad that i would not go out of town with him. >> judge judy: then you don't be stupid and take money from them. >> announcer: then, a gruesome way to slash her debt. >> some people do pepper spray. i took a weapon. >> judge judy: how did he get cut with the scissors? >> he didn't get cut. he got scratched. they're dull scissors. >> judge judy: something wrong with you. >> announcer: "judge judy."

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