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on our streaming service, cbs news bay area all see you at 5:00. >> james: hundreds of protesters arrested at american universities in the last 24 hours. >> this is the new york city police department. >> james: crackdowns on college campuses as the new york mayor blames the chaos. speak outside agitators were training and really co-opting this movement. >> james: plaza violent clashes between dueling protests at ucla. the "cbs evening news" starts now. ♪ ♪
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good evening. i'm james brown in for norah, and we begin tonight with the most intense crackdown yet on the pro-palestinian protests on college campuses in the u.s. nypd video released today shows officers in riot gear moving into arrest people who are barricaded inside a building at columbia university. new york city mayor eric adams is blaming people not affiliated with the ivy league for the mayhem. in manhattan tonight, police are arresting protesters at fordham university's lincoln center campus. students set up an encampment calling on the school to disclose and divest their investments relating to israel. at ucla this afternoon, a more peaceful scene than the brawls that took place overnight between protesters and counterprotesters. a spokesperson for california governor gavin newsom calling the campus police response to the violence delayed, limited, and unacceptable. we have a team of correspondents
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covering the protests coast-to-coast, beginning with cbs's lilia luciano in new york. >> reporter: today, the university of wisconsin in madison became the latest hot spot in clashes between pro-palestinian demonstrators and police. >> backup! >> reporter: more than two dozen were arrested. >> we notified them that we would begin moving tense and camping equipment, and the rest happened in protesters turned violent. >> shame on you! >> reporter: the tipping point of columbia university came around 9:00 p.m. with a massive show of force come of hundreds of nypd officers. the police moved in after university administrators requested help. video released by the nypd shows officers inside the building, clearing barricades on multiple floors, piles of chairs were stacked up to block their path. officers were seen using a sledgehammer or a power sought to open locked doors. the tent encampment that has been at the epicenter and symbol
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of campus protests for two weeks was cleared. more than 300 people were arrested between columbia university and city college last night. their faculty members denounced the crackdown. speak i'm just devastated that this is happening to every single campus in this country. we are letting the military in, we are letting the police in. these are just students. >> reporter: today new york city mayor eric adams praised the university for making what he called the right call to end the protests, which he said was co-opted by professional agitators. >> there was a movement to radicalize young people, and i'm not going to wait until it's done. >> reporter: the department claims the video it released shows one of those activists directing students to use a table to block the doors at hamilton hall. what's your response to when people say, they are there, or they are escalating the protests, because of outsiders? >> they use that to try to justify the violence that the police unleashed on us. this was organized by students.
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>> reporter: carter evans is at ucla. >> reporter: a violent clash at the heart of ucla's campus as pro-israel protesters attack pro-palestinian demonstrators who had set up encampment spirit of the attackers used chemical spray and set off fireworks. the confrontation raised for nearly two hours as police stood by before finally moving in. >> we were literally assaulted. the university knew about it. >> reporter: police pushed out counterprotesters but did not enter the encampment. which for now is still intact. all classes today canceled. >> reporter: back here at columbia, only the footprints remained of the tent encampment that was the epicenter and symbol of campus protests for the last two weeks. there was another smaller protest outside here involving students and faculty members. they were denouncing the involvement of nypd, and more are expected uptown in the coming hours. meanwhile, the university's price know my vice president called occupation of hamilton hall acts of destruction, not political speech.
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j.b.? >> james: lilia, thank you so much. we turned out to the terrifying scene at a middle school outside madison, wisconsin. a witness or reporting the sound of gunshots as children ran for safety. an apparent school shooting threat now over. cbs's charlie de mar is there. >> reporter: panic at mount horeb middle school. >> shots fired. >> reporter: shortly after 11:00 a.m., school officials posting on social media and active shooter appeared on the school's campus. the county's emergency management saying the suspect had a rifle. but that suspect never made it into the building. the district later posting the alleged assailant had been "neutralized." that post has since been deleted. the suspect has yet to be identified. no students or staffers were physically harmed. it was also frightening for parents left with little information and the entire campus on lockdown. >> my biggest fear kind of felt like it was unfolding. >> reporter: kristen malone waited frantically as law enforcement searched for possible additional suspects.
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malone's 11-year-old daughter called her on the phone to tell her she loved her. >> i was able to talk to my daughter just a couple minutes ago, but we still want to be able to touch them and hug them, and i know they are pretty scared. my daughter first called me before they were even released from the school, and it was just screaming at chaos in the background. >> reporter: and hours after this terrifying incident, as you can see, there is still a large police presence here. and for much of the day, school officials have been working to reunite these students with their families. j.b.? >> james: charlie, thank you. tonight, the central u.s. is bracing for another wave of severe storms, with the threat of tornadoes, powerful wind gusts, large hail, and flash floods. this comes on theheels of a tornado that killed one person and injured three others in a small town of westmoreland, kansas, on tuesday. nearly two dozen homes were destroyed. let's get the forecast from meteorologist chris warren, with our partners at the weather channel be a good evening, chris. >> good evening, j.b. we are tracking multiple threats
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across the southern plains of this evening in terms of severe weather. that does include a tornado threat. torcon of 3 out of 10, if there is a threat for tornadoes. also another thread very large hail, could see a golf size haid areas with baseball-size hail. and then the rain, which ultimately by morning could end up being one of the bigger threats. heavy rain developing here across texas and oklahoma. will lead to rivers continuing to rise, some already in flood stage, but it is that flood threat, j.b., that is not just possible, the flash flood threat, but likely for some areas to be waking up in the morning here in texas with flash flooding ongoing. >> james: wow beard what a challenge. thank you so very much. now to two may majored of elements today on the fight over abortion rights in america. a six-week ban on the procedure just went into effect in florida today.
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and in arizona, the legislature voted to repeal a civil war-era ban on nearly all abortions. we have two reports come starting with cbs's caitlin huey-burns. >> the consequences are profound. >> reporter: hours before florida's six-week abortion ban took effect, jacksonville dr. shelly tien rushed to see as many patients as she could. >> six weeks is very, very early in pregnancy. it's two weeks past a mist. back. most women and girls don't even realize they are pregnant. >> reporter: florida had been a refuge for seeking abortions on the south. now joining 12 other states in the region with total or near-total bands. starting today the closest options for the procedure or north carolina or virginia. >> it's a victory for babies. it's a victory for women. >> reporter: state republican house member dean black voted for the six-week ban, which includes exceptions for,, fatal fetal abnormalities and the life
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of the mother. >> we think we have a good law, a compassionate law, a moral l law, that can serve as a guide for other states. >> reporter: today, vice president kamala harris campaigned in jacksonville, where she blamed former president trump for the new law. >> as of this morning, 4 million women in this state woke up with fewer reproductive freedoms than they had last night. >> reporter: trump, a florida resident, has criticized his state six-week ban, but he said this today while campaigning in wisconsin. >> it's up to the state. they'll ask your question about it, i say it is up to the state. >> you have passed house bill 2677. >> reporter: arizona decided whether to keep the states near-total abortion ban. cbs's janet shamlian was on the floor during the vote. >> here in arizona at the capital, lawmakers today rose one by one to defend their vote whether to keep or repeal the
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state's civil war-era abortion ban. if passed, the state's democratic governor says she will sign it. >> it's been a pretty bad day in my mind. >> reporter: two republican senators voted with democrats to ensure its passage, frustrating fellow republicans. >> they and i disagree. >> reporter: outside in the heat, tempers flared. antiabortion activists gathered showing their disapproval. >> devastation periods lives that god has created. >> reporter: it is now likely arizona will be under a near-total abortion ban for months this summer, until the lord returns to a 15-week ban. back here in florida, already started turning away patients. and in november, voters in florida and arizona will decide whether to enshrine abortion rights into their state's constitution. but here in florida, that's an uphill climb. it will need 60% to pass, which was more than it was on the
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ballot and other swing or red states. j.b.? >> james: thank you, caitlin. secretary of state antony blinken was back in israel today for the seventh time since the war with hamas began last october. blinken is pushing hard for a stop to the fighting, but cbs's ramy inocencio reports from tel aviv, progress on a deal seems out of reach. >> reporter: handshakes and smiles aside, in the quest for a cease-fire with hamas, secretary of state antony blinken shot down israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu's plan for a final gaza invasion. >> we cannot, will not support a major military operation in rafah, absent an effective plan to make sure that civilians are not harmed. >> reporter: but a netanyahu advisor confirms to cbs news the prime minister is not backing down from his plan to attack rafah. a more receptive welcome came
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from families of hostages pleading for a cease-fire to get all hostages home. >> i feel like i'm broken up into pieces. >> reporter: for aviva siegel, her american husband, keith, is one of them. this proof of life video released just days ago. >> and i know that keith has had enough. our family has had enough peer of our country had enough. >> reporter: aviva herself was a hostage release after 51 days. she come her daughter coming daughters of other my families of other hostages had a face-to-face meeting. what was the feeling? >> really grateful for what the united states has been doing since october 7th october 7th. >> reporter: another sticking point to a cease-fire, aid to gaza. the u.n. warns of impending famine. blinken called for more. >> needs to be sustained. >> reporter: for the first time aid started flowing through a reopened border crossing destroyed on october 7th.
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rallied to think students for their protest and solidarity. and antony blinken left the region a few hours ago back to washington. israel hasn't confirmed it will send a delegation to any cease-fire talks. hamas still hasn't replied to israel's proposal. j.b.? >> james: thank you, ramy. stubborn inflation continues to be a top concern for the federal reserve. today the central bank kept interest rates right where they are at their highest level in more than two decades. hoping to stabilize prices. chair jerome powell did signal it's unlikely the fed will raise interest rates and the dow closed higher on the news. there was a remarkable scene on capitol hill today. the ceo of the nation's largest private health insurer apologized for a cyber attack this winter that crippled a large portion of the u.s. health care system. cbs's nicole sganga was at the congressional hearing. >> if you all can't figure this out. >> reporter: outrage today on
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capitol hill. >> a company on your watch let the country down. >> reporter: the target, united health ceo andrew witty, whose company owns change healthcare, the subject of a stunning cyber attack that paralyzed insurance payments to hospitals, pharmacies, and medical practices. >> i will not rest until we fix this. >> reporter: aviva today issued this apology. >> i'm deeply, deeply sorry. >> reporter: and reveal the comely paid a 22 million-dollar ransom to russian length cyber criminals who broke into change healthcare on february 12th using stolen credentials, breaching a server not equipped with multifactor authentication compromising sensitive health care data. >> ten weeks is way too long for millions of americans to not know that their records may be available to criminals on the dark lab. >> reporter: united health says payment systems are mostly up and running, and they have issued $6.5 billion in assistance loans. but physicians like
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dr. christine meyer of exton, pennsylvania, who first spoke with cbs news in march, say it's not enough. >> let me first off apologized to dr. meyer. >> reporter: her practice now forced to divert patient resources to the billing department, drowning under a backlog of claims. >> there are losses that we will never recover. >> reporter: you think united should seriously consider forgiving some of these loans? >> absolutely. i thinks that that's the least they could do. they're going to get all the dollars back and we are not? why is that okay? >> reporter: the united health ceo says it's too soon to estimate how many had their data stolen, but call that a substantial proportion of patience, including veterans and members of the u.s. armed forces. and j.b., the company has vowed to provide free credit monitoring to anyone impacted. to be one more to come. thank you, nicole. an unruly air passenger is hit with a big fine for disrupting a
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>> james: with the weather warming up and a school year that is winding down, many parents are looking for ways to keep their kids occupied this summer. and some are finding that camps costs are soaring adoptions are dwindling. tonight, cbs's nancy chen have tips for parents. >> reporter: when you hear, summer is up, you think... >> buckle up. >> reporter: for jamie aderski, the countdown to summer is far different than for her kids, ages four and eight. >> >> reporter: how much his
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camp? oh, that's $5,000. $5,000? >> reporter: aderski says even costs for her neighborhood rec center have become too pricey. spots snatched up as early as january. >> i heard of people saying i afford camp.ecause i couldn't- it's just impossible to maintain and to be able to afford everything else we need to provide. >> reporter: why is it so competitive to get into day camp? >> every parent realizes now how important it is that kids have a summer learning program. >> reporter: tom rosenberg heads the american camp association. how much have costs going up for camp? >> many industries are impacted by inflation and camp is no exception. >> reporter: rosenberg says if needed parents should ask about financial aid, which many camps provide a model of payment plans. there is also the child and dependent care tax credit, which could offset up to $3,000 of summer camp costs per child. this year, aderski says she is
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♪ ♪ >> james: finally, tonight's "heart of america" sure has people buzzing. a major league baseball game was delayed when a colony of bees was discovered right behind home plate. the diamondbacks, dodgers, and the fans had no choice but to wait for nearly two hours with the announcer asking them to be patient. enter matt hilton, a professional beekeeper. he sprayed the bees, then vacuum them up and got a standing ovation. turns out, hilton was at his son's t-ball game when he got the call for help. >> i thought i was here to just take care of a bee problem, and yeah, we are pretty hyped up.
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>> james: afterwards, matt got to throw out the first pitch, a high honor, indeed. and topps is giving him his own baseball card. can you bee-lieve it? matt hilton, tonight's >> announcer: caught in the middle between his former boss... >> judge judy: you're a married man that has two children. >> announcer: ...and his roommate's girlfriend. >> i just started seeing random times that they were together. >> announcer: now, she calls him a homewrecker. >> i was getting all his texts, making me question my relationship. >> judge judy: are you the author of these texts? >> no, your honor. >> judge judy: i could suppose it was you. a boyfriend left and then came back, and you got angry. >> announcer: "judge judy." you are about to enter the courtroom of you are about to enter the courtroom of judge judith sheindlin. captions paid for by cbs television distribution brian kalenberg is suing his former friend, meghan rettke, for attorney fees, lost wages and a restraining order.
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>> byrd: order! all rise! this is case number 427 on the calendar in the matter of kalenberg vs. rettke. >> judge judy: thank you. >> byrd: you're welcome, judge. parties have been sworn in. you may be seated. folks, have a seat. >> judge judy: mr. kalenberg, you are suing the defendant for filing a false restraining order against you that necessitated you retaining an attorney.... >> that is correct, your honor. >> judge judy: ...and the stress that usually goes along with defending a restraining order. the defendant says that you had been harassing her over a course of time. she is prepared to tell me why she sought a restraining order and why she chose not to pursue it because you didn't appear once the temporary restraining order was granted. is that correct? >> correct. >> judge judy: okay, so first, why don't you tell me, mr. kalenberg, how the two of you know each other? >> she is dating one of my best friends, who also, at the time, used to live with me. >> judge judy: so that i get it straight, she is currently dating a friend of yours. >> i no longer have contact with them.>>

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