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Good evening, I'm Maurice Dubois. I'm John Dickerson. We're starting with the weather tonight because a powerful storm is moving eastward across the country. The National Weather Service is warning of just about every kind of danger. Tornadoes, hail, thunderstorms, and hurricane force winds. A blinding dust storm caused multi-car pileups today in Texas. At least three people were killed.

The Weather Service puts the risk level for severe weather tonight at four out of five. That could grow to five out of five by tomorrow. And that is why Lonnie Quinn is joining us earlier than usual this evening. You betcha, guys. This is a huge storm. When you look at the map, here we have behind me, the wind warnings and advisories stretch from the Canadian border all the way down through Mexico, right through the midsection of the country, 1,200 miles wide, 1,200 miles long.

The toughest weather as of right now. So we've seen it in Texas with the big winds, but not a drop of rain in that area. And the fires have proven to be a big problem because it is so dry and the winds are 70, 80 miles per hour. But you get to Missouri, Springfield over towards St. Louis, a tornado watch currently in effect. There's another tornado watch south of that around Louisiana pushing into Mississippi. You're looking at four out of five warnings, according to National Weather Service. Tomorrow, this line will be a five out of five.

I'll be back a little bit later in this newscast to tell you what that means. But right now, gentlemen, John, it's all yours. Lonnie, thank you. Thanks, Lonnie.

Now, a different kind of danger in the skies. Chris Van Cleave tells us the FAA today restricted most helicopters permanently from the area around Washington's Reagan National Airport. This is in response to January's deadly midair collision of an Army helicopter and an American Airlines passenger plane that was landing at Reagan. Chris is also following the investigation of a frightening incident aboard another American Airlines plane diverted yesterday to Denver. I'm not

The fire that ignited after American Airlines Flight 1006 pulled into the gate at Denver's airport, sending flyers rushing to escape the flames, was not the first issue for the 13-year-old 737 Thursday. Within minutes of taking off from Colorado Springs en route to Dallas with 178 on board, pilots reported engine problems.

We just have a high engine vibration, so we are cruising slower than normal. Passenger Helen Prager. The plane shook, and I was like, whoa, this was literally on takeoff. I'm like, something's wrong here. The pilots elected to turn around, diverting to Denver, but did not request fire crews meet the plane. Approximately six minutes after landing, as the plane pulled into the gate, the fire and chaos started. Everyone was screaming, is there fire in the door?

This was when you got to the gate? Yeah. She walked off the plane using the jet bridge. Passengers in the back used emergency exit slides. The plastic of the window was melting and bubbling and people were screaming. And those in the middle, like Magdy Abdulladi, went out the emergency exit windows onto the wing. He shot this video. You can see a man holding a baby as the smoke billows around them. What is going through your mind as this is happening? I'm sinking.

It could explode any time. I don't know. You know, I've never been in a situation like that, and you don't know what to do. The big question now, what went wrong here? Two NTSB investigators have arrived in Denver and are working to answer that very question. American Airlines is praising its crew, airport crews, and first responders for getting everyone to safety so quickly. The 12 people who suffered minor injuries are all out of the hospital tonight. Okay, Chris Van Cleave, thanks so much.

Robert Sumwalt is an expert on aviation safety and accident investigation. He's a former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board. He joins us now from Columbia, South Carolina. So, Robert, we saw this incident. We saw the one in D.C. and the one in Toronto all recent weeks with the same question on everybody's mind. Is it safe to fly? What do you say?

Well, Maurice, it's certainly understandable that people are a little jittery about flying right now. But let me remind you that the same aviation system that we had before, the same airline system that was very safe six months ago, we have that same safe system now. And when I talk about a safe system, I'm talking about airplanes that are well manufactured, well maintained, flight crews that are well-manufactured.

trained very well, flight attendants that are trained well. It all comes together to give us a very robust, safe system. Robert, in this incident, you had passengers leaving a plane that was in trouble. You had the same situation in Toronto. What do you notice from those evacuations and what should people know?

Well, the main thing is, is people are getting off safely. And I travel all the time on who you do too, John, Maurice. I always pick up that emergency passengers briefing card and I read that and I pay attention to the flight attendant briefings. And also one thing you won't hear, but anywhere else here, but on CBS News.

Wear your shoes during takeoff and landing. If you need to get off of an airplane, you're going to want to have your shoes on. Excellent advice and insight, Robert Sumwalt. Thank you so much. Now, some of the top stories from around the world in tonight's Evening News Roundup. Lawyers for Mahmoud Khalil released video of his arrest last weekend at the New York apartment he shares with his pregnant wife. The

The former Columbia grad student is facing deportation for his role in campus protests against the war in Gaza. His lawyers say he was arrested by federal agents who said they were acting on a State Department order to revoke his green card. We learned today that another Columbia University protester has been arrested as well, and that a third has chosen to leave the country. Facing a midnight deadline, the Senate late today approved a government funding bill

The prospects that a partial government shutdown would be avoided sent the major stock indexes higher. And Sunday on 60 Minutes, Bill Whitaker investigates a series of mysterious drone sightings over Langley Air Force Base in 2023. He learned that the drones prompted officials to move some F-22 stealth fighter jets from the base to prevent them from potentially being damaged.

It was quite a scene when President Trump visited the Justice Department today. It had elements of a victory lap, a pep rally, and an airing of grievances against the department that conducted criminal investigations of him and a department he now controls. Like so much of his presidency, we'd never seen anything like it, not at the Justice Department. Scott McFarland was there.

President Trump stood inside the headquarters of the U.S. Justice Department, demonstrating he's now in charge and promised a tougher era of law and order. Now as the chief law enforcement officer in our country,

I will insist upon and demand full and complete accountability for the wrongs and abuses that have occurred. Trump attacked former officials and prosecutors at the Department of Justice that he claimed carried out corrupt criminal cases against him. The Justice Department and the FBI have long prided themselves on independence from the White House.

according to President George W. Bush administration Department of Justice official Tom Dupree. He's going to exercise stronger oversight and his decision to go from the White House to the Justice Department to deliver that message in person is possibly the clearest possible way he could underscore his point.

Trump's speech comes amid a purge that's accelerating inside the department. Prosecutors who handled January 6th cases and the investigations of Trump have been fired. And longtime career civil servants were forced to retire, including the head of the FBI field office in New York, who departed amid tears and ovations from longtime colleagues. It's shocking. It's unprecedented.

- Stacey Young, an 18-year veteran who resigned in January, says her fellow civil servants and Department of Justice offices nationwide face retribution for handling cases Trump allies don't like. - These are the people who keep our community safe and our nation secure. - In that case, why are they gone now? - They're gone because they have been described

by this administration as political operatives, as members of this fictional deep state, as people who are somehow opposed to this particular president, that is absolutely not the case. And Scott McFarland joins us now. So, Scott, why is this such a big deal for a president to appear at the Justice Department? Some people might say he could speak wherever he wants.

They protect this independence, not just out of principle, Maurice, but practicality. If they're viewed as political, it becomes more difficult for a prosecutor down the street to get a jury to convict somebody of a federal crime. That is an impact that could be nationwide. And Scott, presidents have visited the building before, but they're usually pretty low-key affairs. How is today different?

This felt like a campaign rally. The same playlist he used on the campaign trail in 2024 and John and Maurice. Presidents usually cut ribbons or cut cakes. He was cutting policy ideas on that stage. Okay. Scott McFarlane in Washington tonight. Thank you. Still ahead on the CBS Evening News, Lonnie Quinn with an update on the dangerous weather making its way across the country. And we'll have these stories.

Can the spread of bird flu be slowed? I'm Dr. John LePook here in Tulare, California, where dairy farmers are trying to figure out how can we try to stop the spread of this virus? I'm Steve Hartman. This 10-year-old was bullied to the point where he didn't want to live. What did you think about? Thought he had no friends, but now he has thousands. Where'd they all come from? When we go on the road to Clanton, Alabama, coming up.

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Texas and New Mexico today reported 38 more measles cases. That brings the nationwide total this year to more than 300, which is already more than the number for all of last year. The CDC also reports that in the past year, there have been 70 cases of bird flu and one death. On the farm, it has been devastating, not only for poultry, but cows. Here's Dr. John LaPook.

Tyler Ribeiro, a fourth generation dairy farmer, woke up to a world turned upside down. I went to bed at 11 o'clock at night and by the morning, we were in the middle of it.

In just two weeks last September, bird flu ripped through the fourth generation farmer's herd of 1,500 cows. Dozens died. They were sick. The ears were down. They weren't hungry. And I was up against a force that I really didn't know how to fight. California has more than 1,100 dairy farms.

Two-thirds experienced an outbreak caused by a deadly virus that, for the first time, spread from poultry and wild birds to cows, then from cow to cow. A leading suspect is contaminated milking machines. I love these animals. Dr. Michael Payne is a veterinarian at the University of California, Davis. The spillover of avian influenza, bird flu, into cattle has never occurred before. It's a new disease.

While human infections are rare, 38 people in California, nearly all of them work with cattle, have been diagnosed with mild bird flu. But now a different strain that has caused more severe illness is circulating widely in North American wild birds and spilling over into poultry. Some scientists have said to me they are very concerned that we're getting closer and closer to that virus mutating to a point where it could spread.

spread more easily from human to human. Yeah, understandably, our public health colleagues are concerned additional mutations will occur in this version of the virus or other versions of the virus that will allow it to be easily transmitted from one person to another. Part of our added biosecurity... To prevent transmission, Ribeiro's farm in Tulare is taking precautions. Last month, we visited the farm after it had come out of quarantine. We had to dip our shoes in bleach before entering.

The last time I did something like this was during the cholera epidemic in Haiti. Workers wearing aprons and gloves spray down the equipment and the cows udders to prevent contamination. This milk is tested for anything and everything.

He showed us around his facility where cows are milked three times daily. Normally, they produce more than 17,000 gallons of milk each day. But when they were sick, output dropped more than 10%. When you look around at these healthy animals now, the quarantine's been lifted. What do you think? We made it. We made it.

And Dr. LaProop joins us now. We're glad for him that he made it, but we know there are other cases across the country. Yeah, well, today the CDC told me there are seven cases in humans in the United States, mostly mild. Sadly, one person did die, but there's no wide scale testing. So we really don't know how many people have gotten it without knowing it.

Remind me why cows are so important to this flu story? Right. Well, birds are one thing, but cows are mammals which genetically are a lot closer to humans. And in fact, it turns out that there are dozens of species of mammals that have been already infected with bird flu.

The fear is that there will be a mutation or some other genetic change that will make it easier for bird flu to be transmitted from person to person, for example, through the air like regular flu or COVID. To be clear, that has not happened yet, but that's the fear. So with all this in mind, what is being done about it, though?

Well, the U.S. Department of Agriculture is taking this very seriously and has a multi-pronged attack, including increased biosecurity and some research. What's not clear is to what extent they're in support of the development of new vaccines, including a vaccine against bird flu for cows.

Dr. John LaPook. Thanks, John. All right. Well, those severe storms are making their way across the country. And Lonnie Quinn is tracking them and is back with an update. Lonnie? What I want to do this time, I want to give you a timeline for the severe weather out there because I'm really fearful this is going to end up being a

very eventful weekend out there with a lot of storms and a lot of tornado activity. So we're going to watch that line anywhere shaded in purple from Omaha towards Jackson, Mississippi tonight. A four out of five risk for either straight line winds, 80, 90, maybe 100 miles per hour or tornadoes. So, for example, St. Louis, this is showing 10 p.m. tonight. You'd see the worst of the weather. It's a computer rendering. It could be one or two hours on either side. So give it a little bit of leeway. It then pushes off to the east, really gets energized tomorrow. Look at this area shaded in light purple.

That's a five out of five risk. We hardly ever see that. And we're talking anywhere from Jackson, Mississippi, towards Birmingham, with a lot of tornadic activity. In fact, they're suggesting this is a five out of five risk. It then pushes towards Atlanta as you push into your day on Sunday. And by the time you get to Sunday, it's up and down the I-95 corridor. But when I say a four out of five versus a five out of five, let me give you some context there. Seldom do we ever issue a five out of five warning a day ahead of time. The last time we did it, OK, was...

was April 14th in 2012, and that resulted in 85 tornadoes, unfortunately six deaths. April 7th, 2006 was the first time we did this, 56 tornadoes, 10 deaths, and all of those cards are stacked for something similar. You've got to take this one very, very seriously, guys. I think this may be a major tornadic outbreak this very weekend. Please, everybody, be careful out there and heed the warnings. Definitely going to keep an eye on that. Meantime, Lonnie, we know you want to share some personal news with us tonight.

Yeah, guys, I'm going to be leaving you for a short but extended stay, if that makes any sense, four to possibly a little bit longer. I suffered a big knock to my head and a serious one a couple of months ago. And I did go to the hospital, but then once they ruled out a brain bleed, they released me. And I had these raging headaches for a while.

Finally, when I lost vision one night in my left eye, I went back to the emergency room, had to see a neurologist, and they said, okay, hang on. The brain only heals while you sleep. We need to get some rest. It's going to be 100% cured, without a doubt, but it's just I need a good four weeks to do physical rehab and cognitive therapy, and I'll be back with everybody. Oh, man, looking forward to that. Take care of yourself, will you? Without a doubt. Please do. Get some rest, pal. Thanks a lot.

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Steve Hartman went on the road where some muscle car drivers proved that their most powerful muscle is their heart. Powerful enough to lift a kid's spirits.

Sometimes wearing rainbow colors isn't about orientation or politicization. Sometimes a rainbow is just a rainbow. Like when 10-year-old Hunter Blankenship picked out his glasses. This car-loving autistic boy wasn't making a statement. He just loved the look. Until the day he didn't. He hated them. He wanted to break them. And that's all because of that one bully.

Megan Fancher, unfortunately, is Hunter's mom. And she says a few months ago, Hunter was outside playing when an older kid teased him about his glasses, called him a homophobic slur, and then told Hunter he should just kill himself. Hunter took that literally? Literally. All of a sudden, he stormed off, and he's holding a knife. And I was like, no, what are you doing? He said, I'm going to kill myself.

Hunter spent the next two weeks on the psychiatric floor here at the Children's Hospital in Birmingham. And just before his release, his mother, desperate for some way to show Hunter that people care and life can be joyful, posted this small request. Could we arrange a few people to bring cars and trucks to let him see? So if I get four or five cars to just come down my driveway when he comes home, that would have been more than enough for him.

But that's not what you got. That is not what we got. What they got was Sergio Sanchez, a local restaurant owner here in Clanton, Alabama, who saw the post and put word out to car clubs. Cars all the way from North Alabama to South Alabama, they literally had to shut down downtown. They shut down downtown. Roughly 1,500 show cars showed up. Along with more than 1,500 friends.

that Hunter never knew he had. He was, "Oh, there's my favorite person. There's my other favorite person." We're running to everybody. And all of them big fans of rainbow-colored glasses, which Hunter now wears proudly. There you go. Thanks to that gathering of car collectors driven to make a difference. It did. It saved his life. Steve Hartman, on the road in Clanton, Alabama.

Now, a few words about and from Alan Simpson, the former Wyoming senator who died today.

He was from a bygone era, a conservative who befriended liberal Ted Kennedy, supported gay rights, and said abortion was so personal, men shouldn't even have a vote on it. -Simpson had a sharp wit. He compared a tough Senate battle to giving dry birth to a porcupine. -He said a colleague could tell you to go to hell in a way that would make you look forward to the trip. -And the difference between naked and necked -- if you're naked, he said, you have no clothes on. And if you're necked,

You have no clothes on, but you're up to something. But we leave you with this more sobering observation. Simpson said, if you have integrity, nothing else matters. If you don't have integrity, nothing else matters. Alan Simpson was 93. A voice we miss. That's the news. I'm Maurice Dubois. I'm John Dickerson. Good night. Good weekend.

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