here at 7:00. see you soon. >> garrett: tonight the public sees extensive video of five memphis police officers in the brutal beating of tyre nichols who died days later. breaking news, video just released, the police chief says it shows a disregard for life, as you hear the 29-year-old victim's agonizing calls for his mother. cbs's elise preston's interview with the nichols family as they call for change. i will never see my son again, i'll never see that smile again. >> garrett: memphis and the country reacts. nation wade braces for protests nichols family pleas for peace. also the attack on paul pelosi, how the suspect entered the house and the moment the police showed up. >> drop the hammer.

>> garrett: reaction tonight from the former speaker of the house. gripping testimony in the murder trial of alex murdaugh, new at details about the night his wife and son were killed. the deadly shooting outside an israeli synagogue on this holocaust remembrance day. massive pileup as the threat of winter weather blankets the country. and the story we all need tonight, "on the road," with the enduring love not even alzheimer's could break. >> garrett: good evening to our viewers in the west. thank you for joining us. i'm major garrett in for norah. disturbing and horrifying video of the memphis police beating of tyre nichols was just made public. the city waited till this evening to release four different videos until schools were out and people were home there work.

all this comes as five officers have been charged with second degree murder and kidnapping in the death of the 29-year-old father, fed ex worker and avid photographer. the incident is being compared to the vicious beating of rodney king by los angeles police in 1991. demonstrations are already underway in memphis and cities across the country, as security is tight with police departments on alert. president biden spoke with tyre nichols' mother this afternoon to express his condolences. tonight, he told reporters he is concerned about the potential for violence. we have team coverage tonight from memphis starting with cbs's elise preston. elise, good evening. >> reporter: good evening to you, major. the beating has been described as heinous and inhumane. the family says he was terrorized in the assault. we have to warn you, some of

these images are very disturbing. for the first time we are seeing the violent arrest of tyre nichols, what began as a traffic stop. quickly turned violent as captured on multiple videos released by the city of memphis. officers are seen pulling nichols out of the car as they deployed a taser and pepper spray during a struggle. nichols runs from officers. police took him down again. just 80 yards from his mother's house. then for roughly three minute, officers are seeing repeatedly punching and kicking nichols when he was handcuffed. during the assault, nichols called out for his mother repeatedly. >> mom! mom! >> reporter: as nichols laid open the ground blood idea and bruised, several minutes go by without any of the officers administering first aid alon with at least two paramedics.

nichols died in the hospital three days later. they need to see it. everyone needs to see what the memphis police department did to my son. >> reporter: his mother said she couldn't bear to watch the video. she said every night her son drove home for his male break from his job at fed ex where he worked the past main months. the 29-year-old had been living with his parents since the pandemic. her name tattooed on his left shoulder. >> my son loved me to death and i loved him to death. we just had a special bond. he was -- he was the baby, you know. >> reporter: the five memphis police officers charged are all out of jail on bond, facing charges including second degree murder, aggravated assault and aggravated kidnapping. >> justice for tyre nichols! justice for tyre nichols! >> reporter: nichols' famil says they are satisfied with the charges and they are pleading

for peaceful protests. what do you love most about your son? is that even a fair question? eth not a fair question because everything about my son, i loved, but what i loved the most was the way he affected people and the way he touched people. >> reporter: with the quick firing of officers, memphis has set a blueprint for the country. his legal team is calling for a law in tyre nichols' name where officers would have to intervene where other officers are committing a crime. a funeral is set for tyre nichols next week, major. >> garrett: elise, thank you. with protests and demonstrations starting in cities across the country, police departments are on high alert. jeff pegues spoke with the memphis police chief who call the officers' actions inhumane. >> reporter: in the video the officer showed no mercy repeatedly beating and tasing nichols.

cbs news lender that investigators are still searching for more potential evidence from surveillance cameras in an effort to determine with more certainty what sparked the confrontation with police that led to tyre nichols' death. the f.b.i. is involved in the investigation. >> what happened in memphis is obviously tragic. i have seen the video myself and i was appalled. >> reporter: memphis police chief c.j. davis said she could only stomach watching the video once and says she still doesn't understand why the officers went so far. >> it's very puzzling for me that i don't have the information that i need to at least understand what started this. this started there the moment they got out of their cars, an that piece, i've never seen before. >> reporter: across the country, law enforcement has been replacing -- bracing for the possibility that demonstrations turn violent,

beefing up security in severa major cities. officials expect the public to have a range of emotions just as they did in 1991 when the rodney king video surfaced. you know, the similar at this for me was rodney king, and i was an officer back during that time, too. that came to mind for me, on this video. to me, there was a level of group-think, you know, that there was no one that, you know, isolated themselves or stepped out to say, "stop, we got him" or whatever the case is. "that's enough." >> reporter: and one portion of the video, you can hear the officers try to explain why they pulled nichols over. one of the officers is heard on camera saying that he swerved into oncoming traffic, but, right now, investigators are looking into this incident tell us that they have seen no

evidence, thus far, as to why nichols was stopped in the first place. major. >> garrett: jeff pegues, thank you. in california, we're also getting our first look at the surveillance and police body camera video from the night of last year's attack on paul pelosi, the husband of former speaker nancy pelosi. a san francisco superior court judge ordered the release after a coalition of news agencies, including cbs news, argued that it should be made public. here's cbs' carter evans. >> reporter: police body cameras captured the attack in progress. >> what's going on, man? >> reporter: paul pelosi and david depape, both holding on to a hammer. >> drop the hammer. >> nope. hey, hey, hey -- what's going on. oa, whoa! >> reporter: we froze the video after depape swung the hammer. the impact to pelosi's head occurs out of view. >> i got him! i got him! >> reporter: officers tackle depape while pelosi is unconscious and bleeding. >> what is your name, sir? >> paul pelosi.

>> reporter: they arrived just minutes after pelosi called 911 reporting a man in his bedroom, last october. >> there's a gentleman here, just waiting for my wife to come back. >> reporter: pelosi was calm on the call, as depape was listening in. >> he says he's a friend, but-- >> but you don't know who he is? >> no. no, ma'am. >> reporter: home security video shows a man matching depape's description using a hammer to smash his way in. in custody, he admitted to the break-in. >> how did you get in? like, did you break it? >> it was not easy. that is, like, special glass. >> reporter: he told investigators, his goal was to find then house speaker nancy pelosi, take her hostage, and interrogate her. >> if she told the truth, i was going to let her go, scott-free. >> right. >> if she (bleep) lied, i was going to break her kneecaps. >> reporter: paul pelosi underwent surgery for severe head wounds... (applause) appearing with his wife last month at the kennedy center honors, and a portrait unveiling for his wife. at the u.s. capital today nancy pelosi said her husband is still recovering. >> i have not seen the break-in

i have not heard the 911 cal i have not heard the confession, i have not seen the break-in and i have no intention of seeing the deadly assault on my husband's life. >> reporter: david depape pleaded not guilty to multiple charges, including attempted murder. he remains in custody without bail. his defense attorneys called it a "terrible mistake" to release the video. they're concerned it could impact depape's "ability to get a fair trial." major? >> garrett: carter evans, thank you. today, former vice president mike pence made his first public comments on the classified documents found at his home in indiana earlier this month. he says they were inadvertently shipped to his home in the last days of the trump administration. >> those classified documents should not have been at my personal residence. mistakes were made. and i take full responsibility. >> garrett: the discovery came

after pence denied having classified material in his possession while criticizing the -- president biden for the classified items found at his home and office. pence is now pledging to cooperate with any investigation into his handling of classified material. there was more gripping testimony today in the double-murder trial of alex murdaugh, the disgraced south carolina attorney accused of murdering his wife and youngest son. we warn you, some of the testimony is disturbing. cbs' nikki battiste is at the courthouse. >> reporter: alex murdaugh became emotional in court today, as jurors heard him describe his dead son to investigators the night of the murders. >> that's my boy over there. i can see-- i can see his brain. >> reporter: an investigator testified that murdaugh told her he had tried to find his son's and wife's pulses at the gruesome scene. >> i tried to turn paul over first.

>> reporter: yet she said he did not see a speck of blood on him. >> did you see blood on his hands. >> no. on his arm. >> no. on his shirt. no, on his no. shorts. no. how were they >> he was clean. >> it didn't look like he had just blown his son's brains off, with blood all over the feed room? >> i didn't say that. >> reporter: yesterday, the first officer to arrive on the scene testified that when he approached murdaugh, he immediately suggested a possible motive for the killer. >> my son was in a boat wreck. he's been getting threats. i know that's what it is. >> reporter: paul murdaugh was facing felony charges after investigators said he was drunk-driving a boat that crashed, killing 19-year-old mallory beach in 2019. the defense says there is no evidence, and no motive. murdaugh pleaded not guilty. if convicted, he faces up to life in prison. nikki battiste, cbs news, walterboro, south carolina.

>> garrett: in israel, seven killed and three injured outside a synagogue when a palestinian gunman opened hire. hamas did not claim responsibility but said the shooting was in retaliation for an israeli army raid thursday in the west bank that killed nine palestinians. the gunman in today's attack was shot and killed by police. turning the war in ukraine, this was intense fighting in the east as russia tries to advance in the kree region of donetsk. ukraine is hoping to turn the tide at least eventually with dozen advanced battle tanks pledged to ukraine this week by the u.s. and allies. debora patta reports about the gratitude of one ukrainian military officer. >> reporter: u.s.-supplied himars raining artillery down on russian positions deep behind enemy lines. commanded by ukrainian captain pavlo chernyavsky, whom we met near the eastern frontlines. last month, chernyavsky and his

men were honored by president zelenksy for bravery on the battlefield. but, to zelensky's surprise, chernyavsky handed his medal straight back, asking him to give it to president biden instead. "i wanted to thank him and the u.s.," he said. "himars have played a huge role in this war." the very next day, on his first trip to washington since the war began, zelenksy carried out his orders. >> well, undeserved, but much appreciated. thank you. >> thank you! (rockets) >> reporter: on the frontline... (launch boom) ...the nimble and highly-accurate u.s. himars have proved invaluable. and if you hadn't received himars? "the frontline would be very different," he told us. president biden had a gift of his own for the captain: a command coin from the battlefields of iraq, where his late son beau had fought. "i don't have the words to

describe how i feel," chernyavsky said. but far more important than any number of medals and coins? "weapons and rockets, of course," he said, "that way, the war would be over quicker." a plea from all the president's men. debora patta, cbs news, kramatorsk. eastern ukraine. >> garrett: dozens of vehicles collided on a snowy interstate today in the midwest. the details straight ahead.

>> garrett: certainly multi-vehicle crashes were reported today on a snowy interstate in wisconsin, one pileup near the illinois state line involving dozens of vehicles sent more than 25 people to the hospitals. more wintry weather to come with frigid temperatures and heavy snow expected this weekend from the northern rockies to the central plains, then it heads to the northeast next week. millions of americans remember billy packer as one of the beloved voices of march madness. we'll look back on his remarkable career at cbs sports next. stlfnlt

>> garrett: tonight, our colleagues at cbs sports are mourning the death of college basketball broadcasting legend billy packer. >> simon says championship! >> garrett: packer spent 34 years on "final four" broadcast teams, 27 of them at cbs. packer was a star player at wake forest, and went on to become an emmy award-winning

college hoops analyst, beloved for his iconic calls and outspoken passion for the game. billy packer was 82. "on the road" is next, with a story of an unbreakable love-- you will most definitely want to see. sphwhrfnl

>> garrett: finally tonight, cbs's steve hartman goes "on the road" to revisit a touching story of true love that blossomed through sickness, and in health. >> oh, my for, let's feigned the picture -- >> reporter: peter and lisa marshall of andover, connecticut are paging through the most memorable day of their lives. >> it was unforgettable. >> reporter: but, he's forgotten it. >> he has forgotten it. it's the saddest part, because you want to reminisce and you're alone in the memory. >> reporter: as we first reported a couple years ago, peter was diagnosed with early-onset alzheimer's. eventually, he not only forgot his wedding day, he forgot his wife. lisa became just another nameless caretaker. and yet, a whisper of their love must have remained... because lisa says all of a sudden, he began courting her!

as if they'd just started dating. until one day, a wedding scene came on tv. peter pointed to the screen and said, "let's do it." >> and i said, "do what?" and he pointed again. and i said, "do you want to get married?!" and he got this grin on his face, and he said, "yeah." so, he fell in love with me again. (wedding music) "unforgettable" lisa accepted his proposal, and staged a wedding for her already-husband. >> i can't even describe to you how magical it was. he was so present, and it was very touching. >> peter, you may kiss the bride. >> reporter: lisa says peter hadn't been this lucid in weeks. it was a cinderella moment. the clock struck 12, and by the next morning, this wedding, too, was lost to the fog. but, lisa says, she fully expected that. >> i'm the one who's going to remember that.

and that's going to help me heal later. >> reporter: unfortunately, later came. peter died about a year ago. lisa is now advocating for other alzheimer's patients and their families. she has also written a book called, "oh, hello alzheimer's." >> i wanted people to understand the devastation of the disease, but, mostly, i want people to continue to find joy and really focus on being present with their loved ones. >> reporter: do that, and she says, alzheimer's will never defeat you. it'll just make your love all the more invincible. steve hartman, "on the road," in andover, connecticut. >> garrett: one lesson -- listen for that whisper. that's tonight's "cbs evening news." for norah o'donnell, i'm major garrett. good night.

ca ptioning spons denied on cbs news bay ar a vigil for the seven members killed the shooting. >> we have lost our neighbors. we have lost part of our hearts. tensionssing across the nature after authorities in memphis released gutwrenching video in the dead beating of tyre nichols by police. >> what's going on, man? >> newly released video , the 911 call by paul pelosi. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich.

>> we begin and half moon bay where the community came together to process and heal. a vigil is underway right now. >> reporter: the vigil is just aboto wrap up. they are playing the closing song right now. you can see how many people are still out here. this vigil started just after 5:00 tonight. it is going on two hours. there are still a lot of people out here. tonight's vigil is focused on remembering the victims of the 3 mass shooting that happened here earlier this week. we heard from all sorts of people, including family of the victims. we heard from several leaders and interfaith leaders . earlier in the night, we heafrom the vice mayor. we as a cousin of two people that were shot. >> he was a very likable person. friendly