streak going. one race that could be a tossup is best actress. the top contenders are emma stone for poor things and lily gladstone for killers of the flower moon. a win for gladstone would make her the first indigenous native american actor to win an oscar. music will be a key component of this year's show. ryan gosling will perform i'm just can -- ken. >> i love that song. it makes me laugh every time. cbs evening news is next on kpix. local news continues on our streaming service, cbs news bay area. have a great weekend and i will see you >> we had to close the runway because nobody lost a tire appeared to be one tonight, him a frightening. >> ladies and gentlemen... >> norah: scary incidents on passenger planes this week is the spring break travel rush begins. we are looking at safety in the sky. >> started trembling. you just shifted to the left. >> there was a loud boom and

then everybody was like, oh. >> norah: the "cbs evening news" starts right now. ♪ ♪ good evening. i'm norah o'donnell, and thank you for being with us. we begin tonight with a series of tense moments for a u.s. airline just as spring break travel is getting underway. with tens of millions of passengers expected to fly over the next six weeks, it's raising safety concerns for some travelers. the latest incident took place today at george bush intercontinental airport in houston, when a united flight veered off the runway after landing. the nearly 170 people on board were forced to depart the plane using air stairs on the open runway after the plane ended up in the grass. fortunately, no one was injured. it's the fourth such mishap involving a passenger jet this week alone, including yesterday's united flight that lost a wheel during takeoff. cbs's roxana saberi will start us off tonight.

>> rep>> oh, my goodness, look e back of the plane, man. >> reporter: united airlines flight 2477 rolled off the runway. >> just shifted to the left. i was nervous, scared, i didn't know what was going on to. >> reporter: moments after landing at houston's bush airport this morning, leaving skidmarks and ending up stuck in the mud, with its nose up in the air. social media video shows passengers evacuating the boeing 737 max 8 plane. >> the adrenaline is settling in so now you think about what actually happened and what could have happened. so try not to think about that because i am a weekly flyer. >> reporter: 160 passengers and six crew members were on board the flight from memphis. the incident comes as spring break travel season takes off, with united airlines alone expecting more than 21 million passengers. it has been a turbulent week for air travel. on monday, an engine on another united boeing 737 burst into flames after bubble wrap was

sucked into it. and yesterday, a wheel fell off another united plane after the boeing 777 took off from san francisco, damaging at least to technical on the ground. also on thursday, and american airlines flight was pushing back in miami when it clipped the tale of a parked frontier jet. no one was injured in any of the incidents. >> is flying getting any riskien the united states? >> no, i don't think flying is any riskier now than it was two years ago. in fact, i think we have a very safe air transportation system in this country. >> reporter: today's incident delayed passengers about four hours. the faa and ntsb are investigating. united says it's also investigating, and that it takes each safety event seriously, >> norah: roxana saberi, thank you. there's breaking news from the southern border. a national guard helicopter crash in the town on the rio grande valley this afternoon. one official tells cbs news there are casualties. we do not know the extent of the injuries or if anyone has died,

and there is no word yet on the cause of the crash. sources tell cbs news the guardsmen were operating under federal authorities. turning now to the weather, with much of the south and the path of torrential rains, flash flooding, hail, and possible tornadoes. the national weather service has issued flood watches in six states. that's from louisiana to north carolina. so for more on all of this, let's bring in meteorologist chris moran from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, chris. >> reporter: good evening, norah. damaging winds, golf ball-sized hail and tornadoes possible as storms continue to track across the south. these storms will be moving through during the overnight hours and threw a big part of the day tomorrow, and as they do, they are going to drop a lot of water. in fact, some areas could see more than a half foot of rain. and with that kind of rain, flash flooding not just possible, but likely. from south of atlanta all the way over to hattiesburg. and then we are going to watch a

developing low moving through the northeast. mountain snow, possibly some flooding, rain, and it is also going to be windy, norah, with winds at times on monday up to about 50 miles an hour. >> norah: chris warren, thank you. tonigh, president biden is hitting the road to sell his vision for the next four years. fresh off his fiery state of the unit and address and more good news on the economy. the labor department says 275,000 jobs were added last month, far exceeding expectations. cbs's weijia jiang is traveling with the president as he battleground states. >> reporter: tonight, president biden kicked off an intense month on the campaign trail at a rally outside of philadelphia. >> let's talk about the future we can build because we have more to do. >> reporter: from pennsylvania, the president has to georgia tomorrow, then michigan and wisconsin next week. battleground states where the biden campaign is pouring resources. with a $30 million media blitz

over the next six weeks. plans to open roughly 100 field offices, and more than tripling the number of staff members. republicans are making news, t too. today, installing former president donald trump's daughter-in-law and one of his top allies as leaders of the r rnc. president biden did not say trump's name during his state of the address last night. >> my predecessor. my predecessor peered my predecessor. >> reporter: but called him out more than a dozen times, accusing trump of bowing down to vladimir putin. >> i think it's outrageous, it's dangerous, edits on acceptable. >> reporter: mr. biden was energized and feisty, sparring with house republicans over legislation to secure the bo border. >> oh, you don't like that bill, huh? that conservatives got together and said was a good bill? i'll be darned. that's amazing. >> reporter: in front of many

lawmakers, wearing white in support of women's reproductive rights, the president said he would protect abortion rights. senator katie britt of alabama delivered the republican response from an unusual setting: her kitchen table. >> i worry my own children may not even get a shot at living their american dreams. >> reporter: britt criticized weak against foreign adversaries as the war in gaza remains a top campaign issue. over a hot mic after the speech, he shared his frustration with a democratic senator over the exploding humanitarian crisis and israel's prime minister. >> i told him, bibi. >> reporter: nancy cordes act vice president kamala harris about the tension. >> are the israelis at risk of using u.s. aid of this continues? >> we always have to stand for the security of israel and its people, and also to do what we

have done behind closed doors and in public around forcing a better path forward in terms of what is happening currently in gaza. >> reporter: president biden has been pushing for a temporary cease-fire in gaza as part of an agreement to release hostages beer tonight, he says it looks like it will be tough to close a next week, and he's worried that will incite violence in east jerusalem. norah? >> norah: weijia jiang, thank you. the u.s. and other countries continue to deliver food into the gaza strip, where the u.n. says more than half a million people are on the brink of starvation. cbs's ramy inocencio, embedded with u.s. troops in amman, jordan, and he is the first correspondent to get an up-close look with the american military on one of those air drops. >> reporter: food, desperately needed, airdropped over northern gaza by the u.s. air force. before takeoff, the crew loaded

their u.s. military c-130 cargo plane with nearly 2 tons of aid. ready-to-eat chicken and rice meal, dates, and powdered milk. shortly after, we roared into the air. our one hour journey from jordan took us west over israel to northern gaza. as the aft doors open, we bang tart over the mediterranean, with the horizon almost on its side, descending to just 3,000 feet. gaza's coastline first appeared, then the outlins of the destruction of gaza city, once this trip's, just before the drop now being brought into the active war zone. hardly enough. aid agencies estimate about 300,000 people are still living in the war-ravaged wasteland of northern gaza. hundreds of thousand more's on the brink of famine. in addition to the u.s. today, military cargo jets from jordan, egypt, france, the netherlands, and belgium flew airdropped missions.

but one failed to deploy shadowed all the good intent, it's package hurtling toward him from injuring at least 11 people and killing five. among them, 9-year-old mohannad miqdad peered a tragedy that came as the u.s. plans to build a temporary pier on gaza'. that could resemble this army-build because a way that would be driven into the shore and cut off loan 2 million meals each day. completion is expected to take up to 60 days. with the holy fasting month of ramadan are just a few nights a day, a prayer for food may be on everyone's lips. and a u.s. defense official tells cbs news that initial review of that parachute failure that killed those five gazans indicated that an american a drop did not kill those people. and that an investigation is still required. norah? >> norah: ramy inocencio, thank you. tonight, a 33-year-old ohio man is charged with assaulting a u.s. capitol police officer after he allegedly tried to bring this hammer into the capitol today.

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and then they wind up in the emergency room. >> reporter: a new study reveals that 7% of e.r. visits were due to kids accidentally eating the supplement, which often comes in gummy for them, and tastes and looks like candy. dr. breuner warns parents who use melatonin to help their kids to sleep, too, are taking a risk, because the product is unregulated. is it safe for parents to use melatonin to help their child fall asleep? >> it is not safe. there is no guarantee that the product itself is not contaminated with another substance. >> reporter: still, sails have more than doubled in recent years. one survey found almost half of parents give melatonin to their child to help them fall asleep. but dr. breuner says it's better to teach kids how to fall asleep naturally. >> create an environment for them to rest and refresh every single night around the same time. making sure that there is no screens in the room within an hour, hour and a half of bedtime, that our children are not taking any caffeine, and that are eating healthy foods. >> reporter: advice to sleep

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