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>> it all kickback with a ceremony featuring dancing and musical performance. the pieces and textiles wo ancient chinese kingdoms. a representative from china's significance. abouhe - >> today's exhibition offers a rare and immersive opportunity for the american people from over 2000 years ago3 >> this exhibit runs through july. the cbs evening news is >> margaret: a horrifying scene in downtown manhattan. >> it takes one can, dumps the can on himself, takes another can, dumps the second can on himself. >> margaret: a man set himself on fire just outside the courthouse where jury selection
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was being finalized in donald trump's so-called hush money trial. >> we do not believe this was targeting any particular person or any particular group. >> margaret: the "cbs evening news" starts now. ♪ ♪ good evening. thank you for being with us. i'm margaret brennan. norah is on assignment. we begin tonight with that breaking news from lower manhattan. emergency crews rushed to a park just across the street from the courthouse, with fire extinguishers to douse the flames engulfing a 37-year-old man. after burning for several minutes, he was carried away on a stretcher and taken to the hospital in critical condition. it does not appear the incident has anything to do with the trial of the former president, which continued on without interruption. authorities say the man was carrying colorful pamphlets that were full of antigovernment
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conspiracies. they don't believe he was targeting any particular person or group. cbs's jericka duncan will start us off tonight with the latest details. >> across the street, 107th street, he's on fire! >> reporter: it was a shocking image. a man on fire. it happened right outside the courthouse where former president donald trump's criminal trial was underway. >> a man has lit himself on fire outside of the courthouse in manhattan. >> reporter: the incident unfolding live on cable news just after 1:30 eastern. >> we are like yelling to the cops, who are all outside. >> reporter: i don't know if he was really political or just unbalanced. >> reporter: authorities confirmed 4037-year-old maxwell azzarello was from st. augustine, florida. tonight, officials say he was intubated and critical condition. >> he blows the pamphlets throughout the park, and then he puls out a canister, pours some
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kind of liquid on himself, caught officers, members of the police department, they run into the park, they make efs to put him out. >> reporter: how concerned are you that somebody was able to get this far in, like themselves on fire, with all of these law-enforcement officials around? >> we are very concerned. of course we are going to review our security protocols. >> reporter: azzarello posted what he called the ponzi papers online, critical of both republicans and democrats, claiming "we are victims of a totalitarian con that is about to hit us with an apocalyptic f" >> this gentleman did not breach security protocols. the park was open to the public. >> reporter: and today at a news conference, when i asked authorities how this incident changes things moving forward, one official said that shutting down this park, which was also used as a designated space for protesters, margaret, is now
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under consideration. >> margaret: disturbing development there, jericka duncan, thank you. meanwhile, inside the courthouse, jury selection concluded and opening statements will now begin monday in what is the first criminal prosecution of a former president of the united states. trump faces 34 counts of falsifying business records as part of a hush money scheme. cbs's robert costa has the latest. >> reporter: the full jury is now set in the unprecedented criminal trial of former president donald trump. >> the trial starts on monday, which is long before a lot of people thought. the judge wants this to go as fast as possible. >> reporter: there remain five alternate jurors to selected today complete the panel. they will hear evidence and step in if any of the jurors drop out. the group of seven men and five women weighing the evidence includes a teacher, an investment banker, and a corporate lawyer.
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the assigned four for a person is from ireland. emotions ran high with some emotional jurors complaining of anxiety. one saying today, "this is so much more stressful than i thought it was going to be." before being dismissed. >> it is indeed possible that we may see one or two jurors who come in on monday and just say that they have reconsidered their position and they can't serve. you are going to get a lot of pressure, and you are going to see what it feels like to be pressured by other people. >> reporter: meanwhile, trump has said he is willing to take the stand. >> yeah, i would testify, absolutely. >> reporter: entity and separate court proceedings, briefed on possible topics if he were to testify. potentially including fraud, past sexual misconduct allegations, and alleged gag order violations. >> everyone else can say whatever they want about me, and they keep saying anything they want to. they can continue to make up lies and everything else. >> reporter: and late today, trump legal team try to get an
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appeals court judge to halt the trial and change the venue, citing concerns about jury selection, but the judge denied that request. meaning for now full steam ahead for the prosecution, come monday, when they will call their first witness. margaret? >> margaret: another reason this is just highly unusual campaign season for you. bob, thank you for your reporting. now to israel's retaliatory air strikes on. senior u.s. officials confirmed the missile strikes to cbs news, but little else is being publicly shared. cbs's debora patta reports tonight from jerusalem. >> reporter: flashes in the night sky. among the few images posted on social media, purportedly showing the israeli attack on iran. cbs news has learned that israeli aircraft operating outside and ran fire at a number of missiles on the city of isfahan after suppressing syrian air defenses. isfahan is where iran has
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several nuclear facilities. the u.n.'s top atomic energy body says none of them were damaged. for now, though, officials are mostly keeping their heads down and their mouths shut. secretary of state antony blinken did not address the attack directly and would not be drawn on whether the u.s. had been given advance notice. >> i'm not going to speak to anything other than to say we were not involved in any offensive operations. >> reporter: there has also been no official israeli confirmation of the strike. iran expert menahem merharvy believes that for now, israel has had the last word. >> because the message was to the government in iran, the regime, you know, we can reach you. you are not impregnable. on the one hand. yet we do not look for more adventures on this front. >> reporter: iran also played down the attack. nothing to see here, was the official line. it was just our powerful air defense firing at a suspicious
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object, said general siavash mihandoost. it caused no damage at all. regime supporters chanting "death to israel" marked the attack, saying it was nothing special, just a bunch of small drones. azzarello told us the nature of the israeli attack gives iran enough space to walk away from this. he doesn't believe they will retaliate this time, and that for now, at least, the playing field has been leveled. margaret? >> margaret: debora patta tonight in jerusalem, thank you. back here in washington, congress took a key step toward passing foreign aid bills to provide billions of dollars in security funding for ukraine, israel, and taiwan. house speaker mike johnson scheduled a vote for tomorrow. cbs's scott macfarlane is at capitol hill, where the speaker may be putting his own job on the line. >> reporter: the long wait for helping ukraine appears nearly
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over. >> the world is watching. it is time for congress to act. >> reporter: after a key test vote today, the u.s. house is poised to approve nearly $61 billion in aid to ukraine tomorrow. along with billions to help israel. but the political cost is difficult to calculate. >> i'm concerned that the speaker has cut a deal with the democrats to fund foreign wars. >> reporter: a third hard-line republican, ersatz paul gosar, has signed onto a plan that could oust his fellow republican mike johnson as u.s. house speaker. the group has criticized johnson for again pushing a major proposal largely supported by democrats. other republicans told cbs news they are dissatisfied, too. do you think this is a tipping point for a speaker johnson, this ukraine vote? >> i definitely sensed that there is a souring, you know, to republican leadership. >> reporter: the defectors still won't say when they would force a vote against johnson, who defended the ukraine legislation. >> this is the best possible product that we can get under these circumstances. >> reporter: democrats
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supported it overwhelmingly. >> all this money was needed yesterday. like, i cannot emphasize enough that if we didn't step in soon to help ukraine, we could be giving the whole show to vladimir putin. >> reporter: and democrats haven't voted out ruling to keep johnson and his job if he is challenged. >> if he works with us in an earnest way, that they would be willing to vote no on a motion to vacate. >> reporter: also sent for a vote tomorrow, a bill that would require tiktok to be sold or divested from its china-based owner or face a ban in the united states within a year. margaret, they have added this to this major foreign aid package. >> margaret: it's going to be a busy weekend on capitol hill. scott, thank you. a possible school shooting was averted. police in maryland revealed new details today about how they stopped a student's plan to carry out an attack. cbs's nicole sganga reports. >> a potentially catastrophic
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event was prevented. >> reporter: a possible school shooting for did. authorities arrested 18-year-old alex ye, charging the high school student previously hospitalized for psychiatric treatment with making threats of mass violence at his high school and elementary school in rockville, maryland. according to charging documents, a friend alerted local police of a chilling 129-page memoir, a story of a bully transgender teens desire to shoot up a school. elements police say are pulled from the suspects real life. >> even after being removed from the school, ye said he would do something at graduation because he lived close to school. ye was preoccupied with self harm, school shootings, and explosives. >> eporter: police say he google search to other mass shootings, including sandy hook and nearby gun ra ranges. police also recovered a bb gun from the suspect's home.
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no other weapons were found, and the suspect is being held without bond. there have been 140 threats made to montgomery county public schools this school year, according to local police. the district has bolstered its security footprint, and is now offering trauma counseling to students. >> the overall mood is definitely shocked, but thankful that nothing bad really happened. >> no one really expected this to happen. it's kind of crazy what it is your own school. >> reporter: we reached out to the suspect attorney. we have not yet heard back. tomorrow marks 25 years since columbine. police say the suspect here mentioned that school shooting in recent online conversations. margaret? >> margaret: nicole sganga, thank you. well, microchip maker intel is at the center of the latest high-tech race between the u.s. and china. cbs's jo ling kent got exclusive access to intel's state-of-the-art facility for tonight's "in depth" report. >> reporter: this is the new
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front line in the global chip war. >> here we go. >> reporter: intel is one of the biggest chipmakers in the world. inside this organ fabrication plant, yellow light protects the millions of chips or semiconductors that powered nearly all of the tech that we use. inside each one of those boxes, 25 silicon wafers, they travel around this factory, running about 200 miles over 3-6 months, going through thousands of steps before they are officially a semiconductor. ceo pat gelsinger says intel is accelerating production to satisfy massive demand. >> every aspect of human existence is dependent more and more on what we do with semiconductors. >> reporter: is a matter of national security, too. for example, if china were to ever invade taiwan and block chips made on the island, the global financial impact could be more than $1 trillion. that puts intel under tremendous pressure, especially after the biden administration award of the company $8.5 billion from the chips act to build more
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fabrication plans and upgrade others. why should a tax player believe that this is actually going to happen? >> if you show up in ohio today, we have thousands of construction workers today at that site. these aren't empty promises. do you want to build these factories in the united states or do you want to build a nation? >> reporter: less than 10% are made in the u.s. his goal, double that by 2030 beard speak of a covid. mike was a bit of a wake-up call for the nation. all of a sudden our car factories were stopped because we did not have a $1 chip. how did that happen? we found out all of those chips were being built in asia and we had no particular influence on those supply chains. >> reporter: intel has just announced a new weapon, this high and a lithography machine, the most advanced ever made. it uses a laser that eats material 40 times hotter than the sun to create the next generation of semiconductors. how is this massive new machine that you are installing going to
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make a material difference? >> we expect that by the end of the decade, we'll be crossing a trillion transistors into a single package. >> reporter: a long-term bet for the company and the country. jo ling kent, cbs news, hillsboro, oregon. >> margaret: and taylor swift releases a new album with a big surprise for her fans. that's next. ♪ ♪ gravis sthenia 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, which may become life-threatening or fatal, and other types of infections. complete or update your meningococcal vaccines at least 2 weeks before starting ultomiris. if ultomiris is urgent, you should also receive antibiotics with your vaccines.
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why? >> because it felt like she was being left out. >> reporter: her grandma tried to explain how they couldn't afford a headstone right now. >> she had tears in her eyes and wanted to help. >> reporter: so she did the only thing that she could think of to raise money. >> yes. >> i made a lemonade stand. >> reporter: a lemonade stand. to pay for her mother's headstone. at first, she didn't make mention of her cause. but word got out. and before long, emouree said it seems like just about everyone here in scottsboro, alabama, was thirsty for lemonade. the price was $1, but she says people liked it so much. >> how many cups do you want? >> reporter: they often paid more. >> the most we got for one cup of lemonade was $300. >> reporter: for lemonade? >> yeah, for one cup. >> reporter: whoa! so far, emouree's lemonade stand has raised more than $15,000, which will all go into savings,
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because the monument company is now donating the headstone. but more importantly, emouree has taken that lemon life handed her and squeezed out hope. >> her comment was that all of these people came, she couldn't believe so many people cared for and loved her mommy. >> reporter: they always say it takes a village to raise a child. but sometimes, it also takes a village to mourn a mom. folks around here take that role seriously. offering emouree comfort by the couple and all the love she can drink. >> thank you pete >> you're welcome. >> reporter: steve hartman, "on the road," in scottsboro, alabama. >> margaret: "heart of america" is next. lad i can still come here. you see, i was diagnosed with obstructive hcm. and there were some days i was so short of breath. i thought i'd have to settle for never stepping foot on this trail again. i became great at making excuses.
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bronx bombers, the 85-year-old sterling is calling it a career. sterling won 12 enemies during his time in the broadcast booth, from where he saw his hometown yankees win five world series. they yankees will honor sterling with a special ceremony before saturday's game against the tampa bay rays. john sterling, tonight's "heart of america." and that's tonight's "cbs evening news." for norah o'donnell, i'm a margaret brennan. i will see you sunday on >> judge judy: she took your car. >> yeah. >> judge judy: how did you get her keys? >> announcer: lack of communication kills a friendship. >> she got angry at me and threw the keys. she said, "i'm taking a plane," and that's when she left me there with my suitcases and the keys to her van. >> announcer: and her message still isn't getting through. >> judge judy: i can hardly understand you. >> am i talking too fast or quiet? like, i... >> judge judy: both. >> i know. i really mentally try to slow myself down, but it doesn't happen 'cause it goes so fast. >> announcer: "judge judy." you are about to enter
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the courtroom of you are about to enter the courtroom of judge judith sheindlin. captions paid for by cbs television distribution jessica baldwin is suing her former friend, jenipher russ, for stranding her in another state when she stole her van. >> byrd: order! all rise! your honor, this is case number 87 on the calendar in the matter of baldwin vs. russ. >> judge judy: thank you. >> byrd: you're welcome, judge. parties have been sworn in. you may be seated. >> judge judy: ms. baldwin, you and the defendant were friends. according to what i read, you either won or were entitled to a carnival cruise. >> yes. >> judge judy: from what? >> from the elite players group. the casino. >> judge judy: and from that you won a cruise for two people? >> correct. >> judge judy: when was that? >> march 26th was the cruise. >> judge judy: and you and ms. russ were friends? >> correct. >> judge judy: you invited her along on the cruise. the cruise itself was taken care of, as well as the meals. all she was supposed to take

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