sign it today. despite heavy protests, tennessee lawmakers voted to allow teachers and staff to carry concealed handguns at public schools. it comes after a shooting last year at a nashville elementary school killed three children and three adults. and former congressman george santos says he is ending his run to return to washington. santos is dropping his independent bid for new york's 1st district, saying it would guarantee a democratic win. for more, download the cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. it's wednesday, april 24th. this is "cbs news mornings." campus standoff. columbia university's president issues a warning to pro-palestinian protesters who set up tents as more demonstrations pop up nationwide. arming teachers.

protests erupt in the tennessee state legislature after lawmakers approve a controversial bill that allows teachers and other staff to carry concealed handguns. and all clear? california could be the first state to ban the service that lets travelers pay to skip tsa lines at airports. what that might mean for your wallet. good morning, and good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. this morning columbia university is giving pro-palestinian protesters a new deadline to remove their encampment from school grounds. the directive comes just a week since the protests began along with reports of escalating tensions with jewish students. the actions have sparked a movement at campuses across the country. jarred hill starts us off from columbia campus. good morning. >> reporter: good morning, anne-marie. you might be able to see behind me a small group of protesters still out of columbia's campus this morning. but beyond the gate, questions

about the future of this pro-palestinian movement as that deadline to remove the encampment has come and gone. overnight dozens of tents on the lawn at columbia university as a midnight deadline to pack up passed with no action. the protests started with the students looking for the school looking to sever all ties with israel following the bombardment of gaza after -- after hamas' attack. now they're coast to coast. >> there are millions of palestinians in gaza sleeping out in the cold every night without access to food, without access to shelter. >> reporter: at new york university, plywood barricades were installed around a campus plaza yesterday after unruly protests monday night. more than 100 people were arrested. students at columbia say their main push is for more financial transparency and change to how the school's money is invested. >> i think that it's time to divest from those weapons

manufacturing and redivest them into other important things. [ chants ] >> reporter: a similar sentiment from jewish protesters near the brooklyn home of senate majority leader chuck schumer. >> what i don't understand is why we keep sending money for genocide. >> reporter: tensions on campuses have led to concerns about harassment and safety for the school's jewish communities. >> a person was yelling at me, screaming at me, calling me a zionist and a murderer. >> reporter: amid unrest and with graduation just weeks away, columbia announced it will offer online classes for the rest of the year. and just yesterday we learned that the office of house speaker mike johnson says that he will be on campus here at columbia to meet with jewish students as well as the conversation boiling beyond the campus grounds and into washington. back to you. >> all right, jarred hill in new york. thank you. the prosecution called former "national enquirer"

publisher david pecker back to the stand tuesday for more testimony in former president donald trump's criminal hush-money trial. cbs news correspondent michael george reports from new york. >> reporter: donald trump sat just feet away as former "national enquirer" publisher david pecker testified that during the 2016 campaign he promised to help suppress stories that could be damaging to the former president. prosecutors allege the practice known in the tabloid industry as catch and kill was meant to illegally influence the election by buying the rights to those stories and never publishing them. >> david pecker is a very strong witness for the prosecution. he seems very solid on the stand. he certainly seems like he doesn't have an axe to grind about donald trump. >> reporter: prosecutors say the catch-and-kill plan was said to be from the payment from michael cohen to former adult film star stormy daniels. they say it was to keep her

quiet about an alleged sexual encounter with trump who denies it all. >> i don't have to talk about people who are talk about me. they can say whatever they want. they can lie. >> reporter: in a hearing tuesday prosecutors urged judge juan merchan to hold trump in contempt and fine him $1,000 for each of ten social media posts they say violated an earlier gag order. >> we don't have a ton of case law about social media and, frankly, fill in the blank. privacy rights, first amendment rights, gag orders, because that is still technology that's developing, and the law is trying to keep up with that. >> reporter: judge merchan did not immediately issue a ruling. michael george, cbs news, new york. the department of justice announced that it will pay almost $140 million to settle claims with more than 100 survivors of sexual abuse by former team usa gymnastics doctor larry nassar. me medal-winning olympic athletes were among those who sued the fbi for ignoring and mishandling abuse allegations for more than a year

before nassar was arrested. he's now serving decades in prison for assaulting female athletes. the combined payout to victims is now about $1 billion. and the governor of tennessee is expected to sign into law a bill that would allow teachers and school staff to carry concealed handguns. the state legislature passed the controversial measure yesterday. it comes a year after three children and three adults were killed in a school shooting in nashville. protesters inside the state capitol chanted "blood on your hand" after the vote. school administrators and police would know who was carrying guns, but not parents and other teachers. teachers would need gun permits, background checks, rather, mental health evaluations, and 40 hours of training. breaking overnight, the senate passed a bill as part of a broader foreign aid package for ukraine and israel that could impact tiktok. it includes proifvisions that

would force bytedance to sell the the app or face a ban in the u.s. the house has approved the measure. president biden says he'll sign it today. and the fda says samples of pasteurized milk on grocery store shelves have tested positive for remnants of the bird flu virus. health officials say that they are continuing to study the issue but stress there's no risk to consumers. it comes nearly a month after an avian influenza virus that has sickened millions of birds was detected in dairy cows in at least eight states. the popular security screening service clear is facing possible turbulence in california. the company could be banned from the state's airports after lawmakers say it creates a system of haves and have nots. here's carter evans. >> reporter: in long airport security lines, one thing is perfectly clear -- those who pay extra get rewarded. >> what the current system does is it allows a clear customer to cut the line. >> reporter: california senator josh newman introduced a first in the nation law that would

stop customers who pay the $189 annual fee from leapfrogging the security line at the state's airports. >> all clear really does is it moves me in front of you and we get to the same place in front of the conveyor belt only by then you're mad, the tsa agent's stressed out, and i paid $189 because i think i'm better than you. >> reporter: how is this different than any other service that we pay to jump the line? >> people pay to jump the line at theme parks, they pay to jump the line going into music concerts, sports stadiums. >> reporter: the company says it has nearly one million california customers and pays airports there $13 million. several airlines have taken a stake in clear and say the lost revenue could mean higher fares, but clear, which uses fingerprinting and eye scanning in its screenings, has had issues in recent years with security lapses. that's the main reason the union representing flight attendants supports the bill.

and lawmakers don't want to ban clear entirely, just separate the lines. >> pay for clear, go do your line somewhere else. >> that's financially and logistically impractical. tsa doesn't have the funding it needs now to adequately staff all of the security lanes that exist. >> reporter: clear is also facing another business challenge. airlines and the tsa are investing in similar technology at airports around the country and right here in l.a.x. with the goal of speeding up the process for everyone. whether you've got clear or not. carter evans, cbs news, los angeles. coming up, appeal denied. a russian court orders an american journalist to remain jailed ahead of his trial. and sentenced to prison. why a celebrity handbag designer will spend time behind bars. this is "cbs news mornings."

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american journalist evan gershkovich's latest detention appeal. the "wall street journal" reporter became the first american journalist arrested on spying charges in russia since the cold war when he was taken into custody last march. gershkovich, his newspaper, and the u.s. government all deny he is a spy. the "wall street journal" condemned the latest ruling. gershkovich will be held in pretrial detention until at least june 30th. a luxury handbag designer is sentenced to prison, and there's a mistrial in the case of a rancher charged with murdering a igrant. those are some of the headlines on the "morning newsstand." "the new york times" reports a mistrial was declared in the case of an arizona rancher accused of murdering a migrant. george kelly was charged with second-degree murder in the deaths of an unarmed migrant on his property last year. the mistrial was declared when jurors could not reach a uanimous verdict after more than two days of deliberation. prosecutors said the 75-year-old was recklessly firing nine shots toward a group of men including the one who died.

no one else was hurt. kelly said he fired warning shots in the air but never directly at anyone. the "los angeles times" says a man has been arrested in the fatal stabbing of a metro passenger. investigators say a woman was attacked unprovoked on a train monday morning. police say she was heading home from her overnight job. she was able to exit onto the platform when the train arrived at the station but later died at the hospital. a suspect, elliot nowden, was found by authorities about a half hour later. >> we will be looking at this trying to understand what happened, what caused this, and how we can stop it from ever happening again. >> the suspect is charged with murder and is being held on $2 million bail. and "the miami herald" reports a colombian luxury handbag designer was sentenced to 18 months in prison. nancy gonzalez pleaded guilty in u.s. federal court to charges of smuggling purses made from skins of protected reptiles. she sold her bags for more than

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