identified delayed deliveries which he says cost spirit money. >> they always said they didn't have time to fix the mistakes. >> reporter: didn't have time because they needed to get the planes out? >> needed to get the planes out, yep. >> reporter: cbs news spoke with several current and former employees and reviewed photos of dented fuselages and a wrench they say was left behind in a supposed ready to deliver component. were these defects that if they weren't fixed could be a safety isue down the line? >> some of them were because some of them were missing fastener. >> reporter: and a fastener holds parts of the plane together? >> yeah. >> reporter: boeing claims it's long had a team that finds and fixes defects in spirit after delivery when boeing is asemi-ble issing the planes. >> it's a recipe for disaster, really. i say it was just a matter of time before something bad happened. >> reporter: in february 2022, paredes said his bosses asked him to speed up inspections by being less specific about where he was finding issues. he mailed his managers writing the request was unethical. what happened to you?

>> they took my team lead away. they stripped me from my leadership position. >> reporter: after filing an ethics complaint with hr and contacting the company's ceo, paredes eventually was reinstated, but said he's had enough, resigning that summer. >> it takes a toll on you. and i was terrified. >> reporter: until today, paredes, an air force veteran who spent 12 years at spirit's wichita plant was complainee number one alleging widespread quality failure, quality failures paredes says boeing was well aware of. >> for many years they knew they were getting defective fuselages. >> reporter: he says he frequently found issues near door panels similar to the one that blew out of a 737 max mid flight in january. the ongoing ntsb investigation indicates that door panel was removed during final assembly to allow spirit contractors to make defect repairs. it appears the bolts holding the panel were not reinstalled. >> working at spirit, i almost

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charged yesterday after allegedly sending unsolicited sexual messages on facebook messenger to the girl who was actually an undercover special agent with the new mexico justice department. the sting is part of operation metaphile, which also resulted in the arrest of 29-year-old marlon kellywood at the same motel. the facebook profile photo was created using ai and attracted potential predators. >> they initiated a sexual conversation. they were sending graphic images of genitalia. they were making really horrific statements about their interest in sex with these children. >> what do you make of the way meta and other social platforms have handled this major pervasive threat thus far? >> reporter: i think it's abundantly clear that meta and executives like mr. zuckerberg don't have any intention of dedicating the kinds of resources necessary to making sure that these platforms are safe. if they could make this safe on their own, they would have done

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a former translator for baseball superstar shohei ohtani has agreed to plead guilty to illegally transferring $17 million out of ohtani's account. the justice department says he'll plead guilty to bank fraud and an additional tax charge. investigators say in 2021, ohtani's translator started placing what turned out to be thousands of sports bets without ohtani's knowledge. finally, tonight's heart of america. in the lead-up to mother's day, we have the story of a mother's mission to help her son and others in desperate need of life-saving blood. lisa harloff's 8-year-old son hudson needs a transfusion every few weeks. last week she and her son helped host a blood drive at a church in matawan, michigan. this mother and son duo say blood donations are crucial, and not just for hudson. >> sometimes people think that somebody else will do it and they don't need to, but i want

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at least three people are dead with more injured. violent storms this week have caused widespread damage from texas to pennsylvania. an attempt by republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene to remove house speaker mike johnson was defeated in congress. greene was upset with johnson for helping democrats pass a foreign aid package. and israeli tanks continued bombarding rafah city while president biden is threatening to hold up weapon supplies to israel if it launches a major ground invasion of gaza. for more download our cbs news app on your connected cell phone or tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. multiday tornado outbreak. >> power flash. look at that! >> with more than 50 million americans bracing for severe weather. >> it felt like all the air came out of our cellar. >> the threat now in its third day. communies from oklahoma to michigan are cleaning up after

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>> oh my god! >> reporter: while a few miles away, a twister slammed pavilion estates, splintering several mobile homes and injuring at least 12 people. today the sound of chainsaws filled the air as residents began cleaning up. the force of the first tornado was so strong, it wrapped multiple homes around this tree. so your trailer was here? >> yeah, my trailer was here. >> reporter: and now? >> now it's over there, yes. >> reporter: that's your trailer. gerald brooks says he survived by hiding in his closet. >> i just said a couple of prayers and curled up in a ball. probably about ten seconds, i was in the air. >> reporter: so you if you weren't in the closet? >> i don't think i would have been here. >> reporter: the red cross has opened an emergency shelter to help families displaced by the tornadoes that ripped through neighborhoods like this one. the family living in this house told us they've had to move out, and now they're just waiting for home to collapse. norah? >> roxana saberi, thank you for being there.

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>> over the top. >> reporter: but president biden warned israel's prime minister netanyahu a month ago that he was considering a policy change if israel did not show more care for civilians. half of the 35,000 dead in gaza are children. while biden did usher through $26 billion in emergency aid to israel, he is under pressure for more than half of congressional democrats who are calling for him to withhold offensive weaponry. now he is trying to signal u.s. support may not be unequivocal when it comes to how israel uses u.s. taxpayer-funded weapons. >> we just don't believe it's possible to move those people to other places inside gaza, and we have not seen a plan to take care of them if they were moved t other places. >> and the president also said tonight the u.s. may pause artillery shell deliveries. meanwhile, the cia director bill burns met with netanyahu in israel and is now back in egypt, and it is the united states, norah, that is leading these diplomatic efforts to release

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counselor, and the school counselor is arab. and i don't know her. that complicated? will it be complicated? >> reporter: dariel goes to one of only six schools in israel that is not segregated into arab and jew. >> and that night the school counselor wrote to me and said "my heart is with you." >> "my heart is with you?" >> "my heart is with you." it was a wave of feeling heard and scene and completely competent. >> reporter: at the school children learn both arabic and hebrew. history is taught by two teacher, jewish and palestinian. she also sends her children here. >> my kids have here the opportunity to say what they think, to talk about their fears, their future, their misunderstanding of what is happening around now.

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for dariel, this means having difficult conversations. >> i've learned that it's hard for everybody to talk because a lot of us are scared to speak and say our thoughts. but you need to. >> reporter: principal mayer knows peace is far away, but they are prepared. >> peace will be here. for us, it's not going to be a big change. we have the skills. we practice it. we'll be able to teach other people how to do it. >> reporter: until then, these children are armed with a weapon more powerful than violence, empathy. debora patta, jerusalem. there is another diplomatic headache between washington and moscow. a u.s. army staff sergeant has been jailed in far eastern russia, accused of stealing from a girlfriend. the pentagon says gordon black

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lower, but still, the source is a problem. like the stone is expensive. the best market for stone carving, it would be in historical preservation, i think. >> reporter: monumental labs is moving quickly. they plan 100 robots within five years. the piece we saw take shape has now taken its place in the middle of manhattan. >> we are now limitless in what we can create, and we're creating amazing new canon of sculptures and works that don't necessarily look like they did in the past. they will look sometimes super photo realistic. they will look sometimes abstract, but it will be whatever we can imagine.

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lord and give him their life. and that's what happened. i probably had a lot of anxiety at that point about my future, but as i began to study the word and a lot of dr. stanley's teachings and sermons, i began to realize that, through the love of jesus, god saved me for a purpose. an island off the coast of l.a. has a deer problem, and it's dividing the residents. jonathan vigliotti reports. >> reporter: santa catalina island is known for rare plants you won't find anywhere else on earth.

>> we have the catalina island manzanita, the channel islands tree poppy. >> reporter: dr. lauren denhart with the catalina island conservancy showed us many of these one of a kinds are now kept in cages. >> otherwise they don't grow. they get decimated immediately. >> reporter: the threat? and estimated 2,000 mule deer. the population has exploded since 18 were introduced nearly a century ago for hunting. they're mowing down rare plants and have no natural predators. the conservancy considered sterilization and relocation, but determined stress to the animal would be inhumane. they also weighed reducing the population, but said the deer would quickly reproduce. the final plan? shoot all the deer, from helicopters. conservationists say it's the only way to save the native plants and restore the island. islander diane stone is appalled. she is one of more than 17,000 people who have signed a petition to stop what they call

the slaughter. >> the deer have been here for nearly 100 years. they're part of our culture. they're part of our landscape. >> this is some of the venison that's left over. >> reporter: long-time resident william flickinger relies on the deer as a source of food, hunting them because he says grocery costs are high. >> in the past 15 years, i haven't bought any red meat. >> reporter: the california department of fish and wildlife is now reviewing the conservancy's plan. von than vigliotti, cbs news, catalina island, california. and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm olivia gazis. this is cbs news flash. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. more severe weather is moving through the central u.s. tonight with tornado warnings for much of arkansas and tennessee. at least three people are dead

with more injured. violent storms this week have caused widespread damage from texas to pennsylvania. an attempt by republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene to remove house speaker mike johnson was defeated in congress. greene was upset with johnson for helping democrats pass a foreign aid package. and israeli tanks continued bombarding rafah city while president biden is threatening to hold up weapon supplies to israel if it launches a major ground invasion of gaza. for more download our cbs news app on your connected cell phone or tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new york. multiday tornado outbreak. >> power flash. look at that! >> with more than 50 million americans bracing for severe weather. >> it felt like all the air came out of our cellar. >> the threat now in its third day.

communities from oklahoma to michigan are cleaning up after more than three dozen tornadoes touched down. >> so your trailer was here? >> yeah, my trailer was here. >> and now? >> now it's over there. ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> we come on the air tonight with breaking news with another outbreak of tornadoes, this time in tennessee, illinois, and missouri. this is the third straight day of dangerous and possibly deadly weather moving across the u.s. tens of millions of people tonight are in the path of this massive storm system that stretches from texas to virginia, with severe thunderstorms, destructive winds, large hail, and more twisters. today's threats follow another night of terror in the midwest and the ohio valley, with at least 19 tornadoes in 8 states. homes and businesses were torn apart, including this fed ex facility in the town of portage, michigan. that's south of kalamazoo.

trees were ripped up and power was knocked out for tens of thousands of residents. tonight we have team coverage of this wild weather, and cbs' roxana saberi will start us off. >> reporter: tonight, once again a tornado threat became reality across the midsection of the country. >> power flash. look at that. >> reporter: up north, tornadoes tore across the midwest tuesday. >> that's a big one! >> reporter: at least three have been confirmed in michigan, prompting the state's first ever tornado emergency. in the crosshairs, kalamazoo county where 176 homes were damaged or destroyed. the city of portage took a direct hit not once, but twice in less than an hour and a half. an ef-2 twister with winds of 135 miles per hour mangled this fed ex facility. authorities tell cbs news everyone inside was able to escape by the time rescuers arrived. this doorbell camera captured the moment a tornado toppled nearly every tree in sight.

>> oh my god! >> reporter: while a few miles away, a twister slammed pavilion estates, splintering several mobile homes and injuring at least 12 people. today the sound of chainsaws filled the air as residents began cleaning up. the force of the first tornado was so strong, it wrapped multiple homes around this tree. so your trailer was here? >> yeah, my trailer was here. >> reporter: and now? >> now it's over there, yes. >> reporter: that's your trailer. gerald brooks says he survived by hiding in his closet. >> i just said a couple of prayers and curled up in a ball. probably about ten seconds, i was in the air. >> reporter: so you if you weren't in the closet? >> i don't think i would have been here. >> reporter: the red cross has opened an emergency shelter to help families displaced by the tornadoes that ripped through neighborhoods like this one. the family living in this house told us they've had to move out, and now they're just waiting for home to collapse. norah? >> roxana saberi, thank you for being there.

there is even more severe weather in the forecast tonight and tomorrow. so let's bring in meteorologist reynolds wolf from our partners at the weather channel. good evening, reynolds. >> good evening, norah. we have got the boom of thunder that is approaching the music city. and the setup that we have atmospherically speaking is very similar to what we saw yesterday. plenty of moisture feeding in from the gulf of mexico. we have the daytime heating creating an unstable air mass, and then we have this energy that is rolling from west to east, and you see the result right there. it is a bevy of watches and warnings, and again, some very tumultuous storms racing across america's landscape, bringing with it really the hammer blows of severe weather, including tornadoes. now at this time we do have a tor:con for much of the area that ranges in the 5. remember, they go from 1 to 10 so, a 5 is where we stand. in terms of damaging wind, greater likelihood of having some damage there. certainly widespread power outages may be in the mix, and also the formation of very large hail. what may prove to be the biggest part of the story is the rainfall. it could be excessive. we're talking about an area that

has had plenty of moisture. now the system is eventually going to linger a bit more towards the east and the south. but still, millions of americans will be under threat for tomorrow. norah? >> it's good information. reynolds wolf, thank you so much. turning now to the israel-hamas war and the breaking news out of the white house. president biden issuing a warning to prime minister benjamin netanyahu the u.s. will not supply weapons that israel could use in an assault in the southern city of rafah. we get details from chief foreign affairs correspondent and "face the nation" moderator margaret brennan. >> reporter: this is what the israeli military calls a limited operation in rafah, where air strikes today hit one of the most densely populated laces on earth. nearly 1.5 million people have swelled into this part of southern gaza. casualties and lack of supplies overwhelmed this kuwait hospital director. >> i feel that the rockets were -- the explosive bombs are completely different from those

that have been used before. >> reporter: the biden administration announced that while it is surging weapons to israel, it has simultaneously paused delivery of 3500 so-called dumb bombs due to concern of the impact of 2,000-pound bombs in dense urban settings. >> civilians have been killed in gaza as a consequence of those bombs and other ways in which they go after population centers. i made it clear that if they go into rafah -- they haven't gone into rafah yet -- if they go into rafah, i'm not supplying the weapons that have historically been used to deal with rafah, to deal with cities, to deal with that problem. >> reporter: the israeli military publicly downplayed the pause, but privately cbs was told of deep frustration, including among republicans. >> this is obscene. it is absurd. give israel what they need to fight the war they can't afford to lose. >> reporter: it is the first such limiting action put on israel in the seven-month war

hamas began back in october. >> over the top. >> reporter: but president biden warned israel's prime minister netanyahu a month ago that he was considering a policy change if israel did not show more care for civilians. half of the 35,000 dead in gaza are children. while biden did usher through $26 billion in emergency aid to israel, he is under pressure for more than half of congressional democrats who are calling for him to withhold offensive weaponry. now he is trying to signal u.s. support may not be unequivocal when it comes to how israel uses u.s. taxpayer-funded weapons. >> we just don't believe it's possible to move those people to other places inside gaza, and we have not seen a plan to take care of them if they were moved to other places. >> and the president also said tonight the u.s. may pause artillery shell deliveries. meanwhile, the cia director bill burns met with netanyahu in israel and is now back in egypt, and it is the united states, norah, that is leading these diplomatic efforts to release

hostages and pause the fighting. >> no doubt they're working very hard on this. margaret brennan, thank you. tonight another win for donald trump's legal team as they push to delay his trials. the start date of the georgia election interference case is now in limbo after an appeals court agreed to hear trump's argument to disqualify district attorney fani willis. trump and other defendants want her off the case, claiming her relationship with a former special prosecutor presented a conflict of interest. on tuesday, the judge in his classified documents case postponed that trial indefinitely, saying it will take months to settle disputes over evidence. meanwhile, trump's so-called hush money trial, well, that resume

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>> now to a cbs news exclusive. a former spirit aerosystems employee who blew the whistle over safety concerns is now breaking his silence to cbs news. the company is a major supplier for boeing and has been under intense scrutiny since january when a door panel blew off an alaska airlines plane mid flight. tonight the whistle-blower is telling his story to our senior transportation correspondent kris van cleave. >> if quality mattered, i would still be at spirit. >> reporter: for about a decade, santiago paredes worked at the end of the production line at one of boeing's largest suppliers, spirit aerosystems, doing final inspections on 737 fuselages before they'd ship to boeing. how often did you find issues? >> every day. i'm finding over 100 defects every day. >> reporter: findings he says his managers pressured him to keep to a minimum, even he says referring to him by the nickname "showstopper" because repairs he identified delayed deliveries which he says cost spirit money.

>> they always said they didn't have time to fix the mistakes. >> reporter: didn't have time because they needed to get the planes out? >> needed to get the planes out, yep. >> reporter: cbs news spoke with several current and former spirit employees and reviewed photos of dented fuselages, and a wrench they say was left behind in a supposedly ready to deliver component. were these defects that if they weren't fixed could be a safety issue down the line? >> some of them were because some of them were missing fasteners. >> reporter: and a fastener holds parts of the plane together? >> yeah. >> reporter: boeing claims it's long had a team that finds and fixes defects in spirit after delivery when boeing is assembling the planes. >> it's a recipe for disaster, really. i say it was just a matter of time before something bad happened. >> reporter: in february 2022, paredes said his bosses asked him to speed up inspections by being less specific about where he was finding issues. he mailed his managers writing the request was unethical. what happened to you? >> they took my team lead away. they stripped me from my

leadership position. >> reporter: after filing an ethics complaint with hr and contacting the company's ceo, paredes eventually was reinstated, but said he's had enough, resigning that summer. >> it takes a toll on you. and i was tired of fighting it. >> reporter: until today, paredes, an air force veteran who spent 12 years at spirit's wichita plant was known as former employee 1 brought in the lawsuit by spirit shareholders alleging widespread quality failures, quality failures paredes says boeing was well aware of. >> for many years they knew they were getting defective fuselages. >> reporter: he says he frequently found issues near door panels similar to the one that blew out of a 737 max mid flight in january. the ongoing ntsb investigation indicates that door panel was removed during final assembly to allow spirit contractors to make defect repairs. it appears the bolts holding the panel were not reinstalled. >> working at spirit, i almost grew a fear of flying.

there is about two or three units that is in the back of your mind that you know you would never want to fly on. >> reporter: you think there are planes out there that you wouldn't want to fly on. >> knowing what i know about the 737, it makes me very uncomfortable when i fly on one of them. >> reporter: spirit declined our request for an interview, but in a statement says the claims against the company in that shareholder lawsuit are unfounded, and it remains committed to addressing concerns and continuously improving workplace safety standards. norah? >> so kris, it seems like one of the obvious questions. what's boeing doing about this? >> since march, boeing has been inspecting every fuselage that comes off the line in wichita. boeing's ceo says that has cut defect issues by about 80%. boeing maintains the 737 is safe. >> kris van cleave, thank you very much. there is breaking news tonight from here in washington. democrats joined republicans in an overwhelming vote to defeat a motion to remove house speaker mike johnson from his leadership position. >> to be vacant. [ booing ]

>> you can hear it. republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene was met with boos after she filed that motion to vacate the chair. greene wanted to remove speaker johnson after he helped pass several bipartisan bills including a foreign aid package with funds for ukraine. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. talenti salted caramel truffle layers, with creamy salted caramel gelato.

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designer purses, electronic devices, over-the-counter medications. >> reporter: it's called fencing. >> the people behind fencing operations often use individual shoplifters to steal goods from your local duane reade, your bodega, convenience store. from there they're brought to fencers who boost their bottom line by selling them. >> reporter: a similar operation shut down in los angeles. police found hundreds of thousands of dollars in stolen items believed to be from target, cvs, and walmart. los angeles, san francisco, oakland, houston, and new york are the most impacted by organized retail crime. recently, norah spoke with the ceo of cvs health karen lynch about the problem. i remember back in the day the really expensive stuff would be under lock and key. i get that. but now it's like shampoo and toothpaste. why? >> because they're coming in and they're just whipping through like the entire counter.

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sexual messages on facebook messenger to the girl who was actually an undercover special agent with the new mexico justice department. the sting is part of operation metaphile, which also resulted in the arrest of 29-year-old marlon kellywood at the same motel. the facebook profile photo was created using ai and attracted potential predators. >> they initiated a sexual conversation. they were sending graphic images of genitalia. they were making really horrific statements about their interest in sex with these children. >> what do you make of the way meta and other social platforms have handled this major pervasive threat thus far? >> reporter: i think it's abundantly clear that meta and executives like mr. zuckerberg don't have any intention of dedicating the kinds of resources necessary to making sure that these platforms are safe. if they could make this safe on their own, they would have done it by now. >> reporter: the arrest come

after our exclusive reporting last december revealing new mexico's separate civil lawsuit against meta regarding child exploitation. in a statement, meta, the parent company of facebook, says child exploitation is a horrific crime, and we've spent years building technology to combat it. the company says it uses sophisticated technology and experts, reporting content to the national center for missing and exploited children. that organization received 36.2 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation online in 2023 alone. >> we could have a child in new mexico, or anywhere in america lured by one of these monsters. >> rep

a former translator for baseball superstar shohei ohtani has agreed to plead guilty to illegally transferring $17 million out of ohtani's account. the justice department says he'll plead guilty to bank fraud and an additional tax charge. investigators say in 2021, ohtani's translator started placing what turned out to be thousands of sports bets without ohtani's knowledge. finally, tonight's heart of america. in the lead-up to mother's day, we have the story of a mother's mission to help her son and others in desperate need of life-saving blood. lisa harloff's 8-year-old son hudson needs a transfusion every few weeks. last week she and her son helped host a blood drive at a church in matawan, michigan. this mother and son duo say blood donations are crucial, and not just for hudson. >> sometimes people think that somebody else will do it and they don't need to, but i want people to understand that if everyone thought that way, that

nobody would donate blood, and people like hudson here wouldn't -- wouldn't be here today. so it's definitely very important. >> whoever donates blood, you're awesome. >> thank you. >> lisa and hudson harloff, they are tonight's heart of america. and that's the "overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you, the news continues. others, check back later for "cbs mornings." and remember, you can follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm norah o'donnell. this is cbs news flash. i'm shanelle kaul in new york. more severe weather is moving through the central u.s. tonight with tornado warnings for much of arkansas and tennessee. at least three people are dead

with more injured. violent storms this week have caused widespread damage from texas to pennsylvania. an attempt by republican congresswoman marjorie taylor greene to remove house speaker mike johnson was defeated in congress. greene was upset with johnson for helping democrats pass a foreign aid package. and israeli tanks continued bombarding rafah city while president biden is threatening to hold up weapon supplies to israel if it launches a major ground invasion of gaza. for more download our cbs news app on your cell phone or connected tv. i'm shanelle kaul, cbs news, new it's thursday, may 9th, 2024. this is "cbs news mornings." round three. another day of severe storms across the