over in oakland children of all abilities got a chance to play some football with a few athletes this afternoon at the e-football clinic. >> players from cal berkeley along with former nfl linebacker sam manuel led the event, and they said it was fun to get on the field and show the youngsters some drills and exercise out there. sounds fun. >> that would be fun. yeah. that's it for us at 5:00. see you back here at 6:00. >> the weekend news is coming up next. twister alert. multiple states facing fierce weather. dozens of tornadoes tearing across the plains. neighborhoods cleaning up.

the new danger stretching from texas to michigan. >> in norman, oklahoma, folks in the plains states are getting ready for what could be a tornadic weekend. also tonight, anti-war campus protests spread, but in boston, police in northeastern move in as they dig in. >> there's genocide being committed. in the middle east, new protests in israel with a showdown in gaza looming. >> reporter: i'm in jerusalem. a new hamas propaganda video showing two hostages has given fresh impetus to families demanding a deal. plus, "weekend journal." these texas vietnam vets tour the war memorials and reporter doug dunbar revisits his own painful past. >> a picture of my dad. that's my dad's name.

and later, a presidential stage of a different kind. it happens here where the president becomes comedian-in-chief. [ laughter ] >> announcer: this is the "cbs weekend news" from new york with adriana diaz. good evening. i'm mark strassmann sitting in for adriana. tonight nearly 40 million people bracing for severe potentially life-threatening tornadoes including power. menacing a half dozen states from texas to michigan. this suspected tornado caught on video by our affiliate kwtv in oklahoma city. one of dozens devastating parts of the plains in the last 24 hours. witnesses stunned by their massive force. cbs's omar villafranca is in norman, oklahoma, tonight. omar? >> reporter: good evening, mark. there are tornado warnings in texas, kansas, missouri and here in oklahoma. in fact, some storms just fired

up to the northwest and southwest of us. those storms are fast-moving. they are packed with wind, hail, heavy rain and several tornadoes. more than two dozen tornadoes ripped through nebraska on friday. homes leveled and businesses battered as the twisters carved their way through the cornhusker state. near lincoln, a powerful tornado crossed a highway. >> it's okay. okay. >> reporter: violent wind flip add semi and scattered debris. the storm intensified continuing its path of destruction. drone video shows damage in alcorn outside omaha. the small town left decimated. >> could hear it going through. came back up, fence gone, northwest, whole neighborhood's gone. >> air's rising rapidly into the storm. >> reporter: tornadoes also hammered iowa. the national weather service reporting at least ten twisters struck the western part of the state including the town of minden where officials say 40% of the homes have been destroyed.

>> coming down. >> reporter: the dangerous outbreak isn't over. several states across the heartland are bracing for another round of tornadoes, high winds and hail as communities struggle to clean up. several weekend events like this carnival have been canceled. and so have several proms in the oklahoma city area as this threat is expected to go into the evening. mark? >> thanks. meteorologist felicia combs of the weather channel is in kansas city. where's the next threat? >> reporter: we can hear rumbles of thunder here in kansas city on what's been a pretty guy it day. it felt like storminess. temperatures women above a average, primed for a stormy afternoon and evening watching tornado watches popping up across the region and tornado warnings to the west. torcons across this area 5 in kansas city.

just to the south of us places like oklahoma city, like tulsa, with a torcon of 7. of course, we hate to see that, especially for areas that have already seen severe storms. an overnight threat for a lot of this region. watching as these storms explode in this atmosphere just primed for storminess. plenty of moisture to work with along with these storms moving through. not only are we worried about very large hail, tornadoes, damping wind gusts, also a possibility for flash flooding across this region before all is said and done this weekend. mark? >> felicia combs in kansas city, thanks. now to the student outrage over israel's war in hamas lighting up college campuses. here's what's new. in new york a tent city at nyu. and cal tech's closing its campus the rest of the semester. protests spread across the country leading to a national debate over free speech and the use of force. we have coast-to-coast coverage from michael george and elise preston. first, here's michael outside

columbia university. >> reporter: good evening. protests here at columbia have been peaceful and quiet. organizers told us they wouldn't make any public statements but demonstrators said they won't leave until their demand is met that the school divest from companies that do business with israel. day 11 of the columbia protests students from no plans to leave this encampment. the president shafik under fire for her response from some on the left and right. among them, faculty including think professor. >> when the university called nypd in what did that do to the situation? >> it was disastrous. >> reporter: demonstrations spread across the country and at some universities protesters dealt with aggressively. >> for what reason? i'm just standing on the sidewalk!

>> reporter: this morning over 100 arrested in boston. at ohio state three arrested as protesters clashed with police. >> give me a reason why you're doing this! >> reporter: in atlanta dozens arrested at emory university. elise preston is at ucla. >> reporter: a fence around this part of the campus dozens of palestinian tents are set up. students here demanding ucla divest from companies with ties to israel. it's been largely peaceful here. but a few miles away usc, 93 arrested earlier citing security reasons usc canceled its main graduation ceremony. >> reporter: at columbia, commencement is less than three weeks away and in danger of being delayed or postponed. >> worrying about my graduation seems minimal in terms of seeing what's happening around the world. >> reporter: it's worth noting that the seniors graduating this year are part of the covid generation.

many also missed high school graduation ceremonies due to the covid lockdowns. >> michael george and elise preston, thanks. today, president biden shared this photo of his meeting with 4-year-old abigail edan. both parents killed in the october 7th attack. the president adding that he will not rest until every hostage like abigail ripped from their families held by hamas is back in the arms of their loved ones. cbs's debora patta is in east jerusalem tonight. >> reporter: good evening. hamas has released another propaganda video which cannot be independently verified showing two hostages including 64-year-old israel/american keith siegel, this as family and friends demand the time is now to strike a deal. [ chanting ] every week protests grow louder and angrier. demonstrators in the streets

tonight, a new hamas propaganda video showing them speaking under duress. loved ones fear time is running out for this man and expecting invasion of rafah which is already under regular bombardment. today once again began and ended with mourning. after at least three israeli strikes hit what is mostly a tent city, sheltering over half of gaza's 2.3 million palestinians. there were more heartbreaking farewells to tiny bodies wrapped in shrouds. this infant has known only war her entire life. it's been a brutal week for children. even little miracle baby sabrine

al ru saved from her dying mother's womb did not make it. she died on thursday. the u.n. population funds recently returned and told us he barely recognized the place. >> a big concern for 180 women giving earth every single day in unthinkable situations. >> reporter: over 5,000 women will give birth in the next month. many of them will be facing evacuation. if the rafah invasion goes ahead. >> having seen the destruction with my own eyes it's unimaginable to think they could move to any safe place. >> reporter: much of what remains of gaza are the remnants of a battlefield. adding to the misery, starvation. the united nations warning famine, which is totally preventible, is still imminent and will reach northern gaza in may. >> debora patta, thank you. for democrats in a presidential election year 2024

is starting to feel like 1968. a divisive war, campus protests and unpopular incumbent and a summer political convention in chicago. president biden's facing all of that, and donald trump, too. cbs's natalie brand is at the white house tonight. natalie? >> reporter: good evening, mark. a little more than six months until election day, and the president and former president are setting the stage for a general election debate. >> willing to do it monday night, tuesday night, wednesday night, thursday night, or friday night on national television. >> reporter: spending the week not on the campaign trail but on trial, trump said he's ready to debate president biden. this after the president said he's open to the face-off during a radio interview with howard stern. >> i'm happy to debate. >> reporter: the president told stern he condemns the former president's actions on january 6 and trump's campaign to pardon those convicted in connection with the u.s. capitol attack. >> derelict, almost criminal.

he did nothing. sat there and watched what was happening. not a single act. now wants to, calls them patriots and victims. >> reporter: trump's federal election interference case remains on hold and could be delayed until of the november election as the u.s. supreme court weighs presidential immunity and whether the former president can be prosecuted. >> this is eight days that we've all been sitting in this courthouse. >> reporter: a first for a former u.s. president as trump attended week one of testimony in his criminal hush money trial in new york. he's denied wrongdoing and complained the courtroom has sidelined him from the campaign trail. trump is scheduled to return to key battlegrounds of michigan and wisconsin on wednesday. also this week, a federal judge in author e. jean carroll's civil defamation case upheld the verdict and $83 million judgment denied his motion for a new trial. >> thank you.

another win for the united auto workers and the right to work south. the union reached a tentative deal with daimler trucks just before the friday midnight deadline. the four year agreement includes pay raises of over 25% and the start of profit sharing. now up is for sale, a lightly driven 2001 jaguar sj sedan fit for a queen. it was queen elizabeth's car with a gorgeous british racing green exterior and cream leather interior. what was hers could now be yours. the latest auction hype is around $60,000. today we're learning of the death of actress marla adams. she spent parts of five decades playing on "the young and restless" on cbs. her emmy-winning portrayal of a woman with alzheimer's touched many viewers. she also appeared on golden girls. she was 85 years old. and straight ahead on the "cbs weekend news" -- battle scars.

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>> it was very discouraging to think that i'd been over there fighting and these people were doing that to me when i came back. kept quiet a long time. never talked about it much. >> reporter: the journey to the memorials in washington for the nearly 40 vietnam war veterans saw five decades of emotion slowly beginning to surface. >> some i knew. some i don't know. there's a lot of names up here. it touches me. >> trying to look at all of these names just overwhelming. >> reporter: you could feel a common grief. and for some -- a common guilt. >> they're the heroes. we're just the guys that

survived and we live with guilt that we survived. that's the one thing that i feel like, i've always felt guilty. >> the first thing that really grabs your attention at the vietnam war memorial wall is the size of it. enormity. gets bigger as you walk down. the names stay the same size. 58,000-plus names on here. and everybody knows somebody. that includes me. that's a picture of my dad. that's my dad's name. >> it's a moving experience. somebody loves, dies, takes part of your heart away. i'm really lucky. >> i understand that. you know? >> understand. i understand.

>> thank you for your service. >> reporter: if time has the ability to heal, the clock moved unfairly slow for those in the vietnam war. >> thank you all for coming out. >> reporter: burt the amazing what just 36 hours showing you care can do. >> you know the homecoming we got was terrible, and today when we got off that airplane, and those people were clapping, that meant the world to me, because it took me a long, long time to get over it. i don't know i ever got over it 100%. >> reporter: doug dunbar, cbs news, fort worth, dallas. wow. quite a story. we'll be right back. right bac try to lay your hand flat against a surface. if you can't, you may have dupuytren's contracture. talk to a hand specialist about your options, including nonsurgical treatments. salonpas lidocaine flex. a super thin, flexible patch with maximum otc strength lidocaine that contours to the body to relieve pain right where it hurts.

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starting this season another change. the league will give players the option to wear added protection during games. soft shell helmet covers known at guardian caps. some wore them during preseasons. the legal reported that concussions dropped nearly 50%. next on the "cbs weekend news," the nerd prom. a look at the history of the white house correspondents' dinner.

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washington hilton tonight the washington hilton tonight hosts the so-called nerd prom. the annual correspondents dinner. the ap yule white house correspondents' association dinner. over the decades this hilton has seen them come and go from white house greats to wannabes. >> they say i'm over the hill. don lemon would say, that's a man in his prime. >> reporter: president biden returns tonight for a tradition since 1924. the president and the press. yucking it up with one-liners and zingers. black tie mandatory with comic timing and thick skin suggested. >> presidents kind of get to go into a more informal setting, let their hair down a bit and indeed poke fun at themselves.

>> over the last few months i've lost ten pounds. where did they go? >> reporter: is there political calculation in all that, too? >> there's always a political calculation. everything that's done in washington is political. >> reporter: hollywood a-listers now clamor to get an invite to the hilton's ballroom. some critics don't like the gala. proof of a cozy relationship between the white house and the media. you might also remember the hilton as the stage for an assassination attempt outside the hotel in 1981. john hinckley shot and wounded president reagan. >> at least four of the bullets found a target. one of them, the president of the united states. >> reporter: reagan still recovering called in to the dinner. >> well, i'm happy to be speaking to the white house correspondents' spring prom. i'm sorry that i can't be there in-person. >> the hotel and the president

survived and thrived after the assassination attempt. >> reporter: sometimes in politics the laughs are intentional. that's the news for this saturday. tomorrow on cbs sunday morning, dan rather looks back. then it's "face the nation." the guests, senate minority leader mitch mcconnell and pennsylvania congresswoman summer lee. for now, i'm mark strassmann in new york. good night. captioning funded by cbs -- captions by vitac -- www.vitac.com from cbs news bay area this is the evening edition. >> i can't walk around my neighborhood freely. i'm always like looking behind me. >> now at 6:00, a problem in oakland as old as the city itself. the new effort to crack down on sex work. why locals say they are not optimistic

it's going to get any better. >> we believe that part of the reason why it's here is because it's allowed. the city allows it to happen. plus, protests shutting down a northern california university for the rest of the semester. the response from school officials as the nationwide movement gains momentum. and later, bay area researchers on a mission. how they're working to reverse the loss of bird species over the last half century. live from the cbs studios near san francisco on this saturday evening, i'm brian hackney. >> and i'm andrea nakano. we'll get to the protests taking over college campuses in a moment, but first we begin tonight in the east bay for those keeping track, april is national volunteers appreciation month, and may is older americans month. >> so today the city of danville did a mashup, they paired people who like to help out with people who really need the help. john ramos has got the story. >> reporter: last weekend people across the bay area gathered for earth day