40 seasons with the high school during his career. the walk and roll to cure als took place at jfk promenade where the city is also observing its anniversary of being car free. san francisco voters decided they wanted fewer cars on the roads. the mile long stretch was closed to cars in 2020. and opened up as pedestrians to an outdoor area during the pandemic. and so it remains to this day. that's it at 5:00. we'll see you back here at 6:00 for an hour of news. local news continuing streaming on cbs ♪ tonight, deadly storms. tornadoes tearing across the plains. a scene of devastation in sulphur, oklahoma. >> downtown sulphur is destroyed. >> the town taking a direct hit.

dozens of tornadoes roaring across multiple states this weekend, impacting millions. >> i'm omar villafranca in sulphur, oklahoma, where a powerful tornado whipped through the main street, flipped cars, and turned businesses into rubble. tonight, diplomatic mission. secretary of state blinken makes his seventh visit to the middle east since israel's war with hamas. the crisis in gaza critical. >> i'm debora patta in jerusalem, where benjamin netanyahu is facing mounting domestic pressure to make a deal. campus crackdowns. new arrests as colleges nationwide struggle to quell antiwar demonstrations. plus, comedian-in-chief. president biden poking fun at his age and his political rival at a night of glamour and glitz in washington, d.c. >> i've always done well in the original 13 colonies. in seven battleground

states, new cbs polling tonight on the campaign fight. and later, her inventors call her lucki. customers call her rosie. restaurant owners say she's the future. >> i am rosie, delivery robot. welcome to our restaurant. >> announcer: this is the "cbs weekend news" from new york with jericka duncan. good evening and thank you for joining us on this sunday. mother nature struck with deadly and violent force this weekend as dozens of tornadoes ripped through the plains. the hardest-hit state, oklahoma. take a look at this devastation. this is the small city of sulphur, home to only 5,000 people, some 85 miles southeast of oklahoma city. much of main street, as you can see, reduced to rubble. lives shredded. at least four deaths reported in the state, including an infant. more than 100 tornadoes are reported to have struck since friday.

the flurry starting in nebraska, and tonight the threat of severe weather remains in texas, louisiana, arkansas, missouri, and oklahoma. cbs's omar villafranca is in sulphur, oklahoma, and leads off our coverage tonight. omar, good evening to you. >> reporter: good evening. last night, wave upon wave of storms pounded oklahoma. take a look at this damage behind me. trees snapped in half. behind those trees, buildings missing the roof, walls collapsed. thousands of people are still without power, and many more are trying to pick up the pieces. >> large tornado confirmed on the ground. moving north just south of sulphur. >> reporter: violent storms ravaged oklahoma overnight. >> listen to it. >> reporter: the small city of sulphur devastated after taking a direct hit. >> all of downtown sulphur is destroyed. >> reporter: at sunrise, the widespread damage revealed. the tornado shredding buildings, turning them into piles of metal and brick. 19-year-old addy gordon was helping out at the local

steakhouse when she heard sirens and ran for cover. >> as we were running through the building to get down to that basement, the glass is all shattering out of the windows, and it's just like a bomb went off. >> at any point were you scared? >> oh, i screamed. i thought i was going to pee myself. >> it's so much worse in person. just so hard to wrap your mind around. >> reporter: dana vanderver and donna lewis' business was wiped out one day after the grand opening. >> don't know what we'll do. >> reporter: dozens of tornadoes whipped through the plains this weekend, impacting millions. in the city of marietta near the texas/oklahoma border, a tornado carved a canyon through this dollar tree warehouse. the national weather service says a preliminary report of this storm called it an ef-3. that's wind speeds of at least 136 miles per hour. residents here are saying clean-up will take weeks.

jericka. >> yeah, those pictures say it all. omar villafranca, thank you. now to the middle east. today president biden spoke by phone to israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu, warning once again about a new israeli assault on the city of rafah in gaza. also today, secretary of state antony blinken left washington for his latest trip to the region. blinken is expected in israel tuesday. it will be his seventh visit since the war began in october. cbs's debora patta is in east jerusalem tonight with the very latest. debora. >> reporter: good evening. there is a flurry of diplomatic activity in this region this weekend, a last-ditch effort to revive cease-fire talks and secure a hostage deal ahead of a possible ground offensive in the southern gaza city of rafah. the pressure is mounting on prime minister benjamin netanyahu. anger over the government's failure to bring their loved

ones home has spilled onto the streets as demonstrators have stepped up their protests, which more than once have ended in scuffles with police. prioritizing a hostage deal over the rafah offensive has exposed cracks in netanyahu's coalition government. "the release of the hostages is our first priority" said foreign minister israel katz, adding "that would mean deferring an offensive in rafah, where more than 1.4 million palestinians are sheltering, a move vehemently opposed by israel's more hawkish right-wing faction. with the threat of a full-scale offensive hanging over rafah, people here keep asking where will they go. much of gaza lies in ruin. the destruction on such a scale, it is uninhabitable. and there is nowhere safe to run to. this little boy and his elder

sister are beside themselves with grief. they've already lost their mother. now their father's been taken too. "my brother is just 6 years old," zain al ghayth screams. "he's an orphan. how do i raise him?" the staggeringly high civilian death toll in gaza has sparked nationwide protests at american universities, which have not gone unnoticed by students in rafah, whose education came to an abrupt halt with the war. they no longer have walls to spray graffiti on, instead showing their gratitude on the tents they now call home. aid groups have warned that an invasion of rafah would worsen the already desperate humanitarian situation in gaza, jericka, where famine looms. >> debora patta reporting in east jerusalem, thank you. in this country, antiwar protests on college campuses have grown nationwide.

this is usc in los angeles. police there and in other cities made over 100 arrests this weekend. cbs's mark strassmann has more. >> reporter: all the clamor on campus keeps spreading, a clash of more than ideas. riot gear at ohio state. tasers at emory university in atlanta. mostly pro-palestinian protesters at times scuffling with police, waved on by school administrators, with hundreds of arrests. communities like the university of texas turning on each other. israel's war on hamas has another front line. >> free, free palestine! >> reporter: a free speech and hate speech campus debate that's anything but academic. >> if you want to protect free speech, then you don't break up peaceful protests. >> people didn't seem to be aware of how bad the situation for free speech and academic

recognition was on campuses. >> reporter: the foundation for individual rights and expression, a group defending the right to free speech. >> do you have the sense that any of this is moving the ball forward? >> some of the way the protest has been going on on college campuses has been alienating more of the public than bringing it in. >> reporter: on columbia university's west lawn, civil disobedience. this ongoing tent city galvanized national protests. they want the university to divest investments in israel and companies they say profit off repression of palestinians. dueling protests at columbia, pro-israel, pro-palestinian, reflect a larger welter of opinion and emotion, passion and perceived prejudice. >> people would be up in arms and protesting that right away. but because it's the jews, i feel like nobody cares. >> reporter: all this coast-to-coast commotion is well into its second week. and what began here at columbia

has now rippled overseas. from paris to london, university students occupied buildings and marched in the streets. they're echoing this u.s. student movement, at times a moment that's been unflattering, even dark, from intolerant protesters to sumbling universities. >> a lot of campuses are teaching young people to think like activists and less like scholars. when you're reduced to just shouting at each other, that is a failure of some of the things that makes higher education so special. >> reporter: mark strassmann, cbs news, new york. antiwar activists rallied outside a hotel hosting the annual white house correspondents' dinner attended by president biden. more than 100 people waved palestinian flags, some shouting "shame on you" to arriving guests. inside, a celebration of freedom of the press and a chance to poke fun at politics. comedian colin jost joked about the president and the legal woes of his expected republican rival.

>> can we just acknowledge how refreshing it is to see a president of the united states at an event that doesn't begin with the bailiff saying, all rise. >> president biden also spoke, landing a few punch lines of his own. >> i'm a grown man running against a 6-year-old. >> cbs's skyler henry was there. skyler, it wasn't all laughs, though, in what will be a critical election year. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, jericka. a bit of a balancing act, if you will. still, though, it was a night filled with journalists, stars, and top political officials. president biden poked fun at himself during his speech, but he also took verbal aim against his presumed opponent this november, in what's expected to be a very close race. >> donald has had a few tough days lately. you might call it stormy weather. >> reporter: amidst the jokes and jabs at the annual white

house correspondents' dinner, president biden detailed his perspective on the stakes for the upcoming election. >> eight years ago, could you have written it off as just trump talk, but no longer, not after january 6th. >> reporter: former president trump responded on his truth social platform, voicing his displeasure about the event and calling biden, quote, an absolute disaster. with a little more than six months to go before the election, new cbs news polling out today shows a very tight race in three battleground states we surveyed -- pennsylvania, wisconsin, and michigan, states that helped biden win in 2020. but registered voters say the impacts of inflation are looming large in their minds and add they aren't seeing improvement in a post-pandemic economy in their respective states, sparking a downward trend for the president and an advantage for trump as biden trails in the polls with voters when asked whether which candidate, quote, understands the needs and concerns of people like you, an

edge he once held in the summer of 2020, when voters were asked the same question. and former president trump is looking to pick up on that momentum in those battleground states because his new york hush money trial breaks on wednesdays, he'll rally in both wisconsin and michigan before being back inside the courtroom on thursday. jericka. >> all right. skyler henry, thank you. today, one of the best players in the history of women's basketball announced that at age 38, she's retiring. candace parker played 16 seasons in the wnba, made the announcement today on instagram. parker is a three-time wnba champion and two-time olympic gold medalist. she said, quote, i will pursue business with the same intensity and focus that she gave basketball. well, now to japan. in a centuries-old tradition, one that some parents might not appreciate, today massive sumo wrestlers in tokyo and other sites across japan made 100 babies cry by gently shaking or

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that's something you can do. and the bay area gets failing grades for filthy air. a closer lack at the factors putting our health at risk. and the clash between dueling protests one after california colleges and the open campments spreading to campuses across the country. live from the cbs studios in san francisco we'll begin in berkeley this evening. the job of a firefighter has always been competitive but as departments work to increase their diversity, they're actively trying to recruit more women. this weekend, the berkeley fire department hosted a special camp to give young women a hands-on demonstration of what the job involves. and john ramos has the story. >> reporter: they used to be firmen and now they're firefighters. that's because history taught us when it comes to being a first responder ability matters more than gender. >> harder. harder. you got it. come on. >> i was definitely not expecting this. i was more ct