said the cost of construction was too high to reopen. after 15 years at the iconic ferry building, the business is shutting down for good. pham says he's now focused on his other restaurants in san ramon, napa, and france, but there is some good news for the waterfront and the bay bridge. the bay lights have been dark for months, but things are looking promising for their return. i hope. the nonprofit illuminate says it's raised $10 million to bring the installation back. the lights were turned off last year because of the cost to maintain them. bay lights are expected to return in spring next year. cannot wait, so beautiful. cbs evening news is next. we will see you right back [indistinct shouting] >> james: president biden condemns campus violence, speaking out for the first time in a week. >> violent protest is not protected. peaceful protest is. >> james: as tensions across the nation reach a boiling point. >> the people united we will never be defeated!

>> james: tonight police clash with demonstrators in portland and washington, d.c. "cbs evening news" starts now. ♪ ♪ good evening. i'm james brown in for norah. and we begin tonight with president biden's sharp criticism today of the violence that has broken out at protests on america's college campuses over the israel-hamas war. in recent weeks, nearly 2,000 people have been detained or arrested at dozens of schools. there were more protests today at portland state, george washington university, the university of pennsylvania, and nyu. speaking at the white house% today, president biden made his most extensive comments to date on the protests, condemning anti-semitic slurs, vandalism, trespassing, and major disruptions to classes and graduations at some universities. new york city mayor eric adams says nearly half of those

arrested earlier this week at columbia university and nearby city college were not students at those schools. adams claims outside agitators are radicalizing students. cbs's nancy cordes leads off our coverage tonight from the white house. >> reporter: white house officials say it was the sheer number of violent encounters on college campuses over the past two days that prompted president biden to speak out. >> there's the right to protest, but not the right to cause chaos. >> reporter: his comments came in the wake of nearly 2,000 arrests. more than 30 colleges and universities. >> the barricade. >> reporter: just today, protesters were ejected from a library at portland state university that they had occupied for three days. inside, police say they found ball bearings, paint balloons, spray bottles of ink, and diy armor. >> vandalism, trespassing, breakin windows, shutting down campuses, forcing the cancellation of classes

and graduations. none of this is a peaceful protest. >> palestine will be free! >> reporter: like many protesters, president biden has expressed concern about the plight of palestinian civilians. more than 34,000 killed, according to the hamas-run health ministry. but when asked today if he would change his policies towards israel, as the protesters have been demanding, biden said simply... >> no. >> reporter: the unrest is now threatening to become an election issue. young people are a key democratic voting bloc. >> biden needs to listen to what the students are calling for, which is an end to a genocide funded by the united states. so, first things first, stop funding israel. >> reporter: in battleground wisconsin, donald trump argued biden should have spoken out sooner. >> there is a big fever in our country, and he's not talking. >> reporter: but trump also made this unfounded claim about campus demonstrators.

>> they do come from other countries, and they are paid. >> reporter: some republicans have urged president biden to send in the national guard to quell campus protests, but he said no to that today. cbs news was first to report that the biden administration is now considering bringing some palestinians from war-torn gaza to the u.s. as refugees. j.b.? >> james: nancy, thank you very much. one of the most intense flash points is the campus of ucla. police broke up an encampment overnight, and bulldozers were brought in today to scoop up trash and tents. some buildings were covered in graffiti. cbs's jonathan vigliotti is there. >> reporter: early morning chaos on the campus of ucla. >> these are chp riot police. >> reporter: hundreds of officers in riot gear clashed with protesters. >> get back! get back! >> reporter: with support from multiple agencies, officers moved in, tearing down

barricades and dismantling tents... firing rubber bullets and flash-bangs. cbs's carter evans was there as police stepped into action. >> reporter: we are looking at what might be the end of the protests here at this encampment. police have got the protesters surrounded, pushing them up against a wall there, but they are not giving up. >> reporter: the pro-palestinian encampment set up by students one week ago was declared unlawful by the university tuesday night. >> this is an attack on democratic rights. this is our radius. >> reporter: more than 200 people were arrested, arms zip-tied behind their backs and led away. >> we need to resist. we need to keep protesting. and that's the only way change will be made. >> reporter: new tonight, manhattan's district attorney confirms a police officer was who was involved in clearing protesters inside columbia university's hamilton hall fired his gun. no one was injured. cbs's lilia luciano spoke with new york city mayor eric adams earlier this afternoon. >> we saw a change in protest

behavior when we saw a destruction of property, taking over buildings. we saw the patterns that these individuals that we identify are used to doing. >> reporter: mayor adams says outside agitators known to police were arrested alongside the student protesters. there is a difference between the protests that are happening outside the gates and the protests in the encampment. who of these dangerous people were arrested inside hamilton hall? >> well, i'm not sure we are asking the question that if someone is dangerous that uses a hammer to break into a building, destroy property while they're in that building, burglarizing that building. burglary is one of our seven major crimes. >> reporter: back here on the ucla campus, cleanup is underway. an encampment behind me has been cleared out, and tonight, there is an increased police presence here on campus, along with calls for the chancellor to step down. meanwhile, all classes have been moved online for the rest of the week, j.b. >> james: thank you, jonathan. tonight, mandatory evacuations are in place in areas around

houston, texas, as a major river there quickly rises. nearly 40 million people are on alert for flash flooding. that's following days of torrential rains and severe thunderstorms. cbs's omar villafranca reports from hard-hit southeast texas. >> reporter: parts of livingston, texas, waterlogged after overnight storms soaked the southeast texas town. up to 8 inches of rain fell in some areas this morning, leaving homes and businesses looking like lakefront property. we tried to get to livingston but couldn't. heavy downpours drenched major highways and slowed traffic during the morning commute. we could only get as far as coldspring, 17 miles away. the main road in town is shut down. we found residents taking horses and even pet pigs to drier, higher ground. >> about an hour and a half ago, it was about waist deep in my backyard. >> reporter: luckily, vanessa russell's home is on stilts, but her confidence is

not high after she found out the lake livingston dam across the street was opened to relieve the swollen lake, dumping millions of gallons into her neighborhood. >> it's horrible. do not move to a flood plain, ever. >> oh, no way. >> reporter: further east in college station, a woman tried to drive through a flooded parking lot. >> okay, that got bad very quickly. >> reporter: she abandoned her car once the water became too deep. >> she is okay. that is the important part. her car, maybe not so much. >> reporter: in northern houston, this neighborhood also washed out. people there walking through water that reached to their knees. houston's mayor john whitmire. >> it appears the worst is yet to come. >> reporter: high water vehicles like this one are the only way to get around certain neighborhoods. here in san jacinto county, emergency crews have already rescued 32 people, and with more rain in the forecast, that number may go up. j.b.? >> james: omar with the tough news.

thank you, omar. tonight, one of the nation's busiest highways is completely shut down in a bustling area of connecticut. a massive fire after a gasoline tanker crashed also severely damaged an overpass. no one was seriously hurt, but this could have a huge economic impact in the northeast. cbs's tony aiello reports from the scene. >> reporter: raging flames and black smoke turned dawn into darkness after the multivehicle crash on i-95 in norwalk, connecticut, this morning. fire officials say a car swerved in front of a truck, pulling a flatbed trailer, as a fuel tanker approached, loaded with 8500 flammable gallons, all colliding under the fairfield overpass bridge, igniting a massive fire. ironically, it happened near the headquarters of norwalk fire. >> the bridge was damaged. the heat from the burning fuel compromised some of the bridge, so that bridge is going to have to come down. >> reporter: while firefighters used foam to battle the blaze, officials say roughly

4,000 gallons of the gasoline load have burned or run off. the crash occurred on the southbound lane of i-95, a busy stretch of the north-south interstate, with more than 145,000 vehicles traveling through daily. the morning commute turned into a chaotic mess, with thousands of vehicles diverted to local roads around the accident scene after state police shut down the highway in both directions. >> for a lot of truckers, we are on the clock, so we can only work 14 hours and drive 11 hours, so when this impact, it slows down the delivery time for our loads. >> reporter: they will begin dismantling that fire-damaged overpass early friday morning, with an eye on reopening this critical highway for rush hour monday, j.b. >> james: tony aiello, thank you very much. today was the sixth day of testimony at former president donald trump's so-called hush money trial in manhattan. before the jury heard from a former attorney for

stormy daniels, there was a hearing on more potential violations of a gag order by the former president. cbs's robert costa is at the courthouse. >> reporter: former president trump, already fined $9,000 for violating a gag order, could be penalized again, as judge juan merchan this morning considered four additional violations. >> this judge, who is totally conflicted, has me under an unconstitutional gag order. >> reporter: prosecutors cited several examples, including this, about future witness michael cohen. >> he got caught lying in the last trial. >> reporter: on the stand today, stormy daniels' former attorney keith davidson, who testified how he negotiated a $130,000 payment from cohen to pay stormy daniels for her story before the 2016 election. >> and you had sex with him? >> yes. >> reporter: davidson acknowledged texting with "national enquirer" editor dylan howard the night trump won, writing, "what have we done?" howard replied, "oh, my god." asked to clarify the text, davidson told the jury there

was an understanding that their activities may have assisted trump's campaign. trump has denied any wrongdoing and has denied knowing details about the payment, so today, the prosecution played an audio recording for the jury in which cohen tells davidson that trump hates the fact we did it. davidson testified that was a reference to the payment to daniels. trump's lawyers, meanwhile, tried to paint davidson as a serial extortionist of celebrities, citing alleged deals related to lindsay lohan, charlie sheen, and hulk hogan and that he did the same with trump. >> they are doing a good job at showing sort of this seedy, dirty underbelly of this world that keith davidson peddles in. by all accounts, you know, this is what this man does for a living. it's his bread-and-butter. >> reporter: and today, trump falsely claimed that he is not able to testify due to the gag order. that's not true. he is able to testify. the gag order just prohibits him from criticizing the jury or the witnesses. j.b.? >> james: robert costa

in new york, thank you. arizona's near-total ban on abortion has been repealed. governor katie hobbs made that official today, undoing a law that dated back to 1864. this summer, a law passed in 2022 will go back into effect. that allows abortions up to the 15th week of pregnancy. some abortion rights advocates want that to be extended to 24 weeks and are collecting signatures to put that on the ballot in november. here in washington, house republicans are bracing for another mutiny against their leader from the conference's far right. this time, congresswoman marjorie taylor greene is threatening to move ahead with a vote to remove house speaker mike johnson using the same procedure that ousted kevin mccarthy. but this time, johnson has an unlikely ally. in an interview for this sunday's "60 minutes," our norah o'donnell sits down with house democratic leader hakeem jeffries.

>> norah: nine months after getting the job of speaker, republican kevin mccarthy of california got dumped by the far right wing of his party. following three weeks of paralysis, mike johnson of louisiana took his place. >> i want to thank you all for the trust that you have instilled in me. >> norah: after he worked with democrats to pass the foreign aid bill that included $61 billion for ukraine, georgia congresswoman marjorie taylor greene, who opposed it, said she will follow through with the threat to oust him. jeffries told us he works to find common ground with the other side of the aisle, and at least one republican who might be happy about that is speaker johnson. >> johnson, at some point today... >> norah: this past week, democrats said they would vote against congresswoman greene's effort to remove him. has speaker johnson asked for your help? >> he has not. and our view would traditionally

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>> we really thrive on the community support that we get. >> those 3 to 5 minutes felt like eternity. i was just happy that they got out. >> james: three heroes who put their lives on the line to save others. tonight's "heart of america." and that's tonight's "evening news." almost two weeks of peaceful protests at confrontation at uc berkeley. >> bloody nose and one of our protesters got punched in the eye. will it change things for anti-war protesters and how the university handles them? >> and an apartment complex with a big city feel. it is planned for a south bay community with a lot of single-family homes. how neighbors worry they will literally be overshadowed. >> it is one thing to be three stories, four stories, but

seven stories? >> okay, they are not exactly what you would call cute. they do have a crucial role in our eco system and that is not all. >> we would not have coffee, chocolate, tequila without bats, that should be enough. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. good evening. it has been two weeks now that anti-war tent encampments started popping up at colleges across the nation. the bay area is home to a handful of them. the newest one at campus of the university at san francisco. unlike around the country local protests and the response from schools have been peaceful until now. in what could be a sign of rising tensions a fight broke out at the uc berkeley campus. it was all caught on video. >> reporter: the students living in the protest encampment here last night say the fight was small. it is one of the first reported incidents since this encampment was built. >> we are getting