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reported $100 million for the fbi's mishandling of the investigation into the disgraced doctor. >> i'm especially sorry that there were people at the fbi who had their own chance to stop this monster and failed. >> norah: the "cbs evening news" starts now. ♪ ♪ good evening. i'm norah o'donnell, and thank you for being with us. we do want to begin tonight with that breaking news of a major settlement between the department of justice and some of the survivors of convicted sex offender larry nassar. cbs news has learned that the deal is in its final stages and there are reports the amount could be up to $100 million. and the news comes three years after a department of justice watchdog report outlined the fbi's mishandling of the case, including how agents were slow to investigate the abuse allegations into nassar. he was the former team doctor for the women's national gymnastics team.

analytic stars simone biles, mckayla maroney, and aly raisman are among the gymnasts who sued the fbi and te settlement, when finalized, could bring total payments over nassar's abuse to nearly $1 billion. cbs's caitlin huey-burns is going to start us off tonight with this landmark deal. >> reporter: this settlement could be the final hurdle for justice for some of the top names in gymnastics, abused by former team doctor larry nassar, abuse reported to the fbi and mishandled by the agency for almost a year. >> i also blame an entire system that enabled and perpetrated his abuse. >> they allowed a child molester to go free for more than a year. >> reporter: the deprived of justice is close to a deal that would pay them at around 100 others $100 million, according to "the wall street journal." this comes after a 2021 justice

department inspector general report found the agency failed to respond to the allegations with the utmost seriousness and urgency, and 70 or more young athletes were allegedly sexually abused by nassar after the first complaint against him was filed with the the fbi. rachel done hollander was the first woman to publicly accuse nassar of abuse, though she won't be part of the settlement because her abuse preceded the fbi's failures. what does this kind of settlement mean? >> i'm grateful for a measure of accountability. we need to start having the hard questions of how to bring accountability to law enforcement. speak with a very big deal, the fbi acknowledging they screwed up and they screwed up big and that there were real consequences to their actions, or frankly lack of action. >> reporter: and it is rare for the government to issue a large-scale payout like this. it reflects the seriousness of the fbi's missteps in this case,

and there are reports tonight, finalized within weeks. >> norah: accountability and justice, so important for these survivors. hale and healy burns, thank you so much. tonight, republican lawmakers in arizona thwarted a new effort to repeal the states civil war era abortion ban. if the law goes into effect, most abortions will become illegal this summer. cbs's elise preston reports. >> the motion to overrule my ruling fails. >> reporter: today, heirs and house democrats pleaded with republicans to allow a vote to overturn the abortion ban. >> we are the represents of the people and the people want this repealed. >> this is what we are arguing about right now, whether or not we should overturn some thing that is archaic, something that is going to really impact women in arizona. >> reporter: despite high-profile republicans like former president trump saying the ban goes too far, the attempt to repeal it didn't get enough votes. democrats needed 31 votes to prevail and were just one vote

short. they had hoped at least cargo republicans would repeal the effort. in the end, only one did. >> some of us believe that abortion is in fact the murder of children. >> reporter: opponents of abortion rights welcomed today's outcome. >> we need to save freedom in our state. we need to save our constitution. our rights are under threat every single day. >> reporter: arizona democrats also tried to repeal the ban last week, but were prevented by the republican majority. >> shame! shame! >> reporter: today come abortion rights advocates vowed to press on. >> any extreme ban will kill women and pregnant people. it will force pregnancy on people who cannot or do not want to have a child. >> reporter: they say they have gathered enough signatures for a november ballot initiative that would restore abortion rights until fetal viability, which doctors say is between 23 and 24 weeks. >> i don't have the words to describe how angry i am about eight. this is the reason why i am out here, is to be part of this

community. >> reporter: abortion is currently legal in arizona up to 15 weeks. state attorney -- the state attorney general says if the ban isn't repealed, it could go into effect as early as june. norah? >> norah: elise preston, thank you very much. aircraft manufacturing giant boeing was under the spotlight at two senate hearings today over allegations of safety failures and quality control problems inside the company. cbs's kris van cleave reports on the two whistle-blowers who are making serious allegations. >> i was told, frankly, to shut up. >> reporter: boeing quality engineer turned whistle-blower samsam sa salehpour. >> the company's response to you was to threaten you? >> threaten you, sideline you. >> reporter: he testified at one of two overlapping senate hearings votes cast on for

safety and quality control problems at boeing. >> this focus on money over safety is a bad investment. >> reporter: salehpour claims boeing is not following it on production guidelines when connecting key pieces of the 787 fuselage. he fears it could lead to a structural failure years down the line. >> they have faulty engineering that, you know, they are trying to shove on our throats. >> reporter: the faa is investigating those claims, but boeing says they are inaccurate, pointing to stress testing like this, saying extensive and rigorous testing of the fuselage and heavy maintenance checks of nearly 700m-service airplanes to date have found zero evidence of airplane fatigue. we are fully confident in the safety and durability of the 787 dreamliner. 737 max whistle-blower ed pearson told senators he has given documents related to the door panel that blew out during an alaska airlines flight in january to the fbi. documents potentially the ones

the ntsb says boeing previously indicated did not exist. >> the actual documentation they have been saying has not been available, it is available. >> it is available in the fbi -- >> and has been available for months. >> reporter: we just spoke with the national transportation safety board. while its investigators have not revealed ed pearson's documents, they tell us they do not believe the same as the ones they had been seeking. boeing says it is fully cooperating with all of the ongoing investigations, norah. >> norah: kris van cleave, thank you for your reporting. now to a possible breakthrough on capitol hill, where the house has unveiled a plan to provide billions of dollars in emergency aid to ukraine and israel. but the move could endanger the republican speaker's future. cbs's scott macfarlane is at the capital peered all right, good evening, scott, so what do? >> reporter: norah come on the same day top military leaders warned that ukraine is running out of munitions, a long-awaited installed plan to help ukraine and they think they have threaded a political needle here.

they offer $61 billion for ukraine, billions more for israel, but they will have separate votes, which could help embattled house speaker and mike johnson win enough votes from both parties. what also could feel criticism from republicans including those trying to oust him but do not want money for ukraine. johnson tonight says he doesn't need democrats to intervene to save him, but multiple democrats told cbs news they would if it meant more money for ukraine. norah, the bill got a big jolt. president biden says he supports it, too. >> norah: that's really interesting. meanwhile, scott, there is news tonight about those impeachment charges against the homeland security secretary? >> reporter: the second ever impeachment of a u.s. cabinet secretary, the first since the 1800s. republicans argued alejandro mayorkas willfully and systematically failed to enforce immigration law. democrats today said it was political, and along party line% they voted to dismiss both articles. it began after lunch and ended before dinner appeared to. >> norah: so now it's all done? >> reporter: it's all done.

>> norah: scott macfarlane, thank you peered also on capitol hill today, he did hearing over the rise of anti-semitism on the campus of columbia university in manhattan. the ivy league school has been at the center of some of the most intense campus demonstrations since the war in gaza began. cbs's nikole killion reports the school's president admitted that more could be done to protect jewish students. >> palestine will be free! >> reporter: the fiery debate over anti-semitism at columbia university made its way to capitol hill today. >> anti-semitism has no place on our campus. >> reporter: as republic and the the ivy league institution of gross negligence or its handling of anti-semitic incidents, including assaults and vandalism. >> trying to reconcile the free-speech rights of those who wanted to protest and the rights of jewish students to be in an environment free of discrimination and harassment, has been the central challenge. >> reporter: egyptian-born university president minouche

shafik was the fourth college chief called before the panel. >> does calling for the genocide of jews violate columbia's code of conduct? >> yes, it does. >> reporter: these are the same questions that lead to the resignations of the presidents of harvard and university of pennsylvania. >> does calling for this be 26 of jews violate penn's rules or code of conduct? yes or no? >> it is a context-dependent decision, congresswoman pitts begets a context-dependent decision, that's your testimony today? >> reporter: at least a phonic shafik of the university's response, including professor joseph massad, who described the october 7th hamas attack as awesome, astonishing, and incredible. >> i know you can confirm he was under investigation. >> i did confirm that. >> will you make the commitment to remove him as chair? >> um... i think that would be -- i think -- i would die she asked. >> reporter: to dents attending the hearing stopped short of calling on the school's

president to resign. >> i want the president of columbia to take the action that she says she is going to take. >> reporter: president shafik told lawmakers that she condemns professor massad's writing despite his explicit language. massad claims in a statement to cbs news that lawmakers misrepresented his article and that he has not been contacted about an investigation. norah? >> norah: that article still online. nikole killion, thank you so much. breaking news tonight, a new report from hawaii's attorney general raises a question about the mayor of maui's response to the devastating wildfire last summer that killed 100 people viewed cbs's jonathan vigliotti has reported extensively on this disaster, and he is in hawaii with the new details. >> reporter: tonight, the first comprehensive look at how the flames that ravaged lahaina became the nation's deadliest wildfire in more than a century. >> this is about never letting this happen again. >> reporter: a nearly 400-page

investigation raising new and troubling questions about maui county mayor richard bissen. as hurricane-force winds raged, igniting fires, several schools closed, and the state was preparing an emergency proclamation. at multiple times during the d day, mayor bissen said declaring an emergency was not necessary. at 3:15:00 p.m. as the fire grew in intensity, state officials tried to reach him, asking if hy operations center. they were told no. he finally signed the emergency order at 8:00 p.m. -- hours after lahaina burned down. last august, we confronted the mayor, who had admitted not calling hawaii's defense director kenneth hara of the entire day. >> you are the highest ranking official here on the island. if the buck stops with your office, how is that possible? >> i can't speak to what or who is now my cruisers possibility it was -- >> reporter: but you are the boss of this island, so yes, you can speak to it. >> i cannot say i can

communicate with who was responsible. >> reporter: the maui fire killed more than 100 people and destroyed thousands of homes and businesses. >> very little was done to prevent something like this from happening. >> reporter: do you think that complacency in this case has turned into negligence? >> it crossed the border. it crossed the line. >> reporter: and the attorney general says this report is not meant to point fingers, but many people are now calling on the mayor for answers. we reached out to his office for comment but have not heard back, norah. >> norah: jonathan, you have been reporting and investigating on this from the beginning. thank you so much. federal officials target a rapidly growing threat to american teenagers: online's extortion. what teens and their parents need to know. this is important. that's next. s it? who can i talk to? can this be treated? stop typing. start talking to a specialized urologist. because it could be peyronie's disease, or pd. it's a medical condition where there is a curve in the erection, caused by a formation of scar tissue.

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specific gnome expositions behavior, seek help, and reporto law enforcement. are you satisfied with what the big tech companies are doing and how they are cooperating with the federal government? >> jo ling, when i reached out to the tech company chief executives, we were met with prompt and affirmative responses, eagerly joining this campaign. the tech companies need to do more. >> reporter: the campaign comes after meta ceo mark zuckerberg apologized to parents on capitol hill. snapchat ceo evan spiegel did the same. >> i am so sorry that we have not been able to prevent these tragedies. >> it is the responsibility of tech companies, probably first and foremost, because we are providing better technology, but young people themselves have a role to play in their own safety. so do their parents feared >> reporter: tammy rodriguez's 11-year-old daughter selena died by suicide in 2021, after sexual predators pursued her online. when you see a campaign like this, how does it make you feel?

>> i'm happy to see it. they need to know that the help is there. that they don't have to end their life. >> reporter: dhs says the threat to kids online has never been bigger. the national center for missing and exploited children received more than 36 million reports of suspected child sexual exploitation last year. that up 12% from 2022. norah? >> norah: such an important story. jo ling kent, thank you very much bny basketball star caitlin clark's rookie salary with the wnba is sparking outrage. that's next. ♪ ♪

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>> norah: basketball sensation caitlin clark has taken the women's game to new heights, but becoming the wnba's top draft pick has brought attention to the pay disparity at the nba. cbs's jericka duncan reports clark held her first press conference today, where she talked about how the league and narrow the gap. >> this is a dream come true, like these are the moment you dream of. >> reporter: this could also be the moment the wnba and

women's professional sports has been waiting for. >> i think the more eyeballs you can get on this league, you know, the better off this world is going to be. >> the indiana fever select caitlin clark. >> reporter: it was a ratings record. nearly 2.5 million people tuned in to watch as former iowa guard caitlin clark was drafted by the indiana fever. >> when you look at the amount of revenue that the nba is getting, they could move some of that money to the wnba to invest. >> $76,000 is not enough for someone you are looking to be the face of the league going forward. no other professional sports league would do something like that, and it's a shame. >> reporter: the 22-year-old endorsement deals in college were worth more than $3 million. she'll now get a base salary as a rookie capped at $76,535. last year's nba number one draft pick i'm a victor wembanyama, earned over $12 million.

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