School lockdown drills have become common — experts say they could be better
Before the Columbine High School shooting, schools prepared for fires and natural disasters. After the 1999 massacre, states enacted lockdown and active shooter drills.
Before the Columbine High School shooting, schools prepared for fires and natural disasters. After the 1999 massacre, states enacted lockdown and active shooter drills.
Saturday marks 25 years since the mass shooting at Columbine High School. David Hogg, who survived a massacre at his high school in Parkland, Florida, joins CBS News to discuss the ongoing push for change.
Elizabeth Scherer presided over the death penalty trial for the Parkland school shooter is speaking publicly for the first time about the case.
Parkland student-turned-activist David Hogg is helping launch an organization aimed at ensuring young people have an "inside game" in U.S. politics.
More than 100 rounds of live ammunition were fired Friday in Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, part of a reenactment of the 2018 Parkland mass shooting in which 17 people were killed. The reenactment was for a civil lawsuit against a former Florida sheriff's deputy, who parents say failed to protect the victims of the shooting. CBS News national correspondent Manuel Bojorquez reports.
Ballistics experts are reenacting the 2018 Parkland school shooting at the behest of victims' family members as part of a civil lawsuit claiming a former sheriff's deputy failed his duty. CBS News national correspondent Manuel Bojorquez has more on the exercise.
Nearly 140 shots will be fired at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Friday as ballistics experts reenact the shooting that killed 17 people. It's part of a civil lawsuit brought by families of the victims accusing sheriff's deputy Scot Peterson of failing his duty. CBS News national correspondent Manuel Bojorquez has more.
On what would have been Joaquin Oliver's 23rd birthday, his father, Manuel Oliver, joined CBS News to talk about his son and the somber bus tour his family has embarked on in his memory. Joaquin Oliver was one of 17 killed during the 2018 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Judge Elizabeth Scherer should be publicly reprimanded for showing bias toward the prosecution, a state commission concluded.
Also, in response to the Uvalde shooting, a bill is pending in Texas that would let schools offer stipends of up to $25,000 to staffers who also become armed campus "sentinels."
The vote came in the wake of the uproar after Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz got a life sentence because the jury couldn't agree unanimously on sentencing him to death.
On Feb. 14, 2018, a gunman murdered 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Florida. The co-founder of March for Our Lives talks about his life since, including death threats against himself and his family.
Those who spoke went to a lectern about 20 feet from the 24-year-old gunman, stared him in the eye and let out their anger and grief.
After the victims' families and the 17 people the gunman wounded get their chance to speak, Circuit Judge Elizabeth Scherer will formally sentence him to life in prison without parole.
Prosecutors are calling for an investigation after one of the jurors in the sentencing trial for Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz said another juror threatened her during deliberations. The jury spared the gunman from a death sentence. Hannah Phillips, a criminal justice reporter for the Palm Beach Post, joined Anne-Marie Green and Vladimir Duthiers with more on the allegation.
The jury foreman said the jurors were divided.
"The monster's going to go to prison and in prison, I'll hope and pray he receives the kind of mercy from prisoners that he showed to my daughter and the 16 others," said Parkland father and activist Fred Guttenberg.
Thomas Benjamin told CBS Miami three jurors voted against the death penalty for the gunman, who was convicted of killing 17 people in 2018.
The gunman killed 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018.
A Florida jury recommended that Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz serve life in prison without parole, sparing him a possible death sentence. CBS News correspondent Manuel Bojorquez has reaction from the courtroom and CBS News legal contributor Rebecca Roiphe explains what led up to the jurors' decision.
A Florida jury is deliberating to determine the fate of Parkland school shooter Nikolas Cruz. He pleaded guilty last year to killing 14 students and three staff members at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. Prosecutors are recommending that the 24-year-old receive the death penalty. CBS News national correspondent Manuel Bojorquez joined Errol Barnett and Meg Oliver to discuss the case.
A Florida jury will decide whether the convicted gunman in the Parkland school massacre should receive the death sentence after hearing closing arguments in his sentencing trial Tuesday. David Weinstein, a partner at Jones Walker LLP, and a former federal prosecutor, joined CBS News to discuss the trial.
The jury, which will be sequestered starting Wednesday, will decide if the gunman will get a death sentence or life behind bars.
The jury will likely decide his fate this week. For the 24-year-old to get a death sentence, the jury must be unanimous on at least one victim.
The motion, filed on Friday, alleged that the judge revealed longstanding animosity toward the defense that threatened the fairness of the trial.
The Fed is keeping its benchmark interest rate in a range of 5.25% to 5.5%, the level it's held since July 2023.
Police ended protesters' occupation of a Columbia University building but violence erupted at UCLA and the University of Arizona as schools stepped up efforts to end demonstrations.
A similar repeal of Arizona's 1864 abortion ban passed the GOP-controlled House last week, and Gov. Katie Hobbs has said she'd sign the measure.
Columbia University called in the NYPD and cleared protesters from campus, ending a pro-Palestinian encampment on the school's main lawn.
A bear cub is thriving after she was orphaned when a group of people were caught on camera pulling her from a tree to take pictures.
Officials say that a school shooting threat was "neutralized" at a middle school west of Madison, Wisconsin, Wednesday morning, with no reported injuries to those inside the school.
A man's physical and verbal threats caused the United flight from London to Newark, New Jersey, to divert to Bangor, Maine.
Rep. Marjorie Tyalor Greene has dangled the threat of dethroning Johnson since late March after he relied on Democrats to push through a $1.2 trillion spending bill to avert a government shutdown.
An Oklahoma couple is in the ICU with broken backs and necks after a tornado tossed their truck into trees.
A man's physical and verbal threats caused the United flight from London to Newark, New Jersey, to divert to Bangor, Maine.
A bear cub is thriving after she was orphaned when a group of people were caught on camera pulling her from a tree to take pictures.
Prosecutors asked for a September retrial for Harvey Weinstein.
The Fed is leaving its benchmark interest rate unchanged, noting a lack of progress in curbing inflation.
Plaintiffs have three months to vote on whether to approve a proposed legal settlement that would resolve nearly all talc lawsuits.
A man's physical and verbal threats caused the United flight from London to Newark, New Jersey, to divert to Bangor, Maine.
The Fed is leaving its benchmark interest rate unchanged, noting a lack of progress in curbing inflation.
Plaintiffs have three months to vote on whether to approve a proposed legal settlement that would resolve nearly all talc lawsuits.
"It's like trying to send a rocket to the moon in 1910 when the Wright Brothers were still working on their planes," one expert said.
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty told lawmakers that its subsidiary Change Healthcare didn't have multifactor authentification.
A similar repeal of Arizona's 1864 abortion ban passed the GOP-controlled House last week, and Gov. Katie Hobbs has said she'd sign the measure.
The Biden administration said it's erasing debt for people who attended the for-profit Art Institutes, which shut down in September.
Rep. Marjorie Tyalor Greene has dangled the threat of dethroning Johnson since late March after he relied on Democrats to push through a $1.2 trillion spending bill to avert a government shutdown.
Democratic state Sen. Timothy Kennedy won a special election for the New York congressional seat left vacant by Democrat Brian Higgins' departure from Congress.
The FBI's searches, some of which were deemed to be improper in the past, were a flashpoint in a months-long fight in Congress over the reauthorization of Section 702 of FISA.
Plaintiffs have three months to vote on whether to approve a proposed legal settlement that would resolve nearly all talc lawsuits.
CBS News medical contributor Dr. Céline Gounder explains why experts hope more aggressive screening guidelines will help address some concerning breast cancer trends.
Recall involves shelled walnuts distributed in 19 states and sold in bulk bins at natural food and co-op stores.
Cat deaths and neurological disease are "widely reported" around farms where the H5N1 bird flu virus was detected, health officials say.
Methylene chloride, a toxic chemical, is linked to at least 88 deaths since 1980, federal regulators say.
It marks the first time in recent memory that anyone claimed to have found such a body disposal site in the capital.
Kenya's Red Cross says it helped rescue dozens of people from the Maasai Mara game park as deadly floods spreads across the region.
Blue holes are considered an "oasis" for marine life – but the Taam Ja' Blue Hole off the coast of Mexico remains largely mysterious.
Britain's government is claiming a "major milestone" in its controversial plan to fly anyone arriving in the U.K. without permission to Rwanda.
State media reported that a long section of a highway collapsed Wednesday in southern China, killing dozens.
Prosecutors asked for a September retrial for Harvey Weinstein.
Judi Dench has tackled nearly every female role in William Shakespeare's plays, from Juliet to Cleopatra.
In her seven-decade career, Dame Judi Dench has played nearly every female character in William Shakespeare's plays, from Juliet to Cleopatra. Dench and her late husband even used to refer to Shakespeare as "the man who pays the rent." That's also the title of her new book, written with her friend Brendan O'Hea. First on "CBS Mornings", she shares stories from a lifetime of iconic Shakespearean roles and much more with Anthony Mason.
See who's nominated for the 77th annual Tony Awards. The Tonys will air live on CBS and Paramount+ on Sunday, June 16.
Only on CBS Mornings, Tony Award-winning actors Jesse Tyler Ferguson and Renée Elise Goldsberry announced the nominations in six key categories for the 77th Annual Tony Awards.
Pollen counters are turning to artificial intelligence as seasonal allergies worsen due to climate change. CBS News national correspondent Dave Malkoff explains how technology is changing the long and tedious process of pollen counting.
Artificial intelligence assistants may soon be able to do much more than play your favorite music or call your mom, but some Google researchers warn about possible ethical dilemmas. CBS News reporter Erica Brown has more.
From labor shortages to environmental impacts, farmers are looking to AI to help revolutionize the agriculture industry. One California startup, Farm-ng, is tapping into the power of AI and robotics to perform a wide range of tasks, including seeding, weeding and harvesting.
A newly-filed lawsuit targets two of the biggest generative AI platforms in the world, Open AI, the creators of ChatGPT and Microsoft's Copilot AI program.
If you think allergies are worse this year, you aren't imagining it. CBS News correspondent Dave Malkoff shows us how a hyperlocal pollen count could help people manage symptoms better.
The group of nations in the G7 have announced an agreement to phase out coal power plants by 2035. CBS News senior national and environmental correspondent Ben Tracy reports.
Blue holes are considered an "oasis" for marine life – but the Taam Ja' Blue Hole off the coast of Mexico remains largely mysterious.
Pollen counters are turning to artificial intelligence as seasonal allergies worsen due to climate change. CBS News national correspondent Dave Malkoff explains how technology is changing the long and tedious process of pollen counting.
The bugs emit a loud, droning buzzing sound when they emerge — signaling they are ready to mate.
Officials from the National Weather Service and the CDC are already warning Americans about record-high temperatures in the coming months thanks to seasonal changes in the La Niña climate pattern. With these rising temperatures, there's also a higher risk of wildfires and droughts. Scott Dance, a climate reporter for The Washington Post, joined CBS News to discuss the forecast.
Officials say that a school shooting threat was "neutralized" at a middle school west of Madison, Wisconsin, Wednesday morning, with no reported injuries to those inside the school.
It marks the first time in recent memory that anyone claimed to have found such a body disposal site in the capital.
MS-13 members targeted random civilians so they could increase their status within the gang, prosecutors said.
At least four law enforcement officers were killed during an operation in Charlotte, North Carolina, on Monday. Johnny Jennings, chief of the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, joins CBS News to discuss the case.
Four officers were killed Monday while trying to serve a warrant in Charlotte, North Carolina. The suspect, who was also killed, opened fire from the top floor of a house as the officers approached. Dave Malkoff has more on the slain officers.
Boeing is set to launch its first-ever spaceflight with humans next week. The Starliner spacecraft will lift off from Florida on Monday night for a multi-day mission to the International Space Station. Commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore and pilot Sunny Williams, two seasoned NASA astronauts who are a part of the mission, join CBS News to go over the flight.
The Horsehead Nebula, which NASA has called "one of the most distinctive objects in our skies," is located in the constellation Orion.
Astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams say they have complete confidence in the Starliner despite questions about Boeing's safety culture.
In 1961, Ed Dwight was selected by President John F. Kennedy to enter an Air Force training program known as the path to NASA's Astronaut Corps. But he ultimately never made it to space.
The creepy patterns were observed by the European Space Agency's ExoMars Trace Gas Orbiter.
A look back at the esteemed personalities who've left us this year, who'd touched us with their innovation, creativity and humanity.
The Francis Scott Key Bridge in Baltimore collapsed early Tuesday, March 26 after a column was struck by a container ship that reportedly lost power, sending vehicles and people into the Patapsco River.
When Tiffiney Crawford was found dead inside her van, authorities believed she might have taken her own life. But could she shoot herself twice in the head with her non-dominant hand?
We look back at the life and career of the longtime host of "Sunday Morning," and "one of the most enduring and most endearing" people in broadcasting.
Cayley Mandadi's mother and stepfather go to extreme lengths to prove her death was no accident.
A colony of bees discovered behind home plate delayed a Major League Baseball game for nearly two hours Tuesday night between the Arizona Diamondbacks and Los Angeles Dodgers in Phoenix. Matt Hilton, a professional beekeeper, came to the rescue.
Boeing is set to launch its first-ever spaceflight with humans next week. The Starliner spacecraft will lift off from Florida on Monday night for a multi-day mission to the International Space Station. Commander Barry "Butch" Wilmore and pilot Sunny Williams, two seasoned NASA astronauts who are a part of the mission, join CBS News to go over the flight.
The Biden administration announced its latest round of student debt relief Wednesday. More than $6 billion will be canceled for 317,000 borrowers who enrolled at any Art Institutes campus between 2004 and 2017. CBS News reporter Haley Ott has more.
The Federal Reserve announced Wednesday it is keeping interest rates steady. The move comes as the central bank continues to deal with inflation. Jeanna Smialek, Federal Reserve and economy reporter for The New York Times, joins CBS News to discuss.
UnitedHealth CEO Andrew Witty issued an apology while testifying before a House committee Wednesday about the cyberattack against subsidiary Change Healthcare that paralyzed insurance payments to hospitals, pharmacies and medical practices nationwide. Nicole Sganga has details.