>> david: tonight, breaking news as we come on the air. here in new york, the aerials coming in right now from fordham university. the protests. the nypd on the scene in riot gear. and new video tonight as the nypd enters that hall at columbia university to take it back. tonight, those aerials coming in. the unfolding scene at fordham. across the country tonight, protesters by the hundreds arrested. new york city police clearing pro-palestinian demonstrators, and they say outside agitators, too, off the columbia campus.

officers climbing through a window to remove protesters occupying hamilton hall. going room to room. violent clashes breaking out among protest groups at ucla and officers clashing with demonstrators at the university of wisconsin. also tonight, hamas could answer at any moment whether this high-stakes cease-fire and hostage deal between israel and hamas will, in fact, move forward. secretary of state antony blinken in the region right now. will there be a cease-fire? we have late reporting. in the u.s., reports of an active shooter outside a middle school, reports of a 14-year-old possibly armed with a rifle. the school locked down. tonight, what police are now saying about that teen. we're tracking the new tornado threat and severe storms at this hour across multiple states. ginger zee is here tonight. this evening, florida's six-week abortion ban now in effect, starting today. donald trump tonight defending states taking action on abortion.

vice president kamala harris in florida tonight, saying she and the president believe these decisions should be made by women, not the government. harvey weinstein back in court for the first time since his rape conviction was overturned in new york. will there be a new trial? what was revealed today. the robin roberts exclusive here tonight with wnba star brittney griner. her first interview about her ten months behind bars in russia. what she revealed to robin. tonight, the investigation into boaters partying and then seen dumping trash into the atlantic, right off the coast of florida. what authorities are now saying about this. the passenger plane, the possible bird strike, and the emergency landing tonight. and reports of an earthquake in california. >> david: good evening, and we begin tonight here with the breaking news. the images coming in right now, among these crackdowns on campus

protests. the nypd now at the scene in riot gear at fordham university as we come on tonight. we also have new images of the nypd at columbia university, going into that hall through a second floor window to move those protesters who smashed their way in out. those aerials tonight just coming in. this is fordham university. nypd officers in tactical gear confronting protesters as we come on. we've just been told that fordham has officially asked the nypd to help. now, this comes after those images last night, as we were on the air in the west. scores of officers marching onto columbia's campus. some in riot gear, using a ramp to enter hamilton hall through a second story window. they say pro-palestinian protesters and, they say, some outside agitators, were inside that hall. chairs used as barricades, offices damaged. protesters' plans written on a classroom chalkboard. more than 100 people taken into custody at columbia alone. tonight, that tent encampment at columbia now gone. the nypd has been asked to stay

until may 17th there so that students can have their graduation. but again tonight, the scene now unfolding at fordham, the school asking the nypd to help. abc's stephanie ramos leading us off again tonight. >> if you proceed, you may be placed under arrest. >> reporter: tonight, the nypd releasing new video inside the raid at a campus, nypd into the crowd warning, moving in and making arrests. it comes as the nypd is releasing new video inside the raid at columbia university -- officers in riot gear marching up that ramp to get into the second story of hamilton hall, then moving floor by floor in a massive show of force, breaking open locked rooms with hammers, cutting their way through locked metal doors. police taking more than 100 protesters into custody. >> divest! >> reporter: at nearby city college -- >> this is the new york city police department. >> reporter: -- officers there

moving in to break down tents and making arrests. nearly 300 in all facing charges ranging from trespassing to criminal mischief to burglary. the nypd taking down the palestinian flag and putting the american flag back up. today, the mayor defending the crackdown and blaming outside agitators for training and leading students who broke in and seized that building. >> there is a movement to radicalize young people. and i'm not going to wait until it's done and all of a sudden acknowledge the existence of it. >> reporter: so far, neither police nor prosecutors are saying how many of those arrested were from outside the school. the white house today pressed on whether the president supported deploying the nypd into schools. >> they have the right to peacefully protest. forcibly taking over a building is not peaceful. it's just not. >> reporter: tonight, with columbia's lawn now cleared of tents for the first time in two weeks, pro-palestinian protesters and professors slamming school administrators

and the police response. >> this is the conscience of a nation speaking through your kids, through young people who are risking their futures -- who are risking suspension, expulsion, criminal arrest. >> reporter: overnight, a disturbing turn at ucla with an all-out brawl after counter protesters tried to break down a pro-palestinian enrampment. fist-fights erupting, people hitting each other with wood and long sticks. this is the moment someone threw a firework into the protest encampment. the violence unfolding for more than two hours before police in riot gear moved in. governor gavin newsom saying the delayed response by law enforcement was unacceptable and demands answers. tonight, as campus protests rage from arizona to wisconsin, there is mounting frustration on all sides. >> everyone's just yelling at each other and there's no common

ground. >> reporter: and david, fordham university now asking for the nypd to intervene, to help disperse crowds. drones are flying overhead, and police are currently on the scene. here at columbia university, police are authorized to be on campus through may 17th. the graduation ceremony here moving forward, david. >> david: stephanie ramos on this again for us tonight. stephanie, thank you. meantime, on this issue, we are told that hamas could answer at any moment whether this high stakes cease-fire and hostage deal between israel and hamas will move forward to get many of the remaining hostages out. secretary of state antony blinken in the region saying, quote, the time is now to accept the deal. tom soufi burridge with late reporting coming in now from tel aviv. >> reporter: tonight, hamas' response to that high-stakes u.s.-brokered cease-fire and hostage deal expected at any moment. secretary of state antony blinken meeting face-to-face today with prime minister benjamin netanyahu saying the time is now for hamas to accept the offer. >> there is no time for delay.

there's no time for further haggling. >> reporter: the initial phase of the israeli offer includes a six-week pause in the fighting and the release of palestinian prisoners, in exchange for 33 hostages, including the injured. 23-year-old american israeli hersh goldberg-polin seen here in this hamas video missing part of his left arm, blown off on october 7th by terrorists when he was captured. blinken also meeting today with the family of 64-year-old american israeli hostage keith siegel. it's believed around 100 hostages are still being held in gaza. >> we will not rest until everyone, man, woman, soldiers, civilians, young, old, is back home. >> reporter: and tonight, the u.s. doubling down, warning israel not to invade rafah in southern gaza, where more than a million palestinians are taking refuge, saying peace in the region is at stake. but netanyahu defiant, vowing tuesday israeli forces will go

into rafah to root out the remaining hamas battalions, with or without a deal. and david, we're just getting word, a hamas leader says hamas' position on the proposed cease-fire deal is negative, but they're still studying it and negotiations could still continue. david? >> david: tom soufi burridge with late reporting from tel aviv. tom, thank you. meantime, back here in the u.s. tonight, reports of an active shooter outside a middle school. police say a 14-year-old possibly armed with a rifle. that school put on lockdown for a time. and then authorities moving in on that teenager. abc's pierre thomas with what we've learned so far in this wisconsin case. >> reporter: tonight, this small community of mount horeb, wisconsin, shaken after reports of an active shooter headed toward a middle school. >> reports of shots fired at the school. >> reporter: children and staff fleeing. the school put on lockdown. sources telling abc news shortly after noon, police encountered a 14-year-old with what appeared to be a rifle. police racing to the scene. the gunman did not breach the

school, but police say he was neutralized in a confrontation with officers. >> so there is one injury. it's going to be the suspect. >> reporter: images all too familiar. today, nervous parents waiting. s.w.a.t. teams, emergency vehicles, and a dead body. >> this has been a shock. i mean, so scary. it's devastating to hear what's going on. i'm texting my son right now. he was barricaded in a classroom. they've stopped that, but there's still lockdowns. i don't want no kid to go through what's going on, nor parent go through this. >> reporter: parents and police understandably shaken. the fear real, as mass shootings have become routine in this country, even at schools. no one forgetting uvalde and many others like parkland and newtown. police have not released any information on the suspect, who sources say is a juvenile. david, the town is traumatized tonight, but grateful no one else was injured. >> david: we are, too. pierre thomas tonight. pierre, thank you. we are tracking the

potential for more tornadoes tonight. severe storms on the move. let's get right to chief meteorologist ginger zee tracking it all again for us tonight. ginger? >> david, at least one tornado already ripping across the panhandle of texas tonight, and it's going to be a long couple of hours, even into the overnight. so let me go ahead and show you. the tornado watch right now includes dodge city, kansas, down to lubbock, but the severe thunderstorm watch goes to the mexican border. waco, austin, san antonio, houston, and alexandria, louisiana, could see a widespread three to five inches, and up to nine inches locally. you will see flash flood problems with that. these go late into the night. you can see the clock stops at 11:00 there. and they will keep chugging east. tomorrow, we destabilize the atmosphere again and get that same area, including abilene, a risk of damaging wind. but david, as remarkable as april was, second-most or the nave does we've seen since records began in 1950 for the month, may is the one to watch. climatologically, that's where we see the most tornados. >> david: may is often much worse. ginger zee with us tonight.

ginger, thank you. now to florida tonight, where this evening, that state's six-week abortion ban has taken effect. tonight, donald trump defending states that have taken their own action on abortion rights. vice president kamala harris in florida, saying she and president biden believe these decisions should be made by women and not the government. here's rachel scott. >> reporter: after spending tuesday stuck in manhattan courtroom, tonight, donald trump parachuting into key battlegrounds wisconsin and michigan before he has to fly right back to new york, where his criminal trial resumes tomorrow. in waukesha today, trump veering off teleprompter to defend himself on an issue that could decide the election -- abortion. >> basically, the states decide on abortion. and people are absolutely thrilled with the way that's going on. >> reporter: just this week, trump telling "time" magazine he won't object if states monitor pregnant women to make sure they comply with abortion bans, and prosecute women who violate them. today he doubled down.

>> now i say, it's up to the state. they'll ask me a question about it and i'll say, "that's up to the state." so, i'll say to you, i think we did a very good job and a lot of people are very happy with it. >> reporter: today, vice president kamala harris firing back in florida, where the state's new abortion law just went into effect, banning abortion at six weeks, before most women even know they're pregnant. >> basically, under donald trump, it would be fair game for women to be monitored and punished by the government, whereas joe biden and i have a different view. we believe the government should never come between a woman and her doctor. >> reporter: florida's near total ban means abortion access is now largely cut off across the entire south. >> as of this morning, 4 million women in this state woke up with fewer reproductive freedoms than they had last night. this is the new reality under a

trump abortion ban. >> reporter: david, the biden campaign is pounding on abortion rights to galvanize voters this november. both campaigns keenly aware that this issue could be on the ballot in as many as 13 states, including several key battlegrounds, and that abortion rights has won every single time it appeared on the ballot. david? >> david: both campaigns know this, and you're right there live at a trump event in michigan tonight at this hour. rachel, thank you. tonight, on the issue of abortion rights, the arizona state senate has also approved to repeal that civil war-era abortion ban passed in 1864. two republicans voting with the democrats one week after the arizona house approved the repeal. tonight, arizona governor katie hobbs says she will sign the repeal tomorrow into law, but the repeal won't take effect until sometime in the fall unless a court intervenes now. tonight, in new york, disgraced movie mogul harvey weinstein was back in court for the first time since an appeals court overturned his 2020 rape conviction. weinstein arriving in a wheelchair. we learned today weinstein's now

set to be retried on sex assault charges sometime after labor day. he does remain in custody. his legal team also appealing a separate conviction in los angeles. we turn now to an abc news exclusive tonight. robin roberts, one-on-one with wnba star brittney griner. speaking out for the first time about her ten months behind bars in russia, and the mistake that changed her life. tonight here, what she revealed to robin. >> reporter: at the moscow airport, this is russian customs service footage of brittney griner putting her carry-on bags through the scanner. unaware that life as she knows it is about to end. as the agent tells her to search her backpack. so, you reach down, because you've been told to go through your bag. >> yep. >> reporter: and you felt -- >> felt the cartridge. >> reporter: cartridge. >> and i'm just like, oh, my god, like, how did i make this mistake? >> reporter: did they ask you what was in it? >> they asked. i looked at them, i was just like, i don't know, i just -- cbd.

>> reporter: but it wasn't cbd. russian authorities determined that between the two cartridges is actually 0.7 grams of cannabis oil containing thc, the psychoactive ingredient in marijuana. you know there are those who say, come on, how did you not know that you had cartridges in your -- in your luggage? what do you say to the skeptics? >> i would say, have you ever forgot your keys in your car? left your car running? have you ever, you know, where's my glasses? they're on top of your head. >> reporter: when did you realize that -- i'm being detained? >> the moment they took my passport and they took my boarding pass. >> reporter: 134 days into her detainment, brittney griner goes on trial. >> i had no intent to break any russian laws. i made an honest mistake, and i hope that in your ruling that it doesn't end my life here.

>> reporter: you plead guilty? >> yes. >> reporter: what was the thought process with that? >> i understand what i did was a mistake, and it was an accident, but at the same time, it happened. >> reporter: she is sentenced to nine years of hard labor. what were the conditions like there? >> really cold. it's a work camp. you go there to work. there's no rest. >> reporter: then, in december 2022, she finally gets the news there will be a prisoner exchange. you are told you're heading home, that it's happening. >> uh-huh. i was thrilled. like -- i'm happy, i'm just, like, oh, my god, like, a win. >> david: our thanks to robin and to brittney griner sitting down with us. her new book is "coming home," set to be published next tuesday. much more of robin's exclusive interview, a special "20/20" tonight, 10:00 p.m. eastern, right here on abc, and then streaming on hulu. our thanks to robin again. one more note on the economy tonight.

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together. >> people were helping me find jack that i didn't even know. so i'm just thankful to be part of this community and thankful for everything they've done. >> david: we're so glad jack's home. i'll see you tomorrow. good night. primary. the recount is done for the tightest race in the state. we finally know who's going to the general election. the race for anna su seat plus and mayor martinez. >> yes, the motion passes with. >> a historic vote at the richmond city council. >> always live. abc seven news starts right now. >> it will be evan low in the general election, facing off against sam liccardo in the hotly contested race for the district 16 congressional seat.

good evening. >> i'm ama daetz and i'm dan ashley. thanks for joining us. you know, you hear all the time every vote counts. every election. we say that. but this race was a literal example of that expression. the recount is now complete and it's evan low by five votes over joe simitian. the two ended the march primary and a tie for second place behind sam liccardo. >> this is the race for congressional district 16, the seat long held by anna eshoo. it represents large portions of san mateo and santa clara counties. >> abc seven news south bay reporter zach fuentes just finished speaking with low about the race, the recount and what's next. >> the final results tuesday from santa clara county showed the two candidates separated by four votes in that county. what we were waiting on wednesday were results from the other county in the congressional district, san mateo county. just before four wednesday. it was confirmed that evan low picked up one more vote in that county, and joe simitian picked up none, meaning low beat. simitian by five votes. we spoke with low just after the final results