05/08/2026 | World News Roundup

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and the war with Iran.

They trifled with us today. We blew him away.

Authorities monitoring hantavirus cruise passengers.

This is not going to be another covid that will sweep around the earth.

Southern Republicans push for redistricting.

Moving quickly in response to last week's Supreme Court ruling the

Good morning. I'm Cami McCormick with the CBS World News Roundup. There's been another escalation in the war with Iran. The Pentagon says three American destroyers were attacked and US forces returned fire and hit Iranian targets on land. President Trump called it a little U-turn. Nancy Cortez has more from the White House.

They trifled with us today.

The Iranians trifled with three U.S. Navy destroyers as they transited the Strait of Hormuz. U.S. officials say Apache helicopters armed with hellfire missiles Took out the swarm of Iranian fast attack boats in a firefight that lasted for hours. Trump talked about the skirmish shortly after he drove right down the middle of the drained reflecting pool on the National Mall, which he closed for resurfacing. A reporter asked him about soaring gas prices.

Prices have come down today.

Gas prices actually rose a few cents Thursday to a US average of four fifty six a gallon.

Now to the cruise ship with a Hontavirus outbreak, the World Health Organization continues to insist the strain only spreads through very close contact and there's no need for international concern. Infectious disease expert doctor William Shaffner of Vanderbilt University Medical Center.

The risk really is extraordinarily low. I think this is a well confined episode that is focused on people who were on this cruise ship.

Nearly one hundred and fifty people remain trapped on board. CBS's Tom Hanson has been following the story.

For the first time Thursday, President Trump addressed the response to the deadly hantivirus outbreak on a cruise ship with more than a dozen Americans on board. This all comes as global health officials are scrambling to track down passengers who departed the MV Hondius weeks ago. The cruise operator says nearly thirty passengers from at least twelve countries, including six Americans, left the ship during one of its first port stops in St. Helena before the Hontavirus was suspected.

Republican legislators in Tennessee are giving their party a better chance to win every congressional seat in November. They voted to split the state's only black majority district into three pieces. Opponents are protesting. CBS is Ed O'Keeffe on how the fight is playing out across the South.

Chaos at the Tennessee Capitol in Nashville Thursday as Democratic lawmakers and protesters tried to stop legislation, breaking up the state's only Democratic House seat. Yelling, holding signs, calling the move Jim Crow two point oh, even burning a printout of the Confederate flag. The change follows a Supreme Court ruling last week that narrowed the Voting Rights Act. CBS News election law analyst David Becker says the ruling has this effect.

And in some cases that's going to mean that they blanch their entire state's delegation and really minimize the impact of the minority population in a state.

Alabama's attorney general says it's just a question of reflecting the state's Republican tilt.

Alabama is a conservative state. I expect that we'll have conservative representatives.

There has been a cyber attack on an online learning platform used by the country's best known universities and thousands of other schools. It knocked out the system called Canvas. CBS's Joling Kent has the latest.

When millions of students around the world attempted Access their grades and other class materials on Thursday, they got a ransom note from a hacking group calling itself Shiny Hunters. The message claimed the group had obtained data from the schools and threatened to leak the information unless a settlement was paid. giving a deadline of May twelfth. This causing chaos among students, especially those in the middle of final.

Now I'm unable to do my assignments.

The hack knocked Canvas, the online learning platform, out of the way.

Mother's Day is Sunday and there's evidence we're already snapping up gifts online, Jennifer Kuyper reports.

When it comes to buying gifts for mom online, Adobe's Vivek Pandia says they're seeing really strong growth for fragrances.

Purses and handbags have seen growth as high as thirty seven percent.

Which Pandilla says is a little bit higher than this time last year. Adobe also expects a major uptick for flour sales spiking on Saturday and Sunday in the range of a five hundred fifty to six hundred percent increase.

AI is having more of an impact on our jobs and workplaces, as Michael Toscano reports.

April was the second month in a row. AI was the leading reason companies signed for layoffs according to data from outplacement firm Challenger Gray and Christmas. Twenty six percent of eliminated cuts. Their analysis says some tech firms are shifting spending away from labor to direct more capital investment toward AI. Quote whether individual jobs are being replaced by AI, the money for those roles is.

One of the world's most beloved wildlife defenders is celebrating his one hundredth birthday, David Attenborough. For over seventy years, he's brought his documentaries on the wonders of the world into millions of homes across the globe.

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Allison Keyes reports.

Just listening to Sir David Attenborough describe a standoff between wolves and bison gives you goosebumps.

They circle the herd, trying to unsettle it and split it up. But the bison are armed and dangerous.

Sir Attenborough has been raising the alarm about human caused climate change for years, telling CBS a sixty minutes.

Crime has been committed and uh and it so happens that that I'm of such an age that I was able to see it beginning.

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A health update from a former star of Full House. In a new Instagram post, Full House Dave Coulier is addressing concerns about his appearance.

What you're seeing is the side effects of extensive radiation that I went through for carcinoma in my throat. And I haven't been able to eat solid food in months.

He says he's lost 45 pounds, and yes, his voice has changed.

It's affected my ability to speak.

But the sixty six year old says there's good news.

We got our PET scans back and and the prognosis looks good for both the carcinoma and lymphoma.

Plus he says his hair is kinda growing back. This past February, Coulier announced he was in remission, Deborah Rodriguez, CBS News. Pope Leo has marked the first anniversary of his election with a visit to Pompeii and a prayer for peace. And that's the World News Roundup for Friday, May eighth, produced this week by Dave Shapiro and Todd Weiss. I'm Cammie McCormick, CBS News.

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