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connection with the death of friends star matthew perry. what we know about the five individuals charged and their alleged roles in the actor's death, including a drug dealer known as the ketamine queen. that and more headlines tonight on the cbs evening news. >>and coming up tonight at five, we meet a three time grammy award winner about to take the stage at stern grove this weekend. and thank you so much for joining us for today's important conversation about cancer. and men and ways to try to prevent it we'd love to hear what you think. are you changing any of your daily habits to try to stay healthy? post your thoughts online using the hashtag kpix. the cbs evening news is next. local news continues on our streaming service, cbs news bay area. i'll see you at five. >> we have filed numerous federal charges. >> major: new criminal charges against five people in the

overdose death of actor matthew perry. >> they knew what they were doing was risking great danger to mr. perry, but they did it anyways. >> major: nine months after the "friends" star was found unresponsive at his los angeles home, prosecutors accuse to doctors, a so-called ketamine queen, and two others are providing lethal doses of the drug. >> the way that his doctors were prescribing him ketamine was complete the unconventional. >> major: the "cbs evening news" starts now. ♪ ♪ good evening, everyone. i'm major garrett in for norah. two of those people come a doctor known as dr. p commander ledge dealer called the ketamine queen, are set to appear in court today with the connection of the accidental death of matthew perry. in all, five people were charged for allegedly supplying large quantities of the drug ketamine to the "friends" star, who relapsed. federal prosecutors say this was a broad, underground criminal network that conspired to prescribe, sell them and eject perry with ketamine.

u.s. attorney said the group took advantage of the actors addiction for one simple reason: money. cbs's adam yamaguchi is outside the federal courthouse in los angeles. >> engine 23, risky 23, ems 9 on radio responding. >> reporter: in the days leading up to his death, matthew perry was spiraling out of control, according to investigators. >> that the follow 2023, mr. perry fell back into addiction. and these defendants took advantage to profit for themselves. >> reporter: five people have been charged with conspiring to distribute the ketamine that killed him including two doctors and trump perry personal live in assistant. the. >> norah: to star one battled substance abuse and received ketamine to treat depression but later sought out larger illegal doses from doctors and drug dealers. >> ketamine at low doses is a sedative, but at higher doses it becomes an anesthetic, so like many things in pharmacology, the dose is the poison. >> reporter: court document include text messages between the two doctors charge that say

i wonder how much this will pay and let's find out. >> over two months from september to october 2023, they distributed possibly 20 vials of ketamine to mr. perry. in exchange for $55,000 in cash. >> reporter: investigators allege to speak when he was personal assistant who found him unresponsive had given him multiple shots of ketamine for five consecutive days, including the day he died. on another occasion. was injected with a large dose that caused him to freeze up and his blood pressure to significant lease spike. >> that's not something that would happen if you are receiving the medication in the upper bit clinical care. >> reporter: perry's family said while they are still heartbroken, they look forward to just taking its course. three defendants putting the personal assistant have pleaded guilty. >> breaking the laws and risking lives. >> reporter: now if convicted on all counts, the doctor arraigned today could face a

sentence of up to 120 years in prison and the alleged drug dealer known as the ketamine queen could face life in prison. major? >> major: adam yamaguchi, thank you so much. president joe biden prep vice president, harris today appear together at the first public events and she became the democratic nominee. in the heat of the president shall campaign, the two teamed up to talk about the economy, inflation, and lowering the cost of everyday items. cbs's weijia jiang reports from the white house about a medicare first. >> i love you guys. >> reporter: it was a white house event to highlight lowering the cost of prescription drugs. >> no senior should have to choose between either filling the prescription or paying their rent. >> reporter: but president biden wasted no time campaigning for vice president harris in their first official joint appearance since she became the democratic presidential nominee. >> she's going to make one sela hof apresident.

let me tell you what our project honey 25 is. beat the hell out of them. >> reporter: dismissed criticism that he should focus more on substance and less on personally attacking harris. >> i thing i'm entitled to personal a taxpayer i don't have a lot of respect for her. i don't have a lot of respect for her intelligence bid. >> reporter: trump also bashed the biden administration for not doing enough to stop rising prices beer today the white house announced agreements with drug manufacturers to bring down the price for ten widely used medications that will take effect in 2026. the medicare negotiation program marks the first time the federal government has haggled with drugmakers. >> i think this is an enormous step. >> reporter: 80-year-old frank irwin takes xarelto to treat a rapid heart rate. one of the top three most prescribed drugs on the list. a 30 day supply will go from $517 to $197. erwin says the savings are way

overdue. >> i've never understood why the drug cartel, if that's the right term for it, has such a monopoly and has the lobbyist out there that they can get the laws written p. >> reporter: tomorrow, vice president harris will deliver her first policy speech as a presidential nominee with a focus on the economy. and new tonight, vice presidential candidate's governor tim walz and senator j.d. vance have agreed to a debate right here on cbs. moderated by norah norah and face the nation's margaret brennan. this set for october 1st in new york city p or major? >> rep >> major: filed under must-see tv. weijia jiang, thank you. former lawn force when officiall the secret services arranging for former president donald trump to resume outdoor campaign rallies by surrounding his podium with bulletproof. this level of protection is typically reserved for sitting presidents, but we are told the secret service is making an exception following last month's assassination attempt.

a hurricane warning is in effect tonight for bermuda, with ernesto barreling across the atlantic. the category 1 storm packing 85 mile-per-hour winds is forecast to strengthen significantly in the next 24 hours. cbs's david malakoff is in bermuda. >> reporter: before hurricane ernesto slams into bermuda, a rush of people are trying to get out. travelers look michael vanderbilt from arlington, virginia, waited in long lines at the airport after cutting his trip short. >> i was here for a week of vacation and just taking the opportunity to leave a little early so i don't get caught up in the aftermath of the storm. >> reporter: the weights are already getting quite roughy on the south end of bermuda, but this sand right here is homes and businesses. just ask robert packwood. >> 40 happen for the pounds. >> reporter: he is running out of time to fill those buckets. ernesto is on track on saturday and could dump up to a foot of rain. bermudian's like richard evans

or boarding up. >> you never know until it actually hits because it can change direction but you prepare like it's going to hit. >> reporter: after tearing through parts of the caribbean including puerto rico on wednesday, residents are still coping with the damage left behind. >> reporter: i'm manuel bojorquez in fajardo, puerto rico on the northeast corner of the island where debris piles like this have from damage businesses are growing. also growing the sense of frustration over the power situation here. by thursday evening, more than 300,000 customers remained without power, as 1600 crew members worked as quickly as possible to repair the beleaguered power grid. this as some parts of the island, like anasco on the west coast remain flooded. >> reporter: back in bermuda, the commodore at this arena is making sure all the boats are secure. >> try to move everything out? >> we do. we try to get everything out of here just to mitigate the risk. >> reporter: i was also

talking to a local insurance company, and major, as of just this afternoon, late in the afternoon, they were scrambling around the island and they were updating policies for people who may be underinsured here in bermuda as the big storm comes this way. >> major: david alakoff and manuel bojorquez, thank you so much be it cbs's lonnie quinn is tracking ernesto's latest path. lonnie, give us the update. >> all right the latest information from the national hurricane center is that the storm has gotten stronger from where it was yesterday. yesterday was holding onto what 80 mile-per-hour wind coming out is 85 so or not still it still category 1 but again it will continue to get stronger as we go into your day tomorrow. the current stats. it is about 500 miles from bermuda and sure enough it is moving in the direction of bermuda. here is your track. so while it may or may not be a landfall in bermuda, bermuda is in that cone of conern. they are going to be dealing with wins about 90 miles per hour. is either going to be major a strong category 1 or a low-grade cat 2 as it passes the island nation, and i

thing the toughest time will be 24-hour span from friday night into saturday night, right around bermuda, we see a little flash of red on the screen, talking 20-30-foot swells. those swells mitigate outdoor the shoreline and for the coastline of the u.s. we are talking 8-10-foot waves, that also brings a super high risk for rip currents. weekend coming up, from wilmington all the way to cape cod, a high risk for rip currents out there. not a great weekend to be diving into our ocean. certainly not a weekend at all to be going in the water if it is not a protected beach but that is the very latest on ernesto. we are going to follow this as the night goes on but right now, major, let's go back to you. >> major: lonnie quinn, thank you so much. negotiations to achieve a cease-fire in gaza got underway today as israel braces for a retaliatory strike from iran that many fear could ignite a wider war. cbs's ramy inocencio is in tel aviv, and we warn you, some of the images are graphic. [chanting] >> reporter: "now, now,

chanted supporters, as protest coinciding with the start of cease-fire talks in qatar filled as a last chance to march. ifat kalderon is the cousin of ofer kalderon. one of an estimated 115 hostages alive and dead. if a cease-fire does not happen soon, what will happen to the hostages? >> i believe that they are not going to survive. >> this has to be the last israeli-palestinian war. we have been killing each other for more than 100 years. >> reporter: gershon baskin is a former israeli negotiator. >> and we forget that there are human beings on the other side. >> reporter: on that other side is 7-year-old sela hoso. shrapnel-scarred from an israeli strike, she nearly died. "it hurts here in my eye," she whispered, lines of staples and stitches in her head. one of more than 90,000 gazans wounded since october 7th.

looking at her past, sela hopes for her future. "i wish to be a doctor to treat other little children. i wish to get married. and i wish to have a dog." and major, we are monitoring reports of israeli settler violence against palestinian villagers in the west bank, reportedly dozens of masked israelis set fires to homes and cars pure and one palestinian shot and killed, another severely injured pure prime minister netanyahu, was far right government has enabled illegal settler action, says anyone caught will be prosecuted. >> major: with all the latest details, ramy inocencio, thank you very much. a los angeles ballerina has been sentenced to 12 years in a russian prison for treason over a $51 donation to a ukrainian human rights organization. 33-year-old ksenia karelina is a dual citizen of the u.s. and russia and was visiting family when she was arrested. her boyfriend spoke about her ordeal to "cbs mornings."

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her summer concert tour in london a week after an alleged terror plot forced organizers to cancel her shows in vienna, austria. cbs's imtiaz tyab reports. >> reporter: even with security are sharply stepped up as this, nothing it seems can keep fans from flocking to taylor swift's triumphant return to london's legendary webb lee stadium. >> we love taylor! >> welcome to the eras tour! >> reporter: the extra searches were brought in following the cancellation of her three vienna concerts after austrian investigators foiled an alleged terror plot there. >> our daughters are big swifties. >> the mom swifties. >> we were anxious in the week leading up. we wondered if that would be canceled, didn't we? but actually eases care of security feels good ended there is just a really lovely five year. >> reporter: the new restrictions include banning swifties, as they are known, from camping outside stadiums and so-called tay-gating, which is when fans without tickets gather near the venue to sing

along swift biggest hits while singing inside. like at a show in munich last month. british concert venues were already on high alert following the 2017 bomb attack and ariana grande performance in manchester where 22 people were killed, including their chi children. something nobody here wants to see happen again. and security advisors are really breathing a sigh of relief tonight after the concert went off without a hitch. now swift has four more shows here in london as part of the final leg of her european arrows tour, with an estimated 500,000 expected to attend. major? >> major: imtiaz tyab, thank you. american jig nest joke jordan tiles is opening up about having the bronze medal ripped from her at the lipid spirit and instagram post, chiles said this decision feels unjust. u.s. gymnastics says it is containing the fight to let

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♪ ♪ >> major: did you know the average chatgpt request requires almost ten times more electricity than a google search? in tonight's "eye on america," ben tracy looks at the data centers that drive our digital lives and their growing demands for energy. >> reporter: this is a google data center outside of reno, nevaa. >> it's hard to imagine that there is a physical location where the internet lives, but this is it. >> reporter: inside our endless roads of servers and miles of cables. the arteries of the internet. this is everything from psalmody is doing a google search, some but he is watching a cat video, that is all coming through here? >> absolutely, it is all that

and more. >> reporter: amanda peterson corio is googles global head of data center energy. >> cooling or data centers. >> reporter: on the rooftop she showed us the hundreds of fans that keep all of those computers humming. this is just one of at least 2700 data centers that stretch from the suburbs of redid virginia, to the west. most they run by big tech firms and consume more than 4% of all electricity in the u.s. in 2022. that's projected to more than doubled to 9% by 2030. the nation's aging grid is also threatened by the soaring demands of artificial intelligence. it uses nearly ten times the electricity of a typical internet search. is this amount of electricity use sustainable? >> it's a real challenge. as we look for the next decade, those demands continue to grow, and the real challenge is figuring out how can we do this in a way that meets our climate goals? >> reporter: googles

planet-warming emissions rose by 13% last year and have jumped nearly 50% since 2019. the company has spent heavily to bring new wind and solar power to the grid and says 64% of the time it's operations run on clean energy p or but when the sun isn't shining and the wind isn't blowing, data centers stid coal, creating more carbon emissions, feeling climate change. we need something that has that reliability, that works 24/7. >> reporter: that something may be here in the desert of southern utah. >> we call this the renewable energy corridor of utah. >> reporter: tim latimer is ceo of for vote energy, which is drilling deep underground. how far down are you drilling here? >> right now we are at about 12,200 feet. >> reporter: and harnessing heat from the earth's crust to create carbon free geothermal energy. right now, geothermal accounts for less than 1% of u.s. electricity, but fervo has used

fracking and drilling techniques, pioneered by the oil and gas industry, to vastly expand geothermal use across the country. it says this site alone could eventually power 400,000 homes. how big of a solution can this be? >> we think geothermal can be as much as 20% of u.s. electricity grid. we can develop large projects that will really move the needle on the electric grid and kyma change. >> reporter: google is one of fervo's customers and plans to use geothermal energy to help power its nevada data centers. >> reporter: so when the sun is not shining on the wind is not blowing, this is still cranking? >> the earth is still hot. >> reporter: and so is the demand for electricity. for "eye on america," ben tracy, reno. >> major: we look back on the lives and careers of two stars from the big and small screens. that's next. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: tonight's "eye on america" is sponsored by prudential. protecting retirement and your life's work.

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from the romantic blockbuster "the notebook," directed by her son, nick cassavetes. she also made ten movies with her husband, director john cassavetes. rowlands died yesterday at the age of 94. we also remember emmy award-winning game show host peter marshall, who spent 16 years as the straight man to the celebrity-filled boxes on "the hollywood squares." marshall, who started out as an actor, singer, and comedian, appeared on "the lucy show" and "the ed sullivan show" among others, but will be remembered best for his 500,000 plus episodes of the popular game show. marshall died today in los angeles. he was 98. that is tonight's "cbs evening news." for norah o'donnell, i'm major garrett. good night. ♪ ♪ >> judge judy: you have what could be substantial fraud. >> there's $30,000 missing out of here. >> announcer: a paralegal's alleged cash grab... >> judge judy: did you name the defendant in the police report? >> yes. >> this was a system error. i didn't do this intentionally. >> announcer: but she could pay a steep price.

>> i have no problem being transparent. >> judge judy: you've never spoken to the police? >> no. >> judge judy: because there's a substantial possibility that you're going to be... >> i know. >> judge judy: ...arrested. >> announcer: "judge judy." you are about to enter the courtroom you are about to enter the courtroom of judge judith sheindlin. captions paid for by cbs television distribution michael noreikas is suing paralegal shannon highfield for unauthorized credit card charges, a false restraining order and attorney fees. >> byrd: order! all rise! this is case number 484 on the calendar in the matter of noreikas vs. highfield. >> judge judy: thank you. >> byrd: you're welcome. parties have been sworn in. you may be seated. ma'am, have a seat, please. >> judge judy: mr. noreikas, you had a onetime working relationship with the defendant... >> yeah. >> judge judy: ...where she was hired to do some paperwork for you as a paralegal. >> correct. >> judge judy: and you hired her

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