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driving without a valid license. the new law prohibits anyone from transporting illegal immigrants into the state. >> this is the strongest legislation against illegal immigration anywhere in the country. >> reporter: but after hurricane idalia hit the state in august some say the law created a worker shortage, slowing florida's recovery. >> translator: with fear. working with fear. >> reporter: rogelio rauda, an undocumented worker from honduras, doing construction in crystal river, florida, says only eight workers he knows came to the disaster zone out of hundreds he says typically show up. >> the fear that somebody's going to stop you, ask for your papers, and that you could be deported. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: tim conland, who runs a roofing company in jacksonville, says it's happening outside disaster zones too. >> in the last year our crew count has been cut in half. >> reporter: the law requires businesses like his with 25 or more employees to check
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employees' legal status through a database called e-verify. he says it's cumbersome and puts him at a disadvantage with smaller roofers who don't have that requirement. >> i am not a fan of open borders, but i am a fan of putting people to work in this community who are contributing to the community. there's got to be a way to get them into the system where they get paid a fair wage and they pay their fair taxes and everybody gets back to work. >> reporter: manuel bojorquez, cbs news, crystal river, florida. cities around the world are turning to artificial intelligence to make traffic move more smoothly. and at the same time cut down on pollution. ben tracy reports. >> reporter: so we're at an intersection. we're stopped. >> reporter: most of us hate getting stuck at red lights. >> when i see a red light i'm annoyed. >> reporter: but juliet rothenberg is not like most of us. >> when i look at a red light, i see opportunity. >> reporter: her job with google is to make traffic lights like those at three intersections in seattle more efficient and less
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annoying. >> shift a few seconds from here to there. and that shift can have a big impact. >> reporter: google's new project greenlight system uses its vast maps database and artificial intelligence to optimize traffic lights around the world. >> are these intersections coordinated already? >> so they're actually not. >> reporter: the system suggests changes and city engineers then decide if they want to implement them. >> we had one case where we moved four seconds from a north-south street to an east-west street for a particular time of day. that can help reduce some of that stop and go traffic. >> once the system gives you a recommendation, how quickly could you make an adjustment? >> it can take us five minutes. >> reporter: seattle is the first u.s. city to try this. but the program is being tested out at 70 intersections in 13 global cities impacting 30 million car trips per month. google claims it could reduce stop-and-go traffic by up to 30%. >> it means a lot for drivers, and it also means a lot for emissions. >> reporter: she says half of vehicle emissions at
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intersections come from cars accelerating after stopping. and google thinks it can reduce those by 10%. it matters because transportation is the number one source of planet-warming pollution in the u.s. >> so intersections are a really good leverage point for tackling climate. >> reporter: google provides its service for free and plans to expand to thousands of cities, creating what it calls a green wave for drivers. >> i feel like i engage with the red wave a lot more often than the green wave. >> we're trying to change that. >> reporter: ben tracy, cbs news, seattle. the "cbs overnight news" will be right back. need to be at your best? you need an antiperspirant that goes beyond. dove men with 72 hour protection, plus care for your skin. so you can forget your underarms and focus on being unforgettable. dove men. forgettable underarms. unforgettable you. sometimes jonah wrestles with falling asleep... ...so he takes zzzquil. the world's #1 sleep aid brand.
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thanks for staying with us. as thousands of migrants continue to stream across the southern border, comprehensive immigration reform appears dead on arrival in capitol hill. martha teichner takes a look at the problem and how we got here. >> reporter: look at just about any of these people. any mother carrying a child. and you can be pretty sure they've walked the length of whole countries. along the southern u.s. border, where the razor wire meets the river, a humanitarian catastrophe meets an immigration enforcement horror show. tinder and spark. which have ignited what is now the nation's number one political firefight. >> if that bill were the law today i'd shut down the border right now and fix it quickly. >> reporter: the latest flash point over that proposed bipartisan border deal. likely d.o.a. after former president and candidate donald trump weighed in.
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>> there is zero chance i will support this horrible open borders betrayal of america. >> reporter: meanwhile, the migrants keep coming. last year the united states spent more than $36 billion on immigration enforcement. more than for all other federal law enforcement combined. since the biden administration took office in 2021 there have been at least 6.3 million migrant encounters at u.s. borders. 2.4 million of those people have been let in, mainly asylum seekers apprehended, then turned loose to wait for their court dates, and eligible for work permits after six months. a big incentive to come. >> until your case is decided it will be a very long time, and that does function as a pull factor, yes.
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we're talking about anywhere from four to six, seven, sometimes more years than that. >> reporter: doris mizener was commissioner of the u.s. immigration and naturalization service during the clinton administration and is now a senior fellow at the non-partisan migration policy institute in washington, d.c. >> what the data show us are that if you are in the country for more than a year it's highly unlikely that you'll be returned, even when your case is turned down if it's turned down. >> reporter: you'll remain here in a long-term limbo. the immigration court backlog is currently 3.3 million. a third of them asylum seekers. of the asylum cases decided last year, more than 8 out of 10 were denials. >> why don't they do it legally? >> there is no line to get into
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to do it legally. we bring a million or more people into the country every year. 2/3 of those people have a relative in the united states. >> we as a nation are forcing people to show up at the border, get apprehended and apply for asylum. >> you could certainly state it that way. >> reporter: what have we got? a giant messy catch 22. thanks to an outdated and politicized immigration system. >> we're a nation that says if you want to flee and you're fleeing oppression you should come. >> reporter: the accusation, that what candidate joe biden said in 2019 was a big green light for migrants. >> what if i told you not everybody wants to solve the problem? what if i told you it is very lucrative, you know, both financially now but also politically for so many people to be in this quagmire, to see these images? >> reporter: texas congressman
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tony gonzalez, a republican, represents the epicenter of the migrant crisis, eagle pass. >> how can we just stop? my community needs help, immediate help. >> show me your district. >> the 823 miles along the border. here's eagle pass. right in here is eagle pass. >> reporter: where that ugly showdown is still playing out over who controls the border, texas or the federal government. and speaking of political theater, by busing tens of thousands of migrants to already overwhelmed big cities with democratic mayors texas governor greg abbott has riled the likes of new york's eric adams. >> this issue will destroy new york city. >> do you stand by that? >> without a doubt. here in the city 169,000. they cannot work to provide themselves. we have to provide food, shelter, clothing, cleaning, education, health care. that comes with a serious price tag.
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$12 billion over three years that's coming out of our city coffers. we're better than this, america. >> how much milk do you produce a day? >> around 90,000 pounds. >> a day. >> a day. which is 45 tons of milk. >> reporter: at walter moore's dairy farm in southern pennsylvania, 2 1/2 hours from new york city's migrant mess, you can see a whole different side of the crisis. ♪ mariachi music to milk by. brian and his dad alejandro are here from mexico legally. the dairy industry would have trouble surviving without immigrant labor. but walter moore, a leader in the field, has described the labor shortage as severe. the reason? only seasonal farm workers can get visas. dairy farming is year-round 24/7.
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moore says change the law so badly needed migrants are allowed into the united states to do the work. do you know farmers who have left the dairy industry because they couldn't find the workers that they need? >> yes. honestly, this is -- we've been talking about this for 15 or 20 years. >> nothing happens. >> nothing happens. >> you always have to look at where the political incentives lie. >> reporter: jeh johnson was homeland security secretary, responsible for u.s. borders. in 2013, the last time bipartisan immigration reform legislation came close to passing. but then failed. >> and ever since then any effort to compromise has been deemed weak, has been deemed a political liability. >> reporter: we asked johnson about a fix. >> there's a lot you can do to surge resources, which solves the problem in the immediate term. in the short term.
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but so long as families are so desperate to flee violence, poverty, corruption, they're going to keep coming. you've also got to continually send the message that if you come here we will send you back. >> reporter: his solution? very similar to the framework of the bipartisan border deal. >> address the things that serve as magnets in our immigration system. address the backlog. address the standards by which someone can qualify on the front end for asylum. and then go into that multiyear waiting period to see whether or not they ultimately get it. more immigration judges. more asylum officers. more technology. more border patrol agents. all of those things. but always with a view toward what our values are as americans. we are a nation of immigrants. >> reporter: we spoke to johnson at ellis island, the very symbol
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of our immigrant heritage. between 1892 and 1924, 12 million passed through its great hall. the space is being compared to the roosevelt hotel, where migrants are processed now in new york city. a lobby full of stories of how and why. but here only one goal. >> translator: under the dictatorship it was impossible to live in venezuela. >> reporter: meet daniel, 24, a construction worker back in venezuela. >> translator: he was earning $10 a month max. >> reporter: a month? >> translator: a month. >> reporter: he tried several times to cross the border before finally making it in december. >> translator: he understands very well that for his economic conditions they don't provide asylum. so he will look into other alternative methods. >> reporter: daniel, like every other migrant in this room, intends to stay, no matter what.
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>> let's come together, find the practical pragmatic solutions to controlling our border. it's what the american people want. >> that was martha teichner, and this is the "cbs overnight news."
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and ptsd. but to keep his sanity he knew he also had to keep busy. but how? and that's when danny realized one of the things he missed most about his wife was all the little handyman jobs he used to do for her. so a few months ago he posted a note on facebook. "if there's any honey-do jobs that you can't handle i'm willing to help." >> and it spread, spread like wildfire. >> thanks for coming to help me out. >> reporter: so now every day -- >> no problem. >> reporter: -- sometimes four times a day danny fixes the hole in his heart by fixing just about everything else. >> he's working on fixing a closet door. >> then he hung my porch swing. >> he put in a shower. >> and he did my screen door. >> reporter: and the best part? >> what does he charge for all this? >> reporter: the price. >> zero. >> nothing. >> he charged us nothing. >> he showed much kindness to people. >> we can fix that up. >> reporter: most of the people
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danny helps are women. most single or widowed. they call him the honey-do dude and say he's just about the only guy they know willing to help with these small jobs. and obviously no one's going to match his price point. in fact, when the work is done the only thing he takes is a picture. a reminder that he is not alone in his struggle. >> right now i've got a lot of friends. a lot of friends. >> is the ptsd any better now that you've started doing this? >> yeah. oh, yeah. that's what i was looking for. >> reporter: cross finding happiness off the honey-do list. >> voila. >> reporter: steve hartman, on the road. the road. >> okey-doke. if you served we want you to get the healthcare and benefits you earned. we want you to come to va. there's never been a better time to apply. under a new law called the pact act we've expanded va care and benefits to millions of people who served and their survivors. no matter where you served or how long you served check out
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paper cup ends up in the trash. one danish city hopes to change that morning routine. >> when you buy your coffee, you get the possibility to buy a reusable cup. and when you're drinking your coffee, you can leave it in one of the deposit boxes and get your money back. >> reporter: for a deposit of five kroner, or roughly 75 cents, customers get their latte, cappuccino or fancy concoction in a reusable cup. >> you drink your coffee, you take your smartphone or your credit card, you do like this, and then you just put the cup in. and just like that you get five crowns transferred to your bank account. >> reporter: the cups then travel to a facility where they're cleaned and inspected for damage. but it comes at a cost. >> we need to scale this up in order to make this a financial viable solution. >> reporter: officials hope the "mugnificent" idea cuts back on waste. 50% of the city's trash comes
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from takeaway items. >> and all this stuff ends out in the nature. we get the microplastic. we get cups all over the place. saturday morning the city looks like trash. >> reporter: if successful they hope to widen the program. >> basically, this can be expanded to all kind of takeaway. this can be the pizza box. this can be the box you have your curry in. >> reporter: finding that perfect blend of tackling trash going green and creating a cleaner community. ian lee, cbs news. >> and that's the "overnight news" for this monday. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm christina ruffini. this is "cbs news flash." i'm matt pieper in new york. an overtime thriller in las vegas as the chiefs beat the 49ers 25-22 to win super bowl lviii. it's kansas city's second title
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in a row and third in the last five seasons. they're the first team to go back to back in 20 years. quarterback patrick mahomes was named mvp for the third time in his career. the israeli military says two hostages have been rescued after an operation in the gaza city of rafah overnight. the men, one 60 years old, the other 70, are said to be in good medical condition. and after teasing it in a super bowl ad, beyonce releases new music. she dropped two singles and announced a new country album called "act 2," out march 29th. >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." i'm jericka duncan in new york. thanks so much for joining us.
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the lombardi super bowl trophy is headed back to kansas city. the chiefs led by superstar quarterback patrick mahomes defeated the san francisco 49ers in las vegas. it's mahomes' third championship in five years. and cements him as one of the greatest quarterbacks of his generation. danya biaya bacchus reports fro vegas. >> reporter: confetti rained down in allegiant stadium, crowning the kansas city chiefs champions of super bowl lviii, their second consecutive title. quarterback patrick mahomes was named mvp. >> is it a dynasty now? >> yeah. it's the start of one. we're not done. >> reporter: the 49ers were first on the board, but the first thrill came when chiefs quarterback patrick mahomes nailed a 52-yard pass cue the taylor swift cutaway. the 49ers scored the only tuchdown in the first half. >> touchdown! >> reporter: the race for the trophy picked up in the second half, with the chiefs taking a three-point lead.
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>> wide open! touchdown! >> reporter: the 49ers leapfrogging over it and the chiefs tying it up. the teams headed into overtime at 19-19, where the chiefs claimed the crown with a triumphant touchdown. >> it's there! hardmon! jackpot kansas city! >> reporter: the excitement wasn't just for the game. fans were anticipating usher's halftime performance, and yeah, he didn't disappoint. ♪ yeah, yeah ♪ his show included guests alicia keys, her, will i a.m., lil jon and ludacris. earlier there were other special guests on the field. >> please welcome members of the lahaina luna lunas. >> reporter: the lahaina high school football team from fire ravaged maui joined as honorary captains for the coin toss. dania becomeus, cbs news, las vegas. there was a deadly shooting at the houston megachurch of celebrity pastor joel osteen. police say a female walked into the church with a child and a rifle and started shooting. now, the shooter was killed by off-duty officers.
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the child was struck in the crossfire and hospitalized in critical condition. another bystander was shot in the leg. an update now on defense secretary lloyd austin. he was taken to walter reed medical center with what is described as an emerngent bladdr issue. the pentagon says austin's duties have been transferred to his deputy. former president donald trump is raising new fears overseas about the u.s.'s commitment to nato. trump told supporters this weekend that nato countries who didn't spend enough on defense should not be protected from a possible russian attack. >> they asked me that question, one of the presidents of a big country, stood up and said, well, sir, if we don't pay and we're attacked by russia, will you protect us? i said, you didn't pay, you're delinquent? he said yes. let's say that happened. no, i would not protect you. in fact, i would encourage them to do whatever the hell they want. you've got to pay. you've got to pay your bills. on capitol hill the u.s.
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senate gave initial approval to an emergency spending package to provide military aid to ukraine and israel. it also includes money to replenish u.s. weapons stockpiles and provide food, water and other humanitarian aid to civilians in gaza. a final vote in the senate is expected later this week. funding for immigration enforcement along the southern border was removed from the bill. and with congress gridlocked on immigration, some states are now taking matters into their own hands with unintended consequences. manuel bojorquez explains. >> reporter: raquel lopez aguilar is an undocumented immigrant who worked as a roofer in the tampa area. the father of two in mexico is charged with schmuckling under florida's new immigration law. >> i think that it will be difficult to prove the human smuggling aspect of this case. this is a brand new law. >> reporter: lopez aguilar is nacing four felony counts for driving a group of roofers in a
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van from a job in georgia on a misdemeanor charge of driving without a valid license. the new law prohibits anyone from transporting illegal immigrants into the state. >> this is the strongest legislation against illegal immigration anywhere in the country. >> interpreter: but after hurricane idalia hit the state in august, some say the law created a worker shortage, slowing florida's recovery. >> "with fear. working with fear." >> reporter: rogelio rauda an undocumented worker from honduras doing construction in crystal river, florida says only eight workers he knows came to the disaster zone out of hundreds, he says, typically show up. >> the fear that somebody's going to stop you, ask for your papers and that you could be deported. [ speaking in a global language ] >> reporter: tim conland who runs a roofing company in jacksonville, says it's happening outside disaster zones too. >> in the last year our crew count has been cut in half. >> reporter: the law requires businesses like his with 25 or more employees to check employees' legal

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