country. and some independents and the trump campaign has promised a wrath radical shift in policy if they are elected, including the largest deportation operation in u.s. history, an effort to militarize the border, and also ideological screenings for legal immigrants coming to the u.s.-mexico border. we should expect vance and trump to dub harris as the border czar, even though it is important to note her immigration role is much more limited. she was assigned to tackle the root causes of migration from central america. >> well, if vice president harris wins the election, how should we expect her immigration and border policies to actually differ from donald trump and maybe even from president biden as well? >> well, look, carissa, immigration is a tricky political issue for any democrat, and vice president harris is no exception. she does not tend to talk about immigration broadly during her

campaign rallies, but what she does, she has been focusing on that bipartisan border security deal that collapsed earlier this year in congress without sufficient republican support. and she has said that will push for that bill's passage if she is elected, and she has blamed former president trump for scuttling the deal because of political reasons. that would make permanent changes to the u.s. asylum system at the border, but, again, this is a congress, carissa, that has not passed a major immigration reform law since the 1990s. that will be an uphill battle. in terms of executive actions, we should expect vice president harris to continue many of the biden's administration policies including that recent crackdown on asylum at the border. >> you've been reporting from the border for a while now, camilo. how does the situation there look from your perspective right now? >> well, carissa, there has been a seismic shift in u.s. immigration policy at the u.s.-mexico border since june

when president biden severely curtailed access to the u.s. asylum system based on his presidential powers. since that order took effect in early june, carissa, there has been a dramatic drop in illegal border crossings, and they now stand at a four-year low. and officials believe that this trend will continue because of the mexican government's actions to stop many migrants from reaching the u.s. in the first place. >> camilo, thank you so much for well, when "cbs news roundup" returns, from rap to country kelefa sanneh visits the biggest crossover star in music today, jelly roll. we'll be right back.

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♪ i'm only one dream away from the devil ♪ >> reporter: he recently scored his fourth number one country hit, and this year he was nominated for two grammy awards. someone was asking me, what is the precedent for this jelly roll story? i said, it's not really like anything. >> yeah. thank you, man. we are definitely on our own island. >> this is jail. it sucks. everyone i ever been to. >> reporter: if you are wondering where jelly roll came from -- >> reporter: so this is your old room right here? >> this is it. oh. >> reporter: one difference is the door is open right now? >> yeah. it still smells the same, though. >> reporter: one answer is here, the county detention center in nashville. >> there was a time in my life where i truly thought this was it. >> reporter: this was your future? >> yeah. and then coming here just after

getting nominated for two grammys, it just hits different. you know, it's just -- i didn't think i would get emotional, to be honest. every time, this cell, you just think, man. even when i left here, i didn't have a plan. >> reporter: jelly roll was in and out of facilities for ten years starting at age 14. drug possession, drug dealing, shoplifting, aggravated robbery. >> i knew that i loved music and it was the only thing i had any skill set i thought. i can't believe i'm crying. >> reporter: his real name is jason deford, but when he was a boy, his mother gave him a nickname that stuck. your family called you jelly roll, your friends called you jelly roll? >> oh, yeah. to this day my mother calls me jelly. if somebody walked in here right now and called me jason, i wouldn't look up. >> reporter: growing up, jelly roll never pictured himself having a normal career. >> i knew my father booked bets. i knew my mother struggled with drugs. to me, this is just what you >> reporter: when he wasn't getting in trouble, jelly wrote songs like this one about driving around and getting high.

♪ a big body down south, burn the slopes, smoked out, in the chevy, i'm heavy and i wide ride clean ♪ >> reporter: he started making informal hip hop cds known as mix tapes. you're selling drugs to people and selling mix tapes? >> no, no, i'm just giving the mix tapes away. yo, here is a sack of weed, a gram of coke, here's a mixed tape. i rap, too. it was my business card. even my drug dealing to me was always a means to music. i wrote hundreds of songs right here. i wrote riding all alone here. ♪ i wake up every day, i hit my knees and pray, my mind is filled with pain, so many things have changed ♪ ♪ ♪ spend every minute ♪ >> reporter: he was 24 when he left prison for the last time. by then, a prison guard gave him news that changed the way he thought about his life.

>> he said d-ford, you had a kid today. what? yeah, yeah, you had a child. what's her name? and he said, hell, i don't know. >> reporter: it turned out her name is bailey. like so many in jelly's life, her mother suffered from addiction. jelly is now raising her with his wife of seven years, bunny xo, a podcaster who calls herself the trailer park barbara walters. in 2010, jelly roll had his first minor hit, a hip hop track called "pop another pill." >> i have a line to show you where i was at in my mental space. how insecure and how much i didn't believe in myself. "i ain't got no single, no potential for the radio." ♪ >> reporter: as a rapper, jelly roll sounded a bit like the southern hip hop stars he admired. ♪ somebody save me ♪ >> reporter: but hen he started singing -- ♪ me from myself ♪ >> reporter: the twang in his voice made country fans pay

attention. in 2020, he released an acoustic version of a ballad called "save me" which became his breakthrough. ♪ i am so damaged beyond repair ♪ ♪ life has shattered my hopes my dreams ♪ >> reporter: on youtube, the video has viewed more than 200 million times. >> tonight is the most special night of my life. >> reporter: the next year he performed at nashville's grand ole opry. >> i knew the moment i did it, i made a small piece of history in this town. unreal, man. this place is holy ground. ♪ >> reporter: songs like "son of a sinner" and "need a favor" make fans feel as if they really know him and believe in him. like dale henry and her daughter kelsey roberts. >> it really touches your soul. when you hear him sing "save me from myself," it makes me think it's such pain there. and he just exuberates it

through his music. i just love him. i just love him. ♪ it started with a little pill ♪ >> reporter: his latest album whitsitt chapel is anchorled by a song called "she" about a woman fighting drug addiction. ♪ she was the life of the party ♪ what an amazing full circle moment. "she," this song about the fentanyl epidemic, from an artist whose first single was called "pop another pill." >> it shows what god can do with you. it shows how much change can happen in your life. >> the windshield is bigger than the rear view mirror for a reason, because what's in front of us is so much more important that's what's behind us. >> reporter: these days when jelly goes behind bars, he is only visiting, and he is bringing a message. >> for you it might be welding. for you, it might be barbering. whatever it is, find that thing. and it might be simply starting with being a good father. >> i'm trying to encourage and inspire and entertain. i'm trying to get you free for a minute.

when i go to juveniles, i am trying to get you to understand that you're loved. >> reporter: he may talk like a preacher, but he says he doesn't exactly live like one. ♪ i'm only one away ♪ ♪ well, i guess i'm just a little right and wrong ♪ >> reporter: one of the things that people relate to you for is not just that you have this sense of wanting to inspiring people, but also this idea that you are still someone who is still trying to figure it out. >> i think that it's cool to see vulnerability that way, and that we can all grow together, and that it's okay to not have it figured out at 35. it's okay to not have it figured out at 25. it's okay to not have it figured out at 15. know that you can figure it out and believe in that. >> reporter: how do you feel about your success? do you feel like you've earned it? do you feel like you deserve it? >> i am starting to. i didn't at first. i am still dealing with impostor

stuff. i'm still dealing with talking to my therapist about that. do i really deserve this? i'm still a guy that's haunted by my past. there is a very dark hallway between my ears. ♪ if i hold it out to god when i need a favor ♪ >> reporter: but sometimes jelly roll takes a minute to think about his unlikely journey, like when those grammy nominations came out. and he phoned his mother. >> i called her addicted, i called her homeless, i've called her from rehab facilities, i've called her from halfway house, broken down on the side of the street. never got to call her and say i been nominated for two grammys. one of the coolest moments in my whole life. >> that was kelefa sanneh with jelly roll. and this is "cbs news roundup." so if buying this bag earns me miles... and i can check it for free anytime i fly alaska... even though i'm paying for the bag... it kind of feels like the bag is paying me. (♪♪)

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hello and thanks for staying up with us. i'm carissa lawson in new york. here are the top stories on "cbs news roundup." in a new development, the father of the teenager charged with opening fire and murdering four people at a georgia high school is now under arrest. hunter biden enters a surprise plea in his tax evasion trial, just as it was about to get under way. and donald trump reveals details of his economic platform. new information in a fast-moving story. the father of 14-year-old colt gray, the teenager accused of wednesday's school shooting in winder, georgia, is now under arrest, accused of knowingly allowing his son to possess a weapon. >> the gbi has arrested colin gray, aged 54 in connection to the shooting here at apalachee high school. colin is colt gray's father that was arrested yesterday. he is charged with the

following, four counts of involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree murder, and eight counts of cruelty to children. >> two teenagerers and two students were killed in the shooting and the teenaged suspected gunman will be tried for their murders. cbs' mark strassmann reports from the scene. >> reporter: in equal parts grief and shock, winder is grappling with wednesday's horror at apalachee high school. we're getting our first look at suspect colt gray, his mug shot. he had local law enforcement worried as early as last year. >> it's sad that we have that kind of evil in our society. >> reporter: janice mangum is the sheriff in neighboring jackson county. her deputies first questioned the gray family in 2023. the issue, the fbi had received anonymous tips about online school shooting threats posted on an app called discord. its user name referred to the

2012 sandy hook gunman. in an incident report obtained by cbs news, a deputy reported that the teen assured me he never made any threats to shoot up the school. investigator miller, "i'm not saying you're lying, but it's a serious thing. his father, colin gray told deputies the family on the other hand hunting rifles. he added his son is allowed to use them when supervised but does not have unfettered access to them. without more to go on, the case was closed. >> was this is a missed opportunity? >> i don't think so, no. he did all he could at the time. >> reporter: what appears to be an ar-style rifle lays on the floor. at an event in wisconsin, president biden talked about the deadliest school shooting in georgia history. >> we're grateful the school personnel and first responders who proved and prevented more people from being killed or injury and brought the suspect

to custody. but as a nation we cannot accept the carnage of gun violence. >> reporter: what worries law enforcement at the moment are copycat shooters. and just since the horrific attack here, metro atlanta police have arrested at least two teenagers for making school threats. mark strassmann, cbs news, winder, georgia. the tax evasion trial for hunter biden took a surprise turn when the president's son unexpectedly pleaded guilty to nine federal charges of tax evasion and falsifying tax returns. cs' scott macfarlane reports. >> reporter: hunter biden, who was convicted by a jury in delaware in june of unlawfully possessing a gun is trying to avoid a second criminal trial this year. he is charged in california with allegedly scheming to avoid paying at least $1.4 million in income taxes. but in a surprise move ahead of jury selection, biden's attorneys acknowledge the evidence is overwhelming and offered for biden to plead guilty. >> hunter decided to enter his plea to protect those he loves

from unnecessary hurt and cruel humiliation. hunter put his family first today. >> reporter: an unorthodox unexpected move in the federal court system where guilty pleas typically come with plenty of warning, and only after negotiations and agreement with the prosecutors. >> among the many things that were unusual today is the fact that it appears that what hunter biden is offering is to plead guilty to all the charges but in exchange for nothing. >> reporter: at first, prosecutors protested because in biden's initial offer, his attorney said he'd plead guilty but wouldn't accept full responsibility for the crime. biden already faces prison time for the gun conviction earlier this year when he is sentenced in mid-november. and now faces the prospect of additional time behind bars, even with a finalized guilty plea in the tax case. earlier this summer the president said this about the idea of a pardon. >> i'd abide by the jury decision. i'll do that and i will not pardon him. >> reporter: because hunter

biden's tax case and his gun case are both federal cases, president biden would have the authority to issue a commutation or a pardon. scott macfarlane, cbs news, washington. gop presidential nominee donald trump unveiled his economic proposals at a speech in new york on thursday promising to cut regulations and taxes. his opponent, vice president kamala harris, laid out her economic plans the day before. this comes as trump's legal issues once again go before a judge. cbs' natalie brand has more from washington. >> we have an economic disaster on our hands. >> reporter: speaking to business leaders in new york, former president donald trump detailed his economic plans, addressing the group in a somber tone, he promised to cut regulations and taxes and take up tesla ceo's elon musk's idea of forming a presidential commission focused on government efficiency. >> as the first order of business this commission will

develop an action plan to totally eliminate fraud and improper payments within six months. this will save trillions of dollars. >> reporter: just hours earlier in washington, d.c., trump's federal election interference case returned to court. it's the first hearing since special counsel jack smith's revised indictment based on the supreme court's landmark immunity ruling this summer. trump's attorneys reentered a not guilty plea on his behalf and sparred with prosecutors over how to move forward with two months until election day. vice president kamala harris touched down in pittsburgh a day after proposing a boost in federal tax incentives for start-up businesses and help for those already up and running. >> we will provide low and no-interest loans to small businesses that want to expand. >> reporter: the vice president wll remain in the battleground state for debate prep ahead of tuesday's face-off with trump. >> i expect them both to tell lies, you know, on each other. i mean, as far as i'm concerned,

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one of the biggest issues on voters' minds this election year is the cost of groceries. food prices cranked up during the pandemic, along with everything else. but as other costs have come down and with inflation under 3%, grocery stores continue to keep their prices high. now two of the biggest grocery store chains, kroger and albertsons are trying to merge. but is this good for consumers? the federal trade commission doesn't think so and has filed a lawsuit to stop it. jo ling kent reports. >> reporter: kroger's ceo testifying that a merger with its rival albertsons would help their stores compete with the bigger competitors like walmart and eventually amazon. whether this will actually lead to better products and prices is the central question here for shoppers, and the two ceos are vowing it will. >> prices are high. >> reporter: at a time when grocery prices are top of mind -- >> things that you used to buy like eggs has just gotten really

expensive. >> reporter: they're also at the center of a major lawsuit filed by the federal trade commission. the ceos of kroger and albertsons say if combined, they can better compete with giants like walmart, costco and amazon. >> for customers, it's about offering lower prices and more choices. >> reporter: but the ftc warns the merger would give consumers fewer choices. >> the ftc is alleging that if kroger and albertsons come together, it would be bad for the consumer and raise grocery prices. is that an accurate argument? >> i'm not convinced of that argument, that a they're somehow able to combine their stores, some of the cost savings through wholesale prices could be passed on. >> reporter: kroger ceo rodney mcmullen said in court wednesday the day that we merge is the day that we will begin lowering prices and promised a $1 billion investment to lower prices if the merger goes through. since 2019, grocery prices have

skyrocketed. the cost of eggs rose from $1.20 to $2.72. orange juice has jumped from $2.49 to $4.26. and a loaf of bread to just under $2. and even with larger grocery stores struggling to compete, local food markets could be barely hanging on. what could a merger like this do to smaller chains? the mom and pop shops out there? >> they will confront a bitter reality because not only are they having less competitive power, but they also have less buying power. and that means higher prices for consumers and frankly perhaps fewer customers. >> reporter: it is such a competitive marketplace out there right now. the ceo of albertsons also testified that if this deal falls through, the chain may have to consider layoffs and store closures. now we want to point out that albertsons prices are about 10 to 12% more than kroger's.

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the result of these wigs and the effect they have on the children and parents is magical. >> reporter: of course, she wouldn't mind if someone else had a magic trick up their sleeve to keep the organization tightly knit. >> growing sustainably has been difficult. we are running out of our homes and garages. >> reporter: but magic makers are still hooked. they even reached a milestone last year, crocheting a total of more than 50,000 wigs. each and every fiber counts. >> sadly, the demand is not going away. there are over 200,000 children diagnosed with cancer in the world every year. 15,000 alone in the u.s. >> reporter: so you are scratching the surface? >> exactly. >> reporter: but scratching the surface can do wonders for just that one family. >> maclin was just a spirited

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