returned to her father's grave. >> first time i've been here and had the answers. >> reporter: gerri says she now feels at peace. >> it's a good feeling. >> reporter: and it's all thanks to the grateful people of france, who even 80 years on still see america through the prism of our better angels. steve hartman, on the road, in syracuse, nebraska. >> and that is today's "cbs news roundup." reporting from new york city, i'm matt pieper. it's monday, november 11th, 2024. this is "cbs news mornings." trump transition. the president-elect prepares to

return to the white house for hello and thanks for staying up with us. i'm matt pieper in new york, and here are the top stories on "cbs news roundup." firefighters are busy tackling dangerous blizs on both sides of the country, threatening homes near new york city and los angeles amid dry drought-like conditions. one person is dead and police have a suspect in custody. and president-elect donald trump has ambitious plans to begin on day one of his newest administration. firefighters all over america have been battling dangerous blazes this weekend from one coast to the other. wildfires are burning across new york, new jersey and pennsylvania, filling skies with smoke and claiming at least one life in a region that has not seen significant rainfall in weeks. authorities issued an air quality alert in nearby manhattan because of smoky conditions. in california fire crews are finally making progress against

the massive mountain fire about 50 miles northwest of los angeles. it's destroyed at least 130 structures and damaged dozens more. cbs's elise preston is in the devastated city of camarillo. >> reporter: an unimaginable loss. the ferocious mountain fire in camarillo, california sparing little in its 32-mile path. janice lindsay is one of the many homeowners who lost everything to the inferno including her two cats. >> we had our hands on both of them at one point, and they broke free. i'm certain they didn't get out. >> reporter: while residents assess the damage, nearly 3,000 firefighters are mopping up hot spots. more than 20,000 acres still burn with 26% containment. in the east wildfires have ignited in several states. in new york a tragic loss. 18-year-old dariel vasquez, a state parks employee, died battling the jennings creek fire. that fire is also raging in new jersey.

over 2,500 acres torched. 0% containment. dry conditions have made the garden state a tinder box. the new jersey forest fire service has responded to more than 40 fires. >> not only is the fire burning on top of the ground but it's burning under the ground. >> reporter: in pennsylvania the neversing fire fought by air and by land. smoke from these fires harming the public. toxic air spreading through the region. back in camarillo, california -- >> wedding band. >> reporter: time to start over. >> along with grief there's joy and there's hopefulness. >> reporter: elise preston, cbs news, camarillo, california. police have made an arrest in tuskegee, alabama where at least one person is dead and up to 16 others injured after a shooting. gunfire erupted as the historically black university's 100th homecoming weekend was winding down. alabama investigators are looking into the shooting, which remains an active criminal inquiry. cbs's jason allen is there. >> get down.

[ gunfire ] oh, my gosh. >> get down! >> reporter: a centennial celebration interrupted by panic and gunfire. >> we were having fun, and all of a sudden i saw people running towards me before i heard gunshots. >> reporter: nursing student kimora banks spoke to us as she came back to the tuskegee university campus with her mother hours after a bullet hit her in the back, centimeters from her spine. >> i tried to get up and run to my friend's car, and that's when i got shot in my back. and ended up being hit three times and i was on the ground shot for like 40 minutes until the paramedics could even get to me. >> reporter: bing was more than a dozen people caught in the crossfire early sunday. one of them, 18-year-old latavion johnson, was killed. >> it was so chaotic. people trying to get out.

it was crazy. >> reporter: johnson was not affiliated with the university, the school confirmed in a statement to cbs news. >> i'm just really sad that we had to go through this, especially since this is our homecoming and it was the last day of homecoming. >> reporter: four more people were injured in all the chaos but not shot. the university has canceled all of its classes for tomorrow. jason allen, cbs news in tuskegee, alabama. turning now to politics where it is official. on sunday we learned that president-elect donald trump swept all seven battleground states. arizona was the last state to be called, and president biden won arizona in 2020. the final electoral vote count, trump 312, vice president kamala harris 226. now trump is set to return to washington this week to plan for the transfer of power. cbs's natalie brand is at the white house. >> reporter: president biden returned to the white house with his administration committed to a smooth and orderly transition. >> president biden is committed to the peaceful transfer of power and to a responsible

hand-off from one president to the next. which is in the best tradition of our country and has been for the last 240 years. >> reporter: that presidential precedent was upended four years ago. >> they rigged an election. >> reporter: when then president trump contested the election results, instead spreading unfounded claims of election fraud. all of them debunked after exhaustive lawsuits and investigations. trump's sweeping comeback victory includes control of the u.s. senate and possibly the u.s. house. up to ten races remain undecided. most of them in the west. that's left democrats soul searching about their losses from allies to a former biden primary challenger. >> we've used condemnation of donald trump versus invitation to donald trump supporters. >> we did not have a compelling enough economic vision. the democratic party should have one simple mission, and that is to address the economic hardships and struggles of many americans. >> reporter: republicans are eager to enact their agenda.

>> i think this is a presidency that has a mandate like we haven't seen, as you mentioned, in 36 years. >> reporter: the "washington post" is reporting that president-elect trump talked to russian president vladimir putin late last week and told him not to escalate the war in ukraine. a spokesperson for trump says he will not comment on private conversations between trump and world leaders. natalie brand, cbs news, the white house. in the middle east new israeli strikes on sunday killed dozens in lebanon. at least 23 people including seven children were killed and six others injured during an israeli strike on a village near beirut. lebanon's health ministry says the death toll is likely to climb. the world is watching how results of the u.s. election may affect israel's war against iranian-backed militant groups hamas and hezbollah. israel's prime minister benjamin netanyahu says he has spoken multiple times with donald trump since tuesday's election and claims he and the president-elect see eye to eye on the threat from iran. ukraine and russia carried

out their largest drone attacks sunday against each other since the start of that war. a wave of 145 russian drones targeted ukrainian cities like odesa, killing one person and injuring at least 13 others. at the same time ukraine fired dozens of attack drones into the skies over moscow, injuring several people and halting traffic at some of russia's busiest airports. the exchange came after russian president vladimir putin signed into law a new mutual aid pact with north korea obliging the two countries to provide immediate assistance if either one is attacked. when "cbs news roundup" continues, the long process of presidential transition is now under way. we'll have some final thoughts on donald trump's historic election victory and his return to power in january. stay with us for more. after my wife died, it was like i lost myself, too. i didn't feel like doing anything or seeing anyone. then my granddaughter called to say she misses me. and i realized, i had to make a change.

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this is "cbs news roundup." i'm matt pieper in new york. president biden will host president-elect trump at the white house on wednesday. it is the traditional start of the peaceful transition of power, the hallmark of american democracy. four years ago trump did not invite biden to the white house after he lost his re-election bid. robert costa has some final thoughts on trump's return to power. >> i want to thank the american people for the extraordinary honor of being elected your 47th president. and your 45th president. >> reporter: president-elect donald trump's decisive victory is, to say the least, a turning point in the american story. >> look what happened. is this crazy? >> reporter: for trump and his 74 million supporters it's a dramatic comeback. a rebuke of an establishment many of them detest. and an affirmation of his agenda, which includes the mass deportations of undocumented

migrants, sweeping tariffs, and deregulating federal agencies as favored by campaign benefactors like elon musk. >> we're going to get the government off your back and out of your pocketbook. >> while i concede this election, i do not concede the fight that fueled this campaign. >> reporter: but for those who backed vice president kamala harris it is a crushing loss. t a man who attempted to overturn the 2020 election. >> a fundamental principle of american democracy is that when we lose an election we accept the results. at the same time we owe loyalty not to a president or a party but to the constitution of the united states. >> reporter: this week president joe biden and trump are scheduled to meet in the oval office. >> it's a pivotal moment to see trump return to office. >> reporter: brendan nyan is a

professor of government at dartmouth college. >> the simplest story we have right now, which may be the correct one, is that there was a kind of incumbent backlash against the biden administration and against the democratic party and kamala harris couldn't separate herself from it. >> reporter: nyan says trump's victory is part of a broader trend. >> are we seeing a rejection of incumbents not just here but globally? >> around the world in the parties that have held power during covid have performed very poorly at the polls. it may just be very difficult to hold power after a bout of inflation. everyone feels inflation. it's not the same as unemployment, right? where it's only a subset of folks who are directly affected. what's striking, though, about this situation is that by many, not all objective measures the american economy has recovered quite well, in some ways better than many of our counterparts. >> reporter: of course the election was about more than the economy. >> race, gender and class are factors in this election. >> reporter: professor diane

penderhughes, a political scientist at the university of notre dame, notes trump's gains among black and latino men but also the challenges faced by female candidates, especially women of color. >> we have a society that is quite ambivalent about women as political candidates, as presidential candidates. in a discussion with my class yesterday one of the students said trump was not beaten by a white woman or a black woman but he was by a white man. >> i will proudly put my record against his any day of the week. >> reporter: after harris entered the race this summer for a dash to the finish, democrats were hopeful she could finally break that glass ceiling. >> moving ahead, is the promise still there? >> i think a lot of people feel that it's not there, that we have a long way to go. given the contest between two candidates where one is a

convicted felon, the fact that people could look at those two candidates and see credible possibility of a donald trump being president again was just hard to process. >> reporter: for now donald trump is working to staff his cabinet and inner circle. a top campaign adviser, susie wiles, will become the first white house chief of staff. >> susie likes to stay sort of in the back. let me tell you. the ice maiden. we call her the ice maiden. >> reporter: and unlike in 2016, when he was a washington outsider, trump returns as leader of a party that has remade itself in his image. >> he has transformed the republican party permanently, and i think the people who hoped that they could just go back to the way things were will finally and fully have to admit defeat. people vote on policy. people vote on party. and they vote on the state of

the country. in some ways that's good, but it means we're vulnerable when conditions are unfavorable. and that's brought donald trump back from the political dead. >> god bless you and god bless america. thank you very much. thank you. thank you very much. >> that was robert costa. "cbs news roundup" will be right back.

the popularity of weight loss drugs like ozempic and wegovy along with the high cost has led to a growing market for counterfeit meds. they're readily available online and they look real, but the fda and world health organization warn that these drugs could be putting people's lives in danger. customs agents are using high-tech scanners to intercept the drugs coming from abroad. tom hanson reports. >> reporter: at this massive mail facility in new york city's jfk airport customs and border protection agents are holding a first line of defense, digging through box after box. >> so all of those green dots, you guys think that those are pills? >> yes. >> reporter: as a flood of dangerous counterfeit

prescription meds including popular weight loss drugs pour into the united states. >> fake weight loss drugs? did that surprise you the first time that you saw it? >> people are really taking a risk by ordering these products online and not knowing really the supplier that's sending it to them. >> reporter: nove nordisk alone brought in $21 billion in revenue last year from drugs like ozempic, wegovy and rebelsis. and just like every other trend black market knockoffs and smuggled products have been quick to follow. cbp showed us a small sample of what they've seized over two days. they're coming in from all over the world. over here this says it was manufactured in bangladesh. and then this one, this box of wegovy actually came packaged as a children's mickey mouse puzzle. >> reporter: these products look like the real deal, but cbp port director salvatore engracia says they can be anything but. >> we have tested these pharmaceutical products and

found things like anti-freeze, too much of the active ingredient, too little of the active ingredient, and other fillers that in some cases are dangerous. >> reporter: novo nordisk reports it sound insulin in a counterfeit pen, landing the person who used it in the hospital. the fda's office of investigations is taking the threat seriously. last may they arrested a long island woman for selling pac-12ed fake ozempic on social media. one victim reported lesions and infections. the suspect pled not guilty. a month later cincinnati border protection agents seized nearly $900,000 of suspected counterfeit pens, prompting the fda to issue warnings to multiple websites to stop selling the drugs or face legal action. >> if you're buying a drug that is legitimately marketed for thousands of dollars for $65, you should be asking some questions. >> reporter: former fda investigator ricky chase has made a career out of asking questions to track fake products using a real wegovy pen she shows us what you should look

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federal and state officials still have not found those responsible for thousands of racist text messages that were sent to black people after the election. omar villafranca has the story. >> i have multiple friends that got the same exact message. >> reporter: atlanta college student devereaux adams was one of many who received the racist text message. >> i felt scared, sad, kind of shaken by it. >> reporter: in connecticut fear was mixed with fury. >> i was angry. one. disgusted. >> reporter: after la tasha nelson red the phone message her daughter received. >> "you have been selected to be a house slave at a plantation." >> reporter: residents in at least 20 states from california to connecticut received the racist texts. the messages were also sent to students in as many as 12 different school districts and universities. >> don't click on it. delete it. >> reporter: louisiana's attorney general says she believes not everyone who received the technology was african american. cbs news has learned the

messages were sent through a company called text now where users can set up a phone number to send free messages. in a statement text now said it uncovered that one or more of our accounts was used to send text messages in violation of our terms of service, adding it shut down the accounts as soon as it became aware. cybersecurity experts believe the messages could be the work of a foreign nation state. >> it does seem like this is a massive operation. truly if you're looking to undermine our culture right now, our society, the best way to do that is to have us fight amongst ourselves. >> reporter: it's still not clear who sent the messages, but cbs news was able to reach someone who may have sent one of the texts. the person said the message was a prank, then q

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