maintain hope? >> i don't know that i am still hopeful, but i don't know that it's going to get better and i don't really think that it will in my lifetime i naively thought that this was a place ready for change, and it just wasn't. >> minneapolis police chief brian o'hara says repairing what's been broken requires a paradigm shift. >> slowly, we begin to make changes incrementally to to address, you know kind of getting the culture of the agency in line with the values of the community. >> assalamu alaikum. >> he's made a point of hitting the streets himself, showing up on scene going on ride alongs and meeting community members where they are the minneapolis police department has spent at least $2.5 million on training and recruitment since george floyd was murdered in 2020, but some community members here say that hasn't translated to trust. >> that's why the biggest thing for me is not to just change policy here. it's to change what cops actually do on the street months after o'hara

took the job in 2022, minneapolis police entered into an agreement with the justice department to address a pattern and practice of abuse that followed a ban on chokeholds and restraining techniques like the ones used on floyd at this training facility. >> o'hara is literally changing out the posters like this one that shows an officer being held hostage. >> does it reinforce fear certainly. >> sort of. that us against them that very, very militaristic approach to policing so we can think about minneapolis as representing both the promise of liberal police reform, but also its persistent failures. and still, michelle phelps, a professor who's written about the politics of policing, has seen positive strides. >> there have been a number of innovations about how do we think about reducing that contact between police and community members, and you're seeing other kinds of responders that can come into those situations that aren't armed with a gun and that aren't trained in how to

deploy violence, make sure you get those individuals right there that say they need resources. >> muhammad abdul ahad is one of these responders. >> our work is more preventative. they're more responsive. >> six nights a week, he leads a team of volunteers de-escalating conflicts before police are even called. what's the relationship like between you and police force i think the trust has been, you know elevated. >> you know, much, much better now due to the new chief that's here. he comes from this work. so he understands this work here is minneapolis today, four years later. >> i mean, we're going to get through whether or not you know, the systems start to work for us. >> community and cops still struggling to find the common ground necessary for true healing. ash-har quraishi minneapolis. >> and the

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outside of new york, is where grover cleveland was born, near the presbyterian church where his dad was pastor sharon farrell has been the tour guide here since 1980. >> this was the family parlor. this is where all of the activity took place. >> cleveland was america's 22nd president and its 24th president. two the first president to ever win a rematch after losing the white house. nationwide, there is little to mark this unique presidency other than a rest area off the new jersey turnpike. caldwell also has the grover cleveland apartments in grover cleveland park middle school. even this parking spot. but cleveland is beloved here in caldwell, including by carlos pomares, who says 130 years later, cleveland was his inspiration to run for the local county commission. >> how could you not be inspired? the guy had this meteoric rise in a matter of four years, based on just being a hard worker, honest brutally honest at times and being one

who just stuck to his to his beliefs. >> do you think he was principled? >> absolutely. let's see what you got. would you pull the first one out? pomeroy's home is filled with cleveland historic pieces ribbons, busts, and that is a grover cleveland brandy bottle. it's got the cork in it still. >> but outside of caldwell, this unparalleled president is relatively unknown. >> i always think the most interesting place to start with cleveland is in the middle of his life. >> troy sinek is author of a man of iron, a life story of cleveland. >> if you go to the year 1881, that's the year he turns 44. and you found grover cleveland, you would find a boring balding unmarried work a day lawyer in buffalo, living in a little apartment above his law practice. the only reason that any of this is interesting is i'm describing to you somebody who's three years away from becoming the president of the united states. >> cleveland, the fifth of nine children in a middle class family, parlayed a law career in new york into becoming mayor of buffalo and briefly,

governor of new york. viewed as principled and ethical, cleveland was drafted by democratic party bosses to run for president amid an era of corruption patronage, and unethical power brokers. he won, making history, but not headlines. >> the debates are about tariffs. they're about silver in the money supply. >> that's not exciting stuff. it's not exciting stuff he began as a rare bachelor president. >> his white house wedding to a friend's daughter, 27 years younger than him, was a spectacle. >> they were married in the blue room of the white house. john philip sousa led the band and big event. yeah, it was ship's bells went off whistles went off, church bells were chiming. >> cleveland lost his reelection race to indiana. republican benjamin harrison in 1888. despite winning the popular vote, and he was initially content with retirement until he was pressed by his party leaders to run again in 1892 and narrowly

vanquished his old rival harrison, and moved back in to 1600. pennsylvania avenue. >> while donald trump has now equaled cleveland's accomplishment, sinek warns, other than both being new yorkers and disliking the press, the two men couldn't be more different. >> trump's a revolutionary cleveland is a counter-revolutionary. >> though cleveland's new first lady foreshadowed the comeback in the final days of her husband's first term, she tells a member of the domestic staff in the white house make sure that you pack up everything very carefully because we want it to be just where we remember it when we come back. and the staffer assumes that they're planning some visit in the harrison administration since mrs. cleveland. when will that be? she says we're coming back four years from today. >> cleveland's second victory came just weeks before the start of an economic panic and crisis. it crippled the nation and consumed cleveland's second term. >> it was the worst thing the country had seen up to that time. >> palmer says cleveland may not have made a dent in the history books, but he made washington a more honest place.

>> why does nobody else talk about him? >> because he wasn't flashy. >> he wasn't he wasn't about me. kind of guy. >> scott macfarlane caldwell, new jersey. >> well, now to another museum, this one revving up a whole lot of excitement in los angeles. the petersen automotive museum is celebrating its 30th anniversary. and it's a favorite hangout for one of america's most famous car buffs, jay leno. he gave cbs carter evans a very special look inside >> let you in. >> that's unusual. it's probably because of the car. >> and this is not just any car. >> it belonged to now worth more than $30 million, mcqueen's 56 jag is one of the crown jewels in a collection of more than 400 classics at the petersen automotive museum in los angeles. and chief mechanic dana williamson is one of the only people in the world trusted to drive it. >> jay leno said once he goes,

how can you not look cool in that car turns out jay leno is one of the museum's biggest fans. these cars aren't just sitting here. you got to run them right. >> yeah, that's. i mean, i drive all of mine. >> oh, she's starting to get some heat in her now the comedian's lifelong obsession with cars is no secret. how many do you have now? >> i got 208 on the road. it's a little stupid. >> i just never sold anything. >> i'm what you would have called a hoarder in the old days. >> okay? but when they go up in value. well, now you're a collector. >> and leno says the petersen collection outshines them all. he took us down to the vault, where nearly 300 cars that aren't on display are meticulously maintained. >> plus, i like the fact that it's like you're in a parking lot from 1925. >> why is it important to have a museum like this with all these beautiful machines? >> well, i think all museums are important cars now combine art and culture is now seen as kinetic artwork. it's just as

pretty going down the road as it is parked wrapped in ribbons of steel. the museum itself is a work of art. >> it was founded in 1994 by robert e. >> petersen, a publishing giant who helped shape american car culture. >> he was the editor and owner of hot rod magazine, which when i was growing up was about as big as a magazine could get. >> today, the museum contains one of the largest and most prestigious automotive collections in the world, and the fact that it's only three miles from my house, it's fantastic. >> leno hangs around here quite a bit these days, swapping old car stories with executive director terry cargas. this room houses the petersen's crown jewels. this bugatti is a work of art. >> my favorite car in the collection. >> it was a wedding gift to the prince of persia. and nearby. >> that's an iconic car over there. >> it's a ford gt40 and only seven were built. it won the 24 hours of le mans race. the famous victory retold in ford v

ferrari. >> a lot of pride for a lot of americans because it beat ferrari. it beat the best. most of the petersen's exhibits are borrowed or donated. cars like this rolls-royce given to the museum by the widow of legendary film director john frankenheimer. it must be a source of pride to have your car. >> oh yeah? >> well, you know, i get a lot of cars and people go, would you take my car? >> because they want you to take care of it? >> kept alive for a new generation that looks at carburetors and maybe soon even car ownership in the rear view mirror. >> well, now you have uber and you have. and i see why young people are not particularly interested in cars. >> a rideshare will get you where you need to go, but for leno, like it was for mcqueen, the real joy is in the journey itself something. a trip to the petersen can teac anyone. >> i

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on hand, you could try out a hollywood auction. how about this? the light up hero wand from the harry potter movies is one of the items up for bid later this month ryan reynolds deadpool mask expected to fetch $50,000. also in the collection, adam driver's headpiece from the last jedi and robert downey jr.. s iron man suit from the film civil war. >> we think that'll go for over $150,000. no one's ever had a robert downey suit from iron man. so we're pretty excited about that. >> all right. the auction collection called from bombshells to blasters, goes live next saturday. tomorrow, though there's another auction taking place. this one of epic proportions. a nearly complete dinosaur skeleton expected to fetch up to $22 million. cbs kamal afzali takes us to paris, where the apatosaurus is now on display in paris. de dompierre est un

colossal. the french call it la bete de dompierre, the beast of dompierre. after the magnificent chateau where it stands, it was one of the most visited tourist attractions in paris during this year's summer olympics and this weekend it's hitting the auction block. auctioneers say vulcan is one for the history books the largest dinosaur skeleton ever to come to auction. the apatosaurus was discovered in wyoming in 2018. excavation unearthed a skeleton 67.5ft long with 80% of its bones intact dino skeleton auctions are rare. in 1997, a t-rex named sue sold for $8.4 million. seen here on display at the field museum in chicago. billionaire hedge fund manager ken griffin smashed that record earlier this year, buying apex, the stegosaurus, for a whopping

fetch less than half that. auctioneers hope an american will buy vulcan, enabling a homecoming of sorts. >> yesterday i had a dream vulcan was talking to me and he said, bring me back to america. >> its eventual owner will have a few added bonuses, including the exclusive rights to officially rename the dinosaur kamal afzali. cbs news london. >> and that's today's cbs news roundup. for some of you, the news continues. for others, tune in later for cbs mornings and follow us anytime online at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm chris welch

>> hello and thanks for staying up with us. i'm chris welch in new york. top stories on cbs news roundup matt gaetz quit his seat in the house but the allegations of sexual misdeeds and drug abuse could torpedo his nomination to be attorney general. president elect donald trump again rattles washington picking vaccine skeptic robert f. kennedy jr. as secretary of health and human services and the incoming administration could bring big changes in the u.s. relationship with israel well, the eyes of the nation will turn to capitol hill now, where the house ethics committee is expected to vote on whether to release its findings into the investigation of former congressman matt gaetz gaetz resigned his seat wednesday after being named trump's pick as attorney general. that ended the investigation. but the allegations are and if

released, could torpedo his ag nomination. scott macfarlane reports. >> reporer gaetz as his selection for attorney general, gaetz shocked his colleagues and quit the u.s. house, ending a years long house ethics committee investigation into allegations of sexual misconduct and illicit drug use. a report on that investigation was expected to be released as early as this week. >> the timing of his resignation and flight with president elect donald trump suggests he believes that this report is not friendly and favorable. >> democratic u.s. senators who'd be part of hearings in any vote to confirm gaetz, demanded the release of that report. >> trump, trying to test the power of the senate and its willingness to have confirmation hearings. >> he is entitled to his nominations, but he is not entitled to a confirmation of any literally any nominee. reporter while republicans, i expect us to treat every nominee coming from an administration, whether democrat or republican, with

respect, said trump has earned a mandate. >> what do you think of it? did you pick? >> i voted for a lot of people. i didn't like. >> an attorney for a witness who claimed gaetz had sex with her when she was just 17, said she was a high school student, and there were witnesses. gaetz has denied all allegations. >> a vote for donald trump is a vote for a man who wants to end wars, not start them. >> controversy is also swirling around trump's choice to be director of national intelligence. former hawaii congresswoman tulsi gabbard, who met with syrian president bashar al assad in 2017 and has echoed russian talking points, criticizing ukraine i think she's compromised, and i also don't think she's qualified for the position. the incoming senate republican leader, john thune of south dakota told cbs news tonight. there will be confirmation hearings and background reviews of the nominees once they're official. >> that was scott macfarlane at the capitol. president-elect donald trump dropped another political bombshell, announcing

robert f kennedy jr. as his nominee for secretary of health and human services. kennedy has a long record of spreading misleading claims about vaccines, and just last week, he vowed to fire and replace hundreds of employees at the national institutes of health. doctor jon lapook reports on this latest controversial pick make america healthy again. >> that's the name of the platform robert f. kennedy jr. launched with president elect donald trump. >> i'm going to let him go wild on health. >> it contains a wide ranging list of promises that could significantly change health care in the united states. >> there's no vaccine that is, you know, safe and effective. >> rfk jr. has criticized vaccines and their safety. >> we have the best vaccine system in the world, doctor richard besser is the former acting director of the centers for disease control and the current head of the robert wood johnson foundation. >> we have so many checks and balances in our vaccine system here as a pediatrician, i know that there's nothing that i did that had more value for the

children in my practices than ensuring that they were vaccinated fully and on time. nothing had more and more impact. >> kennedy has also claimed fluoride is associated with arthritis and neurodevelopmental disorders, and says the trump administration will advise taking fluoride out of the public water supply. >> what the science tells us about fluoride is that if you consume low levels of fluoride, it will reduce the risk of cavities in children by by 25%. and it's totally safe to do that. >> the cdc named fluoridation of drinking water one of the great public health achievements of the 20th century, but it's become controversial. in september, a federal court ruled the epa had to review the levels of fluoride in water. where is your worry meter in terms of thinking about public health going forward? now, i'm worried because we have not moved forward from the covid pandemic in terms of restoring trust in public health. we need to see signs from the new administration that trust in

public health is important to them. >> they're very concerned that rfk jr. simply does not have the scientific background to do this job properly i mean, he's he's had some misinformation that he's been saying about vaccines and some other things. on the other hand, he's been talking about addressing childhood obesity and nutrition and additives and getting rid of special interest groups that are perhaps harming the health of americans. so what's going to happen that remains to be seen? >> that was doctor jon lapook the incoming trump administration could bring big changes to u.s. policy in the middle east including support for israel to annex the west bank most of the international community considers that to be palestinian territory. cbs elizabeth palmer reports from the west bank reporter. it's been a violent year in the west bank israeli soldiers pursue militants in residential areas and jewish settlers carry out attacks on palestinians. president trump's pick for

ambassador to israel is the evangelical christian mike huckabee. radical views. he's expressed in the past have palestinians deeply worried? >> i have to be careful saying this because people will really get upset. there's really no such thing as a palestinian yeah, no there's not. so it could be a rough year coming up. >> i'm sure it will be a rough year for everybody. >> drive around the occupied west bank and you can see the jewish settlements encroaching on what's been palestinian land right wingers in the government believe it's all israel's anyway, and hope trump will help them take it. that would be illegal under international law and palestinian lawmaker mustafa barghouti says it would fuel the conflict. >> president trump claims he wants to stop. >> allow us to have a state of our own allow us to have peace and if they try to displace us, we will resist. we will not accept the west bank is already

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chris welch in new york. >> a the online media world infowars the far right website. once owned by alex jones, whose baseless conspiracy theories about a mass school shooting forced him into bankruptcy. it has been sold at auction to a most unlikely buyer. cbs lilia luciano has the story. >> i'm going to be here until they come in here and turn the lights off until the end. >> alex jones was defiant after the conspiracy theorist lost his infowars media platform today. sold to the satirical news publication the onion. >> this is a total attack on free speech. >> reporter the onion had the support of the connecticut sandy hook families. among those who won over $1.4 billion in a defamation judgment against jones in 2022. this summer, a court ruled jones's assets, including the media company, had to be sold. >> his horrific messaging and attacks and stuff started

immediately after the shooting. >> robbie parker six year old daughter, emily, was among the 26 victims killed during the sandy hook massacre in 2012. >> the day after the shooting, an emotional parker spoke to the media. jones used that moment to label him a crisis actor in the shooting a hoax. >> i'm so blessed to be your dad. >> whatdo you hope will come from this? >> i'm not going to be able to shut alex jones up, and i'm not going to be able to silence him. that wasn't necessarily the goal, but we want to make it as hard as possible for him to to do the type of harm that he does reporter the onion ceo ben collins explained that the company won the bidding war because those connecticut families agreed to waive part of the amount that jones owed them. >> do you hope that it will be profitable? >> we're going to make it into a bigger and better thing. we want a couple years for people to be like oh, infowars that funny website instead of like that horrible place of, you know, funhouse mirror horrors. >> he says the goal is to fight fear with funny, but it might not happen as soon as they wish. since a judge in texas ordered a hearing on the matter after alex jones and his legal

team challenged the auction in bankruptcy court. lilia luciano cbs news, new york. >> the head editor for the fashion magazine british bringing ultra thin models back to the runway. she says it's concerning and believes it's happening in part because of the weight loss drug ozempic cbs adriana diaz looked into this new trend fashion week shows around the globe set the mood for the entire industry every year. it's a real moment, a sort of agenda setting moment for a designer to broadcast what their message is. big messages of the season. >> but recently on runways viewers are noticing, it's just these impossible. like extremely narrow beauty standards from someone looking in. >> this is dangerous. >> a vogue business report released last month found that less than 1% of models in the most recent runway season were plus size, and just over 4% were mid-size meaning 95% of the looks were between u.s.

sizes 0 to 4. >> this past season, there was a lot of backsliding. it felt almost like at certain shows, the girls were especially thin. >> chioma nnadi, the head of british vogue spoke to bbc radio wednesday about the shift in this moment where we're seeing the sort of pendulum swing back to skinny being in and we should be all concerned. i am very concerned and i do think perhaps ozempic has something to do with it. it's something that we need to that is really worth talking about in fashion right now, because it is it is a real problem. it's much easier to design for someone who is essentially a hanger than to design something for someone who has a real body. puck fashion correspondent lauren sherman says weight loss drugs are helping some models stay thin and creating unrealistic expectations in society. fashion is supposed to be aspirational or inspirational. these are supposed to be idealized images. what ideal means is the question vogue

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this month we marked world fertility day, a time to raise awareness about the ability of women and men to conceive a child. >> some people start their families with the help of sperm donors, but some of the children created by the $5 billion sperm bank industry are some of the practice's biggest critics. >> louise mclaughlin was 13 when her parents told her she had been conceived by a sperm donor. >> it felt like the rug was just pulled from underneath m entire life she was raised an only child in ireland but in her 20s, signed up for genetic testing, discovered she had a half sister and not long after that. oh my god, we found our biological dad. we found him within a few hours and he had a website and i called him that day. i have a million questions. you might have a

million questions. >> i was in london and i did donate at a clinic there. >> you're very welcome to have called me and to hear this man say, you're very welcome. i feel guilty because i know that that's not the story and that's not the happy ending that everyone gets. >> why are you putting so many children on this earth? >> a recent netflix documentary sparked debate about a largely unregulated industry it featured jonathan maier from the netherlands, who was able to father hundreds of children. >> i am a very good donor. i am one of the best donors. >> his donations may have reached america. >> the u.s. does not have a national database tracking sperm donation and there's no legal cap on how many donations can be made by one person, making it possible for those born to end up in incestuous relationships without knowing donor conceived people have

been sounding the alarm on this for years, but we are seeing men who are donating hundreds and thousands of times. >> indiana law professor jody madeira is an expert in fertility fraud. how does the u.s. compare to other countries when it comes to regulating sperm donation? >> well, i think the wild west is an apt comparison. and if you think that something like a guy with a thousand kids donor conceived kids is possible in europe, then the chances are exponentially higher in the united states from shady secrets to life changing discoveries. louise now hosts a podcast, you look like me, that explores the lives of people like her, some discovering they have huge biological families. >> this journey of conception, this journey of fertility treatment. it does not end when you have a baby it ends, you know, all the way in the future when your child is grown up into a person and these are real world issues that they have to deal with. >> louise says making parents

aware of those risks could improve the donor industry. leigh kiniry cbs news, london. >> and cbs news roundup will be right back

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me? >> let's work as a team to defend against the flu. gears up with a flu shot to protect others and reduce your risk of being sick or hospitalized with the flu. >> that's the message. in a new psa from the ad council and the cdc last year alone, close to a half a million people ended up in the hospital because of the flu. getting a flu shot can reduce that risk by half. >> cdc principal deputy director doctor nirav shah says get protected from flu and covid 19 before we start gathering to celebrate the holidays. >> a lot of us are going to be getting together with our families in small gatherings going to church, going to other events. that's those are situations that the virus thrives in. small groups of people in close quarters with one another. >> vaccination rates have been lagging. last year, fewer than half of all people in the u.s. received a flu vaccine pharmacist rachana chowdhury says don't be afraid to ask questions if you're hesitant about getting vaccinated. >> there are definitely safe and effective. the best part is

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