♪ ♪ hello and thanks for staying up with us. here are the top stories on "roundup." president-elect donald trump has named all his cab theet nominees. the fight begins over their approval hezbollah fires about 250 rockets into israel and one of the heaviest barrages of the war so far. and the travel rush is already under way as millions of americans start their holiday journeys hoping to get home in time for thanksgiving. president-elect donald trump has finished announcing his cabinet picks ahead of the thanksgiving holiday. polling shows most americans approve of the way trump is handling the transfer of power. however, as cbs' christian benevitez reports from west palm beach, florida, some of those nominees are facing an uphill

battle. >> reporter: president-elect trump and his team have kept up a steady drumbeat of staffing announcements, some of whom may have a difficult path to confirmation, including his defense secretary pick, former fox news host pete hegseth. >> it's frankly an insult and really troubling that mr. trump would nominate someone who has admitted that he's paid off a victim who has claimed rape allegations against him. >> reporter: but on sunday, trump allies doubled down on their support of hegseth, who faced allegations of sexual assault when he has denied. authorities investigated and did not file charges. >> all these are, as you said, are allegations. it's amazing how this comes out. pete is a very talented individual. >> reporter: a decorated veteran, hegseth also said this about. >> women in combat. >> i'm straight-up saying we should not have women in combat roles. >> pete has his opinions. who ultimately makes that decision is president trump. >> reporter: new cbs polling

shows a majority of americans, 59%, support trump's handling of the transition and 55% are either happy or satisfied with his victory. president trump has a mandate to execute these policies that he has outlined. >> reporter: on saturday, trump announced former domestic policy adviser brooke rollings as his pick for agriculture secretary. scott business set as his choice for treasury. it confirmed he would be responsible for mr. trump's policies on taxes and tariffs. >> i have nothing to do with project 2025. >> reporter: and project 2025 coauthor ross roe plans to reprise his role as white house budget director despite trump's disavowal of the conservative policy blueprint. christian benitez, cbs news, west palm beach, florida. turning to the middle east, israeli war planes carried out new air strikes in beirut s suburbs sunday, bringing the weekend death doll there to at least 29 people killed. that's according to lebanon's health ministry.

the strikes were in response to a volley of more than 250 hezbollah rockets targeting northern israel, one of the largest attacked by the iranian-backed militant group since the war began. from east jerusalem, the conflict is leading to severe hardships i think side gaza where the cold and hunger are creating a desperate struggle for survival. >> reporter: nearly everyone is hungry in gaza. in the north, the u.n. says famine may already be under way. in the south, children are starving. often surviving on just one meager meal a day. desperate palestinians brave angry crowds just to get bread. but it is often a hopeless quest. "sometimes i can't find any bread at all," she says. "i swear, we live in hell. one of my children has already died, and i'm terrified it will happen again."

it is images likehese that have given way to the arrest warrants issued by the international criminal court against prime minister benjamin netanyahu and his former defense minister i dyoav for war crimes including deliberate starvation. netanyahu has rejected the accusations as anti-semitic, but there are incredible accounts supporting them says israeli professor of international law, gross. >> it is troubling, in my opinion, to see that in the name of protecting israel, there is neglect of caring for the civilians. >> reporter: and now temperatures are plummeting as palestinians desperately try to carve are carve out makeshift shelters in the ruins of war, hoping there will be just enough food to survive the winter. before the war began, 500 aid trucks entered gaza every day. it is a fraction of that now

with the quantity dropping to almost its lowest level for the entire war. deborah patters, cbs news, east jerusalem. if you're planning on traveling this thanksgiving week, you'll have plenty of company. according to aaa, nearly 80 million americans will be on the move for the holiday. that number is a record and is nearly one-quarter the entire u.s. population. cbs' chanel cal reports from newark liberty international airport in new jersey. >> reporter: across the country, airports are already teeming with travelers heading to thanksgiving destinations before peak travel days. >> i found it was cheaper to fly on a sunday and then coming back on friday, so i can beat that rush. >> reporter: 2.8 million expected to fly tuesday. it's a similar story on wednesday. but next sunday could set an all-time record with more than 3 million expected to pass through airport security nationwide. >> we are ready across 433 federalized airports to ensure passengers can complete the

screen process within our established wait times of 30 minutes or less for noon-precheck passengers, 10 minutes or less for precheck passengers. >> reporter: most travelers are expected to drive. a record 71.7 million, over a million more than last year. >> it's important to know when the peak congestion periods will be which aaa anticipates will be tuesday afternoon and wednesday afternoon. between the hours of 1:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. the key is to avoid those afternoon rush hour commute times when people heading home from work are mixing on the roads with travelers heading in and out of town. >> reporter: one bright spot for roerd warriors, gas prices are lower compared to last year and the average price per gallon could dip below $3 by thanksgiving. and millions of travelers from coast to coast will also have to deal with some tiesy winter storms already hitting the pacific northwest and northern california, expected to move

throughout the nation later this week. chanel call, cbs news, newark airport. emergency responders in bolivia are desperately trying to save people from a deadly mudslide. authorities say the mudslide in the cap pal, la paz, was caused by heavy rains, train trapping people in homes. a young gifl girl was swept away and at least 26 have been injured. a river spilled its banks, washing away hills upstream from densely packed homes and buildings. tropical storms wiped out parts of costa rica's coffee crop. straight ahead, we'll take you to springfield, ohio, where thousands of legal migrants from haiti are frightened over president trump's promises of mass deportation.

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this is "cbs news roundup." i'm matt piper in new york. president-elect trump has vowed to launch the largest deportation in u.s. history on day one of his administration. that's got migrants, documented and undocumented, concerned about their future. among them, thousands of haitians living legally in springfield, ohio. during the campaign, trump falsely claimed they were eating local pets, and some people are already leaving town. cbs' nicole valdez has the story. >> i just worry. >> reporter: katley fled unspeakable violence in haiti six years ago, hoping to find peace and a slice of the american dream. >> i stayed here. i do two jobs to make my business. that's why i don't go back h haiti. >> reporter: human people do you think you know have left

springfield? >> i hoe ten people. >> reporter: who are those people? >> friends. my neighbors. >> reporter: she saved money for years and recently opened a restaurant. one of the thousands of haitians immigrants building a life in springfield, ohio. who now find themselves in the crosshairs of the incoming administration. >> we're going to have the largest deportation in the history of our country, and we're going to start with springfield. >> reporter: she, like most, are here legally through temporary protected status which president-elect trump has vowed to end. >> i can't talk. >> reporter: i know, it's difficult. >> i'm scared, because all my business in haiti was bombed. i lost my mom. someone come in the business, they shot my mom with a gun, bomb my business.

if i get tee ported back to haiti, for me especially, i'm going to be dead. >> reporter: many are leaving town, even her daughter. when your daughter told you she wanted to leave, did you think about also leaving? >> yes. i keep thinking about it. i don't know where i'm going to go but i keep thinking about it. >> we're hoping everyone works out the way it needs to work out. you know? god, somehow, works everything out, you know? >> if you have god, you have everything. >> that's right. >> reporter: faith fueling motivation to keep cooking, to stay in springfield. while her business and her while her business and her future hang in the balance. giving tuesday. giving tuesday. giving tuesday. giving tuesday is a global effort that encourages people to do good. this year, please support shriners children's™ because when you do, you're not just giving to a hospital. you're helping change

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and i get to become familiar with what idaho's known for, potatoes. >> reporter: mikel is a high schooler in the home to the idaho potato museum, her school district one of a handful that give students two weeks off during the harvest and early fall. it's a "spud break." >> a lot of our potatoes go to mcdonald's and stuff. it's interesting that i'm helping with potatoes that i might end up eating later. >> reporter: does that make you extra careful with them? >> yeah, i make sure nothing's getting by that i wouldn't eat myself. >> reporter: she and others spud breakers are paid to monitor the conveyor belts and weed out foreign objects as the potatoes head down the line. could you do this without the help of the teenagers? >> absolutely not. they are that critical to this operation. >> reporter: brian murdoch is a sixth-generation potato farmer who's employed spud breakers for decades. >> to hire somebody full-time is -- no way could i do that.

then also to try to find somebody temporarily, even for two weeks, that's even hard to do. >> reporter: murdoch tries to make the experience memorable for the students who choose to work on the farm. he prints t-shirts each year and provides team dinners that feature, you guessed it, plenty of potatoes. >> i don't think i could ever get sick of potatoes. >> reporter: really? after toughing them all day long? >> i feel like that makes you -- i'm excited about potatoes. >> reporter: doing ought the work that went into it? >> yeah. >> reporter: it's a lot of hard work. the farms in this county produce more than 57,000 acres of potatoes a year. >> the potato growers are bound to each other. last year, i was struggling to get done. but i had a neighbor come and help me. >> reporter: this year, farmer nick benson has a crop of around 20 teens helping bring in the harvest.

>> looking good! >> reporter: school sports don't stop during harvest break. she begins the day with an early volleyball practice, then heads to benson's farm, where she's learned how to drive a potato truck. >> i think sometimes the best learning is outside school. my dad has a joke, "don't let school interfere with your education." i feel like i'm learning valuable lessons about working hard and being responsible. >> reporter: some families vacation during the break, but the students who do work stand to make well over $1,000. they may find themselves working side by side with their teachers. >> i started working harvest because i was a single mom with three kids, and i started worrying how i was going to be able to provide christmas for my kids. >> reporter: camille teaches english at snake river high school and supplements her income working harvest at thompson farms. for two weeks her young co-workers are allowed to call

her by her first name. do you feel like anything is lost when they're out of the classroom these two weeks? >> i absolutely do not. i do not feel that -- or see any retention lost in the classroom with these high school kids. if anything, it's a rejuvenation. they're back, ready to go with more energy. >> reporter: the majority of these students aren't bound for careers in agriculture. this isn't an apprentice ship, it's a tradition, a community coming together to bring in the crop. >> this is what we get to live every day. this is our life. we get to feel this year after year. it's wonderful. it really is.

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nasa record. >> fresh food. you never have fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, salad. >> reporter: so it's not, i think a little more salt? >> right. food science is very different from being a chef. >> reporter: at the johnson space food systems laboratory in houston, nasa food scientist grace douglas and food manager shulae wu have helped develop a menu of 200 different dishes for space station dining. >> what we're doing is looking at engineering and microbiology and chemistry and how we can make those foods stable for long amounts of time. so we have to make sure that they're safe and they taste really good for those lengths of time. >> reporter: the space station has no traditional oven, stove, fridge, or freezer. only a little pouch warmer. >> this is a mango salad. >> reporter: wow. excellent with a subtle bouquet

of recirculated air. to ensure a three-year shelf life, every pouch has either been freeze dried, heat stabilized, or irradiated. >> we're in texas. we had to try to barbecue beef brisket, an irradiated product. >> reporter: also excellent. i can barely taste the gamma rays. even the rehydrated high pressureky was delicious. just like mom used to make. there you go. curry pumpkin soup, squash, turkey, spicy green beans, mango salad, cherry-blueberry cobbler. your classic norman rockwell thanksgiving dinner. a mars mission will be a bigger challenge. it might require five years worth of food, too heavy to launch with the astronauts. does anyone ever talk about a pill or an energy drink that has all the nutrients you need in it? >> it goes back to variety.

because if we think about food on earth, we celebrate around food. it becomes very important. there's concepts out there of, we can produce a lot of algae or something else. if you worked really hard all day, you're really tired, you come home, what would you want to eat with your friends? >> reporter: probably not an algae pill? >> probably not. >> reporter: as for astronaut frank rubio, it was time to ask the big question. globules of water floating in microgravity, going after it. is that just a stunt for the camera that gets old after a day? >> yeah, almost every meal you'll have somebody be like, "hey, catch." playing with your food is one of the small privileges that we have out there.

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