>> we see incredibly high rates of tooth decay. >> reporter: dr. mary beth giacona is a dentist at rutgers school of dentistry in new york. she says having fluoride in water is one of the tools that can help prevent cavities. >> our patients are not getting any fluoridated water. fluoridating water can prevent up to 40% of tooth decay. >> reporter: as of 2022, roughly three quarters of americans on public water systems drink fluoridated water. new jersey ranks second to last on that list. tim eustis is the executive director of the north jersey water supply commission. his job is to take minerals out of drinking water, and says we shouldn't be putting more in. >> the better idea is to provide toothpaste, toothbrushes, neonatal and prenatal vitamins because that's the specific target audience that they're looking for. >> reporter: robert f. kennedy, jr., president-elect trump's

pick for hhs secretary, has claimed fluoride is associated with cancer and iq loss. >> i think fluoride is a poison. >> reporter: the cdc has called fluoridation of drinking water one of the great public health achievements of the 20th century. >> i was a product of the fluoride generation. born in the '70s, and i have no cavities. so for teeth, i'm thinking that's probably -- fluoride is a good thing. >> reporter: and something that will be up for debate. meg oliver, cbs news, newark, new jersey. for many political observers, one of the most unexpected aspects of donald trump's election victory was how well he did with men. some have dubbed this the bro vote. tony dokoupil takes a look behind the numbers. >> reporter: as kamala harris campaigned to be america's first female president -- >> when we fight -- >> we win! >> reporter: with the support of some very powerful women behind her -- >> we're not going back. >> reporter: the buzz leading up to the election was often about the female vote.

>> women will be the beacon in this election. >> young women in particular have the ability to be determinative in this election. >> reporter: but men too, as it turned out, had some big motivations. >> a lot of men were just sick of being told they're terrible and there is nothing they can do. and i think that's the huge mistake that democrats made, or one of many. >> reporter: there is truth in tht, says richard reeves, a senior fellow at the brookings institution think tank whose research is focused on men. >> they have come to believe that the progressive agenda on behalf of women has felt it necessary to somehow dismiss or denigrate men, and they're over it. >> reporter: as the world has changed, many men have lost their place in it, reeves says, a problem he details in his book "of boys and men." >> there is something deeper going on here. there is a survey recently that found that two-thirds of young men say that no one really knows them very well. 15% of them don't have a close friend. and what i hear a lot is just this sense of being unclear

about why and how i am going to be necessary. >> reporter: he also sees a lot of measurable pain, including inflation-adjusted wages for most men, lower today than in 1979, and men having a three times higher risk from deaths of despair by suicide or overdose. >> the unwillingness of anybody on the center left to just have a straight forward conversation about men's mental health, about male employment, about male wages has created a gigantic vacuum in our culture and in our politics. >> enough! >> reporter: a perceived void republicans have filled. >> let trump mania run wild, brother! >> reporter: with a little help from what call the manisphere. >> we had you on the show many times. we did this biden impression, walking around. it's funny. it's stand-up. it's funny stuff. >> reporter: reaching men through worlds of sports,

ultimate fighting, and podcast popular with guys. >> you dealt especially in the last three and a half years a complete dismemberment of what it is to be a man. we're under attack for everything. >> we are. >> the polls sometimes talk about the dirty business of making you like the candidate. >> it's not always about does the voter want to have a drink with you the candidate. does the voter think you want to have a drink with you. >> trump appealed to men because he appealed to men. he campaigned to try to win their votes. >> reporter: michael knowles is a conservative commentator with the daily wire and host of the michael knowles show. >> when kamala was campaigning, such as it was for young men, she sent out her husband to describe masculinity as toxic. >> you've got this trope out there that you've got to be tough and angry and lash out to be strong. just the opposite. >> not a great way to win people over. she sent out barack obama to harangue black men who dent want to vote for her. >> part of it makes me think that, well, you just aren't

feeling the idea of having a woman as president. >> this is not the way to win the hearts and minds of young men. >> reporter: knowles feels the left has utterly lost its way on gender. >> it's no wonder they've turned men away. but it's no wonder they turned women away either, because women don't want girlie men. women want men to be like men. there were distinctions between the roles of men and women in the past that always had exceptions, but nevertheless were defined. now in the name of equality, we seek the distinction. >> reporter: a line of thinking that others find outdated and wrong, along with some of the uglier comments after trump won. >> it's your body, my choice. >> reporter: but what the left may hear from trump as insensitive or even worse -- >> this is a guy that was all man. >> reporter: many on the right see as familiar and unfiltered. >> i think what men want, and what women want for that matter is just to return to a kind of

normal society where we can have our traditional way of life and not be constantly taken aback by all sorts of ideological matters. and i think trump in his own way offered that. >> trump is normal. >> paradoxically so. >> reporter: in these weeks after trump's victory, some on the left have begun to acknowledge where he connected. >> at least he is speaking to the pain and saying i see you. the problem for much of the democratic ticket is there was very little acknowledgment of any degree of pain. >> reporter: faiz shakir is the chief political adviser to bernie sanders, who says irony in all this is the biden agenda of funding factories and infrastructure has actually been beneficial to men. and now he wouldn't be surprised to see trump taking the credit in the months ahead. >> campaigning for president these days is a performance art. certainly democrats are great at

having a ten-point policy plan, and i tend to agree we have a better approach for the future. republicans are much better at the performance art of how you campaign. that's something we've really got to change. >> reporter: the big question for democrats is how they make that change ahead of the next election. somehow reaching men, but in a way that doesn't put off their progressive base. so who did all of this to men? who is to blame? >> that's the danger, isn't it? if there is a problem, there has to be a villain. this is not the fault of feminists. this is not the fault of the women's movement. this is definitely not the fault of women. and so if the problem on the more reactionary right say yes, men are struggling, let's go back. let's go backwards. that's not the way forward. but the problem sometimes on the other side, on the progressive left side has been to say that by definition, men can't have problems because men are the problem.

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>> as you know, it's easy to look at these barren blocks as just a hellscape of hopelessness. but then you learn the stories of families like the three generations that lived in this house and really grasped what it takes to rebuild a whole community from scratch. >> oh my god! >> reporter: like thousands of l.a. residents, maria mendoza's hopes were crushed when she turned a corner. >> no! >> reporter: and faced the ashes of what had been her home since her parents bought it in 1982. >> i just fell to the ground, and i couldn't believe it. >> reporter: three generations of menendezes and their seven dogs left home wednesday and now are all crammed into small hotel rooms, counting their spared lives among their blessings. what do you take from the house? >> nothing. no time to search anything. just a few papers and you grab the animals and run away.

>> i'm like going through one thing through another through another. i guess they do make you stronger. my grandpa says we've got to keep on going. >> reporter: the family patriarch, 87-year-old javier mendoza told me life just like that house vanishes away in an instant. >> everything is gone. >> reporter: everything. >> nothing left. >> wait a second, now what do we do, you know what i mean? >> reporter: victoria says there is loss, but also a lesson, crediting her grandfather with making sure he had good homeowners insurance, providing some peace of mind in the process ahead. >> so hopefully we find something soon and we can all get somewhat of a routine back. a sense of, you know, our own space. >> just start all over, you know, and go back to work. >> reporter: but on monday, there was one less loss they learned about when a stranger agreed to bring javier the only item that made it out of the flames with just a few burn scars.

why does that feel good? what does that truck mean? >> it's my grandpa's truck, you know? it's a little win. >> reporter: i asked javier, who crossed the border more than 70 years from mexico, became a resident and then a citizen, and then through hard work raised multiple generations of his family under this now vanished roof, what's the secret to his energy and optimism, and he said, "i just keep going. i wake up early and bingo." those were his words. >> that was lilia luciano in devastated altadena, california. stay with us. "cbs news roundup" will be right back.

with covid lockdowns and restrictions far behind us, 2024 turned out to be a banner year for international travel, and industry leaders say this year will be even better. here is cbs' wendy gillette. >> reporter: hugs with established connections and endless networking to make new ones brought together the biggest names and brands for the international luxury travel market at cannes last month. the trade show marked the largest gathering in the organization's history. >> 2024 was a phenomenal year in travel. we hear it from travel agents. we hear it from suppliers. we hear it from resorts. we hear it from city hotels. >> reporter: hot destinations this year include japan, where round-trip airfares will drop close to $1,000, down 12% from last year. travelers are also headed off the beaten path in europe to verona, italy, and milos, greece, and booking adventure trips to norway and finland, according to hopper. more predictions from 2025 come from travel advisers and hotel

leaders attending the annual embark emerging conference held last year in cabos, mexico. the event generated $10 million in sales, looking ahead to 2025. embark's ceo jack ezon says warming temperatures around the world are changing travel patterns, including visits to europe. >> many people instead of going core july and august are now choosing to go in september or october, or may or june. >> reporter: traveling to shop is becoming more popular. >> i'm seeing lots of folks going places specifically to buy that bag, get that item they've always wanted. >> reporter: there is also an increased focus on personalized travel. >> personalization today is really a basic. so people want to be recognized. people want to get to know our colleagues. people want to know that they're being taken care of. >> reporter: the luxury travel network virtuoso sees the growth of solo cruising, and the points guy predicts authentic experiences and trips planned

around attending events like taylor swift's eras tour last year will keep travel flying high in 2025. wendy gillette, cbs news. >> was that wendy on a camel? 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 online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm shanelle kaul. ♪ i'm shanelle kaul in new

york, and this is "cbs news roundup." here are the top stories. there was a breakthrough in the gaza ceasefire agreement with israel's security cabinet now scheduled to vote on the deal friday. the list of tech billionaires invited to vip seats at president-elect trump's inauguration is growing. we'll see whose invited. and we're with the teams assessing damage from southern california's firestorm nightmare. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu says a deal to return hostages in the gaza strip has now been reached. the breakthrough on the ceasefire agreement comes after last-minute snags with both israel and hamas accusing each other of holding it up. netanyahu now says he will convene his security cabinet for approval. cbs' natalie brand is in washington with more. >> reporter: israel's cabinet is

set to meet friday to vote on the ceasefire and hostage release deal with hamas expected to begin sunday. demonstrators gathered in tel aviv late into the night, calling on israel to seal the deal. among them, gill dickmann, who says his cousin was killed while held by hamas in gaza. >> the deal that we're having is the same deal that we had on the table in may. the only things that's changed is that some of the hostages were killed in captivity, just like my cousin. >> reporter: palestinians displaced by 15 months of war expressed cautious optimism. >> we've been through this several times. it's not the first time, and we hope it will be the last one. >> reporter: the first phase of the deal brokered by qatar, egypt, and the u.s. includes a six-week ceasefire and a series of swaps of israeli hostages and palestinian prisoners. for now, israel's bombing in gaza has not stopped. this attack captured by our cbs news team in gaza hit a mosque. >> it's going to take tremendous

effort. >> reporter: secretary of state antony blinken says he remains confident the long-awaited ceasefire will soon begin. >> it's not exactly surprising that in a negotiation that has been this challenging, this fraught, you may get a loose end. we're tying up that loose end as we speak. >> reporter: the agreement also includes a surge of aid into gaza to ease the ongoing humanitarian crisis. its implementation will happen under the incoming trump administration. natalie brand, cbs news, washington. president joe biden has reportedly decided not to enforce a ban on tiktok that is set to take effect the day before he leaves office. the associated press is quoting white house sources who say biden will leave the fate of the popular social media app to incoming president trump. congress last year passed a law requiring tiktok's chinese owner to sell to a u.s. company by january 19th or be shut down.

and the ceo of tiktok is just one of a growing list of tech billionaires who will be on the platform near president-elect donald trump during his inauguration on monday. cbs' nancy cordes reports on the increasingly cozy relationship between the incoming president and some of the richest men in the world. >> i donald john trump -- >> reporter: when president-elect trump is sworn in at noon on monday, tiktok ceo chu will have a better seat than most members of congress. the invitation disappointed lawmakers from both sides. >> not my favorite thing. not my favorite things. >> democrats and republicans agree that tiktok is a huge national security concern. >> reporter: back in 2020, trump agreed and tried to force tiktok's chinese owners to sell the social media platform to a u.s. company. ♪ we voted donald trump, baby ♪ >> reporter: but an avalanche of pro-trump content on tiktok during the campaign appeared to

change his mind. >> you know, i have a warm spot in my heart for tiktok. >> reporter: now the trump team is looking for ways to buy tiktok some time, with a u.s. ban on the app set to take effect this sunday. chu will be seated monday alongside other tech titans, including tesla's elon musk, meta's mark zuckerberg and amazon's jeff bezos. those three alone have a combined net worth close to a trillion dollars. >> an oligarchy is taking shape in america. >> reporter: in his farewell address, president biden issued a warning about what he described as the tech industrial complex and the rich men who run it. >> tt's a dangerous conserve vcation of power in the hands of a very few ultra wealthy people. >> reporter: we're still watching to see whether the supreme court steps in at trump's request. friday would be their last day to do it before the ban takes effect on sunday. nancy cordes, cbs news, west palm beach. >> and cbs news will bring you

extensive coverage of the presidential inauguration starting monday at 9:00 a.m. eastern, right here on cbs, and our streaming channel, cbs news 24/7. we'll see you there. california's medical examiner says the official death toll from the wildfires has now risen to 27, while police say 31 people are still missing. for many residents who fled their homes, it may be at least a week before they're allowed to see what's left. fire crews are making progress against wildfires still burning in the region, but it's debris left behind that's causing concern. cbs' rob marciano went along with a team of fire officials assessing the damage. >> reporter: thousands of structures have been damaged or completely destroyed by the frestorm. now comes the arduous task of making sure these fire-ravaged communities are safe as residents and business owners start to return to survey what's left, if anything is left. >> the properties have been damaged beyond belief. they are full of sediment,

debris, silt, and hazardous materials. >> reporter: pesticide, fuel, and lithium batteries need to be removed. utility companies are also working on power and gas lines. these workers are digging down to get to the gas line. they need to shut it down, seal it off, so it's safe for residents to come back. and this has to happen in neighborhoods throughout the fire zone. altadena homeowner aaron has already seen his home. >> you know, you stand there saring. how do i tell my kids that everything is gone? and why didn't god answer my prayers and do this to me. >> reporter: but many are enduring an agonizing wait, relying on informaion passed down from damage inspection specialists. >> i'll take a photo. >> reporter: natasha fouts is one of 60 specialists working the fires, assessing up to 40 homes a day. >> if it's destroyed and it is damaged, then we'll mark it. >> reporter: the data fouts gathered is verified and sent to local officials, and that info is then used by aid

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come monday, hundreds of thousands will gather on the national mall in washington to witness the second inauguration of donald trump as president of the united states. it's a massive challenge to ensure everyone will be safe. nicole sganga got a bird's-eye view of how prepared security officials are after months of planning. >> to your left. >> got it. >> reporter: from only 150 feet in the air, pilots dodge buildings. >> tower on your left. >> reporter: flying in a grid over the national mall to scan for radiological or nuclear irregularities, threats like dirty bombs. so you're trying to create a blueprint of what the radiation in washington, d.c. looks like ahead of the inauguration? >> correct. >> reporter: department of energy scientist jacqueline brandon calls this low-flying helicopter one of just two of its kind, her office. >> if we find a radiological irregularity, we'll investigate it even further. >> reporter: highly sensitive technology sets off alarms in

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protect the nation's capitol and its 250,000 ticketed guests. throughout the city, a ring of steel. 30 miles of anti-scale fencing. and along the icy potomac, more than 25 coast guard vessels lined up. ready to deploy? >> ready to deploy. >> reporter: captain patrick burke get says teams are now patrolling waterways after a recent storm. >> that put a lot of strain and stress on our resources and personnel. and everyone knew that january was going to be a busy month. >> reporter: dubbed a national special security event demanding the highest level of federal protection, the inauguration comes just days after two others, january 6th electoral count and former president jimmy carter's funeral. we had three national special security events in the course of 15 day. >> yeah. >> reporter: i mean that -- that's never happened before. >> no. in a year of unprecedented events, this just continued to keep us going on the unprecedented events. we feel like we have a very good

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body camera video of a beating inside a prison in new york state has sparked outrage, calls for reform, and now a lawsuit. the video shows officers repeatedly hitting 43-year-old robert brooks while he was restrained on a medical exam

table. brooks died a day later, and his family is now demanding action against the officers. cbs' jericka duncan has more. >> we sat down with brooks family just moments after they filed a federal civil lawsuit over the death of robert brooks. the result of an autopsy haven't been revealed yet of the official cause of death, but his family says it wants the officers behind the attack brought to justice. >> i keep living the same nightmare over and over. >> reporter: robert brooks' son, robert brooks jr. believes his father's civil rights were violated after his dad was transferred from another prison in central new york last month. what did you see when you watch that video? >> so what i seen was torture, was anger, and overall hate. that's all i could grasp from that video. i seen a helpless man, and i see myself in him, because i am his

son. >> reporter: these were just some of the final moments of the 43-year-old's life on the night of december 9th. it was captured on body cameras worn by officers at the marcy correctional facility. the video was released two weeks ago by the new york attorney general's office and shows corrections officers repeatedly punching and kicking brooks while he's handcuffed on an infirmary bed. brooks' limp body and bloodied face is seen taking repeated blows. at one point an officer is seen trying to shove white material into brooks' mouth. another officer seen grabbing him by the neck. the next morning, brooks was pronounced dead. he had three years left on his sentence. your father was convicted of stabbing his ex-girlfriend, your mother. >> yes. >> reporter: and that's why he was serving a 12-year sentence. you're his son. you clearly forgave him. >> he did the crime and he was doing the time. he was coming home. that's what prison's for. and that's not what my father got.

he got a death sentence. >> reporter: what would you say to those officers or the nurses that were there to witness the beating? >> i hope that you're man enough to admit to what you did. >> i want them all to get prosecuted. it was murder. there is no other word for it. they murdered my father. they robbed him. they robbed him from me. he doesn't get to come home. >> reporter: the state attorney general's office has assigned a special prosecutor to investigate brooks' death. >> what we see is a clear systemic problem that makes the people on the video think they can do what they're doing because they don't think anybody's watching. >> reporter: attorneys elizabeth mazur and steve shores represent the brooks family. >> no person of good conscience can look at that video and say this should happen in america. but when somebody is shackled and beaten the way robert brooks was, no one can in good conscience can justify that. >> he recently told me that he asked for forgiveness for everything, and he felt the lord

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top nfl team an edge. >> she can be very creative. some stuff we can show you. some things we can't. >> reporter: like stitching battery-powered hand warmers into the jersey of two-time league mvp lamar jackson, or custom fitting jerseys so players like library oway can get to the other team's quarterbacks. >> i always have a thing holding. they never call that. i told her to tailor it in and she did it. >> almost an inch. >> reporter: and in a game of inches, that can make a difference. >> guys are grabbing him, but then they've got all this to hang on to bring him down. >> reporter: the team's head equipment manager says making that cut can be as important as any adjustment in the playbook. >> because it doesn't matter what we bring her, she can get it done. >> she can get it done? >> she can get it done. >> reporter: short grew up a ravens fan just two miles from the team's facility where she

works. >> like went to training camps. >> reporter: you went to training camps as a kid? >> as a kid. >> reporter: oh, my gosh. she got her first sewing machine for christmas around 10, and her first sewing lesson from her father, keith. a pop warner coach. >> i learned this in middle school. i say we're going to do the bobbin. we're going thread the needle. >> yeah, i don't know how you remembered. >> reporter: she was hooked. >> i wanted to make clothes for my dolls. >> reporter: so you were being a fashion designer for your dolls. >> yeah. >> reporter: and then fast forward, then it was my prom dress. >> reporter: short followed those fashion dreams to new york's prestigious parsons school of design. and then a career creating costumes for big broadway shows like "the lion king" and cinderella. >> the problem solving?

>> yeah. >> reporter: kind of like here. >> exactly. it's just different material. >> reporter: and a different stage. >> and a different stage. >> reporter: short passed up a job designing costumes for cher in 2019 to join the ravens and has built a team here of her own, expanding from this small space off the equipment room to an office in the business part of the building. >> she started a program of just taking everybody from you may not sew, but this is how we sew with the ravens. >> reporter: how you look and how you feel can also be how you play. >> oh, for sure. if you feel good, you play good. >> reporter: and that can be as much as anyone on the field, short's helping to string together her team's super bowl dreams.

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