take it easy. that is how it all kind of came up. just to be nominated in any grammy category is amazing. >> reporter: kaleigh lives in bermuda but his second home is in oakland where he records music and soaks up the vibe and you can watch the grammys live right here on cbs news bay area. it all starts at 5:00 p.m. news sunday. you can stream it on paramount plus. cbs news is next. on kpix, we have local e" ♪ ♪ e" >> maurice: good evening. i'm maurice dubois. >> john: i'm john dickerson. president trump's nominee for health secretary got roughed up at his confirmation hearing today. more about that coming up.

>> maurice: but we begin with the president's crackdown on illegal immigration. he signed the laken riley act today, named for a georgia woman murdered by an undocumented immigrant. it says an immigrant who is in this country illegally and commits a violent crime or theft must be held in detention until trial. >> john: mr. trump also said he will open a detention center at guantanamo bay, cuba, for as many as 30,000 criminal immigrants whose home countries won't take them back. >> maurice: some of the immigrants who enter this country illegally are being helped in by u.s. citizens. it's a business. and adam yamaguchi got a look at how it works. >> reporter: we drove overnight to a safe house near the southern border in new mexico. to meet a woman who just hours ago arrived on u.s. soil illegally. why are you here? >> [speaking spanish] >> reporter: you want a better life. this woman says she was

desperate to escape the violence in zacatecas, mexico. she paid smugglers over $15,000 to get here. by morning, she'll be dropped off at her final destination elsewhere in the u.s. we learned her journey was facilitated by a network of americans smuggling people from across the nearly 2,000-mile-long stretch of the southern border, deep into the country. >> americans, we are doing this. we are the ones were taking them across. >> reporter: we got an inside look at the operation with the man who smuggled her. he agreed to speak with us only if we masked his identity. how many people have you moved? >> i would say close to 500. >> reporter: 500? this man, who we are calling joe, was born and raised right here in the southwest. first, he gets sent a location by a smuggling organization. >> i get gps sent to me. come out here, and we get in my vehicle, and then we head on out. >> start the truck, go straight and turn right. >> reporter: after migrants cross into the u.s. illegally with the help of cartels, joe meets them. >> we're going to a motel that

was used as, you know, a place to help illegal immigrants stay. and live there for a little like for a few days before they would catch rides to go up north. >> reporter: there is a guy that is kind of looking around. so these hotels and motels across the region are used to stash migrants? >> oh, yeah. definitely. all the time. >> reporter: these are the types of places you use? >> i've used before. >> reporter: most americans who watch this are going to say that you are part of the problem. you are getting enriched off the backs of people. you are part of this cartel-run operation. people are pissed about this. >> reporter: they are. is it wrong? yeah, a lot of people think it's wrong. i try to say, you know, i'm doing something to help a family out, trying to get away from that poverty, that violence, that danger in mexico to get to their family here in the united states. >> reporter: joe told us he

lost his job during the pandemic. this is about money. he says he makes about $2,000 for every person he helps into the u.s. and sometimes moves six people a week. these are wire transfers from the illegal migrants you've moved. $1500. $1500. $2500. wow. this is a lot of money. >> yeah. >> reporter: as the u.s. steps up enforcement, the cost per migrant jumps up. >> yeah, they're getting ready to spike up right away. it's going to get a lot worse than what anyone else has ever seen. >> john: adam, joe said that things are going to get worse. have things changed in the trump administration? >> reporter: yeah, so i just got off the phone with joe, and he said that in the early days of the trump administration, the going rate for moving people smuggling people across the border and across america, has more than doubled, and in some cases, it's even tripled.

he also says that he was drawn into this line of work by a buddy of his, and he himself knows of 20 other guys, of americans who are willing to take on these jobs. >> maurice: adam, for the migrant in your piece, why did she pick this guy joe to bring her over here? how did that work out? >> reporter: well, she says that she tried to get into the country legally. she applied for asylum. she was denied, and so she turned to smugglers, who she said really was the only other choice, and she says that if she were to be deported, she'd turn right back around and do it again. >> john: what about joe? is he worried about getting arrested for doing this kind of work? >> reporter: yeah, we talked quite a bit about that, and yes he is fearful of being arrested. he expects the government to throw the book at him. but he seemed far more afraid of the people he works for. this is the cartels that are running this operation. >> maurice: adam, do you have any sense of how many other joes are out there, americans doing this?

>> reporter: you know, it's hard to say because all of this happens under the cover of darkness, but he did tell us that he knows of people just like him across the entire stretch of the u.s.-mexico border. >> maurice: okay adam yamaguchi really got our attention with that one. thanks so much. >> john: now some of the top stories from around the world in tonight's "evening news" roundup. former senator bob menendez was sentenced today to 11 years in prison. the new jersey democrat took hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes, including gold bars from businessmen connected to the governments of egypt and qatar. >> maurice: a test of america's fourth and eighth graders shows reading skills are near historic lows, but there is at least some improvement in math. >> john: the federal reserve cut interest rates at their last three meetings. but not today. it left a key rate unchanged because it says inflation remains somewhat elevated. >> maurice: at that senate confirmation hearing today,

health secretary nominee robert f. kennedy jr. testified he is not anti-vaccine but pro-safety. kennedy denied he wants to dismantle medicaid but struggled to explain how he would reform the program that provides health care for nearly 80 million people. >> john: we are joined now by our chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook. jon, start our conversation off by telling us what rfk jr. would oversee, massive department. >> dr. lapook: you are right john. hhs is huge. we put together some thing i want to show you. the annual budget is $1.8 trillion. that is $0.26 out of every dollar that the government spends every year. and it oversees 13 federal agencies, including the cdc, the fda, medicaid, medicare, and the nih, which oversees a tremendous amount of medical research, so this organization really affects almost all of us. >> maurice: massive. but what would be his powers as he oversees all these agencies? >> dr. lapook: you know tremendous. i will give you an example. the cdc has an advisory committee that recommends to the cdc what vaccines to give and

when to give them. well, the hhs secretary appoints the voting members of that advisory committee, so even without official changes, the views of somebody at the top of such a powerful organization can affect public opinion, so if there is doubts, for example about vaccines, that can trickle down and perhaps increase vaccine hesitancy. >> john: what do you -- what do yor colleagues, what do healthier, decreasing obesity and if he got this job? >> dr. lapook: you know, there is agreement and even excitement about the idea of making america healthier, decreasing obesity and improving our diets. where the concern comes in is there is belief and there is evidence. and when belief doesn't square with evidence, you either change the belief -- that's science -- or you change or you cherry-pick the evidence. and there is concern among my colleagues about holding onto belief in the face of contradictory evidence. >> maurice: how concerning is it that people believe these things nowadays? there was once when this was believed to be settled fact right, science fact? >> dr. lapook: in the 1950s, the high watermark, when polio for vaccine agreement and for faith in government, vaccines

were given for polio. like 2 million people got it at a time when people were so terrified about what these infections can do. but now people don't even remember what the measles mumps, rubella -- most people haven't seen it, diphtheria, whooping cough. that's one of the problems. when public health is working nothing happens, and so people don't appreciate it. >> maurice: okay, well dr. jon lapook, we appreciate you. appreciate it. >> john: we have an update on monday's late-night order from the white house, freezing some federal grants and loans. the order led to a lot of confusion and legal challenges and the president has now rescinded it. >> maurice: still ahead here on the "cbs evening news," the worst flooding france has seen in decades. lonnie quinn will have the details. >> john: and we will have these stories, as well. >> reporter: i'm nikki battiste. tonight, we spend the final hours with a terminally-ill woman who chose to end her life and hear from an opponent of medical aid in dying. that's tonight's "eye on america." ♪ ♪ >> reporter: i'm elizabeth palmer in east jerusalem.

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♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> john: hamas confirmed today it will release three more israeli hostages tomorrow: an elderly man and two women, one of them a soldier. >> maurice: and israel will set free 110 more palestinian prisoners. this will be the third exchange under the cease-fire deal that went into effect ten days ago. >> john: elizabeth palmer looks at the state of the hamas military after 15 months of a war. [gunfire] >> reporter: in gaza, israeli troops were up against a formidable enemy. the al qassem brigade. hamas' armed wing. they are the terrorists who attacked israel in october 2023 and killed more than a thousand people. israel's offensive was meant to make sure hamas could never do it again. lieutenant colonel nadav shoshani is the israeli military spokesman. >> we have been able to take a lot of their senior chain of command. we have been able to eliminate around 20,000 terrorists. we have been able basically to

end hamas' military infrastructure. >> reporter: hamas is doing its best to hide that. its fighters have put on uniforms and are highly visible. the message: "we are the law we won, and there is no higher calling." >> [speaking in a global language] >> reporter: a senior hamas commander abu hamza boasts laughing that he is turning away recruits. >> interpreter: there are so many volunteers. i tell them, you are going to have to wait for a vacancy. >> reporter: when asked about the thousands of civilians killed in a war hamas started all he had to offer was this. >> [speaking in a global language] >> interpreter: since the cease-fire, i tell people god will compensate you for your patience. >> reporter: whereas once hamas fired thousands of rockets into israel... [explosion] it has been reduced to

hit-and-run attacks inside gaza. on an embed in gaza last fall the israeli military showed us one of their main targets. it's believed to have been a hamas supply tunnel, perhaps for weapons or weapons parts. the israelis blew up miles of those tunnels. they captured huge quantities of weapons and parts, too, and destroyed the factories where they were assembled. they have gutted hamas' military strength, and now need to keep it weak, until gazans, like the vast crowds heading back home this week, make their own political choice. >> and the people of gaza in the future have to have a decision about who they want governing them. if they want, again, hamas, they will sacrifice them again for the purpose of terror. >> maurice: and liz palmer joins us now from east jerusalem. liz, for the palestinians who don't want hamas in charge, what kind of other options do they have? >> reporter: the most

prominent contender is the palestinian authority, which already governs the west bank. the trouble is it's inefficient and notoriously corrupt. you can be sure, though, that there will be the mother of all power struggles over who gets to be the controlling organization in gaza by the time reconstruction starts. >> john: liz, what is the feeling, if it is possible to know, about hamas in gaza? >> reporter: it's very hard to say. many people are afraid to speak freely. on the one hand, hamas is admired as a key strong force in the palestinian resistance against israel, but there are plenty of gazans who are furious with them for bringing death and such epic destruction on their community. >> maurice: okay, thanks so much, liz palmer tonight. >> john: a storm making its way across europe is bringing france the worst flooding in decades. >> maurice: lonnie quinn is tracking the storm. lonnie? >> well, maurice, specifically in brittany, you are looking at the worst flooding they have had

in 60 years. those beautiful villages, the chateaux, i mean, they are under 3 feet of floodwater, and the rivers could crest at the highest they've ever been. not just france, look at the video we have from spain. spain, they had water-saturated ground. it wasn't holding the trees. in comes hurricane-force winds all because of a storm that gets a name in europe. they name their winter storms this is a winter storm herminia. we name our tropical storms they name the winter storms, but that is what the storm is capable of doing, taking place today and take place again tomorrow. >> john: so that storm is what brought this all on, is that right, lonnie? >> yeah, it is like a two-part answer to that. that is the big player, but it came to an on the heels of the big storm that we dealt in just last week. where we picked up a foot of snow on bourbon street in new orleans, that held itself together, guys, made its way all the way across the atlantic and boom, it saturated the ground throughout europe and right on its heels, in comes herminia, and i just showed you what happened there. that storm pushing across the globe, not coming to our area

going the opposite direction. what we are going to deal with is a change in our pattern, for california praying for the rain they received last week. now an atmospheric river is set up. and atmospheric river is the jet stream loaded with moisture one bout of rain after another and just pick a lot of rain anywhere from central california up into northern california and that stays in play from friday all the way through the weekend. gentlemen? >> john: lonnie quinn spanning the globe. thank you, lonnie. >> maurice: coming up, should the terminally-ill have the right to end their own lives on their own terms? >> john: "eye on america" is next. >> announcer: this portion of "cbs evening news" is sponsored by breztri. visit us at breztri.com. at bre. . visit us at breztri.com. breztri gave me... better breathing, symptom improvement, and reduced flare-ups. breztri won't replace a rescue inhaler for sudden breathing problems. it is not for asthma. tell your doctor if you have a heart condition or high blood pressure before taking it. don't take breztri more than prescribed. breztri may increase your risk of thrush, pneumonia,

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goodfriend lived in 1 of 10 states that allow terminally-ill people like herself to take medicine to end their lives. eight other states are contemplated similar laws, but there is opposition. here is nikki battiste in voorhees, new jersey. ♪ ♪ >> so i need to ask you formally, are you sure today is the day? >> absolutely. >> okay. >> reporter: this is the day barbara goodfriend chose to die. >> okay. and you know that when you drink the medicine, it is going to cause you to fall asleep and not wake up? it will be a peaceful dignified death. >> yeah. >> reporter: seven months earlier, she was diagnosed with als. the fatal disease attacks the nervous system. >> i'm not afraid of dying. >> yeah. >> i'm so afraid of living. >> yeah. >> reporter: at 83 goodfriend, a widow and mother who worked in fashion, has chosen medical aid in dying also known as m.a.i.d. m.a.i.d. laws allow a doctor to prescribe a mixture of lethal medication, but the patient, who must have six months or less to live and be of sound mind, must

administer it. have you ever had any hesitation? >> my only hesitation was why am i waiting so long? >> reporter: two-thirds of americans now support m.a.i.d. but groups such as the united spinal association fight against what they call physician-assisted suicide. people like jose hernandez argue it's discrimination against people with disabilities. >> up. >> reporter: hernandez was paralyzed in a diving accident when he was a teenager. >> at what point do we decide that suicide or assisted suicide should be an option? i think all life is precious. >> reporter: he is grateful m.a.i.d. is illegal in new york where he works and lives with his partner and their baby boy. >> our home care is under attack constantly. if it becomes legal in new york are you going to continue to cut vital services, making the way for people with disabilities to become terminal? it's go without care, or end

your life. >> reporter: to people who think it's not a great idea for a variety of reasons, what would you say? >> if it's not a good idea for you, don't consider it. but there has to be a way for those who want it. >> reporter: goodfriend paid $1,000 for her end-of-life drugs. dr. robin plumer guided her through the process. >> here we are today, and what a strange day this is, right, that somebody gets to pick the day that they are going to die. generally, people fall asleep within 5-10 minutes. 80% of people die within two hours. 90% within five hours. but it doesn't matter because she is going to be comfortable. you are going to drink this medicine and drift off into sleep and you are just going to feel all of the love and support. >> reporter: barbara goodfriend recorded this final message on her phone. >> bon voyage.

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good evening. i'm juliette goodrich. we want to start with breaking news out of washington, d.c. all takeoffs and landings are halted at reagan national airport after a plane collided midair with a helicopter and crashed in the potomac river. we'll have the latest on the emergency response. plus the brother of a legendary bay area rapper shot and killed in the east bay, what police say may have led up to

the shooting. let's rebuild america. >> another day of protests against president trump's promise of mass deportations, what demonstrators at uc berkeley are demanding. plus, it is the year of the snake, how san francisco is celebrating the start of lunar new year and preparing for one of the city's biggest parades. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. we start with breaking news. a plane has crashed near reagan national airport in washington, d.c., bringing flights to a halt. these are live pictures as it's happening now. the faa is now saying it was a passenger jet that collided midair with a helicopter while landing. so all flights at reagan national are under a ground stop as emergency crews respond and work to find victims of the plane. we want to show you this