not to say it's not going to still be breezy overnight, as that front frontal boundary makes its way out of our hair, but at least it will be much quieter over the next seven days, though, we are going to continue to see quite a lot of dissipating activity thursday. that last round of atmospheric moisture will be moving in, and then by the weekend of weather ahead of us, it will be a lot quieter and a lot calmer. and that's perfect timing for mother nature, who wants us to get out this weekend and enjoy ourselves. hopefully be able to pick up the pieces from that frontal boundary and from that system. and we are going to continue to track the rain and the storm. we have continuing live coverage right now, streaming on the free cbs news app this evening. news ♪ ♪ ♪ ♪ >> announcer: from cbs news headquarters in new york, this is the "cbs evening news." ♪ ♪ >> john: good evening. i'm john dickerson.

>> maurice: i'm maurice dubois. there is no greater symbol of inflation in the country than the egg. the rising cost of that oval object came up dozens of times in the battle for the oval office. >> john: so it got our attention today when that most american of institutions waffle house hit customers with, wait for it, an egg fee. 50 cents an egg. >> maurice: it is the avian flu that is driving up the cost of eggs, and nowmore inflationary pressure, a trade war with china that could raise the price of a whole lot of other things. >> john: the united states hit china today with a 10% tariff on all goods it exports to the united states. and china responded with tariffs of 10% to 15% on a narrow range of american products, including coal and gas. >> maurice: nancy chen in clifton, new jersey, begins our coverage of the rising price of just about everything. nancy? >> reporter: maurice, it has been a persistent problem, even with inflation slowing. it is nearly impossible to get the same amount of food as you could just a few years ago with

that same budget, and american families are making sacrifices. >> $2 for one apple. >> reporter: each trip to the store is getting harder for melissa robinson. >> i can't afford to, you know, eat a healthy diet for my kids and for myself. i just buy the minimum, the bare minimum. >> reporter: you stated you are buying the bare minimum. how hard is it to put food on the table for your family? >> i spend at least $250 a week. >> reporter: grocery prices are 25% higher than five years ago. that is in part because of supply chain issues, increased labor costs, and flu outbreaks. egg prices have gone up on average 65% in the past year and are expected to increase 20% more this year, according to the usda. >> customers don't want anymore price increases. >> reporter: yes. >> they are up to here. >> reporter: now the threat of tariffs is adding yet another challenge for grocer stew leonard jr., the ceo of his

100-year-old family business. while tariffs on mexican and canadian goods are on a 30 day pause, goods from china are now subject to a 10% tariff. in general, where abusing the biggest price increases? >> what we are just trying to do is keep our prices as tight as we can, not lower quality a bit. >> reporter: produce is especially vulnerable to tariffs. in 2023, nearly 60% of the fresh fruit and 35% of the fresh vegetables on store shelves were imported. how do you even operate when there is so much volatility? >> i mean, it is very difficult but we all have to eat. >> reporter: are you stockpiling things? how are you planning ahead? >> can't really stockpile right, because their perishables. i always say we are not selling wine. it doesn't get better with age. >> reporter: anthony serafino imports and distributes produce from latin america. >> goods are more expensive, and it will be passed along to the consumer, so we are just preparing our clientele to make them aware.

>> reporter: any price increase is a challenge for families already on a tight budget. >> we just have to do what we can do, but it is pretty much the bare minimum. >> reporter: we asked both serafino and leonard about what would be hit hardest if there are tariffs on mexican goods. both pointed to avocados because we import 90% of this country's supply. >> john: nancy, let's put tariffs aside for just a second. when people talk about high prices, they talk about supply chains and labor. what does that mean in specific terms? >> reporter: when it comes to supply chains, it's like what you remember from the pandemic. when there are shrinking -- shipping bottlenecks shrinks supplies, which makes what gets through more expensive. also not enough workers makes the labor that does get through more inexpensive. also important to note that when prices do go up, companies are often not bringing them back down even if circumstances change. >> maurice: is there any hope, nancy, for prices to ever actually come down? >> reporter: unfortunately, not really. while you may see specific and individual items go down in

price, grocery prices as a whole are here to stay. the economist we spoke with say that the real solution here is waiting for wage increases to outpace price increases, but that could take years. >> maurice: okay, nancy chen in the produce section there in clifton, new jersey, thanks so much. >> john: among the first americans to feel the effects of the last trade war with china were farmers. >> maurice: so cbs news "money watch" correspondent kelly o'grady tells us they are preparing for the worst. >> reporter: how long has your family been in the farming history? >> my grandfather bought this farm in the 1920s. >> reporter: kenneth hartman jr. is the fifth generation farmer from waterloo, illinois. >> definitely wet. >> reporter: his family operation produces corn, soy point, and wheat. it is sector already under pressure. >> the economics last years has been challenging any with all of the inflation that has happened. >> reporter: add on the inflation of tariffs, a pain hartman knows all too well.

when the first trump administration imposed import taxes on china in 2018, beijing retaliated by targeting u.s. agriculture with up to 25% tariffs. the usda estimates retaliation reduced farming exports by over $27 billion, nearly all from china. what impact did you see on your farm personally? >> corn market dropped $0.50, $0.60 over that period of time. the soybean market dropped even more than that. so the president did come through and help us with some supplement as far as during that period of time. but it still, you know, farmers want markets. >> reporter: trade not aid, right? >> exactly, exactly. >> reporter: while china's latest round of retaliatory actions does not target agriculture, hartman is concerned what an expanding trade war could bring. china is a critical market for u.s. soybean and corn, making it a vulnerable target. the national corn growers association estimates retaliation could mean as much as $5 billion to $8 billion annual loss in those industries, depending on the extent and

length. do you think that some farmers might go out of business? >> there is already farmers going out of business because the last three years the economy has been so terrible. >> reporter: you are a supporter of president trump. how are you thinking about that dynamic of something that could potentially hurt your business in the short term, but also that broader america first mind-set? >> trump's a negotiator. i mean, rural america helped elect him, and i think he understands that. hopefully he can do some negotiations to get some things that we can get some markets overseas. when you talk about making america great, we want him to help make corn growers great again, so that's our opinion there. >> john: and kelly o'grady joins us now. kelly, mr. hartman said that he hoped these tariffs would open up markets. how did that go last time around? >> kelly: well, to some extent, it worked. coming out of that initial trade war, china agreed to historic trade deal.

it was called phase one, and they agreed to not only buy, but increase by $30 billion over a couple of years. they didn't fully live up to that commitment. they started off strong but then started to fizzle out for a number of dynamics. covid may have been one of them. but i will also note that those initial pain tariffs, the government had to step in and give farmers billions in aid so it sort of offset tariff revenue. >> maurice: what if this drags on? what does mr. hartman expect that to mean for his whole livelihood? >> kelly: he is so concerned about competition, maurice. trade negotiations take time and brazil and argentina are chomping at the bit to steal some of that market share in china from these u.s. farmers, and he told me some of that business once it is lost you cannot get it back. >> john: cbs news "money watch" kelly o'grady. thank you very much. >> maurice: now other top stories from around the world in tonight's evening news round up. president trump with israel's prime minister at his side floated for the first time a plan to permanently resettle displaced palestinians in arab territory outside of gaza. the president described gaza as

a demolition site after 15 months of israeli bombardment. >> john: fbi employees filed lawsuits today to try to stop the trump administration from rooting out agents and staff who looked into the january 6th capitol riot. more than 5,000 have been identified as working on those investigations. >> maurice: our senior transportation correspondent kris van cleave reports the bodies of all 67 people killed in the midair collision near washington last week have been recovered from the potomac, and investigators put out this video of the battered voice recorder from the medevac plane that crashed in philadelphia, killing seven people. it was found in the plane's 8-foot deep impact crater. still had on the "cbs evening news," lonnie quinn with a winter storm coming to the midwest and the northeast. >> john: and we will have these stories. ♪ ♪ >> i'm dave malkoff in tennessee just over the border with north carolina where it is brutally cold. this is one of hundreds of major lives.

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afghanistan's new leaders insist they have improved people's lives, but for the last three years, the taliban has ruled with an iron fist, aided by abandoned u.s. military hardware like these american assault rifles and humvees. the taliban put on parade its massive haul last year, according to a 2022 department of defense report, 78 aircraft, 40,000 military vehicles, and more than 300,000 weapons were just some of what was left behind. on the eve of his inauguration, president trump accused the biden administration of just handing over u.s. military assets like this to the taliban following the 2021 withdrawal, a withdrawal president trump negotiated. president trump has demanded the taliban give back the hardware valued at $7 billion, but the group has flat out refused. abdul qahar balkhi is the taliban spokesman for the ministry of foreign affairs.

is it absolutely off the table? >> these are the assets of the state of afghanistan, and they will continue to be in the possession of the state of afghanistan. >> reporter: seems like there's no deal with the president. >> people do not make deals on the assets of states, they make agreements to taliban engagement and defined spaces and areas of common interests. >> reporter: the 2021 takeover triggered these desperate scenes of afghans trying to escape and some talibanfighters as they celebrated their return to power. the group's leaders say they want a reset with president trump following his reelection. >> we would like to close the chapter of warfare and open a new chapter. >> reporter: that new chapter may be written here. afghanistan's estimated $1 trillion in untapped mineral reserves. president trump has had his eye on it for years, and recent studies have found the country has the potential to be the

saudi arabia of lithium, a critical metal used to power cell phones and electric car batteries. competition will be fierce. u.s. rivals like china have already made huge investments here. so you foresee a future in which the taliban actively pursues alongside the u.s. business interests inside this country when it comes to your abundant natural resources? >> of course. our doors are open. >> maurice: and imtiaz tyab joins us now from kabul. imtiaz, what would a reset that they are talking about, what would taht look like? >> reporter: the taliban have made it clear as you heard in a report that they want a new chapter with the u.s. for them that new chapter looks like the reopening of the embassy here in kabul and that

they would like normal diplomatic ties, but as we have been hearing, president trump is demanding that $7 billion in military hardware returned, and the taliban is saying no chance. >> john: imtiaz, as you return to afghanistan in this new environment, what is life like for women living there now? >> reporter: yeah, john, the situation for women is not just difficult, it's despondent. since the taliban struck back into power, girls over the age of 12 have been barred from public educations, women have been excluded from most jobs, and every day it seems like a new restriction is placed on their lives. still, the women we have been speaking to have said that they are hopeful for the future because they have to be. >> maurice: imtiaz tyab in kabul, thank you so much. >> john: back in this country, a winter storm will be targeting the midwest and the northeast and the midweek. >> maurice: at the same time, lonnie quinn, the south is seeing some record high-temperatures for this time of year. lonnie? >> you betcha, guys. it is like somebody cut the country and half. if you are north of the jet stream to depict it by that blue

color, it is cold out there but if you are so that is mild. in fact some places shaded in this red color, it's hot outside. lubbock, texas, yesterday had their hottest winter day ever, 91 degrees. some records will be set in the southwest today, some tomorrow, but thursday widespread, about 60 records will be set across the southwest on thursday, but also on thursday, watching a ice system moving anywhere from the ohio valley into new york city. for chicago it is basically going to be wednesday night, but it is thursday morning from pittsburgh to new york icing out there, sleet, freezing rain, where you see the bright pink is a quarter of an inch of ice on everything. which looks beautiful, but boy is it tough, it's impossible to get around in. >> john: lonnie, take me to school here, you mentioned sleet and freezing rain. why aren't those the same thing? >> two very different things. okay, sleet is a raindrop that freezes at elevation and becomes an ice pellet and bouces off the surface. freezing rain is a raindrop all the way down to the surface, flash freezes, and that is impossible to drive in. gentlemen? >> john: lonnie quinn, thank you, lonnie.

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easy way for the woodworker to get that casket to the funeral home. the bridge he and his neighbors rely on to get to the main road was washed away. helene damaged or destroyed at least 130 private bridges in avery county, north carolina. with no bridge, he has to strap it to an atv, drive it upstream, and then carry it over a footbridge. >> you are looking at a good 45 minutes longer now than it would have been with the bridge. you know. >> reporter: the town doesn't own it. the state doesn't own it. replacing the bridge will cost him and his four neighbors at least $100,000. hughes received $3,000 from fema, and the bridge was not insured. >> so this bridge, one of our volunteers put together with telephone poles. >> reporter: robin ollis and her volunteers started building temporary private bridges rightg

donations, but it's not enough. >> our hope is that other large organizations such as samaritan's purse, the red cross, the larger organizations like that, would come in and donate money on top of fema, and then we look to local charitable foundations to help us bridge the gap. >> reprter: just over the north carolina border, volunteers turned a semitruck trailer into a bridge. the only way to access poga, tennessee. it has since been replaced with railroad cars. >> mountain ingenuity. >> reporter: people who live here like alex matthews have no idea if or when they'll get a permanent bridge. >> the people here, we are just less significant than others. >> reporter: you feel that way? >> yes, because a lot of places get fixed a lot faster than we do. you know, we just, we are the last on the list for everything. >> reporter: in north carolina, helene damaged

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the airmen who were part of an experiment in the segregated military to see if black pilots could perform as well as whites. they did. stewart earned a distinguished flying cross and an air medal. on his most memorable of 43 missions, easter 1945, he downed three german planes. >> maurice: in 1945, in the first top gun aerial combat competition, stewart and his team defeated the white pilots. stewart died this week at his home in bloomfield hills, michigan. only one tuskegee airmen survives. we owe them a debt of gratitude. >> john: indeed. that's >>the the atmospheric river packing a punch, leaving cars and homes under water. and triggering a mud slide that pushed a home into the

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