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>> wichita is to aviation what detroit can be for automobiles in that we are a major producer of aircraft. >> reporter: last week, the city hosted the national ice skating championship. the direct route many flew to and from the competition was established just a year ago. how important is that route to the city of wichita? >> the route is extremely important. it links the air capital to the nation's capital. >> reporter: tom andrews is a frequent flyer and familiar face around wichita's airport. now he brings flowers instead of luggage. >> then when something like this happens, it really tears at your soul and tears at your heart. >> reporter: this city takes real pride in its aviation history. it has multiple museums dedicated to planes, but it also knows tragedy with two memorials commemorating previous disasters. we'll likely now see a third. ian lee, cbs news, wichita, kansas.
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ntsb investigators still don't know what caused the collision, but they've completed their interviews with the five air traffic controllers on duty when the collision occurred. kris van cleave has the latest. >> reporter: it was a haunting site as pieces of the regional jet were pulled out of the potomac river after the deadliest u.s. air crash in more than two decades. among them the battered midsection of the fuselage, one of the engines and a wing. >> over the next 24 hours, our goal is really to complete our commitment to finishing the civilian plane recovery. >> reporter: newly released drone video from the national transportation safety board shows a first look at the scene hours after the crash. the black hawk helicopter appearing mostly intact. investigators say they're still pouring over the flight data and cockpit voice recorders and have obtained training and flight logs for both flight
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crews, maintenance logs for both aircraft, and are building the crews' daily histories as well as completed interviews with all five air traffic controllers working the night of the collision as the ntsb tries to piece together what happened. >> there are questions about should the military helicopters be sharing the airspace with commercial traffic. >> yes, it happens all the time. so this is not one of a zero sum game. we are in this national capital region. what we should look at is, say, have we missed anything in terms of how this is designed, how the roots of it are designed, and is there anything that we would, should, or could do differently to prevent this from happening again. >> reporter: at skating rinks across the country, a moment of silence was held monday, remembering the 67 lives lost, including those in the ice skating community as investigators push for answers. i'm kris van cleave in arlington, virginia. there's a lot more ahead on "cbs news roundup." stay with us.
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visited on the community. the 1921 tulsa race massacre. 300 people were killed and an entire neighborhood known as black wall street was burned to the ground. our own nate burleson's wife la toya has a personal connection with that massacre and the family paid a visit to the scene of the crime. >> reporter: after a long four-hour flight, we finally arrived in oklahoma city. >> oklahoma city! >> reporter: when we landed, we met up with my wife's cousin, dwight. >> i have not been back in years. we are headed to our aunt rc's house. >> hey! >> reporter: our journey began at the home of marcia mcgee, la toya's maternal aunt, who lived in oklahoma city her entire life before heading into tulsa, i sat down with the family. >> you have been collecting information for a long time.
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>> yeah, it's a blessing that we're able to actually sit and talk about our family and the legacy. >> reporter: aunt marcia, what do you know about your family's history as it relates to black wall street? >> what my brother had told me is grandpa hezekiah was a millionaire. >> reporter: marcia's grandfather and la toya's great grandfather, lafayette wilson was the owner of a hotel in tulsa and his father owned a real estate company. both examples of black success lost in the massacre. so lafayette owned the lafayette hotel. >> yes. >> reporter: and ownership is a stricty word when it comes to the african american community. >> uh-huh. >> reporter: because we were once owned, told we couldn't own anything. so what does the word ownership mean to you as it pertains to lafayette? >> i actually was intrigued because when you think about that they did that during the time when it was almost
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impossible, that to me is so inspirational. because i have no excuses knowing that this is my lineage and what they did back then. >> reporter: right. are there any curiosities as we head to tulsa? >> i think for me is actually seeing where the business was. >> reporter: the next morning, we drove east to tulsa in search of the place where lafayette hotel once stood. >> i knew i wanted to be in the region. >> reporter: we met up with author and historian hannibal b. johnson who dedicated nearly 30 years to researching the tulsa massacre. why do you believe that this story was brushed under america's rug for so long? >> first, think about what then happened. it happened in 1921. >> reporter: okay. >> tulsa was on an upward trajectory to becoming the oil capital of the world. tulsa was on its way. and so the chamber types had an
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interest in minimizing what happened here. another factor i think we should consider is ptsd, post traumatic stress disorder. black folks are traumatized. so they might have wondered if we make a big deal out of this, could this recur? we also know that conservatively estimated, the dollar damage from the destruction was roughly 1.5 to $2 million, which is in the tens of millions of dollars today. >> reporter: so hannibal, we provided you with two addresses, the lafayette hotel and also ht real estate. what did you find out about those locations? >> the real estate business is listed on a registry of destroyed properties that was created by the oklahoma comission to study the tulsa race riot in 1921. >> reporter: yeah. what about the lafayette hotel? >> i didn't find that listed, which mean it doesn't exist. it just means it wasn't listed.
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>> reporter: we moved over to greenwood. >> we got our own business. >> reporter: a history center located at the heart of tulsa's greenwood district. do we have an idea of where that address is? >> yeah, we do. >> if the address is 604 east archer, that's right outside. >> reporter: archer and greenwood. >> you mean right outside, right outside? >> right outside where we are, yeah. >> reporter: we have to go see this. >> let's go see it. >> reporter: i want to stand right there. but before we could head out, john adams, the building's security guard asked us to ask what we were up to. to our surprise, he had something that might help us in our search for answers. so what is this? >> that's the corner of greenwood and archer. >> reporter: he told us that before this building was built, the foundation of the hotel was exposed on the corner of this very block. >> and then they covered it up with what you see out there now.
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>> reporter: outside the museum, markers on the ground suggest where some businesses once stood, an initiative started in the early 2000s. >> 604 would have been somewhere between these two markers here. >> reporter: but not every business is marked. >> we might assume that lafayette wilson had his business, the lafayette hotel, right here. >> unbelievable. >> reporter: if you were able to stand face-to-face with your great grandfather lafayette, what would you say to him? >> i would asked him what did he have planned for us for his future, for his grandchildren, for his children. i would have asked him. >> yeah. >> what did he have -- what was he thinking? what was he passing on, you know, to us, you know. i'm sorry. >> reporter: it's okay. it's okay.
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>> i'm just so proud of what he did. >> reporter: after an emotional morning, we had one more stop to complete our trip. we walked over to the black wall street memorial displaying all the businesses destroyed and their owners to search for their grand father's name. you see anything? >> there it is right there. >> h.t. wilson. >> it says no amount specified. and the amount is -- >> unpaid financial. >> reporter: what does that amount mean? >> the claim. it's a claim amount. the insurance policies back then, almost all of them had exclusionary clauses, and they wouldn't pay if the damage was occasioned by riot or civil unrest. that was a specific clause in the insurance policies. so this didn't get paid. >> there is h.t. wilson real estate right there. >> real estate. okay. how about the barbershop? >> and there is lafayette hotel right there. >> there it is!
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>> found them all oh, my gosh. >> reporter: that's great. that's great. >> h.t. wilson real estate and right here is wilson barbershop, all three. so inspirational. >> reporter: that's pretty -- pretty unbelievable to have all three of the businesses there. i'm happy for my wife, because when she first discovered that her great grandfather owned the lafayette hotel, i can tell that she was curious, but there was so many gaps in what she knew. this is the most rewarding part of my job. it's one thing to do a piece that people watch, but to do something for my wife and her family is pretty special.
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the super bowl is just days away, and future a lot of people, that means it's time to upgrade their televisions. the week before the big game is the hottest time of the year for tv sales. and retailers are offering big discounts. some up to 40%. before you head out to the store or go shopping on the internet, michael george has some tv buying advice he got from the experts. >> reporter: big screen tvs are bigger than ever. 55 inches used to be considered large. now that's ballooned to 98 inches, or even a whopping 115 inches, which is about the size
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of a queen bed. tv expert david katzmaier from the review site c-net said their survey found the big itself tv most people would put in their home was 65 inches. and he says the 65-inch tclqm-8 is his pick for best overall tv. it sells for around $900. >> our best pick tv for the money. it's no the very best picture quality, it's also not the cheapest, but it's right in that sweet spot. >> reporter: if you're focused on the best picture quality and willing to spend around $1500, he recommends the lg oled c4 and if you're on a budget, c-net likes the samsung du7200. >> it's brighter. and you can get this thing in a 55-inch size for less than $400. >> reporter: katzmaier says whatever tv you have, make sure it has the optimal segments for the game. even though most tvs have a sports set, he recommends the movie setting.
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>> that's generally going give you a darker picture, but what you can do is use the accuracy of the movie setting and go in and increase the brightness or the contrast control. that will get it up a little bit brighter. >> reporter: so no matter what happens on the field, or during any sport, you'll be watching on a screen with he sharpest picture quality. >> 100-inch television, where would you hang that? that was michael george reporting. 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 our broadcast center in new york city, i'm courtney kealy. ♪
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hello, and thanks for watching. i'm courtney kealy in new york, and this is "cbs news roundup." here are the top stories. american consumers are worried about negative effects to the economy caused by president trump's developing trade war. we'll take a look at the high cost of groceries and see which items could become even more expensive. and during the meeting with israel's prime minister, trump says he won't rule out deploying u.s. troops to help rebuild gaza. the white house hit china on tuesday with a 10% tariff on all its goods coming into the u.s., and we're just learning the u.s. postal service will no longer accept parcels shipped from china and hong kong until further notice. it comes after president donald trump ended a provision allowing
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retailers like shein and temu to ship to the u.s. natalie brand reports on the growing trade war. >> reporter: with the trump administration's tariffs on china in effect, china is punching back, saying it will impose tariffs of its own on u.s. imports. the white house plans to speak to president xi jinping soon. >> the president made it very clear with the 10% tariff on china that he is not going to allow china to continue to source and distribute deadly fentanyl into our country. >> reporter: starting next week, chna says it will impose a 15% tariff on coal and liquefied natural gas products coming from the u.s., as well as a 10% tariff on crude oil, agricultural machinery, and large engine cars. >> this time they have a slightly different strategy of hitting oil markets. >> reporter: phillip luck served as the chief economist at the state department under the biden administration. >> it's going to reduce demand for u.s. goods, and it's going to have a negative effect on the economy. >> reporter: the tit for tat
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with china comes with the proposed tariffs on mexico and canada are on pause for at least a month while negotiations over border security continue. canada has promised more chopper, drones, and personnel, as well as a new position for fentanyl czar. mexico's president has promised 10,000 national guard troops to help block the flow of drugs and migrants be. new the border town of laredo, texas, business owners who rely on the flow of trade are still worried. >> we have an extension of just 30 days. the only thing it does is pushes the line. >> reporter: many say they're stocking up on mexican goods now in case tariffs happen down the road, causing prices to increase. natalie brand, cbs news, the white house. china is one of the u.s.'s biggest trading partners, along with canada and mexico. they're responsible for nearly half of everything we import. a trade war could raise prices on a lot of goods, especially groceries. cbs' nancy chen visited a
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supermarket in new jersey to see how shoppers are coping with rising food bills already taking a hit from inflation. >> reporter: each trip to the store is getting harder for melissa robinson. >> i spend about $250 a week. >> reporter: because of supply train issues and increased labor costs and bird flu outbreaks. egg prices alone 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 any more price increase. >> yes. >> they're up to here. >> reporter: now the threat of tariffs is adding yet another challenge. for grocer stu 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
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subject to a 10% tariff. >> what we're 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. anthony serafino imports and distributes produce from latin america. >> goods are more expensive, and they will be passed along to the consumer. so we're 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's pretty much the bare minimum. >> reporter: we asked both leonard and serafino 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. nancy chen, cbs news, clifton, new jersey. israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu on tuesday became the first foreign leader
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to visit the white house during president donald trump's second term in office. after the meeting, trump made a stunning proposal, saying he wants to take ownership of the gaza strip and redevelop it, while encouraging the palestinians to live elsewhere. cbs' erica brown has more from the white house. >> reporter: president trump warmly welcomed israeli prime minister benjamin netanyahu to the white house. >> i think that gaza may be a demolition site right now. >> reporter: before the two leaders held a meeting, trump described a plan for other countries to accept displaced palestinians. >> you take certain areas and you build really good quality housing, like a beautiful town, like some place where they can live and not die, because gaza is a guarantee that they're going to end up dying. >> reporter: after their meeting, netanyahu and trump held a joint news conference where the president proposed u.s. ownership of gaza. >> the u.s. will take over the gaza strip, and we will do a job
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with it too. we'll own it and be responsible for dismantling all of the dangerous unexploded bombs and other weapons on the site. >> reporter: netanyahu said the idea should be considered. >> he sees a different future for that piece of land that has been the focus of so mutch terrorism, so many attacks against us, so many -- so many trials and so many tribulations. >> reporter: president trump says gaza can be restored and transformed into a riviera of the middle east. >> i do see a long-term ownership position, and i see it bringing great stability to that part of the middle east and maybe the entire middle east. >> reporter: he also addressed the war in ukraine, saying talks are ongoing to bring the conflict to an end, calling it a, quote, absolute slaughter. erica brown, cbs news, the white house. the senate has confirmed pam bondi as u.s. attorney general, making her the nation's chief legal officer.
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bondi is an ally of president donald trump's and her appointment clears the way for the white house to begin its plan to reshape the justice department. all of the republican senators voted to confirm bondi and pennsylvania's john fetterman was the only democrat to break ranks. sweden is mourning at least ten people killed in what the prime minister is calling the worst mass shooting in the country's history. it happened at an adult education center about 125 miles west of stockholm. swedish police are still working to gather a final death toll and to determine the motive. the shooter died in the attack. straight ahead on "cbs news roundup," there are worries that president trump's mass deportations will make it harder to rebuild los angeles after the fires.
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this is "cbs news roundup." i'm courtney kealy in new york. rain in southern california is helping firefighters douse the final embers of the firestorm that engulfed the region for weeks. the catastrophic palisades and eaton fires are now fully contained, but not before thousands of homes were reduced to ash. the state's largest private insurance company, statefarm, has already paid out a billion dollars in claims. and it's asking for an emergency 22% rate increase. rebuilding l.a. will take time, and president trump's immigration crackdown could worsen what is already a shortage of construction workers. mark strassmann reports. >> reporter: on this street in north pasadena, we ran into about a dozen workers volunteering to clear debris, potential kindling just two miles from the eaton fire's burn scar. many of these workers are here illegally.
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bernardo ocerio is their crew boss. he migrated from mexico 36 years ago, and in 2021 became a u.s. citizen. >> from every single people, you're afraid. >> reporter: what are they afraid of? >> deportations. people like to work. they want to work. they want better lives as well. >> reporter: and there is lots of work to be done. >> a lot to be done. we can't do it without them. we cannot build america without them. >> these are the hands that will rebuild los angeles. >> reporter: we found many of those same workers protesting. >> resist injustice. >> reporter: this is a rally of migrant day laborers. they're critical to the rebuilding of los angeles, but worry they'd won't get that chance because of the trump administration's aggressive stance toward deporting anyone without legal status. >> we will begin the process of returning millions and millions of criminal aliens back to the places from which they came.
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>> reporter: in california, 41% of construction workers are immigrants many of them staying here without legal documents. under the trump administration's immigration crackdown, deportation officers can remove most immigrants who are here illegally, even targeting refugee programs and birthright citizenship. >> they learned a trade. you cannot just bring new people and train them. it's going to take years. who is going to do it? >> reporter: dan gatsby founded the los angeles builders association, a trade group for the local construction industry. is it realistic that los angeles could rebuild what's been lost without immigrant labor? >> it's going to be very difficult. we already have big shortage of home in los angeles. i mean, with this on top of it, i mean, good luck. >> reporter: gatsby estimates rebuilding los angeles could take 20 years and maybe twice as long without the help of immigrant construction labor. >> we are essential workers.
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eagles. the chiefs are going for a three-peat, and the eagles are looking for revenge after losing to kansas city two years ago in the big game. omar villafranca was on hand for the opening night of media week. >> reporter: the biggest thing that people are talking about here is will the kansas city chiefs three-peat and make history, or the eagles are going to play spoiler and avenge the 2023 loss to the chiefs in the super bowl then. but all of those story lines took a back seat as reporters were tracing around players and other people talking about more than x's and o's. ♪ it's only fitting to start super bowl week in the big easy to the sounds of new orleans and the st. augustine high school marching 100. the eagles flew to the field first and landed in a nest full of media. with the bird faithful in the stands and on the sidelines. what are the keys to winning the cheer fight?
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>> i think the major key is keeping the fans pumped up. we all have high energy. so we want to take that eagles energy from philly and bring to it nola here. >> reporter: starting running back saquon barkley has franchise records for both the new york giants and eagles. but a shot at super bowl glory would be a first in his career. >> i never lost faith and kept my head down and kept working. >> reporter: and how many times might we see quarterback jalen hurts bring out this effective and signature play? >> touchdown, eagles! >> reporter: the tush push, brotherly love. that's not how he refers to it at all. >> i don't call it that. you call it that. i call it the quarterback sneak. i keep it very standard. >> reporter: on the other side of the field, chiefs quarterback patrick mahomes was taking the tough questions with the references to his dad bo d-back in the spotlight. >> can we check both sides? >> come on, bro. hey, the dad bod looks pretty good right there. i'm going to start this side for
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sure. >> reporter: and while andy reid faced questions sporting one of his signature flamingo button-down shirts. >> i mean, the silver highlights. >> reporter: >> silver highlights like everything. >> reporter: players like cam jones were putting on a display of their own. >> if i get done wearing this, umight want to put it up for some years. i want to keep it clean. >> reporter: did you hear? it's better than last year's fit. >> i know it's crazy to think about. >> reporter: for chiefs owner clark hunt, that winning feeling never gets old. >> we certainly have experienced having gone five decades between super bowl iv and super bowl liv. we know how hard it is and how special the last five or six years have been. >> reporter: and that comes with a few disgruntled fans, not that tight end travis kelce has noticed. >> people hate the chiefs. i didn't know that. >> oh, you thought you were going get through the segment without hearing about taylor swift?
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wrong. travis kelce was asked one of his favorite things about the relationship, he said he loves her homemade pop tarts for breakfast. let me show you something else. we talked to chiefs owner clark hunt, and when we were done, we noticed his wife had these super bowl rings on her hand. look at those things. another one would be a three-peat would be a record and impressive, almost as impressive as that monster diamond she is wearing on her hand, which may be worth more than all three of those super bowl rings. but wow. that part was also impressive. >> that was omar villafranca in new orleans. "cbs news roundup" will be right
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>> reporter: here a new shopping cart is flying off the rack and down the aisle. a digital screen with gps guides people around the store. cameras equipped with ai technology rapidly identify and scan products when they're placed in the basket. coupons are instant. and you can check out and pay right on the handlebar. >> just lift the flap here. >> it's easy to just look and say the shopping cart is what it is. >> reporter: casey broke were price chopper began test driving the smart carts a few months ago. analog and digital. >> yeah. you look at the caper cart, and it's really this benefit that helps your customer know exactly where they are, and also is going the help us from a sales perspective ass we. >> everybody goes to the grocery store. everybody is grabbing a shopping cart. it's a very familiar behavior. >> reporter: take me through what we're looking at here. >> a behavior david mcintyre with instacart wanted to turn into a game. >> reporter: it taps into
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existing loyalty programs. >> reporter: he showed us how caper cart works at instacart's san francisco headquarters. >> when i put items into the cart, you see these four ai-powered cameras pick id up. >> reporter: so that just scanned it as you put it in the cart. >> it scanned it. it turned green and a coupon popped up that i can clip. >> reporter: the outfit. >> you can see the scale update. >> reporter: that's cool. instacart is betting big, spending a whopping $350 million to acquire the technology in 2021. shopping has come a long way in the last century. this is where it all began for the shopping cart? >> this is it. >> reporter: the world's first cart was invented in 1937 by an oklahoma city grocer named sylvan goldman who put wheels and a handle on a folding chair. >> he noticed that people stopped buying produce, buying their material when their basket was full.
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so he came up with this idea of putting a basket on some sort of cart or trolley. >> reporter: steve velazquez is a curator at the smithsonian's national museum of american history in washington, d.c. so the shopping cart is born in the 1930s. does it catch on quickly? >> it does. he hired actors to pretend shop to fill the carts, to walk around, and then people started using these carts, and that's when it really took off. >> reporter: shopping carts have grown over the decades as marketing supersized and refrigerators kept food fresher longer. is it really necessary to reinvent the wheel? >> what's happened is that online has transformed customer expectations. >> reporter: the good old shopping court, once
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