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>> john: good evening. i'm john dickerson. >> maurice: i'm maurice dubois. this image came to mind today: the white house undergoing a massive renovation in 1948. >> john: now, with a former real estate developer in the executive mansion, another teardown is underway in washington and beyond, shaking the government as we've known it to its foundation. >> maurice: since the inauguration, president trump has offered buyouts to 2 million federal workers, fired 16 inspectors general, and got rid of justice department officials who investigated him. >> john: and he gave billionaire businessman elon musk free rein to weed out what they see as waste and fraud. that included shutting down usaid, the agency that provides humanitarian aid overseas. critics say what's being lost in this government makeover is oversight and expertise. >> maurice: margaret brennan in washington now. so margaret, where does it seem they're going with all of this? >> reporter: well, overnight, nearly all of the 10,000 usaid

employees who worked to feed the world, combat disease, and respond to disasters, they learned they'll be put on leave as of midnight on friday. and while the first target is foreign aid, it makes up a very small fraction of the federal budget, less than 1%, but it may be a test case for what is coming to other parts of the federal government. [chanting] "let us work," they shouted. >> let us work! >> reporter: usaid personnel have been locked out of their offices and email since monday, leaving many confused as to whether they'll even have health care or paychecks coming. we spoke with one of those individuals, who has spent the past decade at usaid. why, in our conversation, do you think you need to remain anonymous? >> everyone is really scared. first we were scared for our jobs. then we were scared for the safety of our programs. i have a family, like most americans, and i want to be

brave, and i just don't want to put them at any more risk than i have to. >> reporter: elon musk posted on x, "usaid is a criminal organization. time for it to die." what did you think when you heard that? >> he said that. he said we were vipers. he said that we were worms and not a bad apple, but just worms. he said that we are evil lunatics. >> reporter: in recent days, the trump-appointed chief of staff resigned and the two heads of security put on leave after they refused to let d.o.g.e.-linked staffers access classified information. are you still officially employed by the u.s. government? >> i do not know what my status is. part of that is that what's been happening has been moving with incredible speed and also an incredible level of sloppiness. >> reporter: the trump administration argues the cuts will increase efficiency. >> not only have we abandoned our colleagues, which is an

absolute moral atrocity, but we have abandoned our partners in the world. if you've ever seen those photos of people delivering bags of food or wearing the usaid vests or delivering medicines or the big trucks coming in with aid, it's got big usaid logos on it, right? >> reporter: for a reason. >> for a reason. it's got american flags on it. it shows people, this is the u.s. coming to your aid. >> john: margaret, these cuts across the executive branch, to many people, it sounds like what donald trump promised, and now he's making good on that promise, but it's not about cuts, right? it's about the kinds of cuts? >> reporter: right, it's not what you're doing, it's how you do it. efficiency, no one is going to argue against, but john, it's hard to put a price on expertise and experience, and as skilled workers are either fired or take buyouts, that impacts the government's ability to respond o crises. that applies to buyouts over at the cia, where it takes years to develop analysts and agents

before sending them into the field, or when it comes to these development workers who go overseas to stem a tb or ebola or polio outbreak before it gets to american shores. it impacts america's soft power ability to gain influence, not through force, and it leaves a vacuum for china, which is america's chief adversary, to potentially fill that void. >> maurice: so, margaret, when you say this could be a test case for other agencies, other larger agencies, how might that play out? >> reporter: well, you know, maurice, one of the things that stands out here is the ripple effect, not just in terms of recipients of aid abroad who, you know, can't get their antiviral aids treatments, but here in the united states. a ceo of one of the aid groups told me that between 10,000 to 50,000 american jobs are expected to be cut across the u.s. in the coming weeks -- not government jobs, private sector jobs -- as organizations go bankrupt. and keep in mind, the humanitarian world is not the only industry that is reliant on

u.s. government spending. >> maurice: okay, margaret brennan in washington tonight, thank you. >> john: some of the humanitarian aid usaid provided went to the african nation of sudan. for nearly two years now, its people have been caught in the middle of a civil war between two world lords. two war lords. >> maurice: debora patta got a rare look inside sudan, as you're about to see here, what's happening to children there is heartbreaking. >> reporter: it took us nearly two years to get visas to enter sudan. once inside, we drove 12 to 14 hours a day to reach areas near the front lines. and what we found was deeply distressing. a country in the grip of the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. camps where families have fled war, every newly-arrived child is critically starving.

the worst cases are hospitalized. tiny bodies wasting away. this little girl was too weak to even cry. >> i think we're in dire straits here in sudan, to be honest. >> reporter: dr. mohammad fadlala is from cincinnati. he is a volunteer with doctors without borders at the al buluk children's hospital near the capital, khartoum. he had just admitted 13-month-old ibrahim jafar when we got there. fadlala told us the little boy was close to dying, and his eyesight was badly damaged from severe malnutrition. the family had been trapped by fighting for months. "there was no food," his grandmother neamat abubaker told us. "at times, nothing at all. not even water." she was worried they were too late. a fear shared by every parent

here. doctors and nutritionists here all told us the same thing. without humanitarian aid and medical intervention, the children you see in this ward would not be alive. and much of that aid comes from usaid. america is also the world food programme's biggest funder. and a lot of the grain you see in this warehouse is paid for by the u.s. there is an urgent race to get it to famine-stricken areas. it had been gathering dust for more than a month while the wfp waited for permission to transport it. food has frequently been weaponized by rival warlords. and if that wasn't hard enough, then came president trump's announcement of a 90-day

suspension of aid. wfp's leni kenzli told us that could be catastrophic. >> the time to roll back funding is not now, it's the time to step up funding. >> reporter: you don't have 90 days. >> and every single delay means lives are lost. we are extremely worried it's going to be too late, and we are going to be digging up bodies instead of feeding them. >> john: debora, i want to ask you about some of the other ramifications of this humanitarian aid from usaid. what happens down the line if it doesn't make it? >> reporter: well, john, let me give you a concrete example. in the last few weeks, two ships have docked at port sudan, american ships carrying food provided by usaid. now, each of those ships could potentially feed over a million people. that food has to be off-loaded, stored in a warehouse, then at some point loaded onto a truck

and driven to where these starving people are, so when we talk of aid, it's not just food. it's the trucks, the drivers. there is no one to pay the drivers. staff have been locked out of their computers. they don't have access to their phones, their contacts. we are talking about the unraveling of an entire system, which will be hard to bring back, and as that system collapses, one source told us 8 million sudanese could starve to death. >> maurice: and debora, that little boy in your piece, ibrahim is his name, his situation tugs at your heart. do you know how he is doing tonight? >> reporter: oh, thanks for asking that, maurice. we went back to see baby ibrahim a day later, and sadly his condition had worsened. now, this is a very common problem for children suffering from severe malnutrition. if left unchecked, if they do not get help, they usually develop an infection that could kill them. he was on oxygen and intravenous drip. doctors were very worried, but i'm happy to report we checked up on him today and he is doing a lot better.

in fact, he has even gained a little weight. >> john: debora patta reporting for us out of sudan. thank you so much, debora. >> maurice: now some of the top stories from around the world in tonight's "evening news" roundup, a highly infectious strain of the avian flu that killed a person in louisiana last month has now spread to dairy cattle in nevada. bird flu has infected cattle before, but this discovery has public health officials concerned because crossover from birds could be happening more often. >> john: two planes collided on the tarmac at seattle-tacoma international airport today while taxiing. a japan airlines plane hit the tail of a parked delta jet. no one was hurt. >> maurice: and cbsnews.com posted transcripts and videos from the "60 minutes" interview with vice president kamala harris that aired in october. the fcc requested these materials for an investigation into a complaint alleging intentional news distortion.

in a statement, cbs news said the transcripts and video show the "60 minutes" broadcast was not doctored or deceitful. >> john: still ahead on the "cbs evening news," lonnie quinn with some potentially dangerous weather targeting the northeast. >> maurice: and we'll also have these stories. ♪ ♪ >> i'm jericka duncan. the killing of sonya massey by a sangamon county sheriff's deputy last july shocked the nation. well, we went back to that county in illinois and found other cases of alleged officer misconduct. that's tonight's "eye on america." >> i'm chris livesay in tel aviv. donald trump says he wants to turn gaza into the riviera of the middle east. but what about the people who live there? that's next on the "cbs evening news." ♪ ♪ premier protein is my secret weapon.

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been moving back home. it lies in ruins, but their connection to the land is ironclad, says young ismail sarsour. "we palestinians will pay no attention to what trump says about displacing us. we will remain on our land and will never leave it, the land of our ancestors." trump says his vision is to turn gaza into the riviera of the middle east. but it's home to over 2 million people. exactly how he intends to move them all into neighboring countries remains unclear. but the implications conjure painful memories of when hundreds of thousands of palestinians were forced from their homes during the creation of israel. to the critics out there, they would say this is ethnic cleansing. is this ethnic cleansing? knesset member boaz bismuth of prime minister netanyahu's conservative likud party.

>> what i like in this proposition is finally, finally, i don't hear the same music or the same lyrics again and again and again. two-state solution. by the way, two-state solution saying it again nowadays is dangerous because what does it mean? it means that you give a reward to terrorism. >> reporter: it also raises questions about the west bank. prime minister benjamin netanyahu's far right coalition partners have long aspired to annex it. adding to those suspicions... [explosions] explosions thundered across the occupied west bank this weekend as israeli forces set off controlled demolitions targeting what they called terrorist infrastructure. across the board, israelis have been shocked by donald trump's vision to reshape gaza. some hopeful it will lead to a lasting peace in the region. others worrying it could imperil the ongoing peace process and the lives of the 79 israeli

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last summer, cbs news has been investigating the sangamon county sheriff's office. what we found is a troubling record of alleged misconduct. jericka duncan has tonight's "eye on america." ♪ ♪ >> i'm trying to get help, y'all. >> reporter: last july, sonya massey called 911 concerned about a possible prowler outside her illinois home. less than 5 minutes after entering, sangamon county sheriff's deputy sean grayson shot massey dead in her kitchen. [gunshots] grayson later said he felt threatened. he has been charged with murder and pleaded not guilty. the sheriff at the time characterized the shooting as an isolated incident. >> this was a rogue individual that acted outside the scope of his authority. >> reporter: but a cbs news investigation revealed there was nothing isolated about the shooting of sonya massey. we found a pattern in sangamon county. dozens of allegations of misconduct against the sheriff's

office over the past 20 years, including eight deaths in addition to massey's. >> this was our son that we lost that we'll never have. >> reporter: in 2021, cindy cody's stepson, jaimeson cody, was arrested for aggravated domestic battery. that night in jail, correction officers wanted to move him to a different room. he resisted. sha kelly is the family's attorney. >> they took him down to the ground and a man of over 300 pounds sat on his back, broke ribs. >> reporter: cody was pronounced dead the next day. >> he died from positional asphyxia. homicide. it was a homicide. >> reporter: we brought together families who say they had been victimized by the sheriff's office and have sued. >> this just goes on and on. somebody has to stop it. >> reporter: none of the offices involved has been criminally charged, and in each case the sheriff's office and the officers denied any wrongdoing, even in the cases the county settled. >> i can't move on until there is some kind of justice. >> reporter: starla smith's

23-year-old son dylan schlieper-clark died from what she says was a treatable staph infection after her son was booked at a county jail for drug possession in 2022. the doctors told you he could have survived had he been treated sooner. >> yes, ma'am. >> reporter: what do you think deputies saw when they looked at your child? >> i don't think they looked at him. i think that they looked past him. >> reporter: we showed 50 abuse complaints to sangamon county's new sheriff, paula crouch, appointed in the wake of massey's death. does this office have a policing problem? >> i don't think that the sheriff's office has a policing problem. do you run into bad employees? probably every agency has had those people. >> reporter: what i'm hearing is there's no limit to how many complaints someone could have and very well still be working as a deputy. >> there is no written limit that says after five complaints you're fired. >> reporter: sonya massey's cousin, sontae, says he is still

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it is 7:00, i'm juliette goodrich, let's begin with the russian river flood, we are tracking the damage before the

next storm. tomorrow is yet another first alert weather day and another wave of rain and gusty wind, not as intense as yesterday but still wind damage and localized flooding, we are tracking both in the forecast. an east bay bike shop rising prices as chinese terrorists are in effect. and late word of a big trade for the warriors that will add another nba superstar to their roster. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. >> good evening, it was a busy day of cleaning up and waiting for the next round of rain to return, extending the damage from yesterday's atmospheric river , in some places you could only see the roofs of what lo