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protesters and lawmakers taking a stand against president trump's drastic actions to gut federal agencies, fire civil servants, and overhaul policy. icy mess. millions of americans from the midwest to the north east are in the path of a winter storm that could make for a treacherous morning commute. and countdown to the super bowl. extra security is in place, fans descend on the big easy as the chiefs and the eagles gear up to battle on the grid iron. good morning. i'm michael george. well, there is growing backlash against recent decisions by the trump administration. citizens and elected lawmakers are starting to fight back. democrats are in the middle of an all night talkathon on the senate floor making their case against russell vought, the president's nominee to lead the office of management and budget and a key author of project 2025, which calls for drastic cuts to medicare, medicaid, and

social security. and protesters took to the streets in cities across the country rallying against the american institutions and decimate the civil service. cbs' jarred hill joins us now with details. jarred, good morning. now, we've heard trump advisers talk about this strategy called flood the zone, where president trump takes so many drastic actions at once that his opponents and the public can't keep up. >> yeah, the idea here is folks only have so much time and energy to focus on one particular thing, michael. as the courts tackle the legal challenges to trump's orders, congressional democrats, as we saw, are stalling cabinet confirmations and looking to leverage the slim gop majority to impact legislation. all while the white house is pushing ahead with its plan to shrink the federal workforce. at the white house president donald trump continued to make good on his promise to change the federal government, signing a new executive order banning transgender athletes from women's sports.

>> from now on women's sports will be only for women. >> reporter: it's the latest in his sweeping set of overhauls by executive action. facing new pushback from the east coast to the heartland. >> we need to enforce the laws that are on the book, that you can't just simply expand your power as president simply by saying it. >> reporter: in an effort led by elon musk to shrink the federal government, today is the last day for federal workers to take a buyout, and nearly all of the 10,000 usaid employees, the agency that works to feed the world and fight disease, are set to be put on leave as early as midnight tomorrow. >> we play an integral part of foreign objectives and we do all of this with less than 1% of the national budget. >> reporter: meanwhile, president trump is standing by his idea to have the u.s. take over the gaza strip. >> everybody loves it. >> reporter: but wouldn't elaborate on the suggestion to send in american troops and permanently remove palestinians.

his administration is walking back some of the rhetoric. >> the president has made it clear they need to be temporarily relocated out of gaza for the rebuilding of this effort. again, it's a demolition site right now. >> reporter: now the president could be setting his sights on another place to make cuts -- the department of education. yesterday congressional democrats tried subpoena elon musk to testify before the house oversight committee, but republicans blocked that effort. meanwhile, trump's new attorney general is issuing reforms to the department of justice including bringing back, michael, theal federal executions. >> all right, a lot to follow. jarred hill, thanks for joining us. and president trump's idea of moving palestinians out of gaza to rebuild the ravaged territory has sparked backlash across the kbloeb. and on that tiny strip of land on the mediterranean sea 20 miles long and 7 miles wide, palestinians say they have no intention of leaving their homelands, even as it lies in

ruins. chris livesay has the story. >> reporter: hundreds of thousands of gazans since the start of had cease-fire have been moving back home. it lies in ruins, but their connection to the land is iron clad says young ismail sarsour. "we palestinians will pay no attention to what trump says about displacing us. we will remain in our land and never leave it, the land of our ancestors." trump says his vision is to turn gaza into the riveria 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 is finally, finally i don't hear the same music and lyrics again two-state solution. and by the way, two-state solution these days is dangerous because what does it mean? it means you give a reward to terrorism. >> reporter: it also raises question about the west bank. president netanyahu's far right coalition partners have long aspired to annex it. adding to those suspicions, explosions across the occupied west bank this weekend as israeli forces setoff 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

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passengers were taken off both planes. thankfully, no one was hurt. well, there was a dramatic boat rescue and troubling autopsy reports of an inmate. those are some of the headlines on the morning newsstand. "the new york times" says an autopsy ruled the beating death of a shackled inmate at a state prison was homicide, according to governor kathy hochul. body cam video from december shows robert brooks being punched by prison guards while he was handcuffed on a medical exam table at the marcy correctional facility. he was pronounced dead the next day. hochul said criminal charges should be filed against those involved and they should be fired. 16 officers and two nurses were suspended without pay. two officers have resigned. "the hill" says a dozen west point cadet clubs for women and people of color were ordered to disband immediately. a memo from the military academy directed the clubs, which include the society of women engineers and the latin cultural

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here's a look at today's forecast in some cities around the country. some furry friends are sharing their opinions on who will win sunday's super bowl. i always love when they do this. a pair of grisly bears at zoo montana were given theme cakes to come up with their picks, and it's a draw. willie went straight for the eagles and george chose the chiefs. meanwhile, misha, a tiger at blank park zoo in iowa, went

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