state troopers are patrolling the area, while hundreds of new orleans police officers blanket the superdome. overall, about 2,000 law enforcement officers will monitor the city this week. there are different layers of security, even in the air over new orleans. customs and border protection air and marine operations control the lower altitudes with helicopters like this one and black hawk helicopters. but for security reasons, they can't tell us how many helicopters will be in the air at one time. the surge in security comes just after a month after the new year's terror attack when a man plowed through revellers on bourbon street and killed 14 people. on the day of the attack, security bollards meant to stop a car were not up. this week, we walked the path of the attack with former new york city police commissioner and new orleans new anti-terror adviser bill bratton. >> the car coming at this thing would be slowed down. might even be stopped possibly.

but the reality is it's not offering the protection that something like that is. >> reporter: this is more of a deterrent, not so much defense? >> that's a good way of putting it. >> reporter: cbs news has learned the bollards temporarily installed by the city would only stop a car going 10 miles per hour. the city hired peter whitford of meridion defense to install these mobile archer barriers around high traffic areas. the city had similar yellow barriers in their possession before the attack but didn't install them. our cameras captured workers unloading them on to bourbon street the day after the attack. do you think this barrier would have stopped the driver of that electric truck? >> we would have had a completely defendant outcome. >> reporter: in what way? >> it would have been different. >> reporter: city leaders are confident the super bowl will be secure, but there are concerns about security for the next nola party, mardi gras. and bratton, whose job is it to harden targets like the french

quarter says the city has to get the security right. >> if they were to have another incident, it would be extraordinarily damaging to the economy of this community. >> reporter: and there will be another level of security added. the secret service, as we mentioned, the president is expected to come to the game. and dhs officials on the ground tell me that just makes everyone that much more vigilant. >> that was omar villafranca in new orleans. president trump's plan to have the united states take ownership of gaza, remove all its palestinian residents and turn the beachfront enclave into the riviera of the middle east has shocked some of the people who voted for him, especially the palestinians living in dearborn, michigan. the city has the highest percentage of arab-americans in the entire country, and they flipped to trump in 2024, partly to protest president biden's handling of the crisis in gaza. nikki battiste asked people there how they're feeling now.

>> reporter: what do you think your headline will be this week? >> gazans will not leave their country. >> reporter: osama sablani's arab-american newspaper has shared the stories of the country's largest arab community for 40 years. >> we have expected from donald trump the worst. but he is shocking us with how worse he can be. >> reporter: here in dearborn, michigan, the democrat usually wins. but last november, president trump captured more than 40% of the vote to vice president harris' 36%. part of her loss was due to people not voting for either major party. sablani says he didn't vote for anyone, but blames democratic candidates for the rare results. >> the vote for trump was not really a vote for trump. it's a vote against the biden administration, because they could not stop the carnage that'shappening in gaza. >> reporter: if you were to give president trump a grade for how

he is handling gaza and middle east, what would it be? >> i would say like a "c" plus. >> reporter: college senior sarah shaban voted for trump. she says she gasped when she saw his remarks. >> i was disappointed, but i also wasn't surprised. i would say i kind of find it hard to believe that he would actually implement what he is saying. >> reporter: do you regret voting for him? >> a little bit, yeah. but then i thought about it, and there is a ceasefire now. and i wasn't sure there was going to be a ceasefire if kamala was elected. >> trump became the first republican presidential candidate to win this city in more than two decades. congresswoman rashida tlaib who represents dearborn and is the only palestinian american in congress blasted trump's comments and said palestinians aren't going anywhere. >> that was nikki battiste in michigan. "cbs news roundup" will be right back.

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instrument to join the standard orchestra configuration was probably the vibraphone in the 1920s. before that, maybe the tuba in the 1830s. but that doesn't mean musicians haven't kept inventing. ♪ >> each year we invite people from around the world to submit their latest, greatest, craziest most innovative new musical instruments. >> reporter: jason freeman is a professor of music at georgia tech, which hosts the annual guthman musical instrument competition, which celebrated its 15th birthday last year. >> and these are students and professors and artists and engineers, anyone else that's found some reason that all the musical instruments out there aren't really enough for them. a lot of what's in the competition is really coming from a single artist, single musician who's trying to make that new sound.

>> reporter: new sounds like these. ♪ and again, it's not electronic. >> no, no. >> reporter: these are latex and air. it's called the babble table. and according to inventor jean-francois la porte, it's technically a wind instrument that uses compressed air. >> one day i put a balloon in a tube, it sounds great. >> reporter: cat's team created computer generated singing with their dance movements. here it's the word "alone." ♪ >> i realized, oh, you could put sensors on a dancer's body, and that data could be anything. but could it be language. >> reporter: imagine if this thing catches on, and pretty soon you have combination aerobics choral practice anthony

dickens brought his guitar. >> there is a motorized wheel that spins around, and it strikes the strings. so you can play with two hands. so you see how that's spinning. ♪ >> reporter: oh, man! max adai invented something called vocal chords. >> there are three strings that are all conducted of rubber chord sensors. so as you pull on the strings, you can draw how the voice is being processed. ♪ >> reporter: that's cool. >> i wonder how much a grammy weighs. >> reporter: what about the pleasantness of the sound? some of these things sound a little weird. >> many of them sound weird. we are very open-minded in the competitions. >> reporter: do any of these things ever go on to a post competition life? >> yes, they do.

>> reporter: for example, you may remember the tube-like contraption called a talk box made famous by peter frampton in 1975. ♪ ♪ do you feel like we do ♪ >> reporter: in 2020, bosco conte won the contest with a smaller more portable device. >> you don't even need to know how to play. ♪ >> reporter: called the electrospit. ♪ electrospit, oh ♪ >> reporter: that was not your voice. >> no. i'm totally silent. so this sound, you hear this buzz. it goes through your neck and out of your mouth. so your mouth becomes a speaker. ♪ so we came a long way. >> reporter: bosco brought his invention to market. he also returns to the guthman competition as a judge. when people hear this is a new instrument competition. >> yes.

>> reporter: i think they think, you know, it's going to be part of the standard orchestra. could that ever happen? >> absolutely, because this is exactly the path that each instrument that we use today took. and i'm sure there was an uproar about the piano at one time, and there is definitely an uproar about the electric guitar. >> all it takes is a hit record from one of these instruments, and, you know, they will become a part of our musical language forever. ♪ ♪ ♪ >> reporter: now, some of the entries may strike you as exotic, but at this point, georgia tech's jason freeman has seen it all. >> we had a jell-o piano, which was made out of jell-o and circuits that you could play. >> reporter: jell-o, not cello. >> jell-o, like j-e-l-l-o.

jell-o. ♪ >> reporter: at the closing concert of each guthman competition, each finalist performs a duet with a traditional instrument. and then it's time to announce the winners. >> it really shows what's possible when art and design and engineering and music all come together. >> reporter: in second place, the babble table. in first place -- >> and finally, the first place prize goes to vocal chords. ♪ [ cheering ] >> thank you so much. >> congratulations! new music is born! >> thank you so much. oh my god, wow. thank you.

the most famous museum in europe is about to undergo a massive renovation.

the louvre in paris is home to hundreds of priceless works of art. that includes perhaps the most famous painting in the world, the mona lisa. it's usually standing room only in the gallery where it hangs. when the museum gets renovated, however, visitors will be able to get a better look. but it will cost you. elaine cobbe reports. >> reporter: it's the most visited museum in the world, but management, staff, and visitors agree the louvre needs some serious tlc. >> we have problems with the building. >> reporter: museum director laurence des cars says that's partly because of its age. >> it's nine centuries of history, really at the heart of paris, and really at the heart of france. >> reporter: and partly because it hasn't been upgrade in more than three decades, back when architects planned for four million visitors a year. today the museum attracts more than nine million. the main draw is the mona lisa by leonardo da vinci. but her popularity means it's not easy to appreciate the art.

>> she's a sort of universal masterpiece, you know. and people want to spend time with her. and that's okay. and we need to organize that. but the louvre is filled with one thousand. >> reporter: the revamp will see the painting moved to its own separate space where it will be easier to manage the crowds, but visitors will have to purchase an extra ticket just to see the famed artwork. as part of the ambitious refurbishment, a new entrance will be added to help manage visitor flow, replacing the iconic glass pyramid as the main entry point. the museum has now outgrown this entrance, which is relatively small. the space below is limited, and in summer it gets very hot under all that glass. to help pay for the overhaul, which is expected to cost around $800 million over ten years, president macron announced that visitors from outside the european union will pay more from next year. >> i'm going to say it's not to

discourage international tourism or to punish anyone, but the reality of the economy. >> reporter: the louvre has also begun private fundraising, hoping the museum's popularity will help loosen purse strings around the world. i'm elaine cobbe in paris. 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 the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm carissa lawson. ♪

hello, and thanks for watching. i'm carissa lawson in new york, and this is "cbs news roundup." here are the top stories. a federal judge has temporarily blocked president trump's plan to push out federal employees by offering them money to leave. the fear of being fired is spreading to the fbi too, especially among agents who investigated cases related to the january 6th riots. and we'll take a look at the rush to remove tons of toxic rubble from the los angeles wildfires. but first, president donald trump wants to fire thousands of federal government employees, or offer them buyouts. the white house says tens of thousands have already accepted. but labor unions are suing to stop the buyout, and now a judge has paused the president's plans, at least temporarily. cbs' erica brown has more from the white house. >> reporter: federal employees will have a little more time to

decide whether to take the trump administration's resignation offer. u.s. district judge george o'toole ruled that employees will have until at least monday afternoon to consider taking the buyout when he'll hold another hearing on the issue. unions representing federal workers have sued, saying the buyout violates the law, and that the government doesn't have the funds to back the plan. democratic lawmakers echoed those concerns. >> i don't believe it's been funded. i don't believe donald trump has any history of ever paying his bills. and i fear the federal employees may be marked for later riffing, potentially without any compensation. >> reporter: the white house says more than 40,000 federal employees have already accepted the offer as president trump tries to slash the size of the government. >> we encourage federal workers in this city to accept the very generous offer. if they don't want to show up to the office, if they want to rip the american people off, then they're welcome to take this buyout, and we'll find highly

competent individuals who want the fill these roles. >> reporter: in a challenge to the president's executive order ending birthright citizenship to children born to migrant parents, a federal judge in seattle granted a national injunction calling the order clearly unconstitutional. during a hearing in seattle, the judge said it has become ever more apparent that to the president the rule of law is but an impediment to policy rules, and in this courtroom under my watch, the rule of law is a bright beacon, which i intend to follow. washington and three other states joined this lawsuit seeking to block the order. >> in this country, we are safeguarded by the constitutional principles we have, and an adherence to the rule of law. >> reporter: the government is likely to appeal the case all the way to the supreme court. erica brown, cbs news, the white house. the president is also targeting thousands of fbi agents and other bureau employees for possible firings, especially those involved in the investigation of the january 6th riot on capitol hill.

one agent on that list says the bureau is in turmoil, and cbs' scott macfarlane spoke with that agent whose identity we are protecting. >> reporter: the largest criminal investigation in fbi history has given away to potentially its largest crisis. do you think this is a distraction? >> absolutely. personally, i've lost sleep over this. >> reporter: this agenda, who helped arrest january 6th rioters, fears retaliation from new leaderhip of the justice department for speaking with cbs news. >> we just have a lot of unknowns. and it feels like no one has our backs. >> reporter: trump allies at the justice department ordered the fbi to send a questionnaire nationwide to identify the personnel who investigated january 6th and make a list for leadership to review. the agent is one of approximately 5,000 names on that list. the scrutiny and storm cloud hovering over fbi employees over their work on cases that yielded more than one thousand guilty pleas and a 100% conviction rate

in jury trials sends a chilling message, the agent warns. >> moving forward, do we pick and choose? are we allowed to pick and choose what we feel comfortable? >> reporter: you think this might scare people off taking certain cases in the future? >> absolutely. we're all humans. >> reporter: agents who testified or signed their names to public court documents worry of retaliation from riot defendants. >> it almost is as if these defendants that were all pardoned have been put on a pedestal of being more patriotic and more loyal to this country. >> reporter: a justice department official in a message to the fbi earlier this week said agents who were simply following orders or carried out their duties in an ethical manner will not be subject to disciplinary issues. but the agents and their attorneys say they're not convinced. scott macfarlane, cbs news. turning now to southern california, where the massive cleanup can finally begin. it's getting started now that those deadly wildfires are 100%

contained. at least 29 people died in the fires. as cbs' jonathan vigliotti reports, clearing away the debris could bring a whole new set of dangers. >> reporter: more than 9,000 homes and businesses were burned to the ground in altadena. the environmental protection agency invited us to join a team sifting through the ash, searching for toxic debris. harry allen is the federal onsite coordinator with the epa. what specific materials are you looking for here? >> we look for any uncombusted paints or any household chemicals, pesticides. we look for batteries, especially in electric vehicles and other kinds of hazards like unburned emissions we may even remove. >> reporter: the epa monitors each property for asbestos and arsenic. >> this is painstaking work. as teams respond to what is the costliest natural disaster in u.s. history, and now crews

facing mounting public pressure to work faster than ever before. this as president trump calls for the epa to expedite the bulk removal of contaminate and general debris. the dead lynn for such a large disaster is unprecedented. considering in lahaina the epa took more than four months to clear hazardous materials from 1400 homes. in southern california, the epa faces clearing nearly ten times that amount in just 30 days. it's not just to move this toxic debris out, it's finding a place for it to go. last week the waste began arriving here, to be stored and processed. it's a park 15 miles from the altadena fire zone. the site is surrounded by four cities. city leaders and residents say no one notified them first. we attended a packed town meeting where community leaders demand to know from the epa's tara fitzgerald whether one disaster could unleash another.

>> the speed we're being asked to work at, it's risky. >> we're not allowing the materials to seep into the earth. we do know that. >> this has everything to do with the mission task and the strict timeline that epa must adhere to, which is cleanup in 30 days' time. >> reporter: and one epa official on the ground described the response as -- and this is her word, bananas. i spoke with another former epa official who said it may be nearly impossible to meet that deadline. jonathan vigliotti, cbs news. well, when "cbs news roundup" continues, we'll travel to the heartland to ask american farmers what they think about a possible new trade war with china. [people talking] ♪♪ when i was diagnosed, i was shocked but i also knew that i had options.

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this is "cbs news roundup." i'm carissa lawson in new york. president trump's new trade war with china has sparked fear down on the farm. in the first trump administration, china retaliated against u.s. tariffs by imposing tariffs of their own on american agriculture. that cost farmers billions and led to massive federal bailout. this time, as kelly o'grady reports, farmers are already bracing for the worst. >> reporter: how long has your family been in the farming industry? >> my grandfather bought this farm in the 1920s. >> reporter: kenneth hartman jr. is a fifth generation farmer from waterloo, illinois. >> definitely wet. >> reporter: his family operation produces corn, soybean and wheat. it's a pressure already under pressure. >> the economics of agriculture the last three years has been really challenging any way with all the inflation that's happened. >> reporter: add on the complication 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. agricultural with up to 25% tariffs. the usda estimates reduced farming exports by over $27 billion, nearly all from china. what impact did you see on your farm personally? >> corn market dropped 50, 60 cents 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's still, you know -- farmers -- >> trade, not aid, right? >> exactly, exactly. >> reporter: while china's latest round of retaliatory actions does not target agricultural, 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 a 5 to $8 billion annual loss for those industries, depending on the extent and length.

so you think that some farmers may go out of business? ? >> there is already some farmers going out of business because the last three years have been so terrible. >> reporter: you're 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. that's our opinion there. >> reporter: while hartman is hopeful these tariffs could bring better trade deals, negotiations take time. and countries like brazil are eager to steal some of that market share in china. and once lost, it could be gone

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as the country reels from a man made famine driven by war. in the tented camps where families have fled the violence, every newly arrived child is critically starving. >> and right in the red zone. severely malnourished. what happens if he doesn't get treatment? he would die? the worst cases are hospitalized, tiny bodies wasting away. little 1-year-old was too weak to even cry. >> i think we're in dire straits here in sudan, to be honest. >> reporter: cincinnati native dr. muhammad fadlalla is a volunteer with doctors withou borders at sudan's al buluk children's hospital near khartoum. they had just admitted

13-month-old ibrahim jafar when we got there. doctors told us the little boy was close to dying. and his eyesight badly damaged from severe malnutrition. >> left unchecked, the majority of children who have severe malnutrition end up getting an infection and dying from it. >> reporter: ibrahim's 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. but she was worried they were too late. 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 life-saving intervention is provided by usaid. its delivery now in jeopardy

following president trump's decision to suspend aid for 90 days. >> any further cut to what little sudan is receiving and able to receive is going to have nothing short of an absolutely devastating effect. >> reporter: america is also the world food program's biggest funder, as it races to get this grain to famine stricken areas. every delay means lives lost, aid organizations told us. we went back to see baby ibrahim a day later. his condition had deteriorated, but his doctors are determined to ensure that for this little boy, it will not be too late. america gave $2.3 billion to sudan last year, including funding more than half of the world food program's work. now an entire system is being dismantled following trump's decision. and one source told us, as a result, 8 million sudanese could

starve to death. >> that was debora patta in sudan. and we have an update on the child in her report. young ibrahim is doing a lot better. he is gaining weight, but doctors say he may lose sight in one eye. "cbs news roundup" will be right back.

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called 911 for help, and a responding deputy shot and killed her. since the death of sonya massey 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 reports. >> 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 five minutes after entering, sangamon county sheriff's deputy shawn grayson shot massey dead in her kitchen. grayson later said he felt threatened. he's 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 is our son that we lost that we'll never have. >> reporter: in 2021, cindy cody's step-son, jamison cody was arrested for aggravated battery. that night in jail, correction officers wanted to move him to a different room. he resisted. shea 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. >> 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've 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 officers 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 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 is no limit to how many complaints someone can 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 sante says he's still traumatized by what happened. >> i would say to the new sheriff, be a rebel. there is nowhere to go from here but up. >> reporter: advice for the future grounded in a painful past. for "eye on america," i'm jericka duncan in springfield, illinois. >> the sangamon county sheriff's office agreed last month to be monitored by the justice department for two years, but the future of that agreement is uncertain. civil rights agreements reached at the end of the biden administration are now under review by the trump doj. "cbs news roundup" will be right back.

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