mega real estate deal at lake tahoe. this is lakefront property that just sold for $27.5 million. what do you get for that exactly? i'd like to know. the estate in tahoe city comes with nine bedrooms, eight full baths, more than 12,000 square feet. it sits on almost two acres, plenty of lake tahoe shoreline. a report by tahoe luxury properties says the sale is another sign the tahoe luxury housing market is picking up. last october an estate on the nevada side sold for a record $62 million. look at that kitchen. i saw a sauna, a pool. cbs evening news with maurice dubois and john dickerson is next. local 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. president trump today began the fourth week of his second term and in a new cbs news poll, more than half of americans, 53%, approve of the job he is doing. and 70%, whether they agree with him or not, say he is doing exactly what he promised to do. that includes cutting spending. >> john: but how he's doing it is another matter. the president made elon musk a kind of sheriff of doge, the department of government efficiency, to downsize just about everything. our poll found americans evenly split over how much influence if any musk and doge should have over government operations and spending. and a federal judge has blocked their access to a treasury bureau that among other things sends out government payments including social security. >> maurice: what is this little-known bureau and what is the musk team looking for? questions major garrett is about to answer. major. >> reporter: good evening, maurice and john. it's called the bureau of fiscal

service, and what they are looking for is what people in washington have been looking for for decades: waste, fraud, and abuse. this quest is not new. the methods, however, are. >> come here, elon! >> reporter: president trump has given the world's richest man a temporary white house job and an ambitious order: audit the federal government agency by agency. expose waste and fraud. and if you have to infiltrate sensitive government databases, do it. >> the way to think about the bureau of fiscal service is almost like the accounts payable department for the federal government. >> reporter: natasha sarin worked for the treasury department for two years during the biden administration, the bureau of fiscal service distributes about $1.3 billion payments annually, things like social security checks, medical reimbursements, and federal grants. >> i think fraud and fraud in the government is a really worthwhile cause to try to combat. the challenge is that it has

literally nothing to do with what the bureau of fiscal service does or what this treasury payments ecosystem does. >> reporter: if you're on the hunt for that, you don't go here. >> that doesn't sit in the bureau of fiscal service. that sits at the agencies. >> reporter: the treasury department has told congress musk's associates cannot change any payments, that they have had so called "read-only" access to the database. but those assurances have not been independently verified. there's also a question about data security. i file my taxes electronically. does that put me inside this database? >> it sure does. and your bank account information. that's how you get your refund electronically. >> reporter: not just who i am, where i live. >> how much you made, how much your refund is. >> reporter: all of that is in there? >> absolutely. the most private sensitive data about american citizens all sits in the bureau of fiscal service and the treasury payments ecosystem. >> reporter: musk's top treasury deputy, a tech executive,

had access until a weekend court ruling accessing databases by those not versed in federal data security could open systems to hacking. >> this is the most sensitive information about them that the federal government has historically held in the hands of very few career civil servants who are trained and experienced in how to deal with this data and these ecosystems. there are real security questions at play here. >> reporter: there might be some who watch this conversation and say "i trust president trump and he trusts elon musk. i didn't know anything about this agency. i don't know anything about these civil servants, but i trust trump and i trust elon musk. i'm okay with that." >> yeah. i don't want to be hyperbolic and i understand and really respect the fact that democracies churn and that the people voted and made donald trump the president of the united states for a second time. that said, i think we should all

be wary and be concerned about the fact that some of the actions that might be taken are actions that make us less safe and less secure. >> reporter: security is one issue, transparency another. so far, the white house has not revealed who was doing this work, what they found, what they plan to do with it. >> john: and major, this work outside of the bureau of fiscal service, what other kinds of departments might be getting this same treatment? >> reporter: you heard a reference that the real matter resides within each agency. so far, 16 agencies have been touched in one manner or another by those investigators under the doge umbrella. you can see some of the names. fema, department of energy department of labor, cdc, epa. you don't see there yet the department of education or the department of defense. president trump has said they're next. >> maurice: big key here is the white house is claiming fraud and waste and abuse. have they actually proven that? >> reporter: president trump has said corruption,

kickbacks. interestingly, in one case for the u.s. agency of international development a federal judge said bring me the evidence of this so i can understand why you believe it's imperative to shut usaid down rapidly. the department of justice did not provide any evidence of kickbacks or corruption. >> john: major, a question i get a lot from people -- most of them didn't vote for donald trump. it is: can he do this? can elon musk do this? >> reporter: the legal challenges are on two fronts. one, a 1974 privacy act law that says you cannot provide information about government payments to outsiders. this may be in violation of that. there is also a 2002 cybersecurity law that says any outsider brought into the federal databases has to pass their own cybersecurity protocols. we have no information whether anyone from doge has passed those protocols. >> john: major garrett for us in washington. thank you, major. >> maurice: some of the top stories from around the world in tonight's evening news roundup. president trump is raising the stakes in his global trade war.

he put a 25% import tax today on steel and aluminum including from america's top trade partners, canada and mexico. >> john: with the eagles' super bowl victory over the kansas city chiefs, philadelphia wide receiver devonta smith joined an elite group of nfl stars. he's now the fifth player in league history to win a heisman trophy, a national college football championship, and a super bowl ring. >> maurice: and the president believes making pennies doesn't make sense. so he has ordered the u.s. treasury to stop. 17 years ago today on "60 minutes," morley safer talked to the director of the u.s. mint about the penny's future. edmund moy said back then there was a potential downside to scrapping it. >> we have taken a look at the studies of countries who hae gotten rid of their lowest denomination coin. there's always at least a one-time inflationary hit upwards. >> prices have a habit of doing that, don't they? >> people are generally in the business of trying to make money. >> maurice: money watch

correspondent kelly o'grady is here now. hi there, kelly. why do we think president trump is going after the penny here in the first place? >> to save money. you've heard that saying, it costs money to make money. this literally applies here. it costs over $0.03 to manufacture a penny, and if you think that's bad, it costs more for a nickel, close to $0.14. so the math doesn't really add up here. >> maurice: that is astounding when you stop and think about it. here is the government doing this. over time, this has got to add up to a big number. >> reporter: it does. last year alone, the government lost roughly $103 million manufacturing these two coins. it's not a trillion dollars, if you're trying to trim the budget but every penny does add up. i will note there is a gray area if president trump can do this. congress sets the currency specification but i did talk to a number of legal analysts today that said he might be able to legally stop from minting new coins. remember president obama was supportive of this as well. >> maurice: right.

if the penny costs all of this to make, these are known numbers to the government. why is this still going on year after year? >> reporter: lobbying potentially. take a look at this. a penny is made up of 97% zinc. the company that makes that zinc that goes into the penny spent $160,000 lobbying the government last year. this is also a fear among consumers that if you get rid of the penny, a seller could round up like they do in canada, they round up or round down to the nearest $0.05. and then there's nostalgia. who doesn't love a lucky penny? >> maurice: might be sad to see the penny go. all right, kelly, thank you. still ahead on the "cbs evening news," tonight lonnie quinn with back-to-back winter storms midwest to east. and we'll have these stories as well. >> reporter: i'm jonathan vigliotti with a story from connell, washington, where inflation is hitting the community in unexpected ways. that's tonight's "eye on america." >> reporter: i'm jason allen in dallas. how much are americans paying for the strategy to use military jets to move migrants out of the country? that's next on the "cbs evening news." even" .

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but that may be at odds with what he's doing to keep another campaign promise. >> maurice: jason allen has been investigating what it's costing american taxpayers to deport immigrants who are in the country illegally. >> reporter: we shot this video from a dirt ridge outside fort bliss in el paso, texas. we could see about 80 men, women, and the children, recent arrivals in the u.s., stepping off buses and the stepping on to military transport jets. this group was going to ecuador. two days later, border patrol and the army allowed us onto the base for a closer look at another full flight, this time going to guatemala. some of the migrants on board traveled for months to get to the u.s. they would return to central america in five hours. it's a move former acting immigration and customs enforcement director john sandweg told us was unprecedented. >> we never used a military aircraft. i.c.e. is funded by congress for up to a billion dollars annually for transportation. >> reporter: cbs news found

a single flight on the c-17 can run more than $28,000 per hour. that's more than three times what i.c.e. pays on average for its normal charter flights on regular passenger aircraft. so the flight we saw headed to guatemala cost nearly $300,000. one of at least 15 military flights so far landed in india with a round trip cost of more than $1 million. military planes are also carrying migrants to guantanamo bay. the first flight on a c-17, which can carry as many as 134 passengers, had about ten detainees on board. an average cost of more than $20,000 per person. the u.s. military is also expanding a migrant operation center there to hold as many as 30,000 people. in 1994, when 45,000 migrants sheltered at guantanamo and panama, government estimates put the cost at nearly half a billion dollars, equivalent to more than a billion dollars today. >> i.c.e. is well-funded when it comes to transportation, it's certainly something we

never needed. we are in an unprecedented era where immigration enforcement has been elevated to the highest levels of u.s. foreign policy and national security. >> john: jason now joins us from dallas. jason, the administration and the president's supporters would say maybe these are big numbers. it's expensive. but there is a justification for this, right? >> reporter: right, john. that is the cost of keeping some of those migrants here. our own cbs analysis found it's a couple hundred dollars for a single male for a day, it's double that for a family. we know the cities have put the cost in the billions to house and feed some of these migrants that have moved into the country. that is what this is being weighed against. >> maurice: all of this begs the quetion could this be done less expensively? >> reporter: it could be, if you were using some of those charter flights that we talked about, right? but that does have a limited capacity. you look again, could you put some more people on some of

these flights? especially these early flights to guantanamo bay that have had 15 people on them, a dozen people. we know that the administration does want to make those daily flights in the near future. >> john: the use of military planes sends a deterrence message. jason, finally, how does this compare to the obama years, say, and the deportations that were high during obama's term? >> reporter: sure, good question. we did get some new numbers today from the administration. that's the number of i.c.e. arrests since the president has been in office is now up to 11,000. we can compare that to the biden administration which was doing about 300 per day. this works out to an average of about 500 i.c.e. arrests a day now. >> maurice: jason allen on the story tonight in dallas thank you, jason. >> john: winter is being winter in the midwest and the east. >> maurice: lonnie quinn with back-to-back storms in february. >> you bet. back-to-back-to-back-to-back. what you've got right here, this

is sioux falls, south dakota. they picked up 3.2 inches of snow. not a big storm, right? the fact that this is kicking things off, the first many to come -- that storm pushes over to the northeast. it's going to be tapping into some gulf moisture as well. they do combine, what's interesting this time it's not the farther north you go to find the bigger totals. some places well south will pick up the bigger numbers. new york city, a paltry inch or two. philadelphia sees 4 inches. d.c. sees 6 inches. right behind that, we've got another system that makes its way in wednesday night into thursday. this storm follows a similar path but this one has a lot more moisture, i mean a lot more moisture. chicago picks up maybe 8 inches of snow, but it's that moisture that's going to play a big role in this storm. and when you look at all of the storms i'm referring to, let's pull them up. i put them one on top of the other. they all originate out west. they scoop up some gulf moisture and push toward the mid-atlantic. north of those lines, it's snow. south of those lines, it's rain.

gentlemen? >> john: we talked a lot about the people who were hit by hurricane helene. how is this weather going to affect them? >> reporter: this is a terrible slap in the face, they have not recovered yet and we are talking portions of that area, north carolina into portions of the tennessee valley, half a foot of rain, and like i said, they haven't recovered just yet. it's all yours. >> john: lonnie quinn. thank you so much, lonnie. >> maurice: the egg has become the number one symbol of inflation in this country, but in at least one town it's the potato. >> john: and we will take you there next in "eye on america." . ♪...to me♪ ♪control is everything to me♪ and now... ...i'm back in the picture. feel significant symptom relief at... ...4 weeks with skyrizi. skyrizi is proven to help deliver remission... ...and help visibly improve damage.... ...of the intestinal lining at 12 weeks and 1 year.

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>> john: inflation has come way down since june of 2022 when it hit 9.1%. last year, it averaged just under 3%. but prices remain higher than they were, and that can have a big impact on a small town

when that town is dependent on a single major employer. jonathan vigliotti has tonight's "eye on america" from connell, washington. >> reporter: for half a century, connell, washington's economy depended on french fries. up until september, this plant processed 300 million pounds of potatoes into fries every year. adam kunkel moved his family here to the town about 3,000 in 2013 so he could work at the factory. his wife katrina opened a coffee shop. >> we finally bought a house like two years ago. being first-time home buyers, we were so excited. and we thought "this is going to be great." >> reporter: great until the fall when the factory laid off all of its workers. the parent company pointed to a national decrease in fast food visits, which drove down french fry sales. they say caused by inflation. this fall, one of their customers, mcdonald's, reported sales were down 1.5%

enough to help devastate this local economy. >> i think french fries will be around forever. your livelihoods will be stable. >> i've worked there for over 11 years. i was just, like, what am i going to do now to support my family? >> reporter: if you're a town who's just lost your lifeline, what do you do next? >> this is the reality of these events hitting these small-town communities is there's not an immediate solution to help them. >> reporter: ryan herzog is a professor of economics at gonzaga university. >> donald trump campaigned on bringing prices down on everyday goods. do you see that happening? >> i don't know how. when you talk labor costs and you talk tariffs, all of these things are going to ultimately put some price pressure in place. >> reporter: inflation impacts so much of what we buy. everything from bread and eggs to potatoes. nearly half of all americans say they feel worse off today than

they did four years ago. inflation drove many people to the polls and in towns like this it might be driving them out. >> we had people, generations of families that worked here. >> reporter: connell mayor lee barrow says the plant's closure has already led to collateral damage: a 10% cut in the town budget due in part to lost tax revenue. what kind of ripple effect could that have on the rest of the community? >> absolutely it could affect retail. it could affect enrollment in our schools. >> reporter: and it doesn't end there. spending less has led to a scale down on the dollars made from pizza sales. kanwardeep singh is the owner of pappa ray's. how busy was it when the factory was in operation? >> somewhere around 3,000 a day. yes. now it shrinks, sometimes 600. >> reporter: and closer to the kunkel home, coffee. >> we've cut back our hours to try to save money to

be able to keep all of our people on board. the cost of milk, the cost of coffee beans, everything. it goes up. >> reporter: the town of connell now faces a fork in the road, struggling to hold on while searching for new ways to bring prosperity back to its table. for "eye on america," i'm jonathan vigliotti in connell, washington. >> john: as for the kunkels, jonathan tells us adam has had a number of interviews but he hasn't found a job. katrina is still running the coffee shop but business is down 15% since the potato factory closed. in tomorrow's "eye on america," a security threat at our ports. is the country that makes these giant cranes using them to spy on us? maurice and i will be back with some good news for viewers who can't get enough of the evening news. >> announcer: this portion of the "cbs evening news" is sponsored by ancestry. discover, preserve, share. shar. s

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street. >> and we've got another atmospheric river headed our way. we'll track it using the virtual set and we'll give you the specifics on how this one is going to play out. don't get head faked. some rain tomorrow night. that's not it. we'll time out the storm in detail comes up in a bit. >> and super bowl l is officially in the bay area's hand and organizers are promising a different experience from the last time it was here. you better count your eggs before you go the register. the store is now imposing limits on how many eggs you can buy. and good evening we begin in san francisco with a stubborn problem. the city's homeless population has remained unchanged over the years. tonight we continue our look at san francisco's efforts to address homelessness and the idea of flow. >>