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president trump said many times on the campaign trail he could end the war in ukraine in one day, and he spent a good part of this day working on it. >> john: he started with a phone call to russian president vladimir putin. they agreed to begin negotiations on ending the war and to meet in person for the first time since mr. trump's first term. >> maurice: president trump then called ukrainian president zelenskyy to inform him about his talks with putin. >> john: it has been a day of rapid developments as we approach the third anniversary of russia's invasion of ukraine. weijia jiang is at the white house, and weijia, for a president elected largely on the domestic issues, this is his second major foreign policy move after his proposal to seize gaza. >> reporter: well, john, what is notable about this conversation and negotiations between trump and putin is that it upends three years of u.s. policy on the war in ukraine. president biden refused to speak to putin after russia invaded ukraine back in february 2022.

now trump says the two leaders have agreed to work together very closely. an overnight missile attack sparked fires across kyiv and prompted ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy to declare putin is not preparing for peace. he continues to kill ukrainians and destroy cities. just hours later, president trump revealed he and russian president vladimir putin spoke by phone for over an hour and agreed to immediately start negotiations to end the war in ukraine. they also agreed to meet in person in saudi arabia. in the oval office, we learned who won't be there. it sounds like that would just be a meeting between you and putin and perhaps the crown prince, but not president zelenskyy? >> probably we will have a first meeting, and then we will see what we can do about the second meeting. >> reporter: trump's announcement to work with putin came on the heels of moscow

releasing an american hostage. >> president trump is a hero. >> reporter: last night, pennsylvania school teacher marc fogel was back on u.s. soil after being detained for over three years. he was arrested for marijuana possession. in exchange, the u.s. freed a russian cybercriminal. was that conversation with putin to start these negotiations part of the deal to bring fogel home? >> no, but it was a nice thing that he allowed marc fogel to leave. >> reporter: trump often touts his strong relationship with putin, infamous for killing or imprisoning his rivals during his 25-year rule. now the u.s. is also reversing its policy on supporting nato membership for ukraine, post-war, and said the country would likely have to cede territory to russia, like crimea which was annexed in 2014. defense secretary pete hegseth. >> we want, like you, a sovereign and prosperous ukraine.

but we must start by recognizing that returning to ukraine's pre-2014 borders is an unrealistic objective. >> reporter: zelenskyy is set to meet with vice president vance and secretary of state marco rubio on friday at a security conference in germany. today, president trump said he would think about going to ukraine to meet with zelenskyy but has not committed. >> maurice: and weijia, our holly williams recently reported from ukraine. she found ukrainians exhausted by the war, but still pretty resolute. zelenskyy is, of course, under all kinds o pressure. how did the call between trump and zelenskyy go today? >> reporter: well, zelenskyy described the conversation he had with trump on the phone as meaningful, and he expressed up optimism that the u.s. could help broker a peace deal. he also added that trump shared the details of his conversation with putin. and it is those details that really matter because we don't have insight into under what conditions this war is actually going to end, but we do know that trump mentioned today several times that zelenskyy

does face that pressure and could be up for reelection. >> john: weijia, as you suggested in your question in the oval office, it feels like ukraine is getting pushed out of this deal. >> reporter: well, the administration has already said publicly that they do not believe the two things that ukraine really wants, which is to join nato after the war and to overtake some of the land that was annexed by russia, are probably off the table, john, and so that is why democrats are sounding the alarm, saying that this sort of public negotiation already puts ukraine at a disadvantage. >> maurice: okay, weijia jiang tonight at the white house, thanks so much. >> john: now some of the top stories from around the world in tonight's "evening news" roundup. a blast of snow is expected from the central u.s. to the northeast. virginia already got some, and there were nearly 1,000 accidents on the roads. no deaths are reported. looking ahead, there is a threat of tornadoes in the south, and mudslides in the west. lonnie quinn will have details

later. >> maurice: the department of homeland security confirms reporting by cbs's camilo montoya-galvez that nonviolent, low-risk migrant detainees are being sent to the new immigration detention facility at guantanamo bay, cuba. president trump had said the facility would house what he called worst migrants with criminal records. >> john: and the fed is likely to continue its pause on interest rate cuts after the labor department reported inflation ticked up to 3% last month. that was largely driven by the rising costs of groceries, gasoline, and rent. and leading the rise in grocery prices are eggs. suddenly, they are scarcer than hen's teeth. lana zak talked to an iowa farmer who has a waiting list for eggs. >> how many acres do you have? >> 1200. >> reporter: just outside of des moines sits lavon griffieon's 123-year-old farm. seven generations of the family have raised cows, sheep, and hens. so these are the girls. >> these are the girls.

>> reporter: on a summer day, they will lay 35-40 eggs, but in the winter, the average is about 17. >> they just kind of shut downid think to keep warm. >> reporter: the decline comes as egg producers are struggling to keep up with demand. eggs are in short supply as bird flu has taken a toll on tens of millions of chickens. some prices have topped $10 a dozen. how has it been with the egg shortage for you guys? >> it has been pretty intense. we actually have a little calendar that we write people's names down, and we are out about two weeks in advance. >> reporter: this is the egg footage. fridge. lavon put up a bible verse, to remind customers thou shalt not hoard. and insight you can see only a few cartons, each one already reserved. >> before this shortage, people just came and got them because there was enough, but now everyone is, like, alarmed, and you shouldn't need any more eggs than you did a month ago.

>> reporter: even as egg prices have soared, griffieon has kept her prices the same, $5 a dozen. >> it's nice to know the family and support actual family farmers. >> reporter: making their own feed keeps costs down and minimizes outside deliveries, reducing the risk of bird flu spreading to their farm. and these eggs have an additional benefit. >> when you get two dozen eggs, you know they are fresh. we are standing right there waiting. [laughter] >> maurice: and lana zak joins us now from ankeny, iowa. all of this has me wondering, lana, why does it take so long to replenish the supply of hens? >> reporter: well, here is an important point, and we see this on lavon's farm because she only has 55 hens, but when you are talking about some of these big commercial farms, they have hundreds of thousands if not millions of hens together, and the usda requires that if a single case of bird flu is found on one of those farms, the entire flock needs to be eliminated, and it will be eight months, then, before the

new chicks that they bring into replenish them are able to actually lay eggs. that means that this major impact on the supply chain, even if avian flu was eliminated today, maurice, it would still be many more months before the supply chain could catch up to the demand. >> john: lana zak reporting for us from ankeny in central iowa. thanks, lana. >> maurice: still ahead here on the "cbs evening news" tonight, the risk of tornadoes in the south and mudslides in the west, and lonnie quinn will be right here to tell us all about them. >> john: and we will have these stories, as well. >> i am meg oliver near buffalo, new york. until a couple weeks ago, this is where the last major u.s. airline crash happened, 16 years ago. that long stretch of air travel safety is in part thanks to victims' families. that's tonight's "eye on america." >> i'm scott macfarlane in washington, where there is an unfolding purge of federal watchdogs and inspectors, which critics say could make it less safe to ride on some highways, eat some food, or go to some veterans' hospitals.

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some prosecute criminals. others are watchdogs who make sure our food, veterans' hospitals, highways, and more are safe. >> maurice: the trump administration says they cannot be trusted, but critics of the president say he is gutting the very offices that weed out people who should not be trusted. here is justice correspondent scott macfarlane. >> reporter: you are not a democrat. >> i'm nonpartisan. >> reporter: you're not a republican. >> i'm nonpartisan. >> reporter: why are they turn to take you off the playing field? >> my only guess could be they are trying to impact the independence that igs have because it makes no sense. >> reporter: days after he and more than a dozen of his fellow federal watchdogs were fired, michael missal, inspector general of u.s. department of veterans affairs since 2016 and several others filed suit today to get their jobs back, arguing they were fired for political reasons. this threatens not only missal's paycheck, he argues the safety of veterans and hospitals and clinics nationwide. does this put people's lives in danger? >> the work that we did protected veterans' lives and

made the health care much safer for veterans. >> reporter: inspectors general root out misconduct and safety failures impacting communities from coast-to-coast. missal recently uncovered delays in medical appointments for veterans including cancer patients in buffalo. others safety inspections in california. and postal workers stealing credit cards from the mail including near st. louis. republicans defend the purge. california representative darrell issa argued the fired inspectors failed to perform. some americans might think they are pulling a lot of police off the street here, you pull inspectors general all at once and take them off the playing field. >> well, again, the new administration is acting quicker than any other administration in modern history. but no, they need to be judged on who is the acting, who is replacing them, how fast they will name those names, and will they be naming people who will aggressively look for waste, fraud, and abuse? >> reporter: but the purge is not just in government.

>> it's pure retaliation, vindictiveness, retribution. >> reporter: private attorney mark zaid, who represents whistle-blowers, has just been stripped of his security clearance by the trump administration, making it more difficult for his potential clients inside the cia or fbi to report misconduct. >> they are pulling those away or neutralizing those who could do things against them. >> john: scott, this question of the inspectors general firing is now in the courts. where is it likely to go next? >> reporter: two real possibilities, john. a judge could order the inspectors reinstated to their jobs and decide that the administration violated the law in the firings. or the president can eventually handpick his own inspectors to police his administration, which, maurice and john, would make an awful lot of frontline investigators awful skittish, to take a case that may displease the president. >> maurice: and if that does happen, if he wins in court or chooses to ignore the court ruling, scott, then what happens? >> reporter: unequivocally, a sea change, perhaps a permanent

change in american government. if there are political appointees running watchdog offices, maybe they focus on just red states or blue states. red cities or blue cities. or, maurice and john, on topics the president wants them to investigate. >> john: scott macfarlane in washington. thank you, scott. >> maurice: lonnie quinn is keeping an eye on some potentially dangerous weather tonight. >> john: there is snow in the midwest, a chance of tornadoes in the south, and mudslides in the west. lonnie, pick your poison. >> all right, we will start with snow that you guys are talking about. here is a picture of daley plaza in chicago. by the time the day is done they could pick up maybe half a foot of snow. if i can close the curtains for you right here i want to show you what the radar picture is looking like. you can see the snow around chicago but look at this rain down and portions of the south. that is not just a light rain. it is falling heavily. it is also hazardous. the national weather service is saying in places like montgomery, alabama, tonight has

a 3 out of 5 chance for tornadoes. new orleans has a 2 out of 5 chance. atlanta has a 1 out of 5 chance. about moisture, including the snow in chicago, pushing to the northeast but encountering some warmer air so a lot of that snow turns over to some sleet and eventually some rain. but i do want to touch upon a situation out in southern california. we talked about this yesterday. rain is on the way. we are dealing with it. the toughest will be tomorrow night into early friday. and for places like the eaton fire, that land is so scarred right now, you're going to put potentially up to 5 inches of rain. on top of that, flash flooding, you betcha, flash flooding on fire-scarred land, highest risk for mudslides they have had so far this seasn. gentleman? >> john: lonnie quinn covering the whole map. thank you, lonnie. >> maurice: a plane crash 16 years ago tonight changed the rules for flying. >> john: that is tonight's "eye on america" when come back. . >> john: that is tonight's "eye on america" when come back. big story to tell. ♪ ♪ i take once-daily jardiance... ♪ ♪ ...at each day's start. ♪ ♪ as time went on, it was easy to see. ♪ ♪ i'm lowering my a1c! ♪ and for adults with type 2 diabetes...

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first deadly crash of a commercial airliner in the united states since 2009, so we decided to go back to that earlier crash to look at what happened and what we learned from it. 16 years ago tonight, at 9:18, a continental express bombardier q-400 operated by colgan air took off from newark, new jersey, on a scheduled 53-minute flight to buffalo, new york. what happened next is tonight's "eye on america," reported by meg oliver. >> reporter: shortly after 10:00 p.m., flight 3407 fell out of the sky and into a house near buffalo. it was the 14th fatal crash of a u.s. airliner in 15 years. but the colgan air disaster would become a turning point in american aviation. this is where 50 lives were lost. in the following years, it was transformed from a tragic crash

site into a memorial, a place for reflection, but for the families who lost loved ones, the fight that started here never stopped. >> she was brilliant, she was beautiful, and the life of the party. >> reporter: john and marilyn kausner's 24-year-old daughter elly was aboard flight 3407. how did you learn about the crash? >> our son. i got a call first. chris said there was a plane crash, said there is no survivors. that is the only part of the call she heard. she fell on the floor. and my son said it was the worst sound he had ever heard in his life. >> you never forget that. >> reporter: when the national transportation safety board produced its report and this animation, they show pilot error because the plane to stall and it nosedive. it was also revealed the pilot had not been forthcoming about failing flight tests. why would you bring this post poster to d.c. on your trips?

>> to put a face to the tragedy. >> reporter: the families of the deceased banded together to and lobbied to help pass a federal airline safety bill, leading to a mandated 1500 hours of flight training for copilots, the creation of a pilot performance database, and a requirement that pilots have ten hours of restbefore flying. >> we call each other the family we never wanted. >> reporter: ron aughtmon lost his uncle, john fiore, a veteran who dedicated his life to public service. >> not many people know what flight 3407 is, and our job is to make sure that we keep our loved ones and the fight for airline safety at the forefront. >> reporter: to this day, they continue their fight to keep these regulations in tact, as regional airlines attempt to rollback pilot training requirements. >> crash, crash, crash. this is alert three. crash, crash, crash. >> reporter: the washington, d.c., collision last month ended what had been the longest safety streak without a fatal crash in american aviation.

it had been nearly 16 years since the colgan disaster. >> when we saw it, it came back. it was rough. but we quickly thought about those families and what they are going through right now. >> reporter: the 3407 memorial is a reminder of their loss and the change they fought for. when you think of the other families from flight 3407, what do they mean to you? >> they are our family. >> yeah. >> i wanted to be with them as much as i could be with them. >> reporter: did it help you heal? >> yes, and it's how i could be with her somehow, and i believe it's why we were all so successful. because... >> reporter: you did it together. >> we did it together. >> 3407 girls, we come here together. >> reporter: it is a group they never wanted to join, but now one they can't live without. for "eye on america," meg oliver, clarence center, new york.

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the ap said it did follow mr. trump's lead in changing denali back to mount mckinley because it lies within the u.s. and the president can change federal geographical names. >> john: the ap protested the oval office ban, saying it impedes the public's access to independent news and violates a provision of the constitution. the name of that provision for more than 200 years? the first amendment. >> maurice: and that is the "cbs evening news. i'm maurice dubois. >> john: i'm john dickerson. i'll see you again soon on "evening news plus," streaming on cbs news 24/7. >> maurice: and we'll see you back here tomorrow. have a good night. ♪ ♪

>> john: welcome to "cbs evening news plus." i'm john dickerson. president trump vowed to lower prices on day one. on day 23, the labor department