dozen. >> how has it been with the egg shortage for you guys? >> it's been pretty intense. we actually have a little calendar that we write people's names down and we're out about two weeks in advance. >> reporter: this is the egg fridge. lavon put up a bible verse to remind customers thou shall not hoard. inside only a few cartons. each one already reserved. >> before this shortage people just came and got them because there was enough. but now everybody's 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're fresh. we're standing right there waiting.

>> reporter: well, here's an important point and we see this on lavon's farm because she only has 55 hens. but when we're 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 in to 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, it would still be many more months before the supply chain could catch up to the demand. well, higher food prices have a lot of americans cutting back on fast food like french fries. and that's bad news for one town that used to rely on a local french fry factory. >> 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. >> whoo. >> reporter: adam kunkel moved his family here to the town of 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 worked there for over 11 years.

i was like what am i going to do now to support my family? >> if you're a town who has 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 could affect retail. it could affect enrollment in our schools. >> reporter: and it doesn't end there. spending less has led to a scaledown on the dollars made from pizza sales. kanwar deep singh is the owner of papa ray's. >> how busy was it when the factory was in operation? >> around 3,000. >> 3,000? >> a day. >> a day? >> yes. and now it shrink like sometimes 600. >> wow. >> reporter: and closer to the kunkel home, coffee. >> we've cut back our hours just to try to save some 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 struggling to hold on while searching for new ways to bring

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the pentagon still does not know what caused a $100 million fighter jet to fall from the sky over san diego. neither the cre nor anyone on the ground was hurt. charlie d'agata reports. >> reporter: this is the moment a fighter jet fell from the sky off the coast of california near a densely populated neighborhood wednesday morning. and plummeted into the san diego bay with enormous force, causing a huge splash. >> i saw the jet fly over very, very low and very, very close. >> it was coming down. then all of a sudden the noise was gone, a boom and it was over. >> reporter: the sophisticated ea-18 growler was flying in low visibility conditions and about to land at the san diego naval base when the aircraft went down. luckily both pilots were able to safely eject. >> it did land in the water. there's navy boats now searching the water.

>> reporter: their parachutes were spotted by fishermen who pulled them to safety. >> luckily we were there to spin the boat around, and thanks to my crew and everyone else we were able to swing by and pick them up and safely gt them out of the water. >> reporter: officials say the pilots are in stable condition and had only been in the 50 degree waters for one minute before being transported to a local hospital. crews quickly set up containment lines to try to filter out debris including gas and oil that may have leaked out from the downed airplane. >> anytime there's an aircraft accident like this there is a little bit of a concern about the maritime environmental impact. >> reporter: the cause of the crash is now under investigation by the u.s. navy. i'm charlie d'agata in washington. 16 years ago this week a continental express passenger jet took off from newark, new jersey on a scheduled 53-minute flight to buffalo, new york. it never made it. meg oliver spoke to the families of those on board still working to keep their loved ones' memories alive. >> 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 ellie was aboard flight 3407. >> how did you learn about the crash? >> our son. i got the call first and chris said there's been a plane crash. he said there's no survivors. that's the only part of the call she heard. she fell on the floor. and my son said it's the worst sound he's ever heard in his

life. >> you never forget that. >> reporter: when the national transportation safety board produced its report and this animation, they showed pilot error caused the plane to stall and then nose dive. it was also revealed the pilot had not been forthcoming about failing flight tests. >> why would you bring this poster to d.c. on your trips? >> to put a face to the tragedy. >> reporter: the families of the deceased banded together and lobbied to help pass a federal airline safety bill, leading to a mandated 1500 hours of flight training for co-pilots, the creation of a pilot performance data base, and a requirement that pilots have ten hours of rest before flying. >> we call each other the family we never wanted. >> reporter: ron altman 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 intact as airlines attempt to roll back pilot training requirements. >> crash, crash, crash. this is alert 3. 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're our family. >> yeah. >> i wanted to be with them as much as i could be with them.

>> did it help you heal? >> yes. and it's how i could be with her somehow. and i believe it's why we were also successful, because -- >> you did it together. >> we did it together. >> 3407 girls, we come here together. >> reporter: it's a group they neff wanted to join but now one they can't live without. for "eye on america," meg oliver, clarence center, new york. there's a lot more ahead on "cbs news roundup." stay with us.

if your vacation plans include a trip to italy, you should know that most of the hotels there are family-run.

but that doesn't mean you'll be sitting down to spaghetti with the cousins. wendy gillette has the story from the island of sardinia. >> reporter: a small spa is one of the luxury touches at palazzo telia in the heart of rome a couple blocks from the trevi fountain. inside a 16th century building lovingly restored by the federici family. >> this has been a passion project for my father. he's been thinking about redoing this palazzo for a long time. >> reporter: and if the common spaces look straight out of the movies, it's more than a coincidence. italian director luca guadanino, behind the lens of this year's "challengers," launched the interior architecture studio that did the design. palazzo talia is the family's fourth hotel, filled with frescos and almost 40 roman busts. >> you can really tell when a property is owned by a family because there's a special care in every little aspect of the hospitality. >> reporter: it's a way of life in italy, where families own around 95% of all hotels,

including viesca toscano near florence, one of those we stayed at for a special rate. when you step into the former country home of the ferragamos, you can see how this famous family got its start in the shoe business. >> all the buildings that we see around us were actually part of a farm, and it was all working land. >> reporter: the family's interest in local products led to food and wine lines, tastings and cooking classes with a chef are among the hotel's offered activities. >> here you can really enjoy the authenticity of the countryside around florence. >> reporter: an afternoon of travel brings tourists here to the island of sardinia off the western coast of italy. this is valle del erica, one of 12 properties run by two families who own delfina hotels and resorts. it's very much a family affair at one of seven restaurants where the clan's aunt rolls out pasta using grandma's recipe. >> the guests, they're not just

visitors. they feel like part of an extended family. >> reporter: they spread out in secluded nooks along the coast, dine on seafood feasts, relax in therapy pools or island hop by boat, surveying the crystal clear water of the mediterranean. wendy gillette, cbs news, sardinia, italy. >> wendy gets all the tough assignments. and that's tonight's "cbs news roundup." for some of you the news continues. for others check back later for "cbs mornings." and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york, 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. president trump enacts reciprocal tariffs against america's trading partners. we'll tell you what that means and why it's causing uncertainty. the u.s. and russia move closer to peace talks, ending the war in ukraine. but ukraine's president questions moscow's intentions. and from one extreme to the next. after those devastating fires southern california is now bracing for flash floods. president donald trump on thursday signed more executive orders including new directives for reciprocal tariffs. his plan is to increase or decrease u.s. tariffs to match the same taxes being charged by other countries when they import american goods. cbs's erica brown reports from capitol hill. >> reporter: president trump showed off the executive order he signed that will determine reciprocal tariffs on u.s. trade

partners. >> it's a beautiful simple system. and we don't have to worry about gee, we're charging too much or too little. >> reporter: the executive order will charge countries the same tariffs they levy on the u.s. that could cause already high prices to rise. >> economists have said, you know, time and time again that tariffs do end up being a bit of and obviously, that affects inflation. price levels that we see on the consumer level. >> reporter: india's prime minister made a visit to the white house thursday for a meeting with the president. >> thank you very much. it's a great honor to have prime minister modi of india. >> reporter: the two leaders spoke about improving trade relations between the u.s. and india. >> india's been to us just about the highest tariffed nation anywhere in the world. they've been very strong on tariffs. >> reporter: the president also announced the u.s. and india will build a trade route running from india to israel to italy. in an evening press conference at the white house president trump discussed the negotiations that will be led by the u.s. to

end the war with russia and ukraine. >> i think we're going to be able to do something. i think we're going to be able to make a deal. and i hope so because it's a horrible war. >> reporter: the trump administration also confirms to cbs news that representatives from elon musk's department of government efficiency are now examining systems at the irs as they continue their push to overhaul the federal government. erica brown, cbs news, capitol hill. now, as erica brown just reported, president trump is pressing ahead with his plan for trying to end the nearly three-year-old war in ukraine. he says u.s. and russian officials will be meeting friday in munich. ukrainian negotiators are invited to join them, but it's doubtful that they'll attend. cbs's imtiaz tyab reports from london. >> reporter: for ukraine this has always been a war of survival. nearly three years after russia's full-scale invasion there have been hundreds of thousands of casualties and russian forces occupy around 20% of the country's territory.

it's a war we have covered from the very beginning. >> we just had some incoming russian shelling. >> reporter: in may 2022 we came under heavy russian fire in the kherson region. with so much still at stake ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy is now in a diplomatic battle over who will negotiate the conflict's end. "i articulate this very clearly to our partners," he said. "any bilateral talks about ukraine that is without us we will not accept." his comments followed u.s. secretary of defense pete hegseth's pointed remarks at the nato headquarters in brussels about kyiv potentially having to make major concessions to moscow, where hegseth was asked if the u.s. was abandoning ukraine. >> there is no betrayal there. there is a recognition that the whole world and the united states is invested and interested in peace. a negotiated peace. as president trump has said,

stopping the killing. >> reporter: ukrainian and european leaders were also worried president trump's decision to host a summit with russian president vladimir putin has also left them out of any potential peace talks. german defense minister boris pistorius warned, "the trump administration has already made public concessions to putin before negotiations have even begun." in moscow the mood was decidedly different. evening news shows were almost gleeful as they praised presidents trump and putin for having agreed to hold the talks. all this while in ukraine the war raged on. earlier the eastern city of correc ka creme atorresing was target bid russian fighter jets. back here in the u.s. the west coast is being battered by powerful storms. take a look at this video from

oregon where snow and ice contributed to this pileup of about 30 vehicles on a major highway there. police say at least four people were injured. and in southern california heavy rains are sweeping in, triggering evacuation orders in neighborhoods already devastated by wildfires. it comes as the area prepares for dangerous flash flooding and mudslides. cbs's carter evans is in l.a.'s pacific palisades neighborhood. >> reporter: rain would normally be a welcome relief for fire-ravaged southern california but this could be a nightmare on top of a neighborhood. it's only been a month since the devastating wildfires tore through altadena, pacific palisades and malibu. now with warnings of heavy rain triggering mudslides crews have raced to put sandbags in all the fire zones. in malibu the first sign of trouble, rocks starting to tumble down. i am surrounded by bare hillsides right now. practically no vegetation to hold the dirt in place.

they prepositioned some heavy equipment. and look at this. a home spared by the fire. now they're just trying to protect it from the mud. evacuation warnings are now in place for communities next to the burn scars, including along pacific coast highway, where we met chloe castillo with cal fire. >> i don't know. i look up at that, and it's scary. >> it's definitely scary, and it's scary for the residents that live up there. the fire came and then immediately came the rain. there was no time in between. so yeah, this probably is worst case scenario. genuine. seven years ago one of the most destructive wildfires in california history consumed parts of santa barbara county near the town of montecito. less than a month later torrential rains triggered a mudslide that killed 23 people, wiping out more than 100 homes. in altadena chris and anastasia mizella were surveying their home. one of the few on this street to survive the wildfire. >> you have no idea the anxiety, the uncertainty and the fear that runs through you.

and it's still running through us all, especially on a day like today where now you have a second potential disaster that you're facing. >> reporter: leaving many wondering how much more trauma they can endure. carter evans, cbs news, pacific palisades, california. the senate has confirmed robert f. kennedy jr. as secretary of health and human services. critics of kennedy pointed to his past remarks questioning the efficacy of vaccines. it's a subject that came up frequently during kennedy's hearings but did not stop his confirmation. straight ahead on "cbs news roundup" we'll tell you how police across the nation are adjusting to the new reality of extreme weather. i'm not here to fire you up. if you're not already fired up, you shouldn't be in this room. if this victory isn't worth all you have to give, then leave. but now, right now is your chance to be a part of a victory the world will remember forever. [crowd cheering]

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scientists say changing weather patterns linked to climate change are at least partly responsible for the disasters the nation has dealt with recently. hurricane helene devastated north carolina hundreds of miles away from the sea, and thousands of homes and businesses were reduced to nothing but ash in the southern california wildfires. now police across the nation are being forced to adjust to the new weather reality. scott macfarlane reports. >> reporter: in lowville, new york, a relentless snow belt near lake ontario, the sheriff's department is being forced to adapt in the face of worsening lake effect snow. >> sometimes we're just inches, it could be a foot of snow in a couple of hours. >> a foot in a couple of hours. >> sure. >> and you can't always see it coming. >> right. >> reporter: sheriff mike carpinelli said he worked with local edge slaitors for years to secure funding for upgraded equipment like this snow dune climbing all terrain version of a police car. which has been critical for responding to emergencies in a

county where nearly 200 inches of snow can fall in a winter. >> you want to get there as fast adds as we can but as safe as we can. sometimes it can be as quick as a half hour or as long as a couple hours. >> reporter: it's not just here in the community of barns corners, new york, but other communities nationwide where the changing climate has opened a firehose of lake effect snow wider and stronger. >> it certainly seems like the new normal. the planet continues to warm. >> reporter: dan horton runs northwestern university's climate change research group near chicago. >> because of fossil fuels, global warming our lakes are warming. and so they're not freezing as much in the winter. so typically the lake shuts off lake effect snow when it freezes. and that freezing point is occurring later and later each season. >> reporter: a federal government study in 2017 warned this risk was looming. a paradox of warmer weather leading to more snow in these areas as the lakes become super

fuel for lake effect snow bursts. in michigan and maine police have precision driving training to better navigate heavier precipitation. u.s. marshals tell cbs news they've boosted their snowmobile and helicopter evacuation training for northern cities. while sheriff carpinelli says the success they've seen with the new equipment gives neighboring counties a path to follow. vermont senator peter welch tells cbs news he is pushing for more federal aid for these kmurngts get them more tools, more resources as this changing climate is only expected to complicate things more in the future. >> that was scott macfarland in gaithersburg, maryland. "cbs news roundup" will be right back. (peaceful music) - time to get up, sweetie! (kissing) - [child voiceover] most people might not think much

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in the middle of march. so what do you do for food when you're stuck in orbit? david pogue got a taste of space cuisine. ♪ >> reporter: eating in space. is trickier than it looks. >> you have to be careful. anytime you open any container in space everything tends to want to fly out. >> you eat straight out of the envelope? >> you open your envelope up and take out your spoon, clean off your spoon with a wet wipe and it's ready for the next meal. >> reporter: frank rubio recently spent 371 consecutive days on the space station, a nasa record. >> the thing i miss the most is just fresh food. you just never have fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, a salad. >> reporter: so it's not i think a little more salt. it's not that. >> right. food science is very different from being a chef. >> reporter: at the johnson space food systems laboratory in

houston nasa food scientist grace douglas and food manager xi lei wu have helped develop a menu of 200 different dishes for space station dining. >> what we're doing is looking at engineering and microbiology and chemistry and how we can make those foods stable for long amounts of time. so we have to make sure that they're safe and they taste really good for those lengths of time. ♪ >> reporter: the space station has no traditional oven, stove, fridge or freezer. only a little pouch warmer. >> so this is a mango salad. >> wow. excellent. with a subtle bouquet of recirculated air. >> reporter: to ensure a three-year shelf life every pouch has either been freeze dried, heat stabilized or irradiated. >> we're in texas. so we had to try this barbecue beef brisket. and this is an irradiated

product. >> also excellent. i can barely taste the gamma raies. >> reporter: even the rehydrated turkey was delicious. >> just like mom used to make. so there you go. curried pumpkin soup, squash, turkey, spicy green beans, mango salad, cherry blueberry cobbler, your classic norman rockwell thanksgiving dinner. >> reporter: a mars mission, though, will be a bigger challenge. it might require five years' worth of food. too heavy to launch with the astronauts. >> does anyone ever talk about, you know, a pill or an energy drink that has all the nutrients you need in it? >> well, this goes back to variety. because if we think about food on earth we celebrate around food, it becomes very important. there's concepts out there of, well, we can produce a lot of algae or something else. you worked really hard all day and you're really tired and you come home and what would you want to eat with your friends? >> you're saying probably not an

algae pill. >> probably not. ♪ >> reporter: as for astronaut frank rubio, it was time to ask the big question. >> glob yoouls of water floating in microgravity and going after it. is that just a stunt for the camera that gets old after a day? >> yeah, almost every meal you'll have somebody be like hey woody or hey steve, catch. right? playing with your food is one of the small privileges we have while we're up there. >> that was david pogue. "cbs news roundup" will be right back.

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as a child doctors thought he would never walk or talk. >> have you ever taken a day of? >> no, i love working. >> reporter: would you ever even dream of taking a day off? >> no. >> reporter: according to a survey, about 16% of people with intellectual disabilities are employed. but here at the shepard hotel around 30% of the staff have intellectual disabilities and make far above federal minimum wage of 7.25 an hour. >> how are you? >> reporter: a server in the restaurant, evelin is learning the ropes from marcus. >> a nice quiet place. >> reporter: while his buddy john mans the front desk with marsden. >> if we do our job right someone leaves here inspired. >> reporter: the hotel's co-founder rick hayduck brought his vision of employing intellectually disabled people to life. two of his four children have down syndrome. >> what happens when i'm the 80-year-old sitting in church with my, you know, 50-year-old down syndrome kid? my wife and i were saying how do we avoid that? >> if you like waffles and you have a full box then that should

be one of your breakfasts. >> reporter: the hotel partnered with a program at nearby clemson university called clemson life. students including hayduck's daughter jameson not only take college courses. they learn skills to help them live and work independently. >> we've got bottle brushes. >> starting from the moment of that alarm going off to have time management. >> reporter: erica walters is the program director. >> banking, budgeting. when it's grocery shopping, they are going through their inventory here and then they're going to the grocery store. >> reporter: 97% of the graduates are employed. plans are under way to open two more similar hotels in south crolina next year. >> we want to grow for the sake of inspiration and change. >> reporter: changing lives like evelin. he graduated from clemson life in may and is now working toward a hospitality certificate. >> my dream is to open a

restaurant one day. >> did you ever think you would live by yourself? >> no. never. i'm so happy. >> do you miss living with your parents? >> no way. no. >> sorry, mom. >> thank you. >> reporter: today evelin has a full schedule. going to class, managing the clemson basketball team. pledging delta ki fraternity. and working. >> why are you so happy? >> because i have no time to have a bad day in life. i want to tell people, people can do anything in life. >> reporter: evelin is proof people with intellectual disabilities can do whatever they put their mind to when a shepherd shows the way. >> too easy,

i don't ever see anyone coming out to maintenance anything, so it's very scary for me because i have everything i love in this home. so, we've now implemented drone technology. how is that safe for me? it enhances the inspection, so it allows us to see things faster. your safety is the most important, and if you're feeling unsafe, that's not okay. it doesn't feel like that in our hearts. i mean, it's worrisome. [dog barks] [dog barks]

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