just 11 workers constructed the walls, floors, and ceilings of each building in only eight weeks. >> we built that much faster than we would have had we done it with wood or concrete, sort of a traditional material. >> reporter: patrick murphy is a former congressman, and now managing director of renco, the company behind this technology. how quickly can you turn a house out of here? >> we can basically produce about 16 homes a day in this facility. >> reporter: their factory in jupiter, florida, is scheduled to begin scaling up operations in april. it's no coincidence that you're doing this here in florida. >> no coincidence. so we probably should have started in an easy area, but we decided to start in the toughest area. and so did years of testing to ensure that it could withstand category 5 hurricanes. >> reporter: the company says it can endure 240-mile-per-hour winds and is more fire resistant than most brick and wood, and also water resistant. will they withstand the test of time?

>> they've got such a long life span that the insurance on our first building is about 20% less expensive than the sort of long-term insurance. >> reporter: why is that? >> it doesn't rot. it rust. pests don't eat it. termites don't eat it. >> reporter: while the renco bricks are still more expensive, murphy says they still save 20% because of decreased time and labor. we saw this wall go up in less than nine minutes. what does that mean for the speed in which these buildings can be assembled? >> we can get a lot more product built a lot faster with unskilled workers, right. you saw how easy it is. this entire 2,000-square-foot home can be built with two people in one day. >> reporter: even an unskilled worker can use airspace glue and a mallet on a brick. your company call this the most disruptive constuction in more than 100 years. which is a big statement. >> the last big breakthrough was reinforced concrete which was 100, 125 years ago.

so now all of the sudden we have this new material that's displacing all of that. >> reporter: is this a sign of change for construction? >> it's a huge sign of change. >> reporter: ilya azaroff is an architect and teaches sustainable construction at city university of new york. >> globally last year 14 million people were displaced for natural and man-made disasters. so when i think about this, this has to be a moment of change. >> reporter: he said while products like renco have design limitations and tend to be blocky, the structural and time saving benefits are crucial. >> when i see innovation in the marketplace like this, yes, we can build to fire resistance, earthquake resistance, to hurricane-force winds, tornado-force winds. we just have to have the political will to do it, and we have to have the guts to try new ways of doing things. >> renco says it costs about $30 per-square-foot to build the walls, floors and roof, including labor and transportation. the company said it compared the cost of its apartment building in florida to similar ones made

with concrete and saved 20%. nancy chen, cbs news, new york.

the brightest stars of hollywood are getting their gowns and tuxedos ready for next month's 97th academy awards. the bob dylan movie, "a complete unknown" is up for eight oscars including best picture, best actor, best director, and best supporting actor.

that would be edward norton who plays folk music legend pete seeger. he discusses his life and career with cbs' tracy smith. >> reporter: the fires that ravaged southern california last month turned too many of malibu's treasured places to ash. but some, like the legendary shangri-la studios still stand. ♪ could have had it all ♪ >> reporter: over the years, it's been used by some of the biggest names in the music business, like eric clapton and adele to name a few. but it's also known as the house that bob dylan built. even the old bus out back, legend has it, was used by dylan on tour. and bob dylan camped out on the lawn? >> i actually think it's in clapton's biography where dylan had attempted a rose garden here. >> reporter: for edward norton, this is hallowed ground. and in a way, so is his latest

movie role. >> you tramped all the way from minnesota. why is that? >> i wanted to catch a spark. >> reporter: in "a complete unknown," norton is folk music legend pete seeger, playing opposite timothee chalamet as the young bob dylan. >> i'm pete, by the way. >> yes, sir. no question about it. >> how about you? >> i'm bobby. >> something come after that? >> dylan. >> reporter: norton says playing a music legend like seeger was both sublime and terrifying. >> i think every actor, some part of them wants to be a rock star. >> reporter: and that's you too, yes. >> and the fantasy of -- there is a dream. i think every actor holds the dream in some sense. you know, i almost started crying at the idea of it. >> reporter: did you really? >> well, i was nervous about it

because i was nervous about the whole enterprise, because i thought the idea of a biopic about dylan, if you just said it that way, ooh, i'm not sure. >> reporter: this is a huge gamble? >> yeah. i'm not sure, because to me, it has a mythical kind of place in me, and i thought this could be really, really a bad idea. >> i feel like singing. so i'm going to sing it for you. you have know the words. ♪ this land is your land ♪ >> reporter: and here is just one of the challenges. pete seeger was an accomplished so norton had to become one as well. and the banjo is a tough one to learn. we did an interview with steve martin, and he played the banjo for us. ♪ and watching him play the banjo, it's so complex, and it's so fast. >> yeah. i made the joke that i googled, you know, is there an ai that can replace my hands with steve martin's? like can i get -- or, you know, in the old days, that thing

where you put your arms behind your back, and steve martin puts his hands under my armpits and does the playing for me, which i'm not saying is what happened, you know. it might have. it might have. who knows. ♪ the ship comes in ♪ >> reporter: in the finished film, his playing looks and sounds authentic because it is. and that authenticity is something that edward norton has always worked for, starting with his very first movie role as a calculating killer in the 1996 thriller "primal fear". >> i am innocent. >> reporter: norton, who was raised in maryland, cultivated an appalachian accent so real that people thought he was actually from kentucky. >> i -- i don't know who is capable of such thing, mr. vail. >> reporter: and he ended up with his first oscar nomination. >> what do you want me to do? you just want me to hit you? >> come on, do this one thing. >> why? >> i don't know why. i don't know. >> reporter: three years later

he was fighting it out with brad pitt in a film that has now become embedded in our culture. >> the first rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club. the second rule of fight club is you do not talk about fight club. >> reporter: i mean it's huge now, has a huge fan following. it's acclaimed. but when "fight club" came out, it was not successful, financially -- >> no, not at all. not at all. and it was polarizing. i would say there were those who absolutely like it hit them right in the center of their sense of their own selves. but and then there were people who absolutely thought it was, you know, garbage, panned it. >> reporter: in fact, it was roundly booed at the venice film festival. but that didn't bother norton or his co-star pitt. >> as the credits rolled, brad looked at me in the dark crying and said that's the best film we'll ever be in. and i said me too. i think so too. we were hugging each other and

crying because we were so happy with like boos rising around us, you know what i mean? and i think sometimes you just got to let your own freak flag fly and see. and people will figure it out or not, you know. >> reporter: norton's let his own freak flag fly in more than 40 films. >> what's the problem? >> reporter: like a mild mannered police captain in "the grand budapest hotel." >> i know exactly who you are. it's uncanny. you're little albert. >> i'm terribly embarrassed. release them. >> reporter: he was an ego-driven broadway actor in "bird man." >> long after you're gone, i'm going to be on that stage, earning my living, baring my soul, wrestling with human -- >> reporter: and he nailed the eccentric billionaire part in "glass idol." >> hey, try to solve a murder mystery if you can. i don't want to toot my own horn, but it's next level. >> reporter: watching him on screen, it's hard to believe that edward norton was once told he didn't have what it takes to make it as an actor. was there a casting director who

told you find another profession? >> there was. yeah, i had one of those like someone sits you down and says you should do something else. >> reporter: like literally, you should do something else? >> yeah. very, very well-known casting director in new york. one of the ones you hoped to get in front of. but, look, if you don't run into moments where people lay some fundamental uncertainty around, you know, the path you've chosen and you can't push through it, then you probably don't belong. >> reporter: of course, there is little doubt he belongs in all of this. edward norton has an oscar nomination for every decade of his career. >> so i want you to give a warm welcome to bob dylan. [ applause ] >> reporter: and he's in the running now for his work in "the complete unknown." but he says that for him, it's not about the awards or the money, but the chance to channel greatness.

>> if channeling their frequency gets people refocused on what it looked like when people were using the talents they had to further ideas and values that were bigger than themselves, then that's -- that is what makes it worth doing. can we get people to reengage with and be moved by and inspired by the idea of artists as agents of change, you know. >> reporter: agents of change. >> yes. ♪ and the seas were splitting ♪ >> reporter: and whether edward norton is a pure artist or just a really great actor, it's easy to believe him.

each year, americans put more than 11 million tattoos on to their bodies. one study found a third of everyone in the u.s. has at least one tattoo, and a quarter of those surveyed say they regret at least one of their tats. removing tattoos can be expensive, but there is now a company in southern california that's helping out. danya bacchus has the story. >> reporter: with a quick and steady zapping sound, dr. robert reiss is performing what his patients call a life-changing procedure, one that reina alexandra garcia says has given her a second chance. >> a lot of doors have been opening. it feels very amazing. >> reporter: for years, reina had a clown face tattoo and

other ink on her face and neck. >> i used to get tattoos when i was going through so much pain. >> reporter: the reminders of that pain are slowly fading thanks to tattoo removal services through homeboy industries in los angeles, a program dedicated to rehabilitation of former gang members. dr. reiss is a ucla health physician and volunteer. >> our mission here is to remove things that would prevent you from getting a job. clearly, tattoos on your face will do. >> reporter: he says the laser breaks down permanent ink particles into smaller particles so the immune can safely remove them from the body. >> it takes 10, 12 treatments. it depends a lot on the density of the ink and also the color of the ink. certain colors are more difficult. we have a cooling machine to reduce the pain. it produces a lot of heat. >> reporter: tattoo removal usually costs thousnds of dollars, but it's done here at homeboy industries for free. and while it's a long and painful process, the clients say it's worth it. >> i feel like as it's coming off, i'm healing. >> reporter: desiree maruffo has

been going for two and a half to remove the tattoos of his abuser. >> he put his face, his name, any kind of marks that he could leave besides the beatings. >> reporter: mark's now a part of her past, allowing her and others to make room for their future. danya bacchus, cbs news, los angeles. >> and all that for free. 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 shanelle kaul. ♪

hello, and thank you so much for staying up with us. i'm shanelle kaul in new york, and here are the top stories on "cbs news roundup." investigators are on the scene of that fiery plane crash in toronto, trying to figure out what caused a delta flight to flip over upon landing. president donald trump and elon musk sit down for a joint interview as they continue to make drastic cuts to the federal government. and the u.s. and russia are meeting for talks on ending the war in ukraine. but ukraine is not invited. authorities in toronto say they have now recovered the two black boxes from the delta endeavor plane that crashed monday at toronto pearson international airport. they will be key pieces of evidence in the investigation into what caused a flight carrying 80 people from minneapolis to flip over after a hard landing and catch on fire. cbs' nikki battiste has the latest on the investigation and

how everyone on board was able to survive. >> reporter: airport officials in toronto say u.s. investigators have joined the canadian team at the scene of monday's delta airlines crash at pearson international airport. >> we do expect the investigators on-site will be reviewing the aircraft on its current configuration on the runway for the next 48 hours. >> reporter: video obtained by tmz shows the moment the jet caught fire and flipped over, leaving a trail of smoke. >> drop everything, drop it. >> reporter: crewmembers helped passengers who were strapped in upside down escape. >> everyone on that plane became very close in terms of how to help one another, how to console one another. >> reporter: despite the terrifying scene, everyone on board survived, although there were some injuries. >> mainly stemming from back sprains, head injuries, anxiety,

some headaches, nausea and vomiting due to the fuel exposure. >> reporter: officials say they will not speculate op what may have caused the crash, but aviation experts say investigators will take a close look at weather conditions. >> they're going to be looking at things like wind gust, wind shears, things like that, icing on the runways. >> reporter: airport officials say two storms dump in order than 20 inches of snow at the airport in the days prior to the crash, but monday itself was a clear day. nikki battiste, cbs news, toronto, canada. a federal judge in washington has refused to block elon musk and his departent of government efficiency from accessing government data. the judge said states suing musk and doge had failed to demonstrate clear evidence of imminent irreparable harm. musk and trump sat down for a joint interview that aired tuesday night where they made

the case for doge. cbs' erica brown has more. >> reporter: president trump and elon musk sat down in their first joint interview that aired tuesday on fox news, focusing in part on the department of government efficiency tasked with shrinking the federal government. >> those executive orders, i sign them, and now they get passed on to him and his group, and other people, and they're all getting done. >> reporter: thousands of federal employees have been fired in recent weeks with additional cuts expected soon. in a victory for the president trump administration, judge tanya chutkan ruled against 14 states that sought to block doge from firing employees or accessing data from seven federal agencies. cbs news has learned doge workers are also seeking access to the irs database. >> one of the biggest functions of the doge team is just making sure the presidential executive orders are actually carried out. >> president donald trump, please come down and see what's really going on. >> reporter: the cuts have sparked pushback from a union

representing government workers in florida, including several probationary employees who were fired from their jobs at a veterans hospital in tampa. >> people there are the heroes behind the scenes. everybody looks at the physicians and nurses, and they're very important too. but the people that support the hospital, they're the ones that's being harmed. >> reporter: earlier, president trump signed additional executive actions aimed at making ivf more accessible and calling for more government transparency. >> these are treatments that have become unaffordable for many americans or been unaffordable for many americans. >> reporter: president trump also announced on social media that he's firing any u.s. attorneys remaining from the biden administration, saying he needs to, quote, clean house immediately and restore confidence. erica brown, cbs news, capitol hill. ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy announced he is postponing a planned trip to saudi arabia after being excluded from talks being held there between the u.s. and russia about ending the war in

ukraine. delegations from the u.s. and russia met tuesday for the first day of negotiations, and both sides said the talks were productive. natalie brand is at the white house with more. >> reporter: after more than four hours of talks, secretary of state marco rubio said the u.s. and russia have agreed to appoint high-level teams to work on a path to end the war in ukraine in a way that is sustainable and acceptable to all sides. >> we're not going to prenegotiate an end to this conflict. these are the kind of things that have to happen through hard and difficult diplomacy in closed rooms over a period of time. >> reporter: secretary rubio is joined by middle east envoy steve witkoff and national security adviser mike walz. >> this needs to be a permanent end to the war and not a temporary end, as we've seen in the past. we know just the practical reality is that there is going to be some discussion of territory. >> reporter: the trump administration also said the

u.s. and russia agreed to restore embassy staffing in moscow and here in d.c. >> for us to be able to continue to move down this road we need to have diplomatic facilities that are operating functionally. >> reporter: ukraine's president volodymyr zelenskyy said he was not invited but he needs to be part of the conversation about his country's future. europeans are concerned too and arranged and emergency meeting in paris. >> at stake is not just the future of ukraine, it is an existential question for europe as a whole. this is a once in a generation moment for the collective security of our continent. >> reporter: british prime minister keir starmer said he is willing to offer british peacekeeping troops to ukraine, but that a u.s. security amendment is the only way to assure lasting peace. starmer is expected to visit the white house next week. natalie brand, cbs news, the white house. well, the vatican says a ct scan of pope francis has now

revealed pneumonia in both lungs. the pope has been in a roman hospital since last week with the vatican saying that his medical situation continues to be complex. when the 88-year-old pope was a younger man, he had a part of his lung removed. but he was in good spirits and continuing to make phone calls and read newspapers. still, his schedule has been cleared through at least sunday. when "cbs news roundup" continues. we'll tell you about a measles outbreak in mother and mothers who refuse to have their kids vaccinated. around adhd there is tremendous ignorance. most people are not aware of the positives. can't sit still, disorganized, can't focus. (montage of voices) annoying, lazy, stupid, you can't make it, you never listen, you don't clean your room...

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a potentially deadly measles outbreak in one texas county continues to spread. about five dozen children have now been infected, and they all have one thing in common, they did not receive the measles vaccine. other outbreaks are reported in neighboring new mexico as well as five other u.s. states. an inoculation program that started back in the 1960s all but eradicated measles in this country, but a growing number of parents are refusing to have their children vaccinated, and now they have an ally leading the department of health and human services. robert f. kennedy jr. elaine quijano has more. >> reporter: prepping for after-school snack time at sarah kho's house starts long before they get home. >> every ingredient in this is organic. >> reporter: the mother is strict about what goes into her pantry and her kids, avoiding artificial ingredients. she is part of the maha

movement, robert f. kennedy jr. supporters who say they want to make america healthy again. >> the maha movement is bringing us back to healthy foods that come directly from nature and not processed foods that have gone through so many steps to get to our table. >> reporter: cho is a democrat. she lives in new jersey. >> it's not a political issue. it's an issue of do you want your kids to get the best food or not. do you want your kid to have the best environment to live in. >> reporter: kennedy has pledged to address america's chronic diseases, poor diets, and environmental toxins. but as recently as 2023, he repeated a debunked claim, saying, quote, i do believe that autism does come from vaccines. multiple studies have shown there is no link between vaccines and autism. like cho, teresa warner is also a maha mother of three, who is conscientious about the food she serves her family. she too supports kennedy, that's her in the middle, but she is a

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hughes makes is soon get buried. >> i know who is going in this one, because he has already spoke for it. >> reporter: but there is no easy way for the woodworker to get that casket to the funeral home. the bridge he and his neighbors rely on to get to the main road was washed away. helene damaged or destroyed at least 130 private bridges in avery county, north carolina. with no bridge, he has to strap it to an atv, drive it up stream, and then carry it over a footbridge. >> you're looking at a good 45 minutes longer now than it would have been with the bridge, you know. >> reporter: the town doesn't own it. the state doesn't own it. replacing the bridge will cost him and his four neighbors at least $100,000. hughes received $3,000 from fema, and the bridge was not

ensu insured. >> so this bridge, one of our volunteers put together with telephone poles. >> reporter: robin started building bridges right after the storm using donations. but it's not enough. >> our hope is that other large organizations such as samaritan's purse, red cross, the larger organizations like that would come in and donate money on top of fema, and then we look to local charitable foundations to help help us bridge the gap. >> reporter: just over the border, volunteers turn a semitruck trailer into a bridge. the only way to access pogee, tennessee. it's since been replaced with railcars. >> mountain ingenuity. >> reporter: the people who live here like alex matthews have no idea if or when they'll get a permanent bridge. >> the people here were just less significant than others. >> reporter: you feel that way? >> yes. because a lot of places get fixed a lot faster than we do.

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several months ago, we told you the story of trooper. the dog was left tied to a fence in florida as hurricane milton came barreling through. trooper was rescued and given a new forever home, and we thought that was the end of the story. but there's more. here is cbs' david begnaud. >> look at that. this is trooper dooper! >> reporter: you are looking at the moment when trooper the dog met his forever family. >> we're going to be best friends. i can tell you that. >> reporter: including his new sister dallas. the photo of their initial meeting seemed to say it all. it looked like love at first sight. >> trooper! >> it's trooper! >> here's your brother. >> reporter: and that is where our last story on trooper ended, at frank and carla spina's house in florida where it seemed like he was going have a great love. >> now he loves you.

gives you kisses. >> reporter: two months after our last story aired, we checked back in with the spinas to see how trooper was doing, assuming not much had happened. well, we were shocked by what found out. >> about maybe two weeks after the original segment aired, we had been noticing since we adopted him that he had two dime-sized lumps on his left flank. the doctor immediately said oh, no, these are mast cell tumors. these are cancer. so we were in complete meltdown. >> reporter: trooper had to have surgery to remove the cancer. then came the painstaking wait for the results on whether it was successful. >> these are our children. we don't have children. these are our children. and then we got that good news, and we were just so -- when we left the doctor's office that day after he got his stitches out, the doctor said he's done. he is cancer-free.

we're literally in tears, just walking to the car, happy tears. >> reporter: finally, trooper's happy ending, right? well, no. not quite yet. >> he was out walking, and he just started putting his head down. so i went under him, and he involvemented, and a piece of rubber came out of his mouth. so this is actually a freezer bag. this freezer bag weighs 2.1 pounds. it's a combination of about 110 or 120 pieces of garbage. can you imagine how starved he had to be to ingest a piece of metal or pieces of rubber that are the size of quarters. >> reporter: our little buddy needed a life-saving procedure. it took vets in miami more than four hours to remove the metal and the rubber from his stomach.

>> how are you doing, guys? >> we have a very special bond, me and him. and he is my best friend. and i think i'm his best friend. i think my wife would agree. that i would rather give my life and she would give her life to save his life. ♪and she would give her life to save his life. ♪ >> reporter: and we don't doubt that for one second, because frank, a criminal defense attorney, is not just fighting for trooper's health, he and carla are also fighting for justice, for the abuse they allege trooper had to endure before he came to them. >> i reached out to the hillsboro state's attorneys office. and this, this is their victim

witness. this victim witness will be at every single hearing. for that gentleman who did this. >> i don't blame you. >> every single date, every single hearing, a trial, a sentencing, we'll be there. he's going to have to look at this dog and account for what he did to him. >> reporter: trooper is more than okay now. or so we think. he is happy and looks to be loving life. >> he is definitely daddy's boy, right? i love you too, i love you. i love you, i love you, i love you, i do. >> so happy for trooper. that was david b

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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