what went wrong, what can we improve upon in the system off these crashes. >> reporter: the deadly mid-air collision over washington, d.c. that killed 67 people happened on duffy's first full day on the job. he has since restricted helicopter traffic around washington's reagan national airport and turned his attention to modernizing the nation's air traffic control system. >> the fact that it hasn't been done in the last four years, eight years, 20 years is outrageous. >> reporter: a recent report found 51 of the 138 air traffic control systems unsustainable and investments to modernize some of them could take at least ten years. >> let's drop the politics. we need to invest money, and we can't do it at the speed of government. we have to do it at a different speed. and again, everyone will tell you here, they say listen, floppy disks running our airspace? you've got to be kidding me. i'm going give you what you need. we're going clear the red tape. we're going to find the money and we're going to upgrade your system. >> reporter: you want government

to move like lives are at stake? >> at the speed of trump. i want them to move at the speed of spacex. >> reporter: he sought the help of elon musk who founded the aerospace company spacex and whose team toured the faa's command center outside washington this week. >> why wouldn't i ask elon musk? why wouldn't i ask some of the best minds in the world to come in and offer us advice on how they think we can improve the system. >> reporter: how do you avoid the potential conflicts of interest with elon musk? >> i don't want to see conflicts of interest. so he was talking to air traffic controllers. didn't plug into the system, but looked at the terminals that they use, the technology that they used. asked them, had a back and forth about what works well for you, what doesn't work well. >> reporter: you see it less as a doge project and more as like elon musk a consultant. >> when you think of doge, you think of cutting, right? we're in the space of building. how do we build up better infrastructure. and we're going to spend money

>> reporter: but that will also require congress to act. >> we have to get rid of the red tape, and we have to do this very quickly. we can't wait four years, six years, ten years. we have to do it right now. >> reporter: some democrats on the hill are demanding answers about duffy's decision to cut jobs at the faa in the midst of the recent accidents. >> all the critical safety positions like air traffic controllers and inspector, all of those positions have been protected. no one has been fired. actually, we're hiring into those spaces. so 352 cuts is 0.8% of the workforce. incredibly small. >> reporter: will there be future rounds of cuts? >> listen, there could be. i'm not sure at the faa. but i think across government. >> reporter: duffy was limited in what we he could say about the various accidents specifically because they're all subject to crash investigations. but he says the agency both d.o.t. and the faa will study findings as they come in and look for places to make changes to make aviation safer.

new developments right now in the trial of bryan kohberger, the man accused of killing four university of idaho students. a judge has denied a request from the defense to toss out key dna evidence. it's a victory for the prosecution before kohberger's trial starts this summer. he has pleaded not guilty. jonathan vigliotti is following the case. >> reporter: just months before bryan kohberger is set to go to trial for allegedly stabbing four university of idaho students to death in 2022, a judge wednesday denied the defense's request to throw out key evidence investigators say they used to link kohberger to the murders. >> there is an expectation of privacy in one's dna that society is willing to recognize. >> reporter: the defense had argued law enforcement violated kohberger's constitutional rights by using genetic genealogy databases to help identify him as a suspect. investigators say they compared

dna recovered from a knife sheath found at the crime scene to samples submitted by the public for ancestry tests. however, the murder weapon has not been found. >> what they're taking issue with is essentially the manner and means by which investigators went about connecting kohberger's dna to the knife sheath dna. the attorneys are saying that that was against internal policies of the fbi, which the court found may be true, but it wasn't illegal. >> reporter: investigators say they also linked dna from the crime scene to kohberger by comparing it to dna found in the trash outside his family's pennsylvania home. defense attorneys argued they did not have warrant to search the property. >> they essentially staked out the scene and was able to identify the father dna of the person that was on the sheath. this will be precedent-setting, but i'm not surprised that this is how the judge ruled in this case.

>> reporter: if convicted, kohberger could face the death penalty. i'm jonathan vigliotti.

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the oscars are now just ten days away. actress demi moore is up for her first academy award. many are calling her a front-runner for her role in the horror movie "the substance." last month she picked up her first golden globe. natalie morales spoke with her at the waldorf astoria in beverly hills. >> have you ever dreamt of a better version of yourself, younger, more beautiful. >> reporter: demi moore's latest role sees her seeking to turn back the clock with black market drug. >> one single injection unlocks your dna and will release another version of yourself. >> reporter: "the substance" is a commentary on body image. the possession literally politics her into two versions of herself, and they struggle to co-exist. >> this balance is not working. >> there has been a slight

misuse of the substance. >> no! >> reporter: a horror movie that's given moore her first oscar nomination. >> i'm fine. >> reporter: the morning of the announcement, she was home alone. >> i didn't think to ask my daughters to come over or anything. and so it was me surrounded by all of my little dogs. >> reporter: and when you heard your name? >> i screamed. >> reporter: with her degree three daughters now grown, moore shares her home with a bunch of pampered pups. pint-sized pilaf is the leader of the pack and travels the world with her. >> they were with me when i got my nomination, yay. jumping around, thinking why are you jumping around with an idiot. >> reporter: they were celebrating with you. they said finally. >> yes! >> reporter: the role required moore to be physically vulnerable. at 62 years old, she was often naked on screen and endured hours of body prosthetics. >> the interesting thing for me was the exploration of that

violence we have against ourselves, the harshness of how we can sit in judgment that heavily compares and dissecting. and that for me was something that really resonated, because i felt that was so human. >> reporter: without words, she conveys the depth of her despair. >> it was heart-wrenching to do. and i think one of the things for me in that whole sequence is the reality is no matter what she tries to do on the outside, it wouldn't make it better because the inside isn't okay. >> reporter: that was so powerful. your face had to be very raw. >> oh, i could show you pictures. >> how come you never made a pass at me? >> reporter: moore's career first took off in the 1980s as part of the so-called brat pack. >> i don't have time for it. >> reporter: "ghost" became a cultural phenomenon. earning her a golden globe nomination.

>> it's like i can still feel you. >> reporter: critical acclaim continued with "a few good men." >> commander? >> you can call me joanne. >> joanne. >> or jo. >> jo? >> yes. >> reporter: then she smashed the glass ceiling earning $12.5 million for the movie "striptease." but controversy followed. >> i think i definitely felt an impact of harshness of judgment that came at me that was in many respects shaming, because part of that was playing a stripper. and so a lot was trying to diminish the impact of this monumental moment that was changing things not just for me, but for all women. and so i think there was a real like wow, we're not going to let you win right now. i wasn't trying to compete with men. i just was trying to get paid what i felt i had earned. >> reporter: with the golden globe win for "the substance," moore may have finally silenced her critics. >> 30 years ago i had a producer

tell me that i was a popcorn actress, and -- and at that time, i made that mean that this wasn't something that i was allowed to have. >> but it wasn't what he said that affected my life. it's what i made it mean that affected my life. for so much of my career i looked and only found what was wrong. and that speaks very much to what "the substance" is about, you know, this idea of wasting time focusing on all that you're not when you could be celebrating all that you are. >> reporter: moore shares her daughters with ex-husband bruce willis who is suffering from dementia. recently, he thanked first responders who were onscene during l.a.'s wildfires. >> it's just so great to see the extended family, how you all support one another so much. >> thank you. you know, you really don't know where it's going, when it's going timeline. and so meeting them where they're at, it actually has so much sweetness and joy.

i feel so grateful that in our kind of extended modern family that we are all have the ability to show up for one another in all the ways that are the most important. >> reporter: her growing list of accolades aside, moore now relishes in a new kind of work, being a grandmother to 21-month-old louetta, who calls her ya-ya. >> this is kind of in a way the sweetest time for me. >> reporter: you spend a lot of time with her. >> i do. and that is pure joy, and a lot of work. there is a lot more ahead on "cbs news roundup." stay with us.

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for young heart patients has been approved by the u.s. food and drug administration. doctors say this will allow them to save more lives. stephanie stahl shows us how. >> reporter: it's a little device with a big job. >> it does all the work for your heart. >> reporter: it's called impella 5.5, the world's smallest heart pump that helps blood circulate. 21-year-old katrina penney was born with congenital heart defects and had her first heart transplant when she was baby. >> my childhood was completely normal. i played sports, went to school. i had friends. >> reporter: but two years ago the transplanted heart stopped working effectively. >> i was in complete heart failure. >> reporter: she needed a second transplant. and while on the waiting list, the impella kept her alive at children's hospital of philadelphia. >> i had my impella for five weeks. >> it's very useful in the fact that it can be implantable without opening the chest. >> reporter: dr. katsuhie maeda says the impella he put in katrina has now been approved for younger children.

>> we are so excited, yeah. this is really like a game-changer. >> reporter: going to save a lot more lives. >> of course. >> reporter: with the impella, katrina survived until her second heart transplant in june of 2023. >> that saved my life 100%. >> reporter: the graduate student knows how lucky she was to have two heart transplants, one with the help of a groundbreaking little device. stephanie stahl, cbs news. and that's today's "cbs news roundup." for some of you, the news continues. for others, tune in later for "cbs mornings." and follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york city, i'm carissa lawson. ♪

hello and thanks for staying up with us. i'm carissa lawson in new york. here are the top stories on "cbs news roundup." the trump administration scores a legal victory in its fight to drastically shrink the federal government. the president's envoy to ukraine meets volodymyr zelenskyy following harsh comments between zelenskyy and president trump. and as part of the ceasefire deal, hamas hands over the remains of four bodies, but israel says one was not a hostage. president trump is continuing his efforts to reshape the federal government as he begins the second month of his second term. and those efforts got a boost on thursday when a federal judge rejected a lawsuit by a group of labor unions ruling that the case should go before the federal labor relations authority instead. in the meantime, the mass firings can move forward. this comes as roughly 6% of the

workforce for the irs is scheduled to be laid off in the midst of the busy tax filing season. erica brown reports from washington. >> reporter: president trump addressed republican governors in washington on the heels of a legal victory that could clear the way for mass firings of federal employees. >> by the way, wait until we go into the education department. we haven't even done that. >> reporter: on thursday, u.s. district judge christopher cooper, an obama appointee, ruled unions representing the federal workers must bring their case before the federal labor relations authority rather than a federal district court. katie sandlin recently got a pink slip after uprooting her life in alabama for a job at the national institutes of health outside washington, d.c. >> i wiped out my savings account. i maxed out my credit card. i had to take out a loan. >> reporter: sandlin is one of thousands of federal probationary workers to be fired after being in her role for less than two years. >> now i'm unemployed. i have a ton of debt, and i'm

also losing my health insurance. >> reporter: president trump and department of government efficiently are targeting the next round of layoffs. more than 6,000 irs employees are expected to receive termination notices by friday. president trump's adviser elon musk, who is leading the charge touted the doge cuts on the first day of the conservative political action conference. >> that's going to translate directly to reductions in tax. >> reporter: some republican lawmakers, including senator lisa murkowski argue the cuts are coming too fast and too deep. >> i'm for finding efficiencies, eliminating the waste, fraud and abuse there, but there is a way that we go about it. >> reporter: earlier in the day, senator murkowski joined republican senator susan collins of maine and all 47 democrats in voting against kash patel to lead the fbi. patel, a trump loyalist narrowly won confirm nation in a r 51-49

vote. a war of words has erupted between president trump and the ukrainian president. it comes as the special envoy to ukraine, a decorated retired general traveled there. natalie brand has more. >> reporter: ukrainian president volodymyr zelenskyy posted video of his meeting with president trump's special envoy to ukraine. retired general keith kellogg visited kyiv in the midst of the white house' escalating feud with zelenskyy. >> i'd like to find out all the money that we've been sending to ukraine, where is it? >> reporter: president trump claimed ukraine talked the u.s. into sending $350 billion for the war with russia, but government data shows u.s. funding at about $183 billion. the vast majority appropriated by congress. on social media, trump also called zelenskyy a dictator without elections. in 2019, zelenskyy was elected by a landslide. now election there's are suspended because of the war russia started.

in kharkiv, ukrainians defended zelenskyy. this woman said "i support ukraine. i support our president. what trump is nonsense". >> reporter: following talks this week between secretary of state marco rubio and his russian counterpart, the trump administration is trying to push back on concerns from european allies that ukraine has been left out of the negotiations. >> i have the honor of sitting in the oval office as president trump spoke with president putin, and then immediately spoke with president zelenskyy. >> reporter: the trump administration is also pushing ukraine to sign off on a proposal to give the u.s. access to the country's rare earth minerals. >> president trump is obviously very frustrated right now with president zelenskyy, the fact that he hasn't come to the table. >> reporter: president zelenskyy posted after meeting with kellogg it was a good discussion. ukraine is ready for a strong,

effective agreement and a trusted commitment with trump. >> hamas handed over four bodies on thursday in the first release of the remains of hostages under the ceasefire deal. among them were two young children. the remains of their mother were supposed to be returned as well, but israel says hamas instead turned over, quote, an anonymous unidentified body. debora patta is in east jerusalem with more on the young family and the hopes among israelis that more hostages will come back alive. >> reporter: under a grim gaza sky, four coffins were paraded in a hamas propaganda spectacle. they handed over the bodies of ariel bibas and 9-month-old kfir. their mother shiri was not among them. the family has become an indelible symbol of the october 7 terror attack. and as the convoy made its way

into israel, mourners lined the streets to pay their respects. the fragile ceasefire in gaza is approaching the end of its first phase. on saturday, six more living hostages are expected to be freed. his son idan will not be among them. >> every release of course i'm crying, and i'm feeling. it's very, very emotional. i also cry because it's not idan. it's not my boy. >> reporter: originally from new jersey, idan is thought to be the last living american hostage. he volunteered for the israeli army after finishing school and is only due to be released in the second stage of the deal. negotiations for that have not yet begun. do you feel that the israeli government owes you something? >> of course. he came to protect israel. where is israel? they need to protect him. they need to bring him home.

>> reporter: her message for prime minister benjamin netanyahu, you cannot stop negotiating now. >> imagine it was you. imagine you were the father. your son is held in gaza tunnels alive and still waiting to be released. why to postpone it. do it. >> reporter: debora patta, cbs news. mitch mcconnell took to the senate floor on his 83rd birthday on thursday to announce he won't be running for reelection next year. mcconnell has been a senator from kentucky since 1985. he led senate republicans from 2007 to 2025, making him the longest serving senate party leader in american history. president trump fires 20 immigration judges amid a when i first had jayden, i'd get comments all the time about how happy i must be. i remember thinking, there must be something wrong with me. because i don't feel all this joy i'm supposed to be feeling.

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♪ this is "cbs news roundup." i'm carissa lawson in new york. the trump administration has paused all immigration applications filed by migrants from ukraine and latin america. the department of homeland security told immigration reporter camila montoya-galvez that our government needs to do further vetting. and with cases already backed up, the president has fired 20 immigration judges. jason allen takes a closer look at the impact. >> can we call you -- we can't

call you judge. >> i don't think so. not anymore. ex-judge, i guess. >> reporter: carrie doyle was expecting to become one of the country's next immigration judges, but she was fired the week before she was supposed to start hearing cases. there are millions of these cases. >> 3.7 million. >> reporter: which is a big reason why you thought maybe i won't disappear in all this. >> exactly. that was the thought. that was the hope. >> reporter: inside this unmarked building in a boston disturb, doyle would have heard cases for asylum, permanent residence and removal, up to 700 a year. >> so you just see people every day, all day with these life-and-death decisions over whether they can remain in the united states or not, and then neutrally applying the law. >> reporter: in boston and other cities, those cases stacked up as southern border crossings surged. while crossings have come down, the case numbers, doyle said, will keep adding up. there are about four million outstanding cases right now. >> don't forget that cases come

into the system not just from the border, but from the existing people that are in the united states. so as you ramp up removal, they're getting put in front of the immigration judge. so that caseload will balloon. >> reporter: we asked the department of justice why doyle and other judges were terminated. a spokesperson declined to comment on personnel matters. and yet you expected this in some sense? >> i did, just because, you know, we were sort of the last group coming in under the biden administration. >> reporter: doyle had been an outspoken critic of the immigration system when she was an immigration attorney. it landed her on a conservative back group's watch list of political appointees. >> i took an oath to uphold the constitution and to do my job. i'm not there to be an advocate. that's what i used to do when i was, you know, the client in the courtroom. now i'm the decision-maker. and you need to listen to both sides, and you need to weigh the case under the law and then act fairly to make decisions.

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parts of the south are still cleaning up after getting hammered by a storm that brought damaging winds and flash floods. clarksville, tennessee are among the towns that got hit the hardest. nicole valdes spoke with residents who are still figuring out how to move forward. >> reporter: it's the first time that luis davila has had to navigate troubled waters this deep just to get to his front door. >> it's ice. >> yeah. >> it's hard to do this, to live like this. >> reporter: how many acres of land do you have? >> 7 1/2. >> reporter: and how much of that 7 1/2 acres is flooded right now? >> seven. seven. only half is where my house is at. >> reporter: home for more than 20 years, most of davila's

clarksville neighborhood is still underwater after a record 8 inches of rainfall oer the weekend. just two doors down -- >> it got a little bit over a foot tall right here. >> reporter: everything in austin and jenna kerr's basement is getting thrown out after soaking in a foot of water. >> my wedding dress was down there. i mean, that has sentimental value. that's my wedding dress. >> reporter: the thought of what's next terrifies jenna, a soon to be first-time mom. are you worried about bringing your child home, knowing that this could happen again? >> yes. i'm very concerned. >> reporter: both the kerrs and davila say they do not have flood insurance. >> we talked with our lender, and we talked with our insurance company, and they told us well, we're not in a floodplain. >> reporter: could you even begin to guess how much it will or would cost you to try to fix this? >> you can hit in the tens of thousands of dollars to fix

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the inaugural season of unrivaled basketball is now under way in florida. the new women's league features wnba stars competing in fast-paced three-on-three hoops. so far every game has been sold out. they're being broadcast on tnt sports. skyler henry went courtside in miami to see just how the league's founders are hoping to reshape women's sports. ♪ >> the atmosphere has been unrivaled. >> reporter: 36 wnba players have taken their talents to south beach.

>> reese, she is dialed in! >> reporter: angel reese, sabrina and brittney griner are among the stars. it's a rival. >> it's really fun to play. i hope people have as much fun watching us as we're having playing it. >> reporter: all star forward napheesa collier. >> stewart, with the up and under lays it in. >> all right. >> reporter: along with wnba champion and new york liberty power forward breanna stewart cofounded the league. >> starting it, and now you look at all the top players we have here. and this thing is going to be top-notch. >> reporter: they're hoping the momentum from 2024's wnba season in both viewers and fan attendance continues to carry over. >> b.g. for three. >> b.g. doing big girl things from the three. >> reporter: the perfect time to strike or shoot. >> that was a big part of it. >> reporter: andrea brimmer, one

of the many sponsors for rival certainly thinks so. >> i think the thing that is going to make this league stand out is there has never been anything done like this before in sports. these are athletes that have come together to create their own monetization ecosystem. >> make buckets again! >> there are a lot of high profile names involved in this. >> yeah. >> reporter: what do you think that says just about the level of commitment to see something like this work? >> i think everybody wants into women sports right now. >> reporter: the league raised $35 million, including investments from those at the top of the sports world, tennessee star coco gauff, south carolina women's basketball coach dawn staley and olympic legend michael phelps are among the big names putting up cash for unrivaled. unrivaled allows players to supplement their income here in the u.s. during the off-season instead of going overseas. as someone who experienced it, what were some of the hardships

of having to go overseas? >> i think the hardest thing about it is you're just not accessible. you're in a different country. you're playing for a different club. >> reporter: the average player's salary in the inaugural season is more than $200,000. they're also splitting a 15% revenue pot. >> at unrivaled, we're able to have the largest average salary in women's sports in any league. >> women's sports is just exploding right now. and it kind of feels like everyone is benefitting off that except the women who are playing the sports. that's why it was so important for us to offer the salaries that we're offering and to offer everyone equity in the league as well. >> reporter: six teams with six players on each squad make up the three-on-three league. dijonai carrington says the league is helping her with skill development. >> one of the jokes before, because it's full court, it has the opportunity to either expose you or show off your skill. >> exactly. exactly, both of them. but it's a whole different game. i don't think that people

understand the spacing of five-on-five versus three-on-three. it's so different offensively and defensively. >> reporter: compared to the wnba, the rules are slightly different. there is an 18-second shot clock instead of 24. a slightly smaller court, and three seven-minute quarterses. the fourth quarter is the league calls a winning score. first team to reach the higher score plus 11 wins the game. unrivaled is taking advantge of women sports momentum, banking on the fans to keep following. >> the pressure to be here and make sure this thing is functioning and working the way that everyone envisions, yes. but this is the moment to do it. and now we have the belief behind it. >> reporter: i'm schooler henry in miami. there is a lot more ahead on "cbs news roundup." stay with us.

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