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>> john: good evening, i'm john dickerson. >> maurice: i'm maurice dubois. the cuts keep coming. now president trump is eliminating more than 6,700 jobs at the internal revenue service -- the agency that collects 96% of the money that funds the federal government. >> john: he's doing this at the height of tax season when americans are checking their mailboxes for the w-2s and 1099s they need to fill out their 1040s. >> maurice: here's another number for you, 800-829-1040. that is a number many taxpayers will be calling to reach the irs for help and hoping they reach an experienced agent to answer their questions. >> john: chief white house correspondent nancy cordes looks tonight at the impact of the irs cuts on workers and americans who depend on them. >> reporter: the cuts this week amounted to about 6 to 8% of the workforce and the sources tell us they don't believe these cuts are over yet. that's a sharp reversal for an agency that spent the past two

years aggressively trying to boost staffing, to become more responsive to taxpayers. >> i always knew i wanted to work for the irs, this was my dream job. >> reporter: today was day 1 of elizabeth's job search. the 22-year-old from new orleans was let go yesterday after six months at the irs where she worked as an auditor on high income tax returns. >> we were already needing more employees to handle the cases that we already have. >> reporter: cbs news obtained an email that was sent to irs workers this week, it says those being fired and were newer probationary employees who were not deemed as critical to filing season. >> reporter: what do we know >> reporter: what do we know about the people who are being let go? >> i'm hearing it's across all functions. it includes people who provide taxpayer services and answer the

phones. >> reporter: she's a tax policy expert and served as assistant treasury secretary under president biden. >> i don't see how when you fire thousands of employees in the middle of filing season that is not going to put the filing season at risk. >> reporter: and administration officials say in any operation that is in debt you look to cut costs and lay off workers, why isn't that a valid approach in this case? >> the irs brings in revenue. for every dollar that you invest in the irs, it reduces budget deficits by $6. >> reporter: kevin hassett is one of president trump's top economic advisors told reporters at the white house all the federal job cuts will make agencies more efficient. >> nobody's going to the buildings, people are commuting nobody is due at their jobs. >> reporter: you're saying everybody being let go was doing a bad job? >> i'm saying we are studying every agency and deciding who to let go and why. we are doing so very rationally with a lot of support from analysis. >> reporter: i asked him about the many fired workers who say

they have no record of poor performance. >> i've never seen a person who was laid off for poor performance say they were performing poorly. >> those statements are an insult to me, absolutely. i'm getting choked up thinking about that. that is offensive to me. >> maurice: here we are in tax season, what kind of impact do we expect the cuts to have on taxpayers? >> reporter: in the short term we will see fewer audits of wealthy individuals and small businesses. those audits bring in a lot of revenue. you could also start to see wait times to get someone on the phone begin to inch back up. they had come down pretty precipitously since 2022 when congress passed $80 billion in additional funds to help the irs modernize and hire more workers. those are the new workers who are now being shown the door. >> maurice: nancy cordes at the white house tonight thank you.

>> john: the president is also targeting the consumer financial protection bureau. earlier this month he fired the director, rohit chopra. >> maurice: the cfpb is nearly 14 years old and was the brainchild of his nemesis elizabeth warren, and the democratic senator from massachusetts is leading the fight to save it. >> john: lesley stahl will have more about the agency and the president's attempts to dismantle it this sunday on "60 minutes" and she is with us now. help people understand what are the stakes here? >> this agency looks over consumers who had been defrauded. they can sue a big bank or a payday lender and get the money returned to the consumer. damages. it's one of the only agencies the only agency where a little guy can go and have their problems with big banks settled and taken care of. >> maurice: along those same lines, elon musk the richest man in the world, might he stand to

possibly benefit from some action like this? >> reporter: if the young men who have been working with him go into this agency and combed through their computers, he could find data on his rivals. one of the things they oversee -- they are a watchdog agency a regulator -- is high tech companies that do payment apps have a payment app -- he's starting one. it's called x money and he could see what his rivals are up to. that would be a conflict of interest. but it could help him greatly if he chose to do that. >> maurice: all potentially. >> reporter: potentially. >> john: where does this go now from here? >> reporter: everything is frozen right now, nobody's going to get any refund. there aren't any cases being prosecuted right now. every thing has stopped in place. >> john: lesley stahl on the consumer financial protection

bureau. >> maurice: a reminder you can see her report this sunday on "60 minutes." now some of the top stories from around the world in tonight's evening news roundup. >> john: a man charged with murdering unitedhealthcare ceo brian thompson appeared at a new york court hearing today for the first time since his arraignment in december. luigi mangione was shackled and wore a bulletproof vest. supporters cheered as he entered the ourt. >> maurice: los angeles mayor karen bass removed kristin crowley as fire chief today though she is staying with the department. bass claims crowley did not give her adequate warning ahead of the january wildfires. the mayor said she would not hav left the country had she known the extent of the fire risk. >> john: stocks took a dive today following a report that consumer confidence has dipped. losses on the s&p 500 wiped out the last of the two and half percent gain since trump took office. hamas plans to release six more

israeli hostages tomorrow. they put out a list of their names today. israel will in turn release 600 palestinian prisoners. >> maurice: the latest swap as part of the cease-fire deal which is still holding despite israel's anger over a return of remains this week. debora patta is in east jerusalem. >> reporter: first israelis were subjected to the macabre spectacle of militants handing over coffins they claimed contained the remains of the bibas family. then the gut-wrenching twist. israel positively identified 4-year-old ariel bibas and his nine-month-old brother kfir. but the third body was not their mother shiri. hamas has always claimed the bibas family was killed in an israeli air strike. israel now says the brothers were brutally murdered. neither side has provided any proof of their claims. but it has unleashed fury from

prime minister benjamin netanyahu. >> i vow that i will not rest until the savages that executed our hostages are brought to justice. >> reporter: it prolonged the grief of an anguished nation. five weeks of hope has been replaced by fear that the fragile gaza cease-fire could collapse. the bibas boys' aunt ofri levy made an urgent plea on social media -- we're not seeking revenge, she said. we just want shiri back and to save the lives of all the living hostages. the cry for the cease-fire to hold is echoed across the ruins of gaza. wahiba muheisen lost her husband and three sons during more than 15 months of war. she lives in a tent near what used to be her home. we had enough of war, she told us. i've lost so much. like so many here, she yearns

only for a lasting peace. in a new development, hamas says it has handed over another body tonight to the red cross and this time it is shiri bibas. israel will still have to confirm the identity of those remains. >> john: it sounds like the divisions within israel, already deep, are getting deeper. >> reporter: the events surrounding the bibas family have once again exposed the searing divisions that have existed in this country. many friends and family of the hostages have been very critical of prime minister netanyahu. blaming him for the failure to bring hostages back home from the very beginning of the war in gaza. we saw that again today, the aunt of the two bibas toddlers

had harsh words for benjamin netanyahu saying it's israel's responsibility to bring the children back to life and they will never be forgiven for abandoning them in captivity. >> maurice: what happens next? the cease-fire set to expire in a matter of days now. >> reporter: it was a six-week truce that was negotiated in gaza. after that a second cease-fire is supposed to kick in but talks to ensure that have not officially begun. in addition to releasing more hostages, round 2 is also supposed to look at plans for the withdrawa of the israeli troops from gaza and what everyone is worried about in this region is the deal to extend the cease-fire is not reached, then the remaining hostages living or dead will not be released. palestinians in gaza who have already endured 15 months of war will once again face israeli bombardment. >> maurice: debora patta in

east jerusalem tonight, thanks so much. >> john: still ahead on cbs evening news a weekend warm-up for parts of the country. >> maurice: and we'll have these stories. >> reporter: i'm david schechter, a new report says glaciers are melting faster than we thought. i went to the world's fastest warming place in the world to see for myself and we'll take you there. >> reporter: most people consult with their spouse before making making major decisions. like bringing home a puppy or a 7-foot basketball player. like he did. >> you have a conversation about it. >> there is a reason why this happened. >> reporter: how ama became part of the family. when we go on the road to pittsburgh, coming up on cbs evening news. cbs evening news. rked. i received so much support for that, and it made me feel like, okay, maybe i can really, really, really do this. (♪♪) my business has tripled in the last year

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norway -- the smaller of the planes get. but that's not the end of the journey. to study glaciers of the top of the world. >> it's dramatic to see changes from year to year. >> reporter: scientist jack kohler can only get there by boat or chopper. he's been studying melting glaciers for nearly 30 years with the norwegian polar institute. >> this goes endlessly this way and we are on the river of ice we are on the glacier. >> reporter: we visited him in september 2023 at the end of norway's summer 600 miles from the north pole. six months before, he had driven a series of stakes in the ice and he came back to measure how much were exposed. >> in april, the ice surface was here. that much ice has melted. >> reporter: this was bored into the ice? >> and now it's all exposed. the calculations he's making are really basic. water out, and no new ice in. it means these glaciers are

disappearing and that's what he's measuring. it's happening fast up here really fast. he says melting broke a 58 years of records at the rate of melting three and a half times the long-term average. the findings are consistent with the latest research from around the world. what is the connection between your work and climate change? >> we are documenting the effect of climate change locally here of course. but i have colleagues all over the globe who are doing similar things and they're all seeing the same thing. >> reporter: the impact of melting glaciers is sea level rise which affects nearly every coastal community in america. >> if you live in florida you see the effect of sea level rise already. there are plenty of pictures of very high tides that are not caused by any storms or anything. it's just a daily occurrence.

this is because sea level is inexorably rising and glaciers are contributing very significantly to that. >> john: david schechter joins us now from dallas. even before you went to svalbard you been covering this for years. when the study came out, were you surprised? >> reporter: i wasn't surprised, this is part of a large body of research from scientists who continue to work on this issue from around the world. i could see with my own eyes in svalbard i've seen it on glaciers in alaska. you could see it the rising sea levels on manhattan where they are building a multibillion dollar seawall. you could see it in san diego where there's a train line that's being impacted by waters that start to erode the cliffs. this is a problem in this new research is a continuation of this. >> maurice: it seems like an intense experience to be there in norway. were you affected by what you

saw? >> reporter: i really was. i didn't know what i was walking into necessarily. he said let's do something called a mass balance. i wasn't sure what that was. to be there is standing 6 feet tall and have that steak be several feet over my head, i was as you saw quite shocked to understand -- that's what happens in the course of one season. >> john: david schechter in dallas. >> maurice: parts of the country that are in a deep freeze hoping for a break this weekend. >> john: filling in for lonnie is albert ramon. >> reporter: a big warm up across the country as we go through the next few days we will feel impacts warming sunday into monday. temperatures will be on the rebound as we head towards sunday. talk about temperatures back in the 60s in the deep south. temperatures will be in the 40s in chicago. as we head towards monday, we are also keeping an eye on atmosphere river, we are looking him at moisture increasing in seattle, medford and also portland, oregon.

that combined with melted snow means a flood threat as we rolled to the next 24 hours in places like western areas of montana. the warm air is not here to stay. a week from tomorrow the first stretch of march below average temperatures are in the forecast. >> maurice: bundle up in the windy city. thanks so much. >> john: a basketball player gets a much-needed assist. >> maurice: steve hartman on the road is next. >> maurice: steve hartman on the road is next. with austedo ♪ austedo xr significantly reduced dan's td movements. some people saw a response as early as 2 weeks. with austedo xr, dan can stay on his mental health meds— (dan) cool hair! (vo) austedo xr can cause depression, suicidal thoughts, or actions in patients with huntington's disease. pay close attention to and call your doctor if you become depressed, have sudden changes in mood,

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and good evening, i'm juliette goodrich. it's black eye in oakland's budget crisis. a whistle blower helps uncover a more than $1 million mistake. >> it is kind of sad. because the fact that you know, this city has been going through so

much. it has been taking hit after hit. >> where the money went and what the interim mayor says they are going to do about. >> sonoma state students and teachers saying proposed cuts are unacceptable. how they tried to get the attention of state lawmaker at a big budget meeting today. and emotions high in santa rosa. and how a su could help with the crisis. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. >> we begin in oakland where an anonymous whistle blower has helped to expose an expensive error by a city