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i'm maurice dubois. >> john: i'm john dickerson. elon musk ordered federal employees who have been working from home to report to the office this week... >> maurice: and ordered them to explain why they should have a job next week... >> john: by giving him examples of what they accomplished last week. he demanded five examples by midnight tonight. >> maurice: president trump whose accomplishments last week included firing federal employees, voiced support for musk today. he claimed a lot of workers are not responding to musk because as the president put it, they don't exist. >> john: but neither does any evidence of that claim. many workers are not responding because their bosses told them they don't need to. employees who work for the state, defense, justice, and homeland security departments... >> maurice: education commerce, and transportation told employees to respond. there is a split in the administration. ed o'keefe is at the white house to try to sort it all out for us. >> reporter: hey, guys. the trump administration telling agencies they can ignore what musk said entirely, adding even
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more confusion in the closing hours before a threatened deadline. to reply or not to reply that was the question roiling the nation's 2 million plus federal employees. >> the morale is, of course abysmal right now. we are being told we're not worth the money that's spent on us. >> reporter: workers, including alex berman with the internal revenue service were dumbfounded by elon musk who, on saturday told the rank and file they would have to share what they got done last week. failure to respond, he said will be taken as a resignation. it's something musk also asked twitter employees to do when he started layoffs there. a formal email from the office of personnel management asked federal employees for replies by 11:59 p.m. tonight with approximately five bullets of what you accomplished last week. >> this is just another step in the demonization and harassment of employees who have only worked to serve the american
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people. the other thing is, who's going to read 2.4 million questionnaires? >> reporter: adding to the confusion was that decision by several of the largest federal departments to instruct workers not to comply. president trump backed up musk's original demands today. >> i thought it was great. because we have people that don't show up to work and nobody even knows if they work for the government. >> reporter: alex berman worries this kind of request will further erode the quality of the nation's public servants. >> they are hounding good peole and good workers out of the civil service. this will be taken as another anecdotal piece of evidence saying that we're not the good workers we know we are. >> john: ed o'keefe joins us from the white house. so ed, when the music stops, what is the final white house guidance on this? >> reporter: this afternoon it turns out, they told the heads of human resources of these departments, don't worry about what musk sent around.
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you decide what goes on personnel wise at your departments. it was a pretty public split. fbi director kash patel, defense secretary pete hegseth, two of the president's most loyal advocates, out there for him saying ignore elon musk. you had the commerce secretary howard lutnick, treasury secretary saying listen to musk. the white house press secretary telling us "everyone is working together as one unified team at the direction of president trump. any notion of the contrary is completely false." >> maurice: there is real fear out there, is that the whole idea? >> reporter: it was the whole idea. the person serving as white house budget director told propublica last summer that he wanted to make sure federal employees were "traumatically affected by the changes they would be making cross the workforce." whether they had reached the trauma stage or not is unclear but it's certain federal employees upset and mighty confused by what's going on. >> john: not a bug, a feature. thanks, ed.
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>> maurice: from the firing to the hiring, the president has chosen another supporter in the media for a key position. dan bongino will be deputy director of the fbi. no senate confirmation necessary. >> john: neither apparently is fbi experience. bongino, a former secret service agent and new york city police officer never worked for the bureau. scott macfarlane has more about him. >> reporter: dan bongino touts his army of followers, millions of talk radio and podcast listeners who share his devotion to president trump, his conspiracy theories about the 2020 election, and his pledge to own the libs. >> every kooky, lunatic anti-trump, swampy media progressive left-wing aoc-bernie sanders type person loses it. "taking over the world." >> reporter: bongino confirmed he is trading his army for g-men. >> i'm committed to service.
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>> reporter: neither bongino nor the new bureau director kash patel has ever served in the fbi and both are maga loyalists who critics worry threaten an independent fbi. bongino's new position was announced hours after an association of current agents asked patel to ensure an active special agent would get the post. as has been the case for 117 years. >> you want someone who can build faith. instead, he's chosen someone who is really a radical a conspiracy theorist. >> reporter: gregg nunziata is a former aide to then florida republican senator marco rubio. >> you are going to see career professionals leaving. >> do you think there will be resignations? >> i do think it will lead to that. it will be harder to recruit and attract the kind of people the fbi requires. >> reporter: bongino steps in to the bureau amid turmoil with agents who worked january 6th case is under scrutiny themselves. >> if you swore to uphold the constitution of the united states as an fbi agent and engaged in a tyrannical investigation against
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donald trump with partisan intent and not the constitution in mind, you do not deserve your job. >> maurice: scott macfarlane joins us now from d.c. scott, what is bongino actually in charge of? what is the job description? >> reporter: he can touch any part of the agency he wants to. if there's going to be a big case, a politically charged case he gets to approve it. reassigning staffers, promoting staffers, what do they want to spend money on? this is the blocking and tackling. he could have his fingerprints all over the bureau. >> john: what do we know in the early days, scott, about what this new bureau, what direction it's taking? >> reporter: in the first few hours, john, a pretty big change. fbi has ordered more than 1,000 agents and employees who work here in washington, d.c., to be reassigned to field offices outposts all across the country. kash patel has argued he wants more agents in the community. but maurice and john, this could destabilize things, because more
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resignations, retirements, and thin the herd of agents supposed to protect america from terrorists. >> maurice: okay scott macfarlane in washington. thanks so much. >> john: now some of the top stories from around the world in tonight's "evening news" roundup. it is one of the most famous images in u.s. history. secret service agent clint hill leaping onto president kennedy's limousine in 1963. 12 years later, hill broke his silence about the assassination in a "60 minutes" interview. >> if i had reacted just a little bit quicker i could have, i guess. i'll live with that to my grave. >> john: clint hill died friday. he was 93. >> maurice: a delta flight to columbia, south carolina, was forced to return to atlanta when smoke filled the cabin of the boeing 717. emergency slides deployed. no injuries among the 99 people on board. >> john: and in st. peter's square, cardinals recited the first of what will be a nightly rosary for
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pope francis. he's fighting double pneumonia and mild kidney failure. the vatican says he's critical but stable. >> maurice: now to the measles outbreak going on in texas. >> john: the state health department reports at least 90 cases so far this year and omar villafranca is in gaines county, texas. and omar, tell us how the measles got out of gaines county, texas. >> reporter: well, the small religious community where it started does interact with the general public, and now this is the biggest measles outbreak in the state in more than 30 years. the hospital behind me has set up a testing site to try to get control of this virus. this outbreak started in an unvaccinated mennonite community here in gaines county. the majority of the cases were children. even though this community is hard to get to, it's not hard for the virus to get out. public health officials say a gaines county woman who later
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tested positive traveled more than 400 miles to san marcos and san antonio, visiting two universities and tourist hot spots while infected. now officials are warning people in those locations that they may have been exposed. measles is so contagious that if you're infected, up to 90% of the people who you come in contact with, if they are unvaccinated or don't have immunity, they will get sick. >> maurice: omar, talk to us about this being such a remote location but the concern this could get out and spread so quickly. >> reporter: yes. that is why they're trying to test right now but they are also working a state system to try to make those counties across the state aware that somebody with this sickness went to their area and be alert and look for cases. >> maurice: omar villafranca tonight in texas. thank you. >> john: still ahead on the "cbs evening news," lonnie quinn with a winter warmup. >> maurice: and we will have these stories. >> reporter: i'm nancy chen. as factories close down, some communities are struggling to survive. now one small city is paying workers $20,000 to move there. that's tonight's "eye on america." >> reporter: i'm imtiaz tyab in kyiv, ukraine. it was three years ago russia launched its full-scale
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-when you bundle with us. -can't watch this. ♪ ♪ >> john: the war between russia and ukraine entered a fourth year today. meeting at the white house with french president macron president trump said russia would be willing to accept european peacekeepers in ukraine as part of any deal to end the war. >> maurice: at the united nations the united states joined russia in voting against a resolution demanding the immediate withdrawal of russian troops from ukraine. the vote reflected the change in u.s. policy, and imtiaz tyab is in kyiv tonight. >> reporter: in the kyiv suburb of borodyanka, a long row of prefabricated shelters for those displaced by war. it's in one of these rooms where lilia dyshlyovska has lived for nearly three years. her home was destroyed in a russian bombing, which led her husband volodymyr to volunteer to fight with the ukrainian army. every day since, she has been consumed by a conflict which has destroyed so much of her country and her life. we went to meet lilia in the
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tiny room she now calls home. lilia, hello. where she showed us the art projects she works on to distract herself from what she calls negative thoughts. it's been three years since russia invaded ukraine. how are you feeling? "pain, just pain, that turns you inside out," she says. "i never thought the time would come when my husband would have to fight, but it's even more painful that it's russians." you have already lost so much in this war. you've lost your home, your husband is on the frontline. you've lost your business too. how do you make sense of all of this? "there is no point to any of this," she says. "there is no point." three years ago today borodyanka was the scene of one of russia's worst massacres when it launched its full-scale invasions.
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hundreds were killed in the russian bombings and occupation here. we have visited borodyanka a lot since russian forces withdrew. most of the destroyed soviet-era housing blocks on its main street have since been abandoned. it's on this same road lilia used to live in an apartment with her family. their home was so damaged in the russian attacks, it's unlikely they will ever be able to return. "i just want to go home, to see my husband, to have my children come visit me," she says. "i want to tell the whole world that this should not be allowed to happen." >> john: imtiaz tyab joins us now from kyiv. imtiaz, given what lilia feels what's her feeling about these peace negotiations and ending the war? >> reporter: well, lilia like so many ukrainians are asking themselves tonight just what is an acceptable loss after already having lost so much. remember, this is a country that's seen entire cities
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destroyed. tens of thousands of ukrainians killed. and now here we are three years into this grinding war, and the very real possibility they may be pressured into giving up territory to vladimir putin. >> maurice: president trump wants to make a deal for ukraine's minerals. what would that look like? >> reporter: we are hearing the deal may close and to quote% president trump, it may help the u.s. recoup what he describes as tens of billions of dollars in money and weapons but for president zelenskyy, he wants security guarantees and a lot of them. >> john: imtiaz tyab in kyiv ukraine. thank you. >> maurice: here's some good news. 24 days until spring. >> john: lonnie quinn tells us some parts the country getting a sweet preview. >> folks are wondering, is this the beginning of spring? will it just continue? that's not going to be the case but you're right, you're dealing with the taste of spring. take a look at the numbers we see for portions of the area. high temperatures. los angeles, 78 degrees.
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fargo, 45. think about this. fargo, a warm day for you this time of year would be around the freezing mark. 45. and it gets warmer for many places around the area. l.a. is up to 84 by the time we get to wednesday. fargo still stays above the 40-degree mark. about 41 on wednesday. so a pseudo-heat wave even for the northern plains. speaking of the northern plains the northern tier and central tier, that snowpack that's on the ground right now, watch it get eaten up by these warm temperatures. that sounds great for a lot of folks out there but remember snow melts and it becomes water. we have flood alerts in place for portions of idaho because that snow was going to melt too quickly and it will cause a challenge for folks in that area. for those of you who like warmer temperatures you get them for a few more days. it's not going to stay in place indefinitely. >> maurice: a head fake. >> more winter to come. >> john: lonnie quinn with some brief good news. >> maurice: a city losing population offered a financial incentive to move there.
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>> john: what does a struggling store do when it wants to attract new customers? often, it puts on a sale. what does a struggling city do when it wants to attract new residents? if it's the city of cumberland maryland, it offers a bonus with a string attached. nancy chen has tonight's "eye on america." >> reporter: at the edge of appalachia in the allegheny mountains, the regulars almost always leave caporale's bakery with their hands full. just like they've done for the last 118 years. in the city of cumberland. >> that was my grandfather
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right from the old store and that's my dad, gus. >> reporter: dave caporale is the fourth generation to man the counter, his dad gus still pitches in in the back. but over time, the city around their bakery has changed. once maryland's second-largest community, cumberland was known as the queen city. its crown lost its luster though, as the area's three biggest factories all closed within five years. what was it like seeing the city change? >> it was a real busy town and then they start downsizing. one leaves and the other one leaves and we got hit by it big time. >> reporter: can i talk to a second? >> reporter: cbs news was here in 1978 when the tire factory began laying off employees. are you going to be affected by the layoffs? >> i don't think so. >> it's only going to be a small group. >> reporter: unfortunately they were wrong. soon the entire plant shuttered. as companies left town people did as well. in 1940, the population
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all. >> there are no words to express the trauma that goes along with a loss like this. >> how the victims are being remembered, and evidence that may have helped police make an arrest. ethnic studies will be a requirement in schools, but some lawmakers are trying to close the book on some topics. >> the conflict is a nuanced and fraught conversation. >> it is preposterous. and it won't be school closures, but sf ust is bracing for painful cuts that could be announced as soon as tomorrow. this is cbs news bay area with juliette goodrich. >> good evening. tonight, memorials at two different high schools in santa rosa, mourning
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