and response, the mayor's office is the director and issues and enforces rules, regulations, orders, including the deployment of additional personnel. while bass was out of the country, the acting mayor declared a local emergency around 5:00 p.m. nearly seven hours after the palisades fire first ignited. all offduty fire crews were called into action around 6:00 p.m., which is known as a rare full recall. councilwoman monica rodriguez is now calling for crowley to be reinstated. >> so if the chief didn't fail the public, then why is the mayor going after her? >> you know, that's something for the mayor to aswer. >> reporter: bass has also yet to clarify what she knew when. looking back, would you have taken that trip overseas? >> no. >> reporter: last month she told me she regretted leaving to ghana on a diplomatic trip, but last week downplayed the issue on local news. >> so it didn't reach that level to me to say something terrible could happen, and maybe you

shouldn't have gone on the trip. >> reporter: but according to noaa, fire weather watches were issued a day before bass left for ghana. the agency tells cbs news weather briefings were attended by members of the mayor's team from emergency management and fire. no members of the mayor's staff were at that briefing. cbs news confirmed these are pictures of mayor bass in ghana at a cocktail party taken hours after the fire started in the palisades. >> there are many, many valid questions concerning the lead-up to the fire, the actual fire, and the response to the fire. >> reporter: it sounds like this is just the beginning. >> i think we have a long, long, long road ahead, and i think that there is going to be a lot of accounting to do when we get those answers. >> reporter: i'm jonathan vigliotti in los angeles. the latest appointment at the fbi has some long-time agents considering retirement. dan bongino, a fiery podcast host who never worked at the fbi

and pushed his conspiracy theorys for years is now deputy director. scott macfarlane has the story. >> 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 left-wing progressive, aoc, bernie sanders type crazy person loses -- oh, taking over the world, listen. >> reporter: bongino confirmed today he is trading his army for g-men. >> i'm committed to service. >> reporter: neither bongino nor the new bureau director kash patel have ever served in the fbi, and both are maga loyalists who critics worry threaten an independent fbi. bongino's new position was announced just hours after an association of current fbi agents had 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 has chosen someone who is really a radical conspiracy theorist. >> reporter: greg nunziata was a aide to then florida senator marco rubio. >> you're going to see career professionals leaving. >> reporter: you think there will be resignations? >> oh, i do think. i think it will lead to that. it will be harder to recruit and attract the kind of people that the fbi requires. >> reporter: bongino steps into the post amid turmoil, under the january 6th cases now 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 donald trum with partisan intent and not the constitution in mind, you do not deserve your job. >> reporter: so he can touch any part of this agency he wants to. if there is going to be a big case, a politically charged case, he gets to approve it. reassigning staffers, promoting staffers, what they want to spend money on.

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especially president william mckinley. like trump, mckinley won the white house with the financial support of billionaires. in his case, though, jp morgan, john d. rockefeller and william randolph hearst. another common trait, a fondness for tariffs. but mckinley's led to a financial meltdown. mo rocca has more. >> we will restore the name of a great president, william mckinley to mount mckinley. >> reporter: one of president trump's first executive orders in his second term was reverting the name of alaska's highest peak, denali, to mount mckinley. how many steps? >> 108. >> reporter: but there is already a mount mckinley of sorts in canton, ohio, right between i-77 and the pro football hall of fame. a magnificent mausoleum to our 25th president, william mckinley, entombed here alongside his wife ida. >> what a tribute.

>> yeah. >> reporter: and just next door, you can learn more about mckinley's life. >> welcome to our home. it's been some time since edna and have i hosted visitors. >> reporter: he looks as close to what mckinley looked like in real life. >> reporter: kim kenny is the executive director of the mckinley presidential library and museum. if there is one thing that people know about president mckinley when they show up here, what is it? >> it's that he was one of the four presidents that was assassinated. >> reporter: that ignominious distinction has eclipsed a remarkable life story. by all accounts he was super nice guy, always kind, always polite, always very proper. >> reporter: university of akron history professor kevin kern says mckinley first rose to prominence as a civil war veteran. and an ohio republican congressman with a singular focus, tariffs.

>> that was his jam, man. he just really, really loved tariffs. people eventually called him the napoleon of protection. >> reporter: the 1890 mckinley tariff raised rates as high as 50%. but when the economy tanked, mckinley lost his seat in congress. undeterred, he was soon elected governor of ohio. and in 1896, president of the united states. ♪ ♪ what a welcome change there will be, we'll regain prosperity, mckinley and protection marches on ♪ >> reporter: his focus was still the economy, until, the battleship maine exploded off the spanish colony of cuba. it wasn't clear why it exploded. still, war fever swept the country. but mckinley urged caution. >> he had this belief that let's investigate things. he was actually accused of being, you know, weak-kneed and vacillating by a lot of people.

>> reporter: including his own assistant secretary of the navy, teddy roosevelt. >> teddy roosevelt very famously is reported to have said that mckinley has the backbone of a chocolate eclaire. >> reporter: that really disappointed me because i'm a t.r. fan. the charisma, those teeth. but it very much disappointed me. >> it's very much in his character, though. remember, teddy roosevelt is all about ruggedness, manhood, masculinity. and he believed that a really vibrant country ought to project power. >> reporter: mckinley came around. and in just four months, the spanish-american war was over, and the u.s. took control of cuba and acquired puerto rico, guam, and the philippines. that same year, the u.s. annexed hawaii. all together, it was the birth of an american empire. and yet -- >> he really rejected this idea of the united states as an

>> pangs expansionist power for the point of its own self-aggrandizement. he really believed that they were bringing american promise to these new territories. >> reporter: perhaps. but the ensuing occupation of the philippines cost as many as a quarter million civilian lives there. is this vietnam before vietnam? >> in some ways, yeah. so here is the first engagement of american forces on another country in guerrilla war. it was really ugly. >> reporter: even so, mckinley won reelection in a landslide. one of my favorite william mckinley fun facts, he is on the $500 bill. >> yes! yes, he is. >> reporter: he began negotiations for the panama canal and travelled to the 1901 panamerican exhibition in buffalo, new york, where he took a more nuanced position on his signature issue, tariffs.

>>ress pros reciprocal treaties are in harmony with the spirit of the time. >> reporter: but the very next day at a public reception, anarchist leon czolgosz shot the president. >> he is mortally wounded by this assassin and people around him are beating the tar out of alcohol him. what does mckinley say. he's been shot by this guy. what does he say? go easy on him, boys. to his assassin. go easy on him, boys. >> reporter: eight days later, president william mckinley died. he was 58. was this the equivalent of the kennedy assassination? >> oh, absolutely. if anything, even more. ♪ >> reporter: in 1907, the mckinley memorial was dedicated before a crowd of 50,000. its size a reflection of the

monumental loss felt by his countrymen. >> my grandmother was a school teacher in like the 19-teens. and they had a portrait of mckinley on the wall of her schoolhouse. this is almost 20 years later, draped in black crepe. that was the degree of admiration, respect that people had for him. >> that was mo rocca. "cbs news roundup" will be right back. eagles and their fan

waiting anxiously for the big event of the hatching of their babies. >> high atop a pine tree in the san bernardino national forest, about 100 miles outside los angeles. jackie and shadow, a bald eagle pair since 2018, tend to their nest and wait. sandy steers, who helps run the conservation group friends of big bear valley has been observing this nest for years. how popular is the watching of this nest? >> well, when they have eggs, and when they're there, it's very popular. . > reporter: the social media stars put on quite a show as two solar-powered live web cams capture their every move. the couple is expecting triplets. it's a rarity for bald eagles. steers says they compete over who gets to sit on the eggs. >> he just flew up with this giant fish. >> yes. >> and he said happy valentine's

day. move. >> it might have been move, happy valentine's day, now move. >> reporter: last year, a global audience watched as jackie, buried under a foot of snow, sat 62 hours straight on three eggs. none of those eggs hatched. but jackie is mom to five eagles who flew the nest. nationwide, the bald eagle is making a remarkable comeback. once on the brink of extinction, its population has soared, quadrupling to about 316,000 the past decade. jackie and shadow's eaglets are due to pip as early as march 1st. >> it pokes by hitting its head against the shell with that egg tooth to make a hole in it and crack it. >> reporter: do jackie and shadow eventually help get it out? >> supposedly they don't, but i've seen shadow help. >> reporter: for now, their fans can only watch and wait, hoping the majestic birds will have

some new additions to their nest. joy benedict, cbs news, big bear lake, california. well, good luck to the soon to be parents. 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 watching. i'm carissa lawson in new york. and this is "cbs news roundup."

here are the top stories. president trump doubles down on elon musk's order to federal employees demanding they list five things they accomplished last week. the vatican says pope francis remains in critical but stable condition as he battles complications from pneumonia. and germany's emerging hard right party is finding solid support in the form of communist regions to the east. but first, cbs news has learned the white house is preparing to announce even more widespread government layoffs. a memo is expected to go out as early as wednesday morning directing federal agencies to prepare for what the trump administration refers to as a seeping reduction in force. this comes after several days of confusion stemming from elon musk's department of government efficiency, demanding that federal employees account for their work. cbs' erica brown reports from the white house. >> reporter: president trump signed executive orders at the white house targeting possible tariffs on copper and reviewing

security clearances for employees of a law firm who worked with special counsel jack smith's team. >> who would like this pen? >> i'll take it. >> why don't you send to it jack smith. >> reporter: trump then doubled down on elon musk's directive to federal employees, asking them to list five things they accomplished last week. >> and if they don't write back, they end up eventually losing their job. >> reporter: the white house says more than one million workers have already complied, and extensions for those who have not yet responded will be allowed. some federal employees who were recently laid off took to capitol hill to protest the cuts to lawmakers. >> we're going head up to the first office and you're going to tell your story, and then we're going to go to the next office. and then we'll just keep going on. >> reporter: in the oval office, president trump also proposed a, quote, route to citizenship in the u.s., a gold card for wealthy individuals with a $5 million price tag. >> they'll be wealthy, and they'll be successful, and they'll be spending a lot of

money and paying a lot of taxes and employing a lot of people. we think it's going to be extremely successful. >> reporter: the administration says applicants will be vetted, and the program will launch in about two weeks. erica brown, cbs news, the white house. house republicans got a big win on capitol hill late tuesday evening. gop lawmakers musclesed the passage of their budget proposal after a push from president trump. the vote is a step toward delivering on mr. trump's promises of trillions of dollars in tax cuts and spending cuts. the draft now goes to the other side of the capitol where it will be worked into the senate's overall budget proposal. doctors for pope francis say his condition remains critical, but it has now stabilized after days of uncertainty. a vigil continued tuesday night in st. peter's square for themont tif, who struggles with double pneumonia. vatican officials say the pope is working from his hospital bed, where on tuesday he approved a crease for new

saints. >> reporter: the catholic faithful gathered in st. peter's square for a second straight night tuesday, undeterred by a damp february chill, all to pray for pope francis. at the hospital where the 88-year-old pontiff is receiving care, a steady stream of well-wishers. >> we love the pope very much. we are entrusting him in the hands of god and the blessed virgin mary. >> reporter: late tuesday, vatican officials announced francis remains in critical but stable condition. his blood tests are also stable. during the day, vatican sources say he was able to get out of bed and eat on his own. he has not had a repeat of the respiratory crisis he experienced over the weekend. the pontiff has now spent 12 days in the hospital battling a host of health issues, developing double pneumonia and mild kidney failure. we asked cbs news chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook about the pope's prognosis. can someone recover from this?

>> it depends by what you mean by recover. he has underlying lung problems that he will have for the rest of his life. with each episode, it's like a fighter who takes another punch and another punch and another punch. after a while, it's hard to keep getting up from the mat. >> reporter: the vatican has invited the faithful to come here to st. peter's square each night where cardinals are leading rosary prayers for the pope's health. >> i think it's a manifestation of the love we have for the holy father, the respect that we have for what he does for us, and the whole body of the church wherever they are can pray for his health and his ministry. >> reporter: and the vatican is trying to demonstrate that ministry is moving forward. monday, the pope was well enough to meet with the vatican secretary of state and his deputy to approve decrees for two new saints, and five people beginning the process of sainthood. and though no date was set, francis announced he wants to gather the cardinals to discuss

future saints. seth doane, cbs news, the vatican. we've been reporting all this week about the rise of the far right alternative for germany party, or afd. big gains by the party in national elections this past sunday are leaving some german voters nervous about returning to a dark past. cbs' holly williams reports from berlin. >> reporter: the afd campaigned on closer ties with russia and a mass deportation of immigrants. their supporters believe germany has let in too many too quickly. a series of violent attacks by asylum seekers has fueled their frustration. but at a protest auts the afd's election party, we spoke to germans who are outraged by what they say is racism, like jens, a software programmer. >> you know what happened in germany in the 30s. and it feels a bit like this is happening again.

>> reporter: we found a very different view in saxony, the afd heartland. it was part of communist east germany until 1990, and its economy still lags behind the country's west. aneta is a retired teacher who told us she supports mass deportations because too many migrants are young men who commit crimes. "trump says america first," she told us. "that's what i hope for germany too." >> reporter: you like trump? >> yes. >> reporter: many afd voters are middle class and disgruntled. but one of the party's regional leaders has used a nazi slogan at campaign events. german intelligence has put the party under surveillance for suspected extremism. and germany's mainstream parties have vowed not to form a coalition with the afd. despite that, in germany this month, vice president j.d. vance met with the party's leader, and

elon musk has gone further, publicly endorsing the afd. >> i think -- i think you are really the best hope for germany. >> reporter: the pressure is now on germany's mainstream parties to negotiate a coalition. if they cannot govern together successfully, that could further drive up support for the afd. holly williams, cbs news, berlin. it's the largest humanitarian crisis in the world. coming up, we'll show you how the cutoff in u.s. foreign aid is affecting sudan. stay with us. ♪♪ as the parent of a newborn, there are a lot of things you want to rsvp yes to. ♪♪ new parent meet-up? yes. ♪♪ your best friend's baby shower? yes. ♪♪ date night? yes. ♪♪ a healthy, happy baby? ♪♪

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two years of civil war has left more than 25 million sudanese starving. that's half the population. it's described as the largest humanitarian crisis the world has ever seen. and debora patta saw it firsthand. >> reporter: this is the city of omdurman, home to over two million sudanese, with a soup kitchen on almost every street corner. well-heeled professionals like mohammed hamat line up for food. he used to be an engineer but has had no work since the war began and the economy collapsed nearly two years ago. "we rely on god and aid" he told us. and for now, it's been left to god, funded largely by the u.s., nearly 80% of soup kitchens have already shut down following president trump's aid suspension. the kitchens also served the few hospitals still standing like al

nal, which has no funds to provide any meals. what you see here is the only food these patients will eat each day, most of it paid for by america. the hospital is overwhelmed and underresourced. we saw patients being treated on the ground. >> we don't have enough beds. >> reporter: medical staff under the leadership of dr. jamal mohammed are struggling to save the lives of the starving and war wounded. >> you can see how crowded it is. >> reporter: it's very, very full. >> reporter: prior to president trump's aid freeze, they were already running out of painkiller, bandages, and life-saving equipment. >> i don't know what's behind that decision of president trump, but i think it is going to increase and deepen the suffering of our people.

>> reporter: here he was consoling a 10-year-old after he was hit by shrapnel. the little boy was terrified he would lose his leg and a long-held dream. you want to be a soccer player? but he was in good hands. dr. mohammed was a leading orthopedic surgeon before the war. new he runs this hospital without any pay. akra was prepped for surgery with him later that day. muhammad operated for over four hours and successfully removed this piece of shrapnel that had shattered the boy's leg. akra will now have a chance to play soccer again. ordinary sudanese are trying their level best on their own. everyone you saw in that hospital works for free. but other countries are

contributing as well. it's simply not enough. you can't withdraw funds overnight. it's left a huge void that just can't be filled. the u.n. estimates it needs around $6 billion to prevent people from starving to death. >> that was debora patta in sudan. patients who have sensitive teeth but also want whiter teeth they have to make a choice one versus the other. sensodyne clinical white provides two shades whiter teeth as well as providing 24/7 sensitivity protection. patients are going to love to see sensodyne on the shelf.

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picked him up and started crying and kissing him, because i remember screaming, i just want to get home to my son. >> the fire trucks, they have got smoke in the cabin. >> reporter: the pilots made an emergency landing in atlanta just 11 minutes after taking off. the passengers evacuating on exit slides. >> the fact is any one particular event like this is one too many. >> reporter: former ntsb chair robert zumwalt. should the oxygen masks have been deployed to the cabin? >> absolutely not. that's a fallacy right there. the traveling public does not need those oxygen maskses because those masks are not designed for a smoke event. >> reporter: on saturday, a delta flight bound for sydney, australia returned to los angeles after the airlines says smoke was detected in the galley. delta says nothing is more important than the safety of our customers and people. i'm kris van cleave in phoenix. helizabeth holmes, the

disgraced founder of a blood testing biotech company remains in prison. the latest peel overturned. adriana diaz has the very latest. >> reporter: a legal setback for theranos founder elizabeth holmes, who was once known as a biotech visionary. she was poised to revolutionize blood testing with just a quick prick of the finger. >> we've created these little tiny tubes which we call the nanotainers. >> reporter: on monday, a california federal appeals court denied holmes' plea to have her 2022 fraud conviction overturned. a panel of judges rejected holmes' arguments, including that there was improper testimony from theranos employees during her trial to defraud investors. >> when you lose an appeal, that significantly narrows your routes forward. and really, i think this is the end of this case. >> reporter: holmes and her former business partner and

boyfriend ramesh sunny balwani were both convicted and ordered to pay more than $450 million in restitution. >> can you tell us a secret? >> i don't have many secrets. >> reporter: the scandal was chronicled in an hbo documentary. >> was an inspiring step forward. >> reporter: and dramatized in a hulu miniseries. now 41 years old, holmes spoke to "people" magazine earlier this month for the first time since she entered a minimum security prison outside houston. she told the magazine sees her two young children and partner twice a week when they visit, and that watching them leave, quote, shatters my world every single time. holmes maintains her innocence, but also acknowledges there are things she would have done differently. >> certainly she would want to rehabilitate her reputation. >> reporter: we reached out to holmes' attorney about the repeal decision but have not heard back yet. she is set to be released in

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years in the city of cumberland. >> that was my grandfather right in front of the old store. and that's my dad, gus. >> reporter: while dave capparelli 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's like a real busy town. and then they started downsizing. one would leave and another would leave. we really got hit by it by-time. >> reporter: can i talk to you just a second? >> reporter: cbs news was here in 1978 when the tire factory began play laying off employees. >> are you going to be affected? >> no, i don't think so. >> reporter: unfortunately, they were wrong. soon the entire plant shuttered.

as companies left town, people did as well. in 1940, the population was nearly 40,000. today it's been halved to less than 20. but the city is now hoping to turn a page. last year, mayor ray morris announced an attention-grabbing offer. up to 20,000 bucks each for ten people willing to move here. >> we were looking for people that were bringing their jobs with them. we were looking for remote workers. >> reporter: $20,000 is a lot of money to offer up. >> that's an amount that could make people's eyes open a little bit. >> reporter: cumberland is one of more than 70 places that have paid people to uproot and move in over the past five years. is it radical to pay people to move to a city? >> if you're a government and you want to bring people to your area, well, before remote work you had to recruit businesses that were expanding. it could be difficult. >> reporter: university of maryland professor evan starr studies payment programs like these. >> now with remote work, what

you can do is try to attract workers directly. >> reporter: he points to a successful pioneer, tulsa remote, which has enticed more than 3,000 participants with grants of $10,000 each. the investment has paid off, raising an additional $11 million in new tax revenue. >> that was probably in the early fi50s. it was a different time. >> reporter: seems like it was pretty bustling then. >> it was, yeah. hope to get back to that. hope to. >> reporter: but if hope alone won't get it done, the thinking here, throw in s

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