>> john: welcome to "cbs evening new plus." i'm john dickerson. america is undergoing a soft power outage.

90% of u.s. foreign aid contracts were ended overnight and with it the 60-year-old idea that america can shape the world through doing good so that it doesn't have to fight wars which are bad. cbs's nancy cordes is at the white house. the latest global cyber threat report is out, and chinese hackers topped the list. attacks by the chinese on infrastructure and financial services are up as much as 300% since last year. we'll discuss crowdstrike's key findings. and our in-depth report: a rare heart illness that can form in the last month of pregnancy. those stories and more right after our news headlines. ♪ ♪ fatal misjudgment. the israeli military officially concludes it failed to recognize the hamas threat prior to october 7th. in the 19-page summary released today, the idf concludes it underestimated the terrorist group's capabilities and was wholly unprepared for the surprise attack.

bigger than texas. measles cases are confirmed in kentucky and new jersey. the three cases in new jersey are in unvaccinated patients. officials say there is no evidence those cases are connected to the texas outbreak which has resulted in the first u.s. death in nearly ten years. hollywood everyman actor gene hackman has died. spanning four decades, the two-time oscar-winner brought villains and heroes to life on the silver screen. the 95-year-old was found in his new mexico home along with the remains of his wife and pet dog. ♪ ♪ we begin this evening with another shift in u.s. foreign policy. for 60 years, the united states has believed that foreign aid in the form of international grants

to provide food, medical care, and other humanitarian aid would stabilize the chaotic world. today the trump administration dismissed nearly 60 billion in foreign aid grants and contracts. that point was magnified by the scene at the old u.s. agency for international development building where workers had just minutes to clear out their desks after president trump placed them on leave earlier this week. cbs's nancy cordes joins us from the white house. nancy, several grants have been cut from usaid. what can you tell us about those grants? >> reporter: well, in total, john, we're looking at $58 billion worth of cuts which translates, believe it or not, to 92% of all of the contracts that usaid gives out to organizations that do humanitarian work and development work around the world. this is one of the final steps in essentially dismantling the agency. a state department spokesperson said that they examined more

than 15,000 grants and awards and decided at the end of the day that most of them just did not fit the president's america first agenda. >> john: also on the america first agenda or at least being introduced to it in person was the u.k. prime minister keir starmer, who was at the white house. how did that go? >> reporter: well, starmer was very complimentary, always a good approach for foreign leaders. they talked a lot about winding down the war in ukraine. they talked a lot about this minerals deal that the president is close to signing with the ukrainian president. and they also talked a lot john, about the tariffs, the reciprocal tariffs that president trump has vowed to impose on countries around the world, friend or foe. starmer worked very hard over lunch to convince the president not to impose those tariffs on the u.k. the president said he was a good deal maker and that he thought that they could work something out. >> john: maybe a little bit

of light there on that question for the u.k.? >> reporter: sure, and it also shows that if leaders come to the bargaining table with something that they're willing to offer the president instead that perhaps he'll be willing to take them up on it. >> john: they are all taking notes, you talk to the various diplomats in these foreign capitals, they are taking notes as each one comes through the white house. nancy, also the president addressed earlier these cuts in the federal workforce. it's hard to keep up with the various rounds of them. you reported on them last night. what's the latest on those? >> reporter: well, i asked the president today about the d.o.g.e. cuts that have affected federal workers who are veterans, because the democrats estimate that about 6,000 veterans have lost their jobs in these d.o.g.e. cuts so far. take a listen to what he had to say. veterans make up 30% of the federal workforce. are you tracking how many veterans have been fired so far? and do you want to d.o.g.e. to

avoid letting them go? >> we take good care of our veterans, and we are watching that very carefully and we hope it's going to be as small a number as possible. but we are having great success in slimming down our government. it's been really very successful. some took payouts and buyouts. and others took other things. some people are finding out don't even exist. we're finding we have a lot of people that don't exist that people thought that did. >> reporter: there are a lot of veterans who are vulnerable to these cuts because they are probationary workers. they've only been on the job for a year or two. they don't have civil service protections even though they served in the military in uniform for years, if not decades, john. >> john: nancy cordes at the white house. thank you so much, nancy. it's being referred to as the biggest crypto heist in history. the fbi says that north korea is responsible for stealing $1.5 billion in virtual assets from the cryptocurrency exchange bybit last week according to

crowdstrike, a cybersecurity firm. groups behind the attack like this one are becoming more efficient and focused. that's just one of the findings in crowdstrike's 2025 global threat report. here to discuss it is adam meyers, senior vice president of counter adversary operations at crowdstrike. adam, what are some of the other topline findings of the report? >> thanks. some of the things i think were most alarming, we saw a massive spike in activity from the people's republic of china. 150% year-over-year growth in terms of activity from china. across the board, some sectors like media, financial services, manufacturing, 200% to 300%. we saw an increase in adversaries trying to move away from standard kind of attacks they've been using over the years, an increase in voice based phishing attacks. 442% in the past year. >> john: was that increased

activity from china smarter activity or just more frenetic? >> they are really maturing what they're doing. so it is smarter. one of the things that i think is most concerning that after almost two decades of investing in offensive cyber capabilities they have achieved parity with many of the other big cyber players out there from the from a nationstate perspective. it's tied to their strategic objectives, things like the belton road initiative where they are trying to be the leader not just in asia-pacific but across the globe. >> john: cuts going on in the federal government, many meant to monitor this activity. how do you square those two things going on at the same time? >> we work across the board with lots of different federal agencies and have been providing support, and there's a lot of opportunity for us to find ways to disrupt these adversaries and really start to kind of raise the cost of doing business for

them. >> john: but is there any way in which the diminished federal capacity to do this leaves the door open to possible threats? >> i think we're going to have to wait and see what happens. we've been working closely with federal agencies here in the u.s. and across the globe. and we haven't seen anything at this point. but we'll continue to work with them and try to figure out how to best disrupt these adversaries. >> john: adam meyers with crowdstrike. thank you so much. now to a harrowing rescue story out of southern california. a 15-year-old boy was trapped for hours after falling into a narrow rock crevice. cbs's elise preston reports on the effort to free the teen and spoke to the san bernardino first responders who helped pull him out. >> reporter: high above a tower of boulders in rimrock, california, fire crews backed by drones prepare for a dramatic rescue. it came six hours after a 15-year-old boy was rock climbing on monday when he slipped and plunged 30 feet

landing tightly wedged in between large boulders. >> his lungs couldn't even expand really to breathe. >> that's right. >> reporter: ryan wonders a fire paramedic for the san bernardino fire department, and fire captain aaron comstock were part of the rescue team. san bernardino fire crews got a 911 call after the boy's family unsuccessfully tried to free him. >> does add that sense of urgency because we understand the stress his body has already been under. >> reporter: within 15 minutes, they made the harrowing rescue. >> we were able to coordinate efforts between firefighters and ourselves and were able to pull him out altogether. >> he was joking with us and telling us about other times he had gotten himself into trouble. >> reporter: fire officials say upon rescue the victim was found to be suffering from hypoxia, dehydration, and hypothermia due to prolonged exposure to the elements. the teen was rushed to a hospital. elise preston, cbs news.

los angeles. >> john: here are three things to know. home buyers are hesitant. mortgage interest rates dropped again last week to their lowest level in two months, at 6.76%. but demand for mortgages didn't respond. total mortgage application volume fell 1.2% from the previous week. this comes as pending home sales in the united states slid to an all-time low in january. apple is announcing a new initiative designed to help parents keep their kids safe while online. the new features include an updated age rating system in the app store, simpler way for parents to set up accounts and restrict the types of apps their kids can see. billionaire jeff bezos as the crew for his next blue origin flight will be made entirely of women. including cbs's very own gayle king. among those joining king, bezos's fiance lauren sanchez pop singer katy perry, and nasa scientist aisha bowe.

the crew will launch sometime this spring. godspeed, gayle king. coming up on the "cbs evening new plus," gene hackman was a hollywood legend. what made his acting so good? we'll ask in tonight's interview. plus, we'll have this story. >> a maryland mom needs an emergency heart transplant after childbirth. i'm natalie brand with her story and why she wants to raise awareness. that's coming up on "evening new plus."

>> john: in tonight's in-depth, we wanted to shine a light on a rare heart disease that is linked to childbirth. it can often be missed because symptoms can be misdiagnosed as effects of a normal pregnancy. cbs's natalie brand reports the consequences could be life-threatening. ♪ ♪ >> reporter: kristin king counts every day as a blessing. >> life can stop at any point in time. and you never know when that will be. i was healthy. i had never had a heart problem in my life. and i needed a complete new organ. >> reporter: she's talking about the heart transplant she

received in september of 2023, four months after her heart began to fail after childbirth. >> i started having problems breathing in the middle of the night. it wasn't able to lay down. it wasn't able to drink or eat. i was really, really tired. >> we checked all the symptoms. after pregnancy and a c-section and they kept building and building. >> reporter: that's when king's husband gavyn insisted she go to the e.r. turns out she was suffering from peripartum cardiomyopathy. doctors say the condition is rare but can happen in the last month of pregnancy or within a few months of delivery. symptoms include fatigue, heart palpitations, shortness of breath. >> be your own advocate for your own health. meaning if you feel something is not right, something is off, seek care. don't ignore it. >> reporter: dr. phillip lam, a heart failure and transplant cardiologist at washington hospital center, describes king's case as rare and very aggressive. she remained hospitalized. her newborn at home while she waited for a donor.

>> the emotions of happiness but fear and anxiety as well. >> reporter: 11 hours of surgery later, king had a new shot at life. she now wears a bracelet to honor her donor and all they've given her. >> what do you want them to know? >> what do i not want them to know? i think the biggest thing for me is that this decision that may have been really easy or really hard for them has allowed me to be a mom. every day, i just imagine my family and not being there for them and what their lives would be like. >> reporter: king is about a year and half into what her family describes as a lifelong recovery. >> it's kind of surreal. like i said, i have little moments that mean the world to me. >> reporter: a fight she never expected but one that's put everything in perspective. natalie brand, cbs news. maryland. >> ohn: and we'll be ri

>> is this you talking or some guy pulling your strings? we do it my way! with my people! >> whatever it takes. >> okay. >> john: you've probably heard descriptions of actors like "they filled the screen" or "they showed range." if you didn't know what those really meant, gene hackman's four decades of examples tells you everything you need to know. for tonight's interview, we are joined by "variety" magazine's executive editor, brent lang, to talk about hackman's legacy of work. thanks so much for being here tonight. "the times" wrote about hackman. "he was the consummate every man." what does that mean to you? >> i think that's actually the perfect way to describe him. the magic of gene hackman is that he didn't look extraordinary.

he looked ordinary. he looked like your neighbor, your uncle, your grandfather, your father, yourself. he was the movie star's every man, that's a perfect way of putting it. no matter what role he played, he could play a spy, submarine captain, soldier, policeman, he just seemed so real. he seemed like a person you might know. >> john: is that what we mean when we talk about having range? >> i think that's absolutely what we mean. but it goes beyond that. because he also was able to be so truthful in a wide range of genres. he could do hilarious comedies like "young frankenstein" or "the birdcage." he could do "royal tanenbaums." he could a searing drama, like "mississippi burning" or a police procedural like "the french connection" and be utterly believable in everything he did. he never had a false move on screen. >> john: help me think about or place him in the category of

leading men from his age and also would he be considered a leading man? >> i think he was considered a leading man. in almost any other generation, he wouldn't have been a leading man. he would have been a character actor. he had the great good fortune to emerge in the late '60s and '70s where the idea of a leading man was being upended. he was part of a generation of actors like dustin hoffman and al pacino, robert de niro robert duvall, who really changed the whole idea of what it meant to be a star. he was able to create these really nuanced performances and have these kind of antiheroes. a lot of people he played lived in a really morally grey, morally ambiguous area and it made the parts, made the films all the more fascinating because of the life he breathed into them. >> john: do you have a favorite hackman character or movie?

>> i think my personal favorite would probably be "night moves." he plays a private eye who was obsessed with a mystery and always seems to be a few steps behind where everyone else was. it's really, it's kind of a little bit like harry call a '70s paranoid thriller a masterful performance. >> we only have about 20 seconds left. the fact that he left acting does it say anything about hackman or acting? >> i think it only says he wasn't a pretentious actor. wasn't interested in actorly things, wasn't part of the hollywood scene. he was an everyman on screen and off. >> john: brent lang from "variety." thanks so much for being with us. >> thanks for having me. >> john: ahead in my abe lincoln reframed his image and the debate over slavery. if you like options, you'll love my $6 all day big deal meal. choose from 4 delicious entrées and 5 tasty sides with a drink. oh, and nobody else includes breakfast items all day. just this guy.

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♪ ♪ >> john: a photograph and a speech changed the course of american history on this day in 1860. in a studio about two and a half miles from here, an aspiring presidential candidate stood for a portrait to prove that he wasn't, as one newspaper called him, "the leanest, lankiest most ungainly massive legs, arms, and hatchet face ever strung up on a single frame." the politician was abe lincoln. he looks fine here. he was portrayed differently in print.

he was called coarse, ugly, vulgar, making him a botch of nature was an assault on his position on slavery which he believed should be kept out of nw territories. so like today's aspiring politicians who go on cable tv lincoln used a visual medium of his time to improve his standing with the public. what he also did on that very same day is as different from politicians today as his photograph is from the ones on my phone. he gave a speech, not a hot take, not mere assertions, nothing that could be accused of being a tweet. he'd spent months researching the founders and legislative debates to build an argument that his position was shared by america's original architects. it was the other side that had the radicals. "you will destroy the government," he said, of the south and their northern allies, "unless you be allowed to enforce the constitution as you please on all points in dispute between you and us. you will rule or ruin in all events." the cooper institute speech was

one of his most famous. the moral work he put in informed his presidency. a job believed he won on this day 165 years ago when he visited matthew brady to take that photograph. "brady and the cooper institute," he said, "made me president." and that's tonight's "cbs evening new plus." thank you for joining us. i'm john dickerson. good night. ♪ ♪ right now on cbs news bay area, a late night raid by san francisco pd, officers swarming a pop-up drug market and a city

park, the new message for drug dealers and users. and people in one bay area city asked for help to fight crime and the feds answered the call, the cases they say they've been able to solve. and oakland is looking for a leader, the finger pointing and promises as high profile mayoral candidates make one of their first appearances before voters. and the pins will soon fall for the very last time, a 60-year-old east bay business getting ready to roll out of our memory. from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. >> good evening. i'm ryan yamamoto. san francisco police swarmed into a city park and broke up an illegal drug marketing, making dozens of arrests overnight in jefferson square park. that area had become known as zombie park because of its reputation as a haven for drugs and illegal vending. as our lauren toms reports, it's all an effort to stomp