>> john: welcome to cbs evening news plus. i'm john dickerson. it's an oval office, not a

boxing ring, but today the seat of presidential prestige was the site of perhaps the most tense exchange between allies ever captured. >> you don't have the cards right now. with us, you start having cards. >> john: which raises the question about the nature of the alliance with ukraine and europe. cbs's erica brown is at the white house. a civil rights reversal. though the pace is slow, one version of the american story holds that rights for its citizens always expand. not in iowa. the state is the first to roll back civil rights protections for transgender citizens. cbs's lana zak reports on the latest. unfriendly skies. close calls on a runway, a deadly midair collision over the potomac. concerned passengers are asking, is air travel safe? we'll ask cbs's senior transportation correspondent, kris van cleave, in tonight's interview. those stories and more right after our news headlines. ♪ ♪

mass firings at the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. the more than 600 fired include weather analysts and climate scientists at the national weather service. health officials in texas say the measles outbreak is now up to 146 confirmed cases. the outbreak there has resulted in the first measles death in nearly a decade. nationwide, the cdc says 95% of total cases are in unvaccinated patients. the infamous former mexican drug cartel leader rafael caro quintero was arraigned in a federal courtroom in brooklyn, new york, today. quintero, once on the fbi ten most wanted list, pleaded not guilty to multiple felonies including drug trafficking, murder, and money laundering. as leader of the guadalajara cartel in the '80s, u.s. officials believe he was behind the killing of dea agent kiki camarena in 1985. ♪ ♪

♪ ♪ trump administration officials are blaming ukrainian president zelenskyy for possibly imperiling a peace deal with russia that president trump was trying to broker. that may be in doubt after the public oval office dispute between trump and zelenskyy over whether putin could be trusted. cbs's erica brown is at the white house with the latest. erica, the blowup is getting a lot of coverage for all the right reasons, but a lot of this meeting started and was going kind of like a regular meeting. >> that's right, john, it did. it got off to a diplomatic start with president trump greeting zelenskyy here at the white house when he arrived. the two shook hands in the oval office, exchanged pleasantries, and it was civil in the beginning. then things took a turn for the worse when vice president vance interjected as president trump was discussing russian president vladimir putin. vance said that a path forward

would have to include diplomacy with russia, and zelenskyy sharply questioned what diplomacy looks like, and reminded vance of instances where he says russian president vladimir putin had violated deals and agreements with ukraine in years past. then things sort of devolved into chaos and a shouting match with zelenskyy calling putin a killer and a terrorist. the president and vice president admonishing zelenskyy, saying he should be grateful for america's contribution to their aid over the years, and in a moment president trump also acknowledged that the eyes of the country were likely on the oval office watching these tense moments. take a listen. >> it's going to be a very hard thing to do business like this. >> just say thank you. accept that there are disagreements, and let's go litigate those disagreements rather than trying to fight it out in the american media when you're wrong. we know that you are wrong. >> i think it's good for the american people to see what's going on. i think it's very important.

that's why i kept this going so long. you have to be thankful. you don't have the cards. >> and those tense exchanges continued for a bit before the press pool was escorted out of the oval office, john. >> john: i mean, this is the $64,000 question. what now? what happens next? >> well, in a statement, president trump said that zelenskyy had disrespected the united states in the oval office, and he can come back when he wants peace. now, our nancy cordes asked president trump what zelenskyy had to do to restart talks, and the president says he has to want peace and not simply talk about vladimir putin. on social media earlie, zelenskyy said he does want peace for ukraine and he thanked the president for the visit. now he looks to european leaders who are meeting this weekend to discuss next steps forward. this comes after the french president and ukrainian prime minister were here at the white house this week, and said that europe would step up to contribute more to ukraine's defense. john? >> john: erica brown at the

white house. thank you, erica. for more about what this means for the future of u.s. ukrainian relations, we turn to charles kupchan, senior fellow at the council on foreign relations, and joins us in washington. charles, it's good to be with you again. your immediate thoughts about the ramifications of this oval office meeting today? >> well, it was just completely bizarre for the american president and vice president to dress down the leader of a democratic ukraine that is fighting for its life against russia. i've never seen anything like it. i think vance and president trump lost their cool. they expected zelenskyy to show more gratitude, to say yes, let's go make a peace deal with putin, to say yes to the minerals deal that's on the table. they didn't expect the case that zelenskyy laid out. what happens now, i don't think

it's over. i don't think trump is going to turn off the flow of economic and military assistance, because it would effectively pull the rug out from underneath zelenskyy, but let's see what happens in the coming days. >> john: did this, in your view, essentially come down to a disagreement over how people read vladimir putin? and zelenskyy obviously being much more suspicious, president trump saying he's never broken a promise to me. >> i don't think that's what was going on here. i think that zelenskyy didn't show sufficient respect and gratitude for american assistance, and i think trump sees the united states as having bailed out ukraine, kept ukraine afloat, enabled ukraine to be still standing, and he doesn't like it when zelenskyy talks back. this happened not long ago, when zelenskyy said that trump was living under russian

disinformation, and trump responded by calling him a dictator. so unfortunately trump has gotten under trump's skin. trump kind of lost it on public television in the oval office, a quite unseemly display of anger. now we have to figure out how zelenskyy gets back into trump's good graces. i don't think it is an impossible task, because trump's relations with foreign leader blow hot and cold. one day he is in love with kim jong un, the next day he is threatening fire and fury. i think we'll probably see him repair the relationship with zelenskyy. >> john: charles kupchan from the council on foreign relations. thank you so much, charles. iowa is now the first state to remove civil rights protections for transgender people. republican governor kim reynolds signed the controversial bill into law this afternoon despite days of protest against the measure. cbs's lana zak reports on the civil rights reversal.

>> reporter: the unprecedented act sparked outrage as lawmakers as lawmakers debated, hundreds of demonstrators gathered in the rotunda of the iowa state capitol to protest the law which eliminates civil rights protections based on gender identity. >> i feel it is mean and hateful. >> reporter: representative aime wichtendahl, the state legislature's first openly transgender member argued this is just the start. >> vote this bill down today, because this is not the end. those think tanks will ask you again and again and again to remove rights and freedoms from your fellow iowans until none remain. >> reporter: republican lawmakers fast-tracked the bill and governor kim reynolds signed it into law this afternoon. >> it is common sense to acknowledge the obvious biological differences between men and women. >> reporter: it defines sex based on a person's anatomy at birth and removes gender identity from the civil rights law which protected specific

groups from discrimination. gender identity was added alongside sexual orientation back in 2007. >> before i signed this bill, the civil rights code blurred the biological line between the sexes. what this bill does accomplish is to strengthen protections for women and girls. >> reporter: max mowitz, the executive director of the advocacy group one iowa, says the move ends nearly two decades of state law protections for transgender iowans like himself. >> why is this happening now? >> i can't understand what the timing would be, other than a large widespread national trend toward transphobia and hostility toward the lgbtq community. it is more acceptable to single us out and harm us. >> are you worried about real harm? >> absolutely. i know that this will just move the needle further. are we going to continue to see really horrible legislation norm?

>> reporter: lana zak, iowa city, iowa. >> john: it took a jury less than 90 minutes to find an illinois landlord guilty of murder and hate crimes for a brutal 2023 stabbing attack on % palestinian american family that killed a 6-year-old boy. authorities say 73-year-old joseph czuba targeted the family because of their islamic faith and as a response to the war between israel and hamas. czuba faces life in prison. the gold medal for messing up medals goes to the french mint, which says more than 200 defective paris olympic medals will be replaced. athletes complained their medals became tarnished or chipped, sometimes within weeks of the games ending last summer. the replacement medals will be identical to the originals, but a protective varnish will be added for durability. and today microsoft announced it is shutting down skype, the online voice and video call pioneer that the tech titan acquired in 2011. skype has struggled in recent years to compete against new rivals like zoom and microsoft's

own teams. founded in 2003, skype revolutionized internet communication by offering free voice calls between computers. ahead on cbs evening news plus, our in-depth report. >> i'm charlie d'agata at the pentagon. big changes underway including the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff being fired. we will have that story coming up on the cbs evening news plus. ♪ ♪

>> john: a bipartisan group of former u.s. defense secretaries are now asking congress to investigate the trump administration's firing of top brass at the pentagon. that's according to a letter obtained by the associated press. for tonight's "in depth," cbs's national security correspondent charlie d'agata reports on another pentagon purge that could be more alarming. >> reporter: the firings at the pentagon are now reaching beyond joint chiefs chairman cq brown and chief of naval operations admiral lisa franchetti to the top lawyers in the army, navy, and air force judge advocates general. defense secretary pete hegseth

ordered the jag firings. >> we want lawyers to give sound constitutional advice and don't exist to attempt to be roadblocks to anything. >> reporter: among other responsibilities, jags provided advice to senior military offers on the rules of warfare, and are sometimes embedded with forces on the battlefield to ensure they adhere to them. kori schake, head of defense policy at the conservative american enterprise institute, is troubled by the firings. >> what concerns you most about the relief of the jags? >> they are the people who advise military commanders on what is lawful and what is not, and i worry that they are relief by the secretary sends a message that he is encouraging lawlessness by the force, or tolerant of lawlessness by the force. >> reporter: hegseth's move comes after the unprecedented terminations of brown and franchetti.

>> it is sending a message that you don't value the talent that is in the force. >> reporter: to replace brown, the president has chosen dan "razin'" caine, who will come out of retirement to take the job. >> i think generally it sends a poor signal to the force when you recall from retirement someone to put in the leadership. i don't know general caine, but we shouldn't lack confidence that he is serious about the undertaking. >> reporter: an undertaking that will involve following orders of the commander-in-chief and defense secretary who are bringing a dramatic change to the pentagon. >> has the trump administration just politicized the military? >> i think they're making a number of choices that have the potential to dangerously politicize the military. >> reporter: another big change at the pentagon, cbs news has learned the president has given military commanders broader authority to launch counterterrorism air strikes. charlie d'agata, cbs news at the

pentagon. >> john: coming up, we take a bird's-eye view of the state of the airline safety. ♪ ♪

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cbs cares. >> john: 45,000 flights carry nearly 3 million passengers every day safely, so when something goes wrong, it takes us out of what we consider normal. but there's no denying the string of recent airline incidents raises safety concerns. so for tonight's interview, cbs's senior transportation correspondent kris van cleave joins us for a little perspective. so, kris, if you could run me through -- this week we had smoke in the cockpit, a close call in chicago, and the go-around in washington. can you help us understand what those three events are, and how abnormal they are?

>> sure. so, the smoke event in atlanta, that was a delta flight. after takeoff, the cabin began to fill with this hazy smoke. this is a case where, just because there is smoke, there isn't necessarily fire. what likely happened here is some oil in the engine ended up somewhere it shouldn't be. the air on board the plane is taking from bleed air from the engines, so as it was bringing air into the plane, it also brought with it that haze. the pilots landed the plane within a few minutes of that incident, everybody got off. those smoke incidents, they shouldn't happen, but we see a handful of those a year. it's not an immediate threat to the safety of that airplane. it was going to land safely. >> john: then we got the close call in chicago. >> yeah, this was concerning and pretty jaw-dropping video of the southwest plane as it's coming in, cleared to land, and just as the pilots are about to touch down, you see them take off

again, and the smaller plane just moved right across the path in front of them. it appears here what happened was the smaller plane did not follow the directions from air traffic controllers. the southwest pilots, this is why you want two pilots in that cockpit. they were looking down the runway, they acted quickly, got the plane off the ground, went around and came in and landed safely. that one is a close call that is too close for comfort. it will launch an ntsb investigation. there will be findings and recommendations out of that. that's part of why the system has been so safe for so long, nonaccidents are treated as seriously as an accident and thoroughly investigated. >> john: tell me about the go-around in washington, and the big question: is flying safe, or as safe as it has been? >> the go-around in washington is an excellent example of what happens when people's nerves get up about flying. that is a routine part of managing aviation traffic. go-arounds happen every day across this country. it is not necessarily at all an

indication of something that is unsafe. in this case, a controller saw something they didn't like, which is a plane wasn't moving off the runway as fast as they thought, so they told the plane behind it in line to go around and just give everything a little bit more time. there was no close call there. that is just sort of routine. it does happen. and is it safe to fly, john, is your question. yes. there are layers of aviation safety. there are the air traffic controllers, there are automated systems that they have. you have the pilots, two sets of pilots in each aircraft, they have things like collision avoidance technology that will accident so they can take action alert them to an impending accident so they can take action to avoid it. there are many layers of safety here, and that's why we had this period of 16 years between aviation airline accidents in the u.s. and unprecedented, unparalleled periods of safety. no expert or pilot i've talked to has said fundamentally that has changed, even though we have had two very notable airline accidents in the span of a month.

>> john: senior transportation correspondent kris van cleave, thank you for hat perspective.

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♪ ♪ >> john: this friday, a feast for your eyes and a mystery for your imagination. the feast: pictures from san francisco in the 1960s.

new music was booming, sexual freedom expanding, drug use booming, and clashes in the streets over civil rights and the vietnam war. a talented photographer captured that, and the guiding figures. bob weir, carlos santana, muhammad ali, timothy leary, janis joplin, eldridge cleaver, allen ginsburg. the photographer was -- well, we don't know who the photographer was. that's a mystery. the photographs were abandoned along with thousands more in unprocessed rolls, their secrets wrapped tight in dark key cases. bay area photographer bill delzell is raising money to develop the remaining pictures and find the photographer. photography allows us to enter a captured moment. we flirt with time travel. our imagination enlivens. what happened to that bubble-blowing boy? what were these guys looking at?

what song were these women dancing to? was that afternoon on the fire escape the one that changed everything for one of those on it? the mystery of the photographer pulls us in more. a young woman exercising the new freedom of the age. a young man who went to war and never returned. for many of the subjects, this period was a phase. was that true for the photographer? did they put down the camera and become a banker? these lost frames remind us that we all leave traces. moments, passions, visions, pieces of time that outlive us. whether captured in a camera or in memories we scatter of a smile, a dance in the sunshine, or our witness to public moments. all of that, a gift of another human eye, even if it belongs to a stranger. and that is tonight's cbs evening news plus. thank you for joining us. i am john dickerson in new york. good night. ♪ ♪ >ryan>right right now on cbs news bay area, the shouting match sending

shock waves around the world, two presidents looking to make a deal but end up clashing on camera. >> you're not in a good position. you don't have the cards right now. >> how the meet meeting between the u.s. and ukraine went off the raise. people in one oakland neighborhood said they felt helpless after an encampment moved in near their school, why less than a week later they say they feel hopeful and empowered. plus, we'll hear from the owner of an 80-year-old hardware store in san francisco who is already feeling the pinch from tariffs on chinese imports. from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. we begin with that unprecedented scene at the white house today, a high stakes meeting between the trump administration and president of ukraine that turned into a shouting match full of insults. >> good evening. i'm ryan yamamoto. that public blowout continuing into the afternoon casting doubt on the future of