11,000 eggs a week. the road to a booming business hasn't been easy. >> last year we actually got hit with a type of microplasma in the laying hens. very similar symptoms to the avian flu. so just culled the flock and start over. >> reporter: but southard didn't qualify for the u.s. department of agriculture's public funding program to reimburse his losses and buy this new flock. but here in central mississippi the veterinarian for the third largest poultry producer in the nation tells me they did receive taxpayer reimbursements after they were forced to put down chicken flocks in three different facilities. >> we've been successful there in preventing the spread, which i think is the ultimate goal. >> reporter: mark burleson with wayne sanderson farms says since 2023 they've had to kill about 300,000 chickens due to the bird flu. we found they received more than 600,000 taxpayer dollars from

the usda to replace their flocks. but his company is far from receiving the most. a cbs news analysis of federal data found since 2020 the feds paid $1.1 billion to hundreds of larger companies forced to kill their flocks due to the bird flu. >> definitely a question there about when usda should get involved or not. obviously, we're still seeing big supply problems. >> do you think that's a fair expense to the taxpayer? >> it's a great question. the alternative is to let it spread, and we can't do it. it's a healthy product, and i think chicken fits that bill. >> reporter: because of the dire egg shortage the fda is considering an industry request this week to use a type of egg that was outlawed in consumer products back in 2009 called broiler eggs. eggs normally meant for hatching chicks. >> those 500,000 eggs that we throw away every week, instead of doing that they would be utilized for cake mixes, for dressings. >> reporter: these eggs are safe why? >> they're pastureized which

means they're heated to a point that they're safe for consumers. >> reporter: with the egg shortage from the bird flu expected to last at least another year southern says it's time for more small farms to step up to the plate. >> family farms play a key role because it takes away the big consolidation that's happened and spreads out the risk. so if one gets hit it's not as big an effect on the whole supply chain. >> reporter: kati weis, madison, alabama. the southern california wildfires destroyed thousands of homes. most were reduced to ash. but in some cases the fireplaces and tilework still stand. turns out some of those tiles are worth saving. elise martinez reports. >> reporter: piece by piece masonry contractor cliff douglas is preserving a small part of altadena history. >> i got it. >> reporter: douglas is with save the tiles, an organization

working to rescue these antique tiles, some more than a century old. >> these are called batch elder tile, started in 1910 in pasadena. they're a local tile. so that's why they're in a lot of the homes up here. >> reporter: in altadena chimneys and fireplaces are some of the only things that survived the intense heat. >> the important part is just to try to give the owners a little something back. >> reporter: douglas and his crew are working against the clock as the army corps of engineers gets ready to clear out properties. he says there are dozens of homes with these renowned tiles inside. >> and we're trying to beat the bulldozers across town are moving this way. so we'd really like to get as many down as we can. it just would be a shame to see any of this tile go to the dump. >> they're unusual, very unusual. >> reporter: these tiles were part of valerie el ashi's 100-year-old home that she soon hopes to rebuild. >> it's kind of impossible to build this house because it was

so unique but we could at least preserve the flavor of it by utilizing the tiles on the fireplace. >> reporter: and she says she's grateful for people like douglas and save the tiles who are doing this all for free. >> these people are going out of their way to help us homeowners kind of recover. and also to save a piece of pasadena history. >> reporter: safeguarding the past one tile at a time. past one tile at a time. elise martinez, cbs news, (♪♪) (♪♪) voltaren... for long lasting arthritis pain relief. (♪♪)

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the most expensive films of last year all cost in the tom cruise wore it, and now it can be yours. but that need for speed does not come cheap. bidding starts at $25,000. >> meow. >> reporter: michelle pfeiffer's unforgettable catwoman costume from 1992's "batman returns" is another of the more than 1,300 props and scripts from some of hollywood's biggest hits going on the auction block later this month.

>> wait a minute, what are you doing, doc? >> reporter: among them the mr. fusion generator seen on michael j. fox's time traveling delorean in "back to the future." >> this auction has some wonderful pieces in it that are being seen for the very first time. >> reporter: brandon allinger is the chief operating officer of prop store who is conducting the online and in person auction. where does all this stuff come from? >> it's a good question. that is the tricky part. and that's what we spend a lot of our time working on is going out and sourcing these materials. the pieces in this auction have come from individuals who worked in the film industry, they've come from studios or production houses directly. all different industry avenues. >> reporter: one of those avenues was director randall kliser's attic where for more than four decades he kept the director's bible from the 1978 movie "grease." >> some of these are folded up many times. they were probably in his pocket. >> reporter: inside this aged red binder his handwritten notes and handdrawn storyboards for classic scenes like this one. ♪ summer loving ♪ ♪ had me a blast ♪ ♪ summer loving ♪ ♪ happened so fast ♪

>> what made you decide like now is the time to let it go to somebody else? >> because i just realized my attic is filled with stuff i don't need. somebody might really, really love to have that original script. >> reporter: also up for sale, this t-birds jacket january travolta wore in the movie. his name is even printed on the jacket's tag. you can see it in action during the "greased lightning" scene. ♪ greased lightning, go greased lightning ♪ >> reporter: it's estimated to sell for up to $200,000 but could go for even more if the bidding takes off. ♪ for greased lightning ♪ >> when you're shooting a movie you don't really think about is this jacket going to be expensive in 40 years or not. you're just busy trying to get the day's work done. >> reporter: but when the movie becomes a hit there's now an instant market for fans and collectors and some will spend big to own part of their favorite flick.

>> i think our highest sale price at auction is an x wing fighter model that went for $1.5 million hammer priced. >> reporter: in this auction it's two other "star wars" artifacts that could push seven figures. this is the medal of yavin luke skywalker ends at the end of "a new hope." >> tell me how this went from around mark hamill's neck to up for auction. >> it's coming from the family of a prop man who worked on all three "star wars" films. when they made those first three "star wars" films, especially the first movie, the material just wasn't being saved in the way it is from a modern production. and because of that, because no one was actively collecting this material, the prop man was able to hold on to the medal. >> what is it about hollywood props that resonate with people so much so that they may drop six, seven figures to have it? >> i think it is all about connection and it's all about connecting with something that you love. and it's really telling the story of just how much these movies mean to people.

>> reporter: the other big ticket "star wars" item believed to be the one and only bowcaster chewbacca used in the original trilogy. >> is it unusual for there to be only one? >> it is, yeah. normally there's a saying in the world of propmasters that one is none. what that means is they need to have two of something because if you lose one or it breaks it could be ai very big problem. right? it could hold up a major expensive film production. >> can i touch it? >> sure. do you want to hold it? we'll take it off the stand. here you go. >> reporter: i mean, this is one of those things that you saw watching movies growing up. this has been seen billions of times? >> exactly. exactly. >> reporter: but before they can auction an item that may draw bids of a half million dollars or more, prop store has to know it's the real deal. in what amounts to film forensics they pore over production stills and high resolution 4k versions of the movies, sometimes frame by frame, to screen match an item. marks like these can be seen

then and now. >> there are some scratches here on the back of the frame that we can see specifically. the most important tell on the whole piece is this part right down here, which is an extension for the shoulder stock. and they installed that for the third film for return of the jedi. >> reporter: the effort to identify which film this pair of charlie chaplin's shoes came from took weeks. >> fortunately there were some really nice high quality production stills from "the great dictator" and we could see some very specific marks and folds in the leather that set us on the course for these. >> you're looking down to the folds in the leather here to identify this to a movie. >> absolutely. yeah. and especially some of the wear where the lighter color's coming through. there's like a light wear pattern here and then you've got this dark line cutting across it. you can tell it's that exact shoe. >> it's like your own version of prop csi. >> yes. prop csi.

>> reporter: but not every item up for sale will break the bank. bidding for the license plate from hugh jackman's car in the 2009 x-men origins wolverine starts at 300 bucks. >> what is the magic about a movie that it can last for decades, do you think? >> well, i think people if they're touched by a movie they want to have a piece of that. they want to have something that is tangible that reminds them of that experience that they had. >> reporter: which considering randall clieser has directed more than a dozen big hollywood movies raises an important question. >> what else is in your attic? >> well, i've got all my scripts and a lot of crew jackets. >> do you have a favorite piece of movie memorabilia at your house that you're not going to part with? >> gee. i'm up for sale.

fans of children's books celebrated dr. seuss day this past weekend. theodore geisel would have been 121 years old. he penned "the cat in the hat," "green eggs and ham," and dozens of other favorites. cbs's elise preston has the story. >> reporter: outlines of the author's earliest ideas adorn the geisel library at the university of california san diego. >> it's still very much dr. seuss's town. >> oh, very much so. >> reporter: and special collections director linda clausen holds the key to the archives of theodore geisel himself, better known by his pseudonym, dr. seuss. >> now, if you're in a receptive state i'll recapitulate. >> these are some of his original drawings for cat in the hat. >> reporter: between these walls are more than 15,000 items. the blueprint of an artist who was always creative and often subversive. >> here's his the cat just being his crazy self. >> could you read this passage for us?

>> "have no fear, said the cat. i will not let you fall. i will hold you up high as i stand on a ball. with a book in one hand and a cup on my hat. but that is not all i can do, said the cat." >> reporter: in 1953 dr. seuss wrote "the cat in the hat" using only 236 words. he was responding to a national debate about literacy and how to hold children's interest when competing with the television. decades later childhood literacy is still a concern. 40% of u.s. students can't read at a basic level. >> it's so important to grab them at a young age. >> that's so true. and i think the colors do that, the rhyming scheme does that, and if you can get children reading when they're young like that it will stay with you. >> reporter: throughout his career seuss wrote more than five dozen books under four pen names along with television specials, hundreds of advertisements, and political cartoons. >> it's sort of do nothing congresses, inflation, high

taxes. gosh, we still have all of those issues, don't we? >> reporter: for dr. seuss one message always shines through, and to sum it up only his words will do. the more that you read, the more things you will know. the more that you learn, the more places you'll go. elise preston, cbs news, la jolla, california. >> stories for kids of all ages. 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 anytime at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs broadcast center in new york, i'm jessi mitchell. ♪

hello and thanks for watching. i'm jessi mitchell in new york and this is "cbs news roundup." here are the top stories. president trump says 25% tariffs on mexican and canadian imports go into effect with no delays. crews in north and south carolina are battling wildfires that erupted across the region, forcing evacuations and a state of emergency. and pope francis suffers a new breathing crisis. the vatican says he's back on a ventilator. but first, we have breaking news from the white house. the trump administration says it's putting a pause on all u.s. assistance to ukraine. it follows that disastrous oval office shouting match between president donald trump and ukraine's volodymyr zelenskyy. a white house official tells the associated press trump is seeking to pressure zelenskyy into peace talks with russia.

earlier monday trump blasted zelenskyy for saying during a briefing in london he believes the end of russia's war with ukraine is still, quote, very far away. president trump is making it more expensive for america to import products from mexico and canada, and that could increase the cost of goods. it comes as 3 out of 4 americans tell cbs news incomes are not keeping up with inflation. and now canada plans to impose retaliatory tariffs. cbs's weijia jiang reports from the white house. >> reporter: after following through on his threat -- >> the tariffs, you know, they're all set. >> reporter: -- president trump says there's a simple solution for countries that want to avoid tariffs. >> what they have to do is build their car plants, frankly, and other things in the united states. in which case they have no tariffs. >> reporter: to make his point trump hosted the ceo of a taiwanese semiconductor chip manufacturing company who pledged to invest $100 billion in new manufacturing plants in

the u.s. and the president said japanese automaker honda has ditched its plan to open a new plant in mexico, opting instead for indiana to avoid tariffs. but auto prices are still likely to increase. one study found a large suv with parts from mexico could jump $9,000. >> trade wars are costly, and nobody wins. >> reporter: josh lipski is a former state department official. >> trump argues that we're going to slap all these extra fees on imports, so then everyone's just going to buy american and that will be great for american manufacturing, american companies. but doesn't that take time? >> that doesn't happen overnight. that could take years. and in the meantime there's huge costs of transition. >> reporter: another recent study estimates the new tariffs could cost the average u.s. family more than $1,200 a year. >> i think people at home really just want to know what does this mean for me. do companies absorb the cost or am i going to have to pay more?

>> you as a consumer will very likely pay more for the products that are tariffed. and it could get worse if a trade war erupts. >> reporter: and trump says that tariffs will keep coming. he announced that next month, in april, there will be a reciprocal tariff placed on any country that currently has a fee on american exports. a university of michigan study shows that this is already impacting consumer behavior, finding that consumer confidence has dropped by 10% since january and that it will likely impact consumer spending. weijia jiang, cbs news, the white house. president trump will address a joint session of congress tuesday evening, and cbs news will have complete coverage. it begins at 9:00 p.m. eastern right here on cbs and streaming on cbs news 24/7. see you then. parts of south carolina are struggling under an air quality alert as heavy smoke from a series of wildfires continues to

spread. firefighters responding to hundreds of fires in north and south carolina are making progress. as you see right here, they're getting some much-needed help from the u.s. military. cbs's dave malkoff reports from the fire zone. >> this is absolutely insane. >> reporter: drivers faced a wall of wildfire smoke on a highway near myrtle beach monday. local fire officials expect the haze to stick around for another few days as they work to contain the fires. >> we advise everyone to stay inside and stay out of the smoke. and if you see flames call 911. >> reporter: volunteer firefighter desmond bowen says he's amazed to be part of such a huge emergency response. >> i haven't seen this many fire trucks and firefighters. only on tv. >> reporter: south carolina's biggest wildfire in more than 15 years forced evacuations over the weekend. the governor declared a state of emergency and issued an outdoor burning ban. and this is part of the problem

right here. listen to this. i'm going to put it right up to my microphone. that is crispy, crispy fuel for this fire. fires need the fuel. they need low humidity. they need high heat, and they need high winds. and that's what they got. >> by the time you go and try to find an extinguisher or a water source, it's already beyond control. >> reporter: crews were able to keep these massive flames away from homes over the weekend. >> it was a little bit scary with flames coming out of the tops of trees near homes. >> reporter: and volunteers say they will continue to offer food and aid for as long as the firefighters need it. dave malkoff, cbs news, myrtle beach, south carolina. the vatican says pope francis has suffered a new setback while undergoing treatment at a hospital in rome for a complex respiratory infection and pneumonia. the pontiff has been hospitalized for more than two weeks now. but vatican sources tell cbs news his doctors don't believe he's completely out of danger.

cbs's seth doane reports from rome with the latest. >> reporter: after some relatively positive news in recent days we're getting word of another setback for pope francis in the latest medical update which was released monday evening from the vatican. pope francis had two acute respiratory crises on monday, both of them caused by a mucus build-up and also spasms in the airways in the lungs. two bronchoscopies were performed, that's when a flexible probe is inserted into the lungs to examine him. and he had to be aspirated in order to do that. the pope was then administered oxygen. we understand through a face mask. the vatican has underlined that it is non-invasive, meaning he has not had to be intubated. through all of this the vatican says the pope has remained alert and aware. there was some positive news. vatican sources tell us that the white blood cell count for the pope was not elevated, meaning

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this is "cbs news roundup." i'm jessi mitchell in new york. president trump is giving the heads of federal agencies until thursday of next week to submit plans for eliminating more government jobs. the thousands being cut in the mass firing are much more than numbers on a payroll list. they're real people with real lives and real families. caitlin huey-burns reports. >> what do you want for lunch today? >> reporter: we joined kate scafe friday morning as she made her kids lunch, dropped them off at the bus stop, and headed to her office at usaid, where she was a program analyst. scafe was one of thousands of federal employees who received an e-mail saying they're being affected by a reduction in force. government speak for you're fired. >> it has been one of the hardest months of my life. to feel that i did something wrong when all we were trying to

do was the right thing. >> they're increasingly viewed as the villains. >> reporter: that's top trump official russell vought talking to his right-wing think tank in 2023. vought has helped billionaire elon musk carry out the mass firings across the federal government. last week vought sent this memo directing agencies to plan for a significant reduction in the number of full-time workers, an effort to shrink the government that could ultimately leave 700,000 federal employees across the country out of a job. >> we want to put them in trauma. >> reporter: that trauma was on display friday as usaid workers left the building for the last time. >> usaid saves lives. >> that's how you would have described your work? >> that's right. we make america safer. >> reporter: for the last two years kate scafe's job was to make thousands of humanitarian programs around the world run efficiently, a role she

optimistically believed would match the priorities of the new administration. >> one of our senior leaders came up to me at one point, passed me in the hall and said be prepared to be the most popular girl in the room in a couple weeks. >> reporter: her illusions faded last month when musk tweeted about feeding usaid into the wood chipper. the next day scafe couldn't log on to her work devices. >> i felt disappeared. right? all of our work was made invisible too. >> reporter: we rode with scafe as she drove to the office. >> i've got my kids' pictures. >> you leave it there thinking you'll get it back. >> i'll be there on monday. right. >> reporter: she was allowed 15 minutes to clean out her desk. >> it just felt really demeaning to be treated like that. >> reporter: scafe had been the breadwinner in her family. >> how do you talk to your kids about this? >> it was so hard to tell them things like you know, we've made summer plans for these camps and you know, i can't afford that.

>> it feels like work was a big part of your identity. >> i feel like i am my best mom when i have this other part of me that helps me to feel engaged with the world. i don't know how i'll find something new that gives me that same joy. >> reporter: a feeling now looming for hundreds of thousands of federal workers. for "eye on america," i'm for "eye on america," i'm caitlin hue oh don't forget dinner with my boss. ah great. our new ultimate adhesive will save the day. new poligrip ultimate all in 1. get superhuman hold, food seal and comfort. if your mouth could talk it would ask for poligrip.

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nasa is one step closer to putting astronauts back on the moon with a little help from private industry. a texas aerospace company made history with the first fully successful landing on the moon by a private firm. mark strassmann has the story. >> we're all set to land it. we're on the moon. [ cheers and applause ] >> reporter: the landing, flawless. the first pictures, stunning. firefly's lander casting a shadow across the lunar surface. in the distance the earth and all of us, 240,000 miles away. >> i'm so proud of, you know, that lander and the team that built it. it's incredible. >> reporter: ray ellensworth is spacecraft program director at firefly aerospace. >> all right. go ahead. >> thanks. >> reporter: we first met her and her company's blue ghost

lunar lander three months ago. six feet tall, 11 feet wide, with four landing legs now touching lunar dust. >> so there are cameras distributed basically all the way around the landers. >> ignition. and lift-off. >> reporter: launched in january blue ghost's cameras captured video of its journey from earth to lunar orbit. its mission, deliver ten payloads to the lunar surface for nasa. >> so if we kind of look down, you see over there, you see that spout kind of coming down. >> i do. >> that's the drill. and it will deploy down and go into the lunar surface. >> reporter: this drill will try to penetrate nine feet below the surface to measure temperature. another experiment will vacuum up loose lunar rock and dust. >> our payloads are collecting data so we can figure out what does it feel like to be on the lunar surface, to operate on the lunar surface. so all that data will inform when we actually return humans to the moon. >> it really does open up a whole new way for us to get more

science to space and to the moon. >> reporter: blue ghost should survive about two weeks, or one lunar day, until the sun sets and its batteries drain. >> it's nervous to think about. >> reporter: but for ellensworth until sunday the moon seemed so far away. not anymore. >> you just imagine like that's where it's going to be. but now you know it's there. and that's a totally different feeling. the next full moon i just won't sleep. i'll just stare at it all night. >> reporter: one monday loonding at a time, space companies like firefly now prove that they have the right

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new eroxon ed treatment gel. a pizza place in philadelphia is giving former inmates a new lease on life, one pie at a time. adam yamaguchi reports. ♪ >> reporter: at down north pizza in philadelphia's strawberry mansion neighborhood the secret sauce was born in the most unlikely of places. philadelphia's prison system. chef mike carter concocted his first signature pizza while serving time for felony narcotics possession. >> my first pizza i had a cheez-it and ramen noodle pizza that i used to make upstate. i had mozzarella smuggled from the kitsch zblen smuggled mozzarella. >> summer sausages. kipper beef steaks. >> reporter: carter and all the employees here spent time behind bars. where limited ingredients and tools forced him to improvise everything, including cooking over electrified water in his

cell. >> so that first pizza baked over a bucket. >> yeah. >> how'd it taste? >> it was great. >> reporter: through carter's childhood food was at the center of family life and made an early impression on him. >> i always knew this was something that i wanted to do. >> what kind of derailed you? >> i guess i would say like the traps of my neighborhood. >> reporter: carter cycled in and out of prison for 12 years. but he found an exit for good. >> yeah, i would say so. >> reporter: when he met mohammed abdul hadi. >> what inspired you to start this to begin with? >> looking at the neighborhood, i couldn't just open up anything without having a benefit directly to the neighborhood. >> reporter: why pizza? >> pizza for me i feel like is a good conversation starter because it's more than a restaurant. it's a universal food item that everybody understands. >> reporter: abdul hadi pled guilty to felony insurance fraud and served under house arrest. he saw the challenges and stigmas that would follow convicts re-entering society.

so he created a space for them to shine. ♪ with the same creative spirit he channeled in his prison kitchen, carter named his pies after songs from renowned philly artists. ♪ a plain cheese pizza is no better love. some people live it up with shrimp and crab meat, toppings for glamorous life. ♪ and of course my part of town, a mashup of philly cheesesteak and pizza. the dough rises in the morning and gets slapped down in pans and stacked nearly to the ceiling. >> first thing up. there you go. once you start getting the flow then it's like the speed bag. one, two, three. >> reporter: jamar johnson gives me a quick lesson in making a light airy crust. >> so this is a philly version of the detroit pizza. >> yeah. this is our version, a philly version. but like the dough is more hydrated. >> reporter: next mike works his magic on this blank canvas.

>> this is your canvas. that's how i want you to look at this. nine ounces of cheese. >> that is a lot of cheese. >> we're trying to get something called the crown in the industry. but since we are fighting recidivism we're going to call it the cheese fence. >> burnt edges. >> the little burnt crispy edges. we want to get that all the way to the edge. right? >> this is the north sauce. >> yeah, this is the north sauce. >> what's the secret here? >> i can't tell you the secret. but you can get a version that is very palatable in our cookbook with the pizza. >> this is amazing. oh, that sauce. sweet, smoky. the highlight of this for me? i never thought i would say it. it's the crust. >> the crust, right? >> yeah. unbelievable. it's light, airy. it's crispy. >> reporter: these recipes and their stories have now been memorialized in a cookbook that hope to provide direction to youth through food to keep them out of prison. >> as far as when you're coming home from prison direction is not one of the things that's given.

you're given restrictions. you're given curfews. you're given a set of rules. but no one gives direction. and that's the only thing that people be needing. >> reporter: but the restaurant industry for people who are coming back out is an opportunity that might not exist elsewhere. >> it's definitely an opportunity. the prison is autonomous. any penitentiary you go to you have other guys the guys on the plumbing crew hamiding the plumbing problems. the guys on the paint crew doing the painting. why aren't these guys basically highlighted in their industry as well? because they didn't just sit there and do anything. >> reporter: while society may close its doors to convicts and parolees the crew at down north wants to open them and open minds. >> you're flipping it on its head. you're saying no, we should be celebrating these people. >> yeah. they feel part of something. we're just providing the opportunity for them to be the best versions of themselves. >> but you've seen them flou sh. >>

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