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>> john: good evening. i'm john dickerson. >> maurice: i'm maurice dubois. president trump got two-thirds of the veteran's vote in november, but we noticed he never mentioned them in his nearly 100-minute address last night, and now we have learned he is cutting some 80,000 jobs at the va. >> john: we will have more about that in a moment. today, the commander in chief was prosecuting the trade war he started when he put a 25% tax on goods imported from canada and mexico, and doubled the tax on imports from china to 20%. >> maurice: they responded with tariffs of their own. the president spoke by phone today with canada's prime minister, but neither side budged. >> john: the president also spoke with detroit's big three automakers. he gave them a one-month exemption from the tariffs, but urged them to build more cars in the united states so they are less dependent on foreign imports. >> maurice: wall street liked the temporary reprieve. the big three stock indexes posted gains of more than 1%. weijia jiang is at the white house for us tonight. weijia?

>> reporter: we know president trump pays close attention to wall street, but top aides say it does not drive his decision-making as dealmaker in chief. tonight, less than 48 hours after those tariffs went into effect, we are learning what does: american companies caught in the middle. in public, presidential tough talk is fueling the trade war. >> whatever they tariff us, other countries, we will tariff them. >> even though you're a very smart guy, this is a very dumb thing to do. >> reporter: in private, administration officials are in constant contact with canadian and mexican counterparts, with commerce secretary howard lutnick leading negotiations. just hours after canada retaliated with tariffs on u.s. exports, he was working the phones, calling canadian officials. sources familiar with lutnick's call with the premier of ontario, doug ford, describe it as aggressive and tough.

lutnick told ford to stand down. not only did ford refuse, he said if anything, his province would go harder. >> to president trump, don't force our hand. you underestimate canadians, you're making a massive mistake. >> reporter: yesterday, president trump had a call with the big three u.s. automakers -- ford, stellantis, and gm -- who have been pressuring him for a carve out for vehicles built in canada and mexico. this morning, lutnick said trump was considering walking back tariffs on some sectors. by this afternoon, the white house announced a one-month exemption for cars and trucks. still, the white house press secretary says trump is all in on his tariffs plan, despite the risk of rising prices. why should americans be okay with that, when so many are already struggling to pay the bills? >> the american people elected this president to have monumental reform and change, including rebuilding our

manufacturing base in this country, standing up to foreign nations who hav been ripping off our country for decades, and that requires a little bit of disruption. >> john: and weijia jiang joins us from the white house. weijia, a little bit of disruption in the relationship with the canadians there, not giving up without a fight. >> reporter: well, prime minister trudeau says canadians are reasonable and polite, but they will not back down from a fight. that means a 25% tariff on more than $150 billion of american product, and trudeau says they will remain in place until u.s. tariffs are removed and "not a moment sooner." >> maurice: weijia, what about mexico? what are they saying? >> reporter: well, unlike canada, mexico did not respond with retaliatory tariffs right away, perhaps to buy a little time for a potential breakthrough. its president says she will see how things go before sunday, and if u.s. tariffs are still in place then, not only will mexico retaliate, she says they will look for deals with other countries.

>> john: and finally, weijia, i want to go back to what we mentioned at the top of the show, 83,000 jobs cut at veterans affairs. what do you know about that? >> reporter: well, cbs news has obtained an internal memo from the va that says it plans to cut 15% of its workforce to return to 2019 levels, and we asked the va and the white house who is going to be impacted? are we talking about administrators or doctors and nurses? they did not specify but told us the department is cutting bureaucracy and bloat. >> john: weijia jiang at the white house. thank you, weijia. the trade war started as the world's largest legislature was convening in china. >> maurice: nearly 3,000 members. anna coren is in beijing. >> reporter: a show of strength outside the great hall of the people. as soldiers from the people's liberation army marched across tiananmen square adorned with flags. they are part of the almost 3,000 delegates who arrived in

beijing for the opening of the national people's congress, china's most important political event of the year. >> thank you, thank you. >> reporter: but hanging over this highly scripted and choreographed event, the escalating tensions with the united states and china's defiance. excuse me, sir, are you worried about the u.s.-china trade war? do you think that president xi and president trump can make amends? inside the hall, all eyes anxiously waited for the main event. the national people's congress is very much focused on the economy. this year, it has been overshadowed by geopolitical events, with the u.s.-china trade war taking center stage. china's leader was warmly greeted. only yesterday, xi's government hit back at the u.s. with retaliatory tariffs against agriculture. while a foreign ministry spokesman issued a warning, "if war is what the u.s. wants, be it a tariff war, a trade war, or any other type of war, we are ready to fight till the end."

as president xi watched on, his deputy delivered his address. ♪ ♪ while china faces economic challenges, its leadership says it won't back down. this confident posture defying beijing's cold spring weather and the geopolitical storm clouds that are forming. >> john: and anna coren joins us now from beijing. anna, with all of those economic headwinds that china is facing, why are they pushing back so hard? >> reporter: well, john, china is basically saying that it won't be bullied, and this act of defiance we are seeing from china is because it has had six years to prepare for this. remember the trade war began back in 2018. china has also become a global leader in key industries. it is less reliant on the u.s. so despite its economic challenges, china is saying to the u.s., we are prepared. >> maurice: and anna, the chinese just announced a big 7% increase in military spending. is that setting off concerns?

>> reporter: yeah, absolutely, maurice. compare that to other countries, and it is significantly higher. you've got taiwan, the south china sea, where china is trying to develop its sphere of influence. so the united states and its allies, they are concerned, and remember that there are members of the trump administration who believe that china poses the greatest threat to the world. >> john: anna coren in beijing for us. thanks, anna. >> maurice: now more of the top stories from around the world in tonight's "evening news" roundup. u.s. prosecutors call it hacking for hire. they have charged 12 people in china with that crime today. some worked for a private hacking company that allegedly got paid by the chinese government. they are accused of targeting u.s. government offices,% including the defense intelligence agency. >> john: cbs news has learned the trump administration has stopped sharing intelligence that could help ukraine target russian forces. defensive intelligence is still being shared. this follows the cut off of new

military aid as the administration pressures ukraine to end the war with russia. >> maurice: and the alleged mastermind of a deadly terror attack on the u.s. military was in federal court in virginia today. mohammad sharifullah was arrested in pakistan. 13 american service members were killed in the suicide attack during the chaotic u.s. withdrawal from afghanistan in 2021. our justice correspondent scott macfarlane was in the courtroom. and scott, what are you learning about this guy tonight? >> reporter: okay, maurice, he is a longtime accused isis-k operative with a history of attacks. the fbi says he had been freed from prison for just two weeks in 2021 on a different charge before he allegedly helped plot the abbey gate bombing, which killed 13 service members. and prosecutors say he admitted plotting the route used by the attacker when he was questioned after he was caught in the cia raid a few days ago, john. >> john: and so, scott, what does mohammad sharifullah look like in a courtroom?

>> reporter: you really could feel the weight of the moment. i mean, there it is, a suspected isis-k terrorist standing in a u.s. court, answering for an historic attack. small man, barely 5 feet, he was wearing those blue jail outfits that look like blue medical scrubs, and he spoke in a real meek voice, when informed he would be held in jail until further hearings and faces the prospect of life in prison if convicted, maurice. >> maurice: scott. >> john: scott macfarlane in washington for us, thank you. >> maurice: still ahead on the "cbs evening news," lonnie quinn with ice jams in the northeast and why they are so dangerous. >> john: and we will have these stories, as well. >> i'm mark strassmann. going to college without taking on any debt. it gets better. students actually make money. that's tonight's "eye on america." ♪ ♪ >> i'm lilia luciano at the san ysidro border crossing near san diego. the president has called border security a national emergency, so what is happening here and now? that's next on the "cbs evening news." ♪ ♪ ext on the "cbs evening news." ♪ ♪ like michael, who have taken ozempic®.

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of national intelligence to the border, to the town of eagle pass, texas. >> john: the vice president j.d. vance said mr. trump hopes to have the border wall completed by 2029. lilia luciano reports illegal border crossings are down dramatically. >> maurice: this is what the border looked like near el paso two years ago, as hundreds lined up to claim asylum. we were there at the height of it. shelters were overflowing with asylum-seekers. this man we spoke with spent the night sleeping outside in the brutal cold. now the streets are empty and the shelters quiet. last week, cbs news went out with border patrol agents as they searched for hours for any sight of a border crosser. they came up empty-handed. illegal crossings are down 94% across the entire border from the same period last year, from nearly 5,000 a day to less than 300. it's a downward trend that began last year, with mexico's

increased border crackdown and the biden administration's executive order to stop accepting asylum claims from people who crossed illegally. since taking office, president trump has dramatically cut back the process for legal entry, while promising the largest mass deportation in u.s. history. there he's off to a slower start. according to the department of homeland security, at least 55,000 people were deported in the first five weeks of the trump administration. by comparison, an average of 57,000 were deported every month during the last full year of the biden administration. we asked department of homeland security spokesperson tricia mclaughlin about it. president trump promised during the campaign that millions would be deported, something like 15 million. when you divide that, it should come down to 300,000 or more people should be being deported, 55,000 is a lot less. >> i don't think that the first month is going to be the status quo. >> reporter: in the first week of the administration, we saw these massive raids. we saw secretary noem out there.

there was this massive show of force. have the raids been reduced? >> these i.c.e. raids as they are often called are very tactical, and they are very targeted. that's why we say it is the worst of the worst. we follow where the individuals are, the low-hanging fruit, so to speak, and i think that they are going to evolve. >> reporter: once you get past the people who have a criminal record, what options do undocumented people have if they want to make a case for staying in this country, working in this country, contributing? >> i think that the best message is that they should self-deport and leave now and then come back the right way. >> maurice: lilia luciano joins us now from san ysidro, california. so, lilia, how else have they been able to get these numbers down so dramatically low? >> reporter: maurice, i'm going to tell you something that i heard today from an immigration attorney dealing with all kinds of cases, just trump being in the office is deterrence enough. but there have been dozens of policies and actions from the trump administration, from trying to stop refugee

resettlement, to ending the appointment that tens of thousand people had to make their case for asylum, to ending visa programs, parole, and the impact is felt throughout the hemisphere. last week, i heard from a panamanian government official who told me that now, their country is dealing with reverse migration, people heading back down south from those who historically have tried to head up north to the united states. >> john: lilia luciano on the border for us, thank you. >> maurice: a winter storm brought blizzard conditions to the upper midwest. driving was extreme a hazardous. dozens of crashes were reported in iowa and minnesota. >> john: in the northeast, there is a risk of flooding caused by ice jams. lonnie quinn, help me out here, what are ice jams? >> well, listen, an ice jam happens when you get a warming trend, and the ice on the river starts to naturally break apart, they collide, and you just get flooding over the banks. but there is another element you really need, and you need a lot of rain. and that is exactly what we picked up. this one, the same line that

pushed through the south, into the southeast yesterday, made its way to the mid-atlantic today, up to northern doing wind and portions of upstate new york, as well. so what that does, it raises the level of the river and now in that ice is moving along has some problems, they start colliding and you get the big flooding. so they are breaking up into smaller pieces. that boat you see right there, the edward cotter, in buffalo, new york, is the oldest active fire boat in the world. 125 years it has been operating, today being used to break up the ice. so why do you break it up? because smaller pieces of ice will get through narrow passages on the river. what happens is when that river starts to melt the ice, and here comes those big chunks floating down the river, they will collide when they go around a tight curve or possibly they hit a bridge or some thing like that. that then causes the water behind it to back up, floods the bank, and this is a problem that we are going to have an upstate new york, over new england record snow back today, when you break those up into smaller pieces, it will navigate the narrow passage better. gentlemen? >> maurice: makes all the sense in the world. lonnie, here we are in march, early march, are we looking for more weather to come?

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>> reporter: this is live oak farms in california san joaquin valley. 3,000 acres of tomatoes, peppers, omens, and alfalfa. carlos marquez, a quietly ambitious guy, started here ten years ago as a day laborer. today, he is the operations manager, while a full-time college student. is this your classroom? >> this is it right here. [laughs] >> reporter: he is in a pilot program funded by a federal grant and offered free to students by merced college. in its competency-based curriculum, students such as marquez master vocational skills. >> identify the hydraulic controls. >> right here. >> perfect. >> reporter: agriculture is only one area. others include education and health care. it's real-life, hands-on, rather than the traditional college classroom experience. >> we know that the traditional model can be antiquated in some ways, so what can we do to up-skill them to prepare them for 21st century jobs?

>> reporter: merced college president chris vitelli developed the program for the school. what to you about the program is innovative? >> they come to us, they master a skill, and then they move onto the next one. >> reporter: you can actually go to school and make money? with this program? >> you can. you can. money? with this program? >> you can. you can. i mean, this program so our students can have a part-time job. they can have a full-time job. >> reporter: with a soaring cost of college, it's probably no surprise more than 40% of full-time students have a job while they are in school. but at a cost. they're roughly 20% less likely to finish their degree. as a nontraditional college student, carlos marquez can work and study, making $1300 a week. a big help for the 32-year-old father of two. >> you get in, get the training, and then you just keep on building from there. >> reporter: there are now more than 1,000 of these programs at colleges across the country. 82% of them expect the number of those programs to grow.

>> it's incumbent on us to find ways to meet their needs, not the opposite way around. >> reporter: marquez started traditional college when he was 18. he didn't like it and couldn't afford it when his scholarships ran out. now he can earn an industry-recognized certificate, with added fuel to finish. >> i'm first-generation. being able to accomplish that, you know, get that, and then be an example for my daughters, i mean, that's where it's at. >> reporter: on a farm or off. that's growth. for "eye on america," mark strassmann, in merced, california. >> maurice: when marquez finishes the program in may, his employer has committed to giving him a 10% raise. other merced partners have agreed to put graduates on a track to become managers. in tomorrow's "eye on america," two problems solving each other,

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>> john: welcome to "cbs evening news plus." i'm john dickerson. the hackers are still hacking. the department of justice charges a dozen people were

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