>> john: welcome to "cbs evening news plus." i'm john dickerson. back to the negotiating table. the u.s. and ukraine are set to

restart talks as early as next week, as european leaders at an emergency security summit pledged to support but acknowledged they need in america. imtiaz tyab is an kyiv with the latest. no aid relief. with billions in u.s. humanitarian funding cut, we'll look at the impact on global health, famines, and maintaining a stabilized world. that's for tonight's interview. exceptional workers. go in depth with a report on how my grant workers are talking america's food from the farm to the table. those stories and more right after our news headlines. ♪ ♪ tariff tumble. stocks fell again even though president trump paused more of his recently announced tariffs on goods from canada and mexico. the exemption covers about half of mexican imports and nearly 40% from canada. they're now set to go into effect on april 2nd.

i on your money. home mortgage rates fell for a seventh straight week. averaged 30-year fixed rate of 6.3% is the lowest since last december. existing homeowners are looking to cash in. refinancing applications are more than 80% higher than a year ago. investigation setback. ntsb says the learjet which crashed in the philadelphia neighborhood in january did not ntsb says the learjet which crashed in the philadelphia neighborhood in january did not have a functioning cockpit voice recorder. the preliminary report says the device was likely not recording for years. the pilots did not issue a distress call before the crash which killed all six onboard and one man on the ground. ♪ ♪ we begin tonight in ukraine where russian missiles targeted the hometown of the country's president, striking a hotel and killing at least four people. the fresh attack was a gruesome real-time example of why e.u. leaders gathered today for an

emergency security summit fearing that without strong u.s. support, russia's aggression could land at their door. volodymyr zelenskyy joined them in brussels to make his case. imtiaz tyab joins me. what's been the reaction among ukrainians to the freezing of the aid and stopping of u.s. intelligence. >> reporter: john, you can imagine it's been head spinning for ukrainians to learn military aid and aspects of intelligence sharing with the u.s. has been paused and now concerns around a quarter million ukrainians who found safety in the u.s. since the start of the war may lose their legal status, as the trump administration continues to pile pressure on president zelenskyy to agree to a deal with russia to end the war. we spoke to ukraine's former deputy prime minister about president trump's apparent strategy. if you could speak to the

president, what would you say to him? >> that we are very much counting on his engagement with the brave ukrainian people. i think free, independent sovereign, successful ukraine within the european family is going to benefit american people. >> john: imtiaz, speaking of the european family, president zelenskyy was in brussels with european leaders what was happening there? >> reporter: tonight, all 27 e.u. leaders came together for the first time since last week's frankly explosive meeting between president trump and zelenskyy. approed plans that could provide up to $800 billion to beef up the bloc's defenses with the e.u. commissioners saying europe is ready to assume its responsibilities amid russia's

war and ukraine. we heard from french president emmanuel macron who said france would consider extending the protection of its nuclear arsenal to its allies across the continent while president zelenskyy posted online that he expects to "have a meaningful meeting with the u.s." as early as next week. whatever the case, vladimir putin remains defiant. tonight he said russia would only seek a peace deal that safeguards its own long-term security and will not retreat from any of the gains it has made in the conflicts. >> john: imtiaz tyab from kyiv. thank you so much. the clock is ticking on the possible government shutdown. yes, it's that season again. if congress doesn't pass legislation by midnight next friday, portions of the federal government will cease operations. house speaker mike johnson is trying to scrounge up support for a vote to fund the government through september. cbs's caitlin huey-burns has the latest from washington. caitlin, i want to just separate the budget process here.

there's a big long budget process that has started. that's not what we're talking about here. we're talking about basically a stopgap bare-bones measure to keep government open. is that where things are? what does that bill look like? >> reporter: yeah, it's confusing for people at home. it's confusing for those of us who cover this every day. essentially the budget we've been talking about is what congress wants to spend money on in the future. what we are talking about with government funding is money and spending they've already agreed to. mike johnson, the house speaker, said he's releasing text hoping for a bill, a vote on a bill next tuesday. basically this would extend current spending levels, meaning those levels agreed to under the biden administration, through the end of the fiscal year. so through the end of september. that means no big cuts to government spending, keeping things as-is so that they can move on and focus on the policy they want to focus on in that big budget. >> john: i'm going to get to the big budget in a second but

quickly, does he have enough votes for this continuing resolution to keep the lights on? >> reporter: that's always the big question plaguing the speakership, john. basically they can only afford to really lose one vote. you know you have a contingency -- a constituency in the house of members, conservative members, who don't like government spending at all. so he needs to get them on board. president trump has been very influential here. he had those members over to the white house this week and said "guys, look, get this done. get this over with. then you can have those big policy fights when it comes to the budget." >> john: quickly, about 15 seconds. congressional budget office said cuts are going to have to come out of medicaid to make the math work on the bigger budget. what's does that mean? >> reporter: that's right. they need to cut $800 billion in this section. the report is saying that you really can only achieve that if you make cuts to medicaid. speaker johnson has said we are not touching benefits when it comes to medicaid, only waste and fraud. as you all know, one person's waste and fraud could be another person's benefit.

the devil will be in the details. >> caitlin huey-burns in washington. thank you. disturbing your details have emerged in the death of sam nordquist. authorities saying nordquist, a trnsgender man from minnesota, was imprisoned and tortured for a month in a new york hotel before his february murder. cbs's nikki battiste reports seven people have been charged with first-degree murder but not a hate crime. >> reporter: the seven people allegedly involved in the month-long torture and death of sam nordquist, a transgender man, now face the harshest criminal charge in new york state: first-degree murder. but they are not charged with a hate crime. >> a hate crime would make this charge about sam's gender or about sam's race, and it's so much bigger. >> reporter: prosecutors say late last year, nordquist traveled from minnesota to this upstate new york motel room to meet one of the defendants with whom nordquist allegedly had a romantic relationship online. a new indictment reveals that over the course of a month,

nordquist was restrained with duct tape and was sexually assaulted and tortured by the defendants before they killed him and dumped his body in a field. >> a heinous crime, a horrifying crime does not necessarily mean a hate crime. >> reporter: jessica levinson is a legal analyst for cbs news. why wouldn't prosecutors charge a hate crime in this case? >> prosecutors might not charge a hate crime because they might not think they have the evidence to prove that the motivation behind the crime was the victim's status as somebody who is transgender. >> reporter: the indictment also says the defendants face additional charges of kidnapping, aggravated sexual abuse, and child endangerment for allegedly forcing a 7-year-old and a 12-year-old child to take part in the torture. >> many will ask the question why. as i stand here today as a human being, we'll never know te answer why. >> reporter: prosecutor say nordquist was laid to rest this week and that his family wants justice. nikki battiste, cbs news.

new york. >> john: now here are three things to know. a private lunar lander athena built by intuitive machines to investigate possible sustainable human presence on the moon touched down near the moon's south pole today. however, flight controllers believe it toppled over on impact. this is intuitive machines' second moon landing and second possible tip over. their odysseus mission last year also ended with the spacecraft on its side. researchers at uc san francisco have enabled a paralyzed man to control a robotic arm with his thoughts. it was made possible through a brain computer interface, or bci. unlike previous bcis that works for only a few days, this device functioned for a record seven months by adapting to shifts in brain activity. ♪ my life, my life, my life in the sunshine ♪ ♪ everybody loves the sunshine ♪

that's legendary jazz vibraphonist ray ayres in 1976 with his hit "everybody loves the sunshine." ayers died tuesday in new york following a long illness. ayers' songs have been sampled by everyone from mary j. blige to dr. dre. ayers had 12 albums land in the billboard 200. he was 84 years old. still ahead on "cbs evening news plus", how president trump's deep cuts to foreign aid are affecting humanitarian assistance around the globe.

>> john: human rights organizations are warning to the trump administration's massive cuts in international aid relief could imperil millions living in global crisis zones. one of those people is david miliband, president and ceo of the international rescue committee, and david is here for tonight's interview. david, very good to have you. how much more difficult is the irc's job given these cuts? >> there's no aid flowing. it's very simple. there's no aid money. >> john: none at all? >> no. the government have got three issues. number one, they've given us waivers to continue programming but they're not sending any money. those are life-saving programs for health, nutrition. they've given us permission. they say we want you to deliver your programs that save lives,

but there's no money coming in. second, we've got programs that are life-saving in places like south sudan that have simply been terminated with no good reason. nutrition programs, core programs for keeping people alive. and thirdly, the system is breaking down because we've applied for waivers for life-saving programs that haven't even been determined including in places like sudan which is the world's largest humanitarian crisis. the u.s. is the anchor of a global aid system. the anchor has been pulled up and the ship is rocking in very choppy seas. >> john: the third part, you are applying for, is it just that there's nobody on the phone to reach, there's no system? >> it's all by email so we don't know. we send them in and then we don't get an answer. that's four weeks we've been. millions of people have been affected. we are not talking about a marginal part. we're talking about a core

part. every administration has the full right to review programs. we understand that. we would like to participate in that. the problem here is that instead of waiting with the existing programs while the reviews going on, they have stopped the existing programs while they are doing their review. >> john: we are talking about food to keep from starving. medicines. >> yeah, absolutely core. senator rubio has said he wants an exclusion, a waiver for all food programs life-saving programs but the money is not flowing. we have health, nutrition, malnutrition programs. south sudan, we are helping 250,000 people through a program funded by the u.s. government. 6,000 kids at dire risk have had that program terminated. that's how serious it is. >> john: you mentioned this, but how much different would it have been if it had been less of a swift process? >> it would have been 180 degrees different. while the government was doing its review, they could've kept the programs going. keep going, change our priorities, that's understandable. but across the world the global aid system is in crisis because we don't know where the next

dollar is coming from. >> john: is there food sitting in warehouses? >> ys, there is. my own organization doesn't do much food distribution. we are more on the health, child protection, water and sanitation, very important programs. but there's american food sitting in warehouses for a range of other charities. >> john: what kind of choices now does this force you to have to make? >> they're very stark choices. we having to confine programs to their barest essentials. we are very committed, a mission driven organization. we know the american public corporations, philanthropists want to play their part. we are appealing to them but we are also appealing to the government. america's got a proud tradition in this area. it doesn't need to halt all the aid while it's considering the next steps in aid reform. >> john: you've been a diplomat in the previous part of your life. give me your sense on the role these plays -- obviously it plays a role in human sense but as a geopolitical force, why this kind of aid is important. >> successive administrations and generations of senators, including senator rubio when he

was in the senate, very committed on this issue, have understood diplomacy matters. defense matters. but my goodness. the commitment to keep people alive is part of the american heart, it's core to american values. the fact that those programs are now being broken up, that's what people don't understand. there's no question there's a moral case but there's also a strategic case. i guarantee you this. when america pulls up anchor and leaves, others will move in. >> john: david miliband international rescue committee. thank you so much. when we come back, we'll have this story. >> in this process, 24 hours every day. no holidays. >> john: how immigrant truckers have become essential workers in the movement of americ

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>> john: the trump administration's border crackdown has put a spotlight not just on illegal immigration but the role immigrant workers play throughout america's economy. in tonight's "in depth" cbs's adam yamaguchi reports their role in delivering america's food supply is center stage. >> reporter: when americans say the phrase farm to table, they rarely think of the mode of transportation. over 3 billion tons of agricultural products are moved across the u.s. every year with trucks carrying the majority of that freight. in california, america's number one dairy producer, manuel castro from el salvador plays a vital role in getting milk to market. >> it's a process and this process is 24 hours, every day. no holidays. >> reporter: so you work through all the holidays? >> yes, we work through all the holidays. >> reporter: you have been here in the states for well over 30 years.

>> yeah. about 30 years. >> reporter: the country has been kind to you? >> oh, yes. >> reporter: how long ago did you have citizenship? >> since 2009. >> reporter: manuel has loaded nearly 5,000 gallons of milk into his tank, and from here it heads over to a processing plant before making it eventually to a store within the next 24 hours. manuel drives for mogo transportation. a company with humble beginning. harwinder singh brar and his wife prab gill are the co-owners of mogo transportation. how large of a operation do you have? you started with one truck? >> we are close to 90 trucks. >> reporter: harwinder is known as happy to his friends and family. he is a punjabi sikh who came to the u.s. in 1998. he stayed and sought asylum

because of the religious persecution he faced in his own country. you had employees for ten plus years. you must treat them well. >> yeah, we try. this is my family. they are not employees. they are family to us. >> reporter: what do you think would happen to our economy, our lifestyles without this labor? >> trucking would shut down because it's primarily immigrants now. it's changed so much. >> reporter: a study by the national milk producers federation indicates that eliminating immigrant labor would double milk prices. >> it's about working hard people, these people wake up at 2:00 in the morning, 1:00 in the morning. they go out, you know, they finish around 11:00, 10:00 at night. the milk doesn't stop. it doesn't stop. >> reporter: adam yamaguchi. cbs news. petaluma, california. >> john: this story is part of an upcoming "cbs reports" documentary that goes inside the

milk supply chain from farm to table. "the price of milk" premieres this sunday march 9th streaming on cbs news 24/7. next we head to the arcade for my reporter's notebook.

♪ ♪ >> john: the nominees for the world video game hall of fame were announced today and the range spans nearly 50 years which is a little bit like judging movies "citizen kane"

and "everything everywhere all at once" all at once. this can give you the bends if your life span spans the life of video games. there's mattel football's l.e.d. game from 1977 in which you moved a little cursor around not too differently than the way i moved the cursor when i typed and edited this sentence, and we love day. staring down into the playing card size screen, furiously punching six buttons until way past the time we'd been called for dinner. at the other end of the spectrum, "call of duty," with photorealistic battle fields which change the nature of what a game actually is not just visually but also because you could play it with friends across town or across the world. also nominated "frogger" and "defender" which stood encased in massive closet sized boxes in arcades and bowling alleys when they were launched in 1981. now those games are played on the smartphones of the

grandchildren of parents who lined up quarters to mark their place in line to play. how will the judges range over 50 years to weigh what is influential for all time, not just in its moment? the public will be able to vote to influence the outcome. i'll be nominating "age of empires" from 1997 which i played until sunrise in my office trying to hold out against the kids destroying my kingdom from the computer in the kitchen. the world video game hall of fame isn't just preserving games. it's pioneering a new approach to cultural memory itself, one that moves at a digital pace where yesterday's innovation is today's nostalgia and tomorrow's history all witnessed within single generat right now on cbs news bay area, a major crackdown as police clear out a notorious trouble spot late last night, but this morning it was business as usual, how the city plans to

keep the same problems from coming back. three strikes could mean jail for people who refuse shelter in san jose. we look at what the mayor is proposing to get the homeless off the streets. and a global trade war, a new twist with the trump administration's tariffs why some businesses will be getting a bit of a break. governor newsom says his new podcast is changing the conversation, but his comments are already sparking backlash within his own party. >> from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. it's one of san francisco's most troubled intersections for open-air drug sales and illegal vending. >> good evening. i'm ryan yamamoto. >> the b.a.r.t. plaza at 16th and mission streets became the latest target of the city's efforts to clean up the streets, specifically at night. police video shows law enforcement officers descending on the