>> john: welcome to "cbs evening news plus." i'm john dickerson. the latest employment report shows fewer jobs were created than economists expected.

meanwhile, the president promotes cryptocurrency. cbs's kelly o'grady will update us on the economic signs. shrinking supplies. humanitarian agencies report that food and medicine are running out in gaza. cbs's debora patta follows one family through the hardship. and explosion, will robinson. another spacex rocket speckles the sky with flaming debris after an explosion. on the moon, things have gone sideways for the lunar lander that touched down and is now oriented that way. we'll ask cbs's bill harwood some space probing questions in tonight's interview. those stories and more right after our news headlines. ♪ ♪ two american soldiers charged with selling military secrets to chinese operatives. a former soldier is also accused of being a go-between for one of them. all told, the defendants are accused of selling military hard drives, missile system manuals,

and other sensitive data. more measles cases. health officials in texas say the outbreak there now stands at 198 confirmed cases. that's up 39 patients since tuesday. hold fire. south korea announced today it is freezing live fire drills and air force training exercises after a fighter jet mistakenly dropped bombs in a civilian area. nearly 30 people were injured. the pause will delay anticipated joint training with the united states. ♪ ♪ we begin tonight with more signs of weakness in the u.s. economy. job growth last month fell short of expectations, highlighting that businesses are becoming more conservative, which could suggest less economic activity. president trump today brushed off those concerns. >> no, i think the labor market is going to be fantastic. but it's going to have high paying manufacturing jobs as

opposed to government jobs. >> john: cbs "money watch" correspondent kelly o'grady is here to tell us we should think about all of this. first, the president's comments. good jobs report? let me squeeze in the comment he made about manufacturing jobs. >> he is right about the manufacturing jobs and you and i have talked about this. we are seeing people hire more in that space because there could be a pretty good boom. overall, we are seeing some signs of slowing. 4.1% unemployment rate. that's pretty good. we are not falling off a cliff. what we look to is the next few months. how are tariffs? how is slowing consumer spending impacting how these businesses hire? >> john: is the next jobs report going to include more government workers? we get a better sense of how that affects the economy? >> exactly. that wasn't included this month. >> john: jerome powell was talking today. no one loves his comments more than you and i. what did he have to say and was it interesting? >> chairman powell doesn't like

to come out and say everything. you have to read between the tea leaves. he did say there's a lot of uncertainty about this administration's trade policies. by the way, he's not the only one. that's why you saw the markets seesaw this week because there's so much uncertainty. that of course impacts what are you going to do with interest rates? >> john: right. uncertainty is this big thing out there that's hard to get your hands around until he measured by the drop in the stock prices. the president held a crypto summit at the white house. what should we take away from this? >> big win for a crypto industry. they are big supporters of him. he says he's going to be the first pro-crypto president. we got an executive order creating a strategic bitcoin reserve. we have a lot of strategic reserves: gold, oil, cheese, i found out. you use it when necessary essentially. this is different, though. we are not going to be buying more cryptocurrency. instead we're going to leverage what we have seized as a government from fraudulent activities. that's why you didn't see the price of bitcoin go up today. people expected, they are going to buy.

they are not going to be using taxpayer dollars to do that. >> john: a complicated issue we'll talk a lot about more in future appearances. kelly o'grady, thanks very much. turning to the death penalty case in south carolina and the legal issues surrounding it. today for the first time in 15 years, a man was executed by a firing squad. authorities gave brad sigmon, convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend's parents, three options on how to die, firing squad, electric chair and lethal injection. he chose firing squad despite it being considered cruel and unusual punishment in some states. i'm joined by jessica levinson, cbs news legal contributor and loyola law school professor. jessica, how is this an option that he could choose and why isn't it cruel and unusual? >> well, it's an option he can choose because some states, about five states, allow it to be an option. in some states, it can't be the primary option. in some states, you have to show

there is essentially a problem with another method, like lethal injection, but as i read the current supreme court case law, it does not ban a firing squad. it lays out standards. all the way up until recently in 2019 when the court said as long as it doesn't create, meaning an execution method, a substantial risk of harm more than the alternative or a substantial risk of severe pain, then it would not be considered to violate the eighth amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. >> john: is that how idaho -- my understanding is in idaho there's a bill that's saying this is the only way we're going to do executions, which is different than south carolina which says it's not cruel and unusual because the prisoner got a choice. by your definition of the supreme court, choice doesn't matter. it just matters the standard you just articulated. is that right? >> certainly there could be a challenge that says when you don't have an option, then this does amount to cruel and unusual punishment.

i will say that you need a supreme court that's amenable to that particular argument, and as i read the precedent, it's not hinging on, as your question correctly laid out, the availability of options so much as whether or not this is comparatively more, for instance, painful than other options. >> john: in this specific case, it took 25 years -- he was on death row for 25 years. what goes on during that period of time? because he admitted he had done the crime. what took 25 years between then and now? >> so, i'll just zoom out and say what takes so long in the vast majority of death penalty cases where we sometimes do look at ten years, 20 years, a quarter-century, because this is the most serious thing that the state can do to an individual. it's not taking away their liberty. it's taking away their life. so when it comes to death penalty cases, we allow people every available appeal, every

available argument that even if they say "i did it," there are mitigating factors that would take for instance the death penalty off the table. the short answer is because we want to provide people with as much process as possible before we take that final step. >> john: and indeed there have been exonerations of people on death row. jessica levinson, cbs news legal contributor. thank you so much. today marks the first friday of prayers in ramadan, the holiest month of the muslim calendar. in gaza, thousands gathered to break their fast with what little food remains. for nearly a week, israel has blocked food and medical supplies from entering the strip to pressure hamas into a revised ceasefire plan. cbs's debora patta is in east jerusalem and reports on the deteriorating conditions. >> reporter: the cease-fire in gaza is perilously close to collapsing. these images were not filmed during the worst days of the war but just today. palestinians once again

scrambling for food. after israel stopped all eight all aid entering gaza to pressure hamas into accepting new terms of the cease-fire deal. the shaaban family home was almost flattened during months of bombardment. mustafa abu shaaban was a blacksmith before the war. since then he's had no work. like most of gaza's more than 2 million people, they are almost entirely dependent on aid. >> [speaking in a global language] >> i came back during the cease-fire and saw my home was ruined, but we cleaned it and are living in a small part of it. >> reporter: his wife tries to create a semblance of normality as she helps her kids with their studies. >> [speaking in a global language] >> our life is hard. we just want to live like everyone else. >> reporter: but it is the holy month of ramadan and she has no idea how she will feed her four

children. already the aid freeze is starting to bite. making his way through apocalyptic scenes of devastation, mustafa shaaban heads for the local market. [speaking in a global language] >> all our roads are just ruins. whenever i turn, it's just ruins. >> reporter: prices have soared, and severe shortages of milk, eggs, meat and cooking gas have been reported. on this day, they were mostly vegetables. all he could afford were a few tomatoes, cucumbers, and radishes. his wife did her best. but there's not much to go around for the evening meal that breaks their fast. >> we ask the world to help us stop the war. we've had enough suffering. >> reporter: and as night falls, the specter of hunger looms once more. debora patta, cbs news, east jerusalem. >> john: now here are three things to know. wedding ring. the newest addition to the fbi's

most wanted list is a former olympian snowboarder. ryan james wedding is suspected of leading an international drug trafficking ring. wedding competed for canada at the 2002 winter olympics. there's now a $10 million reward for his capture. in oregon there's finally a lead in the cold case of a family that went missing over 66 years ago. a diver in the columbia river came across an old car submerged in mud upside down but otherwise intact. the diver got a partial license plate and police say they are 99% certain the vehicle belonged to the martin family who vanished mysteriously 1958. a crane has been called into lift the car out of the water. ♪ ♪ dwyane wiggins, one of the three founding members of the r&b band tony! toni! toné! has died. the trio combined blues, gospel,

and funk into a smooth signature sound that culminated in "sons of soul," a double platinum album in 1993. dwayne wiggins had been suffering from bladder cancer. he was 64. straight ahead on the "cbs evening news," houston, do we have a problem? a string of space launch mishaps from a starlink rocket bursting into flames to a lunar landing that went sideways. that's in tonight's interview where we speak with our cbs space consultant bill harwood.

♪♪ ♪♪ dreams begin here. welcome to the goodnight club.

>> john: you may have noticed all the troubling launch and landing mishaps affecting private space missions lately from two explosions of the spacex starship to lunar landers that can't stay upright. we think it's fair to wonder if these efforts still have the right stuff. so we've asked cbs's bill harwood to drop in for some perspective. bill, thank you for being here. give us your sense of, have you seen this much difficultly in space flight since you been covering this issue? >> you know, it's interesting, john. sometimes problems come in clumps. i don't know if there is some

statistical law at work behind that, but that's the way it seems. in this case, i think you really have a few apples and oranges here. you know, the starship is the most powerful, largest rocket ever built. it generates 16 million pounds of thrust at liftoff. that's twice the power of a nasa saturn v moon rocket and getting the bugs worked out of this vehicle is obviously taking spacex longer than they'd like. this is the second failure they've had with their starship upper stage and it's got nasa scratching their heads, because the starship is what they plan to use to carry astronauts to the surface of the moon in the artemis program in just two years. so spacex has a lot of work to do to perfect his rocket in time to keep the schedule going. >> john: is part of this the fact that everyone is pushing the envelope? or any of these failures ones that shouldn't happen? if you're pushing the envelope, you kind of expect some things to sometimes go wrong. >> well, they are certainly pushing the envelope on the starship.

this flight that failed was just their eighth test flight. getting this thing up and working, they are doing it in stages. they do this very rapidly with spacex where they will see a problem and fix it and then they go fly it and see if it works better. they are doing that very rapidly. but as you can see, mishaps can happen. the moon lander, the intuitive machines athena moon lander, that is one that you scratch your head about a little bit because they had a lander lasted that was similar in design that also tipped over when it reached the moon. it landed a little hard, was moving sideways. in this case, we don't know what happened to the athena lander. but it is up in the same boat, planted about 800 feet off target in a crater near the moon's south pole resting on its side and it couldn't recharge its batteries in that state so it's already died. it did send back a spectacular picture throwing earth in the background with two landing legs sticking up. but that's not what they wanted. why they didn't get that one

right, that's more interesting. >> john: finally tonight, bill, this question of the mission to the international space station, what is the schedule on that and what can you tell us about it? >> you know, the new crew, the four people going up next week, they arrived at the kennedy space center today. they're going to go up and replace the crew nine astronauts, that's the crew that includes butch wilmore and suni williams from the starliner, the ones who've been "stranded" in space for the past eight and a half months. it's interesting because there's been a little bit of misleading news about that. their return vehicle is already there. it's been there since last september. nasa decided to keep them up and bring them all down together. >> john: bill harwood, thanks, bill. good to talk to you again. the search for the fountain of youth, sorta. that's next on th "cbs evening

cbs cares. >> john: the biblical figure methuselah is said to have lived the age of 969. no one has ever gotten close to matching that of course but year by year, scientists are learning more about the aging process. as cbs's charlie de mar reports. >> reporter: at 100 years old, william taylor hasn't lost a step. >> i've had my fun. >> reporter: dr. douglas vaughan wants to know why people like taylor are better at getting old. >> we are at a place where the biology of aging has been demystified. if we can slow down aging just a little bit, we can push back the onset of disease and we can give people a longer health span. >> reporter: the cardiologist is leading research into the difference between a person's chronological age, how many years they've lived, and their biological age, how old

their body actually is. the foundation of his research came from a small amish community in indiana where he found that about 10% of the population with a particular genetic variation lived on average ten years longer. >> they can teach us a lot about what's required for healthy aging to take place. >> reporter: that work has evolved into an international investigation at the potocsnak longevity institute. >> as you get older, you want to know, am i going to stay sharp? >> reporter: kalinda marshall is a study participant. >> being able to be a representative from a minority community is really important because i want to know how does this information measure up to people like me? >> it will take a picture of the back of your eye with a bright flash. >> reporter: they use a series of tests to calculate biological age, including a scan of your retina. >> keep your eyes open. >> reporter: analyze your movements.

>> reporter: measure your body competition in a machine called a bod pod. and an electrocardiogram for heart function. then ai scours the mountain of data to come up with a number. >> perfect. your biological age is being read as years younger than your chronological age. >> reporter: dr. josh cheema is a cardiologist on the project. >> artificial intelligence gives us the opportunity to find patterns in the data that we can't find with our eyes and can't detect with the human brain. >> reporter: the work here has special focus on people and marginalized communities and those living with long-term medical problems. >> we are really interested in finding out ways to slow down aging in people that are disadvantaged. >> reporter: a network of similar labs on three continents is in the works. in japan, pills that mimic the genetic variation that helps amish live longer has done the same thing for mice in trials. >> theoretically we could bring this amish advantage to everybody.

>> to the masses. >> that looks great. >> reporter: steps towards a longer and healthier life. charlie de mar, cbs news, chicago. >> john: ahead in y reporter's

>> john: where do you go for hope? tonight we go to the end of the edmund pettus bridge in selma, alabama, 60 years ago on this day. to a backpack worn by john lewis. in it, he would put an orange,

a toothbrush, overnight provisions because he faced this... >> you are ordered to disperse. >> john: police swinging clubs to stop the peaceful march for the right to vote. lewis knew he'd be jailed, so he packed supplies. what gave him the courage to stand there in the face of a beating that would crack his skull? i got the answer 50 years later when i asked about that backpack. in it, he put two books, more than just overnight reading. the first was the "seven story mountain" by thomas merton. the monk who shared lewis' christian faith. lots of believers can't make church on sunday, let alone face attack dogs on a bloody one. merton writes about how faith becomes action through hope. by hope, he writes, "the abstract and impersonal become conviction. what i believe in faith, i make my own by hope." for lewis, hope wasn't an abstraction offered in prayers at night. it was lived conviction. through sacrifice and courage, he gave it life.

the next book was "the american political tradition" which starts with a quote from john dos pasos. "in times of change and danger when there is a quicksand of fear under men's reasoning, a sense of continuity with generations gone before can stretch like a lifeline across the scary present." it's a similar message but from a different source: that history can show a way when all around seemed dark. this is bloody sunday's legacy, a day when all evidence pointed only to despair. yet in time, faith in hope and history overcame it, leaving us a model of courage that asks, what do you put in your backpack? that's tonight's right now on cbs news bay area, car your carpool, dust off your bike, vta workers are planning to strike. when it will

begin and the impacted routes. plus, they say science is under siege, what drove hundreds of people to protest across the bay area today. plus, the tariffs are on pause, but farmers say some damage has already been done, why they say prices could be going up at your local farmers market. the san francisco chinatown's own superstar may be getting a permanent tribute in the neighborhood. from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. >> good evening. i'm ryan yamamoto. vta drivers are putting their buses and light rail trains in park on monday. the union says they're planning a strike. the vta says it gives more than 100,000 rides every day. that means there's a lot of people who have to find another way to get around and to get to work. our len ramirez heard from some of those riders scrambling to make plans. >> reporter: vta officials are already advising riders to