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wall street do not like what they hear. the president says tariffs may come and go, china and canada respond. stocks fall on the chaos and congress may add to it. government funding runs out friday. nikole killion is on capitol hill. 35 years ago the menendez brothers murdered their parents and captivated the nation. their latest push for freedom faces a legal setback. carter evans has the developments. why is northern california's once bustling wind industry rotting on the vine? we check in with cbs's elizabeth cook. ghost stories and more right after our news headlines. protests erupted following the arrest of mahmoud khalil, a green card holder who led a pro-palestinian student protests at columbia university. the trump administration is moving to deport him. the cases raising concerns about immigrant protections and free speech. cousins were rescued after a portuguese cargo ship and u.s. oil tanker collided off the east coast of england.

it sparked multiple explosions and an intense fire. the u.s. ship carrying jet fuel appears to have been hit while anchored to. according to our broadcast partners and the bbc. the portuguese ship was carrying sodium cyanide. the environmental impact not yet known to. after several days of clashes along syria's mediterranean coast, more than a thousand people are reported dead. most of them civilians. it was the worst fighting in syria since dictator bashar al-assad was ousted in a coup in december. loyalists fought against security forces for serious new islamist led government. ♪ ♪ we begin here in new york city with an arrest. over the weekend, columbia university graduate mahmoud khalil was arrested and faces deportation. he's a green card holder for the trump administration says the arrest stems from his involvement in pro-palestinian protests at the school last year.

the department of homeland security says his arrest as a result of mr. trump's executive order prohibiting anti-semitism, president trump says it is the first of many common. i'm joined by it cbs's lilia luciano. tell me about what khalil did with respect to these protests at what he's been charged with. >> reporter: that's a great question. what the department of homeland security has expressed is that they are following an executive order that bans anti-semitism. what secretary of state rubio has said is that this is one example of other people who could lose their visas and their green cards. what i have seen online even from those who had criticized his activities are expressions against the war, pro-palestinian protests, he's somebody who students told me today and faculty members was kind of a negotiator between students and leaving the protests and a faculty, i haven't seen anything indicating criminal activity which is the bar that needs to

be sent to. >> john: that leads to my next question, if you have a green card what does the bar that allows the government to kick you out of the country? >> reporter: it's quite a high bar. i've consulted several immigration attorneys today. one told me i have never seen anything like this including after 9/11. under the patriot act. today a judge blocked the deportation to provide his legal team an opportunity to maintain the jurisdiction in new york to fight this case. somebody who was a permanent resident who is married to an american citizen, you have to prove that he has committed a crime and we have yet to see that. >> john: is there a schedule for when that hearing will happen? >> reporter: it will happen next wednesday at 11: 30, we will be covering it. >> john: what has reaction been on the campus? >> reporter: today was a cold day. i have to say it was a cold day because you could feel the chill in the air which match to the chill in terms of freedom of expression. i heard from students and faculty members, some were

incensed and many refused to talk to us on camera because they are afraid of the repercussions that go beyond disciplinary action in the school, they go into their own freedom. >> john: thank you. stocks sent news writers to the thesaurus today looking to explain the dow was 890-point drop, the s&p 50 and fell 2.7% and the nasdaq took a 4% plunge, the worst they into a half ye years. price increases from tariffs, fears from a drop in consumer spending, chilling effect in washington on ceo decision-making, it could be a factor adding to the answer to the multibillion-dollar deadline at the end of the week to get the government open. this is speaker mike johnson's life. he's got to president donald trump's backing but a very narrow margin to pass his preferred short-term funding bill by midnight friday. that's just in the house. the senate is a different

manner. nikole killion joins us from capitol hill to help us understand some of this. start us off with what's in speaker johnson's bill. >> reporter: basically this is a bill that would fund the government at roughly the same funding levels as the last fiscal year through september of this year. it includes some modest increases in defense spending by about $6 billion, although it cuts and non-defense spending by $13 billion. it includes some increases in funding for veterans health care and ice. >> john: this is to keep the lights on, there's this other separate massive budget fight we won't get into but on this idea of keeping the government going, does he have the support from his members with that very narrow margin in the house? >> reporter: republican leadership feels confident they can get this over the finish line, so far we only know of one no vote and that is kentucky's tom massey. what is different about this funding fight is that democrats aren't on board.

usually they help out and vote overwhelmingly for these short-term bills or continuing resolutions. the night, leader hakeem jeffries said this is a bill that democrats simply can't support in part because they believe these cuts go too far. >> john: lets imagine it gets out of the house which basically means johnson can't lose any more boats, pretty much. it goes to the senate, different ball game. tell us what the situation looks like they are. >> reporter: there's a leadership meeting this evening on capitol hill and senate democrats emerged from that tight-lipped, not tipping their hand one way or another. they will support this measure -- many are taking a wait-and-see approach. so far the only one who seems on board as pennsylvania's john fetterman who is made clear he will not be a part of any boat to shut down the government. >> john: because it requires seven democratic votes to be that 60 threshold in the senate to. nikole killion on the hill, thank you so much.

today the los angeles county district attorney said he will fight a renewed push for erik and lyle menendez to be released from prison. the two brothers were convicted of killing their parents more than three decades ago. cbs's carter evans reports the d.a. says the brothers need to come clean about the crime. >> our position is they shouldn't get out of jail. >> reporter: l.a. news district attorney nathan hochman says erik and lyle menendez should not be resentenced because after more than 30 years they still haven't taken responsibility for their crimes. back end october former d.a. george gascon said the brothers case deserves another look. >> i believe the brothers were subjected to a terminus amount of dysfunction in the home in a molestation. >> reporter: that wasn't their defense in the 1993 trials. import the brothers said they were acting in self-defense when they killed their parents. the evidence suggested otherwise. >> they took actions that were both premeditated and deli deliberate. not just immediate responses to their parents. somehow threatening them the

night of august 20th. >> reporter: hochman outlined the days before the murders the brothers drove to san diego to purchase shotguns and even visited a firing range to practice. he says the brothers try to make the murders look like a mafia hit by shooting their father in the back of the head and their mother in the face. then shot both in the kneecaps to complete the picture. >> to the extent that there is evidence of preplanning, that undercuts the idea that there was an immediate risk that there was no other choice other than to kill their parents. >> reporter: family members who support the brothers police say the new d.a. is playing politics. do you think there's any chance the menendez brothers are going to get out of jail in the next few years? >> we have laid out a pathway for the menendez brothers to potentially get out of jail. it requires them to finally come i fully acknowledge and completely accept responsibility for the entire breadth of their crimes and all the lies they have told. >> reporter: a judge will ultimately decide if the

brothers should be resentenced. california governor gavin newsom can still grant clemency. he's asked of the four world war ii evaluate if erik and lyle menendez would pose a safety risk. risk. carter evans, cbs news los angeles. >> john: here are three things to know. the supreme court said today it will hear a case challenging colorado's ban on lgbtq conversion therapy for minors. more than 20 states have similar bands which are aimed at scaring people away from homosexuality or being transgender. several studies show these efforts are ineffective, costly to taxpayers and harmful. climate change here on earth will soon be causing clutter hundreds of miles up in what's called the low earth orbit to. researchers at mit say climate change makes the upper atmosphere less dense. as a result, dead satellites and other space junk won't fall to earth and burn up as often. instead, researchers say much of it will remain in space floating

inside and increasingly smaller and more crowded area. eagle eyes were locked on her nest in big bear, california, over the weekend as a third eaglet emerged from its egg, completing a set of triplets. the proud eagle parents jackie and shadow have been drawing viewers to their nest cam since 2017. they struggled in recent years to have more babies but this year they hit the trifecta. there's more to come on cbs evening news plus. >> these cuts were indiscriminate. they were based not on any particular mission priorities. >> john: mass layoffs of climate analysts and national weather forecasters. will the country be prepared for

>> john: cbs news has learned another wave of mass firings could be hitting the national oceanic and atmospheric administration. the agency which includes the national weather service could ultimately lose about 20% of its staff. for two nights in depth, senior meteorologist rob marciano reports the cuts are already raising concerns over public safety.

[chanting] >> reporter: hundreds of protesters rally outside of the noaa headquarters in silver spring, maryland. fired employees chanted messages of support to their remaining colleagues looking down from above. >> noaa's people are here to help. >> reporter: sarah cooley was the head of the office of ocean acidification and studied how warming waters impacted ecosystems until she was fired in doge cuts. >> i put my head down on my desk and i cried to. it was gutting. >> reporter: there was concern key jobs are being lost in science. >> that's the number one motivation, putting science to work. >> reporter: these are just a few of the 880 employees fired across the country, a majority were probationary workers were less than two years in their position. who suddenly found themselves terminated to. >> my job in the last hour that i had at work was to pass off every pending activity to my deputy because now he is going

to be acting director of the program. >> reporter: in addition to staffing cuts, doge announced it may terminate the leases of 19 noaa offices across the country, including key buildings that generate vital weather forecast and radar operations. >> these cuts were indiscriminate, they were based not on any mission priorities. >> reporter: d rick spinrad was administrator during the biden% administration, he worries how it will impact the national weather service. >> it almost assuredly will affect the availability, the frequency and accuracy of the warnings. is a big capital expense associated with that. airplanes, radars, satellites, who was going to pick those up the? we don't have the capability to sustain or replace those. >> reporter: this is the united states department of commerce. noaa is a part of it, a big

part. it makes up over half of its budget, over 12,000 employees and over 6,000 of those are scientists and engineers. >> reporter: more firings are likely coming. >> where do you think we are going with all of this? >> i think at some point people are going to mechanize we need these capital lease for the public good which after all is the role of governments. the question is how much damage will be sustain before we are able to turn around to the damage that's already been done? >> reporter: rob marciano, cbs news -- silver spring, maryland. >> john: why california winery owners are pulling out their hair and pulling up their grapevines

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>> john: you might want to put down that glass of wine for the next story or hold onto it lest you spill a drop. that's because a new report out today says california's wine supply has dropped 24% compared to the year before. it's the lowest hall in nearly 30 years. to help explain why we turned to elizabeth cook for tonight's interview. what does this report say more broadly? >> reporter: here in california we make 80% of the countries why in. today's report further underline the troubled industry is is in right now. according to the report the amount of grapes crushed to make wine is the lowest it's been in two decades, down 24% over just last year. grapes crushed for red wines down nearly 26% and grapes crushed for white wines down 17%. despite the decline, winemakers still generated a lot of money,

$88 billion alone according to a 2020s to study we found. >> john: what caused or started this decline? >> reporter: the wine industry over planted, they have too many fields. but tastes have changed. younger generations are not drinking as much as the baby boomers. add to that of the health concerns. last year the world health organization you probably remember dealt a huge blow when it reported any amount of alcohol is unsafe for your health. >> john: we saw a shocking site when you reported grape growers are actually ripping up the vineyards as a result of the downturn in the wine industry? what is behind that? >> reporter: it was heartbreaking to see. 85,000 acres have been pulled up in california alone in the last three years. this a recommendation to get rid of another 33,000 acres, that's 6% of the vineyards left in

california. the analysts say they need to go in order for the industry here to be viable. >> john: why is that? in order to create less wine which creates scarcity because there are fewer people buying into that keeps the markets going and keep the prices high? >> reporter: exactly. the over plaintiff, there's too much supply. they need to do something to go against what they already have. >> john: tell me about tariffs and whether -- we talk about those so much how would those affect the wine industry? >> reporter: california exports 95% of the nation's wine. that's about $55 billion worth of wine. retaliatory tariffs from countries hitting back at the u.s. could put a dent in the amount of money that the wine industry can expect to make. >> john: is the wine industry -- you mentioned the world health organization saying that alcohol is unsafe. is the wind industry collectively joining together to try to send some other kind of message to help with that difficult blow to their

marketing? >> reporter: the wine industry has a some powerful lobbyists and they say there are holes in that world health organization study. they are trying to look at that study again to perhaps highlight some of the health benefits they say are in wine. >> john: finally, wine grapes are different from the grapes we eat. can they ship extra grapes to those of us who might want to eat them rather than drink them? >> reporter: wine grapes are different from grapes used to make raisins. there are seeds in them and not used to make grape juice. frankly the only one -- the only as they die on the vibes is the- birds. >> john: elizabeth cook in san francisco, thank you so much. curiosity can get a bad rap given the whole thing about the cat but i will put a different spin on it

♪ ♪ ♪ >> john: what does curiosity sound like? in 1876 on this day alexander graham bell learned when a telephone sounded like. and according to his assistant thomas watson, the inventor spilled acid and it shouted "mr. watson, come here, i want to seal." the message traveled down the hall through the device they worked on, unexpectedly

demonstrating the telephone worked which helped bell forget about the acid that. one of history's most famous accidents but the real unexpected event that led to the telephone happened a year earlier when bell and watson were working on something else entirely -- the telegraph. him watson tweaked a part of the equipment, it made a sound which bell heard through the wire in the next room, he wasn't expecting that. it was like a knock on the door they didn't know existed to. he could've ignored the noise and frustrated at the distraction from the task at hand -- instead he followed his curiosity to develop an entirely different device. science fiction writer isaac asimov said the most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries is not "eureka" but "that's funny." bell had an "that's funny" moment about that unexpected noise and it led to the telephone. as watson later wrote it was an instance of the prepared mind at solving the problem by means of

another expect and result suddenly presented by work on a different line. that's a good recipe for discovery, prepared mind that stays alive to survive and it treats obstacles not as a block but an invitation to curiosity. now if we could avoid the distractions of the busy world, something bell instinctively understood which is why he didn't have a phone in his office. he said it interrupted his focus. you can't have the bellringing when you're trying to listen for the bell. that's tonight's cbs evening news plus, thanks for joining us. i'm john dickerson. have a good night. ♪ ♪ >sara>right now on cbs news right now on cbs news bay area, public transit at a standstill as vta workers go on strike. we'll hear from some of

the many riders wondering how they'll get around. >> it's really sad that we are the ones that are suffering from this. it's a rough day to check your investment, why stocks took a steep dive on wall street today. plus, a crushing report on the wine industry, why more vineyards may be pulling up their crops. and we'll meet two sisters who started their own business to make women feel their best, how a program in the south bay is helping not only their shop, but their souls thrive. >> you have to be okay personally in order for your business to grow. from cbs news bay area, this is the evening edition. >> hi. i'm sara donchey. whether it is getting to work or a doctor's appointment or anywhere important, a vta strike left thousands of commuters scrambling to find other ways to get around in santa clara county. 1,500 employees hit the picket lines today, bringing light rail and bus service to a halt. we heard