and this i think is going to send southwest into a financial tailspin. >> the short answer is it's about securing our future. >> reporter: southwest ceo bob jordan. >> we are more than the logo on our planes. our dna isn't open seating or even bags fly free. it's a dedication to service. >> reporter: but this was him last september. will bags still fly free? >> bags will still fly free, yes. it's the third thing that customers look for after fare and schedule is bags fly free on us. 97% of people are aware of our policy. so it's a huge consumer advantage. >> reporter: so as long as you're at southwest, that's not going to change? >> well, never say never. >> reporter: southwest will also add a new discounted basic fare and is changing how frequent flyer points are earned and redeemed. next year it will drop open seating for seat assignments while adding extra assignments as the airline looks to boost profitability after struggling post pandemic. is the southwest people know and

love is dead? >> yes. this change is so unlike southwest. and it really is something that i worry could be far more financially damaging to the airline than helpful. >> reporter: the checked bag fee hasn't been announced, but a source says it will be competitively priced. i'm kris van cleave in phoenix. artificial intelligence is now helping science determine why some people live more than 100 years and others don't. as charlie de mar report, tailored research can provide a path for people to follow for a longer and healthier life. ♪ >> reporter: at 100 years old, william taylor hasn't lost a step. >> i paid my partner. >> reporter: dr. douglas vaughn wants to know why people like taylor are better getting old. >> we're in a place where the biology of aging has been demystified. if we can slow down ageing a little bit, we can push back the onset of disease and give people a longer life 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 live on average ten years longer. >> they can teach us a lot about what's required for healthy ageing to take place. >> reporter: that work has evolved into an international examination of aging vaughn leads at northwestern met's 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 aging, including a scan of your retina. >> keep your eyes open. >> reporter: analyze your movements. >> all right.

and you can stop. >> i'm going give you a swim cap. >> all right. >> reporter: measure your body composition in a machine called a bod pod. >> just relax normally. >> reporter: an electrocardiogram for heart function. ten ai scours the mountain of data to come up with a number. >> perfect. >> so your biological age is being read as four years younger than your chronological age. sounds good. >> reporter: dr. josh 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, that we can't detect with the human brain. >> reporter: the work here has special focus on people in marginalized communities and those living with long-term medical problems. >> we are really interested in finding out ways to slow down ageing 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.

>> so theoretically, we could bring this amish advantage to everybody. >> reporter: to the masses. >> that looks great. >> reporter: steps towards a longer and healthier life. charlie de mar, cbs news, chicago.

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war ii to their rightful owners. the question is, what about the art that was voluntarily sold by collectors as they fled persecution. in france, they call it sold under duress, and the government says family members should get the art back. but some museums are standing in the way. barry petersen reports. >> reporter: few who see picasso's "the actor" at new york's metropolitan museum of art know its complicated history. >> it used to hang in the home of my great grand uncle paul leffmann. >> reporter: paul leffmann, a jewish businessman sold it in 1938. >> he needed money to escape the nazis. >> reporter: did they get out? >> they did get out and survive, but not all of the family did. >> reporter: laurel zuckerman represents leffmann's heirs who have fought for the painting, worth as much as $100 million, claiming it was sold under duress. sold under duress. >> yes. >> reporter: which means. >> if there had not been nazi

persecution against them, they never would have sold it. >> reporter: yet two american courts disagreed. but for other cases, the tide may be turning. an amsterdam museum returned odalisque my hon i matisse to harrys saying it was sold under duress. the sterns had tried to escape, but most of the family died in concentration camps. and in a historic policy shift, the french parliament recently unanimously approved a law fast tracking the return of art to families who claim it is rightfully theirs. why? what's the motive here? >> to recognize what happened and to help families to get their worth. >> reporter: david givi of the culture ministry heads the mission for research and return of nazi era looted property. >> we have to know the history because they should be in the rightful owners' hands because they are the last witnesses of

what happened during the war and these works are like the witnesses of the persecutions. >> i think there finally is political will to recognize that this is part belated justice. >> reporter: eight decades later justice. >> yes, quite belated. >> reporter: university of denver professional elizabeth campbell wrote about the complicity of the french and other european governments in keeping what the nazis stole. she says there could be even more change with new guidelines agreed to by france and other countries, including the united states. >> these new guidelines say that any persecuted person who sold a work of art during the nazi era should be assumed to have done so under duress. so it's now giving a blanket acknowledgment of coercion in any sale. so it's really a dramatic change. >> i don't think you can properly been introduced. >> reporter: when the germans retreated --

>> sam, it's your neighbor, mr. rembrandt. >> reporter: as shown in the movie "the monuments men" allied art experts found stacks of stolen paintings everywhere from caves to castles. more than 60,000 pieces of art were returned to france, but some 2,000 pieces ended up in limbo, held by the french government with no clear rightful owner. >> so this is maybe a painting which -- >> reporter: we met ines rotermund-reynard in front of one such painting at the musee d'orsay in paris. >> reporter: there is a wish by the french to clarify the situation. >> reporter: as the museum's newly hired provenance researcher, her job is to find the truth about a piece of art's nazi era past. >> somehow if you take a detective who say look at all the cold cases which happened 80 years ago and stole it. each story is important. and it is worth for each family

to do this effort records but the case of armand dorville has pitted the french government against his heirs, among them francine column. >> discovering the pictures is a way to know him. >> reporter: rafael -- >> i feel anger when we have so much difficulties to retrieve them. >> reporter: when doraville died of natural causes, his art collection was sold at auction. but due to antisemitic laws, the french authorities confiscated the proceeds. family members, without money to escape, were later murdered at auschwitz. 80 years later, a north carolina museum returned one of dorville's paintings to the family, and a german museum returned one by german impressionist camille pissaro. but the french government is refusing to give back more than half a dozen paintings held in public museums saying the auction was not done under duress.

>> it must be hard for them to give them back. so i can understand that. but it's just right, you know. it's just right. >> reporter: right to give them back? >> that's right. >> this one was at the louvre. >> reporter: the family hired paris lawyer who has spent 30 years recovering art for jewish families. >> all of these people in charge of the control heritage, they were more concerned by keeping alive or preserve all these paintings and works of art than to preserve the jews. >> reporter: do you think some of these museum directors are still ashamed of how they got these paintings? >> i think so. i think so. they are embarrassed. that's for sure. >> reporter: the dorville heirs believe they are fighting for their history. when you get them back into the family, do you feel somehow that bad history has been corrected, erased?

>> not erased. never erased. members of our family died because of it. in my mind, it's a way to repair the damage that was done. >> it is a memory of the family, because it was totally forgotten. and it is on our shoulder to awake this story. >> reporter: to tell the story? >> yes. to tell the story. >> barry petersen reporting. "cbs news roundup" will be right back.

a winery in california is home to a local star. she's a 4-month-old puppy named mella, and she didn't get famous for selecting the best vintages.

itay hod has the story. >> reporter: in the world of wine, there is one ingredient you can't bottle. >> most wineries have dogs. >> reporter: arthur murray is the president of flambeaux, a picture-perfect sonoma vineyard where a rainbow graced the vines the day we were there, as did its most famous ambassador. stella. >> welcome to flambeaux. >> reporter: stella is what is known as a winery dog, and she does more than just charm visitors. she guards the grapes and keeps unwanted invaders at bay. she's so good at her job, she even made the wine dog calendar as miss july. >> come on! >> reporter: but after a decade on duty, stella was slowing down. >> look at the fish. >> reporter: murray couldn't bear the thought of her not being here. >> she is a part of the family. she is a part of the wine. and i want that to continue. >> reporter: he thought he'd have to get another dog, but then someone half jokingly suggested he clone her.

>> down. >> reporter: enter mella, stella's genetic twin, and the world's first cloned winery dog. >> come on. >> reporter: it cost about $50,000. the best part, stella gets to train her mini me. in the 30 years since a sheep named dolly made headlines as the first mammal to be cloned, the practice has become a booming business. but not everyone is toasting the idea. robert klitzman a professor at physician and bioethist at columbia university said cloning involves potential stress for sur gots and clones. he also points to a lack of transparency in the industry. >> these are not benign procedures, and people should realize the costs, not just the economic costs, but the costs in terms of suffering of dogs. >> reporter: not to mention it's not a carbon copy. like twins, they have different personalities. stella is a serious dog while mella is all about play. but for murray, it's close

enough. does she feel like an extension of stella? >> yeah, that much is for sure. i immediately fell in love with her because it was like i was looking at stella. >> reporter: well, not exactly, but arthur murray is a glass half full kind of guy. >> roll. >> itay hod, cbs news, healdsburg, california. >> some belly rubs for confidence. >> in case you're wondering, the italian sheep dogs usually cost about $2,000, or 50,000 to get yours cloned. and that's today's "cbs news roundup." be sure to tune in later for "cbs mornings." 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 the "cbs news roundup." here are the top stories. on again, off again turmoils. more turmoil in president trump's tariffs war. the desperate search for a university of pittsburgh student missing in the dominican republic. and military aid is back on for ukraine after kyiv says it's open to the idea of a ceasefire. ette was another manic day of selling and sell-offs on wall street on donald trump's latest tit for tat escalation in his tariff battles. commerce secretary howard lud nick defended the ongoing trade war to cbs' chief white house correspondent nancy cordes. >> our country had to do this.

>> reporter: his announcement caught the financial world offguard, 50% tariffs on canadian steel and aluminum. but by this afternoon, it was off after ontario's premier agreed to drop his new 25% tariff on electricity going to the u.s. >> we have both agreed let cooler heads prevail. >> reporter: the dow tumbled another 1%. since thursday it tumbled 2 1/2%. >> the markets are going to learn. let the deal maker make his deals. >> reporter: howard lutnick brokered today's truce with the premier. what is really being accomplished with all of these one or two-day tariffs that end up getting yanked? >> well, when you're negotiating with someone and they're not paying attention, and they're disagreeing, the president who is the best deal maker ever to sit in that chair is going to say here is my response. and then all of the sudden, shockingly, they respond. >> reporter: and yet the

prospect of an aggressive trade war has prompted both jp morgan and goldma sachs to bump up the risk of a recession this year. will these policies be worth it if they lead to a recession? even a short-term recession. >> these policies are the most important thing america has ever had. >> reporter: so it is worth it? >> it is worth it. a, i don't think -- the only reason there could possibly be a recession is because of the biden nonsense we had to live with. these policies produce revenues. >> reporter: so you're saying when it looks chaotic and unpredictable from the outside, that there actually is a master plan when it comes to these tariffs? >> it is not chaotic. and the only one who thinks it's chaotic is someone who is being silly. he said reciprocal tariffs. >> reporter: nobody expected him to announce 50% tariffs this morning. >> he needed to break some guy in ontario who said he was going to tax american energy 25%. the president of the united

states in the white house says oh no you don't and breaks him. and you think that's chaotic? >> reporter: president trump has argued that if he taxes goods coming from overseas, it will incentivize businesses to move production back to the u.s., which will create jobs. but typically, to make big decisions like that, businesses need certainty. they need to know that policy will not change. nancy cordes, cbs news, the white house. . the fbi is joining the search in the dominican republic for an american college student who has been missing there for nearly a week. she was last seen heading to the beach in the spring break destination of puntacana, a resort town popular with tourists. cbs' manuel bojorquez has the latest. >> reporter: this may be the last known image of 20-year-old university of pittsburgh student sudiksha konanki before she disappeared. surveillance video from the early morning hours of march 6th shows ckonanki and five others

walking together towards the beach. national police spokesman has seen the video. are there clues that tell you maybe it's an accident or something else? [ speaking in spanish ] you still have to wait the results of the investigation. konanki and several friends were staying at the riu rupp repup ca. they went to the beach with two american men. her friends returned to the hotel while konanki and one of the men stayed behind. later video appears to show him returning alone just before 9:00 a.m. investigators in the dominican republic have reinterviewed the man she was last seen with as they continue combing through surveillance video and phone records. u.s. authorities including the fbi are also assisting in the case. the search has intensified. local authorities have been using helicopters, drones, diver

teams and k-9 units to find the college student. this year, 21% of americans who are traveling for spring break book trips abroad. about 2.5 million american tourists vacationed in the dominican republic according to a recent survey. konanki's parents flew here to puntacana soon after learning she is missing. they have been alerting officials including foul play and not just accidentally she had drown. manuel bojorquez, cbs news, dominican republic. the trump administration says it's resuming military aid and intelligence sharing with ukraine. it comes after a breakthrough during talks in saudi arabia aimed at hammering out a peace agreement between kyiv and moscow. in a joint statement with the u.s., ukraine says it's now taupe the idea of a 30-day ceasefire in the war, as long as russia agrees. cbs' holly williams has more from kyiv. >> reporter: with the headlines in that joint statement coming

out of saudi arabia is that ukraine has agreed to a u.s. proposal to implement a 30-day interim ceasefire, though of course that requires russia's agreement as well. >> we're going to take the offer to them. we're going to tell them this is what's on the table. ukraine is ready to stop shooting and start talking, and now it will be up to them to say yes or no. >> reporter: more immediately, the u.s. has agreed to immediately lift the pause on intelligence sharing and the delivery of military aid to ukraine. that was suspended after a disastrous, explosive meeting between president volodymyr zelenskyy and president trump recently in washington. >> the president has been abundantly clear he wants the shooting to stop. he wants the warfare to stop. he wants the dying and the believes, and rightfully so, that the only way to end this war is to negotiate an end to it. >> reporter: this meeting was clearly aimed at mending fences, and i suspect the ukrainians will be fairly happy with the result. remember from ukraine's perspective in recent weeks, the u.s. has gone from being its most important and one of its

staunchest allies, committing over 100 billion in aid to this country during three years of war to suspending the delivery of military aid. president trump calling this country's elected president a dictator, and then giving him a very public dressing down. ahead of the talks, president zelenskyy stressed that ukraine has wanted peace from the very first second of this war. but at the same time, ukraine does not want to be pressured into a ceasefire deal that rewards vladimir putin with territory and leaves the door open to him invading this country all over again in the future. holly williams, cbs news, kyiv, ukraine. straight ahead on "cbs news roundup," hurricane season is bearing down. but the agency that tracks those storms is a target of doge cutbacks. it's kyle's last spin on his turntable from college. yea. and the first day of kierra's new career in it. it's the last tea party for crystal with miss marshmallow. oh wow.

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this is "cbs news roundup." i'm jessi mitchell in new york. the atlantic hurricane season is just ten weeks away, and people who live along the east coast may have to get through it without their early warning system. the national oceanic and atmospheric administration, which runs the national weather service, is the next agency on president trump's chopping block. 20% of its staff is expected to be fired, and some are already gone. rob marciano reports. >> reporter: hundreds of protesters rally outside the noaa headquarters in maryland. fired employees chant 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 ocean acidification and studied how warming waters impact ecosystems until she was fired in doge cuts. >> i just put my head down on my

desk and i cried. it was just gutting. >> reporter: there is concern that key jobs are being lost in science. >> that's the number one motivation is putting science to work. >> reporter: these are just a few of the 880 noaa employees fired across the country, a majority where probationary workers with less than two years in their position who suddenly found themselves terminated. >> my job in the last hour that i had at work was to pass off every pending activity to my deputy because now he's going to be acting director of the program. >> reporter: in addition to the staffing cuts, doge announced it may terminate the leases of 19 noaa offices across the country, including key buildings that generate vital weather forecasts and maintain radar operations. >> these cuts were indiscriminate. they were based not on any particular mission priorities. >> reporter: rick spinrad was the administrator of noaa during the biden administration, departing when president trump

took office, and is worried how it impacts the national weather service. >> it most assuredly will affect the availability, the frequency, and the accuracy, honestly, of the warnings. there is a big capital expense associated with that. airplanes, radars, satellites. who's going to pick those up? and 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. matter of fact, it makes up over half its budget with its 12,000 employees and over 6,000 of those are scientists and engineers. and more firings are likely coming. where do you think we're going with all of this? >> i think at some point people are going to recognize we need these capabilities for the public good, which after all is the role of government. the question is how much damage will we sustain before we're able to turn around the damage that's already been done.

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delta airlines slashed its earnings outlook for the year, expecting fewer travelers because of trump's trade war and the falling stock market. but if you are planning a trip this summer, to italy, for instance, there is a hidden treasure you don't want to miss on your way to the amalfi coast. seth doane paid a visit. ♪ >> reporter: faith and fortune have intertwined in naples over th centuries to create one of the world's great treasures.

>> here there are thousand of precious stones. there are 3,326 diamonds, 198 emeralds, and 168 rubies. >> reporter: that's a single headdress elaryea duva explains, like one an archbishop might wear, if he could. >> this was never worn by a person because it weighs almost 40 pounds. >> reporter: a person's neck wouldn't be strong enough. >> no, no, no. not one. not even mike tyson has such a neck. >> reporter: maybe mike tyson. these devotional objects, gold, and gems donated over the centuries are kept many this vault-like museum in naples, italy. duva, who helps run the exhibition, says when it comes to security for such a fortune, sure, there is an alarm system, but there is also something else. >> and then we are protected by san gennaro. >> reporter: a side benefit? >> yes. ♪ >> reporter: san gennaro

faithful here believe have been protecting this city for centuries, and reference for him takes many forms. antonio was snapping a photograph of the saint alongside another staple of the city, the neapolitan deserve baba. the two big things in naples, baba and san gennaro. and then the perfect. >> san gennaro is like protector for us. >> reporter: several times a year, throngs gather outside a naples cathedral, while inside a safe is opened and the faithful look for what they see as a miracle, whether blood said to be that of san gennaro liquefies. in local lore, that's a good o omen. >> when it's a solid and become liquid. >> reporter: giancarlo is a member of the board which for centuries has built and safeguarded this treasure dedicated to san gennaro. >> and here is the bust of san

gennaro. the saint he explained was the bishop of a nearby town who was killed killed. in 1527, the city was facing a triple threat. war, volcano and plague. >> all together. and the people from naples, they said look, san gennaro, if you stop with all this, we will build for you a magnificent church. >> reporter: the city in the shadow of mount vesuvius was spared, and san gennaro's place in its heart was solidified. offerings of thanks to him began pouring in, all as the city was becoming more important. by the 1730s, under spanish bourbon rule, naples was the capital of the kingdom in southern italy. >> kings, queens, popes that were coming in naples just to have the citizen and the people

gratitude. they were giving gift of a certain importance. >> reporter: the value of the treasure and what was accumulated really shows the value of the importance of naples as a city. back in the day. >> yes. >> it was one of the most important cities in the world at the time. rubies, emeralds. there are chalices. you have an amazing cross, for instance. and behind all of this, there is a story. that was by austria. >> reporter: those stories elaryea duva explained are of gifts not just from royalty, but regular citizens. >> you have two earrings. the two earrings on top of there, they were donate bade lady that survived from the cholera. so decided to thank san gennero, giving the only treasure that she on the other hand. >> reporter: that offering of thanks was added to this elaborate necklace, along with a

diamond and emerald cross from joseph bonaparte, napoleon's brother, who was king of naples in the 1800s. how much is all of this treasure worth? >> we cannot say. i cannot -- i cannot imagine. but i would never say if i knew, because you know why? >> no. >> because we prefer people not to come to know about the value. they say that it was more than the treasure of the queen. >> reporter: more than the crown jewels? >> yes, more than the crown jewels. >> reporter: just how it compares with the british royal family's collection is not clear, and duva joked that my questions about money were far too american. she argues there's something beautiful about this mix of faith, fortune, and a bit of mystery. ♪

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