put more of its agents into field offices across america. >> nobody becomes a seasoned investigator overnight. >> former bureau of alcohol, tobacco and firearms deputy director tom chittum says the downsizing costs federal law enforcement much needed experience fighting crime. >> do not underestimate. >> the importance of experience. >> to being. >> a good investigator. >> a lot. >> of. >> the. >> work they. >> do depends. >> on judgment, and that judgment can be informed by. years of toiling. away on investigations and lots of different circumstances. if you. lose that and have only green investigators. >> you really lose. >> a lot. >> the doj memo says the cuts have already saved more than $400 million every minute in this country. at least one person is reported missing in every two hours. an unidentified body is recovered in detroit. a cop and an fbi evidence expert

have teamed up to try to find some of the missing, and the search begins in the city's cemeteries. jim axelrod joined them on their quest. >> it was an unknown race. male in the 70s. >> sergeant shannon jones runs the missing persons unit for the detroit police department. >> you hear that? desperation in a lot of the families, you know, just begging you, please help. >> in 2018, she had an idea that might change everything when it comes to finding out what happened to those who've gone missing. >> when i first said it, i thought it was crazy. >> sergeant jones thought clues were buried. >> all the way down. >> here. >> to all the way down that way. >> there are bodies buried? >> yes. >> she knew detroit had historically buried unidentified crime victims in cemeteries across the city. >> there was a total of about 200 cases. 200 that we had documented that went back to 1959. >> she proposed digging up all the bodies they could find to test their dna. this isn't just

about police work. this is about restoring someone's humanity. >> yes. my whole goal was always giving them their name back and helping some families with some answers. >> but that kind of large scale exhumation required technology and manpower. jones didn't have. >> my first thought was, i'm all in. let's get it organized and let's go dig. >> so she turned to fbi special agent leslie larson. >> why not use the resources that we have in our criminal laboratories, which are phenomenal to take science and apply it to old cases? >> was anybody doing anything like that? >> no one in the country has done a mass exhumation project to the level that we have. >> in 2019, fbi techs began taking dna from the unidentified remains and running it through several databases. dna from at home testing kits and samples from relatives given directly to law enforcement. >> we get that lab report back with someone's name on it. that is absolutely a powerful feeling

for sure. i've had people reach out from all over the country asking to bring operation united to their cities. >> so far, operation united has resulted in 33 positive ids of people who disappeared. >> i never really got like a story. >> like kristina morris father who vanished in 1995, five months before she was born. >> unsolved mysteries became one of my favorite shows. for a little while there. >> because you wanted the mystery solved of where your dad was. >> yeah. >> in 2020, she got a call from sergeant jones. her father's remains had been identified. there's now an active murder investigation underway. >> i would have went my whole life drowning in the unknown. >> but the work of sergeant jones means she won't have to. >> there is that little bit of weight that you're able to pull off that family. and that constant. where are they? where are they? you know, that part is gone for them. >> for them. and maybe one day

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of speed with indycar team owner david letterman it's billed as the fastest racing on earth behind. >> sato got. >> a bit of. >> a slow start. >> it gave. dixon a chance. he got blocked by rosenqvist. >> indy cars, as they're called, can hit 240 miles an hour on an oval track. >> he makes a move on the inside. >> tha's more than a football field. every second and a second is about all it takes to end someone's day. >> we got a spinner, kyle larson. >> johnson hits. >> in this sport. not all the big names are drivers. david letterman has co-owned an indycar team since 1996, and in that time, rahal letterman lanigan racing has won the indy 500 twice. >> god bless you, my friend. thank you very much. >> hi. >> you have a. >> forlorn look, am i late? i'm sorry, i'm dave. >> i don't mean to look forlorn. >> nice to you. i'm. >> a lot of people do when i enter. >> a room. >> is this for me? >> yes, it. >> is indeed. oh my god. >> we wanted to ask dave himself what made indycar racing so

appealing. is there something for you in particular that resonates with you when you go to one of these indycar races? >> yeah, because when i, when i was a kid, my family and every family on our block would have it on the radio and it would be memorial day, and dad would be home from work and we'd be having a cookout. and i can remember listening to the broadcast sitting in a tree. so that was my first memory of it. it was it wasn't an option. it was mandatory. it was part of the culture of living in indianapolis. >> it's p1 for robert schwartzman, and the crowd salute a new hero. >> there are now 17 race days every year at tracks from coast to coast. and the sport is promoting a new crop of heroes like team penske driver josef newgarden. >> this is josef. >> newgarden. >> josef was conceived to win races, stop drinking milk at two, picked it back up at 32. good for strong bones. tell that to his clavicle.

>> and it's not just hype. the indy 500 is still the granddaddy of the indy series, and josef newgarden has won it back to back in 2023. and 2024. by tradition, the winning driver celebrates with a big swig of milk. and in 2024, newgarden's wife and son joined him in another indy tradition, kissing the speedway track. we caught up with newgarden a few weeks ago before the long beach grand prix. do you have a mantra that you say anything you tell yourself. >> i don't know that i have a specific mantra, but i try not to be superstitious and i just try and be positive more than anything. if that's my mantra, it's positivity. we have great fans here. as you can see, that guy's positive. >> but it seems like the guy with the most fans is team mclaren driver pato o'ward. this guy has just about everything a

race car driver needs. the only thing he's missing is an indy 500 win. he's come agonizingly close and in 2024, pato in the orange and black car just about had it. won. but josef newgarden passed him in the final lap. >> and just so close again. >> so close i know i'm going to get my indy 500 win because i've been good there every single year. >> daredevil drivers role to start. >> a memorial day. >> race at. famed indianapolis speedway. >> for more than a century, speed demons have been chasing indy car trophies. the first indy 500 dates back to 1911, and it quickly became one of the premiere sporting spectacles of the year, drawing huge crowds attracted by the sound and the speed. >> so it our dust as 32 speed demons do everything but straighten out the turns as they blaze around brick oval at better than 90 miles an hour.

>> the benchmark speed to beat 229.091 miles an hour. >> in the last century, indycar racing has changed. it's much faster, obviously, and recently more popular. the indycar brand withered for a few years under an internal reorganization, but now the crowds are coming back. this year's indy 500 grandstand was sold out for the first time in nearly a decade, and the place is starting to look like it did back in 1969, when mario andretti took the checkered flag. >> i still can't believe it's true. i'm just i'm going to have to be pinching myself all night until tomorrow. >> how sweet does that milk taste when you finally get to drink it? >> oh, honey, cannot compare. >> at 85, andretti, still in the game as a team owner. >> i think the ability of the drivers that you have in place, the talent is unprecedented. >> it's unprecedented. >> really unbelievable. yeah.

>> are you saying those guys are more talented than you were? >> you know race car safety has come a long way since mario andretti's day. >> the track walls are now padded. the drivers are more protected. but the worst can still happen, says ap motorsports reporter jenna fryer. so it's not safe now. but it's safer, correct? >> it'll never be safe. you can never call racing safe. >> they can be. >> idiots and they, you know, if they get upset with each other and one wants to retaliate against the other, you know, people do stupid stuff. they see red. they kind of forget what they're doing for a second. and, you know, there's no way to ever say racing is safe. >> vindication for alex palou. he has won the indianapolis 500. >> this year's indy 500 winner. wasn't pato.

>> that's the race. >> or josef. >> i try not to be superstitious. >> for anyone from letterman's team, it was spanish driver alex palou. but there are nine more races this season and on an oval track, you never know what's around the bend. >> what i love about it is the romance of it, and the sound is unlike anything you've ever heard. the sound is something humans were not meant to hear. >> what does that sound do to you? >> this is a good measure for my heart. if if it doesn't accelerate my

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iran on its nuclear program, but hasn't ruled out military action. meanwhile, the pentagon is beefing up american military resources in the middle east, sending a third carrier strike group, and the fed leaves interest rates alone for now, citing fears of higher inflation and slower growth. when president donald trump was asked on wednesday if he plans to strike nuclear targets in iran, he said he may or may not. if he has decided he's not revealing the answer just yet, as the president considers whether to join israel's war with iran, he once again said the regime must not be allowed to develop a nuclear bomb, and cbs news has learned the president already approved a plan to attack iran, but did not give the go ahead in case tehran decided to abandon its nuclear program. cbs's taurean small has the latest from the white house. >> amidst escalating tensions between israel and iran, president trump told reporters it will likely be a last moment decision if and when he decides

that the united states military should formally join israel in attacking iranian nuclear sites. >> i have ideas as to what to do, but i haven't made a final. i like to make the final decision one second before it's due, you know, because things change. i mean, especially with war, things change. with war, it can go from one extreme to the other. >> cbs news has learned that on tuesday night, the president approved plans to attack iran, but did not make a final decision about doing so. in case tehran agreed to abandon its nuclear program. the president said he believes iran is dangerously close to having a nuclear weapon. >> well, i don't want to get involved either, but i've been saying for 20 years, maybe longer, that iran cannot have a nuclear weapon. i've been saying it for a long time, and i think they were a few weeks away from having one, and they'd use it. you know, i believe they'd use it. >> while the president deliberates, both sides appear to be bracing for an escalation. cbs news has confirmed reports that iran is readying missiles

and equipment to strike u.s. bases in the region, as a possible retaliation. the pentagon is also deploying more planes to the region, with a third aircraft carrier on the way. among those who have offered to help broker a peace deal, russian president vladimir putin. >> and i spoke to him yesterday and i said, you know, he actually offered to help mediate. i said, vladimir, let's mediate russia first. you can worry about this later. >> with iranian missiles cutting through israeli defenses, the u.s. ambassador there announced the government is working to evacuate americans who want to leave taurean small. cbs news the white house. >> iran's supreme leader has rejected u.s. calls for surrender in the face of intense israeli airstrikes, warning that any move by washington to get involved would lead to, quote, irreparable damage to the united states. the pentagon has ordered a third carrier strike group to rendezvous with two others in the region, and more firepower

is on the way. the defense department is moving additional warplanes to european bases, too, in case they're needed to support u.s. forces in the middle east. our correspondent debora patta is in tel aviv, where the air war is entering its sixth day. >> this is an unprecedented aerial war fought across hundreds of miles every day. israeli jets take off for iran, where they are destroying missile launchers, assassinating senior military leaders and taking out crucial infrastructure and israeli missiles streak across the skies of tehran. some are intercepted, others break through. iran is retaliating in equal measure, firing barrages of missiles israel's multi-layered air defense system has brought down most of them, but it is not

invincible. we spoke to former israeli air force chief of staff nimrod sheffer. >> we are managing to intercept nine of every ten missiles being launched or penetrating the israeli airspace. it's a huge number. >> but you're also burning through a lot of weapons. >> we cannot last forever with that kind of campaign. it's logical to to think that as long as the campaign is going on, the numbers from both sides are declining in 2022, the u.s. >> estimated iran had around 3000 ballistic missiles. not all of them could reach israel, and the israel defense force has said it's already destroyed. a third of iran's missile launchers. so when there's a significant shortage of weapons, what's next? >> i hope we won't get there. but what next is that? probably israel will start seeking for a diplomatic move. you have to stop when you're strong enough,

not when you are getting weak. >> he told us. israel is intercepting nine out of every ten missiles, but it cannot last forever and the longer it goes on, the more stocks will decline. at some point, israel will have to find a diplomatic solution. debora patta, cbs news, tel aviv the federal reserve is taking a cautious position and leaving interest rates unchanged for now. >> fed chairman jerome powell says he expects economic growth to slow this year and unemployment to rise. however, his steadfast resolve is drawing more heated criticism from president trump. cbs's danya bacchus reports on all the details. >> despite elevated uncertainty, the economy is in a solid position. >> the federal reserve played it predictable, leaving its key interest rate unchanged for the fourth straight time. despite political pressure to make cuts. >> that come too late. powell, because he's always too late. >> president trump ramped up his

criticism of federal reserve chair jerome powell in advance of the announcement wednesday, again calling for lower rates. >> i do in every way in the book. i'm nasty. i'm nice. nothing works. he's like just a stupid person. >> the fed is still weighing the impact of president trump's tariffs on inflation, and now the effects of conflict in the middle east. >> right now, there is a potential that if things escalate with israel and iran, that iran could block the strait of hormuz. so if they block that, not only would we see oil prices continue to go higher, but we could also see supply chain disruptions. >> fed policymakers predict higher inflation this year, but the central bank still sees room for two interest rate cuts by the end of the year. >> there's a range of possibilities on how how large the the inflation effects and the other effects are going to be. so we'll make smarter and better decisions if we just wait. >> and while borrowers will still struggle under higher interest rates, savers can earn between three and a half and

four and a half percent. >> if you're not earning that, if your bank, if your financial institution is not paying you that kind of interest, go find that interest rate. >> if businesses and consumers continue to rein in spending, that could give the fed reason to make a move. danya bacchus cbs news los angeles. >> straight ahead on cbs news roundup. we'll go to california farm country to see how the president's immigration crackdown is affecting the food you ♪ so when they stand and tell the stories ♪ ♪ of who we are and what we've done ♪ ♪ of a thousand things that we could leave behind us ♪ ♪ if they say just one word ♪ ♪ let that word be ♪ ♪ kindness ♪ ♪ you can save the world with kindness ♪ ♪ your kindness ♪ ♪ kindness ♪

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and farms. the president has changed his mind. he told the department of homeland security to resume those immigration raids, which are already having a deep impact on u.s. agriculture. adam yamaguchi has the story. >> so just about an hour and a half outside of los angeles, and we're in california's farm country. it's here in oxnard. that video showing federal officers chasing a man through a field added to the community's fear. it's been really hard to get any farm workers to talk to us, which i can understand. people are people are afraid of all that's happening around them. and you know, many are not going to work anymore. and those who are going to work, they go straight to the farm as quickly as they can, go right back home. but we did meet someone who was willing to speak. a single mother of three who asked us not to use her name. she's been in the u.s. for 17 years and just finished her shift, picking strawberries. are you afraid to go to work? >> see? tengo miedo? >> yes. i'm scared. when i leave the house, the girls say to me. mom, don't go to work. we're

scared that you might not come back to us. >> what would happen to america's food supply if undocumented workers were taken from the fields and were unable to pick? >> that's already happening. only three or 5 to 6 workers are showing up. even the bosses are being affected because there's no one to pick the fruit. >> more than a third of the country's vegetables and over three quarters of the country's fruits and nuts are grown in california. nearly 50% of the state's farm laborers are undocumented. >> you can't live life like this. >> we met another woman who also asked to be anonymous. she's been harvesting berries here for the last 17 years without papers. >> many americans say that you are a criminal for being here without documentation. what do you say to that? >> no. no podemos un criminal. >> no, no, we couldn't be criminals. we know that we arrived without status. but a hard working person who works in the field and puts vegetables on your table can't be a criminal.

>> what do you want the rest of america to know about you and others who work in agriculture may not have their papers, but are going out there every day and working. >> i they should know that despite the risk we run of being detained by ice, we keep going to work out of necessity. and thanks to that, they continue to have fruits and vegetables on their table. they eat and live off of the risk that undocumented people take. >> it's a risk that persists as raids resume on california farms. >> that was adam yamaguchi reporting. cbs news roundup will i would've called yesterday. but... i could've called yesterday. but... i should've called yesterday, but... would've, could've, should've.

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good morning rose. >> this is no ordinary. house call. >> daniel from health care in action. >> a medical. >> team arrived. >> at this rv to treat rose del rosario, who is. >> 65 years old. and unhoused. >> let's go around the side because we got. >> her. vitals are taken inside a medical van parked across the street. del rosario suffers from high blood pressure and lifelong asthma. you were battling asthma without any treatment. >> what i did was i would buy inhalers off people that were out here that found them in the trash. >> did you feel safe using those inhalers from. >> not really. >> she says she had no money left after her husband died several years ago, and she wound up on the streets. >> may i ask what it feels like to be navigating all of this at the age of 65? >> it makes you feel older. i feel like it's aging me, you know? i feel like it's aging me a lot. yeah, yeah, that's about it. it's just tiring. it's just hard to live like this.

>> according to a federal report, about 20% of people experiencing homelessness in america last year were 55 and older. it's usually caused by the death of a spouse, divorce, job loss, eviction, or mounting health issues. daniel speller is a physician associate for health care in action, a nonprofit organization that provides medical care and housing assistance for those without permanent shelter, including older adults. >> you're not having any chest pain today. these are folks who are kind of entering the stage where they're starting to have, you know, multiple complex chronic medical conditions that need to be met. and they're just not being met. heart disease, diabetes, a lot of pain, a lot of mental health issues. they're also the most vulnerable. >> doctor indu subaiya is health care. in action ceo. she fears the impact rising costs and cuts to government programs like medicaid will have on seniors. >> if there are cuts to medicaid, what happens to them?

>> i don't believe we should be cutting medicaid for those populations. we should leave those intact, and that will be so, so helpful to people not falling further into the hole. >> at 65. where did you think you would be for retirement? >> in a nice, comfortable rocking chair, waiting for this casserole to come out of the oven. you know, just i didn't think it would be like this. >> despite her struggles, there's a glimmer of hope, kindness, helping her survive.

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