Showdown in Texas over illegal border crossings
Challenging the authority of the Biden administration, Texas has deployed state police, national guard soldiers, barriers and controversial policies to deter illegal crossings.
Cecilia Vega is an Emmy Award-winning journalist and 60 Minutes correspondent who joined the CBS newsmagazine in 2023.
Vega came to CBS after 12 years at ABC where she was the network's chief White House correspondent and anchor of several broadcasts, including "Good Morning America" and the Saturday edition of "World News Tonight."
Vega has reported on major stories of national and international significance from around the world, and conducted hundreds of high-profile interviews with political newsmakers, world leaders and celebrities.
Vega has covered every presidential and midterm election, presidential debate and political convention since 2012. She was the lead correspondent on Hillary Clinton's 2016 run for the White House, logging more than 239,000 miles in the air and more than 500 days on the campaign trail.
As chief White House correspondent covering President Joe Biden, Vega's exchanges with the president and members of his administration regularly made headlines. Her reporting from the U.S.-Mexico border broke news by shining a light on overcrowded conditions inside detention centers and pushed the White House to answer tough questions about the influx of migrants, children in those detention facilities and separated families.
Vega served as a senior White House correspondent covering the Trump administration. Her one-on-one exchanges with the president over topics ranging from the origins of the Covid-19 virus to Russian interference in our elections led to some of the most defining moments of the administration. During those four years she reported on every historic moment- from Supreme Court appointments and presidential impeachments to the firing of FBI Director James Comey and the Mueller report.
Vega also covered the reelection of President Barack Obama.
In addition to her political coverage, Vega's reports on the Fukushima nuclear disaster took her inside the power plant -- twice. She was in St. Peter's Square for the papal conclave that elected Pope Francis. Vega has also reported from a submarine at the bottom of the Arctic Sea and in the floodwaters of Hurricane Katrina.
At ABC News, Vega also served as a national correspondent based in Los Angeles, where her assignments took her to nearly every state. Prior to joining network news, Vega was an Emmy-winning reporter at KGO-TV in San Francisco and made her mark as an award-winning print reporter, including at her hometown paper, The San Francisco Chronicle.
Vega is a San Francisco Bay Area native. She lives in Washington, D.C., with her rambunctious Boston Terrier, Jalisco.
Challenging the authority of the Biden administration, Texas has deployed state police, national guard soldiers, barriers and controversial policies to deter illegal crossings.
Off the Caribbean island of Dominica, Cecilia Vega dove into efforts to create a preserve to protect sperm whales and safeguard them from plastic trash, noise pollution and ship strikes.
Former U.S. Ambassador Victor Manuel Rocha spent decades spying for Cuba. Before Rocha there was Ana Montes, a Pentagon analyst who spent 17 years spying for Cuba.
Cuba has a notorious legacy of spying on the U.S. Former spies spent years, and in some cases decades, sharing secrets before they were caught.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has accused the Biden administration of creating a war zone on the border by failing to enforce federal immigration law. Abbott is defending Texas' controversial actions to deter illegal crossings.
A series of government investigations have found the Federal Bureau of Prisons is dangerously understaffed and, inside its women's prisons, is an alarming pattern of abuse.
60 Minutes went inside a federal women's prison where inmates had a message for the crisis-plagued Bureau of Prisons: "Fix it." Cecilia Vega reports.
Desperate Ukrainian women are going behind enemy lines in Russian-occupied territory to rescue their abducted children. A grandmother spent months trying to bring her 9-year-old grandson back after he was taken.
Ukraine's government says about 20,000 children have been taken by Russia, but adds it could be closer to 300,000. Ukrainian moms are traveling behind enemy lines to rescue their abducted children.
A horse doping investigation led to the conviction of more than two dozen people. A new national watchdog is in place, but some still wonder whether racing can be reformed.
A horse racing watchdog is trying to clean up the sport, which for years has grappled with drugs and cheating. Then, multiple horse deaths since last spring have added to questions about the sport's future.
Pink still feels like an underdog, 25 years into her successful music career. She explains why she feels that way, even though she's sold $350 million in tickets around the world so far this year.
Pink has received death threats over the course of her 25-year music career, but she doesn't let that stop her from being open and willing to talk about anything.
Under CARE Court, judges can order people to get help, with counties required to provide aid. Critics argue the California mental health care program is costly and could strip people of their rights.