they brought a concern to you. >> reporter: school officials are doing their best to keep the virus out so students won't have anythit. >> the custodial staff is wiping down doorknobs, handlebars, inside the bathrooms. >> reporter: you've stepped up cleaning? >> absolutely. >> reporter: how many more times you cleaning now? >> just because this time of year, viruses, the flu are always more prevalent in the winter. we'll go from one or two times a day to two or three, and now we're up to four. >> reporter: if there is an outbreak, are you prepared? >> i believe we are. >> reporter: the coronavirus has forced several schools in the u.s. to close trer lay, but in countries like japan and italy, schools are being closed for weeks. >> we can hear you. can you hear us? >> yes. >> reporter: in little falls, they're prepared to teach kids remotely if the schools are forced to shut. how long you teach remotely?

>> honestly, and i'd be if we had to, we could teach the remainder of the year remotely. >> mrs. donovan, are you prepared to teach remotely if something happens? >> yes, and thildrenr:f course, shuttered schools disrupt whole families, and that can cause a ripple through the economy. >> first and foremost, somebody has to stay with the children. and so it's probably going to be a parent. any household budget is going the feel that immediately. so discretionary spending, if it's not the roof over your head, food, the medicine, everything else goes on hold. >> reporter: school officials say it's a good idea for families to prepare now, just in case schools close. talk to your relatives and neighbors to come up with a plan to take care of your children. vermont is turning purple. no, we're not talking politics this morning. purple hearts reunited. it's a small nonprofit delivering a big impact to strangers who weren't even asking. the united states has awarded

nearly two million purple hearts to americans who shed blood or died in combat. it's estimated tens of thousands of those medals have lost their way. this group is helping bring them home. >> this is our headquarters here. >> reporter: what began as passion project for army major zacaria fike -- >> oh, wow. >> reporter: turned into the creation of purple hearts reunited, a nonprofit aimed at returning lost or stolen military medals and effects to veterans and their loved ones at no cost. on this day in vermont, we unpacked a cardboard box filled with belongings from a soldier who lost his life while serving in the korean war. >> it's a very intimate connection with somebody. >> it is. this was a real person. this was a real hero. he had his whole life ahead of him, and unfortunately he is not here to tell the stories. so i think it's our job to tell the story for him. >> reporter: just as every soldier has their own story, every medal has its own journey, with tens of thousands thought

to be lost, stolen, or just forgotten about. strangers who randomly find the medals often send them to fike, hoping he'll get them home. >> you're looking at 20 to 30 heroes. >> reporter: they began with only name, then look to the medal for other clues. >> they have changed subtly in the way they were manufactured and the time period in how they were engraved. >> reporter: then fike and his team of just two begin making cold calls. >> once we identify who the families are, i come down and see dan, and we do a full layout. >> reporter: dan petulo runs the village frame shot in vermont, helping fike bring the reactions you see in these pictures to life. what's usually the response from the families? >> it brings that family member back in an instant. and the raw emotion in their face makes all the time and effort worth bringing these medals home. ♪ >> reporter: home for fike on this weekend is salem, alabama, to reunite pastor david babson

with the medal his late father earned in the korean war. >> he deserved those medals. he earned them. he knows what they would mean, and that i can cherish them and that i can always have him with me. >> reporter: it sounds you're doing it for him as much as you are for yourself? >> more so. part of my birth. >> reporter: adopted when he was just 9 months old, babson knew little about his father, meeting him again only much later in life, and he knew even less about his service to the country, until fike called. >> it takes an act of god. and this was an act of god. >> reporter: and a lot of hard work? >> absolutely. >> it's a great honor to honor your father who was one of our nation's hero. we have not forgotten them. >> reporter: fike isn't merely reuniting a medal with family, he is helping bring their loved one home. >> that symbol represents to a lot of these families in their own spiritual way his dad is coming home to his son. and he's going to look at that frame on his wall every day when he walks through that door, and

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a century of fashion illustration is on display in new york city, an exhibit at the society of illustrators is paying homage to the artists who brought fashion to life before their where cameras. the very fashionable anthony mason takes a look. >> reporter: first full disclosure, this story personal to me. my father started as a fashion illustrator starting for magazines like vogue and town and country in the '50s and '60s. one of his drawings is included in the new exhibition of societ of illustrator here is in new york. fashion illustration, of course, was usually commercial work. but these illustrators also had an art all their own, an art that the exhibition shows is alive and well. >> that's perfect. i love it. it's great. >> reporter: bill donovan started sketching as a boy and knew what he wanted the moment he saw audrey hepburn sweep into a ballroom in a givenchy gown in the 1954 film "sabrina." >> to me, she was a swan floating across the floor.

and i wanted to draw that. i didn't want to take a picture. i didn't want to design it. i wanted to draw it. >> reporter: donovan, now artist in residence at christian dior beauty has drawn for vogue and "vanity fair." and he is cocurator of the new exhibition "fashion illustrators: the visionaries" at the society of illustrators in new york. what do you see in these works? >> oh, god, i see passion. i just see the love of line and color and shape and energy and flair. putting all these pieces together to work is like visual poetry. >> reporter: the exhibit is a century of illustration, starting with early giants like carl erickson, who worked for vogue for more than 40 years, beginning in 1916. and renee boucher, who sketched in cbs greats like jack benny and edward r. murrow, but was best known as fashion illustrator. the greats all had a distinct

style, like this todd dras drawing from the 1950s. >> look at the feathered hat. it's chaotic. it's energized. it's one of my favorite drawi s drawingses or halston's creative director who dashed off this sketch of martha graham. >> the brilliance is the spontaneity, the energy. you can feel her dancing. you could feel her moving. >> reporter: women illustrators were rare in women's fashion. but barbara perlman broke through. >> i love this piece because she is striking. and she is staring right back at you so you. some of these illustrators became stars. >> almost every person we selected has a legacy. >> reporter: like glen tunstall, who made his name drawing for womens we wear daily in the early 1970s. >> and i found people recognized me. i would even get fan mail. >> they knew? >> they knew. >> reporter: tunstall, who came from detroit, was a pioneer.

>> i was there. i was the first black illustrator at women's wear. >> reporter: was that your dream job? >> yes. i think it was everyone's that was a fashion artist. >> reporter: what makes a great fashion illustrator? >> it's this fluency with drawing whereby not only can you draw what you see, but you can easily exaggerate. >> reporter: is it also drawing what you feel? >> and drawing what you feel. you bring your personality, yourself into it. >> reporter: the commercial options for illustrators have dwindled, with photographers replacing them on the runway and magazines in decline. is the magazine market pretty much gone? >> i don't want to answer that. >> reporter: fashion illustrator sarah sing. >> it still exists because people want the do it, and i want to do it. >> reporter: why do you want do it? >> because it's fun. i've had it ever since i was little that i need to draw. it's an addiction.

>> reporter: sing, who works quickly in ink, will then scan her illustrations and alter them in the computer. she has drawn for vogue, elle decor and tiffany, and also shows her work on our instagram page. >> when you get your work published online, it's up forever. before it might just end up in the dentist's office. >> reporter: you get appreciated? >> yes you get appreciated. not fed, but appreciated. >> reporter: sing says bill donovan is one of a new generation of illustrators keeping the craft alive. a lot of people don't take this seriously as art, but i bet you see it as art. >> i see it as art. and i've always seen i want as art. it's a special form of art that doesn't exist anywhere else. >> and just sit back. >> reporter: my intent is to capture a moment. >> i could justwour face. >> reporter: when a womanintour beautiful, and quietly turns over her shoulder and give as glances so alluring. that's what try to capture, that

essence, that spontaneous moment that happens. there is an intimacy that is created when you're drawing live.

search teams are still clawing through the rubble in tennessee, where more than two dozen people were killed in a tornado storm earlier this week. in hard-hit putnam county, david begnaud found stories of hope, survival, and grief. >> this is where the kimberlands lived, mom, dad and little baby sawyer. i asked a relative where in the house was sawyer's room, and they said right here. >> just turned 2 last week. it's -- now it's gone. >> open! >> daddy will open it. >> they're all gone. >> reporter: clint pitts shared with us photos and videos of his sister erin, a school teacher,

her husband josh and their only child, sawyer. >> can you say prayer? >> reporter: the kimberlands were devoutly christian, and sawyer the grandson of a preacher, loved to direct songs with one of his favorite books, the church hymnal. there is something about a family unit going together that is, i don't know, i can't get it out of my mind. >> as terrible as it sounds, they wouldn't have wanted to live without each other. it hurts, but they're all together now. and that's all we can really -- at this point, that's all we can ask for. >> reporter: just about four houses down from the kimberlands is what's left of the collins' home. matt is a youth minister at a local church. he and his wife were hurt, but they will survive. their 4-year-old daughter hattie was killed, and their youngest child lainie was critically 18 peopln tnowomes are it

the national wea smst tornado h had oe anmiles suoreaerft but the foundation o home and the carpet that his family sat on while the closet walls flew away, this is what they say. >> god put his hand down and said no, you're not taking these today. literally, you take the floor and the house and leave the people. no. nobody can do that but god, nobody. >> reporter: four people walked away from the groom's home, which is right across the street from where the kimberlands live. and i'm standing on the kimberland slab this morning. you know, i asked the relatives where could they have possibly gone to live? and the relatives think the only space would have been here, the crawl space under the house.

but the reality is because we'll never know what their final moments were like, nobody w l know i they ever had time to even get here. it's friday, march 6th, 2020. this is the "cbs morning news." the battle to contain the coronavirus in the u.s. as cases continue to climb, a cruise ship with potentially infected passengers is anchored off california. the rush to get them tested. she's out. senator elizabeth warren suspends her run for the white house, but who will she endorse? >> let's take a deep breath and spend a little time. and the mother of two missing children is back in idaho to face charges. this as the last known images of the siblings is released. captioning funded by cbs good morning from studio 57

newsroom at cbs headquarters here in new york, good to be with you. i'm anne-maren