>> school officials are doing their best to keep the virus out so students won't have anything to worry about. >> the custodial staff is wiping down the door knobs and handle bars and inside the bathrooms. >> you stepped up cleaning. >> absolutely. >> how many more times are you cleaning now. >> this time of year we pick up the viruses, the flu are mo prevalent in the winter we're up to four times a day. >> if there's a outbreak are you prepare snd. >> i believe we're absolutely are. >> the coronavirus forced several schools in the u.s. to close briefly but countries like japan and italy schools are being closed for weeks. >> we can hear you, can you hear us. >> yeah. >> in little falls they're prepared to teach kids remotely if the schools are forced to shut. each student has technology to learn from home. >> how long could you teach from home. >> honestly if we had to we

could teach the remainder of the year remotely. >> mrs. donovan are you prepared to teach remotely if something happens. >> yeah the children are too. >> of course shut schools disrupt whole families an that could cause a ripple for the economy. >> first and foremost someone has to stay with the children, probably going to be a parent. any household budget will feel that immediately. discretionary spending. not the roof over the head. not the food. not the medicine. everything else goes on hold. >> school officials say it's a good idea for families to prepare now in case schools close and talk to relatives and neighbors to come up with a plan to take care of your children. >> vermont on the is turning purple, not talking politics, purple hearts non-profit delivering a great impact as the military has awarded 2 million purple hearts to americans who

shed blood or died in combat and tens and thousands of those medals have lost their way. this group is helping to bring them home. >> what began as a passion project for this army major zachary feight turned into the creation of purple hearts reunited aimed at returning lost or stolen medals to the vets on this day in this box was returned to the family of a soldier who lost his life in the korean war. >> it's a very intimacyate connection to somebody. >> it is. this is a real person. a real hero. he had his whole life ahead of him. unfortunately he's not here to tell the stories so i think it's our job to tell the story for him. >> as every story

-- stranger who's randomly fin the medals often send it to feight hoping he will get them home. >> they begin with only a name and then look to the medal for other clues. >> they changed in the way they were manufactured and time period they were engraved. >> and then he and his team of just two begin making cold calls. > once we identify the families i come down, see dan, we do a full lay out. >> dan who runs the village frame shot in vermont helping feight 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. the raw emotion in their face makes all of the time and effort worth bringing these medals home. >> home for feight on this weekend is salem, alabama, to reunite pastor with his dad late

father's medals he earned in the korean war. >> he earned those medals and i can cherish those, i can always have a part of him with me. >> sounds like you're doing for him more than yourself. >> more so. >> adopted at 9 months old growing up he knew little about his father and met him much later in life. he knew less about his service to his country until feight calld. >> it takes an act of god. this is a act of god. >> and a lot of hard work. great honor to honor your father one of our nation's heroes. >> he's not merely reunited a medal with their family these bringing their loved one home. >> that symbol represents to their families in their own spiritual way his dad is coming home to his son. he's going to look at that frame every day and remember his dad and he's going to remember he's

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new york city an exhibit paying homage to the artists who brought fashion to life before there were cameras. we take a look. >> this story is personal for me. my step father started as a fashion illustrator working for magazines like vogue and town & country in the 50s and 60s and one of his crdrawings is includ here in the society of illustrators in new york. usually these were commercial works but these illustrators had an art all their own. an art the exhibition shows is alive and well. >> bill donovan started sketching as a boy and knew what he wanted the moment he saw audrey hepburn sweep in to the film. >> to me she was a swan sweeping across the floor and i wanted to

draw that, not a picture or design it, i wanted to draw it. >> now an artist at christian dior beauty. has drawn for vogue and vanity fair. with 63 pieces. and cocreator of fashion illustrators, the situation a - visionaries. at the society of illustrators in new york. >> what do you see in this. >> i see the passion of love, and line, color, energy, shape, flare, putting it all together is like environmental poetry. >> is like environmental poetry visual poetry. visual poetry. -- many. greats but best known as a fashion imadministrator. the illustrator. the greats all had a distinct

style like this drawing from the 1950s. >> look at the feathered hat. chaotic and energized one of my favorite. >> or this sketch of martha. >> the brilliance is the spontaneous dancing and you could feel her moving. >> i love this piece becaus she's striking and she's staring right back at you. >> some of these illustrators are stars. >> most of them are stars almost everyone we selected as a legacy. >> like one who made his name from the fashion bible in the early 70s. >> i found people recognized me. i would even get fan mail. they knew. >> he came from detroit. he was a pioneer. >> i was there.

i was the first black illustr e illustrat illustrator. >> was that your dream job? >> yes. i think it was everyones that was a fashion artist. >> what makes a great fashion imstraight illustrator? >> it's this fluency withdrawing where you cannot only draw what you see but can easily exaggerate. >> is it also enjoying what you feel? >> enjoying what you feel, you bring your personality, yourself into it. >> the commercial options for illustrators have dwindled with photographers replacing them on the runway and magazines in decline. >> is the magazine industry pretty much gone. >> it still exists i want to do it because it's fun. i had it ever since i was little that i need to draw. it's and i addiction. >> she works quickly in ink and

then scans the illustrations to the computer. >> when you get your work public englished online it's up for published online it's up forever before it's somewhere in a dentist office. >> phil donovan is a new generation of illustrators keeping the craft alive. >> a lot of people don't take this seriously as art but i bet you do. >> i see it as art, it's a special form of art that doesn't exist anywhere else. >> i could just enjoy your face. >> when a woman walks into a restaurant and is beautiful and gives a glance. so alluring. that's what i try to capture that essence and spontaneous

moment. there's an intimacy created when you are enjoying

police in italy are still trying to find out who stole a famous portrait of a lady revolvered in december inside the same gallery it was stolen from 23 years before. seth dunn is on the case. >> reporter: she looks unphased not a bit like a woman who has been missing for 23 years. the italian authorities claimed they authenticated the port rate. >> as art mysteries go how good is this? >> it's the stuff upon which mini series are made right. >> this art historian told us the decades-long real drive drama puzzled illini vest gators and -- investigators and thieves.

>> you take it to themeone's go >> was reported missing in 1997 and this december police were called to the gallery grounds after a gardener discovered a hole in the wall and unbelievably the painting. >> it was in very good condition. first they checked oh, my gosh that's been sitting outside for the past 23 years what condition will it be in, but it's in good condition, indicating it was probably taken away and returned. >> this was actually two portraits one painted on top of another. the unique opinions which helped to prove its the real thing. he worked mostly in vienna in the early 1900s best known for the kids and in 2008 his sudden

uktive portraits of socialites. >> elegant creatures. >> who happen to have no clothes on. >> just an accident. >> you will be looking at someone's golden scarf, it's pretty, oh, it's cliff he's ever where. >> the recovered masterpieces under lock and key for now hidden away with its secrets, how is it in such good shape and whers it been.been. a cliff hanger. >> that's the overnight for this friday. for everyone else check back in later with the morning news, cbs this morning. from the broadcast center in new york city, good night.

it is it is friday, march 13th, 2020. good to be with you. i'm anne-marie green. all right. so efforts to contain the coronavirus are leading to widespread shutdowns across the u.s. schools and entire cities have been ordered closed forcing millions of students to stay home. entire states including maryland, ohio, michigan, new mexico, and oregon have ordered all k-through 12 schools shut down. major sporting events interior been called off including march madness. wall street had its worst day since the 1987 crash. this morning the death toll in the u.s. tops 40. more than 1,500 cases have been confirmed in nearly every state and washington, d.c. we will touch on all of these stories and more.