you can save by using a fan to cool off... unplugging and turning off devices when not in use... or closing your shades during the day. stay well and keep it golden. president trump fires back after former president obama criticizes the handling of the virus fight. >> look, he was an incompetent president. >> a lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge. >> also tonight, sports return, as americans race to reopen despite virus warnings. while new york's governor shows how testing is done. dramatic disinfection in russia while the vatican gets a deep clean before reopening to the faithful. the texas school stepping up for at-risk kids. >> reporter: is there a worry, "are they okay?" >> yes, especially those families as that we haven't had a chance to hear from, it brings me great concern. >> thank you! >> she was a television trail blazer. we remember phyllis george.

plus, baseball hall of famer andre dawson, now in a different field. >> this is my calling. >> and later, in these times, who doesn't need a friend? ♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> good evening. i'm jeff gianola, reporting from koin tv in portland, oregon. today, president trump lashed out at his predecessor over u.s. leadership in the pandemic fight. so far, 36 million americans have filed for unemployment in the last two months. the virus has now claimed the lives of nearly 90,000 americans, by far the world's highest death toll. cbs's nikole killion begins our coverage. >> reporter: the war of words is escalating between president trump and former president obama over the coronavirus response as new internal divisions are also exposed about how some agencies

have handled the crisis. >> he was an incompetent president, that's all can i say. grossly incompetent. >> reporter: president trump lashed out at his predecessor after former president obama ripped the administration's handling of the coronavirus crisis in a pair of virtual graduation speeches this weekend. >> this pandemic has fully finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they are doing. a lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge. >> reporter: both leaders have recently stepped up their attacks. in a call last week with former staffers, mr. obama called the administration's covid response "anemic" and "spotty," while mr. trump blamed the obama administration for leaving an insufficient playbook, depleting federal stockpiles and even going so far as to accuse his predecessor of undefined and unspecified crimes. >> obamagate -- it's been going on for a long time. >> reporter: but the finger-pointing is also coming from within. white house advisor peter navarro faulted the centers for disease control for botched

testing at the outset of the pandemic. >> the c.d.c. which really had the most trusted brand around the world, in this space, really let the country down with the testing. >> reporter: on "face the nation," health secretary alex azar came to the agency's defense. >> i don't believe the c.d.c. let this country down. i believe the c.d.c. serves an important public health role. >> reporter: did the c.d.c. let the american people down? >> the c.d.c. was grossly cut in the president's budget. >> reporter: speaker nancy pelosi told margaret brennan she is more concerned about getting aid to states and hard-hit americans after the house passed its largest relief package to date. >> we cannot take a pause. >> reporter: in a new interview, president trump said he's hopeful we will get our economy back. monday he will hold a round table with restaurant executives and other industry leaders. jeff? >> nikole, thank you. some parts of the pre-virus lifestyle we're seeing coming back to life this weekend.

including sports, as states race to reopen. here's cbs's jamie yuccas. >> green flag, nascar is back! >> reporter: tonightsc aetn to , with a race in south carolina without fans. on monday, yellowstone and grand teton national parks partially reopened. social distancing will be tested at popular attractions like old faithful. by monday, 48 states will have relaxed stay at home orders. over the weekend, at least five saw an uptick in coronavirus. but in texas, it was a surge, the state reporting more than 1,800 new cases saturday, the biggest single day jump since the pandemic began. more than 700 cases were reported at a meatpacking facility in amarillo. behavior is the wildcard, like this scuffle in san antonio. [ yelling ] store employees confronted a customer who refused to wear a

mask. governors are carefully watching infection rates, the crowds and more testing. new york's andrew cuomo showed how it's done at a press conference today. >> now testing is really going to be very helpful in monitoring the virus. >> reporter: as people around the country want to see more of the economy open up, california governor gavin newsom says even with strict rules he's optimistic about how his state's performing. >> about 75% of our economy is already open. we've seen dozens of counties that moved quickly where restaurants are opening, office, manufacturing, logistics, warehouses, operations and the like. but it's with modifications. >> reporter: they were seen in places like roseville, california, where restaurants reopened. >> they wiped off all of the tables. they had menus that were disposable so people aren't reusing them. i feel like they are doing a really good job, which makes us feel a lot more safe. >> reporter: for the first time, governor newsom says some school districts here in california could return to class by the fall. colorado's governor said today

he wants the majority of his kids to return to in-person class after summer break. jeff? >> jamie, thank you. today, the british government pledged more money toward a coronavirus vaccine trial, already being tested on humans. meanwhile, in wuhan, china, the epicenter of the virus, cbs's elizabeth palmer reports testing is underway again. >> reporter: health workers in wuhan have begun testing its 11 million inhabitants, after a limited new outbreak last week. the goal is to find and isolate asymptomatic carriers before they can start a new wave. this massive testing program should also give the authorities in wuhan some idea of what proportion of their inhabitants have been exposed to the virus and therefore have some immunity, a figure that is a complete mystery in most parts of the world. what is not a mystery is the

number of dead. it is still going up in brazil where medical staff, and gravediggers, know this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better.that gfor rutoo, in spite o lockdown, the infection is growing faster than anywhere else, except the united states. by contrast, much of europe is opening up. spain's death rate was under 100 for the first time today. and europeans seem willing to take the calculated risk that life can return to normal, or something very much like it. even the biggest church in the world, st. peters in the vatican, had an extra deep clean before it reopened to the faithful tomorrow. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london. >> the "cbs overnight news" will be right back.

♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> governments and drug makers are racing to respond to the pandemic. the drug remdesivir has been shown to modestly shorten recovery time. but now in a new trial, researchers are adding even more firepower to the battle against covid-19. tonight, cbs's chief medical correspondent dr. jon lapook shows us how. >> reporter: 57-year-old bill clark looked forward to his follow-up visit at atlanta's emory university hospital. >> it's always a great day to feel healthy, after what i went through. >> reporter: just three weeks

ago, he was discharged after a battle against covid-19. >> i started wondering how bad is this going to be? am i close to dying? >> reporter: clark took part in a ground-breaking global trial with early results that showed remdesivir reduced average hospitalizations from 15 to 11 days. dr. aneesh mehta was the lead investigator at the n.i.h. trial at emory university. >> i think remdesivir is one important tool. but we also need to look for other ways to help our patients. >> reporter: in the next phase of the trial, dr. mehta and colleagues are combining remdesivir, to stop the virus from multiplying, with a powerful anti-inflammatory drug, baricitinib, a so-called immune modulator that aims to prevent organ damage by calming down an inflamed immune system. >> the remdesivir stops the virus from replicating inside the cell, and the immune modulator puts out the fire. >> what the remdesivir does is stop the spark, and the immune modulator will hopefully be putting dirt on the fire to put it out. >> reporter: a one-two punch. >> a one-two punch.

>> reporter: dr. mehta's team is looking at whether this powerful combination could make recovery even faster, and possibly reduce the mortality rate in a way remdesivir alone has not yet been shown to do. >> a drug can block this virus. >> reporter: when dr. anthony fauci, the government's top infectious disease expert, announced remdesivir was the first drug found to be effective treating covid-19, it was reminiscent of a time more than three decades ago when the first h.i.v. treatment emerged. >> we were struggling for drugs for h.i.v. and we had nothing. >> reporter: it took nearly ten years to show a combination of drugs was needed to treat aids. so now they are applying that lesson learned to covid-19. dr. jon lapook, cbs news, new york. >> the coronavirus crisis has exposed the disparities between the country's wealthy and poor communities. cbs's mireya villarreal shows us how a school in texas has stepped up to bridge that

divide. >> i had to come to pack up your things, and i'm so sad. today particularly was emotional being in the classroom. >> reporter: cindy reyes teaches second grate at the como leadership academy in fort worth, texas. what is the hardest part about this? >> internet connection, availability. these are only eight, i have 22. >> reporter: we visited como elementary in the fall last year. 91% of the school's population is african american or latino, and 94% of these students are economically disadvantaged. >> everybody's priority right now is making sure to keep a roof over their head, feeding their children and still trying to navigate the world of teaching and learning. >> i have a surprise for you! >> reporter: victor martinez stays with his mother while his dad continues to work his construction job. >> kind of dangerous being outside. but we still have to pay bills. >> reporter: to keep kids engaged, teachers make regular home visits like this. they encourage students to send

pictures and video of themselves doing school work. principal valencia rhines also pushed to get 150 chromebooks and 11 internet hot spots to families in need. more than 50% of your students are at-risk students. >> yeah. >> reporter: was it a worry that not just for their education but their well-being, are they okay? >> yes, we are worried about our families and our students. especially those families with students we haven't had a chance to hear from. it brings me great concern making sure that everybody is okay. >> we're going to read a book. >> we have teachers videotaping themselves actually teaching lessons and posting that. >> reporter: that is not required, is it? >> absolutely not. to just be able to see my staff and all of us step up to meet the needs, where we are, it has been what keeps me going. >> everybody say bye. >> bye! >> reporter: mireya villarreal, cbs news, fort worth, texas. >> now to a television pioneer,

phyllis george was a texas beauty queen who broke barriers in sportscasting here at cbs. here's meg oliver. >> miss america! >> reporter: 1971, there she was -- phyllis george, crowned the 50th miss america, something she called the springboard for her life. she joined the cbs family in 1975, the first woman to coanchor the "n.f.l. today." >> the women's superbowl was just held. >> reporter: colleagues said she gave depth to athlete interviews, here with joe namath -- >> what is wrong with the new york jets? >> reporter: -- that male reporters never could. ten years later, george took on morning television on the "cbs morning news." over the years she covered many of the biggest stories in sports and news. >> i hope i broke that glass ceiling for a lot of women. i did for myself. i hope that more women will benefit from what i did. >> reporter: and in still another role, she became first

lady of kentucky following her marriage to former governor john y. brown. phyllis george died in lexington, kentucky from a non-covid related illness. she was 70 years old. meg oliver, cbs news. sleep this amazing? ouies contain iqtanienre zzzs sleep. while an optimal melatonin level means no next-day grogginess. zzzquil pure zzzs. naturally superior sleep.

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the cubs in chicago. now baseball hall of famer andrej dawson are helping folks in florida who have lost loved ones in this time of covid. cbs's manuel bojorquez has our story. >> way back -- >> reporter: it is a study in contrast. andre dawson electrified crowds, slugging 49 homers on his way to the 1987 m.v.p. award. his current life is one of quiet reflection, comforting the grieving. a twist of fate that started when he invested in a south florida funeral home. but 12 years ago, the business nearly folded, and dawson was forced to make a decision. >> i just said to myself, well, i got to make this work, and this is where i am in life. this is my calling. >> reporter: this is your calling, you say. >> yeah, i say that in a sense because i feel this is where god placed me. >> reporter: he has owned it without much fanfare, but this year is different.

dawson has handled services for at least six confirmed covid victims, but he says he treats every death as a potential case. >> because you don't know who is tested or who hasn't been tested. and who actually may be in the early stages of the disease itself. so, a lot of sanitizing. a lot of sanitizing of the vehicles, the facility itself. >> reporter: is your safety and your family's safety top of mind? >> of course. i have many sleepless nights and that's been just lately because, you know, within my heart, that's my deepest concern. >> reporter: but, he says, he feels compelled to be here for his community, especially because african americans are disproportionately affected. >> what i think i learned from baseball, which humbled me so much, is how you -- how you show leadership in a time of a crisis such as someone losing a loved

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that eruption are once again putting people in harm's way. >> reporter: before the 1980 eruption, washington's spirit lake was known as a classic summer destination, with the quiet mount st. helens looming in the background. then -- [ boom ] now, scientists worry about a new danger -- the threat of a massive 9-point magnitude earthquake predicted to hit the west coast at any time. if the big one hits, the southwest shore of the lake could collapse, flooding nearby towns and interstate-5. >> when the mountain erupted, basically, it dropped a landslide of rock debris into the valley, and on top of that is the pyroclastic flow. >> a day we'll never forget. next on the "cbs overnight

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comforts, helping many of us get by. here's cbs's chip reid. >> reporter: there is an old saying that if you want a friend in washington, get a dog. and that's never been more true than it is today, when we're all trying to keep our distance from other people. [ laughter ] katy campbell morrisson recently adopted marmaduke. he's a great cuddler. that's a big cuddler. >> yeah, he really loves to cuddle but he sometimes doesn't quite realize exactly how large he is. >> reporter: he even helps her exercise. she returns the favor with long walks where he shows off his patience. she adopted marmaduke from the humane rescue alliance in

washington, where the crates for dogs and cats are empty as they are in many shelters across the nation. lisa lafontaine, the alliance'sn >> because i think more and more animals will be sheltered in people's homes. and that will allow us to turn our resources to more programs that keep animals from becoming homeless in the first place. >> it's just really warm and comforting to have that contact that i feel like so many of us are missing now. >> reporter: the warmth and comfort of pets, helping us get through this together. chip reid, cbs news, washington. >> and that's the overnight news for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs this morning" and follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the studios of koin tv in portland, oregon, i'm jeff gianola.

♪ ♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news". >> good evening. i'm jeff gianola, reporting from koin tv in portland, oregon. today, president trump lashed out at his predecessor over u.s. leadership in the pandemic fight. so far, 36 million americans have filed for unemployment in the last two months. the virus has now claimed the lives of nearly 90,000 americans, by far the world's highest death toll. cbs's nikole killion begins our coverage. >> reporter: the war of words is escalating between president trump and former president obama new rnalio arelso soncie

an incompetent president, that's all can i say. grossly incompetent. >> reporter: president trump lashed out at his predecessor after former president obama ripped the administration's handling of the coronavirus crisis in a pair of virtual graduation speeches this weekend. >> this pandemic has fully finally torn back the curtain on the idea that so many of the folks in charge know what they are doing. a lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge. >> reporter: both leaders have recently stepped up their attacks. in a call last week with former staffers, mr. obama called the administration's covid response "anemic" and "spotty," while mr. trump blamed the obama administration for leaving an insufficient playbook, depleting federal stockpiles and even going so far as to accuse his predecessor of undefined and unspecified crimes. >> obamagate -- it's been going on for a long time. >> reporter: but the finger-pointing is also coming from within. white house advisor peter navarro faulted the centers for

disease control for botched testing at the outset of the pandemic. >> the c.d.c. which really had the most trusted brand around the world, in this space, really let the country down with the testing. >> reporter: on "fth hcrety alex azar came to the agency's defense. >> i don't believe the c.d.c. let this country down. i believe the c.d.c. serves an important public health role. >> reporter: did the c.d.c. let the american people down? >> the c.d.c. was grossly cut in the president's budget. >> reporter: speaker nancy pelosi told margaret brennan she is more concerned about getting aid to states and hard-hit americans after the house passed its largest relief package to date. >> we cannot take a pause. >> reporter: in a new interview, president trump said he's hopeful we will get our economy back. monday he will hold a round table with restaurant executives and other industry leaders. jeff? >> nikole, thank you. some parts of the pre-virus lifestyle we're seeing coming

back to life this weekend. including sports, as states race to reopen. here's cbs's jamie yuccas. >> green flag, nascar is back! >> reporter: tonight, nascar sparks a return to major sports, with a race in south carolina without fans. on monday, yellowstone and grand teton national parks partially reopened. social distancing will be tested at popular attractions like old faithful. by monday, 48 states will have relaxed stay at home orders. over the weekend, at least five saw an uptick in coronavirus. but in texas, it was a surge, the state reporting more than 1,800 new cases saturday, the biggest single day jump since the pandemic began. more than 700 cases were reported at a meat packing facility in amarillo. behavior is the wildcard, like this scuffle in san antonio. [ yelling ] store employees confronted a customer who refused to wear a mask.

governors are carefully watching infection rates, the crowds and more testing. new york's andrew cuomo showed how it's done at a press conference today. >> now testing is really going to be very helpful in monitoring the virus. >> reporter: as people around the country want to see more of the economy open up, california governor gavin newsom says even with strict rules he's optimistic about how his state's performing. >> about 75% of our economy is already open. we see dozens of counties that have moved quickly where restaurants are reopening, office, manufacturing, logistics, warehouses, operations and the like. but it's with modifications. >> reporter: they were seen in places like roseville, california, where restaurants reopened. >> they wiped off all of the tables. they had menus that were disposable so people aren't reusing them. i feel like they are doing a really good job, which makes us feel a lot more safe. >> reporter: for the first time, governor newsom says some school districts here in california could return to class by the fall.

colorado's governor said today he wants the majority of his kids to return to in-person class after summer break. jeff? >> jamie, thank you. today, the british government pledged more money toward a coronavirus vaccine trial, already being tested on humans. meanwhile, in wuhan, china, the epicenter of the virus, cbs's elizabeth palmer reports testing is underway again. >> reporter: health workers in wuhan have begun testing its 11 million inhabitants, after a limited new outbreak last week. the goal is to find and isolate asymptomatic carriers before they can start a new wave. this massive testing program should also give the authorities in wuhan some idea of what proportion of their inhabitants have been exposed to the virus and therefore have some immunity, a figure that is a complete mystery in most parts of the world.

what is not a mystery is the number of dead. it is still going up in brazil where medical staff, and gravediggers, know this is going to get a lot worse before it gets better. that goes for russia, too, where in spite of dramatic disinfection and a strict lockdown, the infection is growing faster than anywhere else, except the united states. by contrast, much of europe is opening up. spain's death rate was under 100 for the first time today. and europeans seem willing to take the calculated risk that life can return to normal, or something very much like it. even the biggest church in the world, st. peters in the vatican, had an extra deep clean before it reopens to the faithful tomorrow. elizabeth palmer, cbs news, london.

>> and now to a texas beauty queen who broke barriers. here's meg oliver. >> miss america! >> reporter: 1971, there she was -- phyllis george, crowned the 50th miss america, something she called the springboard for her life. she joined the cbs family in 1975, the first woman to coanchor the "n.f.l. today." >> the women's superbowl was just held. >> reporter: colleagues said she gave depth to athlete interviews, here with joe namath -- >> what is wrong with the new york jets? >> reporter: -- that male reporters never could. ten years later, george took on morning television on the "cbs morning news." over the years she covered many of the biggest stories in sports and news. >> i hope i broke that glass ceiling for a lot of women. i did for myself. i hope that more women will benefit from what i did. >> reporter: and in still another role, she became first lady of kentucky following her marriage to former governor john y. brown. phyllis george died in

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♪ ♪ >> announcer: this is the "cbs overnight news." >> i'm jeff gianola reporting this morning from koin tv in portland, oregon. as more countries around the world relax their travel bands, there is a focus on keeping airports virus-free. some are turning to cutting edge technology.

>> reporter: they look straight out of a sci-fi movie. helmets designed to take temperatures. police use them to scan incoming passengers. [ speaking foreign language ] the augmented reality is projected inside the advisor, says the senior engineer. it's able to detect the temperature of a single person or group. helmets can read temperatures from 20 feet away, an important tool to maintain social distancing. the international airport is ramping up safety measures as it slowly reopens to visitors. similar technology is also being used by police in dubai. officers are deploying the chinese-made head gear throughout the crowded city. it can scan up to 200 people a minute. more advanced than other smart helmets, this gear has six different scanning options. >> it's got the temperature reading mode. it also has facial recognition capabilities, qr code reader, and ultimately this all connects together to give you the history of a person.

>> reporter: as it works to keep cities healthy, the safety feature isn't immune to criticism. civil liberties groups say it act as big brother and is an invasion of privacy. >> that was ian lee reporting. even before the coronavirus praend, a growing number of americans were stocking up on food and even weapons for a potential national or global crisis. they call themselves, preppers, as in preparing for the worst. and it turns out prepping is big business as barry petersen found out. >> i'm preparing my family for the total destruction of the power grid. >> reporter: they call themselves preppers. preparing for disaster. from sweden. >> you can't depend on the government to bring you food or get you water. >> prepping australia here. >> reporter: to australia. in ord >> in order to provide ultimate security our members stand on guard in rotation. >> reporter: the c.e.o. jrue

miller sells memberships in his fortitude ranch, with plenty of bunks and bullets. >> there could be a group of people coming after us. with weapons like this, we need fire power, too. >> reporter: and being a prepper is getting a big boost from the pandemic. >> all kinds of people who paid no attention to prepping before thought it was silly. now understand that if there is a really bad pandemic, our electric system goes out, some comet or asteroid takes out crops across the world and they're starving, you need a place like fortitude ranch where you can survive a really bad disaster. >> reporter: so this has been good for your business, the pandemic. >> good for business largely in terms of awareness of it and the need to join it. >> reporter: in addition to colorado he has ranches in wisconsin and soon nevada. so if i went to dish at fortitude ranch with some of the members of your group, would i be talking to lawyers, "desperate housewives"? i mean, who would be at the

dinner table with me? >> basically all walks of society. bankers, lawyers, small businessmen, a lot of retired people as well. >> reporter: nothing that i would find out of the ordinary then? >> absolutely not. normal people. >> i went out to the ranch. i liked what he had to offer. >> reporter: kiki signed up for fortitude ranch. she also organizes self-reliance conferences. >> i think a lot of people associate the preppers with extremism, and i don't think that that's the case at all. >> reporter: if not extremism, what would be your description? >> i think that they are people who have thought through their, you know, what's smart in their life. you know, we have car auto insurance. we don't expect to get into an accident, but we may -- >> reporter: it's kind of a disaster insurance maybe? >> i think you can think of it like that, sure. >> reporter: preppers point to pandemic panic that had people hoarding toilet paper.

>> but that really did illustrate that when you're in a panic, that is the worst time to be making these kinds of decisions that could affect your family's well-being and maybe their survival. >> i'm lisa medford. i'm the survival mom. >> reporter: she wrote a book by the same title. her pandemic lesson is that survival supplies for weeks or months can come from the average grocery store. >> because survival and prepping all of a sudden wasn't something that they just saw on tv with a bunch of people who were doing bizarre things like eating bugs, for example, but that survival really does mean opening your cupboard doors and there's food there. so what i'm hoping that comes through is that preppers, prepping, survival, it really can be so ordinary. >> reporter: preppers trace their roots to the homesteaders of the 1800s. says john ramy, a silicon valley entrepreneur and prepper who

once advised the obama white house on disaster readiness. >> one of the quips we often use is a lot of modern prepping is what our grandparents used to call daily life. canning, starting a fire, starting a fire, being able to take care of minor injuries to ca an ambulance. >> having a basement full of food my grandmother used to have and stuff she canned herself. >> exactly. my grandmother was a canner as well. knew how to sew clothing, set bones and wounds. we have lost 1,000 years of survival skills in the last 100. >> we will look back at covid-19 as potentially a blessing. i don't mean to be cruel, not to the people who died and suffered from it, but we are so lucky that covid-19, a pandemic has hit with such a low fatality rate because now we have the wake up call. >> your town is being quarantined. >> reporter: there have been wake up calls before. the hollywood thriller

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washington. it was she and a colleague had traveled to the active volcano mount saint helen's to drop off equipment at a u.s. geological station. they planned to stay the night, but geologist david johnston tasked with monitoring the mountain, warned them against it. >> he said, let's just have as few people here as possible. we were very disappointed that we were not going to spend the night looking at this beautiful volcano. the sun was just starting to set. we stopped and i took a couple of last photos of mount saint helen's. >> reporter: the very next morning at 8:32 a.m., mount saint helen's erupted. >> they are calling it the most violent eruption of this volcano in 32,000 years. >> reporter: the energy that came out of mount saint helen's that day is bigger than any nuclear weapon we have in our arsenal. steve ole son wrote a book about it. >> it collapsed into this valley that was between us, and that

let out this burst of pressure that had been building up inside the volcano. >> reporter: the blast triggered the largest landslide in recorded history, and flattened trees for 220 square miles, with a cloud of smoke, ash and pumice. in all, 57 people died. >> it was the first clear weekend that had happened in the year 1980, and so a lot of people in the surrounding area simply made plans to come out and go camping and hiking. they weren't even watching the volcano necessarily. >> reporter: two exclusion zones had been set up to try to keep people safe, while still allowing warehouse or logging trucks to harvest timber off the side of the mountain tanl. >> there were a lot of people that owned property up here that wanted to get to their property. geologists would issue warnings, saying no, we think the volcano is too dangerous. >> sir, is the road closed? >> reporter: then as now debate raged whether to protect people's livelihoods or their lives. >> they have to put a roadblock

up just to keep the tourist out. what do they expect us to survive on? if it's so dangerous here, why are we still here? and i just don't -- i think the wole thing is just ridiculous. in fact,ner:. drawn up new larger boundaries which might have saved lives, but the plans sat on then governor dixie ray's desk unsigned as she attended a rhododendron festival. in fact, all three of the people killed were outside of the danger zone when it established. when the volcano erupted, 1500 feet of the mountain vaporized in seconds. in a violent super heated cloud of debris, killing people as far away as 20 miles. >> i think people would think a cloud of dust and debris, you know, doesn't seem that dangerous. >> yeah, this was more than a

cloud. it was more like a stone hurricane, essentially, a hurricane made up of pulverized stone that was moving with such force that it could just knock down anything in its path. >> reporter: one of the first to die, geologist david johnston. it turns out he hadn't planned to be on the mountain that day. he was filling in for his colleague, don swan son. >> he had taken my place on saturday night. >> reporter: in the 45 seconds before the cloud hit, he was able to radio out one last warning. telling the vancouver monitoring station, "this is it." his body has never been found. >> david johnston where you can see the trees down there that are cut off flat, he had a clear view of the volcano and could monitor it from that ridge. >> reporter: in the end, the only reason there wasn't a greater loss of life was that it was a sunday, so fewer people were working on and around the mountain. today, trees and wildlife are returning to mount saint

helen's. but 40 years later, in the midst of a different kind of catastrophe, it's hard not to wonder if we've learned

the coronavirus pandemic is robbing millions of young people of a rite of passage. their graduation ceremonies. but from coast to coast, parents and teachers are stepping in to save the day. steve hartman found this story "on the road." >> reporter: when gabrielle pierce's graduation got canceled, her dad was almost as upset as she was. >> it nearly broke my hoht of something. i said,, i gssha do another drive-by. >> reporter: so right there where they usually park the chevy -- >> congratulations. >> reporter: torrance graduated his daughter from xavier university of louisiana on a rented stage and podium in front of friends, family, and passing motorists.

gabrielle says it was definitely not the graduation she envisioned, but still everything she dreamed. >> i think it was better than the regular one. >> reporter: could you imagine that being possible just a few weeks ago? >> no, not at all.ter:nd that'se of many small miracles we're starting to see across the country. disappointed graduates discovering president obama of and silver linings as schools get creative with banner tributes and parade graduations. others are planning drive-in graduations. and at least one, whiz by graduation. here in indianapolis, it's cap and gone. the speed way hosting a ceremony where kids can cruise the track in their own vehicles presumably at a reasonable speed and pick up their diplomas on the way out. >> it's not the numbers they thought though were going to have, but it's something different and unique and they'll probably remember forever. >> eporter: scott is a band director at ferg us falls high

school in minnesota. here he is playing for his high school's virtual graduation, all his vio fos it's educators lik parents like these who are pulling out all the stops to make this a graduation to remember. and so it's our hope when these graduates look back in hindsight at 2020, they won't dwell on what was lost, but what was found. and what was left completely unaffected. moments like this one. >> very proud. a father couldn't be much prouder than i am right now of my daughter gabrielle. >> reporter: and there's the onlyation speech that matters. steve hartman, cbs news, "on the road." >> and that's the overnight news for this monday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, check back later for "cbs this morning". and follow us online any time at

cbsnews.com. reporting from the studios of kointv, portland, oregon, i'm jeff gianola. . captioning sponsored by cbs >> tonight president trump fires back after former president obama criticizes the handling of the virus. >> look, he was an incompetent president. >> a lot of them aren't even pretending to be in charge. >> also tonight sports return as americans race to reopen despite virus warnings. while new york's governor shows how testing is done. dramatic disinfection in russia while the vatican gets a deep clean before reopening to the faithful. the texas school stepping up for at-risk kids. >> is there a worry, are they okay? >> yes, especially those families as that we haven't had a chance to hear from, it brings me great concern. >> thank you.

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