last transmission. get out of that car. this is what's going through a cop's mind as he gets around it. >> reporter: as he checked in with his team, things remained peaceful. there's a theory out there when you guys armour up and look like military, that's when they get wild as well. >> it's usually reactive. we're going to suit up after we say that the temperature has gone up, okay. if they're yelling and screaming that's fine. when bottles are coming i have to put the helmets on and shields to protect my guys. >> reporter: it's hard to miss from shatasha. what do you think when you see ha? ee i >> i am devastated. i am disgusted. we want justice for our people. the same anyone else would. that's all we care for. >> reporter: the police say they want a light touch, de-escalate. do you believe that? >> you see them behind us, right? i came today in flip-flops, ripped jeans and a shirt. i have no need or desire to want

to fight, to want to get pepper sprayed down. i will fight for my people by any means necessary. >> reporter: monahan says he believes the vast majority of people causing trouble are coming from outside new york. >> we have a lot of encouragement from outside agitators telling people to go out and cause mayhem in the city. using i think this movement for an agenda to end policing throughout the country and that's the agenda. >> reporter: you say end policing? >> all the signs you see is de-fund policing, no more police. >> reporter: as monahan watched things unfold from the ground, deputy chief edward ma lane had a different view. from survey langasque cameras feeding into a command center in police headquarters. >> this is mob mentality. this is not peaceful protest trying to right injustice. >> reporter: these people walking down the street peacefully, that's not mob mentality. >> we don't like people walking down the middle of the street. we want the rights of everyone

toe drive in manhattan. >> reporter: they believe this is clearly the way to get attention as they press on for change. what role does racism play in these outcomes where you have black men dying at a greater rate than other populations at the hands of police? >> i don't believe racism plays a role in new york. i can only speak for what i've seen in new york city. >> reporter: and yet you have these outcomes. and if those protesters heard you say racism doesn't play a role, that's why they're here. that's why they're angry. they don't think you get it. >> i would never say we are a racist police department, absolutely not. have incidents happened? maybe there was a racist incident, something, and that person has been removed from this agency, absolutely. we all care about the communities we work in. we care deeply, in the minority communities, the cops that work there each and every day. >> tony dokoupil reporting. as if they weren't facing enough challenges, the economic break down, the coronavirus, well, now it's hurricane season. climate scientists predict up to half a dozen major storms will

make landfall this year. and as you might imagine, the pandemic is complicating disaster planning. manuel bojorquez reports from miami. >> reporter: when hurricane irma slashed florida in 2017, emergency managers did what they do. housing them in large crowded shelters. this year will be different. >> we will screen people when they come, take their temperature, ask them the standard questions if they have any symptoms, and we'll ask them if they have been cohabitating with somebody that has covid-19. >> reporter: frank rollison, director of emergency management, says covid cases will need to be isolated and the county may use hotels, government buildings, even empty classrooms. but he worries that the current social distancing messaging fights the evacuation messaging. >> we've been telling them for so long now that you're safer at home. don't congregate. stay away from each other.

but now you're going to be safer with us for a hurricane. >> reporter: so you're concerned people would be afraid to go to a shelter because of the virus? >> right. that's a concern that we have. >> reporter: meanwhile, florida power and light is doing its usual storm prep. normally when the power goes out, an army of power workers from dozens of states rides to the rescue. but travel and health restrictions are already creating issues, says michael jarow, an fpl vice president. >> we noticed actually early on this year several ulttilities he been challenged to get resources. >> reporter: stl be harder to restore power. >> absolutely. we expect there to be extended restoration times if we were challenged with a hurricane this year amid a global pandemic. >> reporter: florida's governor he's urged the state's more than 20 million residents to stock up now. >> if you need flashlights, if you need batteries, you need generators. >> reporter: that's a tall order for the unemployed. more than 2 million floridians have filed unemployment claims

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>> reporter: the man behind the mask is mark, a medical historian, author of books like "the pandemic ntur he krom masks going back to their first known medical d. the bubonic plague of the middle ages that killed roughly half of europe's population. and those were some masks. >> everybody is probably familiar with the classic image of the beaked physician, the plague doctor. >> reporter: that the plague doctors looked like ravens about the pick on the bones of the dead is an image that sticks with you. the masks may have been useless against the disease, which was carried by rats and flees, but they did actually serve a purpose. >> they would wear this back-to-back beak and they would put lavender in the beak as a way of acting a barrier to the noxious vapors that were thought to spread this dreadful contagion. >> reporter: it wasn't just that the world smelled, people dying

of the plague with their boils and everything else. >> stunk. >> reporter: this was thought to have medicinalpo t waso or counterat disease could be carried in the air endured for centuries. but it wasn't actually proven until the great manturian plague of 1911, an outbreak that killed around 60 th,000 people. >> what happened in china in the winter of 1910, a young chinese doctor was practicing in manturia with a french colleague. wu observed many patients seemed to have a disease that transmitted rapidly between them. he hypothesized it wasn't spread by the usual plague flea route but respiratory from person to person. >> reporter: so wu and his staff wore masks. >> long story short, they didn't catch the bubonic plague, where

the french doctor he worked with died. >> reporter: he didn't wear the mask? >> he dismissed it. i suppose there could be an element of who is this pres presumptuous young chinese doctor to tell me. i know better. >> reporter: that east/west divide has endured. it has had its moments in the west during the spanish flu pandemic of 1819, san francisco had a mask-wearing public ordinance. >> in san francisco, people were actually fined $5 if they were caught by a police man in public not -- >> reporter: not wearing a mask? these days the divide is more left/right than east/west. the non-mask wearer in chief may be living a two-cultural fantasies. studies show men are less likely to wear face masks than women. >> keep your hands up and your mouth shut and nobody will get hurt. >> reporter: the other attitude

may come from the movies. >> you're the durango kid, eh? >> reporter: in the west masks were forbad guys. >> you might as well put that gun down and take off your mask. >> reporter: the mask has come a long way, not just in terms of social acceptability, but technically. those chinese doctors in manturia made theirs out of bandages. surge cat masks were also made from woven cloth. better than nothing, but not as good as this, the now coveted n 59 mask, molded, not he woven, out of synthetic fibers which filter out more of the virus. it's a mask that owes its inspiration to legendary industrial designer sarah little turnbull whose work on the first molded bra cup for 3m in the '60s, morphed in her mind into a medical mask. and you can see why. now the face mask is morphing again from medical to fashion necessity, along with the

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summer is the seas on of the hollywood block buster, but not this year. the coronavirus has dimmed the lights in tinsel town. theaters are dark, seats are empty, and the people who work behind the scenes are struggling to hold on through the pandemic. jamie yuccas has the story from los angeles. >> reporter: this is where the action takes place, in normal times. hollywood is completely shutdown. and while many stars remain visible in viral videos, the heart of hollywood are the names

you don't see, except in the closing credits. hundreds and hundreds behind each feature film, almost all are now out of work. >> there's a lot of people in your position. >> i'm sure there are. >> reporter: like set designer kenneth larson. >> we're struggling, and i think just one more nail in that production coffin. >> reporter: most of hair stylist franky hernandez's clients are in film and television. his salon sits empty. >> it has affected not only us, but the people that are assisting us and are helping us keep this whole production going. >> reporter: he's living paycheck to paycheck and doesn't know how he'll pay the rent. it's almost like one domino fell and -- >> 100%. with hardly any warning. >> reporter: those big productions also meant a whole lot of mouths tod.>> j likelite el>> rorter: she saw hereos ve. but she pivoted, selling

curbside in her l.a. community. how are you able to make your bills? >> thankfully, my landlord said, payour staff, don't worry about me, worry about surviving. >> reporter: hollywood is at its best in the worst of times, providing an escape from reality. but for theater-owner lance, there is no escaping this. how much income lost are we talking about? >> hundreds of thousands. >> reporter: he's had to layoff his ticket takers, those who make the popcorn and run the projectors. but like most in this industry, he dreams of a happily ever after. >> we're going to make it. that's my my gut feeling. let's hope is hope i'm right. >> reporter: jamie ys, cbs news, los angeles. >> and that is the overnight news for this wednesday. 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 nation's capital, i'm major garrett.