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i wasn't mad. it's material. you know what i'm saying? i mean, we got broken glass, but we got a man that lost his life business. >> reporter: people responded to his message within hours of posting this picture, hundreds turned out to buy a burger, including dallas mavericks owner mark cuban. i heard people were waiting three or four hours to just order and get their food. >> they were, they were. i got a phone call from one of my employees. they said, listen, you need to get down here. i was floored. i was like, this is -- this is what it's about. and mind you, it was all demographics. it was young, old, black, white, hispanic, businessmen, firefighters, police, teachers. >> reporter: blocks away, looters also ransacked guns and roses boutique. this video shared on social media captures the moment a man smashed a pole through the
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window. owner princess pope intends to share it with police. >> i've never seen anything like it. like, i couldn't -- yeah, at that moment i couldn't believe that this had happened to me. things just start to rush through my head, like, all of my hard work. i just felt like everything just crumbled in seconds. >> reporter: how much did you lose? >> i know at least 80% of the inventory is gone for sure. >> reporter: pope's community rallied to support her. within four days nearly 4,000 donors from all over the world raised more than $110,000 to get her back on her feet. are you surprised at how from people all over the world? >> i am surprised, and i am so grateful. just the people that just believe in us and believe in me, itt makes myrt smile and i'm ju, hap just cok even bigger, better and bolder than before. >> reporter: as the protests continue to resonate with diverse communities, so does the message of unity.
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the coleman brothers came here for lunch five days after the vandalism. >> i intended to spend some money today, yeah. i came here to show my support and spend some money. >> reporter: what do you say to those people that came out to support you on a really tough day? >> yeah, i say, i'm humbled. thank you. thank you. you know what i'm saying? because there is no burger inn west end without the support. when you put out good energy, it does come back to you. >> reporter: and you know this dallas neighborhood isn't the only place feeling the love. there are communities coming together from all around the country to help these businesses that were damaged get back to life, getackin o oe rdest-hit a in minneapolis so far, more than 53,000 people have donated, garnering more than $4 million so far. >> that was mireya villar did you know that feeling sluggish or weighed down could be signs that your digestive system isn't working at its best?
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plexiglass. how's business? >> business is booming. it's absolutely insanely busy. >> reporter: rush miller manages tap plastics in san leandro, california. >> i've never in 40 years of doing this, i've never seen anything like this. >> reporter: miller says as soon as the numbers of covid-19 cases exploded, so did sales of the transparent acrylic barriers. >> first customers were the large grocery stores, plastic sheets between the customer and the cashier. >> reporter: already plexiglass barriers are popping up in reception areas. office cafeterias. hair and nail salons. whh rquestion, as winom pandemic isolle f contacted by a nursery each ot? school, and they wanted ones to put between the kids who are sleeping on the floor during naptime. >> reporter: does that make you
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kind of sad? >> i have four kids. this is just one more problem that the kids have to deal with at school that is just sad. it's just not good. >> reporter: one of the first times the phrase "the new normal" appeared in print was in 1918 just after the end of world war i. and with every cataclysmic event since, there have been predictions about how life will change. this one's no exception. >> every cashier is going to want protection. >> reporter: becoming part of the new normal? >> yes, part of the new normal, unfortunately. >> reporter: unfortunately? >> yeah, i just -- you know, i'm an optimist. i want it to be like it was. >> it has changed, but they always change for shorter periods than we anticipate than a lot of people expect. >> reporter: adam is a psychology professor at new york university's stern school of business. he points out that the phrase has been much used during the last two decades.
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here is the question that must be asked. is what happened friday the new normal? >> we just aren't quite sure yet what the new normal is. >> reporter: this very well may be the new normal. >> reporter: notably the 2008 financial crisis. >> people said this is the new normal. you're going to have to be much more careful about your spending. also saying to consumers, banks and other institutions will be forced to behave better in the future, we'll likely avert future crises like this one. >> reporter: the government loosened the major financial protections. change didn't last. >> i think we'll see the same thing after the pandemic as ofn eve is concrete, it's very present, it's that surrounds you, it takes up your intentional feel. as it passes the vast majority of our behaviors will return to the way they were. >> reporter: but some changes will stick. can we even remember what it was like to fly before 9/11? >> we instituted a whole lot of different policies. the way we travel changed. the way we entered buildings
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changed. security in general was much tighter in every respect. >> reporter: not that there hasn't been a lot of grumbling about the long lines and privacy intrusions. adam says many americans are less welcoming of new norms that feel imposed. >> a lot of people just say, y know what, i've got plenty of freedom, i'm good. there are other people in the population who are more naturally resistant to being told pretty much anything. you can say, don't do this thing that will protect thousands of people, or don't do this thing that will keep you safe. they say, don't tell me what to do. that's not something i'm willing to accept. >> reporter: it's not that humans aren't capable of change over relatively short periods of time. think about this. 20 years ago almost no one had a smartphone. and now -- >> 75% of american adults say they can reach their phone without moving their feet 24 hourz a day which means it's understand their pillow,
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nightstand, their pockets. >> reporter: on average he says ans wi spendar of job strled onto. the stage with the first iphone and said, all of you will buy this device and start using it now, it probably would not have worked out so well. >> it would not. if the government had said, for example, everyone is mandated to buy a device, the attitudes would have been very, very, very different. >> reporter: whatever the new normal ends up looking like, alter says some people may actually begin pining for lock down life. >> as soon as you're being forced to move around again, i think we'll start to say, remember when we didn't -- we could just sit on the couch. >> lydia, i'mea birds chirping. is that a sound effect you added? >> yes, for you. no, it's -- >> reporter: restaurateur and cookbook author lydia says she hopes there are elements of our life in isolation that will be part of our new normal. >> you know, the planes are not
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flying overhead as much. the birds are singing. maybe, maybe i'm overly sensitive, but i kind of like it. >> reporter: she says this period reminds her of her childhood in istria once a part of italy. >> this is how i grew up and the seasons that we ate. i did have grandma in the gardens harvesting potatoes, the beans, the peas, whatever was in season. >> reporter: while bastianich hopes that people will continue to cook at home, she's also a business woman with restaurants in new york and beyond. she knows that eateries, bars and stores can only reopen if social distancing becomes a norm, at least for the foreseeable future. >> there are already apps out there that the client can log onto the restaurant's menu and order directly. the waiter doesn't have to take the order. the order goes in the kitchen. the waiter will just serve it
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with the mask, the gloves, change the gloves with each serving. it's just a precaution that needs to be taken. >> reporter: first time you're really dealing with your server is when the food is delivered. >> exactly. and i think the communication will happen a lot on the computer. >> reporter: do people need restaurants? >> absolutely. restaurants -- the word restaurant is from the word restore, a refuge, if you will, of travelers, of people going, meeting new people. so restaurants, i think, will always be, be part of society. >> reporter: so you heard it here. the new normal will include restaurants. >> yes, absolutely. i have no doubt. >> reporter: but that new normal may include barriers between tables made of, yes, plexiglass. i love starting conversations with the next table. >> i know, i know. we are social creatures.
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weeks of lock downs and stay-at-home orders forced many people to find new ways to enjoy their chosen professions. john blackstone caught up with one professional photographer who's become a social media sensation with a little help from his backyard friends. >> reporter: in simco, ontario, photographer darryl granger is known for shooting imaginative portraits,in the settind giv stre to han but with his usual portraits impossible because of the pandemic, he found some new
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subjects happy to pose right in his own backyard. you were sitting back and going, wow, there's a lot of squirrels back there. >> reporter: so just as he does for humans, he created a stage set in miniature. >> the first set we did was a country market. and so we did everything that had peanuts and nuts and walnuts and shopping carts in there. and then they went nuts, so to speak. [ laughter ] >> reporter: it's true, it seems, if you build it they will come. >> and so they come and go, wow, look at this! and, of course, their eyes are just bugging. you can see it because they're like, look at all these nuts. >> reporter: the squirrels prove to be such enthusiastic subjects, granger built another set. this time a peanut butter factory. and the squirrels knew exactly what was expected of they have. >> pretty soon they're going to have agents. i know they're going to have agents and then they're going to call me. >> reporter: granger showed us into his workshop where he was just finishing a squirrel-sized
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vault. >> this is the new set. >> reporter: wow, safe crackers. >> they're breaking in. this is dynamite. so that they have a plunger, so this is the right height. so when they their paws up -- >> reporter: and they did. apparently to devastating effect. >> it's nuts, it really is nuts. i mean, there's no way around this. >> reporter: online, granger's photos are providing some much-needed pandemic relief. >> it's not all about the bad news. there's a lot of good out there. good humor. >> reporter: and sometimes you can get that good humor for peanuts. john blackstone, cbs news, sbs francisco. >> and that is the overnight news for this friday. for some of you, the news continues. for others, please check back later for "cbs this morning". and, of course, you can follow us online any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the nation's capital, i'm major garrett.
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