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the time officer chauvin had his knee on george floyd's neck. covid-19 kept thai protesters off the streets, but on screen in a massive zoom session. but in brazil which has one of the worst coronavirus outbreaks in the world, demonstrators came out anyway in solidarity with what has become a worldwide movement. the focus of the protests in sydney was on aboriginal people, beaten or killed in custody. in 2015, australia had its own george floyd. david dungay who died in prison shouting, i can't breathe. >> i can't breathe! >> i can't breathe. >> reporter: those desperate words have now been transformed into a demand for racial equality and justice. u.s. embassies around the world, like the one behind me here in london, have now become the focal point for
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demonstrations and black lives matter, a powerful new international rallying cry. >> closer to home, the skounl in minneapolis is promising to dismantle the police department and create a new system for keeping the peace. some residents say they have heard such promises on reform before. jaime yuccas has the story. >> reporter: in the hawthorne neighborhood of north minneapolis, the summer blossoms and quaint porches hide the layers of inequality. pastor edwin williams' sanctuary church has been on a mission of unity for 12 years. do you think racism is deeply rooted in minnesota? >> of course, of course. it's deeply rooted in america. when you run into somebody in the community and they're angry, it's because every single thing that has been set into place to help us is working against us. >> reporter: here, 35% of the community lives below the federal poverty level. 40% are unemployed. the neighborhood has seen unrest
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before. in 2015, protesters demanded justice for the death of 24-year-old jamar clark who was shot and killed by police. >> this can't be another band aid put on this thing. like, this is a real opportunity to actually change the system and if the system can't be changed we need to tear thes system down. i get it. >> reporter: sammy mcdowell owns sammy's avenue eatery. how do you feel? >> i feel exhausted for our community. >> reporter: the cafe and other stores have signs in their windows that say black-owned business, reminisce entitle nt business owners in detroit doing the same in the 1967 riots. as fire ripped through, mcdowell feared he could lose everything. still, he sided with protesters. >> a lot of people don't feel like they're destroying their community. people are angry. people get angry when they hit a wall. this stuff can be replaced. >> reporter: but human life
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can't. >> it can't. that's why to he am, there's not -- there's know justice for george. >> reporter: pastor williams sees hope in the protest. >> i'm grateful for people to be not just a good person, but be about equity and justice and equality because it takes more than you simply being nice to he my gums are irritated.
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this august marks the 75th anniversary of the nuclear bombings of hiroshima and nagasaki. the devastation shocked the world and essentially ended world war ii. a new book by fox news anchor chris wall as takes an inside look at the final months before the attack. here's david martin. >> reporter: a nati >> a nation on edge pushed to the brink >> reporter: anchor at fox news chris wallace has been at the center of the cultural wars around president trump. his new book came out of nowhere. >> one of the things i loved about researching this book and writing this book is it has nothing to do with donald trump. >> vice president harry s. truman takes the oath of office as 32nd president. >> reporter: count down 1945, published by simon and schuster, a viacom cbs company, tells the dramatic story of the 116 days
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from harry truman's sudden and unexpected swearing in as president to the dropping of the atomic bomb on hiroshima. >> it was the biggest decision, maybe any president has ever made. >> reporter: vice president true man had been presiding over a dreary senate debate when he was called to the white house. >> eleanor roosevelt is dressed in black and she says, harry, the president is dead. mrs. roosevelt, is there anything we can do for you? eleanor roosevelt says, harry, is there anything we can do for you? because you're the one in trouble now. reporr: trman looked ks the ro. stunned at his swearing in. i felt like the moon and stars fell on me, he said. hen henry stenson pulled him aside. >> mr. president, i need to tell you about a top-secret project
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of immense importance that has created the most powerful bomb ever put together. >> reporter: truman had been vice president three months and knew nothing about the manhattan project and race to build the atomic bomb. this was a weapon of mass destruction. >> absolutely. the world had never seen anything like this. >> reporter: they were planning the invasion of japan. it would require 700,000 troops, take a year, and cost tens of thousands of american casualties. the bomb had not even been tested. >> truman had no idea whether it was going to work and he basically said it's a science project until you can convince me this is actually a weapon, which doesn't happen until july 16. >> reporter: on that morning in new mexico, the scientists who had designed and built what they called the gadget were ready. >> at ts pulse goes to
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the bomb, which is up on 100-foot tower, and something happens that has never happened in the history of the world before. >> reporter: this is what it loked like. >> this enormous mushroom cloud billows 40,000 feet into the air. the 100-foot steel power is vaporized, and every living thing, from antelope to blades of grass were vaporized. >> reporter: truman was in potsdam germany for his meeting with winston churchill and stalin. >> he realized this isn't a science project any more. he's got the most powerful weapon ever imagined by man. >> reporter: the president has at his disposal a weapon that can destroy a city. now you have to choose the city. >> right. >> reporter: how was that done? >> they wanted a major city that had largely been untouched, that had a military impact and had
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the topography that would augment and magnify the explosiveness of the bomb so it would have as dramatic a military and psychological impact as possible. and at the top of the list was hiroshima. >> reporter: was hiroshima a legitimate military target? >> absolutely. it was about 250,000 people, but there were about 50,000 troops garrisoned there. it was a legitimate target. >> reporter: surely they realized women and children would not be spared. >> he basically made the calculation, if we go and invade, we're going to kill a lot of japanese, civilians. and we're also going to kill a lot of americans. or we can drop the bomb and just kill the japanese. it sounds cold blooded, but that was the calculation. >> reporter: the bomb weighed 9,000 pounds and was hoisted into the belly of a b-29 flown by colonel paul tibbets who named the plane for his mother enola gay. it took off in the early morning
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of august 6 from the island of tinean. the bomb fell from 30,000 feet to 1800 feet before detonating. the copilot robert lewis jotted down perhaps the most succinct and apt description of the moment. >> he writes down, my god, what have we done? >> a short time ago an american airplane -- >> reporter: truman was aboard ship returning from the potsdam conference when he announced the destruction of hiroshima. >> we are now prepared to destroy more rapidly and completely every productive enterprise the japanese have in any city. >> he was jubilant about it because he thought now finally maybe we can end the war and we can save hundreds of thousands of american lives. >> reporter: all that was left standing were structures built of concrete, and they had been gutted by fire. wallace found out from a 10-year-old girl in hiroshima. >> she sees people incinerated.
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she sees people who the thermal wind has sucked their eyes out. she sees bodies all over the place. she sees people who have been vaporized and all that's left is the shadow of where they were against a wall. >> reporter: japan did not surrender until three days later after a second more powerful bomb named fat man was dropped on nagasaki. truman at one point writes, i think that the flower of american youth is worth a couple of japanese cities. >> it's official. it's all over. it's total victory. >> reporter: world war ii, the most terrible in history, was over. 75 years later, a stark truth remains. >> a nuclear weapon has been used in warfare only twice, three days apart. and the only one tri thatcountrr
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used it was the united states. >> that was david martin pog. ugthe of lock d new ycity,
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charity never shut its doors. delivering free meals to people too sick or too afraid to leave their homes. anthony mason has the story of god's love, we deliver. >> reporter: logistically, this is a massive job.te furl is the c.e.o. of god's love we deliver. the new york charity that for nearly 35 years has been cooking and home delivering free meals to people too sick to shop or cook for themselves. >> here you go. >> no one should be sick and hungry. >> reporter: how many meals come out of here every day? >> every day, 7200 meals. >> reporter: last year she gave me a tour of the kitchen where they prepare and package all their meals.
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at that time an army of some 14,000 volunteers put the meals together and got them out to the people in need. >> hi, david. it's got to be delivered. >> reporter: but then the pandemic hit. how are you getting through this? >> god's love we deliver has basically changed everything we do. >> reporter: first, thousands of the volunteers they relied on could no longer come. at the same time, they had a surge in new clients. how quickly did you see the demand rise? >> overnight, literally overnight. >> reporter: but they have figured it out. by simplifying the menu so meals can be made and pacge they restructured o volunteers. >> everything is social distanced. everything we have done in every part of our business has had to
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switch. >> reporter: especially deliveries. volunteers now call in advance. >> hi, barbara, this is julia with god's love we deliver. how e you? >> reporter: and leave meals at the door. >> all right, thank you. >> we're doing far more than we used to do, but at the same time we're doing it with fewer people. >> reporter: remember before the pandemic, god's love was making 7,200 meals a day? and now? >> almost 10,000 meals a day. we're really knocking it out. >> reporter: but god's love we deliver literally was born for this. born during the aids crisis in 1986. >> our very founding was in another pandemic. it was the hiv pandemic, and i think it is that call that everybody is rising to and doing the very best they can to meet the increased demand, and the more restricted ways of working. >> reporter: right. this is essentially your mission. >> this is our mission. this is our moment.
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>> reporter: and god's love is delivering yet again. anthony mason, n ♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> o'donnell: tonight, we're here in houston where thousands gathered to remember george floyd in his hometown. ♪ praise god >> o'donnell: mourners stood in line for hours to pay their respects to a man whose death has galvanized the nation and the world. tonight we speak exclusively with democratic nominee joe biden after he met with the family of george floyd, including his six-year-old daughter. >> i think her dad is going to change the world. >> o'donnell: more than $1 million bail. the former officer charged in floyd's death appears in court for the first time. democrats take a knee. a stunning picture today as congressional democrats unveil a sweeping police reform bill. y

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