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restrained during the march and during the evening. >> reporter: four years ago the city negotiated an agreement with the department of justice to reform its police department. >> our officers are trained differently now. they have, you know, all kinds of sensitivity training, deescalation training. >> this is a black city for the most part. fts a city that has seen rebellion, unrest, disappointment in the past. >> so right now our police department is majority minority, so the majority of our police officers are black and brown. many of them now come from the city of newark. we made a concerted and deliberate effort to do that. >> all right. everything ok? just checking, making sure everything's all right. >> reporter: complaints against the police are down more than 70%. in a show, last week t may went with his gut and said -- let's all take a knee.
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>> reporter: the police followe sign of weakness. you say? >> i say it's a sign of strength. i think it takes a lot of strength to restrain yourself to discipline yourself. it's something about that that people need to understand. >> reporter: community organizer larryham spearheaded the newark protest. working closely with the mayor we found him this past weekend in neighboring montclair. >> we have to deconstruct and reconstruct policing as we know in it the united states. >> reporter: your biggest road block. >> police unions. unless they know that if they murder a man, they're going to be prosecuted. when they know that, they'll be hesitant about taking someone's life like george floyd's life was taken. >> we haven't had any riots. >> reporter: college student davion johnson said he attended the protest to fight injustice
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but that would only come by keeping the peace. >> only reason i'm not throwing trash cans at wind shields is u. i have understand that's not the way to ce ta vlent direction. it makes no sense. it's a means to an end. >> reporter: th . >> they did it. >> reporter: where do you go from here? >> two months from now you won't be as angry but your commitment, your love of community, of humanity is enduring and two months from now, those emotions will remain. in fact, over time, love gets stronger. >> reporter: you really believe that? >> absolutely i know it. >> reporter: it's remembthin protests back in 1967, the mayor's father was severe by beaten by a police officer and a bit of news, the mayor announced just yesterday that he is realocating about $12 million of the police budget to
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anti-violence programs. >> the summer travel season may not be a total wash out as many predicted. airlines are adding flights hoping a crush of travellers are looking to break out of the coronavirus lockdown. a travel rebound, after cutting 80% of its schedule american airlines says its remaining flights remain 55% full with triple the passengers from a month earlier. monday frontier began temperature checks on flyers, a first in the us united states. >> the airline industry is recovering. >> reporter: travel annist. >> a lot ofe to see somebody else go first. they're waiting for somebody else to dip their toe in the travel carrier will go into ban or go away? >> i don't think so.
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>> reporter: it comes with a lasting cut to business travel. >> people will become used to working from home and businesses will see it's a way to save money. >> reporter: airlines are reducing coronavirus risks. kutd tar is using robots. it will offer passengers face shields. >> do you worry that that look may scare some people away from flying? >> no. on the contrary. it is shown to people how much we care about their safety but also for my crew to have confidence. >> reporter: when it comes to preflight covid tests and temperature checks -- >> i think this is another exercise. >> reporter: is social distancing possible on an airplane? >> kris, i think this is a lot of baloney. i don't think sitting next to somebody in an air plain with proper protection for when our daughter and her kids moved in with us... kids, bedtime!
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we wanted ♪ >> reporter: john prien was beloved by his fans. who are still grieving his loss. ♪ though you don't have to >> reporter: fee oena says they miss her late husband. so does she. >> reporter: what has it been like putting the concert together? >> it's been difficult, it's been difficult at times but it's also been a great distraction. >> reporter: prien's friends have all come out for him. bonnie raitt ist perform his classic -- snoend after my mother ♪ >> reporter: casey muss graves is playing a song she wrote in homage to prine. jason is singing another standard, hello in there. ♪ ♪ if you didn't care
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♪ say hello in there ♪ hello >> when you're listening to a john prine song it's easy to forget you're listening to a song at all. he did the ultimate trick of making it seem like it was magic. ♪ waiting for someone to say prooin never sought the limelight but at 73 he'd been in the midst of a remarkable renaissance. ♪ surround me >> he sold out radio city music hall, been inducted into the songwriters hall of fame. >> there's no better feeling in the world than having a killer song in your pocket and you're the only one in the world that's heard it. it's a really great feeling. >> reporter: and earned a lifetime achievement grammy. >> my friend and hero john prine sitting right over there. -level you, john. >> on cbs sunday morning in 2018 i asked him.
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are you enjoying this resurgence? >> it took some of them 45 years to get the joke. >> he did kind of get a picket victory lap didn't he? >> he absolutely did. john being john, as humble a man as he was, the biggest thrill was that he got to buy a porsche 911, which neither he or i could ride in. >> reporter: what did he do with it? >> he parked it in the garage. >> reporter: john prine met fiona in dublin in 1988. >> there was an meet connection. we were hardly the best candidates to think about like let's go off and make a family together. i was 15 years younger than john. he was already been married twice before. >> reporter: so why did it work? >> i think love and persistence. we really worked at staying vulnerable to each other and for
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each other. >> reporter: fiona helped him beat cancer twice. then this past march after a european tour both contracted the coronavirus. >> and the day i came out of quarantine john started displaying serious symptoms. >> reporter: is that when you took him to the hospital? >> i took him to the i.r., i had to leave him at the door. that's one of the hardest things i've ever done. i've never not been with him through an illness. >> reporter: finally, on prine's 13 earth day in intensive care. you were allowed to visit him. >> i got a call on april 6th, our anniversary, the doctor said you need to come now mrs. prine. i wanted to throw up. i have spent 17 hours with him. he was unconscious, but i talked to him. i got to tell him everything i'd ever wanted to tell him.
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>> reporter: fiona stayed until the end but their three sons, jack, tommy and jody did not get a chance to say goodbye. how are the boys doing? >> they're sad. they're sad. john was proud of them. if they never got off the sofa john would have been proud of him. ♪ daddy won't you take me back ♪ >> reporter: how are you doing, fiona? >> i am -- i'm in uncharted territory. sometimes a friend will call and ask me how i am and i'll say i was hoping that you would tell me. but i know, too, i'll be ok. >> reporter: you do? >> yeah. i have the resilience muscle, which is a little exhausted right now, but i'm going to be ok. john left me a lot. those memories, music, cars.
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more states are working to reopen their economies but the restaurant business still has a long way to go. some, though, are finding creative ways to boost their sales and vladimir duthiers has the story. >> reporter: in rural main at 290 main street families can get a discount when they pick up an order but only if they're dressed for the weekly costume con ses. >> take it from me and enjoy tonight. >> reporter: in oklahoma city at hoim's lounge, the owner promotes the kitchen specials dressed as lobster boy, his altar ego. >> what makes that so good? >> there's lobster in it. >> reporter: as virginia reopened at 50% capacity, the in
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in little washington uses mannequins to help lonely. in greenville, south carolina, mike frazier came up with something that really struck a cord with the community. musical deliveries for a $10 local musicians who once performed on stage at smiley's will drop off your dinner with a serenade on the side. ♪ ♪ >> we're one of the few businesses that our employees weren't furloughed, they made more money during the lockdown. >> that's amazing. i don't know a lot of businesses and especially restaurants can say the same. in new york, highly acclaimed this chef is far from your average delivery guy. >> i'm fast nated by the idea of a michelin starred chef delivering food essentially from the trunk of his car. >> as an owner, i've done dishes. i've cleared tables. i've bartended.
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you have to do what you need to do. i just thought that if our customers can't come to us, we have to go to them, so we started delivering. >> reporter: delivering family style male kits of up scale were you ever worried about going into a building or apartment given the pandemic? >> i worry for myself, i worry for my staff. i hope it doesn't become a habit. i hope that there's a lithe at the end of the tunnel. business wise, it still is not close to what we do or wha we did as a restaurants, but we're doing better than most and we're lucky. i really consider myself very lucky. >> reporter: vladimir duthiers, new york. >> and that's the "cbs overnight news" for this thursday. for some of you the news continues. for others, check back later for cbs this morning and follow us online anytime at cbsnews.com. i'm kris van cleave reporting from the nation's capital.
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♪ ♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> o'donnell: tonight, alarming spikes in coronavirus cases seen across the nation. at least 16 states see infections rising, hospitals in arizona nearing capacity. officials worry we are on the verge of a second wave as beaches, movie theaters, and restaurants continue to open nationwide. grim economic outlook: a new prediction says the unemployment rate will end the year at 9.3%, and it will likely stay high for the next two years. the fed chair's urgent plea to lawmakers. police reforms: the minneapolis police chief under pressure to change his department takes on the police union as george floyd's brother delivers emotional testimony on capitol
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