>> cbs this morning is up next, have a great morning and a great weekend. . good morning to you and welcome to "cbs this morning." s it's friday, june 26th, 2020. on this friday. single day record, the number of reported daily coronavirus cases hits a new high across the united states and hospitals may soon be overwhelmed. see how one survivor said the virus infected dozens of people in his family. bubba wallace's dad, the father of the nascar star is proud of his son for taking a stand against racism. it's darrell wallace sr.'s first interview. >> candid talk on race. we ask white americans true

feelings about racism and privilege. >> do you think you've benefited by being white in america. >> our revealing conversation and why it is still so difficult for many americans to talk about race. and beyond satire. jon stewart talks about his brand-new comedy and what he thinks about the steady stream of partisanship and division in america. >> i know what he thinks. but first, here is today's "eye opener," your world if 90 seconds. >> we start resocializing and coming back together and fuel the virus and it is reminding us that it never left us. >> hot zone states are under reel pressure as the cdc estimated cases may be ten times higher than reported. >> we're still in the first wave of this pandemic. we are not in the second wave. >> it will be even before the end of the year. we'll have a vaccine. >> there are no miracles coming. >> president trump talking about

the 2020 election and his opinion challenger joe biden. >> i don't want to be nice or unnice, okay. but i mean, the man can't speak. and he's going to be a president for some people don't love me maybe. >> a massive cloud of dust is headed for the united states. >> all of that -- >> disney is giving splash munnon a rezpien. drawn from the princess and the frog, the company's first movie featuring a black princess. >> all that matters. >> president trump is set to visit mt. rushmore to celebrate independent day with a bang. featuring a fly over from fighter jets and fireworks. >> to be safe, the guys will be socially distancing. >> on "cbs this morning." ♪ ♪ all i need is someone

♪ yeah somebody knows where i'm going ♪ i'm going to make with little help from my friends ♪ ♪ i keep on trying ♪ i'm going to keep on trying ♪ with a little help from my friends ♪ >> this morning's "eye opener" is presented by today. welcome to "cbs this morning." and brava to james corden. >> that is outstanding. >> that is very, very well done, tony dokoupil. i like it. >> we could all use a friend these days. whether it is muppet or man. >> it may be better. >> i'll take either one. we begin this with an alarming escalation of the correspondent pandemic after a period of decline.

we've hit another daily record with 40,000 reported new cases. that is the second day in a row that we've hit a record high forcing reopening plans to pause. we've also had the most deaths yesterday in more than seven weeks. >> california, florida and texas have all had major spikes with between 28 and around 34,000 new cases in the last week. we are in all three states this morning. and we begin with janet shanlian in houston, texas, where officials warn hospitals may be overwhelmed as they were in new york this year. janet, how pke are the hospitals there? >> reporter: anthony, good morning. the texas medical center is the largest cluster of hospitals in the world. late last night it reported its icu beds were 100% full. the texas governor has now issued an executive order banning elective procedures in four of the state's largest counties, coming after record

high covid hospitalizations each of the last 14 days. this is houston's methodist hospital where almost a third of the patients in the icu have covid. the remaining have other illnesses. with hospitals at capacity, they have to turn regular beds into critical care ones. >> we want to reassure the public that this pandemic is not eclipsing our capabilities. >> reporter: videos show the busy scene. doctors and nurses wrapped in personal protective equipment on the front lines of the fight against covid. >> how long could you keep going at this pace? >> if this continues for the next 10, 15 days, no matter which hospital, we'll be stretched to the limit. >> reporter: some exerts say reopenings may need to be role rolled back entirely. >> it is clear -- >> reporter: dr. peter hotez is from the baylor college of medicine and the latest models

show houston reaching 4,000 daily cases of coronavirus by the july fourth weekend. it is already a tragedy for ron barbosa in north texas after a get-together a few weeks ago 18 relatives now have coronavirus and his parents and sister who has cancer are in the hospital. >> i hear from so many young people now that are like i could get the flu before the virus kills me. well, guess what? is it happened to my family. you're going to carry and you're going to give it some somebody and when it hits that person that needs chemo, that is trying to stay alive, now you're trying to kill them. >> reporter: and here in houston, harris county has now banned all gatherings of more than ten people to try to slow the spread of the virus. but it is proving to be very challenging. tony, back to you. >> janet, thank you very much. now let's go to florida why cases are up more than 140% since the state opened or began

reopening rather on may 18th. it is now exceeded 5,000 new infections for two days in a row. manu bojorquez has more. >> reporter: long lines push covid 19 testing center tooz capacity on thursday. the number of younger people infected is growing. >> and they are less at risk. there is no doubt about it. they obviously want to be out there and be for social. >> but the governor warns they could threaten florida's older population. >> it is important for folks in the upper age group though understand that is out there and continue to take the proper steps and maintain the appropriate social distance. >> florida reopened last month without a statewide mark mandate. but last night miami became the latest city to require them in public. violators could face fines. miami-dade county now accounts for a quarter of all the state infections. based on the latest batch of

testing more than 10% of people tested in the county are positive. >> we take employee temperatureser day. >> reporter: in miami beach code enforc enforcement is making sure they're following guidelines. >> does your job have a new sense of urgency. >> yes, it does. we have to make sure more businesses are in compliance until all of them are in compliance to minimize the spread of the virus. >> reporter: governor desantis said as of now there is no plans for the state to enter the next phase of reopening. at this testing center along miami beach some people waited more than four hours for a test yesterday. this morning a line of cars is already formed on the other side. the city said it will increase the testing capacity today to try to meet that demand. tony and gale. >> thank you, manuel. i'll take it. california was one of the first states to suffer an outbreak of the coronavirus. under lockdown, the numbers went

down but now they are back up with the hospitalizations of the carter evans has that part of the story from santa monica. >> we're still in the first wave of this pandemic. >> reporter: california governor gavin newsom said a record number of people in the state tested positive this week for coronavirus. richard goodeye is from south los angeles. >> you feel like you're going to die. >> reporter: the virus spread to nearly 30 members of his extended family. >> including children, that are like my kids that are 5 and 2, my nephew is 2. >> reporter: richard believes his father brought the virus home from a routine medical visit. he thinks other relatives became infected after some visited his home and brought the virus back to their families. rifd was hospitalized when he found out his father was taken to the icu where he died. >> did you ever get to talk to him again? >> no. none of us did. >> reporter: he worries people aren't getting the message. in santa cruz, even though cases are rising, health department

officials say it is impossible to keep people off the beaches. >> people are not willing to be governed any more in that regard. >> what do you want to tell the people about this disease? >> i really want to address the nonbelievers. i plead with you, i beg you to follow the protocols, please wear your mask. it is a real thing. and unfortunately in people aren't going to learn until it hits home. >> reporter: well the governor said the surge in cases here in california could force 11 counties for half of the state's population to pause their reopening plans. he's lk declaring a financial budget emergency and pulling $8 billion from a reserve fund to pay for costs from the coronavirus. anthony. >> carter, thank you. well the number of new coronavirus cases is at an ahistoric high, the trump administration is moving again to get rid of obamacare.

it is top lawyer filed papers last night urging the supreme court to strike down the affordable care act. weijia jiang is at the white house. the timing of this surprised a lot of people. why is the administration doing this now? >> reporter: president trump campaigned on a promise to repeal obamacare and this morning the white house said a global pandemic does not change the administration's belief that it is an unlawful failure and further shows the need to focus on patient care. but critics say the timing couldn't be worse. the brief filed to the supreme court supports a group of republican governors who want to overturn the affordable care act. in the last enrollment period 8.3 million people signed up for coverage. recently some states reopened enrollment because of the virus. president trump's democratic challenger joe biden slammed the lawsuit earlier in the day. >> i cannot comprehend the cruelty that is driving him to

inflict this pain on the very people he's supposed to serve. >> reporter: as coronavirus cases surge, the president struck an optimistic tone touring a shup yard in the battleground state of wisconsin. >> our economy is coming back at a level that nobody ever imagined possible. we're doing great. >> reporter: and at a fox news town hall he insisted the worst is behind us. >> it is an artificial problem. we had to turn our country over to save millions of lives and now it is turned back on and it is coming back stronger. >> reporter: and he blames the spike in cases or more nationwide testing. so we have more cases because we do the greatest testing. if we didn't do testing, we'd have no cases. >> testing unequivocally saves lives and widespread testing is the key to opening our economy again. he thinks that finding out that more americans are sick will make him look bad.

>> reporter: if obamacare is overturned, 20 million americans could lose coverage. the case is expected to be heard this fall. today the coronavirus task force will hold the first briefing the first time in two months. tony. >> and we'll be watching. weijia, thank you very much. and the latest on nascar. into another week of racing with no end of the controversy involving the only full time black driver. steve phelps released this photo of a noose found in bubba wallace's garage at the talladega superspeedway last week. he said, quote, as you could see from the photo, the noose was real. fbi investigators found the rope had been there for several months and concluded that wallace was not the target of a hate crime. jericka dungeon spoke with his father in his only tv interview since the noose was found. jericka, good morning. >> reporter: good morning. his father talked about how

proud he is of his son. as for nascar, officials said that they checked all of the garages at their tracks and out of the nearly 1700 stalls they said only one of them, just one, the one assigned to bubba wallace had a full-down rope that was clearly fashioned as a noose. >> i see how it is wearing down on him. he's having sleepless nights. >> reporter: darrell wallace sr. feels the weight that his 26-year-old son is carrying. on thursday nascar's president said that while they don't know who tied the rope into a noose, the ultimate conclusion for this investigation is to ensure that this never happens again. >> what conversations have you had with your son since the noose incident? >> talked to him like a week before and just told him, you know, be aware of your surroundings. know who is around you. because there is some crazy

people out there. >> reporter: and when you have that conversation, that is because of the move that nascar took in reference to the confederate flag and your son's push to try and make that happen, is that right? >> yeah, that's correct. >> this is been a stressful couple of weeks. >> reporter: earlier this month, bubba wallace, the only full-time black driver on racing top circuit, challenged nascar to remove confederate flags from events and they did. >> are you surprised by the steps nascar has taken? >> no. i'm not surprised. it is the right thing to do. there are people that are uncomfortable with the flag. and -- >> are you? >> am i? yeah, i am. and there is only one flag i stand for. and so, yeah, i'm uncomfortable with the flag. and if you're with me and you're uncomfortable with the flag then i am too. >> reporter: bubba discovered his love for racing as a young boy. >> we bought a go-kart and went

racing and it got in the way of basketball so he had to decide which one he wanted to do and he chose the racing. they we raced every weekend, sometimes three and four times a week all over the southeast. >> and here is bubba wallace walking out to salute the fans. >> reporter: bubba wallace, one of nascar's biggest names now races all own the country and his father said he's proud to see the calls for change coming from car number 43. >> and that was just recently painted -- >> reporter: and he was moved by the monday show of support at talladega. >> how did you feel when you saw that moment of solidarity. >> i send to to my family who was chopping onions, everybody was crying. >> what did it mean, what did it represent? >> that they had his back. everybody there has his back. it's a proud moment.

we've had to jump through a lot of hurdles with a lot of stuff. from the time he was 9 years old up until today. we just have to keep going and keep racing and doing what we do. >> reporter: nascar president steve phelps said that he will now add cameras to all of the garages and all members of the association, the racing association, will be required to take sensitivity and unconscious bias training. gayle. >> jericka, i'm so touched by bubba wallace's dad. he's a proud father concerned about his son. what i keep hearing from everybody who knows bubba is that he loves to drive, he and nascar want to move on and put this behind them. but i felt like bubba wallace, the father there, it was such a touching moment of solidarity the way they lined up behind him. >> reporter: yeah. and what it represented. it is funny because he said he's a very direct guy and he said a lot of he feels his son's

directness comes from him but in that moment it just really broke him down. >> he's a proud dad and now everybody is ready to move on and we're cheering for bubba wallace this saturday. pocono, i here. thank you very much. ahead how three police officers were caught on tape making racist comments. the chief who fired them talks with us about sending a message of accountability. bu

we have much more news ahead including some frank conversations about racism and racial inequality. do you think you've benefited by being white in america? >> of course. do you? >> reporter: yeah, i do. >> okay. >> ahead, the patterns we detected and the discomfort we experienced when we spoke with white americans about race. you're watching "cbs this morning." trust toyota to be here for you.

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." wilmington north carolina police chief has fired three veteran officers for what he called hate-filled speech caught on camera. it accused officers kevin piner and bryan gilmore and jessemoor of violated standards of conduct and using inappropriate slurs including the n-word. piner described killing people black people in a civil war, saying wipe them off the bleep map. david begnaud spoke to the police chief about this. he's taking this beyond his department. he's sending quite a message. >> reporter: he sure is. dotty williams is the first

plaque police chief for the wilmington north carolina police department and this is the first day on the job and what was the first thing he did on the first day. he fired these officers. >> chief, one of the officers wanted to resign but you said no, i'm going to fire you. why? >> because people are tired of officers being involved in misconduct and walking away quietly. i wanted to fire him to make sure that their chances of being rehired again were minimized. these individuals do not deserve to be in law enforcement. >> reporter: documents released by the police department say the conversations were discovered during a routine video audit of officer piner's patrol car. he said he is ready for a civil war and planned to buy an assault rifle, to, quote, start slaughtering those n-words.

he used the n-word multiple times and he said she needed a bullet in her head right then. >> did the officers try to fight you on releasing their files. >> they did. >> do you have any indication that anyone at any point tried to put this to the side so it wouldn't embarrass your agency? >> no, they brought it to my attention immediately once they found it. >> reporter: according to the investigators each office admitted it is their voice on the video but blamed comments on the stress of the job. arising from the stress of today's climate in law enforcement. cbs news reached out to the police union and the three officers for comment but never heard back. >> it is one thing to fire the officers but you want more than that. you want to foreseeablely prevent them from working in law enforcement again in the state of north carolina. >> that is correct. normally when officers are involved in this misconduct they'll resign and slip away quietly and in some cases

they'll be able to maintain certification and get a job with another agency. in this case, these individuals do not deserve to be in law enforcement. >> chief williams even asked the district attorney to review cases that the three fired officers had been involved in to look for bias and the d.a. told cbs news that 89 cases are under review and some have already been thrown out. >> do you think you need more people who are black to be on your force? >> i would say yes. we also need more females to be on our force. but the color of a person's skin is not going to determine the color of their heart. you have white officers that are good officers, you have white officers that are bad officers. you have black officers that are good officers and you also have black officers that are bad officers. so the color of their heart is more important than the color of their skin. >> boy, how much do we love chief williams. such a good point. may we all take that message from him. but i have to tell you, david,

listening to the words was so hard to hear even though they were bleeped out, that is a police officer on the force who is supposedly to protect and serve all of us. that is very tough to hear. and painful. and painful. >> thankfully it doesn't represent all officers, gayle. >> and we need to have a chief williams in every department around the country. >> yes, yes, yes. we could take notes from chief williams. thank you very much. ahead we'll show you what happened when tony started conversations about race with white americans. how it revealed tensions over the crisis of inequality in this country. we'll be right back. ♪ come on in, we're open. ♪ all we do is hand you the bag. simple. done. we adapt and we change. you know, you just figure it out. we've just been finding a way to keep on pushing. ♪

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we're back now talking about the stark divides in the way black and white americans perceive racism. even as the national dialogue about racin tensefies. when it comes to applying for a job, one poll said 67% of white americans believe black applicants have the same chances, only 30% of black adults agree with that statement. the results of that disconnect and many others is a crisis of inequality that many americans still struggle to describe. >> reporter: amid our national conversation about racism -- we decided to start a few local ones. >> we're doing a big story about race in america. >> reporter: on the streets of stanford, connecticut, we asked white americans basic questions. >> what were you taught about how to treat people of a different race. >> i believe conversations at home about race, it just didn't happen. >> you look at the person, not the color of their skin.

>> reporter: and sometimes fielded questions of our own. >> do you have think you've benefited by being white in america. >> of course. do you? >> reporter: yeah, i do. >> okay. >> there is two sides to every story. >> reporter: we didn't show clips to boston university professor and author of the best-seller "how to be an anti-racist" helped us pick out patterns. >> how do you define racism. >> when one person feels they're better than another person. >> what is a racist then. >> a racist is someone being discriminatory against somebody else's race. >> were you surprised by those answers? >> not in the least bit. americans are taught that a racist is an evil, horrible bad person, that it is in someone's bones that someone literally is a racist. that is their identity. and so that is not me. i'm a good person.

>> reporter: sometimes our conversations started out easy. >> how do you define racism. >> racism is the unjust treatment of people of a different color, national origin, that is either from face-to-face interaction but more importantly institutionalized. >> reporter: but things could quickly grow uncomfortable. >> you define racism the way you did, do you fit in that definition in any way? >> i'm not -- i -- i -- um, i don't hold those views and nor associate with people who do. >> reporter: most people struggled to explain racial inequality. >> so the typical black family in america has much less money than the typical white family. how do you explain that? >> that's tough. >> some of it is opportunity, some of it what is -- some of it

is your drive, some of it is the way your brought up. >> but there is a lot of black people that don't get to where they can get. i don't know what to say about, you know, intelligence wise if they're not as intelligent as white people. there are a lot that are very intelligent. >> reporter: and almost no one used the term "racism". >> i'm confused when we use the word rateism. >> you're uncomfortable with the term. >> in some ways, i am, yes. >> what i is striking is racists has almost become like the n-word. it is like the r-word. in which so many americans think in and of itself it is a bad word to say when, indeed, it is a descriptionive term. >> a term that could be applied to just about anyone at times. people could have a racist thought for example. >> but that doesn't mean they are racist.

>> yeah. a racist isn't an identity. it is an who a person is. it is what a person is being. and i think we have to recognize that people hold both racist and anti-racist ideas and people are deeply contradictory. >> reporter: and in this moment of national reflection, we did find some americans trying to iron out those contradictions. in society, and in themselves. >> i do believe in the systemic racist that we have in america. so, as a white person, i would say of course i probably do play a part in that racism. >> so in the kindest possible way, i'm now talking to a rissist? >> technically. although, right, i would never just say i'm racist and i hate people based on the color of their skin. of course, i would not want to do that. but i also think that is misleading when people say i

don't see color. you have to see color. you have to respect the differences. you have to understand different cultures in order to grow out of the racism that you've been taught. >> there is a lot there, guys. to talk about, one thing that leaps out to me, when you define racism as something between people, you leave out society and if we leave out society, we're never going to change it, gayle. >> i have to say, tony, i lost hearing after saying some of them are intelligent but i like a white person, a white tony dokoupil is talking to other white people because i think if a black person had tried to do that, it makes people even more defensive and they think it is confrontational. these conversations are so important to have. >> and it is very important for white people to ask each other these questions right now. >> yes. it was so well done. >> and the whole issue of racism and that word has -- white people have a very hard time with it and they don't understand it as tony pointed out. >> i hate color blind.

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thousands of miles from north africa and is commonly referred to as the saharan air layer. if you needed another reason to wear a mask, the air pollution caused by the dust can be harmful to people with asthma, allergies, or cardiovascular disease. check out this photo. >> it's amazing. reminds me of how big the world is, and we are all connected. that dust came from way over there all the way over here. i understand you've got a story about a country band we've all heard of but with a new name? >> that's right. the dixie chicks. they're now going by a new name. it's the chicks. the popular trio made the announcement yesterday saying they want to, quote, meet this moment. the term dixie refers to the states in the south, especially those that belonged to the confederacy. the news comes as the band drops a new song called "march march." it features footage and video from the latest protests and ends with the names of americans who have been killed as a result of police brutality.

>> powerful stuff. i love the dixie chicks now known as the chicks. a lot of people rethinking a lot of things. as long as their music doesn't change. they've got new music coming out -- have you heard this -- july 19th. i can't wait. >> i don't what care they call themselves. >> i love those guys. so vlad, what do you have next? >> all right. last story we want to leave you with. we first introduced you to this young crochet whiz from lacrosse, wisconsin, last finish. his name is jonah larson, and he learned to crochet when he was just 5 by watching youtube videos. he is 12 now, and he's using his talent to bring attention to important issues like the anti-racism protest. and jonah told me he made this special blanket for his little sister to remind her of how strong she is. >> the blanket that said "black lives matter," the way i wanted to impact my sister is i made it for her so every night she could be wrapped up in the message that she matters and when she grows up she's going to be doing the same thing for other people.

>> my gosh. wow. >> i love jonah. he's an amazing young man. >> sure is. >> he's a man -- he has a massive fan base on social media including kelly clarkson and drew barrymore. >> i love the thought for his sister. that is sweet. he says he doesn't follow patterns, he just pictures it in his mind and goes. unbelievable. all right. thanks. ahead, with many summer camps closing and canceled because of the pandemic, how families are getting childcare. that's coming up on "cbs this morning."

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this is a kpix 5 news morning update. good morning, four minutes before 8:00. i am anne makovec. bay area and fire police departments are putting out a warning against illegal fireworks displays is the fourth of july approaches. official shows are canceled, so morgan hill is tripling fines up to $1500. san jose is asking people to report violators. a walgreens store in oakland is still reeling from looting damage that was sustained during police brutality protests. it's referring of customers to other stores for some medications.

and today, firefighting recruits in san jose get more hands-on experience fighting fires on slopes. ad dealing with changing winds. the controlled flames are also reducing fuel loads and destroying invasive species of plants. >> as we take a look at the roadways right now, we still have a slow ride on highway 4. sluggish spot, right around bailey road, a few brake lights, so heads up if you you if you are connecting on 242 it's a little slow over towards 680 in concord. we are looking at cool temperatures at the coast, once again mild around the bay. heating up inland, but big changes ahead for the weekend. mid 60s, mid-70s in oakland, 90

>> oakland, 90 it's still friday, june 26th, 2020. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king with tony dokoupil and anthony mason. america hits a new daily record for covid-19 cases. summer camps are closed across the country. whit and wisdom. how comedy can help and when it's time to get serious in this divided moment. >> and country strong. a singer talks with us about her powerful new song black like me. and finding new ways to her use voice. >> a great voice.

first, here's today's eye opener at 8:00. >> an alarming escalation of the coronavirus pandemic after a period of decline. we've hit another daily record. >> the med sal center is the largest cluster of hospitals in the world. it reported the icu beds were 100% full late last night. >> the governor says the surge in cases here in california could force 11 counties or about half the state's population to pause their reopening plans. >> while the number of new coronavirus cases is at an historic high, the trump administration is moving again to get rid of obama care. >> if obamacare is overturned, 20 million americans could lose coverage. >> nascar heads into another weekend of racing with no end to the controversy involving the only full-time black driver at its top level. >> i'm jealous of both of you right now. i've spent most of my life wanting to be weightless. >> in space you have to go

through extra efforts to make sure things stay with you put them. >> what have you got here? a snack? look at this. >> welcome back to "cbs this morning." tony, i've always wanted to be weightless, but i still want to be able to walk on the ground. that's a cool sensation. >> they're doing a lot of work up there, but that couldn't have taken five minutes to figure out. that looked like it took some practice. >> it looks like they're having a good time up there. an alarm over the continued surge of coronavirus across the country. at least 28 states are seeing an uptick in daily cases as the cdc provides a shocking new estimate of how many people may have been infected. the cdc director says the agency estimates the actual number of cases in this country, listen to this, could be ten times higher

than what's being reported. so with more than 2.4 million confirmed cases that means the actual number could be more than 24 million cases. the texas governor paused his state's reopening after a record daily increase of about 6,000 cases there. we have more on this story. janet, good morning. how dire is the hospital situation there? we're hearing not good things. >> it's not good, gayle. good morning to you. the houston hospital ceo say they can maintain the surge for a couple weeks, but beyond that their system will be overwhelmed. record highs at the hospitals for the past couple weeks. in houston at the texas medical center which is billed as the largest medical city in the world, overnight reported the icus are 100% full. 28 % of the patients have the coronavirus. now, they say they still have the ability to take regular beds and turn them into hospital beds

for the most critically ill. i did speak to the director of critical care at houston's methodist hospital. he tells me the difference right now is that they are seeing much younger patients come in. people who could infect the elderly. >> we're seeing 25 years old. 28 years old. 35 years old. that's a different change. if your behavior is compromised, you're going to expose your loved ones more than anybody else. and as we have seen, that a lot of patients are asymptomatic and are able to transmit infection before any symptoms. >> this doctor says the state reopening has some people believing they can do whatever they want. and he says if behaviors don't change, then the surge continues. tony? >> that is true. janet, thank you very much. britain is one of the country's hardest hit by the coronavirus with the third highest number of deaths. but that isn't preventing scenes like this.

people defied social distancing and jam packed this beach in england on the hottest day of the year there so far. britain's top health official is reminding people the government has the power to close beaches because of the virus and of course, that is true in this country as well. >> that's a staggering picture. many americans also head to the beach in the summer. others opt for camp. in our series the new normal, we look at how the pandemic is dramatically changing our everyday lives. coronavirus concerns are forcing summer camps to shut down all over the u.s. that's a big problem for kids and parents. more than 14 million children, adolescents and adults attend summer camp each year. for camps that do open, the cdc recommends they should enforce the use of face masks, close shared spaces like dining halls and playgrounds, and keep campers in the same small groups every day. meg oliver visited one camp that will have a quiet summer.

>> reporter: summer at ymca camp mason in new jersey usually looks something like this. there's no such thing as social distancing. everything is about being together. until now. for the first time in 120 years camp mason will not open this summer. they decided to cancel before the state mandated it. >> have you ever cancelled camp before? >> world wars, floods, other pandemics, but this is unfortunately the first year we've had to cancel. >> there are around 84 00 overnight camps in the u.s., and each year the ymca runs more than 300 of them. there was an 82-page guideline released for camps which includes how to decide if you should open, how to properly clean and disinfect and how to handle a suspected coronavirus case among campers or staff.

>> why did you make the decision to cancel? >> most of our campers come from the five boroughs of new york, the larger towns and cities of new jersey and internationally. not only could have posed health risks to our campers and their families and our shared communities but the changes that we would have had to enact to operate camp. social distancing. reduced number of campers. no group games. it would have made the camp experience unrecognizable. >> unrecognizable for campers like this 15-year-old, angelina. what does this camp mean to you. >> >> it means everything. it's what i look forward to every single year. >> angelina lives just outside philadelphia. this would have been her 7th summer at camp. >> just like the air quality out here is so much better, and that it's just completely green. there's so much space to go. you can just go free. >> when you think about summer with camp cancels, what do you think? >> hm.

>> thumbs up or thumbs down? big thumbs down. >> for some parents like mother of four meg, camp isn't just about getting kids outdoors. it's also practical. she and her husband rely on summer camp for some of their child care. >> i don't know how it's going to work. >> one says virtual camps popping up are not much help. >> my six-year-old twins, we've done a couple different test runs of different virtual classes. their attention span is just not quite there yet. >> i've been joking we're going to have a 1970s summer where you're going to get bored and figure out how to fill the time. >> cbs psychologist advises parents, think about the day in parts which include assigned activities and having kids create their own agenda. >> part of the day you're going to be helping out. helping out around the house. part of the day i want you to have fun. you can watch tv.

you can read a book. and part of the day, you're going to go get bored. there will be no technology available to you in that time, and you're going to figure out what to do with that time. >> for kids like angelina, figuring out what to do now is their latest disappointment. >> what is your summer looking like now that you won't be able to come up here to camp? >> that was supposed to be a month of my summer. but now it pretty much just looks like staying at home with my family. >> no one ever expected not to have summer camp this year, but having taught kids resiliency over the years, you know, they're going to overcome this. they're going to grow and continue to thrive. >> for "cbs this morning," meg oliver, hardwick, new jersey. > i think we're going to grow and continue to thrive, but what it's going to take for us to get there is

we much more news ahead. former daily show host john stewart will discuss his return political satire about a new movie. we'll be right back. look forward to you.

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i'm better than i should be ♪ that's country music singer mickey guytoning "better than you left me." in 2016 she was nominated for the academy of country music award, new female vocalist of the year. today she is the only well-known black female country singer signed to a major label. her new song, "black like me," is a personal ballad about her life as a black woman in america. ♪ ♪ as far as you can see if you think we live in the land of the free ♪ ♪ you should try to be black like me ♪ >> first on "cbs this morning," mickey guyton joins us from her home in los angeles. mickey, thank you so much for being with us. good morning. welcome. >> good morning. how are you? >> i'm doing really well. you wrote this song actually a

year ago when you were going throughul period. you put it out suddenly on instagram without any fanfare at all. what made you suddenly want to release it? >> well, the pandemic has been just so hard on all of us. and during that time, we saw ahmaud arbery and belonga taylor and george floyd all in like a couple months' span get murdered in such an unjust way. and i had this song that was expressing so much of what i was feeling, and i felt a lot of other people were feeling. so i just put it on my instagram just to -- for healing purposes. and then spotify asked for it, and then here we are. it's been a crazy response. >> what sort of reaction did you get? >> well, i put it out about two weeks ago. and i still have not been able to get to all of my messages on

instagram. and i've never had that kind of response to a song before. and it's just been so beautiful. it really has. >> mickey, you -- nashville has not been particularly welcoming -- sorry, country radio i wanted to say, has not been particularly welcoming to women on the airwaves. it's not easy if you're a woman getting on the air. >> no. >> i can't imagine how difficult it is if you're a black woman trying to get on the air. and you've said that i did nashville -- the nashville way for so long with very little result. this is a pretty brave thing to do to put out this song. >> yes. yeah. i -- for so long, i was living somebody else's truth, and i wasn't living my truth. and this song is an example of that. you know, country music is three chords and the truth. and people pride and have so much pride in country music because it's honest music. but i wasn't being honest.

this is the first real time that i've been honest with my words and my lyrics and my message. and it's so freeing. it's so freeing. i don't care what way i'm supposed to go. i know this is the right way because it's who i am. >> you were going through a period of pain when you wrote this. what was happening? >> yes. well, i was doing the nashville way, the nashville way. and i was seeing so many artists come out with songs with track beats in their songs and flat billed hats and timberlands and calling it country. and if i tried to just put out any kind of song it was overly scrutinized. it was really difficult for me to navigate that. it was really, really hard. and i felt trapped within myself. and part of that was my doing because i could have easily said enough is enough.

but i didn't. and finally when i wrote that song, when i wrote "black like me," that was kind of one of the first moments that i was freeing myself of these unnecessary chains that i had put on myself from the expectations of the industry. >> mickey, i've been listening to you, as you know, since 2015. you are still on my play list. i'm so excited that you've got new music coming out. bravo, bravo to you. i want to follow up on something anthony said -- >> me, too. >> he said it's very brave of you to release the lyrics because they are so personal and they are clearly very painful to you. were you nervous about the reaction that you could receive from the country music world? >> absolutely, i was nervous. there were even possible talks about me getting security just in case i started getting threats from people. and that was scary for me. when i put the song out, you know, we're all stuck in our homes, and i stayed in my bed the entire day because i was --

i was nervous. i didn't want to let anybody down. i dent know what the response was going to be. it was the exact opposite. it was so positive and loving. like people were waiting for that from me. >> mickey, let me just say for people -- >> it's beautiful. >> it is beautiful. i love your voice. are you described as take leann rimes top 40 sensibilities, patsy cline's gift for heart-tugging balladry, and whitney houston's pipes and you might capture the magic of this texas powerhouse. they're talking about you. what do you think needs to be done to -- >> wow! >> that's what i say, but it's true, mickey guyton. what do you think needs to be done in country music to make it more inclusive? what do you think? it's 2020. >> well, first of all -- it is 2020, and if you look at the charts right now, there are still not enough women -- >> no -- >> on the charts. and if there are women on the charts, they're getting played at night. and i have firsthand seen the discrimination that is happening

against white women in the industry. >> yes. >> and as a black woman who knows firsthand what discrimination feels like, i can't sit here and not say anything. and like we're always told why we will fail. but we're never told why we will succeed. and this industry really from the top down, whether you're in the radio world, whether are you at a record company, whether you're at a publishing company, these companies need to actively, truly give women and people of color opportunities. we don't want handouts, but we want opportunities and equal opportunities. >> totally fair. mickey guyton, it's a beautiful record. thanks for being with us. congratulations. ahead, a -- stay with us, we'll be right back.

ahead, emmy winner jon stewart will join us to talk about racial injustice after the

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welcome back to "cbs this morning." it's time to bring some welcome back to "cbs this morning." time to bring you "talk of the table." we brings you stories we want to share with all of you. anthony, you're up first. >> i chose this one, 10-year-old mandy bushel is no stranger to mixing music and activism. ♪ that's mandy. all three of them, by the way, covering "guerrilla radio" by rage against the machine. this week they got a surprise message from the band's guitarist. >> i would like you to have this guitar as a gift from me to you

because you rock so great. >>. look at her reaction. he shipped it over to england where she lives. bushell said she couldn't believe it. she received stratacaster. he retweeted her performance and said, now we're on the right track. i couldn't agree more. >> i love her reaction. that's genuine. >> that's a great gift. also love her accent. that's what i'm talking about today. regional accents here in the united states. they can sound strange to many people. my wife who's from california and has no accent that i can discern, she makes fun of me when i say water. like, i'll have a sip of water. or we should put maple syrup on our pancakes instead of syrup.

i wondered how unusual am i so i took an unscientific poll on instagram. yep, very unusual. the vast majority of people say water properly with the "t" in it, not water or water. and the vast majority say syrup or not syrup. according to the instagram poll, gayle, that's science for you. and i got other reactions from people, other words they say funny. these stood out to me. roof because rough, for because fur, wash is warsh. creek is crick. and my favorite is measure and mayshure in some parts of the country. any funny words. >> i say ruff. >> i want to know who you're talking to? i don't notice any accent of all the things you say. i don't know anyone that says

syrup. >> that's my maryland accent. >> i think you do just fine. thank you very much. my "talk of the table," i'm really excited about this, jon stewart, how much do we love him? i'll go first. a lot, a lot, a lot. the multiemmy-winning comedian with "irv resistible," the former "daily show" wrote, produced and directed this movie. they bring big money and national attention to the wisconsin town election. >> the democrat party can't win. they're getting desperate. they don't know us. they don't want to know us and -- >> no, no, that's we. >> i'm from here. >> i diplomdn't know it. you're from wisconsin? >> no, from deerlaken. >> oh, it's been a homecoming. >> it really is.

>> no, no, no, that's a lie. that's a lie. >> no. >> you're lying. she's lying. >> no. >> what are you even doing? >> okay. well, always great and spirited discussion. >> oh, it's so well done, jon stewart. jon stewart joins us from his home somewhere in new jersey. jon stewart, it's so smart, it's so funny, it's so thoughtful. those two, by the way, have, shall we say, a sexual history, which also adds to it, or maybe not. >> a little bit of the sexy, a little -- >> it's so fun. >> we're going to make an r-rated campaign finance film, you have to go all out. >> i imagine you sitting at your computer wherever you do this stuff cracking up writing this stuff. didn't it feel good to be back in political satire? go ahead. >> i'm sorry. where i write, i'm up here with the rabbit, guinea pig and the rat. i try to not to make any noise

because they could attack me at any moment. we don't know what's going to go on up here. i'm in the attic. >> you kind of look like you are in the attic. where did the idea come from? >> i was looking, gayle, at just the system and just how large it had grown, that sort of media industrial complex, how much money was in it and how it sort of propagates itself. it's like a game of musical chair. there's no accountability. when the music stops, nobody loses a chair. they win the election, they don't win the election, they keep making money. there's influence. i always thought, what would it be if someone used that system's energy against it, like a judo move. they spent $50 million on congressional elections. it's just gotten worse. >> and you know what, jon, you take aim at both parties in this mov movie. you wrote it with steve carell

in mind. what were you thinking steve would be the perfect person to play this role, because he's great in this? >> he works very cheaply. low budget, and i knew we had a little bit of money for the lead actor and a little bit of money for catering and i wanted to save some of that money, obviously, for the caterer. he's so good. he's such a talented -- first of all, a lovely human being, but so funny. listen, this character is not the most likeable individual in the world, but when you have somebody like steve doing it, it allows you to spend more time with that character without trying to punch him in the head. >> jon, i don't know, i'll just say this. i want to talk about the news of the day because i certainly miss your voice during this particular time. i always find myself thinking, what would you think? what would be your takes? i'm serious about this because i find a lot of my white friends are calling me saying, what to

do, how to do? were a lot of your white friends calling you say, what do we do with this time? we're in a very crucial time. it's painful. i think people are scared. i think people are afraid. and really don't know what to do. they're doing deep dives and self-reflections. are you getting a lot of calls from people? are you talking about this with your white friends? what is the conversation? >> yes. no question. i think that a lot of it is, how do we move past defensiveness? nobody likes to be called out on things that, you know -- there's a couple of things going on. i think the step first is probably educating, you know, that gap that existed. you know, black people have been put in the position in this country to negotiate their humanity with the powers that be. and at each turn, it's been

denied to them. there's been so much pain and anguish and blood spilled. and yet, we haven't recognized it. while they were fighting desperately for equality, the country and white people in the country were building equity. and if you don't close the equity gap, you can't talk about the equality gap. >> you are making such a good point. i'm also finding a lot of people doing a deep dive and self-reflection. have you done that for yourself when you look at things you've said or done in the past or things you wish you could change? >> sure. >> like what? >> well, at the show all the time we had -- you know, when it started out, television as you know, gayle, is a white male business, and it was certainly when i started in it.

and the inertia in the system. you can have those in the system that aren't necessarily racist but passivist -- the majority of the people hired to produce television shows come from internships. you know, because you meet them when they're young. if somebody impresses you, if an opening happens, who gets the internship? it's more likely affluent white kids whose parents take three months and let them go to new york. so, the tributary feeding the larger system is also rife with that inertia and it's not enough to say, okay, we'll start a program where we dole out four internships to people of color. like, you have to change the entire framing around how these feeder systems grow up. it shouldn't -- it feels like it

shouldn't any longer be about concessions, like affirmative action. okay, okay, i get it. 400 years, how's five points on your college application sound? >> i do think this, jon, you know how this works -- we have to go -- but i think at this moment in time, america is looking in the mirror and doesn't always like what it sees and now maybe, just maybe there will be some changes. we're in the middle of a political campaign? have you decided who you're going to vote for? and then we have to go. >> yeah, i have decided. >> thank you, jon stewart. the movie is called -- i just love him. the movie is called "irresistib "irresistible" opening today on demand. call to action. we share an original poem about (announcer

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california -- exhibit at the california african-american museum in los angeles. ♪ ♪ >> you will be told this is not a problem, not your problem. you will be told that now is not the time for change to begin, told that we cannot win. but the point of protest isn't winning, it's holding fast to the promise of freedom even when fast victory isn't promised. ♪ meaning we cannot stand up to police if we cannot cease

policing our imagination. convincing our communities that this won't work before the work has even begun. that this can wait when we've already waited out a thousand suns. ♪ [ chants ] >> by now we understand that white supremacy and the despair it demands are as destructive as any disease. so when you're told that your anger is reactionary, remember that rage is our right. it teaches us it is time to fight in the face of injustice. >> community pissed off is going to be some jailed -- [ chants ] >> no justice, no peace! >> not only is anger natural but necessary because it helps carry

us to a destination our goal has never been revenge, just restoration, not dominance, just dignity, not fear, just freedom, just justice. >> the greatness of america is the right to protest for rights. ♪ >> whether we prevail is determined not by all the challenges that are present but by all the change that is possible. ♪ and while we are unstoppable, if we ever feel like we might fail, if we be fatigued and frail when our fire can no longer be fueled by fury, we will be fortified by the faith found in the anthem, the vow -- [ chants ]

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>> that's all we can all do -- >> when someone says something that powerfully -- >> yeah. >> it just -- >> once again, amanda gorman. as she always does, knocks it out of the park. she always seizes the moment and puts it in a way that is very unique to her. also, shout out, shout out, shout out to chris bender who produced that piece, and brian cunningham who edited it. i say this all the time, those pieces are very hard to do that way. >> yep. amanda gorman never ceases to amaze me. >> yes. on today's podcast, former republican governor and the nation's first secretary of homeland security tom ridge discusses efforts to expand mail-in voting. why he says president trump's criticism is wrong. we'll be right back.

that will do it for us. our first week back in the studio. felt good.

i missed everybody so much. great to be in the room where it really happens. tony dokoupil, i hear you're at the table on monday. i look forward to that. see you on monday? >> i will be there. >> same place, same channel. s

this is a kpix 5 news morning update. good morning, it is 8:55. cracking down on illegal fireworks shows in the area. morgan hill is tripling fines up to $1500. in san jose they're asking people to report any violators. today, firefighting recruits will get more hands-on experience fighting flames at center teresa county park. the controlled flames there are reducing fuel loads and then destroying invasive species of plants. santa cruz county beaches have reopened, the county health officer says it became unrealistic to enforce a shutdown. today's reopening only applies county beaches, not the city. 13 minutes, that is all it

is going to take for you to travel across the bridge. if you plan on taking 880 over towards 92, it should be a pretty smooth ride for the most part getting over towards 101, there is a minor hiccup south bound right at tennyson, we have reports of a cross, but it does not look like it is blocking any lanes. at thbay bridge with things pretty light coming out of the east bay into the city. let's get a look at your forecast, here is mary. the morning to you, and we are looking at cool conditions along the coast and mild around the bay, heating up inland. it's all about the microclimates once again, with clouds along the coast, mid 60s. we're looking at some clearing around the bay, upper 60s in san francisco, mid-70s in oakland and upper 80s in san jose. here's the extended forecast, slightly cooler on saturday, much cooler on sunday with the stronger

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