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>> yeah, yeah. >> wow. so that's not like a theoretical loss or a business loss or loss on paper. that's like your loss. >> yeah, it's a significant and it's personal, yeah, absolutely. >> reporter: it turns out everything is a little more personal in a town like this. just down the block andrea schneider lost thousands of dollars and laid off her staff at jade hair salon. >> 25 years you've been in business? >> yes. >> have you closed prior to this? >> no. >> not when you had cancer? >> nope, never. >> reporter: when she stopped by she was preparing for business to start up again, but her biggest loss from this pandemic is the kind she'll never recover. >> we did everything we could. my mother was surrounded by the most wonderful nurses and aides, and they brought her to the window when we went there to see her and try -- you know, it's the hardest thing, it's the distance, it's not being able to be with your loved ones, not
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being able to hug and kiss ad tell them that you love them. >> reporter: after all she's been through, schneider says she's amazed by the support she's getting here. >> if we can just hold it together, you know? we just have to hold it together. we have to keep our hearts in the right place so this way we can move forward. >> how do you think your neighbors are doing, your town is doing? >> you know, there are some people that are just not able to come back, but, you know, we'll take care of them. everybody will gather around and we'll, you know, we'll do what needs to be done. >> reporter: that spirit, it seems, is a characteristic of small towns. >> a particular thing that people often are craving at this moment in american history, which is a sense of connection. >> james fallow spent years visiti
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visiting places other people drive past or fly over. along with his wife wrote a book on the topic and said no one has been impacted more by the virus than america's largest, new york. until now. >> the longer term concern about what it will take to rebuild, to reattract residents, to restore small businesses, to regain a sense of momentum. that concern is more widespread in smaller towns, and they think they have a longer road ahead of them. >> reporter: and what, if anything, about the qualities in small towns makes you hopeful they will survive? >> a town that has already been around for 100 years or more has already been through a lot. it was through the great depression. it was through world wars. it's been through the financial shocks of the last 20 or 30 years. so people there know how to reinvent themselves. their challenge will be to reinvent themselves yet again. >> reporter: yet, reinvention could be tough for people like record store owner tom lafever. record stores seem they're
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partially about the people who come to them, the browsing, talking with the guy behind the counter. >> yeah, for sure, it's definitely a personal experience. >> reporter: that experience has changed a bit at main street juke box, a shop that has already survived, among other things, the age of digital music. how long has it been since walk in the doors like i did? >> a couple of months. >> have you ever had a stretch where you couldn't do business? >> i have, actually. 12, 13 years ago, there was a fire and i lost my whole business. >> wow. >> i was down for probably a couple of months until i got insurance money and then i landed in here. >> insurance covers a fire. does to cover this? >> does not cover this. >> how did you feel when you fountain that out? >> it was a big shock to be honest with you. i was angry, too. >> reporter: the anger and sorrow along this main street isn't much different than anywhere else. but if you're going to go through a bad time, nicole deer for says this is a good place to do it. >> people are just asking, how
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am i doing? because they want to make sure we stay around and stay relevant and get this thirough this. i can feel that. how do you put a price on that? that's amazing. >> that's tony dokoupil reporting. the coronavirus is wrecking the summer plans for millions of young people who usually attend summer camp. many koomps will not open this year, and for those that do, the cdc recommends they enforce the use of face masks and keep campers in the same small groups every day. meg oliver has more. >> reporter: summer at wmca camp mason in new jersey usually looks like something like. >> three, two, one! >> reporter: 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.
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>> have you ever cancelled camp before? >> the camp has been through world wars, floods, other pandemics, but this is unfortunately the first year we've had to cancel. >> reporter: there are around 8,400 overnight camps in the u.s., and each year the ymca runs more than 300 of them. the american camp association and the ymca recently released an 82-page guideline 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 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.
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>> reporter: unrecognizable for campers like 15-year-old angelina mack. >> what does this camp mean to you? >> it means everything. it's what i look forward to every single year. >> reporter: angelina lives just outside philadelphia. this would have been her seventh summer at camp. >> just, like, the air quality out here is so much better and it's just completely green. there is just so much space to, like, go. you can just go free. >> what do you think about summer with camp cancelled? thumbs up or thumbs down? big thumbs down. >> reporter: for some parents like mother of four meg, camp isn't just about getting kids outdoors. it's also practical. she and her husband work full-time and rely on summer camps for some of their child care. >> i just don't know how it's going to work. i really don't. >> reporter: she says virtual camps which are popping up across the country are not much help.
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>> my 6-year-old twins, we've done a couple of different test runs of some different virtual classes. their attention span is just not quite there yet. >> i've been joking around my house, we're going to have a 1970s summer. you're going to be boarred and you're going to figure out h to fill t is in advises parents think about the day in parts, which include assigned activities and having kids create their own agenda. so 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. part of the day you're going to go get bored. there will be no technology available to you during that time and you're going to figure out what to do with that time. >> reporter: for kids like angelina, figuring out what to do now is their latest disappointment. >> what does your summer look like now that you won't be able to come up to camp mason? >> well, that was supposed to be a month of my summer, but now it pretty much just looks like
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generals and slave owners is also taking place overseas. england has seen some stat use come down, but in one country with a long history, the member rams seem safe. >> reporter: monuments to war lords and imperialists that withstood the millennia are withstanding a challenge to universal opinion. built by benino mussolini. the ground still bear words in his owner. italy became the first fascist state back in 1922, and stayed that way for 20 years, but today in 2020 it's stunning to find these relics of fascism everywhere. tom rankin, a professor of architecture, says italians are surrounded by over 2,000 years of complicated history. >> i think italians are used to lots of layers of history.
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and that even if you try to erase one, you're going to see remains of it. >> reporter: and the remains are everywhere. here in this neighborhood, conceived by mussolini himself. >> that's mussolini on the horse there. >> that's mussolini. >> reporter: the center piece of the district is known as the square coliseum, which still bears a quote from his 1935 speech announcing the invasion of ethiopia. people don't even know about italy's colonial history in africa says paolo barros, a rome city councilman. he believes what the world needs is a history lesson, not to topple world fascist relics. we'd have to tear down this entire neighborhood, he says, but the time for mere contemplation is over, says ricardo. he insists on obscuring his identity after his group of activists dumped paint on this statue of a colonialist general. >> we cannot celebrate people
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responsible for a massacre of african people. >> reporter: but roman history is bloody and
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the black lives mater movement took center stage at sunday's 20th annual b.e.t. awards, the first major award show since the death of george floyd. it was held virtually with a star-studded cast of performers. some sharing powerful messages on the fight for equal invites. vladim vladim vladimir duthiers has the message. >> reporter: the fight for justice isn't over. in a new take on the public enemy classic "fight the power," hip-hop artist rhapsody honored the memory of breonna taylor. >> fight for brianna and the pain of her mother. ♪ cops want to pull me over and embarrass me ♪ >> reporter: in his performance of "rap star," he evoked george floyd's death and made reference to recent protests for racial
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inequality. he went on to win best male hip-hop artist. >> the b.e.t. awards is a little different. >> reporter: comedian man dao seals hosted the virtual award ceremony. race and culture writer trey johnson says the night was in many ways emblematic of the black experience. >> as we are continually smacked in the mouth with lots of injustices, we also find a way to constantly transform a lot of our experiences into the type of pop culture artifacts that will pull us tooth. >> eric garner. >> reporter: in a solemn tribute, several celebrities read names of black lives gone too soon. alicia keys paid homage with her song "perfect way to die", and fellow grammy winner john legend delivered a message of resilience in his song "never break". ♪ we will never break. >> reporter: but the show was a celebration, too.
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as with oscar winner jennifer hudson's rendition classic of nina simone me classic by argument that franklin, "young, gifted and black" ♪ yothank you, jesus ♪ >> continue to change and dismantle a racist and unequal system. >> reporter: this was also a call to action as beyonce knolls carter accepted this year's humanitarian award from former first lady michelle obama. >> we have to vote like our life depends on it, because it does. >> vladimir duthiers reporting. and that's the overnight news for this does. for others, check back for "cbs this morning" a little bit later and follow us any time at cbsnews.com. reporting from the cbs studios in washington, i'm kris van cleave.
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♪ captioning sponsored by cbs >> garrett: the worst is yet to come, the u.s. faces an explosion of coronavirus cases as the world health organization issues a dire warning. the pandemic is far from over. tonight as infections surge in the south, testing sites in texas and florida are overflowing while hospitals across the south are overwhelmed. beaches and bars closing as more states rollback plans to reopen. what it means for your july 4th holiday. causing the crisis. the sudden spike now being blamed on large gatherings and lack of masks. tonight the country music star under fire after posting this video. and the shopper lashing out after being told to cover her face. >> you guys are violating federal law. >> garrett: plus what the

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