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"cbs this morning" is up next. have a great day. [ captions by: vitac 800-278- 4822 email: marketing@vitac.com ] ♪ good morning to you, and welcome to "cbs this morning." it's thursday, july 2nd, mason and tony dokoupil. dire daily record. the u.s. surpasses 50,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day. that's the highest ever as hospitals in the hardest hit states face grim conditions. we'll look at reports of promise. they're finding answers in the case of the missing ft. hood soldier vanessa guillen. new developments in the search and what we're learning about the suspects. holding his hand. we have a heartfelt conversation with amanda kloots about her husband nick cordero's long
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struggle to recover from the coronavirus. what she is telling the broadway actor to give him hope. safe harbor. in the world from homes series, how a tourist island in greece stayed safe from the pandemic with zero cases. >> want to go there. but first, here's today's "eye opener." it's your world in 90 seconds. >> bottom line is the spread of this virus continues. >> we're seeing these cases from coast to coast across the sunbelt. >> cases rising dramatically. >> with more than 2.5 million americans infected, the president said he hopes the virus, quote, just disappears. >> he's hoping that it will disappear. is that the president's strategy? >> the president is confident it will disappear. >> the president said masks are good and that he would wear one looked. i thought it was okay. i looked like the lone ranger. >> we took this seriously. we handled it appropriately. >> the white house responding to
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allegations of bountsys placed on u.s. troops in afghanistan. >> the intelligence people, many of them didn't believe it happened at all. i think it's a hoax. i think it's a hoax by the newspapers and the democrats. >> the search for a soldier missing from ft. hood in texas. investigators believe they have found her remains. >> i want ft. hood army base to be shut down. >> all that -- >> more las vegas casinos and resorts are reopening as we head toward a holiday weekend. >> folks are enjoying a day at the ballpark. a young cubs fan built a replica of wrigley field in his backyard. >> and all that matters. >> david cameron was talking about -- i'm really sorry. that's my son arriving. sorry. i'm really embarrassed. hold on a second. >> yes, you can have two biscuits. >> people love it on television when thing goes awry.
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>> what's your daughter called? >> scarlet. >> i think it looks better on the lower shelf. >> my name is christian. >> what's his name? >> his name is christian. >> i'm just deciding where mommy- go? >> i think just on that shelf is great. >> i'm so sorry. >> this is the most informative interview i've done all day. >> this morning's "eye opener" is presented by toyota. >> welcome to "cbs this morning." anthony, our kids are past the age where they say they want a biscuit or need our attention but tony, you still have time. that could happen to you. >> i can sympathize. sometimes it's better if they're on camera because then you don't worry they're too quiet in the other room. >> the o tng w have to y about is the phographer, kent, who is 41, asking for a biscuit. you know how he gets in theeg b.
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a troubling new sign america is losing right now in its fight against the coronavirus. we hate to lose. the u.s. has surpassed 50,000 cases in a single day for the first time. it's the highest daily number since this pandemic began. >> california had the most new cases with nearly 10,000 followed by texas and florida. we have correspondents in all three of those states. we begin with carter evans in santa monica. what's being done to stop this? >> they are shutting things down. they essentially want the santa monica pier to look this weekend like it does right now. completely empty. they've canceled fireworks shows. they're closing the beaches. now the governor is closing indoor operations at many businesses for the next three weeks. >> we were able to bend the curve in the state of california. we'll spend thbend this curve a. >> reporter: gavin newsom is shutting down indoor service at bars, restaurants, wineries and movie theaters in 19 of california's 58 counties,
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affecting nearly three quarters of the state's 40 million residents. in the last two weeks, coronavirus cases in california are up more than 48%. statewide hospitalizations are up more than 50%. and the university of southern california announced most fall undergraduate classes will be conducted online, affecting more than 20,000 students. at least 18 states have now paused or rolled back reopening plans, including new york which is delaying the return of indoor dining in new york city in response to outbreaks across the country. >> indoors ishee an mo the science is showing it more and more. >> reporter: accelerating cases vice president mike pence seen here wearing a mask. >> we wanted to be here to get a report from the ground. >> reporter: covid related deaths and hospitalizations in arizona reached more than 4,800
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new coronavirus cases and the virus tearing apart the families of people like less li e lopez. >> they never should have reopened knowing there's still a pandemic going on. >> reporter: lopez lost her husband last thursday. she says at one point his fever got as high as 108 degrees. >> i told him when you get home, i'm going to buy you a really nice -- he nodded yes. it broke my heart because he started crying and we all started crying, and that was the last time that we actually talked to him or saw him. >> bacilio lopez had five children and one grandchild. they don't know how he got the virus but his family is pleading with people to follow public health guidelines, if not for your own safety then for the safety of others in your community. tony? >> it's a reminder of what's at stake. let's jump to another hot spot. houston, texas.
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hospitals are beginning to face dire conditions like those in new york back in march. icus are packed and beds are filling up quickly. new daily cases have nearly tripled in texas since the start of last week aalone. janet shamlian spoke to frontline workers. >> sorry if i break down a little bit, but it was bad. >> tonya fields is a nurse. she was working at a nursing home when she contracted covid-19 and it almost killed her. >> very scary for me and for my husband. i just asked him -- i just said, just let me die. i can't go on any longer with this. >> reporter: tonya and her husband mac will celebrate their first anniversary monday. a day she wasn't sure she'd see. >> i knew that i had to fight through this. he was by my sidee time. can'ttelng need you, and that's what kept
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me going. >> reporter: fields has recovered and will soon be back at work. this is the scene inside houston's baylor st. luke's hospital. health care workers in full personal protective equipment caring for the new crush of covid patients. >> what do you see in the emergency room right now? >> we are really overwhelmed right now in the emergency department. it's very busy right now. it's just extremely, extremely full of patients that are very sick from covid-19. >> reporter: dr. gina blocker works in the emergency room and says she's seeing an alarming increase in minority patients. >> we are seeing blacks and latinos affected at higher proportions than we've seen in the beginning, when this illness pandemic started. >> reporter: sdlait wide nearly 7,000 patients are hospitalized in texas with covid-19 as of wednesday. with 57 deaths. 10 days ago, that number was just under 4,000 with 10 deaths. doctors fear rising hospitalizations now will soon lead to a spike in fatalities.
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tonya fields returns to the front lines on monday. >> i'm terrified to go back to work, but i've just got to work through it and be an advocate for my patients and -- so that i can be a teacher to them. >> reporter: as for dr. blocker who works here at the texas medical center, she says in a recent shift, an eight-hour shift, she had to put five patients on a ventilator. they were that sick. if you want to help firstline responders, wear a mask, social distance and save lives. gayle? >> boy, thank you, dr. blocker and tonya fields. all the firstline responders. thank youja rerrom the coronavirus this morning, dt say emplo added 4.8 million jobs last month, and that is a new record. the unemployment rate fell to 11.1% in june from 13.3%. but economists do warn that the job numbers could soon worsen
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again because of the recent rise in covid-19 cases. that may be happening in florida, one of the states where emergency orders and curfews have been put in place. many beaches are closing ahead of the july 4th weekend. some areas are now running low on the coronavirus test. our lead national correspondent david begnaud is in miami. good morning. good to see you. what are the new rules? >> good morning. they're not just telling you to wear masks here, suggesting it, saying it's a good idea. they're done with that. they're now requiring it. the mayor here in miami-dade county, the most populated county in the state of florida said you are now required to wear it outdoors, even if you can socially distance. even if the next person is 20 you areuir it and if you don't, we may fine you. andrew chung is a code compliance officer in miami beach. he spent more time yesterday educating people on why they should be wearing a mask and telling them it is a requirement here.
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>> what are you hearing from the noncompliant people? >> some walk away from me while i'm trying to talk to them. i try not to instigate it more. >> has the city written anyone a fine to date? >> not to my knowledge, no. >> reporter: my body, my choice is what dozens of maskless protesters chanted as they marched through the streets of florida outside of orlando yesterday. >> there have been studies suggesting if 95% of americans wear a maface mask that could se over 30,000 lives. >> dr. howard ko was the former assistant of health in the obama administration. he hopes to see a mask mandate to down the coronavirus. we stopped by jackson memorial, miami's largest hospital yesterday, after getting word that they are scaling back elective surgeries and other procedures. dr. lily lee is director in the
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emergency room. how does it help to put a pause on elective procedures. >> it's going to put the focus on patients that need emergency treatment. >> you can move them into different areas? >> absolutely. >> reporter: there are three exceptions to the mandate for you to wear masks outside here in miami-dade county. if you are jogging. if you have a respiratory condition that makes it hard for you to breathe with this on and lastly, for children under the age of 2. they do not have to wear a mask. >> david, thank you. breaking news to get to from new hampshire where ghislaine maxwell was arrested this morning. she's kept a low profile since jeffrey epstein was arrested nearly a year ago. mola lenghi has been following story. she has scarcely been seen in
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public. what do we now know about her arrest. >> good morning. we know ghislaine maxwell has been arrested by the fbi in new hampshire. the charges include four counts related to jeffrey epstein's alleged sex trafficking ring and two counts of perjury. many of epstein's accusers have claimed maxwell was deeply involved in arranging, participating in, recruiting, grooming underaged girls for epstein to sexually abuse over many, many years. the lawsuit back in 2017 described her as the, quote, highest ranking employee of epstein's alleged sex trafficking ring. maxwell has long denied any and all wrongdoing. now as we have told you that epstein, as we know, committed suicide behind bars in new york last year after he was arrested and hit with federal charges for allegedly sexually abusing dozens of underage girls in florida and new york. and he, along with maxwell, have
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been linked to many high-profile figures. >> you've mentioned the accusers. have we heard from any of those alleged victims? are they reacting to ghislaine maxwell's arrest? >> not so much yet but they've long gone calling for this arrest. this morning, brad edwards, the attorney for several of epstein's alleged accuses said that given the alleged role maxwell played, this is what they called second vindication. he said he spoke with several of his clients this morning and they told him they feel a major sense of relief. he expects more details about the arrest and the charges to be released publicly today. of course, we'll keep you updated as those developments arise. >> molea, big, big news in a case we've been following for a long time. thank you very much. gayle, sending it back to you. officials are investigating a police officer caught on camera punching a woman at miam.
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>> don't walk up on me for real. what you gonna do? >> ooh. officials say the woman was angry. i was so busy looking at that video. the woman was angry after missing her flight yesterday she taunted the officer and he claims that she head butted him. the miami-dade mayor says, quote, that officer definitely used excessive force. the police director says he was shocked. he was angered by the video. he's ordered all of the officers involved in the incident to be relieved of their duties. it was hard to read and look at that video at the same time. he punched her like a dude. >> very hard to watch. his colleagues are standing around with their thumbs in their belts. that's a terrible video. a terrible situation. sounds like the right decision was made, though. another story we've been following. one suspect is dead and another is in custody in connection with the disappearance of army private first class vanessa guillen.
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she vanished from ft. hood stexas in april. human remains were found 20 miles from the base and her family believes the remains are hers. mireya villareal is covering this story for us. good morning. what more do we know about these suspects? >> good morning, tony. the army has been very tight lipped about this case but yesterday they did reveal they had two suspects in mind. one was a soldier that died by suicide less than a day after those new remains were found. the guillen family is still demanding answers. they say they have not gotten answers in more than two months. the day after remains believed to be vanessa guillen were found, the army revealed there were suspects. early wednesday morning, army investigators contacted killeen police to say one suspect his post on base. officers located the suspect walking about six miles from ft. hood when police confronted the suspect. he pulled out a weapon and shot himself. the army is not identifying him
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yet. the second suspect, the wife of a former soldier, is in custody. she has not been identified either. >> i want justice! and i want answers. >> reporter: vanessa guillen's sister lupe is angry and determined to push congress to investigate ft. hood. >> she deserves respect. ft. hood didn't give it to her. er em. foorm to be ut dow and t >> reporter: in a releasing certain information is because it can seriously jeopardize the charging and successful prosecution of individual but they've made significant progress in this tragic situation and are doing everything possible to get to the truth. guillen went missing april 22nd. some time before that, family attorney says vanessa disclosed to friends, family and fellow soldiers she was sexual lly harassed on base. she was terrified of reporting
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it up the chain of command. >> the sexual harassment was coming from her superiors. the concern was the retaliation, being blackballed. >> reporter: the army is investigating. her sister refuses to stop fighting until justice is served. >> i have to lead on with making sure my sister gets everything that she deserves. >> reporter: there are a few names floating around right now as possible suspects in this case. the army is expects to hold a press conference this afternoon where they'll release more details on the vanessa guillen disappearance. at the same time, the family is expected to hold a protest in washington, d.c., demanding justice for vanessa. anthony? >> understand why the family is so frustrated, mireya. thank you. ahead, two companies report encouraging signs from early testing of a possible coronavirus ccine. whhi could
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we have much more news ahead for you including a man released from prison after 22 years with help from a basketball star who put her career on hold for a year to help him. and we'll look at how some police unions are protecting officers and the role they can play in determining disciplinary proceedings. you're watching "cbs this morning." back off! you're not welcome here! get out of my face!
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good morning. it is 7:26. i'm anne makovec. a suspect is on the run this morning and an officer injured in hayward after an early morning incident. the chp approached a driver who was sleeping in a parked stolen car a bit after 2:00 a.m. the driver woke up and sped off. nearly ramming an officer. all beaches local and state in california, will be closed starting tomorrow at sunrise. e os l state beach rkinlots. and the oakland zoo says the next two months are make or break. financial troubles related to the pandemic could force it to close permanently. it has lost $2.5 million each month nce it was ordered to
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welcome back to "cbs this morning." there is promising news in the race for a coronavirus vaccine. two incumbencompanies, pfizer a german partner biontech, reported encouraging signs in very early clinicalri for a possible vaccine. >> a small study on 45 patients triggered stronger immune responses in recipients. more than 15 different possible vaccines are being tested on people worldwide. dr. david agus joins us with the latest on this global effort. good to see you, dr. agus. you've got the best doctors, the best researchers working on this. we are see craving good, positive news. do you have it this morning based on the results from those
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two companies? >> yeah. kns go hatrus they got a good immune response. when i do a cancer trial, my goal is to shrink the cancer. when you giver a vaccine -- give a vaccine, you want a good immune response. they saw antibodies in people that got the virus. that's encouraging. they didn't talk about the t cell part. the t cells are important, but this is a big step forward. this is what they hoped for. >> there are reports that some people in the trial did experience fevers and other symptoms. is that normal? >> well, you're going to give me a weird look, but yes, this is good. you know, if i give a vaccine and the patient has a sore arm or feve icheeri o have tears in my eyes because i know rking. sponse.'s par what t do in this case is
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they give rna, the instruction for the spike protein of covid-19, and then your body's cells make it. and you make an immune response, and that protects you from the virus. so this is a new kind of vaccine, very encouraging and exciting that we're moving forward. >> encouraging and exciting are the words we like to hear. i heard you say science will win. you know the question to that, david, is when, david, when will science win? >> you know, the trials are ongoing. oxford university is the lead in the trials now. their phase three started already in brazil, in the united kingdom. the results look encouraging. this is a vaccine that had been tried for a decade in sars, so we know it's safe. they plopped in the portion for covid-19. so my hope is we have the data over the next six weeks or so, and we will have a vaccine in the fall. i am very optimistic we're going to have a vaccine in the fall, and hopefully more than one
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ndid ohood about this story. thank you very much, david agus. always good to see you in california. police union contracts can determine everything from officers' pay to disciplinary procedures. ahead, we'll look at how some of these contracts can protect officers if they're being investigated. plus, a reminder, you can always get the morning news by subscribing to the "cbs this morning" podcast. yep, we got a podcast. hear today's top stories in less than 20 minutes. we say that's a deal. we'll be right back. this is my body of proof. proof i can fight moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis. ...with humira. proof of less joint pain... ...and clearer skin in psa. humira targets and blocks a source of inflammation that contributes to joint pain and irreversible damage. humira can lower your ability to fight infections. serious and sometimes fatal infections, including tuberculosis,
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floyd's death, the black lives matter movement is highlighting police unions and the role they play in protecting officers. union contracts can offer a range of protections, and louisville, kentucky, for example, the union contract requires that officers involved in breonna taylor's shooting death received a 48-hour notice before they were interrogated. we've reached out to the union and have not heard back. erroll barnett shows how contracts like these can affect investigations into officers. i am immediately withdrawing from the contract negotiations with the minneapolis police federation. >> reporter: this announcement made days after george floyd's killing exposed the complicated relationships often existing between police unions and local officials. >> we are sick and tired of the police federation getting in the way -- >> reporter: in cities and towns across the country, lawmakers work with police unions to negotiate officers compensation and disciplinary procedures. those very contracts determined
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at the local level, varying from city to city, and now a focal point of police reform. >> what these agreements often do is they impede reasonable accountability efforts, and they often can serve as barriers to reasonable investigation, oversight, and disciplinary procedures. >> reporter: stephen rushin teaches law at loyallya university where he also studies police accountability. >> take an example like san antonio, texas, you got to give officers before the interrogation access to video evidence, access to gps coordinates, complaints, witness statements, and affidavits before you can even question them about allegations of misconduct. >> reporter: according to the san antonio police officers association, these provisions apply only to alleged civil service rule violations and have no bearing on any criminal investigations officers may face. in a statement to cbs news, the association said they're not, quote, tone deaf to the concerns of police transparency, going on
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to say their collective bargaining agreement is a living document, adding as we move forward in time and our industry adapts to changes, there will be a need to make modifications. omaha, nebraska, like san antonio, allows officers to review video evidence before they're interrogated. >> access to the video is only there to help refresh the officer's memory. so the officer has given the most accurate statement to the incident. >> reporter: in nebraska, officer misconduct records are confidential. anthony conner is president of the omaha police officers association. is it possible for people in omaha to see the disciplinary records of police officers? >> similar to other public sector employees, no, it's not. roy do you think it should be to gain the public's trust? >> no, i don't. it's a tragic situation. whether it's george floyd or the incident in atlanta, you hear the argument that the person's history doesn't matter. well, if the history don't
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matter with them, why would it matter with a police officer? that's where i think there's some confusion and what the public says they want. >> reporter: the difference would be one person is being paid to protect people and the other is just a citizen, presumed innocent. >> i can recognize that. at the same time, i still think that personnel records should not be opened. >> reporter: conner does support president trump's recent executive order calling for a data base to track officers' excessive use of force. >> we should not have police officers that are fired from one agency for misconduct and then hired down the row. >> reporter: how does it feel to hear the criticisms of unions in this larger discussion of implementing reforms? >> it's kicking us out of the room and not having us as part of the conversation. >> reporter: does the public have any input in these police union contracts? >> yes, they do, because the public votes for the mayor who is going to sign the contract who votes for the city council who votes for the contract. >> while the police department doesn't have the resources to meet the fennel demands of the
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-- financial demands of the police unions, an easy way to settle that is to make concessions on discipline. it's easy to just blame the union. but that doesn't really get at the problem. these contracts didn't write themselves. so the question then is why are our political leaders signing off on these bad deals all across the country? >> reporter: as negotiations continue during calls for police reform, holding local officials accountable, he says, is essential. for "cbs this morning," erroll barnett, new york. >> sounds like he's right there, this comes down to politics. all right. thank you so much. ahead, vlad duthiers looking at the stories you'll be
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but something funny is going on in rockland county. people don't want to talk about their friends? what's happening there? >> good to see you all. you can contacts trace me all day, every day, tony dokoupil. we're working from home, and we're taking a look at some of the stories we could you'll be talking about including this -- as you mentioned, some party-goers in the new york city suburb of west nyac are refusing to health officials track down others who may be infected with the coronavirus. a few face subpoenas to help contact tracers. up to 100 people attended a party in mid-june. most of them in their early 20s. at least eight of them have tested positive for covid-19, plus the host. and the fear is that they are spreading the virus to more people. and tony, you've done a lot of reporting on why contact tracing is so important for containment. >> yeah. it's absolutely critical for containment. it -- it breaks the chain of transmission. if one person has the virus, they then tell the contact tracers who they've been in contact with, and those next people in the chain can be aware
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so they don't pass it on unwittingly other people. this works for measles, it works for ebola, it simply works. to not participate in it is to knowingly allow the virus to go on and spread. eight people already in that party. let's go, guys. it's time to pick up the phone, call your health department, let them know who you've been with so that we can stop this thing. >> or be fined. >> or be fined -- >> yes. >> you should have to pay. you slough hould have to pay. yeah. >> that's right. let me switch gears now. a missouri man who served 22 years in prison is free after a wnba star put her lucrative career on hold to argue that he was wrongfully convicted. that is maya moore hugging jonathan irons moments after he was released yesterday. she took a season off to advocate for irons who was sentenced to 50 years for a burglary and assault in 1997. his defense team argued there was no physical evidence, so a
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judge throughout march. >> how does it feel? >>'s -- i -- i feel like i can live life now. i'm free. i'm blessed. >> gayle, i love these stories where athletes, whether they be mohaned ali or colin kaepernick or maya moore give up their careers to advocate for somebody who finds themselves in a predicament like this. >> i mean, go, maya moore. she changed the game for him. listen, he was 16 years old sentenced to 50 years for the crime. 50 years! he served 22 years. that's why there is so much conversation about doing something about the criminal justice system which they say and you see evidence of that is unfair to people of color. he was convicted by an all-white jury at the time when he was a 16-year-old. it doesn't make any sense whatsoever. i'm so glad that maya picked up the story and put her life on
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hold really to help him. i love it, too. sorry he had to go through it, though. very sorry he had to go through it. you have another inspiring story about another young person? >> yes. inspiring for sure. watch the moment a 24-year-old former sanitation worker finds out he was accepted into one of the top law schools in the world. >> i'm clicking it. congratulations! oh! let's go! >> rehan staton is going to harvard law school. his story is one of grace under pressure and perseverance. he was raised by a single dad who worked endless hours to pay bills and provide food. because of at staton struggled in school. a teacher told him he needed to be in special education classes. as his home life improved, he
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aced that class. after high school he attended the university of maryland and gave the commentment speech. he told me his co-workers encouraged him to follow his dream. >> it was the people that were on the bottom of the hierarchy who really lifted me up. >> how does it make you feel? >> just very fortunate because it -- it helped me to keep my eyes on the prize. if this was just about plea and fighting for myself, i would have quit. thinking back to all the people that helped me, failure wasn't an option. >> anthony, this is one of the rare interviews where i got tears in my eyes after we ended. when he mentioned the people at the bottom, a lot of his former co-workers were ex-convicts. and the teacher told him he needed to be in special ed did not help as much as the folks at the bottom end of the hierarchy. >> hi >> he fought through so much. it was the folks at the bates trucking service who said to go for it.
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he got a 4.0 average. there was obviously always something there. there were so many headwinds for him. i loved what he said, he said, "no one can promise you that life will be fair, but if you keep your eyes on the prize, everything will fall into place." you need encourage. that's key. when a teacher tells you your handicapped -- you you're handicapped it does it help. >> he went to university of maryland. that's why i went, too. makes me proud. >> we'll be back with new jersey governor phil murphy, stay with us. why?" i see a new kitchen with a grill and ask, "why not?" i really need to start adding "less to cart" and "more to savings." sitting on this couch so long made me want to make some changes...starting with this couch. yeah, i need a house with a different view. and this is the bank that will help you do it all. because at u.s. bank, our people are dedicated to turning your new inspiration into your next pursuit.
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good morning, it is 7:56. i'm anne makovec. a suspect is on the run and an officer is injured after an early morning incident in hayward. the chp says they approached a driver sleeping in a parked stolen car just after 2:00 this morning. the driver woke up and sped off nearly ramming an officer. another death row inmate at san quentin has died and will be tested for coronavirus. 75-year-old joseph cordova from san pablo murdered an 8-year- old girl in 2007. and ousd holding a virtual community meeting today to discuss potential scenarios for reopening. officials are looking for feedback from families about
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how a reopening should play out for the upcoming fall term. that meeting begins at 5:00 p.m. and we still have a few brake lights to highway 4 westbound due to the earlier crash in the clearing stages. it's out of lanes now over to % the shoulder but still a little slow out of bay point. the crash is right around willow pass road and elsewhere the golden gate bridge moving okay we're seeing a few more brake lights on the southbound side but overall easy ride into the city. wind advisory still in effect for the golden gate bridge and no delays right now on the san mateo bridge traffic quiet between 880 and 101. mary? i'm tracking that onshore flow gianna and that's going to cool us all down. breezy conditions westerly to southwesterly winds as we head through our afternoon. mid 60s in san francisco and low 70s in oakland. re goinheat uas tocord as well [upbeat music] ♪ today was the day that i put everything in perspective. ♪
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it's thursday, july 2nd nd, 2020. welcome back to "cbs this morning." i'm gayle king with tony dokoupil and anthony mason. alarming record the u.s. sees more than 50,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day. new jersey governor will tell us how this changes reopening plans. >> and how small gestures give a plan a reason for optimism as her husband slowly recovers from the coronavirus. the future of math and science education during the pandemic. how an actress wants to help parents divide and con cover. three plus three is six. first, here's today's eye opener
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at 8:00. u.s. surpassed 5,000 cases in a single day. it's a highest daily number since the pandemic began. >> california had the most new cases with nearly 10,000 followed by texas and florida. >> they're shutting doings down. they want the santa monica pier to look this weekend like it does now, empty. >> a close confidant of jeffrey epstein was arrested this morning. >> one suspect is dead and another is in custody in connection with the disappearance of army private first class. >> the family is still demanding answers they say they have not gotten in more than two months. >> whaneed i don't know. >> youon know? >> no. >> two three-year-olds saw each other for the first time after three months in quarantine. >> william.
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william. >> that is so sweet. >> i miss my best friend too during this pandemic. >> surprise. >> william. >> oh, gosh. >> a couple people i can imagine running to right now. >> anthony and tony back in the studio. anthony. tony. oh. who jumped in whose arms? i love that, though. i love that. there's nothing that beats a good hug. nothing beats a good g. welcome back to "cbs this morning." we begin with this. president trump is again claiming the coronavirus will eventually disappear, but the numbers tell a very different story. the u.s. sur passed 50,000 daily cases for the first time
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according to john hopkins. at least 38 states are seeing in rise in cases that includes california where the governor is theaters in 19 counties for the next three weeks. >> yeah. but in texas the launt governor now says he will no longer take advice from dr. anthony fauci who expressed alarm over that state's rising cases. dan patrick dismissed the claims the decision to skip some reopening guidelines may have put texans in danger. texas has not met white house guidelines and daily cases there have exploded nearly 1200% since memorial day. states at the center have seen a decline in new cases. a coronavirus tracking site says new york, new jersey, and connecticut are the only states that meet white house reopening guidelines. as the fourth of july holiday approaches, outdoor water parks, playgrounds, amusement parks and
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some casinos will open in new jersey today. the state has delayed plans for indoor restaurant dining. new jersey's governor joins us now. governor, thank you for being with us. as we head into the holiday weekend, what concerns you the most? >> anthony, good to be with you. this virus by all measures is a lot more lethal inside than outside. that's why we have delayed indoor dining. not a decision that brought us any joy. but we have gone through hell and lost over 13,000 lives confirmed. probably another couple thousand in addition to that suspected from covid-19 loss. so we're tracking rate of transmission, spot positivity rates, new hospitalizations. su our hair down outside, but so far at least evidenced from parks and beaches being open, peaceful protests, the big concern remains indoors and we'll be watching that like a
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hawk. >> so with so many states struggling with social distancing at beaches, do you plan to enforce social distancing on all of your coastline of which you have a lot? >> yeah, we do. we have one of the great american treasures in the jersey shore. we've worked very well. i have to give a big shoutout with the shore counties and shore municipalities and their mayors. we've given the broad guidelines and social distancing is at the top of the list. the folks locally have executed the guide lines and based on all of our evidence over the past month or so since memorial day, the enforcement has been good. and again, outside is a lot more degrees of freedom than inside. >> when you look at the numbers around the rest of the country now, governor, how does that factor into your decision-making at this point? things are going well for new jersey now. but there's so much out there that could come this way.
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>> amen. i mean, first, we pray for folks, the other states going through what we have gone through and we wish them nothing but a speedy resolution to this awful pandemic. the big lesson for me is the indoors. restaurants and bars, inside thislethal. that's informed in large part our decision to hold off on indoor dining. also with new york governor and connecticut we've put out a travel advisory asking people to do a 14 -day self-quarantine if you've been in a hot spot. certainly the other areas of the country have informed that decision as well. we don't want to live through this again if we can possibly avoid it. >> president trump said yesterday we're going to be very good with the coronavirus. i think at some point that's going to sort of just disappear. what's your reaction to that? >> well, i hope he's right.
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i hope he's right. please, god, but in the meantim we closed our state was aggressive. the word we're going toan, we'r ere on the -- err to the side of aggressive closing. we're going to err on the side of caution and hopefully good willing across the country we can drive this thing into the ground. >> are you satisfied with the federal leadership? do you think the president has handled this right? >> i'll put words and observations aside which we would clearly have a different opinion on. we haven't been able to find common ground. when we needed ventilators, bed capacity, ppe, we found common ground. i will say, again, i'm grateful for that. going forward, i just hope that things like social distancing, wearing face coverings, watching your hands with soap and water,
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staying away from anybody if you're not feeling well, get tested. i hope all those things we continue to drive into people's consciousness not just at the state level but at the national level. >> governor, there's a lot of discussion about mandating masks in public. even a federal mandate. would you support that? >> yeah. we're big mask believers. we mandate it right now indoors anywhere in the state. it's strongly recommended outdoors for the reasons i went through earlier, the virus is a lot more looetful inside. we're big believers in masks. social distancing plus face coverings, plus washing your hands with soap and water and being smart. >> you think there should be a federal mandate? >> i would support that. that's above my pay grade, but we have it in new jersey. i think that's a smart move. >> all right. governor, thank you so much for being with us. good luck this fourth of july. broadway star still in the hospital after being diagnosed
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broadway actor nick cordero is still fighting for his life after being diagnosed with the coronavirus. he's been hospitalized in los angeles for three months now. his wife, amanda kloots, says he's still critically ill even though he's now covid negative and no longer in a coma. the tony nominee had to have his leg amputated due to complications from the virus. only on "cbs this morning," we spoke with amanda yesterday about her husband's condition and why she says she's still holding on to hope. >> he is doing okay. he's stable. nick's body is extremely weak, muscles have atrophied. so he can't move his body yet.
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he can still open his eyes. and when he is alert and awake he'll answer commands by looking up or down, yes-or-no questions. when i'm asking him he will try to smile or move. the nurses have said that he answers my questions the best. >> last time we talked, you called it a really bumpy roller coaster ride. how do you describe it now? >> i call it the vicious circle or the icu dance because you just feel like you're in this momentum of going around, around, around like a hamster wheel, and i just want to get us out of the hamster wheel. >> what do you think nick understands about what has happened or is happening to him? >> that is really hard to try to gauge, unfortunately. we have told him sort of a very blanket statement of kind of what has happened just because
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we don't know what he understands just yet. >> do you think he knows that his leg has been amputated? >> i have told him that. >> you told him? >> i did. i told him, and i told him how there's amazing prosthetics, and i told him i've been talking to amputees to try to give him encouragement. >> what exactly needs to happen that we know that nick is making progress on the way to recovery? >> in a perfect world -- because we are hoping for a perfect world -- >> me, too. >> our ultimate, ultimate goal would be to get him to be a candidate for a double lung transplant. >> he's going to need a double lung transplant you're saying? >> we think that that is most likely the possibility. 99% chance that he would be needing that. in order to live the kind of life that i know my husband would want to live, that is a long road away. and a lot of things would have to line up in order for nick to
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be a candidate for that. >> there has to be a positive outcome you believe on the other side. >> there has to be, and i tell him, i say, "you're going to walk out of this hospital, honey. i kblebelieve it. we're going to dance again. you're going to hold your son again." my line is "don't get lost, get focused." >> you've been through a lot, you are not defeated. >> i feel like when i'm not in the room with him and come home, don't get me wrong, i have my days. >> yeah. >> but i have to stay determined. >> on your moments when it's tough for you, how do you get through that? >> well, luckily i have amazing support right now. i'm living with my family, and you know, i came home the other day really feeling, you know, just kind of exhausted and sad. and i let it out. i screamed, and i cried in front of my parents. you have to have those days. you have to break down. that's only natural. you know, i am a strong person, but even strong people break.
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you have to break down so that you can build yourself up again. >> i was wondering, amanda, if you've ever gone there. have doctors told you, "amanda, it's time to let him go?" have they said that to you? >> they told me four times he won't survive. saying he won't survive through the night. but he has. he has. i believe, gayle, that god is the only person that's going to decide when and if my husband goes. so i will never try to play that role. he's fighting, i see it every day. nick's doctor sees , and fighting, i'll continue to fight with him. i tell him every day before i leave, i say, "okay, here's what you have to focus on. the two of us sitting in our new house, elvis is in bed, and we're listening to "our house" in our home in laurel canyon." >> i love that picture. i love to picture that.
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"ho "our house." the crosby, stills, nash and, young. sing it -- ♪ staring at the fire for hours and hours while i listen to you play your love songs all night long ♪ ♪ for me >> what perfect lyrics for your life. what you're going through now. how often do you get to see him you in? >> i go every day. >> you posted a picture of your hands clasped together. >> you know, there's so many cords everywhere. >> yeah. >> i just wanted to jump in his bed and hug him and grab him and squeeze him. you have to be very careful with everything that's going on. so i grabbed his hand, and i'm waiting for the day that he holds my hand back. >> me, too, amanda. me, too. i looked at his hands, i thought it looked good. i know you know that song, "our house is a very, very nice
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house, with two cats in the yard, now everything is easy cuz of you." i think the here risks important and dead on for her. can you imagine she's been told four times. she took him to the hospital at the end of march, march 30th, to go get tested in the emergency room. she said, "i'll be back to get you in two hours." and then next thing she knows, she gets a call, he's on oxygen. their baby elvis turned a year. he's walking and saying some words. she knows it's a long road. she knows it, and she knows that there are people that say, "amanda, you got to let him go." as long as he's fighting, she said i'm fighting. she said the doctors told her this -- for every week in the icu it's a month of rehab. he's been there 91 days. that's a long time. she is still, as you see, sparkly. i just adore her love that she has for her husband. >> yeah. >> and her enthusiasm. she knows -- we're all pulling for her and nick, all of us.
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>> and her strength is amazing. it really is. and you can tell how much th to nt i rhtow he andha's id support. >> her poise and her reserves of strength are an inspiration to all of us. gayle, she had a bracelet on when they were holding hands, something about living a good life. did you catch what it was? >> i saw that -- yeah, it's something that she had made for him. it's #istandswithnick. an "i love you" bracelet that she made for him. >> a beautiful thing. >> it's heartbreaking to me, but i have optimism because i'm feeding off of her. >> gayle, thank you so much. we'll be right back.
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good morning, it's 8:25. i'm len kiese and all state beach parking lots are closed on orders from the governor. due to a surge in coronavirus cases in pacifica. the mayor is taking that order a step further. closing the beaches as well. a protest happens at noon partly over working conditions at tesla's fremont plant. protesters say tesla is opting out on havi es do contact tracing. they want fremont police to investigate conditions there at the plant. the warriors have shut down a practice facility in oakland after an employee there tested positive for covid-19. the facility will now undergo a thorough cleaning and virtual basketball camps are on hold until next week. metering lights were not turned on this morning at the bay bridge toll plaza and traffic has been pretty light for the most part.
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a nice ride out of the east bay heading into san francisco with one minor pickup. there's a stilled vehicle on the upper deck -- lower deck i should say. the countercommute coming out of san francisco over into the east bay might see some slight brake lights there. and chp working on a crash south 680 right at stone valley road and it is blocked that exit ramp due to the crash. and no main lines of the freeway though are affected and the golden gate bridge looks good both directions but pretty windy there this morning. here's mary. well ark cooler day today gianna, with that onshore flow. so that pacific ocean breeze kicking in for us and we'll see westerly to southwesterly winds about 10, 20 miles per hour. there we go with the cooler temperatures. mid 60s in san francisco and 80 for concord and san jose to we' the july 4th holiday weekend as
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a little worried because this report only reflects the employment situation as of the first half of the month of june and we know since then cases have spiked and there are some municipalities that slowed down the reopening. so there's some concern that this is the best news. we're going to keep our eyes on it, but i think it should be grateful that it does look like the worst of the labor market woes occurred in april and we have moved on beyond that. >> there are some economists, jill, who are worried that the recovery are starting to level off. >> i think that that's a concern. again, this pandemic which we talked about for now three, four months has become a financial and an economic pandemic and the course of the virus is likely to be the thing that actually moves the economy going forward. so if we are going to see lockdowns, if certain states are
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under financial pressure and they themselves have to lay off workers and that can complicate the market and the ability for the economy to grow in the second half of this year, anthony. the weekly unemployment claims number also came out today, jill. that shows another 1.4 million people filing for unemployment in the past week. that's about what it's been for the past three or four weeks which is good because it stabilized, but that's still a very large number. absolutely, and i think this is a grave concern to many american workers and let's be clear 1.llion down whicsrl 7 sal loonother number in this rephichum ofmeri 19 million if you add in the folks that are getting the pandemic assistance from the government that's self-employed or give workers. those numbers balloon even
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further and there is some evidence, anthony, that the claims that have been paid out by states have actually slowed down. that there's an additional $40 billion waiting to be distributed by states and people need those lifelines so we need the states to get their acts together and send that money out. >> jill schlesinger, thank you very much, jill. ahead, "wonder years" star danica mckellar will talk about
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school leaders across the country are still working out details on how and if children will return to classrooms this fall or will they learn remotely. "wonder years" actress and bestselling author danica mckellar has written ten books that are intended to make s.t.e.m. fun and engaging for children of all ages. she's out with "the times machine." aims to teach second to fifth graders multiplication and division. i -- i can't do it. i can't say it. you've going to have to help with all of it. she joins us from los angeles. >> my pleasure. >> thank you for getting up early with us. so right now we would be in the summer slide. people forget things from school. now we have the covid slide. how do those slides, those gaps
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in our learning affect math in particular? >> my goodness. it's been such a tough year for kids, especially in math. math is gift from other subjects because it's cumulative. if there's one thing that you miss or you forget, it affects a lot of other areas, as well. it's extra tough. look, my whole goal is to make math as fun and silly and goofy and non-scary as possible for both kids and parents because, face it, in an unprecedented way, parents are responsible for their kids' education. i mean, it was just thrown on them. so many parents are saying, i don't know, how am i supposed to do this? i have emails to answer, i have a job, i've got to make dinner. you know, i'm so happy that this -- my tenth book, "the times machine," is coming out now. now my math books span all ages, 0 to 16. i'm here to help. yes. i'm so thrilled. what i'm really excited about for "the times machine" is that learning and multiplication facts is something that is boring, and everybody has to do.
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but often gets overlooked, especially with holes in the education. i came up with a new way of teaching multiplication, yes, to make it fun. for example, six times seven kwuls 42. imagine a six-sided block of cheese and mr. mouse eats that every day for seven days, six times seven, the six sided block of cheese times seven, he gets full and farty, too. >> i'm glad we have a screen shot of the book. there's a little picture of you there in a comic booik image. >> yes. >> how did you decide on that? >> that's the whole point -- why not teach in the most fun, silly way, with comments and cartoons, time travel. "the times machine," we have the time travel. we go to the dinosaurs, we travel all over. and one thing i want to say ents trying to teach kids math, it looks different now. it's different from how when we
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grew up. there's other methods and vocabulary terms. in the back of this book and also in the math book which is for first and second-graders, i have a new math translation guide for grown-ups in the back. >> very helpful indeed. they've got to show their work. your work was different 30 years ago. you know, you mentioned -- >> exactly. >> this book is kind of a replacement for school, and you know something about trying to teach kids from home because ve home son draco from the beginning. anything you can share for parents trying it for the first time? >> yeah. well, i will say i feel so grateful and lucky that i've been home schooling him this whole time and it hasn't been a big transition. also grateful that i amassed a lot of tips and tricks and strategies for getting our kids to focus at home, to have fun, have the parents have fun, too. i'll give you tips now. also i've got all of them on my instagram page. to go to my profile page, the little circle, the highlights,
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click on learn at home or school at home. and you'll find a bunch. one is have your child teach something to one of her or his stuffed animals. this works really well. if drco's not focusing or getting intimidated, i'll bring out flappy, the seal he loves. i don't understand, what's going -- how does there work? he lights up and becomes a teacher. it's amazing. >> i love that one. that's a good one. >> my rule is don't have any toys in the area. yeah, no toys in the area unless if your child is explaining a concept to a toy. another is act it out. right? >> i was going to say acting out aculd be easy for you, you're an i know.. anything to get it not feel as school as possible, totally works. i'm so happy that i get to share tips with you guys and also through my math books, making it silly and fun, goofy. and come to me for any of your questions on social media. >> we'll find you on social media. it's a book that's helpful for
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kids, also for parents because times have changed. they're doing math differently these days, believe it or not. danica m right now. ahead in our series on the new normal, "the world from home," we go to a beautiful greek island with zero cases of the coronavirus. how they're concerned now about safety as international t begin to return, though not americans. we'll be right back.
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i like "cbs this morning" when our series "the new normal: the world from home." we want to bring the world to you since we know travel is limited this summer. most of us aren't going anywhere. this morning, we're going to take you to an island that's untouched by the coronavirus. yes, there is such a place. where is it? greece. greece is joining other european nations that open for tourism this week. though americans are not welcome here. right now anyway. the country's pandemic success story with fewer than 3,500 cases nationwide. tourists spending accounts were 20% of the economy. how reopening brings hope for revival along with some safety concerns. >> reporter: good morning. imagine if you had spent the last few months on an island paradise without a single case of the new coronavirus. well, here on the island of sciathos, a speck in the aegean
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sea, they don't have to imagine. for more than 2,000 years, people have lived on sciathos, surviving wars, earthquakes, and even a nazi occupation. they were bracing for the arrival of the new coronavirus. the island's mayor told us, but it never came. what was it like being here and seeing that unfold everywhere else? >> it was like seeing a movie, a scary movie. very, very, very difficult to understand what's happening. >> reporter: now like the rest of greece, sciathos is reopening to tourists from around the world. the first international flights arrived yesterday. it's been strangely empty so far this summer. the island normally gets more than halfli vitor a year wit plenty oattrtions. ♪ parts of the film "mama mia" were filmed here, and kate hudson and goldie hawn enjoyed
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its golden sands, posting photos on social media. >> very charming. very charming -- >> reporter: you mean goldie hawn? >> yes, very charming. unique personality. >> reporter: the arrivals this week will breathe life into greece's economy, but it's a risky business. ♪ covid-19 has claimed fewer than 200 lives in this country of around 11 million. nothing short of a miracle according to some. experts say greece got the science right, an early lockdown with quarantine for international arrivals. gs are slowly going back to normal here. but one thing they won't see any time soon is tourists coming here from america. greece along with the rest of the european union has decided with infection rates soaring in the u.s., it's simply too dangerous. they opened this luxury resort on sciathos two years ago. catering to the jet-set
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including wealthy americans. it's now almost deserted, and the manager, tommy resapoulous, wants them back. >> you need four european to make one american. >> reporter: the americans are big spenders. >> they are. and they're spending at hotels which is good for us. >> reporter: in antry f for its philosophers, the mayor shared this lesson for dealing with the uncertainties of life -- >> enjoy every minute every day like its t's your last day, las minute. >> reporter: some residents told us they did enjoy having the island to themselves for a change. they're now overjoyed to be welcoming visitors back, and they hope it will include people coming from the united states in the not-too-distant future. for "cbs this morning," holly williams on the island of sciatos in greece. >> thank you, holly williams. boy, anthony, look at the color of the water. i love greece, i love the food. they're saying, guys, do not come here. i get it.
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what a beautiful place. >> yeah. i'll be seeing sciathos in my dreams. >> i loved the map from the hotel -- four americans for every -- >> four europeans for one american. >> yeah. >> europeans might be a little upset about that. i never heard that formula before. that's very interesting. >> in terms of eat and drink. we're so pent-up now it might be, you know, eight europeans for one american. i put groeece in the google map, i can't drive there, gayle. i can't go this summer. >> i know some americans that want to go. a lot of people hearing about that for the first time. beautiful place. tomorrow in our series on the new normal "the world from home," what we call it, we're going to talk to "condenast traveler" contributing editor mark ellwood about why 2020 is the year of the roadtrip. very different than sciatos. isn't it fun being in the car everybody? i'll go first -- no. >> the baby in the back crying -- >> to feel safe traveling -- yes. now you can feel safe traveling. there's a way to do that. before we go, here's a
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really great story. we're still a few weeks away from the delayed start of major league baseball. but one illinois teenager could not wait. d.j. missed watching his beloved chicago cubs, so he built a miniature wrigley field in his back yard. it's complete with a replica scoreboards, the cubs' logo painted on the grass, and even the iconic ivy-covered wall. his dad says d.j. and his friends play into the night with the lights shining. the teenager actually started work on the field last year, but he says the pandemic lockdown gave him a chance to make it more elaborate. >> this summer with everything, the quarantine and the covid-19, i just thought that i could make it into something that i really wanted to because i've been a cubs fan my whole life. >> d.j. says everyone he knows wants to go or to play at wrigley field. so he thought why not bring it to my back yard. listen, i wish i had friends like him when i was a kid. that's incredible. >> that is incredible. a beautiful design.
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and wiffle ball is one of the greatest games of summer honestly. that has inspired me to go on line tonight and track down a wiffle ball bat. they don't sell a lot in brooklyn these days, not even stickball. >> you probably can't fit a field in your back yard. >> a touch tight. gayle, you ever play wiffle ball? >> no. i haven't. you know, i'm not -- i'm not an athlete as you know. nobody wanted me on the team ever. i'm thinking -- >> we want on our team, gayle. >> yes, thanks. i love being on this team. i was thinking about the show today, guys kloots. i want us to send good message, good thoughts to her. nick, i wanted to mention before, nick has lost 65 pounds. it is a long journey. she has confidence, so we do, too. then tony, i was looking at you and danica. she was so up, so excited. i wasn't good in math eitherment but she makes you want to think, hey, let's try this. >> i can imagine a lot of kids with their mom watching that said, don
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good morning, i'm len kiese and in the news this morning, a suspect is on the run in hayward. the chp says officers approached a driver sleeping in a parked stolen car after 2:00 this morning. the driver woke up and sped off nearly ramming an officer. spike strips that were put down did not stop the car and an officer was hurt when one of the strips flew up. % a fast spreading the two alarm fire in the foothills has been contained now. the blaze broke out off of evor re road near highway 4 overnight and willow pass. fire crews were on the scene. the oakland zoo says financial troubles could force it to close down permanently. the zoo has lost $2.5 million each month since mid- march. the director says if the zoo doesn't reopen by september 1st, it will have to turn over
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operations to the city. and as we take a look at the roadways right now, live look at the bay bridge. look at this. not bad at all. in fact things have dissipated quite nicely here at the bay bridge. you work your way out of the east bay into the city. but we've got couple of things going on here, south 880. there's a crash blocking that number 2 lane from the left. also reported near whipple busy anyway on the southbound side 06880 heading into fremont. mary? all right, gianna a cooler day across the bay area thanks to the stronger ocean breeze kicking in for us. westerly to southwesterly winds about 10 to 20 miles per hour. check out the daytime highs. so cooler compared to yesterday. mid 60s in san francisco and low 70s in oakland and mid 80s concord, livermore and for san jose. very similar for tomorrow. but
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